Re: [Lazarus] Circular references and code quality
Hello, Avoiding circular references is of particular importance for big projects. I don't understand your rant here. Several years back, when I was making professional software in Delphi, I noted two things: - big projects in Delphi tended to be smaller than equivalent big projects in other languages (C++, Java) - big projects in Delphi benefited much from the (very fast) compilation times of Delphi, itself resulting in part from the prevention of circular references. Typical big project = 1M+ lines of code. When I measure quality these days in C++ or Java programs, I find a lot of copy/paste, big classes, and many, many circular references, so allowing circular references obviously doesn't solve the problems mentioned here. I noticed you haven't mentioned three other possible means of reducing copy/paste and sharing code: - events - notification/publication, - generics. Your comment about having difficulty to read big units is valid, of course, if the unit holds diverse classes with poor cohesion between them. But if the classes need to work together closely, as implied by the need for circular references, then it improves readability that they are close together in the same unit. Looking at another language: Ada also prevents circular references between packages, with quite some success in its intended area. Admittedly, the latest versions of the language do provide very interesting capabilities for adding new features to an existing package, without recompiling/changing anything in the original package. Maybe these sort of features in pascal could help you, while keeping the safety net of the pascal language. Best regards, Thierry On 04/10/2011 16:40, Marcos Douglas wrote: 2011/10/4 Juha Manninenjuha.mannine...@gmail.com: Hi There is lots of duplicate code and data definitions between Lazarus TProject and TLazPackage (and their ancestors). ... -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Where is the documentation for powtils?
Hello, I'm trying to use powtils to build an embedded web server. Powtils looks useful, but all links pointing to documentation are stale. Could anyone provide a valid link to powtils documentation, please? Available examples are small and do not describe the various functions and object types in detail. Thanks, Thierry. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] New Spreadsheet interface component available for Excel and OO Calc
Hello, a new version is available here: http://www.tcoq.org/composants, correcting glitches and adding improvements (see below). A direct link to the download is here: http://www.tcoq.org/SpreadsheetInterface_sources_V0.11.zip N° of rows and columns not yet implemented. I could have them next week-end. My usual practice is to loop on the cells in a given row or column until a condition is met, for example 'end' in the cell value, or '' empty. New functions are introduced on the ISheet interface: GetLastColumn and GetLastRow. That should help you. It took me a little time: I coded them in both Excel and OpenOffice. Some remarks. There is something wrong with TWorkBook.Close. When I have DisplayAlerts=TRUE then it always ask File FALSE.xlsx already exists. overwrite it ?. Maybe it should have DISPID_CLOSE instead of DISPID_SAVEAS. What should look like the correct procedure for closing Excel without save file ? I use: ExcelWb.Close(false); // Close with DISPID_CLOSE ExcelApp.Quit; You're right. This is corrected. The Close now calls DISPID_CLOSE. You should Save or SaveAs the workbook before closing, or set displayalerts to false if you wish to close without saving. and Excel process still exists untl I close my app. With DISPID_CLOSE I see that the process releases some memory (probably correctly closes sheet) but the process still exists (hangs?). Yes, I don't why yet. Certainly a bug in the interface somewhere. It doesn't happen for OpenOffice, though. I'm still looking into it. In the meantime, there should be no remaining compiler warnings or hints, except in the Pas_Uno_Bridge (needs some investigating). I hope this helps, Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] New Spreadsheet interface component available for Excel and OO Calc
Please find an upgrade of the ExcelInterface component, now called SpreadsheetInterface, here: http://www.tcoq.org/composants It allows programs to connect to Excel using the OLE interface, and connect to the Open Office Calc using the UNO bridge, using the same interface. The OLE and UNO details are hidden using interfaces. The Open Office Calc interface is very preliminary, but demonstrates basic cell editing: values, strings and formulas. It has been tested under Windows for the time being, and with Lazarus 0.9.29 and FPC 2.5.1. The design and user manual is very limited, so please look at the test suite for examples on how to use. All comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks to the Pas Uno Bridge team, for their huge work! Enjoy, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] New Spreadsheet interface component available for Excel and OO Calc
Hello, thanks for trying it so fast. Please, can you specify which compiler, which operating system, which lazarus you use, for the compiler test? Do you have OpenOffice installed? The test executable is compiled to use open office by default: if it isn't installed, things like sal3.dll will be missing. I'll try checking which conditions create the compiler error. Thierry. On 07/02/2011 00:08, faber wrote: I try to test it, but no success, bin file need cppu3.dll, I found it, then I need MSVCR70.dll, I found it, then I need sal3.dll - I give up. I try to compile from source, then I get err: ExcelUtilities.pas(839,38) Error: class type expected, but got IBaseSpreadsheetObject regards faber -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is there a tool to list all the string literals in your application?
On 04/01/2011 14:27, Frank Church wrote: Is there a tool to list all the string literals in your application? You might want to look at Pascal Analyzer. I think one of its tools lists all strings (Literal Strings Report). See here: http://www.peganza.com/PALHelp/index.html?identifiers_report.htm Thierry. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] SVN user
On 29/12/2010 20:16, Peter Williams wrote: Hi Henry, Apropos is an English word, I'd recommend a dictionary. à propos is a french word reused by the english language, meaning in reference to, or about or sometimes a comment... Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Thank you for Lazarus!
Dear developer team, thank you very much for the Lazarus project. My very best wishes for this new year! Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] I desperately need some ideas of reducing edit, compile, debug cycle
Hello Frank, On 26/11/2010 20:56, Frank Church wrote: ... Quite simply I am thinking of a way to create the application in parts, so that the parts containing the new functionality can be developed separately as standalone programs, perhaps even console programs. The FPC/Lazarus way is really to use components as the way to break down the overall complexity of your application, and structure your components into packages, several components working together going into one package. The dependency graph of your set of packages should be acyclic (no cycles), where the more stable components and interfaces are the most used, and the newer things are at the end of the dependency graph. Traditionally, Delphi has supported dynamic package loading allowing plug-ins to be added dynamically. FPC doesn't do that yet, but making DLL's is still possible if you need that option. Compiling your packages statically into your application does the trick nicely otherwise. There are many books about making components for Delphi, those should be useful to you, especially those describing how to write non-GUI components (domain objects) as well as linking GUIs to domain objects. Additionally, Peter Coad has a nice list of patterns for components that could be useful. It's in his book UML in color with Java, but very readable. The UML tool, ModelMaker, now implements Coad's color pattern and can help with your design. It parses most of FPC/Lazarus code. My own site www.tcoq.org has a few non-visual components that may provide examples, especially the Excel interface unit. You've got an example of how to independently test a component. I hope this helps, Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Logging class or some kind of writeln for Lazarus
There is also TLog4Delphi class. I don't know if it is ported to FPC yet. On 22/10/2010 20:47, Frank Church wrote: Are there some FPC/Lazarus class for logging events? -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Reading a spreadsheet with fpspreadsheet
On 29/07/2010 16:53, Koenraad Lelon wrote: ... My application would be a transcoder. I get excel-files from a customer, and I need a csv-like output. This is read by a proprietary application. What I do now is read the excel-file in OOo or MS-Excel, save it as csv and, with an editor, I fix the file (with a bunch of replaces) so that the prop. application can read the file. I would like to automate this : just read the excel-file and have the output-file ready to read. I could start from OOo format, it would be one step more than I would like, but a lot less work than now. I'll have a look at the OOo demo's. Thanks, Koenraad Lelong. ... If you're interested in an alternative: ExcelInterfaces provides an interface to Excel using the COM interface. This is very stable over time. One asks for the data directly through Excel installed. It's possible to read/write data, and also to format the spreadsheets. Take a look here, if your other solutions don't work. I'm also always interested in feedback. I hope this helps Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Reading a spreadsheet with fpspreadsheet
The link is here: http://www.tcoq.org/composants Thierry. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Updating an app on the fly
Hello, I was assuming that something like that would be needed for the dll/so, but the particular point I'm interested in is whether the main app /has/ to be restarted, or if there are hacks that can get around that. which suggests that there are limits as to what can go into a dll/so. In Delphi, it was possible to create components in a dynamic package, store the packages in a plug-in directory, and have the application look at the plug-in directory to load the various functions in the components. Basically a dynamic package is just a dynamic library, with some intelligent work to identify the components inside. The dynamic loading of packages is not yet in FPC. However, it is possible to emulate this behavior. Look up the dynamic loading example here: http://www.tcoq.org/Lazarus.html I've tested that some time ago for windows and it seems to work. I haven't tested for Linux, though. If you have any suggestions to improve that example, please send them ;-) Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?
Maxim Ganetsky wrote: 06.03.2010 22:38, Thierry Coq пишет: As a user, I don't understand the team structure, now how can I report a bug or contribute to its correction? This should be clearer, in my opinion. That's really strange. Have a look at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/How_do_I_create_a_bug_report Thanks ;-) This doesn't solve the issue on when this bug will be corrected, what path will it take, who can correct or test the correction, etc. The casual (would-be) contributor such as myself seems excluded and not really wanted. This is a perception that I have, unwillingly. For the moment, Lazarus is enough for my prototyping, and I'm waiting for a stable, 1.0 version. Until then, there is no chance as a professional developer that I could recommend this tool, although it shows great promise. In the meantime, I develop a few components, testing such issues such as COM/DCOM and dynamic loading of libraries, and hoping my code has as few dependencies as possible. I just hope for the best, and that Lazarus 1.0, stable, will come out. Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?
Marco van de Voort wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:46:56PM +0100, Thierry Coq wrote: This doesn't solve the issue on when this bug will be corrected, what path will it take, who can correct or test the correction, etc. The casual (would-be) contributor such as myself seems excluded and not really wanted. This is a perception that I have, unwillingly. From? This list, for example. For the moment, Lazarus is enough for my prototyping, and I'm waiting for a stable, 1.0 version. Until then, there is no chance as a professional developer that I could recommend this tool, although it shows great promise. In the meantime, I develop a few components, testing such issues such as COM/DCOM and dynamic loading of libraries, COM is getting better, slowly (noticable in 2.5.1, but still not perfect, specially wrt exceptions. Will be in FPC 2.6 at the earliest). Yes, I'm very happy about that. It's already possible to work with COM, although the coding is a manual activity. I've done a COM interface to Excel which works quite nicely. I don't see any big development (or interest from _contributing_ users) in dynamic libraries. (and there are many pitfalls and multiplatform gotcha's here. There is not even a good inventorisation what should work how). So unless somebody is going to invest major amounts of times, I don't see this happening in say the coming two years _AT LEAST_. Yes, the effort is probably large. The Lazarus team has done the same multi-platform miracle for GUIs, so it could be done. I know for a fact dynamic loading can be done in some cases, as I have done preliminary testing on the subject and have demonstrated it can be done (manually) with the current environment. It could be possible at least to be able to load packages compiled with the same version (of FPC and Lazarus). The principle of one code, compiling for each platform could be applicable here, too. I completely agree that loading packages built with other compilers than FPC would much more arduous. So maybe there is a staged path to add this feature. So there would be limits and caveats, but it would still be a great feature of Lazarus in its effort to be compatible with Delphi. More importantly though, most of this are FPC features, and not Lazarus so unrelated to Lazarus 1.0 or not. No, I don't believe dynamic packages is only a FPC feature. Being able to dynamically load components in the IDE without recompiling would be a great improvement in FPC, as well as implementing one of the oldest features of Delphi. It would also allow people like me, users of Lazarus and builders of components to have a more external view away from the internals of Lazarus, and maybe create an ecosystem for lazarus components. Also being able to load dynamically packages would be a great benefit for creating easily configurable or extensible applications. Don't take my constructive wishes for Lazarus improvements for anything worse than what they are: I'm very happy that Lazarus exists, and I try to use it as much as possible. I wish to thank the core team for this great piece of work! -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: ... As a user, I'm very happy the Lazarus team is providing an alternative to Delphi, on top of FPC. I'm starting to use Lazarus to make small utilities, where the GUI needs are not so great. The compiler and basic GUI are quite good now, I'm just waiting for the famous Lazarus 1.0 now. I would gladly contribute 100 EUR to BUY such a product and help maintain the product. I have also been seeing more and more developers complaining that their patches are not even being looked at - the core team seem to be preoccupied with other stuff. Yes I know we are all busy and have REAL jobs, but then give more developers write access and delicate work to those developers. The fixes branch has been totally unusable for months because the form designer is broken (you cannot move/resize components) and nothing is being done regarding that - even though it has been reported numerous times. Then there is the common known fact that if you port a component or implement your own component, it's guaranteed to not work or compile one or two Lazarus minor.minor versions later (I explicitly mention minor.minor because Lazarus doesn't increase major or minor versions - not it my lifetime at least). So this means developers (which are also busy) must keep fixing old/existing work. As a user, I don't understand the team structure, now how can I report a bug or contribute to its correction? This should be clearer, in my opinion. Then developers like myself, which try and promote FPC and Lazarus IDE in the corporate environment, hoping to catch a break and get some corporate sponsorship for Lazarus, is having an endless battle. I personally have run out of options in what to recommend to such new clients/developers. The supposed to be stable fixes branch is broken. The trunk branch is changing to much for corporate on independent developers to use in commercial environment because it's often broken after a svn update or features are partially implement (expected from a trunk branch I supposed). But that leaves no real stable working version of Lazarus! We absolutely need a stable 1.xx version to promote Lazarus in the corporate world, plus a team dedicated to its maintenance, somehow. In any case, thank you all for this, Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] ActiveX component with Lazarus
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: The company where I work here is thinking about buy an component to handle RSA hash codes. http://www.example-code.com/delphi/rsa.asp After install it can I use the methods in a FPC/Lazarus program just as showed in the examples for Delphi? No, you can't. No you can't, not unless you're ready to write a wrapper to call the Active-X automation. I did this around Excel's automation code (see here: http://www.tcoq.org/ ) and this takes quite a while! However, it's easy to do, once you have set up the root classes. It's just fastidious depending on the amount of data and operations you want to handle. Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] library initialization finalization syntax
Libraries are standard features, also available in Delphi. I use them
regularly.
Best regards,
Thierry
Bernd Kreuss wrote:
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uses
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initialization
MessageBox(0, 'loaded', 'library', 0);
finalization
MessageBox(0, 'unloading', 'library', 0);
end.
This will compile and will pop up the messageboxes (at least on windows
it does) but the quick syntax check will complain and also
ctrl+space and shift+space to get autocompletion and calltips
won't work anymore inside these sections and JCF code formatting will
also fail.
Is the usage of these sections in libraries an undocumented feature that
only works by accident or should I try to find a fix for the syntax
check when I have some time?
Bernd
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Re: [Lazarus] library initialization finalization syntax
Thx!
I need to check the latest version. My current production version of
Lazarus is getting old ;-)
Thierry
Mattias Gartner wrote:
Zitat von Thierry Coq t...@free.fr:
[...]
Bernd Kreuss wrote:
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library libtest;
{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
uses
Windows;
initialization
MessageBox(0, 'loaded', 'library', 0);
finalization
MessageBox(0, 'unloading', 'library', 0);
end.
This will compile and will pop up the messageboxes (at least on windows
it does) but the quick syntax check will complain and also
ctrl+space and shift+space to get autocompletion and calltips
won't work anymore inside these sections and JCF code formatting will
also fail.
Is the usage of these sections in libraries an undocumented feature
that
only works by accident or should I try to find a fix for the syntax
check when I have some time?
Fixed.
Mattias
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Re: [Lazarus] Hiding Comments
Hello all, I join theo in asking for such features, my emphasis is on having more structured comments embedded in the code. For example, storing the design model, requirements, or traceability to the design and requirements. Of course, this would be awkward to manage if a feature like the one theo asks is not available. Even better, if there were a system to manage the structure of the comments (and turn them on/off), maybe in some XML-like syntax... For example, I would love to be able to mention the Big-O notation of the algorithms in a structured manner that can be recovered automatically, and can be optionally hidden in the code when not useful. Best regards, Thierry theo wrote: I know this is probably hard to implement but I sometimes would really like to have it. ;-) I have some heavily commented code, be it for the following reasons. - Comments explaining what the following code is doing, sometimes line by line. - Comments which keep some thoughts of previous implementations in code (not for shipping) but which might be helpful and be it only for not going that route again. - Some todo stuff (I know about the todo feature). I think it would be helpful to hide all comments at times, because while helpful, they make reading the actually working code a lot harder. Does anybody know if this is implemented somewhere in other IDEs? Does anybody else think this would be a good feature? Does anybody have a suggestion how to implement this? Don't beat me, it's just a question and I have no answer. ;-) Thanks -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Call Load/Unload library from procedure
Hello, I confirm the calling conventions should match. Maybe try using the pascal calling convention to debug your code, it is more robust. In addition, using strings in DLL calls is a bad idea for a beginner. Start with arrays of char or PChar. Allocate the memory to the PCHAR and pass it as a parameter to the DLL. Don't forget to provide the length of the string, so there is no buffer overrun. For more complex calls, and if you compile your own DLLs, you might want to look here for an example (Dynamic Loading Library): http://www.tcoq.org/Lazarus.html, it reproduces the dynamic loading equivalent in Delphi. BR Thierry cobines wrote: 2010/2/3 fabio bor...@gmail.com: Hi, I need help with libraries. I'm working on Win XP with lazarus 0.9.29 and fpc 2.4.1. I attached sample project app and project library. I'm not sure whether this is a bug or something I do not know, the problem is that when I use library in public form procedure I get the Access Violation when procedure is ended. I'll be grateful for help. You have specified different calling conventions: cdecl in main program and stdcall in the library. I think calling conventions should match. -- cobines -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] What's the hold-up with Lazarus v1.0?
I vote for that: Lazarus 0.9.28 feels very mature, even when compiled with FPC 2.3.1 or 2.4.0 RC. The community of users needs to be more visible. Getting Lazarus 1.0 out would be great! Best regards, Thierry Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: 2009/11/28 Paul Ishenin webpi...@mail.ru: So what exactly is the Lazarus team afraid of in getting to v1.0? Bugs in the tracker. Well Paul, even if you were at v11 you would still have bugs. Where is Delphi at the moment v12, v13? And still there are many bugs. There is NO software without bugs. I think version numbers should rather reflect features, and Lazarus sure has plenty of those to boast about! Maybe the next version will be 1.0 rc1 instead of 0.9.30 That would be great - plus it would stop those idiotic posts. If one those users bothered to try Lazarus. I'm pretty sure they will once it hit the v1 mark. Also seeing that Delphi will soon (two or so years) have a Linux and Mac version, Lazarus should try and grap as much of the market share as they can. Currently cross-platform development is one of FPC and Lazarus's biggest strengths - so play towards those strengths while they last, and you guys have the upper hand against Delphi an that ground (for the next two plus years at least) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Code Metrics and Project Analysis
Hello, Have you tried Pascal Analyzer from Peganza here : http://www.peganza.com/#PAL? Best regards, Thierry Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Can Lazarus IDE report on a Project or Package any statistics? eg: % code lines, % comment lines, total no of lines of code, number of units etc..? If not, anybody know of such a tool I can use on Object Pascal code? Regards, - Graeme - -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] OpenWire for lazarus available at SourceForge
Congratulations! Thierry Boian Mitov wrote: Hi folks, I have added a Lazarus under Windows compatible OpenWire version at SourceForge. https://sourceforge.net/projects/openwireproject/ It requires the 0014881 patch in order to work. Hopefully the patch will be applied to Lazarus sometime soon. This version is tested only under Windows at the moment, and only limited testing has been done, but all the basic functionality appears to work. I will be working on Linux version next. I have it rebuilding there, but there are some threading issues that need to be resolved. With best regards, Boian Mitov --- Mitov Software www.mitov.com http://www.mitov.com --- -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Installing Lazarus 0.9.29 trunk on fpc 2.5.1 trunk: can't make clean all?
So I installed lazarus trunk on FPC 2.4.0 (RC1). Apart from a few issues (debian script does not recognize patch version 0, lazarus and fpc installed in /usr/share instead of /usr/lib), it now works. There seems to be an issue between FPC 2.5.1 and Lazarus. Thierry. Thierry Coq wrote: FPC svn : 13949 Lazarus svn : 22279 Ubuntu 8.04 Installing FPC and Lazarus from the trunk seems fine. But... the units directories in Lazarus are not created. So when I do a make clean all to recompile lazarus, I get: lclmemmanager.pas(100,37) Error: Cannot access a private field of an object here lclmemmanager.pas(100,53) Error: Cannot access a private field of an object here lclmemmanager.pas(104,1) Fatal: There were 2 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted make[1]: *** [alllclunits.ppu] Erreur 1 make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.28/lcl » make: *** [lcl] Erreur 2 Has somebody seen this before? Is it reproducible? Can I make it a bug? Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Build graph application (like uml design)
Hi, The EXACT same code compiles and (mostly) works on Linux (Ubuntu 8.04, Lazarus 0.9.29, FPC 2.4.0 (RC1)). I had to change a few paths. This is nice! Thierry Thierry Coq wrote: Hi, I did a first port of DrawObjects to Lazarus on Windows. I'm now working on the Linux version. The source code, test code, UML model and screen shots are downloadable here: http://tcoq.free.fr/composants.html Some UML design and screenshots are available here: http://tcoq.free.fr/DrawObjectsExtended/DrawObjectsExtendedDesign.html The TODO list records what still has to be done. I hope to write a testimonial on how this graphical component was ported to Lazarus, what were the issues and how they were resolved (or not). The original contributor is Angus Johnson. I've added a composite component that could be very useful to answer Osvaldo's needs for UML drawing. The licence is MPL 1.1. All comments are welcome. Best regards, Thierry. stop...@muenster.de wrote: Hi, maybe this one is a good starting point if you want to do it in pascal. http://www.angusj.com/delphi/ There is a library called drawing objects, licence is MPL 1.1. bye, Stefan -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Installing Lazarus 0.9.29 trunk on fpc 2.5.1 trunk: can't make clean all?
I did this at around 4 o'clock this morning... svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus Is this OK? Paul Ishenin wrote: Thierry Coq wrote: I wasn't able to install FPC trunk and lazarus trunk using the procedure described for lazarus. I was able to do it for FPC 2.4.0 and lazarus trunk. I described the issue with the private fields not accessible. I'm just reporting what I did, and what were the results. If somebody can check that, that'll be fine. It is seems to me that you are using not the trunk but 0.9.28 branch. Or maybe your trunk is not uptodate? Best regards, Paul Ishenin. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Build graph application (like uml design)
A screen copy can be found here: http://tcoq.free.fr/DrawObjectsExtended/DrawObjectsExtendedDesign.html Thierry Coq wrote: Hi, The EXACT same code compiles and (mostly) works on Linux (Ubuntu 8.04, Lazarus 0.9.29, FPC 2.4.0 (RC1)). I had to change a few paths. This is nice! Thierry Thierry Coq wrote: Hi, I did a first port of DrawObjects to Lazarus on Windows. I'm now working on the Linux version. The source code, test code, UML model and screen shots are downloadable here: http://tcoq.free.fr/composants.html Some UML design and screenshots are available here: http://tcoq.free.fr/DrawObjectsExtended/DrawObjectsExtendedDesign.html The TODO list records what still has to be done. I hope to write a testimonial on how this graphical component was ported to Lazarus, what were the issues and how they were resolved (or not). The original contributor is Angus Johnson. I've added a composite component that could be very useful to answer Osvaldo's needs for UML drawing. The licence is MPL 1.1. All comments are welcome. Best regards, Thierry. stop...@muenster.de wrote: Hi, maybe this one is a good starting point if you want to do it in pascal. http://www.angusj.com/delphi/ There is a library called drawing objects, licence is MPL 1.1. bye, Stefan -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Build graph application (like uml design)
Hi, I did a first port of DrawObjects to Lazarus on Windows. I'm now working on the Linux version. The source code, test code, UML model and screen shots are downloadable here: http://tcoq.free.fr/composants.html Some UML design and screenshots are available here: http://tcoq.free.fr/DrawObjectsExtended/DrawObjectsExtendedDesign.html The TODO list records what still has to be done. I hope to write a testimonial on how this graphical component was ported to Lazarus, what were the issues and how they were resolved (or not). The original contributor is Angus Johnson. I've added a composite component that could be very useful to answer Osvaldo's needs for UML drawing. The licence is MPL 1.1. All comments are welcome. Best regards, Thierry. stop...@muenster.de wrote: Hi, maybe this one is a good starting point if you want to do it in pascal. http://www.angusj.com/delphi/ There is a library called drawing objects, licence is MPL 1.1. bye, Stefan -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Debugging: Some thanks is in order
I second that. I have been debugging some delphi code I was porting to Lazarus, and getting the information, step by step, was very helpful. Good work! Thierry Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I was one of those developers that strongly voiced my opinion on the bad state of debugging in the Lazarus IDE. Well, I am also one to give thanks when it is due... Now is such a time. I hardly every debug directly in the IDE and stepping through code. I just did not work for me. Yesterday, I updated my Lazarus and FPC 2.3.1, and debugged some complex code reading binary data and doing pointer arithmetic. It was the first time that stepping through code and asking for variable information via tooltip debugging worked for me. :-) So thanks again to everybody that added better debugging support in FPC and Lazarus IDE. I really appreciate your efforts, and the recent changes made a HUGE difference in the debugging experience. Awesome work! Regards, - Graeme - -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Fuzzy Logic
Hello Fernando, usually, the best way to look for components is to look for Lazarus + whatever it is, then if it is not successful, then go to Delphi + whatever. In this particular case, Delphi Fuzzy Logic immediately brings up efg's lab (which I should have thought of immediately). See this page: http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Delphi/Algorithms/index.html You'll find the what's fuzz components: http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/whatsfuz.zip which should give you some initial input. Since you're trying to make non-graphical components, the port should be very straightforward. I hope this helps. Best regards, Thierry Fernando Grant wrote: Hello! I'm new to the list and new to lazarus but usual developer on delphi (until now). I'm looking for some kind of component or whatever of Fuzzy Logic, I can make my own, but it is unnesessary if there is already one. I didn't find it googleing ¿is there anyone? If there isn't, I will probably develop one and give it to the community. Thanks! Fernando Grant. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Installing Lazarus 0.9.29 trunk on fpc 2.5.1 trunk: can't make clean all?
FPC svn : 13949 Lazarus svn : 22279 Ubuntu 8.04 Installing FPC and Lazarus from the trunk seems fine. But... the units directories in Lazarus are not created. So when I do a make clean all to recompile lazarus, I get: lclmemmanager.pas(100,37) Error: Cannot access a private field of an object here lclmemmanager.pas(100,53) Error: Cannot access a private field of an object here lclmemmanager.pas(104,1) Fatal: There were 2 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted make[1]: *** [alllclunits.ppu] Erreur 1 make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.28/lcl » make: *** [lcl] Erreur 2 Has somebody seen this before? Is it reproducible? Can I make it a bug? Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus International Games Contest
Hello Antônio, could you please explain the rules? - executable, source code? - test cases? - size? What criterias to win? Best regards Thierry Antônio wrote: Send your game made with Lazarus to the Lazarus International Games Contest promoted by LazarusBrasil.Org until December, 31, 2009. Send it by email to webmas...@lazarusbrasil.org mailto:webmas...@lazarusbrasil.org with the subject Lazarus International Games Contest. The best game will have a page to it in our website. Thanks, Antonio -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Has somebody tried using some GExperts with Lazarus?
Alexander Klenin wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 00:48, Thierry Coq t...@free.fr wrote: I was looking indeed for the multi-line component palette so that many components can be used in the IDE. I tend to develop and use components a lot. If you expand the main Lazarus window down, and then make it narrow enough, you will see that component palette buttons rearrange in several rows. Is it counten ad multi-line palette? Thank you very much for this answer. I wans't aware of this feature. No, it's not what I expected. The feature is useful, though, and could complement the multi-line tab idea. I was expecting the component tabs itself to go multi line, like standard, additional, common controls, dialogs on two or several lines. ... Thierry Coq -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Has somebody tried using some GExperts with Lazarus?
Dear all, through the OpenTools API, Delphi is enhanced a lot, and all is customizable by the developer. I remember using it to have multi-line component tabs. It was interesting when one has many components available. GExperts: http://www.gexperts.org Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Help needed for conference...
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Geoffray wrote: Hi the list... You probably don't know me but I'm for years a Lazarus fan. I have to prepare a conference for February 2010 in my LUG. The main theme is to give a good idea of what are Lazarus and Free Pascal with technical demonstration. This is the easy part... The public will be mainly Delphi users (including companies) that want to move from Delphi to Free Pascal. So I need help with details about which problems they can meet, the solutions, supported feature, and not (yet) supported ones... Having ported/developed some applications, the main problems when porting are IMHO: a) They should not expect to find the same components in Lazarus as in Delphi. (This concerns mostly DB components, web components. GUI is mostly covered) b) Third-party components are usually not usable. (unless that company supports FPC, which is unlikely) c) Cross-platform development means: - No Windows API. (e.g. the registry). - SizeOf(integer)SizeOf(Pointer)! - No assembler And under no circumstances promote '1 source for both Delphi/Lazarus' because that is a recipe for problems :( +1: I agree so much on that. Port the code to Lazarus, and then stay there, currently! It's very possible to have back-end (no GUI) components that are delphi- and lazarus- compatible, but then you're forgoing some of the advanced goodies of Delphi OR Lazarus/FPC, like operator overloading and generics (improperly called class templates). Also the COM work is, for the moment, harder in Lazarus/FPC, although possible, as well as dynamic package loading. Honestly, I wish it were different. Some components like GlScene I would love to have compatibility Delphi/Lazarus, but it seems so difficult. IMHO, It would be a very good idea to have a tutorial, targeted to professional IT guys: - on porting graphics, - on porting interfaces to Office, - on doing dynamic package loading, - on porting DB-related code, - etc. I would be ready to help on the first point, as I'm doing the exercise right now for TDrawObject, as well as the second and third, also. This is a very good initiative, by the way. Good luck, Thierry Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] LUG for France?
Is there a Lazarus User Group for France, BTW? Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] LUG for France?
thanks Wile64, I'll register there. Thierry wile64 wrote: Hi You have group we making set of components for lazarus. Like loupe, gauge, wince sync, db acces and more. See here http://lazarus-fr.espace-malin.fr/ Svn here http://www.assembla.com/spaces/Lazarus-fr/ Laurent de mon pda. - Message d'origine - De: Thierry Coq t...@free.fr Env: samedi 17 octobre 2009 18:36 À: General mailing list laza...@lazarus.freepascal.org Objet: [Lazarus] LUG for France? Is there a Lazarus User Group for France, BTW? Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Build graph application (like uml design)
Interesting, it's based on TGraphicControl which Lazarus also has. How much of the code is Windows-related? Would it be difficult to make-it platform independent? Thierry stop...@muenster.de wrote: Hi, maybe this one is a good starting point if you want to do it in pascal. http://www.angusj.com/delphi/ There is a library called drawing objects, licence is MPL 1.1. bye, Stefan -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Build graph application (like uml design)
If it's easy to port, I might give it a try, to port to Lazaurus, using only portable code. I might have to ask some help, though. It would take additional time to add specific UML drawings, as it would soon become necessary to distinguish between view and subject objets, as per the OMG metamodel. We'll see. Thanks Matthias! Thierry Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:44:32 +0200 Thierry Coq t...@free.fr wrote: Interesting, it's based on TGraphicControl which Lazarus also has. How much of the code is Windows-related? Would it be difficult to make-it platform independent? After a quick glance: it should be easy to port. [...] maybe this one is a good starting point if you want to do it in pascal. http://www.angusj.com/delphi/ There is a library called drawing objects, licence is MPL 1.1. Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Build graph application (like uml design)
OpenGL could be a portable answer, maybe GLScene (but 2D objects need to be added)! There is a tool called StarUML written in Delphi. I don't know if it has been ported to Lazarus. Thierry Osvaldo Filho wrote: How can do this: http://br.geocities.com/walterabrahao2004/CE240/ListExs/ListEx5/ListEx5_arquivos/image004.jpg -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Request for student project ideas
This idea about an Oberon front-end is very interesting. I second that
idea!
Thierry
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Alexander Klenin schrieb:
I would ask to implement modern delphi language features like:
- anonymous methods
- for-in loop
- class constructors and destructors
- support for strict private and strict protected sections
- abstract and sealed classes
- class const, class var, class type, class property
Anyway, sooner or later delphi developers will use them more and
more and
there will be a need to port that code to fpc.
These are obvious candidates for me too, but although they are good
projects,
they are rather hard -- for advanced students only.
ACK, all these tasks required deep insight into the existing compiler
code and data structures :-(
Perhaps a somewhat simpler goal: add the new Attributes syntax to the
parser, and check for possible implementations. I don't understand the
hype and problems with these new attributes - is it really more than
adding an Attributes:TStrings property to TObject?
And another one: an Oberon front-end for FPC! {$mode OBERON}
The language should be close enough to Pascal, so that the
implementation of the parser should not be a big deal. More difficult:
the interface to the existing compiler.
There is much room for sub-projects, like garbage collection.
The same for other languages (Java, C...). Wouldn't it be nice to have
a C front-end or {$MODE C} for opening the world of existing C code
(at least: header files) to FPC? See my ToPas project on SourceForge,
that implements an preprocessor and parser for C, written in Delphi
OPL - it could be extended by an interface to the FPC compiler.
DoDi
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Re: [Lazarus] Support for dynamic libararies/package ; Is this like bpl?
Osvaldo, you should ask the FPC team directly, I suggest. A release candidate of 2.4 is out (2.3.1 or something). How much is implemented? In the meantime, it's possible to do Dispinterfaces and dispid in 2.2, although it is a manual activity. See my ExcelInterface unit as an example (here : http://tcoq.free.fr/composants.html) An on the Lazarus page (here: http://tcoq.free.fr/Lazarus.html), there is an example of dynamic libraries on Lazarus. Also manual, but works. Hope this helps, Thierry Osvaldo Filho wrote: Support for dynamic libararies/package ; Is this like bpl? Freepascal future plan # Next major Version (2.4) * Language: o Support for DispInterface and dispid (OLE binding on Windows). o Support for dynamic libararies/package -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Request for student project ideas
Alexander Klenin wrote: As some of you may already know, I teach programming in Far Eastern National University and encourage students to participate in open source projects for their course works. Among opensource projects I recommend are Free Pascal and Lazarus. Last year one of my students already participated in FPC development with moderate success (see http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13700). This year, I expect 1-3 more students to choose Lazarus/FPC for their projects. So I request community for a suitable ideas -- projects should be reasonably self-contained, not too hard, require actual coding and be interesting enough to motivate students. Students will work on projects they select from October 2009 to April 2010. Another thing possible is to implement the package mechanism. Most of the basic stuff is already in the compiler (dynamic libraries, RTTI, etc), but there is a need to bring that together in something easily usable (maybe add a XML-based manifest in the package, add some code to check compiler compatibilities, etc). Demos can be provided and I can provide support to one or several students on how to achieve. Of course, the FPC and Lazarus team needs to tell us how they want to integrate the feature. We can also breakdown the work so that it is achieved over a couple of years.. Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] New version of Excel Interface unit available
A new version of ExcelInterface is now available (version 0.4) here: http://tcoq.free.fr/composants.html It's provided as is, under the MPL 1.1 license. This is unfinished work, but the version 0.4 has the minimum necessary to do useful stuff with the interface, and more: - creating and loading excel workbooks, - saving workbooks, - creating and accessing sheets, - getting values and setting values (and formulas) in cells, - getting and changing cell format - creating comments, - creating shapes, - creating charts. There is no user manual, but the test example in the Tests directory provides an example for each function, so it should be easy to use. In addition, Excel' VB documentation should be also very useful. It provides a very clear demonstration COM programming (although a manual activity) is entirely possible in FPC 2.2.4 and Lazarus. All comments and suggestions are welcome. Best regards, Thierry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] New version of Excel Interface unit available
Yes, there are several alternatives now to read/write spreadsheets: a) - using CSV files, b) - using XML files, c) - using FPSpreadsheet, d) - now using ExcelInterface. Unlike a) and b) ExcelInterface controls Excel directly using the COM interface, so the interaction with the Excel program is immediate: formulas can be written and and evaluated automatically by the Excel solver, the user can input data with Excel filled-in spreadsheets, the format itself is rendered immediately, moving shapes also move connectors automatically. It also requires less manual work from the end-user. Unlike c) ExcelInterface provides many additional facilities in addition to the cells and values: formulas, formats, comments, shapes, diagrams, etc. and works on many Excel versions. ExcelInterface brings the power of Excel to FPC and Lazarus as a sort of additional external component. In the future, I hope to add a similar interface to link to OpenOffice, so as: - to have the same interface to generate either OpenOffice or Excel spreadsheets, - to be able to run the interface on Linux. Enjoy! Thierry Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Leslie Kayeles.k...@couchmansfarm.plus.com wrote: Tip for a basic and simple solution (Windows but presumably similar on other platforms?) you can just write your data to a Comma Separated Variable (csv) text file and do a ShellExecute 'open' on it. Or you can generate a spreadsheet with the fpspreadsheet library: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPSpreadsheet -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] New version of Excel Interface unit available
Good idea, Felipe, ;-) I will do so Thierry Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Some time ago there were people asking in the forum how to use COM to interface with Excel. I think it would be cool if you could add a link to this component in the Lazarus wiki for easier future reference: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Components_and_Code_examples thanks, -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
