Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Jeff Duntemann
Interesting idea--and I have an intro book to Delphi 2 that could be adapted. I would have to publish it myself, as the American computer book publishing business is in bad shape right now, but I know how to do that, at least. --73-- --JD-- Michael Schnell wrote: While this of course is a go

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op maandag 07-01-2008 om 01:06 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Daniƫl Mantione: > > 3. The book does not cover objects in depth. I'm of two minds about how to > > cover object-oriented programming: I prefer Delphi's object model, but I've > > used Turbo Vision (I named it, in fact) and have some ex

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Jan 7, 2008 10:24 AM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by C&L. Work has actually > started. That's really excelent! Any plans on having an english translation? Althougth I can read german, I would be interrested in buying some cop

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Michael Schnell schrieb: > > > >> Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by C&L. Work has > >> actually started. > >> > > Sounds good. > > > > Of course there is room for more than one book if the authors care to > > target different aspects. (Delphi language, GUI/LCL, beginners, "in

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Schnell schrieb: > >> Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by C&L. Work has >> actually started. >> > Sounds good. > > Of course there is room for more than one book if the authors care to > target different aspects. (Delphi language, GUI/LCL, beginners, "in > depth" referenc

Re: [fpc-devel] Creating a Cocoa Application

2008-01-07 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
A compilable version. I updated it to include in itself very limited appkit bindings so that one can run this example even without my partial cocoa bindings. It requires the objc headers, however. In fact I just made this the main objc headers example: { cocoamsgbox.pas This example shows how t

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Schnell schrieb: > >> Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by C&L. Work has >> actually started. >> > Sounds good. http://www.cul.de/lazarus.html ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Michael Schnell wrote: > > > Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by C&L. Work has actually > > started. > > > Sounds good. > > Of course there is room for more than one book if the authors care to target > different aspects. (Delphi language, GUI/LCL, beginner

Re: [fpc-devel] Creating a Cocoa Application

2008-01-07 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
I reread the docs and it seams that when calling alloc I should pass the class id as "self", then use it's result as "self" for init and then use the result from init to call subsequent methods. Ok, this worked fine now =) Final version of the simple pascal cocoa app bellow. This is excelent, bec

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Schnell
Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by C&L. Work has actually started. Sounds good. Of course there is room for more than one book if the authors care to target different aspects. (Delphi language, GUI/LCL, beginners, "in depth" reference, multi-platform, networking, ... ) -

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Michael Schnell wrote: > While this of course is a good idea (and decent comments were presented by > others), ... > > Why not (based on the text you have) write a real (commercial) book on > Lazarus. Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by C&L. Work has actually

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Schnell
While this of course is a good idea (and decent comments were presented by others), ... Why not (based on the text you have) write a real (commercial) book on Lazarus. Lazarus is approaching a non-beta state and is available for many platforms. Some days ago I used Lazarus to cross-compile