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

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 CL. Work has actually

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 CL. 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] 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,

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 CL. 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

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 CL. Work has actually started. Sounds good. http://www.cul.de/lazarus.html ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

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

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 CL. 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,

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 example