RE: [fpc-devel] Inter Process Communication

2007-03-06 Thread George Birbilis
Haven't read this thread, so I might be off-topic a bit in the following: On Windows the best way to copy data in my opinion is WM_COPYDATA message, but I'm not sure if on Vista it will work ok (haven't tried). If you want to try it see http://plugs.onestop.net --------

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC dynamic libraries

2007-02-09 Thread George Birbilis
e process if some versioning and namespace mechanism is used]) Speaking of namespaces, Borland added concept (to support .NET) in latest Delphis I think, has FPC done similar yet? Could help in this case George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microso

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC dynamic libraries

2007-02-09 Thread George Birbilis
to have > dynamically loadable packages. > don't take Borland as an example in this case, it's a very bad practice what they did... George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microsoft MVP J# for 2004-2007 Borland "Spirit of D

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC dynamic libraries

2007-02-09 Thread George Birbilis
this built in as it seems) ---- George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microsoft MVP J# for 2004-2007 Borland "Spirit of Delphi" 3D, QuickTime, QTVR, Java, Delphi, ActiveX, .NET components, Robotics http://www.kagi.com/birbilis h

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC dynamic libraries

2007-02-09 Thread George Birbilis
opensource the core functionality and have the components provide extra features like I did with JEDI-QuickTime that came out of my QT4Delphi [now QT4All] sourcebase). Maybe if Lazarus could host ActiveX controls (not sure if the form designer now supports such a thing, although I think FPC does supp

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC dynamic libraries

2007-02-07 Thread George Birbilis
> > > We need a version system. > > > > That's not something "we" need, but which most OS'es need > (and don't > > provide, except for hacks like symlinks or different filenames). > > Moreover, it doesn't really solve much unless you like having 20 > > different versions of the same shared libr

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC dynamic libraries

2007-02-07 Thread George Birbilis
ight click it and go to Properties, then ask for the older versions (there's a special tab for that on the dialog). Not sure if the Basic version of Vista has this functionality available (I tried it with Vista Ultimate) George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics

RE: Re[2]: [fpc-devel] Some compiler changes...

2007-01-23 Thread George Birbilis
nment) -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Microsoft MVP J# 2004-2007 Borland "Spiriti of Delphi" QuickTime QTVR ActiveX .NET Delphi http://www.kagi.com/birbilis http://birbilis.spaces.live.com -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-

RE: [fpc-devel] LGPL vs MPL

2006-12-26 Thread George Birbilis
though I think) at an interview of the so-called "father of Java" (who was fanatically against Java getting opensourced before, but now tries to explain why they opensourced it [I'm in favor of the opensourcing of it btw, since I'll be able to port stuff of Java2 class libra

RE: [fpc-devel] LGPL vs MPL

2006-12-26 Thread George Birbilis
) vs LGPL. These two seem equivalent, but the 1st means that one can include in some Linux distros that require GPL George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microsoft MVP J# for 2004-2006 Borland "Spirit of Delphi" 3D, QuickTime, QTVR,

No Cursor at Win32 windowed mode of FPC IDE (was: RE: [fpc-devel] Question about writing documentation)

2006-12-22 Thread George Birbilis
Sorry, forgot to change the subject Can others see these two issues too? > > The FPC dev env when run in windowed mode at Windows XP > 32-bit shows > > no cursor (no blinking, nothing). At full screen shows a blinking > > cursor, but it's very tiring cause it blinks too fast > > Please use a bugre

RE: [fpc-devel] Question about writing documentation

2006-12-21 Thread George Birbilis
The FPC dev env when run in windowed mode at Windows XP 32-bit shows no cursor (no blinking, nothing). At full screen shows a blinking cursor, but it's very tiring cause it blinks too fast George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microsoft M

RE: [fpc-devel] Question about writing documentation

2006-12-21 Thread George Birbilis
Why not say return <1 or <=0 for all? ---- George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microsoft MVP J# for 2004-2006 Borland "Spirit of Delphi" 3D, QuickTime, QTVR, Java, Delphi, ActiveX, .NET components, Robotics http://www.ka