Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Jeff Duntemann
Usenet off and on since the bang-path era and I like it too. I don't know the protocol well, however, and don't know its limitations. --73-- --Jeff Duntemann Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA On 9/25/2012 2:29 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-25 09:01, Cephas Atheos wrote

Re: [fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.6.0 released!

2012-01-01 Thread Jeff Duntemann
Bravo! My only question is: Are there any particular issues with respect to using 2.6.0 with Lazarus? I didn't see that mentioned in the changes doc. Thanks to everybody who worked on it! (And happy new year, all!) --73-- --Jeff Duntemann Colorado Springs, Colorado On 1/1/2012 8:

Re: [fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

2011-09-13 Thread Jeff Duntemann
I agree with Joost. I've always liked the Insight GUI for gdb, and as best I know that's written in Tcl/Tk, of all things. So a FreePascal front end for gdb isn't a bad idea, and would be a great deal easier than writing a complete low-level debugger from scratch. --73-- -

Re: [fpc-devel] Project Idea: Mini-FPC

2011-09-10 Thread Jeff Duntemann
he example code runs in a console. I'll take a look at Lazarus for Education this week and see whether it could work for the book. Thanks for pointing it out to me. --73-- --Jeff Duntemann Colorado Springs, Colorado On 9/10/2011 9:28 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:5

Re: [fpc-devel] Project Idea: Mini-FPC

2011-09-10 Thread Jeff Duntemann
large and intimidatingly complex. I'd rather see some effort put into an easy-to-install beginner's programming environment than in pulling features out of the compiler. I know this isn't the forum for that discussion, but I did want to make the suggestion. --73-- --Jeff Dun

Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal in microcontrollers

2008-02-25 Thread Jeff Duntemann
This is very blue-sky, but it would be an interesting enhancement to Lazarus to target ARM or Atmel AVR CPUs in the manner of the Processing language/IDE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_%28programming_language%29 It's how you create software for the Arduino boards that are so popular

[fpc-devel] New download location for the ebook--sorry for the messup!

2008-02-20 Thread Jeff Duntemann
Well, I have no idea why the downloads went so badly, but it doesn't matter where the file comes from, really. Try this URL instead; it's my own FTP site: http://www.copperwood.com/pub/FreePascalSquareOneVol1.pdf I'm going to delete this copy in a couple of days because it isn't anywhere near

[fpc-devel] An incomplete prototype of my ebook FREE PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE

2008-02-19 Thread Jeff Duntemann
eresting "reading the mail" here the past couple of months. Good luck and thanks! --73-- --Jeff Duntemann Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Lazarus: A new widgest set

2008-02-19 Thread Jeff Duntemann
As a pertinent aside here, I learned most of what I know about X from Niall Mansfield's book The Joy of X (Addison Wesley, 1993). Great overview, lots of good technical figures. Not an implementation guide, by any means, but it made the X system quite clear to me, even though I don't use it muc

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

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

2008-01-06 Thread Jeff Duntemann
. Do let me know what you think. I need to mention that I work fairly slowly (mostly because I'm not retired and have a lot of other things to do) but I'm willing to release chapters as I finish them if people want them. Good luck and thank