Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-25 Thread luiz americo pereira camara
2012/10/25 Sven Barth > Am 25.10.2012 14:11, schrieb luiz americo pereira camara: > > - what do you miss for interfaces? >> > > Delegation: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=4842 > > I personally don't consider this a missing feature (after all delegation > itself works already), but more

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-25 Thread Sven Barth
Am 25.10.2012 10:50, schrieb patspiper: On 25/10/12 09:50, Sven Barth wrote: Am 25.10.2012 01:55 schrieb "luiz americo pereira camara" mailto:luiz...@oi.com.br>>: > Regarding Delphi compatibility, currently fpc already lacks much features in areas like attributes, anounimous methods, generics

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-25 Thread Sven Barth
Am 25.10.2012 14:11, schrieb luiz americo pereira camara: 2012/10/25 Sven Barth > Am 25.10.2012 01:55 schrieb "luiz americo pereira camara" mailto:luiz...@oi.com.br>>: > Regarding Delphi compatibility, currently fpc already lacks much feat

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-25 Thread luiz americo pereira camara
2012/10/25 Sven Barth > Am 25.10.2012 01:55 schrieb "luiz americo pereira camara" < > luiz...@oi.com.br>: > > > Regarding Delphi compatibility, currently fpc already lacks much > features in areas like attributes, anounimous methods, generics, > interfaces, unicode and some will never land at fpc

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-25 Thread patspiper
On 25/10/12 09:50, Sven Barth wrote: Am 25.10.2012 01:55 schrieb "luiz americo pereira camara" mailto:luiz...@oi.com.br>>: > Regarding Delphi compatibility, currently fpc already lacks much features in areas like attributes, anounimous methods, generics, interfaces, unicode and some will neve

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 25/10/12 00:55, luiz americo pereira camara wrote: > - Initially i questioned the fpc obsever support, now i see as a good > implementation The FPC Observer and Mediator is based on works found in the tiOPF framework - done a few years ago. And that in turn was based on a implementation I done

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-24 Thread Sven Barth
Am 25.10.2012 01:55 schrieb "luiz americo pereira camara" : > Regarding Delphi compatibility, currently fpc already lacks much features in areas like attributes, anounimous methods, generics, interfaces, unicode and some will never land at fpc. - attributes are being worked on - for anonymous meth

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-24 Thread luiz americo pereira camara
2012/10/24 Graeme Geldenhuys > On 2012-10-24 07:52, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: > > However, given the total lack of documentation, it is hard to say. > > +1 > > I had a look too, the Embarcadero website isn't much help. > > First some considerations: - Initially i questioned the fpc obsev

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-24 Thread Sven Barth
Am 24.10.2012 10:59, schrieb michael.vancann...@wisa.be: On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-10-24 07:52, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: However, given the total lack of documentation, it is hard to say. +1 I had a look too, the Embarcadero website isn't much help.

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-10-24 10:01, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > I can still unmerge the observer functionality from fixes/2.6.2. Then (1) is > also still a possibility. Please don't! I've been waiting years for that in FPC, and am actively building work based on that functionality. G. __

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-10-24 09:59, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: > > in the classes (!) unit, makes me shudder, though. > > How anyone can create such a convoluted system is beyond me. Yup. [shaking my head in disbelief] Delphi is going the way of the dodo. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-24 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, michael.vancann...@wisa.be said: Recently observer support was added to fpc. Just wondering what path fpc will follow: 1) Ditches the current fpc implementation and implements a Delphi compatible interface 2) Time to d

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, michael.vancann...@wisa.be said: > > Recently observer support was added to fpc. > > > > Just wondering what path fpc will follow: > > > > 1) Ditches the current fpc implementation and implements a Delphi > > compatible interface > > > > 2) Time to diverge from Delphi. Keep

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-24 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-10-24 07:52, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: However, given the total lack of documentation, it is hard to say. +1 I had a look too, the Embarcadero website isn't much help. From what I've seen, I can surmise it is geared towards t

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-10-24 07:52, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: > However, given the total lack of documentation, it is hard to say. +1 I had a look too, the Embarcadero website isn't much help. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@list

Re: [fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-23 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, luiz americo pereira camara wrote: While looking for the new TextHint property in Delphi docs, i found that recent Delphi implements Observer support. See: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE3/en/System.Classes.TComponent.Observers http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/

[fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

2012-10-23 Thread luiz americo pereira camara
While looking for the new TextHint property in Delphi docs, i found that recent Delphi implements Observer support. See: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE3/en/System.Classes.TComponent.Observers http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE2/en/System.Classes.TObservers_Methods Recently