Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: OT: Amazing new development tools

2012-03-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 29/02/2012 11:44, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin wrote: Sure one *could* record *all* variables, and the callstack... But what if - you add a new variable, what to initialize it with? - remove the function that called the current code, or even delete the line where you just

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Alberto Narduzzi
The reason for using a buffer in tdataset is that a record's data normally is located in one continuous buffer, from which a value is picked from the right spot (including strings) You can't have that with variants. Hm... right. So, if I will have a class like a TParam, that have FValue:

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Ludo Brands ludo.bra...@free.fr wrote: I need implements a similar structure but I need know if the use of Variant have very cost. It has a cost. The reason for using a buffer in tdataset is that a record's data normally is located in one continuous

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Alberto Narduzzi albertonardu...@yahoo.com wrote: The reason for using a buffer in tdataset is that a record's data normally is located in one continuous buffer, from which a value is picked from the right spot (including strings) You can't have that with

RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Ludo Brands
Think in my class like a Business Object. The struct is very similar with TParams it has many TParam. The data, in a TParam, is save in a Variant type. I need something like: u := TmyBO.Create; // the name does matter u.Attr['name'].Value := 'Marcos'; // an instance is created and the

Re: RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ludo Brands ludo.bra...@free.fr wrote: Think in my class like a Business Object. The struct is very similar with TParams it has many TParam. The data, in a TParam, is save in a Variant type. I need something like: u := TmyBO.Create;  // the name does matter

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
On 3/3/2012 10:08, Marcos Douglas wrote: Think in my class like a Business Object. The struct is very similar with TParams it has many TParam. The data, in a TParam, is save in a Variant type. I need something like: u := TmyBO.Create; // the name does matter u.Attr['name'].Value := 'Marcos';

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread silvioprog
2012/3/3 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara luiz...@oi.com.br: On 3/3/2012 10:08, Marcos Douglas wrote: Think in my class like a Business Object. The struct is very similar with TParams it has many TParam. The data, in a TParam, is save in a Variant type. I need something like: u := TmyBO.Create;  

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:57 PM, silvioprog silviop...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/3/3 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara luiz...@oi.com.br: On 3/3/2012 10:08, Marcos Douglas wrote: Think in my class like a Business Object. The struct is very similar with TParams it has many TParam. The data, in a

RE : RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Ludo Brands
Or define an internal storage format and convert the different types to that format. That is also what variants are doing. The difference is that variants have pre-defined assignment routines and conversions between the different variant types which don't always fit what you

Re: RE : RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Ludo Brands ludo.bra...@free.fr wrote: Or define an internal storage format and convert the different types to that format. That is also what variants are doing. The difference is that variants have pre-defined assignment routines and conversions between

Re: RE : RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: Variant vs Pointer

2012-03-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Ludo Brands said: When you are thinking of using JSON you can use AnsiString as the internal format eventually adding a datatype tag to avoid conversion data loss as much as possible. ansistring is a decimal type. This incurs a binary to decimal conversion per se

[fpc-pascal] [ot] Some(paid) work to do in FreePascal

2012-03-03 Thread John Sewell
Hi, (Sorry if it's the wrong place to post that, please point my to any list best suited for that) I would like the following tool, coded in FPC for Linux 64, in command line. The usage is a proxy log scanner to automatically block bad websites from our proxy. I know there is ton os list, tools,

Re: [fpc-pascal] How create a full text search with TChmWriter?

2012-03-03 Thread Andrew Haines
On 02/23/12 16:23, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Now it stops earlier on my files: Exception at 00473837: ERangeError: Range check error. Backtrace does not help much: #0 0x004120d0 in fpc_raiseexception () #1 0x0045fc38 in