Re: [fpc-pascal] TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function: how is it supposed to behave?

On 2016-04-18 19:26, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: > I propose to write a test suite first with the desired output, based on > Delphi. Fantastic idea! Test Driven Development - the best way to write any software. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using

Re: [fpc-pascal] TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function: how is it supposed to behave?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: 2016-04-18 13:47 GMT-03:00 Bart : [..] The internal processing of the (edit)mask is the same as TMaskEdit. If that is broken somehow, it is also broken in TMaskEdit. The only functions that may need adjustments

Re: [fpc-pascal] Any chance to add the TStringBuilder to FCL?

El 18/04/16 a les 09:53, Marco van de Voort ha escrit: In our previous episode, J?rgen Hestermann said: > in loops. (it is that way in M2 btw, where the basetype is unsigned. Not > happy with that) I don't know what you mean. A For-loop has it's limits anyway. Limits like in for i:=0 to

Re: [fpc-pascal] TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function: how is it supposed to behave?

2016-04-18 13:47 GMT-03:00 Bart : [..] > The internal processing of the (edit)mask is the same as TMaskEdit. > If that is broken somehow, it is also broken in TMaskEdit. > > The only functions that may need adjustments are > > * function FormatMaskText(const EditMask:

Re: [fpc-pascal] TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function: how is it supposed to behave?

On 4/18/16, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > I think Bart meant that the maskutils unit should simply use unicodestring. > Given that it almost surely will need to deal with $ and € etc, that seems > like a better approach. Yep. In UTF8 the 1 on 1 relation between the

Re: [fpc-pascal] is there any pascal library of SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol)?

Am Monday 18 April 2016 17:34:10 schrieb Dennis: > I am want to embed the SNTP into my applications so that I don't have to > run Dimension 4 or other software to correct my PC Clock. Synapse http://synapse.ararat.cz/doc/help/sntpsend.TSNTPSend.html

Re: [fpc-pascal] is there any pascal library of SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol)?

On 2016-04-18 16:34, Dennis wrote: > I am want to embed the SNTP into my applications Take a look at the Indy 10.6.0.2 components, they have the SNTP protocol implemented. They are free and open source. Get the latest code from their code repository. Official SVN repository:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Any chance to add the TStringBuilder to FCL?

Am 2016-04-18 um 11:33 schrieb Sven Barth: Am 18.04.2016 07:58 schrieb "Jürgen Hestermann" >: > And why was a directive implemented to use 0-based indices > even for strings but none for 1-based indices in dynamic arrays? > IMO the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Any chance to add the TStringBuilder to FCL?

Am 2016-04-18 um 09:53 schrieb Marco van de Voort: Limits like in for i:=0 to someexpression.count-1 are evaluated as expression before using the result to for. If count=0 this would become for i:=0 to $, so you need to guard this with a if count>0 then. Well, for 1-based arrays it

[fpc-pascal] is there any pascal library of SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol)?

I am want to embed the SNTP into my applications so that I don't have to run Dimension 4 or other software to correct my PC Clock. Thanks in advance. Dennis ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function: how is it supposed to behave?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2016-04-18 15:51, Bart wrote: Maybe a version of maskutils unit based on UnicodeString should also be made? This seems so redundant. I still need to study the new FPC 3.0 string handling, but I was hoping such duplication of implementations

Re: [fpc-pascal] TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function: how is it supposed to behave?

On 2016-04-18 15:51, Bart wrote: > Maybe a version of maskutils unit based on UnicodeString should also > be made? This seems so redundant. I still need to study the new FPC 3.0 string handling, but I was hoping such duplication of implementations would not be necessary with newer FPC versions.

Re: [fpc-pascal] TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function: how is it supposed to behave?

On 4/18/16, Bart wrote: >> I recently did some work on it; the class works completely wrong IMO, and As a side note: function ValidateInput : string; The function raises an exception upon failure. Since we did not have to follow Delphi here, a better declaration IMHO

Re: [fpc-pascal] TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function: how is it supposed to behave?

On 4/18/16, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > I recently did some work on it; the class works completely wrong IMO, and I > though to replace it completely with the functions found in the LCL. Yep, I was going that way too (and started coding it so). Currently FormatMaskText

Re: [fpc-pascal] TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function: how is it supposed to behave?

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, Bart wrote: Hi, I cannot find any documentation about TMaskUtils.ValidateInput function (unit MaskUtils). AFAICS Delphi does not have such a class? (ref: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE6/en/System.MaskUtils) There are some bugreports about this unit in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Any chance to add the TStringBuilder to FCL?

Am 18.04.2016 07:58 schrieb "Jürgen Hestermann" : > And why was a directive implemented to use 0-based indices > even for strings but none for 1-based indices in dynamic arrays? > IMO the latter would be much more desired. The usual reason: Delphi compatibility. If

Re: [fpc-pascal] Any chance to add the TStringBuilder to FCL?

In our previous episode, J?rgen Hestermann said: > > in loops. (it is that way in M2 btw, where the basetype is unsigned. Not > > happy with that) > > I don't know what you mean. > A For-loop has it's limits anyway. Limits like in for i:=0 to someexpression.count-1 are evaluated as