[fpc-pascal] New to freepascal and how to translate my delphi program.

2011-04-18 Thread P. vanderWal
I am new to free pascal, but have some experience with delphi. I wrote a program to control a milling machine (Elektor Profiler, see elektor.nl/ forum program Doit). The program is written in delphi-7 ( about 25.000 lines in 20 modules) and runs on MS-Xp. But as MS changes to much in its os's

Re: [fpc-pascal] New to freepascal and how to translate my delphi program.

2011-04-18 Thread Jeppe Johansen
I think the synaser unit(from Synapse) is a very solid unit for crossplatform serial port access Den 18-04-2011 10:21, P. vanderWal skrev: I am new to free pascal, but have some experience with delphi. I wrote a program to control a milling machine (Elektor Profiler, see elektor.nl/ forum

Re: [fpc-pascal] New to freepascal and how to translate my delphi program.

2011-04-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Hello, I have already written such a program and I used the Pascal unit provided by FTTI, because I was using FTTI's USB component: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#FTDI For serial I would probably use Synaser:

Re: [fpc-pascal] New to freepascal and how to translate my delphi program.

2011-04-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Marcos Douglas m...@delfire.net wrote: Like read the text of PDF files? No, vectorial drawings. PDF can hold raster images, vectorial drawings and/or rich text. In CorelDraw in the dialog to export to PDF there is an option Convert text to vectors, that's what

Re: [fpc-pascal] New to freepascal and how to translate my delphi program.

2011-04-18 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Marcos Douglas m...@delfire.net wrote: Like read the text of PDF files? No, vectorial drawings. PDF can hold raster images, vectorial drawings and/or rich