Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread duiliofoschi
my mouth is wide open for surprise and refuses to close :) Thank you Duilio 2009/2/2, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:43 PM, duilio foschi duiliofos...@euplan.it wrote: wow! There is a whole world to explore ! :-) And it doesn't stop there... you

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi I have had a good time with FoxLib Gui, calling from Ruby. Why is that there isnt an integration of Fox in Lazarus/Fpc ? regards Nataraj On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:43 PM, duilio foschi duiliofos...@euplan.it

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Nataraj S Narayan natara...@gmail.com wrote: I have had a good time with FoxLib Gui, calling from Ruby. Why is that there isnt an integration of Fox in Lazarus/Fpc ? I don't know FoxLib. Is that a custom drawn toolkit or a wrapper for other toolkits like GTK,

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Krishna
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Nataraj S Narayan natara...@gmail.com wrote: I have had a good time with FoxLib Gui, calling from Ruby. Why is that there isnt an integration of Fox in Lazarus/Fpc ? I don't

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Hi I have had a good time with FoxLib Gui, calling from Ruby. Why is that there isnt an integration of Fox in Lazarus/Fpc ? Because no-one has made a widgetset based on it. This is also the first request ever. Given that it is written in C++

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi Well, I don't think its a wrapper because i did use it without gtk installed. Plz have a look at http://www.fox-toolkit.org/. regards Nataraj On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Krishna v.krishnaku...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Krishna v.krishnaku...@gmail.com wrote: Custom drawn with a Windows 2000 look on all platforms. Do you have a link to FoxLib? A quick google search did not reveal a obvious choice. As for the Windows 2000 look. I am planning on implementing the LCL-fpGUI

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
You mean its just another one out there? I have used the Ruby wrappers of this called FxRuby on Arm-linux boards. Aint crashed or given a problem. But the calender widget was missing till Foxlib 1.6. Otherwise neat stuff. C++ ought to be good aint it? Even Firefox RDBMS was written in C++?

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Nataraj S Narayan natara...@gmail.com wrote: Plz have a look at http://www.fox-toolkit.org/. Thanks for the link, I'll take a look. As Michael said, we haven't seen anybody request support for Fox Toolkit in Lazarus yet. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi Graeme http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ regards Nataraj On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Krishna v.krishnaku...@gmail.com wrote: Custom drawn with a Windows 2000 look on all platforms. Do you have a link to

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM, duiliofos...@euplan.it wrote: I cannot reach the link http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ Could you please check ? I restarted the firewall. Please try again. I've had other users connect to the news server this morning (web and nntp interface), so it should

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread duiliofoschi
Graeme, I cannot reach the link http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ in your sign. Could you please check ? Thank you Duilio 2009/2/2, Nataraj S Narayan natara...@gmail.com: Hi Graeme http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ regards Nataraj On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Nataraj S Narayan said: I have used the Ruby wrappers of this called FxRuby on Arm-linux boards. Aint crashed or given a problem. But the calender widget was missing till Foxlib 1.6. Otherwise neat stuff. C++ ought to be good aint it? Even Firefox RDBMS was written

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Oops! I meant Firebird RDBMS, not Firefox! Yes, but the interface API is accessible in plain C. It would be suicide for Firebird to change that to C++. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op zaterdag 31-01-2009 om 21:43 uur [tijdzone +0300], schreef dmitry boyarintsev: Or (still better) which chances are that the code of TProfGrid would compile with FPC ? chances are very high, since FPC supports delphi dialect {$ifdef fpc}{$mode delphi}{$h+}{$endif} No, chances are very

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
No, chances are very low. It's a component which will most-probably depend on several vcl-internals with which the FCL is incompatible. Because the FCL has to deal with several widgetsets and OS'es. While Delphi's vcl is windows-only. Chances depend on how component is actually implemented. I

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread duilio foschi
Dmitry, what is LCL ? A research in the net brought 'Le Crédit Lyonnais', but I doubt that this is the correct anser :) Thank you Duilio 2009/2/1 dmitry boyarintsev skalogryz.li...@gmail.com: No, chances are very low. It's a component which will most-probably depend on several

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
what is LCL ? A research in the net brought 'Le Crédit Lyonnais', but I doubt that this is the correct anser :) LCL stands for Lazarus Component Library, see this page for more details http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation If you want to create a delphi-like visual

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread duilio foschi
wow! There is a whole world to explore ! Thank you Duilio 2009/2/1 dmitry boyarintsev skalogryz.li...@gmail.com: what is LCL ? A research in the net brought 'Le Crédit Lyonnais', but I doubt that this is the correct anser :) LCL stands for Lazarus Component Library, see this page for more

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:43 PM, duilio foschi duiliofos...@euplan.it wrote: wow! There is a whole world to explore ! :-) And it doesn't stop there... you even have a choice of GUI toolkits you can use with Free Pascal. LCL is not the only one, there are custom written toolkits as well - all

[fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-01-31 Thread duiliofoschi
I am an old goat for what concerns Delphi, but I am an abolute beginner re FPC. One simple question: is there around any (free or commercial) grid component like TProfGrid (www.profgrid.com) for FPC ? Or (still better) which chances are that the code of TProfGrid would compile with FPC ? Thank

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-01-31 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
Or (still better) which chances are that the code of TProfGrid would compile with FPC ? chances are very high, since FPC supports delphi dialect {$ifdef fpc}{$mode delphi}{$h+}{$endif} you also need to learn about LCL (Lazarus analog of delphi VCL library) and Lazarus itself. just start from