Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 20:31, schrieb Lukasz Stafiniak: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Noah Silva shir...@galapagossoftware.com wrote: If you want to convince people to use FPC and are having issues, you should ask them what features, exactly, they are looking for. Chances are that FPC has them.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-29 Thread Noa Shiruba
Hi, By the way, I was wrong about saying ABAP doesn't work outside of SAP BASIS in me previous example, I found their research project caffeine today and got it working. Of course my next step will be to see how to make it interface with FPC. :) Also, did anyone else notice that tile is now

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 29.02.2012 14:02, schrieb Noa Shiruba: Also, did anyone else notice that tile is now used by some standard units in FPC 2.6? How did you come to this conclusion? (I ask out of curiosity) Regards, Sven ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

[fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Church
A few months ago I inquired and got some info about FPC docs - discussed in this thread http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2011-November/068595.html, the result of which can be found here - http://fpdocs.rca2.net and here - http://fpdocs.rca2.net/user/user.html, when FPC was at

Re: [fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: A few months ago I inquired and got some info about FPC docs - discussed in this thread http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2011-November/068595.html, the result of which can be found here - http://fpdocs.rca2.net and here -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, February 29, 2012 16:44, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: A few months ago I inquired and got some info about FPC docs - discussed in this thread http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2011-November/068595.html, the result of

Re: [fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Church
On 29 February 2012 15:44, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: A few months ago I inquired and got some info about FPC docs - discussed in this thread http://lists.lazarus.**freepascal.org/pipermail/**

Re: [fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: I am asking because if there some changes to some of the pages because of new language facilities etc, some features, deprecated etc commit messages would make it easier to track what is new and what has been changed. The pages are also not dated so

Re: [fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Church
On 29 February 2012 16:07, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: I am asking because if there some changes to some of the pages because of new language facilities etc, some features, deprecated etc commit messages would make it easier to track what is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 29 februari 2012 16:29 heeft Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: 4. Is there some page where previous versions are available? PS. After some searching questions 2, 3 and 4 are answered - http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcdocs/. or:

[fpc-pascal] Re: Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-2-2012 18:57, Frank Church wrote: On 29 February 2012 16:07, michael.vancann...@wisa.be mailto:michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: Is it open to only a few people and do you upload it for general viewing only when it is ready? In a nutshell is it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 29 februari 2012 18:57 heeft Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: How often do you update it? See: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/logs/fpcdocs-trunk.log (also available with viewvc). Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

[fpc-pascal] Re: Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-2-2012 17:07, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: Another question, are you and Florian Klaempfl the main or only contributors? I am virtually the only one, but I do receive and apply minor patches from time to time. *Cough*

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Church
On 29 February 2012 18:10, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.comwrote: On 29-2-2012 17:07, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: Another question, are you and Florian Klaempfl the main or only contributors? I am

[fpc-pascal] Any way to find all descendants of a class?

2012-02-29 Thread Craig Peterson
In Delphi I can use the new extended RTTI support to build a list of all TForm descendants in my application (TRttiContext.GetTypes). Is there any way to do the same thing in Free Pascal without having to explicitly add each class to a list? I do have an intermediate class that all of our other

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Church
On 29 February 2012 18:10, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.comwrote: On 29-2-2012 17:07, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: Another question, are you and Florian Klaempfl the main or only contributors? I am

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-2-2012 20:08, Frank Church wrote: On 29 February 2012 18:10, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com mailto:reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: *Cough* http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20735 *cough* I'd love to see that patch committed or get some feedback

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 29-2-2012 17:07, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: Another question, are you and Florian Klaempfl the main or only contributors? I am virtually the only one, but I do receive

[fpc-pascal] Weird compilation warnings

2012-02-29 Thread Guillermo Martínez Jiménez
Hello, FPC is returning the Warning: cdecl’ared functions have no high parameter but I have no idea why. The documentation just says Functions declared with the cdecl modifier do not pass an extra implicit parameter. but the affected functions don't have any extra implicit parameter. I'm using

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-29 Thread Noa Shiruba
Hi Sven, Several of my programs stopped compiling with duplicate identifier errors where I had something like: Var Tile:TOSMTile; I thing the offending unit was Graphics, but I am not 100% sure. (I just did search and replace of Tile to MapTile in my code to fix it once I realized the

[fpc-pascal] Re: What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-29 Thread leledumbo
That shouldn't happen. You are allowed to alias identifiers found in units used (and that's the unit scoping rule). The only case where duplicate identifier error occurs is when you have them in the same unit (either directly or via include files). -- View this message in context:

[fpc-pascal] Variant vs Pointer

2012-02-29 Thread Marcos Douglas
Hi, The TField class have the FValueBuffer: Pointer attribute and have also SetData(Buffer: Pointer,...) method that all T***Field subclasses use to set themselves. The methods AsInteger, AsString, etc use FValueBuffer to convert in an especific type. So, FValueBuffer could be anything. My

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Duplicate Identifier

2012-02-29 Thread Noah Silva
Hi leledumbo, (Changing the topic to indicate OT) I didn't really take time to figure out whether it should be happening or not, I just changed the references not to conflict. If you are interested, though, I reproduced it in the screenshot below for you:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Any way to find all descendants of a class?

2012-02-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 29.02.2012 19:58, schrieb Craig Peterson: In Delphi I can use the new extended RTTI support to build a list of all TForm descendants in my application (TRttiContext.GetTypes). Is there any way to do the same thing in Free Pascal without having to explicitly add each class to a list? Free

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 29.02.2012 19:16, schrieb Frank Church: On 29 February 2012 18:10, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com mailto:reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: On 29-2-2012 17:07, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org mailto:michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 01.03.2012 01:43, schrieb Noa Shiruba: Hi Sven, Several of my programs stopped compiling with duplicate identifier errors where I had something like: Var Tile:TOSMTile; I thing the offending unit was Graphics, but I am not 100% sure. (I just did search and replace of Tile to MapTile in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Duplicate Identifier

2012-02-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 01.03.2012 03:35, schrieb Noah Silva: Hi leledumbo, (Changing the topic to indicate OT) I didn't really take time to figure out whether it should be happening or not, I just changed the references not to conflict. If you are interested, though, I reproduced it in the screenshot below for

[fpc-pascal] Re: Duplicate Identifier

2012-02-29 Thread leledumbo
That's different case IMHO (In My Humble Observation), I guess it's something like this: {$mode objfpc} type TTestClass = class FTile: Integer; property Tile: Integer read FTile write FTile; procedure Test; end; procedure TTestClass.Test; var Tile: Integer; begin end; begin