On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 21 December 2011 18:06, Henry Vermaak wrote:
embedded devices, laptops have batteries, too. You're wasting CPU and power
just spinning around a loop, so even if your app isn't active, it's still
waking up every 50ms. I don't consider this
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:15 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote:
As I understand it, Delphi and Lazarus implement the former, and don't need
a timeout for it.
Ops, you are correct, it is a one shot event:
On 22 December 2011 10:15, michael.vancanneyt@w.. wrote:
I think it depends on what you mean with 'OnIdle'.
- An event which occurs once when an application falls Idle.
- An event which is triggered repeatedly when the application is idle.
fpGUI's OnIdle event used to fired only once,
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 22 December 2011 10:15, michael.vancanneyt@w.. wrote:
I think it depends on what you mean with 'OnIdle'.
- An event which occurs once when an application falls Idle.
- An event which is triggered repeatedly when the application is idle.
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:51 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote:
Strange statement.
If select() didn't do its job correctly, neither Qt or Gtk could do their
job, or any network related program, for that matter.
It is not about select working or not, it is about how many file
descriptors X
On 21 December 2011 18:26, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ... wrote:
just spinning around a loop, so even if your app isn't active, it's still
waking up every 50ms. I don't consider this very good programming practice.
I tested with top and it doesn't even show my application in the top
20
On 22/12/11 09:15, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
It is not about select working or not, it is about how many file
descriptors X uses to communicate:
http://fixunix.com/xwindows/91558-xconnectionnumber-select.html#post301681
I don't have time in the foreseeable future to find in which
On Thursday 22 of December 2011 09:43:28 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:15 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote:
As I understand it, Delphi and Lazarus implement the former, and don't
need a timeout for it.
Ops, you are correct, it is a one shot event:
On 22 Dec 2011, at 02:27, nore...@z505.com wrote:
Another thing freepascal allows is for OVERLOAD to be declared one
place
but not the other. Delphi is more strict in this regard.
That's fixed in svn trunk.
Also delphi is
more strict when it comes to PROGRAM name parsing. In freepascal
On 22 Dec 2011, at 10:39, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 21 December 2011 18:26, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ... wrote:
I tested with top and it doesn't even show my application in the top
20 users of CPU.
I was just about to mention that, and would have been very surprised
if it did show CPU
On 22 December 2011 11:50, Henry Vermaak wrote:
Perhaps you should try powertop.
Thanks for this. I never knew about powertop. I just ran it for a few
minutes. A fpGUI base app in idle rates 6th in the top causes for
wakeups on my system - rated at 4% of total processes running. I
have no
The contributed unit section on the freepascal site does not work
anymore. Can someone please have a look and fix this? Is there an
alternative link available?
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On 22 Dec 2011, at 14:37, dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl wrote:
The contributed unit section on the freepascal site does not work
anymore. Can someone please have a look and fix this? Is there an
alternative link available?
The location of the page changed, and there's an alternative link
On 22 December 2011 15:40, Jonas Maebe wrote:
The location of the page changed, and there's an alternative link
available on the front page of http://www.freepascal.org under Contributed
units.
While we are there. The Toolbox sponsor logo on the right. The
Toolbox Magazine has been sold long
On 22 dec '11, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 22 Dec 2011, at 14:37,
dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl [1]wrote:
The contributed unit section on
the freepascal site does not work anymore. Can someone please have a
look and fix this? Is there an alternative link available?
The
location of the page
In our previous episode, dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl said:
The
location of the page changed, and there's an alternative link
available on the front page of http://www.freepascal.org [2] under
Contributed units.
Well, that is exactly the link I'm talking about.
Clicking on this link will
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
The location of the page changed, and there's an alternative link
available on the front page of http://www.freepascal.org under Contributed
units.
While we are there. The Toolbox sponsor logo on the right. The
Toolbox Magazine has been
On 22 December 2011 16:00, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote:
It worked fine for me in Mozilla, but after I saw your user-agent, I tried
MSIE (9.0) and while I don't get any error messages, nothing shows.
I can confirm that it works with Opera, Firefox and Chrome browsers.
--
2011/12/19 Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl
FreeBSD and Linux x86 and x86_64 have internal assembler, but not linker.
Though the FreeBSD/x86_64 internal assembler is only enable in trunk afaik.
Be careful with binutils on ARM though, there are multiple ABIs, and the
installed ones must
In our previous episode, Juha Manninen said:
I ran apt-get install binutils in the already installed Ubuntu and it
worked.
I have understood ARM also supports many instruction sets like Thumb and
Thumb-2.
I have no idea which one is running now, but it is not important because it
works.
On 12/22/11, nore...@z505.com nore...@z505.com wrote:
You don't see as much Try Except, it's more Try Finally. People ignore the
exceptions because it's an accepted thing to do. Then the end user of the
application gets a strange exception message instead of a user friendly
one. For example,
Marcos Douglas:
It's not difficult, but is boring have always a
parameter or function return to return an error,
and have to verify if error then... if not er-
ror... if error and error then... etc
If you mean having to write nested IFs to check all
the errors, then there are
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Anton Shepelev anton@gmail.com wrote:
Marcos Douglas:
It's not difficult, but is boring have always a
parameter or function return to return an error,
and have to verify if error then... if not er-
ror... if error and error then... etc
If you
Can anyone think of a situation in which you would *have* to use forward
declared functions? I'm trying to come up with an example for such for
my book, and I am drawing a blank.
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Am Thursday 22 December 2011 21:33:13 schrieb Timothy Groves:
Can anyone think of a situation in which you would *have* to use forward
declared functions? I'm trying to come up with an example for such for
my book, and I am drawing a blank.
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Am 22.12.2011 21:37, schrieb Rainer Stratmann:
procedure fwproc; forward;
procedure myprocedure;
begin
fwproc;
end;
procedure fwproc;
begin
end;
Bad example, in this case there is no need for implementing fwproc after
myprocedure.
g
Michael
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:33:13 -0500
Timothy Groves the.tail.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone think of a situation in which you would *have* to use forward
declared functions? I'm trying to come up with an example for such for
my book, and I am drawing a blank.
Traverse a html tree. For
Timothy Groves:
Can anyone think of a situation in which you would
*have* to use forward declared functions? I'm
trying to come up with an example for such for my
book, and I am drawing a blank.
Pascal User Manual and Report says:
Procecure (function) identifiers may be used be-
Timothy Groves wrote:
Can anyone think of a situation in which you would *have* to use forward
declared functions? I'm trying to come up with an example for such for
my book, and I am drawing a blank.
Classic recursive-descent parser? An expression is a sequence of terms,
a term is a
On 11-12-22 04:15 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
However, there's probably still a way round that in a unit, by moving
the first mention of one of those into the definition part. Or
similarly you might be able to avoid it by using object definitions.
Absolutely. Because in both of those cases,
On 11-12-22 04:04 PM, Anton Shepelev wrote:
But are mutually recursive procedures and functions necessary?
Not at all. But there is no other reason to use forward-declared
procedures that I can think of, and I need *something* to demonstrate
why you might need them.
Am Thursday 22 December 2011 22:04:34 schrieb Anton Shepelev:
Fward decla-
rations are necessary to allow mutually recur-
sive procedures and functions that are not nest-
ed.
Forward declarations are the only option in special situations:
If your program is huge and you only have this option
I'm needing to figure out how socket signaling mechanisms work under darwin.
Windows and Linux work, Darwin however does not support ePoll.
Anyone have any experience with Sockets events under OSX i386?
Thanks.
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