Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Roaming profiles using auto copy/delete are not the best choice for that.
For me it works fine for years ;)
Then you must be the only one since everybody I know despises it. We use
multiple times login sometimes and then the settings are always messed
up. If the
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Then you must be the only one since everybody I know despises it. We use
multiple times login sometimes and then the settings are always messed
up.
Well, this causes a headache with fully networked home drives as well ;)
If configuration files are per application
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
My conclusion:
I agree with Jonas, you can use network shares for development machines..
Consider 10-50 people working and accessing a server this way :) Using
roaming profiles and local source checkouts, this can be handled easily
by a 1k Eur server which even doesn't
Vincent Snijders wrote:
I am not sure having a 100 MB lazarus *roaming* profile by default would
be a good idea.
Probably the choice to compile lazarus itself to its configuration
directory is not such a good idea ;-).
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Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Micha Nelissen schrieb:
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
And applications can implement a configuration file lock much easier if
they want to detect multiple activity.
Do they :)? Does lazarus?
IIRC OpenOffice (3.0) does detect it already and warn me.
Well, then you need
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
So far I have single interface for create/destroy/lock/unlock of
semaphores for Windows, Linux, *BSD. The latter two is actually for all
A semaphore is not locked and unlocked, it is posted and waited for.
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Jonas Maebe wrote:
on x86 too). Atomic operations are not memory barriers by themselves,
and the fact that you perform an atomic operation does not mean that
afterwards all cpu's will immediately see this new value.
Explain? Isn't the point of an atomic update that it doesn't matter
whether
David Emerson wrote:
lists containing the same elements: one sorted, one unsorted. The
reason to have both: sorted - fast search; unsorted - sequential
navigation through the list while elements are being added.
It's not as if combining those gives you the best of both worlds ... if
the
Andrew Brunner wrote:
Sockets programming often requires a poll for how much data is
available on a particular socket descriptor.
AFAIK, it doesn't? If data is available, but less than you request, a
'read' on the socket does not block, but returns the number of bytes
read, which is less
Henry Vermaak wrote:
One thing I think you don't understand is that an array _is_ a
pointer. Look at this table to visualise:
In Pascal, an array is not a pointer; at least not at the language
level. For a static array X (array[1..n] of T), you *can* write:
Move(Ptr^, X, sizeof(X));
ak za wrote:
i want to don't send mail to me from you but idn't know how do it.
please guide me
Do you mean unsubscribe, see link at bottom of this email:
http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Then look at bottom of page, unsubscribe.
Micha
Alexey Voytsehovich wrote:
All the good days.
You can not tell what I need to read and/or study for solving
cross-platform (linux/windows) implementation of the memory mapped file?
On unix, it would be fpmmap.
On windows, it would be CreateFileMapping/MapViewOfFile if I'm not mistaken.
Juha Manninen wrote:
Oops, sorry. I will do that.
Where does the thread information come from? It looks good in my email client
and I don't see any extra data.
Try to enable 'Threaded view'; usually somewhere in the View menu, Sort
menu, etc. Depends on client used.
Micha
Jonas Maebe wrote:
tgeneric16.pp is not an example, it's a test. Moreover, it doesn't compile yet,
not even with FPC 2.5.1. So documenting that syntax is not really a good idea.
His comment doesn't really apply to tgeneric16 specifically, but more to
generic syntax in general.
Micha
Anthony Walter wrote:
Having said all that, Jonas, what is the actual implemented behaviour
of FPC? Does it 0 initialize heap memory at startup or not? If not,
what is the justification for not doing so when this has been a long
established behaviour of Delphi?
It's not the compiler or RTL
Rainer Stratmann wrote:
Ok, that makes some sense, but I did not know it before.
In the past with the turbopascal compiler and other always sizeof byte was
added.
The behavior is dependent on the {$T+} (typed pointers) mode.
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Matthias Klumpp wrote:
If you build the package using lazbuild, lintian (the Debian policy checker
tool) throws an error described here:
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/embedded-zlib.html
paszlib is a pascal implementation of compression. How is that check
performed? Maybe it triggers on some
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
libz.so.1 = /lib/libz.so.1 (0x7f6de2801000)
As you can see, it uses libz (or zlib) but dynamically, probably through
some library dependency.
I think this dynamic library dependency is caused by e.g. gtk, not
directly by application or lcl or fcl
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Yes, but if the administrator must update 20 PCs manually every 2 weeks,
he quickly complains that he has better things to do, so it must be done
when the 'ordinary' user uses the application.
Aren't there automation systems for this? Just like debian's 'apt-get
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
I haven't seen any yet. The main problem is that the update isn't
'optional' or 'to be scheduled at X every night'. It must be done when
the server application says it is time to do so.
apt-proxy ... push to the proxy when it's time to update stuff ;)
Micha
Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior wrote:
const has the same effect as fpc const before a parameter,
This is not true.
double* SX0
is the same as
double *SX0
or
double * SX0
so this becomes
const SX0 : pdouble (ugly pointer as array Cishism)
No! 'const double * X' in C makes the pointed-to data
Daniël Mantione wrote:
Op Fri, 8 Dec 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen:
Btw, I think singletons are nonsense too. Why is a global variable evil,
and a singleton class not ?
Well, a singleton can hide and/or protect its private data.
Not more than a global variable of the same class type
Marc Santhoff wrote:
Hi,
I've got some funny problem here. The program compiled well with fpc up
to version 1.9.4. I haven't touched it for a while and now it fails with
fpc 2.0.2.
CommonTypes.pp(207,21) Error: Identifier not found GetEpochTime
Marco van de Voort wrote:
fpc 2.0.2.
CommonTypes.pp(207,21) Error: Identifier not found GetEpochTime
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/oldlinux/getepochtime.html
He uses FreeBSD.
Ah right, this was apparent from the unit path.
Micha
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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
Hello,
Are the wikis being merged? Is it my impression, or is there a main
page for compiler things missing?
The pages are there.
When I go to fpc page and click on Wiki it shows lazarus-ccr wiki, and
I can´t find what was the old free pascal main wiki
Jose Pascual wrote:
Could it be resolved in 2.1.1?
I'm compiling ppcrossarm 2.1.1 in order to be it's corrected in this
version,
Open a (descriptive) bug report (in case there is none about this issue
yet) and attach a test case.
Micha
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Florian Klaempfl wrote:
I am finished. It can be improved, but I'm out of ideas =)
I'am not ;) The wiki is definitively not the FPC documentation.
I've changed it to 'documentation for developers'. Covers the content
better ?
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Luca Olivetti wrote:
synchronize and critical sections, c library with callbacks to pascal,
etc.) is working flawlessly in the foreground, but it segfaults if I try
to background it (or try to use fpFork), and this is a problem since I
want to write a daemon (i can use screen though if that
Luca Olivetti wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux lspro 2.6.12.6-arm1 #77 Tue Dec 5 22:23:46 CST 2006 armv5tejl
GNU/Linux
I've gotten access to an arm-linux system, where I cannot reproduce the
crash. That system is using 2.6.18 kernel. Can you try a newer kernel as
well ?
Micha
Luca Olivetti wrote:
Backgrounding is not the same as forking.
I (vaguely) understand the difference, but I think (probably mistakenly)
that the problems are related.
I'm not saying the problems are not related; they may be. It's just
important to know there is a difference.
the example
Luca Olivetti wrote:
This is another test program that shows my problem with fork: as soon as
I start the thread, the main program stops working (the thread *is*
running, you can put a writeln in its loop to show it). Note that in
this short example I don't close stdin,stdout,stderr, I don't
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
I got most of my Thread Manager demo written. While trying out a few
features I noticed that every time as Suspend a thread, my app is
killed. Running it through gdb I get the following output.
I don't see it being killed from your output, or am I missing something ?
Rick Seiden wrote:
I emailed yesterday about an error when compiling in Linux. The error I
received was Error while linking.
I figured out that the permissions on /usr/bin/ld is set to root, and
I'm logged in as a different user. When I sudo fp to start Free Pascal,
I am able to compile
Francisco Reyes wrote:
Pete Cervasio writes:
Contents of $HOME/.vim/filetype.vim:
Thanks. Found that it also works with .pas
Changed the programs to that since that is one of the extensiosn the
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Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
You would have to test the speed of each of them separately to be able
to say anything definitive. Like it is now, there is no indication
that it is the float-to-text routine which is to blame.
So use sprintf in C, and the equivalent in fpc; and rerun the test.
Tom York wrote:
By the way is NNTP forbidden? I would much rather use NNTP over a
mailing list.
IIRC, these lists are mirrored in gmane, so perhaps you can use gmane ?
Have the mailing list subscription, but configure it to not send email.
Micha
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Adriaan van Os wrote:
build and then the Makefile takes cares of the rest. If a configuration
is not supported or if there is a problem, you get a clear error message.
You *must* be joking, right ? Usually it involves digging through a
messy config.log, where you sometimes can't really find the
Joao Morais wrote:
The first call that I make to DefaultObj from *another* unit recreate
the object, because, I don't know why, the _holder var points again to nil.
Try to use a data watchpoint to watch when the variable is being
changed. Hopefully that will point to the root cause. Did you
ik wrote:
lsof does not give me any open access to the device.
I'm using Kubunto 7.04 amd64.
Buggy audio driver ? Does it work properly when using ALSA, aplay etc. ?
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Marc Santhoff wrote:
writeln(stderr, '-- hit found: '+inttostr(fcnt) + ' - ' +
inttostr(PInteger(longint(adr)-longint(fx))^) + ' - ' +
floattostr(PSingle(adr)^));
Very nasty thing:
The output channel is temporarily blocked and gives back EAGAIN.
This means the output channel is opened
Jonas Maebe wrote:
go for any Lazarus/Delphi app ported to the Mac, for that matter (unless
Lazarus can do automatic button layouting, and if the current layout
mismatch is simply due to some wrong default setting for the Carbon
target).
Actually, we have a TButtonPanel exactly for this
Stephen Dickason wrote:
In binary that is 0001 + 0.0110011001100 - 0.0110011001100 because
we hit recurring decimals a lot more in binary than decimal. I wonder why we
don't have a standard format (maybe we do?) that factors in the remainder as
part of the number also?
It's
John Coppens wrote:
Just an extra note: delay(1) seems to delay 4.1 ms, so it _does_ seem to
be possible to do less than 8.3?
You wait till the next tick that is after the requested delay. So it's
never a HZ multiple or so.
Micha
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
OK, while we are busy with show-and-tell... Then have a look at my
token library implementation.
You've implemented some kind of 'cut'. But grep is also very useful (and
more often used in a shell, at least by me).
Micha
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bartek wrote:
function HashOf(const Key: ShortString): DWord;
function BucketNodeOf(const Hash: DWord): TBucket.PNode;
DataContainers.pp(104,66) Fatal: Syntax error, ; expected but . found
I'd say this is a bug, and your syntax is correct. Update the existing
bartek wrote:
I am not quite sure whether my synatx is correct. IMHO explictly defining the
type feels more pascalish. Having more time at hand i have written a much
shorter example code which shows in what way such a type should be defined.
I think that it is the same type in a different
Jonathan Benedicto wrote:
Jonas Maebe wrote:
I'm not sure how Delphi could handle this without passing the VMT as
invisible parameter (and from a cursory look at the code generated by
Kylix, it does appear to pass the VMT).
Delphi doesn't allow static class methods to be virtual.
What
ik wrote:
Hi,
I found that the Do_Syscalls are written in assembly and have only
limited number of parameters (up to 6). Is there a way to write it
using array of TSysParam instead of having 7 different functions ?
Maybe but it wouldn't make the assembler easier to read :-).
Another
ik wrote:
Actually the assembler is not that hard to understand :)
My point is, that I don't like the idea of 7 or 20 or 100 amount of
parameters to give answer to every need. I think we should find a
better way to implement it, like var args in C or open array in
pascal...
The linux kernel
Peter Vreman wrote:
In case always check Delphi documentation to see wether the behaviour
you see is intentional.
In case of it is also ambigious what you want. Because in the
middle of the string is translated to a single . So you might also
expect that it returns a single instead of an
Damien Gerard wrote:
Oki I understand.
I tried to use an Interface but I had a nice Segementation fault :)
I'm not sure how FParent.ItemByDefault is going to work?
Micha
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Damien Gerard wrote:
I tried to use an Interface but I had a nice Segementation fault :)
Should I report it as a bug in the mantis ?
foo.pas
Actually there is the same error with an intermediate class :(
Segmentation faults in the compiler itself can/should always be
reported. Thanks.
leledumbo wrote:
This is very inconvenient. Moreover, assertions needs it. My first attempt,
is to comment out {$undef FPC_HAS_FEATURE_CONSOLEIO} in my system.pas. But
then, FPC argues about Unknown compilerproc fpc_write_text_shortstr. I
found it in text.inc, but it's only included if
Mattias Gärtner wrote:
How to translate this:
struct a;
Isn't this a forward declaration? So sometime later it needs to declare
'struct a { ... };' ?
Micha
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Jonas Maebe wrote:
You can use -vd to have the compiler print out all compiler options it
interprets (both from configuration files and from the command line). In
general, to get the best code for an Intel Core family processor, use
something like
-O3ppentium4 -Cppentium4 -Cfsse2
i doubt
leledumbo wrote:
Would it be a good idea to lower down (again) FPC so that it can be used
easier for systems programming?
example?
Micha
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
I'm curious... How do you manage to create a GUI or use a GUI program
if you are blind? Sorry, I don't know how screen readers work?
Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader for a start?
Micha
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Francisco Reyes wrote:
Trying the fstat function and don't seem to be getting the right values
for ctime, mtime and atime.
What OS and CPU ?
Micha
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leledumbo wrote:
Since it's possible to use libc's MM via cmem unit, would the opposite be
possible?
I have a crtl.pas which defines a few functions (malloc, calloc, free,
memmove, memcpy) to help in using libraries written in C with fpc
programs without needing external dependencies
Bee wrote:
Hi all,
FPC has pretty usable support for web based development. Currently FPC
supports it through CGI and Apache module. IMO, there's one more support
that should be added officially: FastCGI. The initial work has been done
lNet has fastcgi support. Maybe it's interesting for
Sven Barth wrote:
Hmm... if this speeds things up: shall I enclose the problematic places
with ifdefs and send a patch along with the bug report?
Got response yet? If not then yes, please send patches per topic to
ifdef the optional code away.
Micha
Luca Olivetti wrote:
Seeing this thread, I used GetFPCHeapStatus and, effectively,
CurrHeapSize is growing but CurrHeapUsed isn't, so apparently
TJpegImage.LoadFromStream (that's what I'm using) causes heap
fragmentation.
Can you reproduce this in a small test program? Perhaps there is a
Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 20 May 2009, at 22:01, Jonas Maebe wrote:
The problem you have right now is that the program and each of your
libraries each contain their own copy of the exception class, and
therefore do not recognise (Pascal) exceptions raised by any of the
others.
Well, that and
Antonio Sanguigni wrote:
For the second one:
main.pas(261,19) Error: Incompatible types: got class method type of
procedure(TObject, Boolean,const AnsiString) of object;Register
expected procedure variable type of procedure(TObject, Boolean,const
AnsiString) of object;Register
Remove the
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
The known major bugs of previous SVN versions have beeen fixed. We're
now starting to actually use DFB in our project. Reports (bugs or
anything) are thus highly appreciated.
Do you think it would be feasible to use this as a basis for a Lazarus
widgetset ?
Lazarus
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:46:15 +0100
mm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Micha Nelissen wrote:
The problem with your approach is: how do you know whether the memory
was extended, or left alone because there was no memory available to
extend it ? In general, shortage of memory produces a runtime error
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:35:10 +0100
Peter J. Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most ppl want compatibility with Delphi. When we add a warning for
uninitialized var parameters then there will be a lot of bug reports
that Delphi doesn't warn in those cases and we will have to reject
the bug
Hi,
How can I have an untyped stdin ? I want to use blockread on stdin. Currently,
variable 'input' is of type text. If I assign '' to a file variable and reset
that, then it opens the keyboard, so that shell redirection does not work.
Micha
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Elio Cuevas Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, the folowing code enters infinite loop in the newest version of
FreePascal:
program textfile;
var
Archivo: Text;
Linea: AnsiString;
begin
Assign(Archivo, 'test.pp');
Reset(Archivo);
While
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:16:36 +0100
Matt Emson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I also do it in linux?
Use semaphores. There is a semaphore implementation for LINUX, Windows, BeOS
Semaphores Mutexes. Semaphores do not always have names and are not
system-wide.
Micha
David Chandler wrote:
I am trying to create a menu bar using Lazarus. I drop the TMainMenu
icon onto the form. Then I modify the Items in the Object Inspector and
can get the first menu item, but that is all. I can't enter more menu
headings or submenu items. I checked a Delphi reference
Adriaan van Os wrote:
I have never could understand when this is allowed
A1:=A2;
Why this is not allowed
If A1=A2 then
in most Pascal compilers.
Because you can't simply compare the memory ranges occupied by records A
and B. They could have different pad bytes (and bits) but still be the
Jonas Maebe wrote:
Yes, but two different variables of the same type could have different
values for those pad bytes. So you have to compare everything but the
pad bytes.
Oh right! Something like a masked compare or so...probably not
implementable in an efficient way indeed I guess.
Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
Oh right! Something like a masked compare or so...probably not
implementable in an efficient way indeed I guess.
Whatever you call efficient. A simple memory compare won't do, as others
already pointed out, and everything else depends on the actual layout
of the
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:07:13 -0300
Agustin Barto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Errr...Lazarus is a good IDE/RAD? It certainly is a good start, but is
far from being comparable with other development enviroments. If you
ask me, it's too much like Delphi (that's really bad). Although 99.5%
of my
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:08:31 -0600
Elio Cuevas Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to know why this isn't a problem in Eclipse or KDevelop, but is in
Lazarus.
Don't take the comment too personal :). I don't think the problem is
necesarily bad, i love Lazarus, it can get me an
Elio Cuevas Gómez wrote:
(and delphi and VB), it's easy to fall into the trap to base your backend
design on the GUI design. If Eclipse or KDevelop have a solution for this
Well, i never said these were better than Lazarus (in fact this is the first
time i even mention them in this list). For
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:18:40 -0800 (PST)
Alan Mead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
fpc 2.0.0 doesn't compile this... are for..in loops in a newer
version or will they be sometime soon? Here is a little blurb about
FPC will never support this, AFAIK. It doesn't really add anything new, it
just
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:40:20 +0100
Micha Nelissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:18:40 -0800 (PST)
Alan Mead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
fpc 2.0.0 doesn't compile this... are for..in loops in a newer
version or will they be sometime soon? Here is a little blurb about
FPC
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Don't make all distributed units available, and forbid the use of some
units. You don't want people opening an FTP socket and download 24G on
your machine.
I think it only compiles things, and does not execute them.
Micha
constantijnw wrote:
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote
Specifically for FPC Run-time Library units you can check a list of
units + documentation here:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/index.html
Unreachable...
Weird, are you on wireless or anything like that ? (Do you have normal
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:21:18 +0100
Adrian Veith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have changed the FastMM4 that it seemd to work with fpc now. Here are
the results of my prior tests now with FastMM4 for fpc:
How did you fix FastReallocMem? FPC uses a 'var APointer', but delphi
doesn't, apparantly.
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:39:21 -0700
L505 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Conclusion: never call any parameter of any procedure or function exactly
like any property of any class and its ancestors. So far I thought,
parameter names of functions and procedures are always local, i.e. valid
for this
Hi,
How can I know whether a TProcess failed when trying to execute it ?
Running will be false, but I want to distinguish between the file not
there / no execution permission / etc. and it started running but was done
quickly.
Micha
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:30:50 +0100
Micha Nelissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I know whether a TProcess failed when trying to execute it ?
Running will be false, but I want to distinguish between the file not
there / no execution permission / etc. and it started running but was done
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Micha Nelissen wrote:
How can I know whether a TProcess failed when trying to execute it ?
Running will be false, but I want to distinguish between the file not
there / no execution permission / etc. and it started running but was done
quickly
Isaac Gouy wrote:
Several older benchmarks have been deprecated and replaced.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/pascal.php
Hmm why is mandelbrot so slow for fpc ? Is it doing any output buffering ?
Micha
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Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 9 feb 2006, at 07:48, Micha Nelissen wrote:
That I should have noticed :-). In unix, the return result of the
'fpexecve' call is not checked, at least. If it returns, it does
'halt(127)', so should I check the ExitStatus being 127 ?
The reason is that because
Hi all,
http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Why_to_use_Pascal
Most of the developing time spent in Pascal is on the program itself.
Unlike C and C++ like language, the developer does not need to focus on
managing the memory of variables, the structure of very simple things
like passing
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:42:21 +0100
Jonas Maebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason is that because of the fork/vfork construct these OS'es
use, there is no way to report an error to the parent process except
by exit codes.
This is not true btw: you can use shared memory. Set up a variable
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:30:50 +0100
Micha Nelissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I know whether a TProcess failed when trying to execute it ?
I'm also having problems how to when the process has started or failed. I
thought of trying to see whether its output handle was signalled for
reading
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:28:40 +0100 (Romance Standard Time)
Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most people out there probably think of Pascal as still being in
the state it was in when Niklaus Wirth first designed it.
Object Pascal to date is fully OOP, and misses nothing that C#,
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:14:41 +0100 (Romance Standard Time)
Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's simply not true. C++ has multiple inheritance,
Solved by interfaces in a much cleaner way.
That doesn't solve the same problem. MI is much more powerful, but also
much more complex,
Tom Verhoeff wrote:
Can someone explain to me under what circumstances FPC will (attempt to)
recompile a unit for which *.ppu and *.o are already available?
I couldn't find this in the documentation.
Wrong target (OS) or incompatible compiler version, usually. Vote for:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:37:27 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You really don't expect the average newbie (to freepascal) programmer to
read the error message Can't find unit FOO and then expect him to *guess*
he has to use -vu ?!?!
Of course I do. What else do we
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:27:07 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Micha Nelissen wrote:
I don't agree: RTFM is *not* an excuse for insightful, to-the-point,
clear, not too elaborate error messages.
Yes, and the 'elaborateness' is controlled
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:15:49 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Micha Nelissen wrote:
I'm not saying people shouldn't read manuals...just saying that Can't find
unit can be split up in 3 or so causes, and a more helpful message given
for each
L505 wrote:
MSEgui has a distinct advantage over Lazarus. It compiles under Delphi. Just
tried it. Fiddled with one or two lines in the code, but I got the IDE to
compile and run and then built a small hello world app that also ran. Pretty
impressive really.
And the exe's/elf's it generates
Vincent Snijders wrote:
It can see the advantages and they should not be diminished:
- having different compilers to confirm or exclude a compiler bug.
Debugging FPC by using Lazarus is stupid and overkill IMHO ;-).
- The cycle, code, compile, run, debug, code is quicker on Delphi, (if
you
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:42:05 +0100
Matt Emson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
debugger, fine. However do not blame your dislike of the Delphi debugger on
your personal debugging preferences. I've been using Delphi commercially
since 1998, or there abouts, and the debugger is perfectly acceptable. The
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