Re: [fpc-pascal] PPCJVM Android target and bass library function call issue

2019-08-12 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 11/08/2019 à 11:43, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel a écrit : Thank you very much for yours patience. The reason why I want to use my own little Internet radio player is The fact, that GUI is simple, many other radio apps are full of functions and of many buttons. I want to simple pause, play or stop. I

Re: [fpc-pascal] *** SPAM *** Re: USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-14 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 14/08/2019 à 01:41, James Richters a écrit : Anyone have any thoughts on all this? I'm busy for now, but I'll have a look as soon as possible. Did you try to change your driver with Zadig (https://zadig.akeo.ie/) for your device 10CE:EB93 ?

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-02 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
It seems that you can just remove {$LINKLIB c} in libusb.pas. The libusb from libusb.info cannot be used because the functions it provides are different, and if you try to recompile a version before 1.0 like 0.9.4, it fails because Windows

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-03 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
I've made another (unsuccessful) test, using libusb-compat ( https://github.com/libusb/libusb-compat-0.1/wiki ). It's a compatibility layer which allows to use the new libusb 1.xx through the old API of libusb 0.1 I get nearly the same results as with

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-03 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
I've forgotten to give the command line to compile (change "C:\lazarus\fpc\3.0.4\bin\x86_64-win64" to your fpc installation): C:\lazarus\fpc\3.0.4\bin\x86_64-win64\fpc.exe -MObjFPC -Scghi -O1 -g -gl -l -vewnhibq -Filib\x86_64-win64 -Fu..\pas-libusb\src -Fu. -FUlib\x86_64-win64 -FE.

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-03 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
With libusb-win32 I tried to make a small program to list the usb devices. I discovered that the constant PATH_MAX had changed from 4096 in pas-libusb to 512 in libusb-win32-bin-1.2.6.0\include\lusb0_usb.h line 21 . This was causing an exception. Now the

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-03 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
I tried to make an import for libusb-1.0.22.7z from https://libusb.info/ . The import unit is very buggy but I could make a small program to list the usb devices. On my machine, it gives the same results that the example program

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-04 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Zadig I found a way to make my test with libusb-win32 work. You just need to install a specific driver for the usb device you want to see. This can be done using Zadig ( https://zadig.akeo.ie/ ). If you change the driver to "libusbK" or "libusb-win32" for a certain device with

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-04 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hi Hansi, Le 04/08/2019 à 14:05, Johann Glaser a écrit : Thanks for your effort and please excuse my late reply, I was busy the last few days. With pleasure. test1library.pas from branch "libusb-1.0" worked nearly out of the box.

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-04 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 04/08/2019 à 14:07, Johann Glaser a écrit : Hi James! Am Donnerstag, den 01.08.2019, 22:45 -0400 schrieb James Richters: I understand it better now, but I've been out of town and haven't been able to work on it. I'm not sure what is meant by installing

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-02 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Here are a few links about msvcrt: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/154753/description-of-the-default-c-and-c-libraries-that-a-program-will-link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/crt-library-features?view=vs-2019

Re: [fpc-pascal] *** SPAM *** Re: USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-16 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 16/08/2019 à 12:23, James Richters a écrit : Can you tell me where to get libusb_1.0_X86.dll ?I had the x64 version from the sample Jean sent me, but I would like to make my program work on 32bit machines as well. I think you can get it at

Re: [fpc-pascal] += property bug?

2019-08-14 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 14/08/2019 à 23:18, Martin a écrit : inc(CALL_LVL [ LOCAL_CALL ],1) Yes, "inc" does not work for properties. But neither does +=. I agree and in the case of a property I think it would be cleaner to code an Inc method directly in the class, or eventually in a class helper, to write

Re: [fpc-pascal] *** SPAM *** Re: USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-16 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 16/08/2019 à 17:11, James Richters a écrit : Can I even do threads in a console program? Yes, you can.  I have in production some console code (worse: in a dll called by a console program written in 4gl (4js Genero www.4js.com)) with threads which compile unmodified  under Linux and

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-17 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 17/08/2019 à 15:00, James Richters a écrit : Function TLibUsbInterface.FindEndpoint(MatchFunc : TLibUsbEndpointMatchMethod) : Plibusb_endpoint_descriptor; MatchFunc(ED) is where the access

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-17 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 17/08/2019 à 17:10, Stefan V. Pantazi a écrit : The obvious first thing to make sure is that the calling convention matches the library for the platform. I see that in https://github.com/Zaaphod/pas-libusb/blob/Hack/src/libusb.pas 9line 46) the calling convention on Windows is cdecl (the

Re: [fpc-pascal] *** SPAM *** Re: USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-17 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 17/08/2019 à 19:39, James Richters a écrit : I think maybe it is the calling convention... First I tried to change libusboop.pas (libusb.pas is the old unit, libusboop.pas is the one it uses) to stdcall, I was unable to compile it, I get an error libusboop.pas(1456,28) Error: Incompatible

Re: [fpc-pascal] Tests results of several pascal based JSON parsers

2019-08-30 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hello, Le 30/08/2019 à 10:18, Anthony Walter a écrit : I've posted a new page that tests the speed and correctness of several pascal based JSON parsers. https://www.getlazarus.org/json/tests/ it seems you made a typo in your html, JsonTools points to https://sourceforge.net/projects/lkjson/

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-28 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hello, It seems you didn't initialized you critical section using InitCriticalSection. The documentation of EnterCriticalSection : https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/entercriticalsection.html The one of InitCriticalSection:

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-28 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 28/08/2019 à 13:26, James Richters a écrit : Thanks for figuring out the critical section needs to be initialized. Stefan's example did not do this: https://github.com/svpantazi/libusbxhid/blob/master/libusbhid_test_with_thread.pp maybe it's something you can get away with on Linux...

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-07-30 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 30/07/2019 à 19:52, James Richters a écrit : libusb.pas(1350) Warning: Library c.dll not found, Linking may fail ! ■ As stated in https://github.com/hansiglaser/pas-libusb/issues/4 it's very likely you'll have to change {$LINKLIB c} into

Re: [fpc-pascal] FP.exe error in x86_64-Win64

2019-08-07 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hello, I reproduced the problem. I run fpcupdeluxe x86_64-win64-win32, this is the log of what I've done: button Setup+, Options Override, FPC options -gw, then click OK, then click FPC Only After recompilation by fpcupdeluxe: Open cmd, cd to fpcupdeluxe\fpc\bin\x86_64-win64

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-02 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
@Johann: Is the Readme.rst at https://github.com/hansiglaser/pas-libusb up to date ? It states that only the legacy version 0.1 of libusb is supported, but the binary package for Windows on libusb.info is in version 1.0.22. You can get source code for old versions of libusb on github but it

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-05 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hi James, Le 05/08/2019 à 04:40, James Richters a écrit : Hi Jean,  Thank you very much for your help getting this to work. I’ve been out of town on a business trip but I’m finally back now, and

Re: [fpc-pascal] *** SPAM *** Re: USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-06 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 06/08/2019 à 17:18, James Richters a écrit : I used this command line: I:\Programming\FPC\3.0.4\bin\i386-win32\fpc.exe -MObjFPC -Scghi -O1 -g -gl -l -vewnhibq -Filib\i386-win32\ -Fu.. -Fu. -FUlib\i386-win32\ -FE.

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-06 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 06/08/2019 à 17:18, James Richters a écrit : Any ideas?  Is this just from using i386-win32? Maybe the DLL is only for 64bit? Maybe some completely unrelated issue?  If 64bit is needed, what’s the

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-05 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hello I haven't had time yet to read everything but I join below a few more tests. Le 05/08/2019 à 21:38, Johann Glaser a écrit : Yay! That looks great! As a next step you can try test2controlsync.pas which uses

Re: [fpc-pascal] *** SPAM *** Re: USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-05 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hi James, Le 05/08/2019 à 13:00, James Richters a écrit : Hi Jean,   Thank you very much for posting the zip, I’ll download it and see if I can figure it out.  Also thank you very much

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-08 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Ooops, sorry. Of course I meant dynamic linking ... Le 08/08/2019 à 23:32, Johann Glaser a écrit : Am Donnerstag, den 08.08.2019, 13:14 +0200 schrieb Jean SUZINEAU: It seems that right out of the box pas-libusb uses static linking for me. I think you meant to write "dynamic linking&

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-09 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 09/08/2019 à 06:33, Jean SUZINEAU a écrit : Very often in Windows system functions you have to deal with records with declared with a length of 1 and the real length stored a few bytes before in the record. Oops

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-08 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hi James, Le 09/08/2019 à 02:19, James Richters a écrit : so this was strange... it was working before line 81For J := 1 to Length(PortPath)-1 do line 82 Write('->',PortPath[I]); Line 82 is using variable I but it's in a

Re: [fpc-pascal] FP.exe error in x86_64-Win64

2019-08-09 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 09/08/2019 à 14:19, James Richters a écrit : Now I have a new problem.  I am able to successfully compile and run my project with the text IDE if I use the trunk version of FPC, and I can run the

Re: [fpc-pascal] FP.exe error in x86_64-Win64

2019-08-09 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 09/08/2019 à 15:39, James Richters a écrit : I am not using libusb in my project yet…  all that is still just in separate test programs.  This is the original version of my project, just compiled

Re: [fpc-pascal] unit GUi creation also usable for visually impaired developers with no sight at all

2019-08-09 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 09/08/2019 à 12:22, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel a écrit : Does somebody of you know about Lazarus compatible Unit, which is able to create Windows GUi with no need to specify object position values in points or in Pixels? Something similar like VCL units have for commercial BOrland Delphi. Or

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-08 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Static linking : Le 05/08/2019 à 21:38, Johann Glaser a écrit : Referring to your EMail to James, it seems that Vitaly even got it working with static linking. Especially "$LINKLIB msvcrt" and "$LINKLIB usb-1.0.dll.a" look

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-08-08 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 08/08/2019 à 12:07, James Richters a écrit : Is the static linking issue just with Windows, and it works on Linux, or it isn’t working with FPC at all on either?   James

Re: [fpc-pascal] Developing a mini ERP / web based development

2019-07-25 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hello, I have a big bunch of freepascal code under lgpl, with little documentation and a lot of identifiers in French, I hesitated a long time before sending this message,  ;-) , but may be it could be useful for you. From 2002 to 2017 I've been developing functionalities for printing

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-07-26 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
I'm not an expert, but a few years ago I made small project to read data from an Arduino through USB port. The project was running on Raspberry Pi, on Windows it can be more tricky( I'm not sure, but I think a device driver is needed):

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB Human Interface Devices

2019-07-26 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
You can compile console projects with Lazarus, and even use non visual components and datamodules. I've coded a dll (several hundred thousand lines of code too) which is used by console programs on web servers. I compile the dll with the same lazarus project in Lazarus for Windows  and in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Calculating Pixels to represent 3D coordinates

2019-09-20 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Tip: if you need Sin(A) and Cos(A), it can be faster to make a single call to SinCos instead of two separated calls to Sin and Cos: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/math/sincos.html It was efficient 20 years ago when I was developing a sky map software, may be the gain is negligible

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Pas2js] It's alive !

2019-09-21 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Wonderful ! ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC RGB+W LEDs

2019-11-04 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
It's possible but I've done it many years ago, I don't remember all the details . In think you'll have to use H2PAS ( https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Creating_bindings_for_C_libraries ). From what I see from main.c, I think you'll have

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC RGB+W LEDs

2019-10-24 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
May be it's not exactly what you are search for, but two years ago I used an Arduino with an Ethernet shield to control this kind of LED Strip. I join below the content of the main file, just 111 lines.  It's very easy to control the led strip from arduino. Contrary to

Re: [fpc-pascal] Database migration

2020-06-21 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 21/06/2020 à 00:30, Michael Van Canneyt a écrit : FPC contains this as well since many years, you can drop the components on a form, but they are exposed in the lazarus database desktop as well. Very interesting, I didn't know this existed. I will have look at it. In fact I developed my

Re: [fpc-pascal] Database migration

2020-06-21 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Le 21/06/2020 à 09:55, Michael Van Canneyt a écrit : I use the functionality in the database desktop actively. The generated code even runs in Delphi. If you look at it and find ways to improve it, I'm all ears :-) I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Database migration

2020-06-20 Thread Jean SUZINEAU
Hello, Le 19/06/2020 à 13:55, Darius Blaszyk via fpc-pascal a écrit : Schema::create('flights', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->id(); $table->string('name');

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using built-in serial instead of synaser and the like for Linux console app?

2020-09-01 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 01/09/2020 à 10:49, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal a écrit : Is there no way to declare a property to have a default non-zero value? I'm not sure but I think the syntax is for this something like property ReadPacketSize: integer read FPacketSize write FPacketSize default 10; Reference:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using built-in serial instead of synaser and the like for Linux console app?

2020-09-01 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Ooops, wrong url, I just learn know that property could belong to a global block... ;-) For classes: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu33.html#x86-1080006.7.1 ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help with TList example

2020-09-08 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Another way is to declare TMyRec as class instead of record. In this case, you don't need the  dereference operator ^ . No need of new and dispose, just Create and Free, as for TMyRecList. I don't know if there is a better performance when you use a record, but as far as I know,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Adding file to string to the RTL

2020-10-05 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
In my own code I use BlockRead/BlockWrite, but I'm wondering if I've not seen this somewhere in RTL. https://github.com/jsuzineau/pascal_o_r_mapping/blob/TjsDataContexte/pascal_o_r_mapping/02_Units/uuStrings.pas function String_from_File( _FileName: String): String;

Re: [fpc-pascal] Adding file to string to the RTL

2020-10-09 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 09/10/2020 à 10:15, Santiago A. via fpc-pascal a écrit : Just nitpicking. Shouldn't "try" be after the "reset" and after the "rewrite"? Why don't you allow to write an empty string? Yes, you're right, the Reset/Rewrite should be after the try. I admit this code is not general, just

Re: [fpc-pascal] basic question on begin, end;

2020-09-24 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Personnally I go even further ;-) if something then begin some multi-line code here end else begin some multi-line code here end; ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reading Serial Hex Data

2020-12-27 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
May be using TBlockSerial from unit synaser from Ararat Synapse ? ( doc: http://synapse.ararat.cz/doc/help/synaser.TBlockSerial.html , download: http://synapse.ararat.cz/doku.php/download ). Given a variable (SynSer: TBlockSerial;), you can test if data is available with SynSer.CanReadEx(0)

Re: [fpc-pascal] Selecting Records with a variable

2020-12-19 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
I know you don't like objects, but maybe something like : unit uAxisRecord; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} interface uses  Classes, SysUtils; type  { TAxisRecord }  TAxisRecord  =   object     X,Y,Z,A,B,C: Double;     function Value_from_Letter(

Re: [fpc-pascal] Selecting Records with a variable

2020-12-20 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 20/12/2020 à 16:02, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : If I need a bunch of case statements, it's atcually worse than if I just have separate procedures. No, in fact the case statement is written only once, in the implementation of TAxisRecord, and in procedure

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reading Serial Hex Data

2020-12-28 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 28/12/2020 à 13:16, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal a écrit : Synchronize(CallEvent); //Supply received data in FBuffer to caller You are using TThread.Synchronize. In a console app, it's likely that somewhere else in your main thread you'll need to call regularly

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-25 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Amazing ! ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetClipboardFormatName causing an Error 216

2020-12-31 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 01/01/2021 à 00:48, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : I’m not too familiar with PChars, but is there a way to set it to zero length? I set it to #0 and it works ok with the #0 in there with Notepadd++ but I think it’s technically not correct. For me, it's correct. C strings are

Re: [fpc-pascal] TRegistry documentation

2021-06-16 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 16/06/2021 à 00:31, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : Thanks for the help, it's working fine using readinteger I guess as long as I don't have any values large enough to need the most significant digit that would work... I guess that what was meaning Bart by hardcat is that you

Re: [fpc-pascal] TRegistry documentation

2021-06-16 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 16/06/2021 à 00:31, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : In order to change the value I want to change, I need to run my program as administrator, is there a way to change to administrator with a request from within the program? I guess I could make just a small program that changes the

Re: [fpc-pascal] TRegistry documentation

2021-06-16 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
I just add a small program to illustrate the type cast between signed and unsigned: var    si: ShortInt; begin si:= -127; WriteLn( 'si ', si); WriteLn( 'Byte(si) ', Byte(si)); si:= -1; WriteLn( 'si ', si); WriteLn( 'Byte(si) ', Byte(si)); end. gives $ ./project1

Re: [fpc-pascal] Remove last character from pchar

2021-06-10 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
I think you could just manage the end of your string with a #0 char. Just allocate enough space for the maximum size of your string plus the terminal #0 char. For example program Project1; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses   SysUtils, Classes; var    s: array[0..30] of char;    p: PChar; begin

Re: [fpc-pascal] Remove last character from pchar

2021-06-10 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Note: if your string is UTF8 encoded, the last "character" can be encoded, can span over 1 to 4 "Char", you need to know the length of your character. For example: program Project1; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses   SysUtils, Classes; var    s: array[0..30] of char;    p: PChar;    i: Integer;

Re: [fpc-pascal] Will the size of an executable depend on the uses clause

2021-06-19 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 19/06/2021 à 15:40, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal a écrit : function _2d( _i: Integer): String; Strange name of a function, though, is that needed? No, it's not needed, it's just my odd way of naming ... ;-)  (the closer to %.2d ). ___ fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetSaveFileNameA limited to 100 characters in default name

2021-06-19 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
It's curious, I'm not completely sure we are reasoning about the same function and record. You mention TFileName but for me in FPC 3.2.0: -  TFileName is declared as "TFileName= type string;" in sysutilh.inc. - OPENFILENAMEA is declared as record in CommDlg.pp line 94   and

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to check if a network is available?

2021-06-20 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Ping uses ICMP protocol. I don't have currently Indy installed on my machines, but I think you can find pascal components for ICMP client and even ICMP server. I think that this way you can do a single "ping", a single ICMP request. It seems that Synapse has ping  support too:

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetSaveFileNameA limited to 100 characters in default name

2021-06-19 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
I think you should have a look at this documentation on strings, particularly for PChar : https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu9.html Le 20/06/2021 à 02:09, James Richters a écrit : DefaultFileName: AnsiString = '' ; So Length(DefaultFileName) = 0 TFileName.nMaxFile:=Max_Path+1;

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetSaveFileNameA limited to 100 characters in default name

2021-06-20 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 21/06/2021 à 03:04, James Richters a écrit : Var     ... DefaulSaveAsFileName: Ansistring; SaveAsFileNameBuffer: array[0..Max_Path+1] of char;    ... Begin DefaulSaveAsFileName := 'X:\Something with a really really really long long long long file name to see if there is still a bug with

Re: [fpc-pascal] TRegistry documentation

2021-06-15 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
In Lazarus , in your source code, you can can "Ctrl + Click" on Registry.ReadString and it will bring you to the declaration of TRegistry.ReadString in unit Registry. There you will find there are other methods like ReadInteger, ReadInt64, ReadBinaryData. I'm not sure which one will best match

Re: [fpc-pascal] Will the size of an executable depend on the uses clause

2021-06-16 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
My best score is 67 kb after strip -s with the code below ... ;-) Of course it will not work on every  version of Windows. program uptime; function GetTickCount64: QWord; stdcall; external 'kernel32.dll'; function _2d( _i: Integer): String; begin Str( _i, Result); if Length(Result)

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to check if a network is available?

2021-06-18 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
May be you can get some information with the "route" command . If you run "route print" in cmd command prompt, you can get information on the different networks available. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/route_ws2008 (I couldn't find the doc

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to check if a network is available?

2021-06-18 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 18/06/2021 à 17:07, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal a écrit : I will need to check this in my connector class, the address to look for has to be a config item in my application so it can be modified if need be without rebuilding the app. Have to figure out how to: - Retrieve the output of the

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to check if a network is available?

2021-06-18 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
I've never used open vpn, may be the 10.117 is defined in your configuration file ? For the vpns I've used, the ip adressed were fixed. ( for route, you can type too something like "route print 10.117.*" ) ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Will the size of an executable depend on the uses clause

2021-06-18 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Ooops... little overflow bug My computer has reached 33 days of uptime today and with var     t, d, h, m, s: Integer; you switch to the negative side ... I got a display like : -8:-4:-52 Replacing with QWord solved the problem (I imagine DWord would just allow for something like 66 days) var

Re: [fpc-pascal] Will the size of an executable depend on the uses clause

2021-06-17 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
10 kb of Powerbasic ... you're cheating, it's pascal here ;-) You can do this with just 1kb of PowerShell ... ( may be Pascal script could even be shorter ...) File uptime.ps1 : $MethodDefinition = @" [DllImport("kernel32")] public extern static UInt64 GetTickCount64(); "@ $Kernel32 = Add-Type

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetSaveFileNameA limited to 100 characters in default name

2021-06-18 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
I'm not familiar with GetSaveFileNameA, but usually for the size of a FileName  buffer I use the constant MAX_PATH which is defined in unit SysUtils. MAX_PATH itself seems to be an alias from system unit where it is defined accordingly to the operating system (260 on windows, 4096 on Linux,

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetSaveFileNameA limited to 100 characters in default name

2021-06-18 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
I haven't seen your reply. Le 18/06/2021 à 23:50, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : So now I have: TFileName.nMaxFile:= Length(DefaultFileName)+1; TFileName.lpstrFile:=Pchar(DefaultFileName); I need the +1 for the #0 at the end of the Pchar, and now it works fine, and I can have

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-05-13 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 04/05/2021 à 01:55, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : I’ve been noticing odd behavior in Lazarus.. if I stop the program and modify the form, then hit the green arrow… none of my for modifications are shown.. it’s still using the old form.. but if I use the pull down menus to build

Re: [fpc-pascal] Dependency of OpenSSL 1.0.2 still in FPC 3.2.0 on some platforms?

2021-05-12 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
My code uses others units from this directories: https://github.com/jsuzineau/pascal_o_r_mapping/tree/master/pascal_o_r_mapping/2_Units https://github.com/jsuzineau/pascal_o_r_mapping/tree/master/pascal_o_r_mapping/3_Data Particularly, Formate_Liste from

Re: [fpc-pascal] Dependency of OpenSSL 1.0.2 still in FPC 3.2.0 on some platforms?

2021-05-12 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
I do not guarantee anything, I didn't use this recently, but I have a function for sending mail with attachments using Synapse. It's the function MailTo_SMTP in this unit : https://github.com/jsuzineau/pascal_o_r_mapping/blob/master/pascal_o_r_mapping/3_Data/uMailTo.pas (my code is under LGPL,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-05-01 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Sorry, I didn' had time this week to have a look to your last additions. Le 01/05/2021 à 15:27, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : Any ideas how to save and restore the column widths for VirtualStrinTrees in the ini file? I imagine it can be done through the events of the IniProperty

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-05-01 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 01/05/2021 à 15:27, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : Any ideas how to save and restore the column widths for VirtualStrinTrees in the ini file? Done with the events and methods of TIniPropStorage. ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-05-03 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 02/05/2021 à 23:42, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : But I’m thinking I didn’t really define the variable the way it would normally be done with Lazarus. Just for notice: classes and objects are not particular to Lazarus, it's plain Object Pascal, understood by Freepascal and Delphi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-21 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 18/04/2021 à 17:22, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : RE: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree I figured out how to make a pdf file, but I don’t know how to implement it… if we can just have a button to print result.txt… then I could just change the printer to Microsoft Print to PDF which is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-21 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Another way of seeing is to generate and odt file with the generated text. You get a slightly better rendering because I could define Courier New as default font in the new template: FileVirtualTree_txt_to_odt.odt From the OpenOffice "File" menu, you can generate a pdf file. There is a way

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-23 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 23/04/2021 à 11:08, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : RE: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree Now if I type new text in the ODT document, it’s Consolas, but the actual text in the document is still Liberation Serif… and it doesn’t align, if I select all the text and change it to Consolas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-24 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 23/04/2021 à 19:56, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : RE: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree Get Checked or Selected works great, but if I push it twice, the second time I get: Unable to open file C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\FiC152.odt But I did make sure to close word and the PDF

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-25 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 25/04/2021 à 21:30, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : >I added LoadFromFile in this event. That was the first thing I tried, but the problem is, this happens before anything is put on the screen.. so when I run the program with an Ini file with 4000 entries in it, there is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-25 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 25/04/2021 à 02:54, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : RE: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree I’ve been trying make “Load from file”happen automatically when the program starts.. I would like it to happen after configuration.ini restores the file name and also after the form is on the screen

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-25 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 25/04/2021 à 15:24, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : RE: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree I fixed the time totals to show days correctly with this: I didn't use your pull request because I don't know yet how to handle it. I have delete some files which differed only by case. After

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-05-03 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 03/05/2021 à 13:55, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : >Defining it in public in TText_to_PDF is a good idea. I tried putting it under the destructor in public… above the private variables, but it wouldn’t compile thereI thought it would have to be above all the functions and

Re: [fpc-pascal] Formatting Question

2021-04-04 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 04/04/2021 à 02:41, James Richters a écrit : That looks almost perfect.. can I suppress the trailing zeros with the format command without losing the alignment? As far as I know, no ... Not  with just the RTL. Anyway I have personal code for this, you can extract and customize it to

Re: [fpc-pascal] Formatting Question

2021-04-03 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Normally something like this should do the trick (here 3 decimals and 7 characters for total width): program Format_Example; uses     sysutils; procedure F( _d: double); var    S: String; begin S:= Format('%7.3f',[_d]); WriteLn( S); end; begin F(0.5); F(2.53); F(12.5);

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-06 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
As far as I understand, you are searching for a general tree component like TTreeView in Lazarus, but for FreeVision, running in text mode in console ? ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-14 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 14/04/2021 à 13:06, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : I still can’t get off the Master branch on my windows machine. I deleted everything, re-forked it, re-cloned it, I finally found on my linux machine a 'test_gICAPI\jsLignes.Exclus.txt' file right in tools directory, and

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-15 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 15/04/2021 à 15:31, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : How did you make the TVirtualStringTree open the first level? I've been looking to see how you did it but I don't see how that was done. unit uFileVirtualTree, line 360,  method ThVirtualStringTree.vst_expand_first_level; I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-09 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
(I re-send my mail with different sender, it seem the first one has been blocked by orange) I made a short example based on TTreeView with your data at : https://github.com/jsuzineau/pascal_o_r_mapping/tree/TjsDataContexte/tools/FileTree You just need to download all the files , open project

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-13 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 13/04/2021 à 13:50, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : I tried to make a fork of your repository but I could not change off the master branch,, I always get an error: Checkout Failed Cannot checkout to invalid path 'tools/text_glCAPI\jsLignes.Exclus.txt' I suspect the / in the path

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-17 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
In Unicode/UTF8 "char" can be represented by several bytes so my code won't work. It seems you use page code 850 (here in France we are in 1252 which doesn't have the box chars). In unit uFileVirtualTree line 469, I have added   type String850= type String(850); declared the local variable

Re: [fpc-pascal] Directory Tree

2021-04-16 Thread Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal
Le 15/04/2021 à 20:16, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : It doesn't have to be a PDF, it could be an image file, or even a text file...maybe I can just make a text file of the output and use box characters to draw the tree. It seems like I should be able to get the branches of the

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