Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-05-28 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: I use EpikTimer in my (soon to be released) work on the ActiveNoGUI Widget Type. Here I found, that it is a rather appropriate use for EpikTimer to handle it in a static way, not creating an instance of TEpikTimer

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-19 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2014-05-19 11:03, Michael Schnell wrote: Obviously I can't _use_ EpricTimer there, as it uses (IMHO inappropriately) (graphics-) stuff that is not implemented in a non-GUI project. You are

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-19 Thread Tom Lisjac
Tom and I would welcome patches for EpikTimer. Maybe EpikTimer should move to the Git repo of Lazarus-CCR so others could easily clone and share their feature branches (say via Github). Fully agree... great idea! -Tom -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-18 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2014-05-18 00:49, Tom Lisjac wrote: I'm adding some clarification and context to your ongoing comments about EpikTimer in this and other threads. Tom, as I have mentioned in this thread, I have

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-17 Thread Tom Lisjac
Dear Mr. Michael Van Canneyt, I'm adding some clarification and context to your ongoing comments about EpikTimer in this and other threads. Snip EpikTimer code Why you would not use fpnanosleep on CPUX86_64 as well is a mystery to me... There's no mystery here. I wrote EpikTimer in 2003 with

Re: [Lazarus] int64 assignment fails

2014-05-11 Thread Tom Lisjac
That was it... many thanks to you and Flavio! -Tom On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:41 PM, leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.idwrote: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.0#Treating_direct-mapped_properties_as_regular_fields -- View this message in context:

[Lazarus] int64 assignment fails

2014-05-10 Thread Tom Lisjac
fpc-2.6.4-1.x86_64. says Argument can't be assigned to when trying to compile the following: type TickType = Int64; TimebaseData = record TicksFrequency: TickType; end; TEpikTimer= class(TComponent) private FHWTicks:TimeBaseData; Public property HWTimebase:

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-09 Thread Tom Lisjac
contributing to at least one Lazarus subsystem. I wonder how such wishes can be reconciled with wishes from Tom Lisjac for example to have more stable lazarus, not changing compatibility every release (if that is what actually happens). I don't remember suggesting that compatibility should never change

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-09 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Rigel Rig schrieb: Until then, do not be surprised why there are not many new programmers Luckily enough we heard the same for FPC and experience showed that 1.0 didn't change anything regarding contributors. So

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-06 Thread Tom Lisjac
It's a matter of the glass being half-empty or half-full. Graeme currently sees a half-empty glass. I think the point of these threads is not how one views a partially filled glass... but that it remains in a partial state year after year with no clear goal to ever make it full. A Lazarus 1.0

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Paul Ishenin webpi...@mail.ru wrote: My current goal is to stabilize what we have and to release 1.0. For a project goal, it would be hard to top that one for conciseness and clarity of purpose... well said, Paul! Thanks, -Tom --

[Lazarus] ZVDateTimeControls Package available on Lazarus-ccr

2010-02-27 Thread Tom Lisjac
Zoran Vučenović has created a full featured, cross-platform time/date picker component along with a data aware version. It's available on the Lazarus-ccr under a new Time and Date folder or via this direct download link:

Re: [Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

2009-11-29 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:14:52PM -0700, Tom Lisjac wrote: The problem I see is credibility... or if we write a lot of code with Lazarus/FPC, will it be maintainable with the project in perpetual beta?. Personally I

Re: [Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

2009-11-29 Thread Tom Lisjac
Hi Florian, On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Tom Lisjac schrieb: To compare, Linux is now running corporate datacenters around the world... and Lazarus is still in beta with very few public applications deployed. The same might be applied

[Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

2009-11-28 Thread Tom Lisjac
So what exactly is the Lazarus team afraid of in getting to v1.0? Since we think it's not ready for 1.0. Period. The above comment seems to have stopped the previous Version 1.0 thread so I'm starting a new one with the hopes of hearing some additional comments and suggestions for achieving

[Lazarus] FileMenuHandler and bzip2lib packages available on the Lazarus-ccr

2009-11-07 Thread Tom Lisjac
Juha Manninen has converted a streaming library wrapper for bzip2 and a FileMenuHandler component for use with Lazarus. Documentation pages have been added to the Lazarus wiki and the packages are now available for download: