On 08/05/2015 07:11 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
No worries, I figured out what to do.
what is/was the secret?
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On 08/03/2015 06:38 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
I don't know of any editor with auto-complete or similar functionality
built-in for IPF but then it isn't really needed, because the IPF syntax
is very simple and easy to learn. Much easier and less than say HTML or CSS.
this could be added
On 07/23/2015 12:42 AM, Richard Mace wrote:
Hi all,
I am really interested in tracking how many people are using my software and was
wondering what people that would be a good and ethical way of doing it. Any
thoughts?
quite many call home packages are quickly removed over here unless they are
On 07/19/2015 09:29 AM, Marc Santhoff wrote:
On So, 2015-07-19 at 14:18 +0100, Martin Frb wrote:
I am not aware of them being separately published (except for the ones
on sourceforge, which are calculated by sourceforge).
I think it may be only little effort to publish those sums on the
On 07/04/2015 09:20 AM, Larry Dalton wrote:
Where can I get a tutorial for using dbase on lazarus?
dbase as in the old dBase database stuff or dbase as in coding for and using
(SQL) databases?
IIRC and unless something has changed that i'm not aware of (quite easy), the
dbase interface
posting making a truly distasteful hash of things ;)
On Jul 4, 2015, at 11:04, waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:
On 07/04/2015 09:20 AM, Larry Dalton wrote:
Where can I get a tutorial for using dbase on lazarus?
dbase as in the old dBase database stuff or dbase as in coding for and
using
On 06/30/2015 06:16 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2015-06-30 10:21, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Screenshots attached of my Dark and Light theme. Note, I only applied
the theme for the Object Pascal file format, not for XML, TXT etc.
In case anybody was interested, here is my Dark and Light
On 06/30/2015 04:00 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, waldo kitty wrote:
[...]
the problem now is where in the IDE settings do i find the option to select
one of these xml color theme files?? i've looked in
tools-options-editor-display-colors and not seen anything obvious
On 06/30/2015 02:55 PM, aradeonas wrote:
When you use Trunk version you should put it in patch like this:
~/development/config_lazarus/userschemes
And for a stable version in :
C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Local\lazarus\userschemes
Dont put them in sub folder or something else.
ok... no
On 06/30/2015 02:47 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2015-06-30 19:31, waldo kitty wrote:
On 06/30/2015 06:16 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2015-06-30 10:21, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Screenshots attached of my Dark and Light theme. Note, I only applied
the theme for the Object Pascal file
On 06/30/2015 04:58 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2015-06-30 21:11, waldo kitty wrote:
the new theme files have to be in
place before loading the IDE... closing the configurator and reopening it
doesn't cause it to rescan for new directories or options like this...
Very true, and I noticed
On 06/16/2015 06:43 PM, Bo Berglund wrote:
Can Lazarus do Android platform apps?
errrmmm... it could the last time i looked... i don't do android or any small
devices like that but there's been a lot of discussion and work on that
capability over the last several years ;)
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On 06/12/2015 02:49 AM, Balazs Szekely wrote:
Hi Sandro,
Thank you for forwarding my mail. Yes, I'm registered to the mailing list and I
do not understand why my mails end up in spam.
Usually I'm able to reply to other peoples mails, but sending new one always
fail.
your first post with the
On 06/01/2015 01:36 PM, John Landmesser wrote:
On 29.05.2015 12:15, waldo kitty wrote:
additionally, if you are pulling all these mails to a local mailstore with
something like thunderbird, are you sure you don't have them being stored in a
folder under a different server config?
what i mean
On 05/30/2015 09:39 AM, Werner Pamler wrote:
I already posted in the forum, but don't get response there; therefore, I give
it another try here:
Something is wrong with images in the wiki. I just replaced the
DefaultPalette.png of http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPSpreadsheet by a
new
On 05/29/2015 05:19 AM, Marc Weustink wrote:
John Landmesser wrote:
thats the source of a Mail ( without gmail in it !!), but it was sent to
my gmail address!!
If this message was received on your gmail, it wasn't sent there by the
mailinglist:
Received: from mailer.lazarus.freepascal.org
On 05/27/2015 05:05 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Gordon Cooper wrote:
We were taught that 24.00 did not exist. Time went from 23.59
to 00.00. The same rule can be applied to 11.59 am pm.
Except where there's a leap second.
speaking of which, guess what is coming up...
[quote]
Date: Mon,
On 05/28/2015 05:18 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 05/27/2015 08:48 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
yes... 12:00am is midnight... 00:00am is the same... so also is 00:00 or 24:00
in 24hour time...
AFAIK it's rather set that 24:00 is 00:00 the next day, but 12:00 am is not
100% confident as Mark says
On 05/28/2015 11:57 AM, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Am 2015-05-28 um 17:14 schrieb waldo kitty:
i don't know why it isn't confident... am is morning so 12am is the very first
entry into morning as 12pm is the very first entry into afternoon...
i don't understand the confusion or the problem
On 05/27/2015 03:19 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Does 12:00 am actually exist ? If so, what is that ? Midnight or midday ?
Should not that be 00:00 am ? (or is that the same ?)
yes... 12:00am is midnight... 00:00am is the same... so also is 00:00 or 24:00
in 24hour time...
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On 12/4/2014 12:42 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Lazarus 1.3 shows the codebrowser when I hit F1 on an unknown (incomplete...)
identifier. That's a nice feature, but searching in the browser can become
tedious.
something that threw me off was when it was scanning code files... i don't know
On 12/4/2014 10:24 AM, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
(OnTimer execution has the same problem : inevitably splits the procedure into
more procedures, that can no longer use same local variables and stuff)
you can't make them subroutines of the subroutine?
eg:
program foobie;
procedure dofoobie;
var
On 12/3/2014 10:06 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Mattias Gaertner schrieb:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:41:04 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote:
Next I tried FP, but couldn't figure out how to configure it at all, for
using the trunk compiler :-(
Do you mean in Lazarus?
On 12/3/2014 11:26 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 03.12.2014 16:51 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com
No, the FP IDE. It has become almost useless, most options are read-only :-(
You need to build the FP included with trunk, because the compiler is statically
linked into FP. This is
On 12/3/2014 11:50 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:46:43 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote:
[...]
Q: how do I debug the RTL (step into)?
Compile it with debugging info (-gl) and install it.
would that be something like
OPT=-gl -gh -dHEAPTRC_WINDOW
On 12/3/2014 1:58 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 03.12.2014 18:33 schrieb waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net:
On 12/3/2014 11:26 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 03.12.2014 16:51 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com
No, the FP IDE. It has become almost useless, most options are read
On 11/22/2014 6:45 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:27:30 +0100
Bart bartjun...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/22/14, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl wrote:
Add the windows-unit to the uses section of lresources as a quick fix.
Done.
i pulled your update last evening and
fpc trunk r29110
lazarus trunk r46966
vista 32-bit
i just updated fpc trunk and lazarus trunk... fpc compiled ok... lazarus fails
with
lresources.pp(3089,67) Error: Identifier not found RT_RCDATA
***
* TASK: build
On 11/22/2014 4:27 PM, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
On 11/22/2014 08:30 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
fpc trunk r29110
lazarus trunk r46966
vista 32-bit
i just updated fpc trunk and lazarus trunk... fpc compiled ok... lazarus
fails with
lresources.pp(3089,67) Error: Identifier not found RT_RCDATA
On 11/10/2014 3:27 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
2014-11-09 12:27 GMT+01:00 Antônio antoniog12...@gmail.com:
Sorry for the big message, Gnail hides me the rest of the message.
After clicking on the answer button, press Down twice (which selects the
ellipsis) then press Enter and voilà,
On 11/6/2014 4:41 AM, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
On 11/06/2014 01:18 AM, waldo kitty wrote:
On 11/5/2014 10:14 AM, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
On 11/04/2014 04:50 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
i updated my fpc trunk last night to 28981 and this morning i updated my
lazarus trunk to 46747... fpc built
On 11/5/2014 10:14 AM, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
On 11/04/2014 04:50 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
i updated my fpc trunk last night to 28981 and this morning i updated my
lazarus trunk to 46747... fpc built properly with no problems...
lazarus, on the other hand, gave me the following failure output
On 11/5/2014 10:14 AM, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
On 11/04/2014 04:50 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
i updated my fpc trunk last night to 28981 and this morning i updated my
lazarus trunk to 46747... fpc built properly with no problems...
lazarus, on the other hand, gave me the following failure output
i updated my fpc trunk last night to 28981 and this morning i updated my lazarus
trunk to 46747... fpc built properly with no problems... lazarus, on the other
hand, gave me the following failure output...
lazarus update processing steps...
* CMND: make distclean
* CMND: TortoiseProc
On 10/30/2014 7:29 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Richard Mace richard.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
What's the most reliable way of detecting whether a remote website is
responding?
maybe ping?
ping might tell you if the IP address is active but
On 10/27/2014 5:45 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
Il 25/10/2014 19:13, waldo kitty ha scritto:
On 10/24/2014 5:34 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
Taking into account all suggestions, I came out with two possible layouts:
Option 1 = Buttons at the bottom of the form (like in my previous version)
Option
On 10/24/2014 5:34 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
Taking into account all suggestions, I came out with two possible layouts:
Option 1 = Buttons at the bottom of the form (like in my previous version)
Option 2 = Buttons at the right of the form (like in the original version)
i like them both...
On 10/24/2014 5:34 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
Taking into account all suggestions, I came out with two possible layouts:
Option 1 = Buttons at the bottom of the form (like in my previous version)
Option 2 = Buttons at the right of the form (like in the original version)
i forgot to ask in my
On 10/24/2014 4:39 AM, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Why is the Direction box placed on the right of all other options?
IMO it is just another option as all the others so it should be put below
these other options. This would also avoid the problem of moving
this box when text becomes long.
this is
On 10/23/2014 8:12 AM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
I've found a problem in the find dialogue, when used in a language different
from English.
In English it's already a bit crowded:
http://www.bononiadocta.it/Lazarus/Finddialog.en.png
but once translated it becomes horrible:
is that your layout?
On 10/14/2014 5:20 AM, hinsta...@yandex.ru wrote:
These urgently need to be reduced to icons with no text
http://s30.postimg.org/5hxkrzfkx/LWaste.png
why? and why urgently??
my personal preference is text only or text with icon if text only is not
available... i never have liked just plain
On 10/14/2014 6:31 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
Il 15/10/2014 00:14, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
On 2014-10-14 06:11, Vincent Snijders wrote:
It is not in Amsterdam, but in Leiden.
I knew that, but 99.9% of the people have probably never heard of
Leiden, so considering that Amsterdam is 15
On 9/15/2014 7:36 PM, Rik van Kekem wrote:
On 16 september 2014 01:17:55 CEST, waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:
as noted previously, i don't use any installer... i pull trunk from the
repository and compile it as per my previously posted command lines...
Isn't Lazarus 1.3 r42488
On 9/16/2014 2:06 AM, Juha Manninen wrote:
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, Rik van Kekem r...@graficalc.nl
mailto:r...@graficalc.nl wrote:
Isn't Lazarus 1.3 r42488 a really old version? (November 2013?)
Or am I seeing this wrong?
It is older, from August 2013. More than a year old.
On 9/15/2014 7:15 AM, Anthony Tekatch wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:22:26 -0400, waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:
i'm also quite confused how you saw that image with that section
yellowed... i've looked at the same image on several machines and see
only white on white :/
I find
On 9/15/2014 10:05 AM, Rik van Kekem wrote:
waldo kitty wrote:
i'm also quite confused how you saw that image with that section
yellowed... i've looked at the same image on several machines and see
only white on white :/
Like Anthony already found out, even if it's white on screen it really
On 9/15/2014 4:02 PM, Juha Manninen wrote:
I also see a distinctive yellow color.
Waldo Kitty, you should go to see an eye doctor, you are suffering
from color blindness. :)
hahahahaha! might be getting there in my old age ;)
You all noticed the hint window's color but nobody noticed
On 9/15/2014 4:09 PM, Juha Manninen wrote:
Right, Waldo's screenshot does not have a border, it only has a shadow.
In my Windows 7 there is both a border and a shadow.
i'm on vista (32bit) and i think i have their aero thing turned on on this
box... on most i generally turn all the fancy
On 9/15/2014 4:55 PM, Rik van Kekem wrote:
On 15-09-2014 22:09, Juha Manninen wrote:
Right, Waldo's screenshot does not have a border, it only has a shadow.
In my Windows 7 there is both a border and a shadow.
Now i see what you mean !!
But for this to work you need the package
On 9/15/2014 5:24 PM, Juha Manninen wrote:
On Monday, September 15, 2014, Rik van Kekem r...@graficalc.nl wrote:
But for this to work you need the package turbopoweriprodsgn.lpk installed.
And this is not done with a default installation.
Yes it is. As I explained it is now part of
i've just updated both of my trunk FPC and LAZ... it has been four months since
my last update... when i hovor over something and lazarus pops up a hint box, it
is all white except for the shadow border on the right and bottom... where do i
go to adjust the color of the border so i can see it
On 9/14/2014 5:22 PM, Rik van Kekem wrote:
On 14-09-2014 20:56, waldo kitty wrote:
i've just updated both of my trunk FPC and LAZ... it has been four
months since my last update... when i hovor over something and lazarus
pops up a hint box, it is all white except for the shadow border
On 9/14/2014 5:33 PM, Rik van Kekem wrote:
On 14-09-2014 23:22, Rik van Kekem wrote:
On 14-09-2014 20:56, waldo kitty wrote:
i've just updated both of my trunk FPC and LAZ... it has been four
months since my last update... when i hovor over something and lazarus
pops up a hint box, it is all
On 9/14/2014 5:33 PM, Rik van Kekem wrote:
On 14-09-2014 23:22, Rik van Kekem wrote:
On 14-09-2014 20:56, waldo kitty wrote:
i've just updated both of my trunk FPC and LAZ... it has been four
months since my last update... when i hovor over something and lazarus
pops up a hint box, it is all
On 5/1/2014 7:16 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Thu, 01 May 2014 12:10:32 +0200
John Landmesser jmlandmes...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
do i have to remove version 2.6.2 manually?
If i do
apt-cache show fpc-source
there is no line replaces .., so i think its my job to remove the old
fpc-source
On 4/26/2014 6:08 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2014-04-26 10:31, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
I'm often a bit dumb when it comes to memory management/memory leaks -
probably because of my managed code experience (yes, excuses, excuses)...
From my experience, develop your software from the
On 4/16/2014 2:32 PM, silvioprog wrote:
2014-04-16 15:30 GMT-03:00 Junior lazarus.li...@gmail.com:
OpenDocument('./test.txt');
Same error.
what is the error? you haven't told us that piece of important information ;)
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On 4/16/2014 3:39 PM, silvioprog wrote:
2014-04-16 16:34 GMT-03:00 waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net
mailto:wkitt...@windstream.net:
[...]
what is the error? you haven't told us that piece of important information
;)
Oops, sorry! XD
The file doesn't open. I click the button
On 3/4/2014 7:23 AM, Santiago A. wrote:
Hello:
I need to connect to a web with https. In delphi I used synapse
sometimes and Indy otrher times.
i use synapse... after it was updated for my chosen OS (OS/2 aka eCS) and i
gathered working DLLs (crypto and ssl) for my OS, it worked great...
On 2/19/2014 8:42 AM, brian wrote:
[...]
Definitely not the first. I've written out the full paths to a log file, and
they are correct - editing the logs and putting an 'ls ' in front of the file
names provides the expected results. The drive is powered down overnight, and
I'm the only user, so
On 2/13/2014 9:06 AM, duilio foschi wrote:
Hi Andrew,
which is a conservative way to go for a music player on the web ?
Which is method used by - say - YouTube ?
youtube was using a flash video player thing... i don't know what they are using
now that google owns them... i've not tried to
On 1/13/2014 8:15 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:54:06PM -0500, waldo kitty wrote:
that's why i run make clean and/or make distclean before updating from SVN...
That should remove it from the checkout dirs. But if you do a separate
install step, the place you install
On 1/13/2014 8:15 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:54:06PM -0500, waldo kitty wrote:
that's why i run make clean and/or make distclean before updating from SVN...
That should remove it from the checkout dirs. But if you do a separate
install step, the place you install
On 1/13/2014 10:52 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:26:16PM +0200, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote:
PPU Loading /usr/lib/fpc/2.7.1/units/i386-linux/rtl/variants.ppu
well the problem i see is reg. the 2.6 fixes branch not trunk.
I hope the selective quoting says all
On 1/10/2014 8:57 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 11/01/2014 01:09, waldo kitty wrote:
On 1/10/2014 5:04 PM, Kjow wrote:
AFAIK, TortiseSVN has never had a svn.exe... i've always had to use
their executable's filename in my scripts...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2967176/where-is-svn
On 1/11/2014 9:13 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 07:23:18PM -0500, waldo kitty wrote:
[...]
PPU Loading C:\freepascal\fpc\trunk\units\i386-win32\rtl\variants.ppu
PPU Source: variants.pp not available
Recompiling variants, checksum changed for System
Fatal: Can't find
On 1/10/2014 5:04 PM, Kjow wrote:
Well, if Lazarus Manager can't use svn nothing will work.
There aren't restriction on which svn client to use, it just need a fully
working svn command line (command prompt). If no svn client if found (it check
the existence of svn command on system path (I use
i've just updated my FPC trunk and now my Lazarus trunk won't compile...
***
* TASK: before svn update...
* CMND: make distclean
*
[trim]
*
* make distclean complete...
On 1/5/2014 6:37 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 05/01/2014 04:47, waldo kitty wrote:
On 1/4/2014 4:37 PM, vfclists . wrote:
On 4 January 2014 14:28, leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id
mailto:leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id wrote:
+1!!n i'm running into similar situations building in this way
On 1/4/2014 4:37 PM, vfclists . wrote:
On 4 January 2014 14:28, leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id
mailto:leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id wrote:
Just check what -lXXX are missing
Can you explain it further?
I am building Lazarus using fpcup.
+1!!n i'm running into similar situations
On 12/16/2013 2:58 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Sun, 15 Dec 2013, waldo kitty wrote:
On 12/15/2013 6:18 PM, brian wrote:
The bug is a simple one, JCF won't accept the '' syntax for an octal number.
There's absolutely no doubt that this was the problem, all of my units formatted
On 12/15/2013 6:18 PM, brian wrote:
The bug is a simple one, JCF won't accept the '' syntax for an octal number.
There's absolutely no doubt that this was the problem, all of my units formatted
correctly except for the one with the two calls to FpChmod in it, and that one
formatted correctly
On 12/4/2013 3:43 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
I know it sounds harsh, but: patches are accepted. In Open Source one mostly
investigates in problems that oneself is interested in.
this reminds me of one of the mantras of (F)OSS...
There is no crying in (F)OSS.
meaning that if something doesn't
On 12/3/2013 3:48 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
(or did you just stumble at the capitals and blanks ? )
yes, exactly and thus why i asked for clarification since they changed the
meaning considerably ;)
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On 12/2/2013 4:06 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
If your effort allows for compiling pascal to Java Script this might be even
do you mean java or javascript above? ;)
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On 11/27/2013 6:50 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to use XmlConfig to store simple configuration data, but I can't
make it create a sensible Xml file. This is not really important in my
situation, as XmlConfig is able to correctly read back the strange data it
wrote, but
On 11/18/2013 11:46 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
I still find CalenderDiff the best name for this function
because it clearly states that differences are calculated for calender
dates and not for an homogeneous stream of seconds/hours/days.
This raises
On 11/16/2013 5:08 AM, John Landmesser wrote:
This discussion seems to be finished ( 92 posts ) and i want to make a proposal
as solution:
Use the function DateDiff from Jedi ( RxLib ) ( JvJCLUtils.pas ).
that routine is actually a procedure... the one i posted is a function that
returns the
On 11/16/2013 5:08 AM, John Landmesser wrote:
This discussion seems to be finished ( 92 posts ) and i want to make a proposal
as solution:
Use the function DateDiff from Jedi ( RxLib ) ( JvJCLUtils.pas ).
It's not perfect, but it works for me:
in what way do you think it is not perfect for
On 11/16/2013 10:09 AM, waldo kitty wrote:
On 11/16/2013 5:08 AM, John Landmesser wrote:
This discussion seems to be finished ( 92 posts ) and i want to make a proposal
as solution:
Use the function DateDiff from Jedi ( RxLib ) ( JvJCLUtils.pas ).
that routine is actually a procedure
On 11/16/2013 11:07 AM, waldo kitty wrote:
[...]
but i still wonder if the last day of a month to the last day of another month
should be counted as a full month...
eg:
CalendarDateDiff: 2012-01-31 to 2012-02-29 =0 yrs0 mos 29 days
JediDateDiff: 2012-01-31 to 2012-02-29
On 11/16/2013 12:27 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 16/11/2013 18:21, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Bart wrote:
The fun part for me is the fact that a seemingly simple question,
where at first glance you would think I'll just implement that, can
lead to so many problems.
I
On 11/14/2013 4:41 AM, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:19:56 +0100
Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote:
Am 2013-11-13 19:42, schrieb Reimar Grabowski:
1 julian year = 365.25 days of 86400 SI seconds each.
Of course there are lots of other definitions for year
On 11/14/2013 4:50 AM, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:34:36 +0100
John Landmesser joh...@online.de wrote:
What about Databases like mysql, Oracle, Firebird. I'm shure they have
such a function.
For MySQL:
DATEDIFF(expr1,expr2)
DATEDIFF() returns expr1 – expr2 expressed as a
On 11/14/2013 7:25 AM, José Mejuto wrote:
Maybe I'm completly wrong ?
you are completely right, IMHO... one simply needs to choose their desired base
and level of error that is acceptable for their task's needs...
the initial problem arose because there's no easy way to calc the desired
On 11/14/2013 8:16 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:48:46 +0100
John Landmesser joh...@online.de wrote:
[...]
Our function delivers the age of a person in years, months, days.
What is your diff between 31th Jan and 30 March 2013?
the one i am currently testing returns
On 11/14/2013 12:26 PM, Bart wrote:
On 11/14/13, waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:
you are completely right, IMHO... one simply needs to choose their desired
base and level of error that is acceptable for their task's needs...
It's all about definition.
right... that's what i
On 11/14/2013 12:48 PM, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Am 2013-11-14 07:56, schrieb Patrick Chevalley:
So the difference between 2007-01-01 12:00 and 2008-01-01 12:00 ist
*not* one year?
No, the base definition of the year is not a digit change,
but the time it take to the Earth to return at
On 11/13/2013 3:53 AM, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
[snip]
All this, should be planned to use 64 bit Unix Timestamps already ;)
(year 2038 is not that long away)
agreed but that is dependent on what TDateTime does since it is built on that
like other existing time and date routines ;)
at one point
On 11/13/2013 5:19 AM, John Landmesser wrote:
On 13.11.2013 02:33, waldo kitty wrote:
actually, i have in some cases... let's ask this question and see what your
charts and routines return as the result... assuming your format is
DD.MM....
Date1 := 01.01.2000
Date2 := 01.01.2000
should
NOTE: subject fixed to indicate the actual topic ;)
On 11/13/2013 6:24 AM, Lex Edmonds wrote:
This is my first post on this mailing list, so please bear with me.
I used to do date calculations like this in the '80s when I was writing Real
Estate software.
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:33:00, waldo
On 11/13/2013 9:37 AM, John Landmesser wrote:
On 13.11.2013 14:02, waldo kitty wrote:
We don't need to invent the wheel again, because others have solutions for that!
then why does this thread exist? O:)
I'll try to find what the usual way is to handle these problems: c++ Libraries
On 11/13/2013 1:42 PM, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:00:39 +0100 (CET)
Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote:
Seeing this, I can't help but think that the approximation approach
may not be such a bad idea after all :D
Can you elaborate what the approximation is? I
On 11/13/2013 5:14 PM, Bart wrote:
On 11/13/13, John Landmesser joh...@online.de wrote:
I'm just a hobbyist, never went to university to study computer science.
So am I.
(For my background, see my userpage on the wiki)
i probably should set something, too... while i have an account on the
On 11/11/2013 6:54 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
On 11/11/2013 10:46 AM, John Landmesser wrote:
Fazit:
You can't write a DateDif function with the functions in DateUtils.pas ?!!
actually, you can but it is more brute-force for the results that you and i are
looking for... brute-force as in actually
*FWIW*
On 11/11/2013 5:11 PM, Bart wrote:
type
TDaysPerMonth = Array[1..12] of Word;
function DaysPerMonth(AMonth: Word; IsLeapYear: Boolean): Word;
const
DaysPerMonthNormal: TDaysPerMonth = (31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31);
DaysPerMonthLeap: TDaysPerMonth =
On 11/12/2013 3:40 PM, John Landmesser wrote:
On 12.11.2013 21:01, waldo kitty wrote:
[...]
Which is correct?
Date1 := 29.2.2000
Date2 := 28.02.2001
Your function:
0 Y, 11 M, 27 D
Rxlib ( Jedi ) DateDiff:
0 Y, 11 M, 28 D
Libre Office Calc:
0 Y, 11 M, 30 D
The table - function of Libre
On 11/11/2013 3:39 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 11/08/2013 09:35 PM, John Landmesser wrote:
Result would be: 0 years, 0 moths, 11 days
IMHO a date diff in this format us desperately misleading, as the count of days
in a month varies.
understood but it is what many of us want for tasks of
On 11/11/2013 10:46 AM, John Landmesser wrote:
Fazit:
You can't write a DateDif function with the functions in DateUtils.pas ?!!
actually, you can but it is more brute-force for the results that you and i are
looking for... brute-force as in actually looping thru each unit and
incrementing
Lazarus 1.3 r42488 FPC 2.7.1 r26006 i386-win32-win32/win64
see attached png as i could not c'n'p from it as hoped... this is the first
popup on exiting chmhelp after opening it and simply exiting... opening chmhelp
was done from laz via F1 with the cursor on Classes in the default project...
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