Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 06/18/2015 06:01 PM, Bo Berglund wrote: In the pas file referencing the obj file I have this: IMPLEMENTATION USES Windows; {$L SPROMEPS.OBJ} { LINK WITH THE SUPERPRO OBJECT FILE } { External functions } FUNCTION RNBOsproFormatPacket( ApiPacket : RB_SPRO_APIPACKET_PTR;

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 06/18/2015 06:48 PM, Bo Berglund wrote: However, this dongle component can equally well be used without being dropped anywhere Dropping is just a design time thingy. any visual component can be used by doing the appropriate initialization code manually. -Michael --

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 06/18/2015 06:01 PM, Bo Berglund wrote: In the pas file referencing the obj file I have this: IMPLEMENTATION USES Windows; {$L SPROMEPS.OBJ} { LINK WITH THE SUPERPRO OBJECT FILE } { External functions } FUNCTION RNBOsproFormatPacket( ApiPacket :

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: Concerning Safenet I tried to access their support portal (which I have used frequently in the past) only to discover that they have moved to a new portal and apparently NOT migrated the registered users... So now I have to wait a while for my login to be created before I can

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Bo Berglund
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:34:32 +0200, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 06/16/2015 06:14 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Being open source and allowing me to customise things the way I like is a brilliant feature. He also wants to use closed source 3rd party stuff and want to impose

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:21:49 +0200, Bo Berglund bo.bergl...@gmail.com wrote: 1) We have created a number of non-visual components that are dropped on the forms to supply various kinds of functionality. Some of these are handlers for language dependent texts, software protection dongles,

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:08:19 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Bo Berglund wrote: Concerning Safenet I tried to access their support portal (which I have used frequently in the past) only to discover that they have moved to a new portal and apparently NOT

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 17:48, Bo Berglund wrote: I would not have a problem using it as a general purpose object and changing my programs accordingly, that would be pretty easy, provided I can make it work in Lazarus/FPC. (never tried, never used .obj files since Turbo Pascal days) If all else fails

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:02:02 +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2015-06-18 17:48, Bo Berglund wrote: I would not have a problem using it as a general purpose object and changing my programs accordingly, that would be pretty easy, provided I can make it work in

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread ListMember
On 2015-06-18 23:32, Bo Berglund wrote: There could be a vulnerability for hacking, though, since someone couls create a fake dll with the same interface and this way circumvent our protection... You could add another function to that DLL and do an authentication handshake (to check that

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 21:32, Bo Berglund wrote: for the dongle component after stripping out the component related stuff, then I could have a minimalistic project to figure out... That is exactly what we did back in 2006/7 when we evaluated the possibility of moving our Delphi code to FPC. We noted all

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, aradeonas wrote: fun enough Sure. exciting ? yes. But enough for doing what you can do with Native tools? No. Even Delphi with XE series and advertising about Android and iOS is not good choice. I agree if you want to make a professional tool for multi platform

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread aradeonas
fun enough Sure. exciting ? yes. But enough for doing what you can do with Native tools? No. Even Delphi with XE series and advertising about Android and iOS is not good choice. I agree if you want to make a professional tool for multi platform including Android ,Lazarus is very good but I like

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread aradeonas
Exactly and I said that because a new user can decide better. Regards, Ara -- http://www.fastmail.com - IMAP accessible web-mail -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, aradeonas wrote: Exactly and I said that because a new user can decide better. Without context, I have no idea what you are replying on ? Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread leledumbo
this message in context: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-I-have-some-custom-components-can-I-convert-Delphi-Lazarus-tp4042624p4042687.html Sent from the Free Pascal - Lazarus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread aradeonas
Can Lazarus do Android platform apps? Yes but its wrong and I didn't saw any good new-age-look app with it. Regards, Ara -- http://www.fastmail.com - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread Michael Schnell
On 06/16/2015 06:14 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Being open source and allowing me to customise things the way I like is a brilliant feature. He also wants to use closed source 3rd party stuff and want to impose copy protection to his projects. All that is rather queer with an open source IDE.

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-17 07:26, Sven Barth wrote: Of course you can already check back with SafeNet if they'd provide you with binaries or even better the source. [I know it is a bit late for the original posted] For that reason I refuse to purchase any software components that don't include full source

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread Sven Barth
Am 17.06.2015 00:22 schrieb Bo Berglund bo.bergl...@gmail.com: If you could consider alternatives, then you could take a look at the FPC port of Turbo Power's OnGuard. I've been using this for years in a commercial environment creating trial versions, leased software etc. My port is available

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, aradeonas wrote: Can Lazarus do Android platform apps?   Yes but its wrong and I didn't saw any good new-age-look app with it. Why ? If you use the JVM compiler, the app uses the Java SDK, and it will look exactly like the android native apps look, because then it

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-17 09:34, Michael Schnell wrote: All that is rather queer with an open source IDE. Closed source 3rd part stuff might be problematic. As for imposing copy protection on software... I have no problem with that at all. I do it myself, otherwise how am I going to make money off

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread aradeonas
Yes but its wrong Wrong is typo here but its likely to be true.In Android and iOS I didn't saw ant foreign language do a good job.If you saw any good app with beautiful standard UI tell me. I mean if they are going with AsndroidStudio probably they should continue with that,just compiling for a

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: He also wants to use closed source 3rd party stuff and want to impose copy protection to his projects. All that is rather queer with an open source IDE. Why? It's not as though he's trying to add non-open components to the published IDE and expecting other people to

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 06/15/2015 08:21 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: If Lazarus does not work with this obj file then I would be dead in the water... Lazarus (including packages) and free pascal are cross-platform tools supporting multiple Archs and CPUs. So an obj file can't be decently supported as it will work

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 06/15/2015 08:21 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: - Asynch Pro It would be just great to have this ported to be runnable in Windows, Linux, and Mac as a Lazarus package ! (I would be happy to use it for my experiments, but as I don't have a real project for this, I never tried to do the port

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread aradeonas
If you just want Windows/X86, why not stay with Delphi ? I dont know his reason but multi platform is not  the only reason for Lazarus,Mostly I develop for Windows but my main reason for developing with Lazarus is simple as I love it ;) Regards, Ara -- http://www.fastmail.com - Or how I

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread Sven Barth
Am 16.06.2015 15:47 schrieb Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de: On 06/15/2015 08:21 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: If Lazarus does not work with this obj file then I would be dead in the water... Lazarus (including packages) and free pascal are cross-platform tools supporting multiple Archs and

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-16 15:53, aradeonas wrote: but my main reason for developing with Lazarus is simple as I love it ;) +1 Being open source and allowing me to customise things the way I like is a brilliant feature. I also think FPC is a way better compiler than Delphi - on many levels. Regards, -

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:33:03 +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: It seems a lot of that wiki text is out of date too. ;-) So it is good you rather ask here or in the Lazarus Forums. Well I tried reading the docs first because on other fora you are told to RTFM first.

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread Bo Berglund
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:13:42 +0200, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: Lazarus (including packages) and free pascal are cross-platform tools supporting multiple Archs and CPUs. So an obj file can't be decently supported as it will work just on a single CPU/OS combination. Please

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread Bo Berglund
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:47:35 +0200, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 06/15/2015 08:21 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: If Lazarus does not work with this obj file then I would be dead in the water... Lazarus (including packages) and free pascal are cross-platform tools supporting

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-16 23:38, Bo Berglund wrote: So even though I have used Delphi since 1995 (D1-D2-D3-D4-D5-D7-(long time use)-BDS2006-D2007-XE5-XE7 I am now feeling weary of it all... I fully agree with everything you have said. In fact I too gave up on their always down support newsgroup. Pathetic

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-16 Thread waldo kitty
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 ;) -- NOTE: No

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-15 07:21, Bo Berglund wrote: I have now read a good many wiki and other pages and it seems like I will have problems getting started because of the following component related issues: It seems a lot of that wiki text is out of date too. ;-) So it is good you rather ask here or in

[Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-15 Thread Bo Berglund
I am investigating if I will have any chance to switch to Lazarus/FPC from Delphi with our code projects. I have now read a good many wiki and other pages and it seems like I will have problems getting started because of the following component related issues: 1) We have created a number of

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-15 Thread leledumbo
.nabble.com/Lazarus-I-have-some-custom-components-can-I-convert-Delphi-Lazarus-tp4042624p4042625.html Sent from the Free Pascal - Lazarus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http