... In the Microsoft .NET GP implementation of Component Pascal there are extensive metadata facilities provided by the .NET framework itself. Look in the .NET...
Hi everyone This is my first post to this list, so a quick introduction: my name is Brian Blackwell and I am working as a research assistant at the Programming...
Hi Bernhard I believe they are testing the power safety switches at QUT over the weekend. The server should be back up on Sunday or Monday. Regards Brian On...
Unlike the BlackBox implementation of Component Pascal, GPCP does not accept a type as a parameter to the LEN function. For example, given the declarations: ...
Hi Folks Yes, I can see the convenience of taking a typename as an argument to LEN. I will put the extra overload in the next refresh. Cheers John ... From:...
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On 30th December Oberon Microsystems released Blackbox 1.5 under an Open Source licence (BSD like) with complete sources. See:...
This is the second time I have read this in the last couple of days, but I can find no mention of it on Oberon's site or any other Oberon/CP resources I...
Bill, You can download it from the page that Bernhard mentioned. There is a section titled free download - the one you want is BlackBox 1.5 BETA for Windows. ...
Thanks. I had downloaded the 1.5 beta but just not burrowed deep enough into it. In my naive way, I sort of thought releasing the source code might have...
Hi Bill, ... [...] ... Although this might look like on the first sight, all host dependencies and interfaces (i.e. Windows stuff) are layered in Subsystem...
Hello All: I am an old Turbo Pascal programmer and I am new to GPCP (and .net for that matter). Here's a little program: MODULE Examp; IMPORT CPmain, Console,...
Hi wilkott The problem is a mismatch between the .NET type system and gpcp. In .NET types such as char, int and so on "derive" from System.ValueType, and so...
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Jan 25, 2005 11:58 pm
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Hi John: Thank you for your quick answer. Much appreciated, Seth. ... like ... that ... = ... CHAR is ... on, ... under ... need ... compiler ... care...
... It's a difficult call, since while it's non-standard behavior for Component Pascal, it's still standard behavior for .NET. Seems if you're writing a .NET...
Hi All Ok, thanks for the report. I have verified it on both 1.3.0 and the forthcoming 1.3.1. I'll find out why and post to the group. John ... From:...
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Feb 1, 2005 1:23 am
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Ok, got it. The nested class Jtree$EmptySelectionNode declares a static field and a static method with the same name ... "sharedInstance". I'll see about a...
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Feb 1, 2005 1:33 am
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... Thanks for quick answer. One more question. Why there are no fresh versions in zipped form? That's a boring problem for everybody who don't use windows....
... Ok, here is the drum on the overloaded names in Javax/Swing There is no workaround with the current javax_swing.cps file unfortunately. However there is a...
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Feb 4, 2005 2:35 am
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... Can't recompile. There are no cps files for <gpcp> modules in my distribution, so this modules don't want to be imported. I'v tried to recompile all needed...
Hi All, working with gpcp (under MS-Windows) I encountered two problems related both to each other. When importing a quite large CPS-file, I got an an...
Hi All if you look at the CPRUN.bat script, you will see how to set the search path for the java system. The flag is ...
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Feb 14, 2005 10:10 pm
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I am using .NET version 1.1 and the latest version of GPCP for it. Everything is working fine, except n2cps. It is crashing giving unhandled exception in...
Hi All Yes N2CPS has a difficulties with the 1.3.0 release. We have replaced it with A new program PeToCps which will be going out with the 1.3.1 release this...
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Mar 8, 2005 4:45 am
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Hi John, I try to compile a rather complex program for machine translation of natural language. When GPCP parses the import list of a module, I got a ...
Hi Juergen This looks really interesting. I have not seen such large heap usage before, particularly as this appears to be just the imports. The abstract...
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Mar 15, 2005 12:04 am
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Hi All version 1.3.1 of GPCP is now up, but you will need a new URL. http://plas.fit.qut.edu.au/gpcp/ is the place to start, then to the downloads page. This...