Re: [UOPL-Architect] Back ground work

[Thomas M. <tm...@bs...>]

Just ran across this.  It is completely open to use all of this code.

http://www.tntware.com/delphicontrols/unicode/

Thomas Miller wrote:

> We still have lots of back ground work to do for the project. Here is 
> some stuff
> to read
>
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs.html
>
> User.pdf
>
> Chapter 9
> Units that come with Free Pascal
> Here we list the units that come with the Free Pascal distribution. 
> Since there is a difference in the
> supplied units per operating system, we first describe the generic 
> ones, then describe those which are
> operating specific.
> 9.1 Standard units
> The following units are standard and are meant to be ported to all 
> supported platforms by Free Pascal.
> A brief description of each unit is also given.
> crt This unit is similar to the unit of the same name of Turbo Pascal. 
> It implements writing to the
> console in color, moving the text cursor around and reading from the 
> keyboard.
> dos This unit provides basic routines for accessing the operating 
> system. This includes file searching,
> environment variables access, getting the operating system version, 
> getting and setting
> the system time. It is to note that some of these routines are 
> duplicated in functionality in the
> sysutils unit.
> getopts This unit gives you the GNU getopts command-line arguments 
> handling mechanism. It
> also supports long options.
> graph This unit provides basic graphics handling, with routines to 
> draw lines on the screen, display
> texts etc. It provides the same functions as the Turbo Pascal unit.
> keyboard provides basic keyboard handling routines in a platform 
> independent way, and supports
> writing custom drivers.
> math This unit contains common mathematical routines (trigonometric 
> functions, logarithms, etc.)
> as well as more complex ones (summations of arrays, normalization 
> functions, etc.).
> mmx This unit provides support for mmx extensions in your code.
> mouse provides basic mouse handling routines in a platform independent 
> way, and supports writing
> custom drivers.
> objects This unit provides the base object for standard Turbo Pascal 
> objects. It also implements File
> and Memory stream objects, as well as sorted and non-sorted 
> collections, and string streams.
> objpas is used for Delphi compatibility; you should never load this 
> unit explicitly; it is automatically
> loaded if you request Delphi mode.
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> printer This unit provides all you need for rudimentary access to the 
> printer using standard I/O
> routines.
> sockets This gives the programmer access to sockets and TCP/IP 
> programming.
> strings This unit provides basic string handling routines for the 
> pchar type, comparable to similar
> routines in standard C libraries.
> system This unit is available for all supported platforms, even though 
> the unit name may be different
> (e.g : syslinux, sysos2). It includes among others, basic file I/O 
> routines, memory management
> routines, all compiler helper routines, and directory services routines.
> sysutils is an alternative implementation of the sysutils unit of 
> Delphi. It includes file I/O access
> routines which takes care of file locking, date and string handling 
> routines, file search, date
> and string conversion routines.
> typinfo Provides functions to acces Run-Time Type Information, just 
> like Delphi.
> video provides basic screen handling in a platform independent way, 
> and supports writing custom
> drivers.
> 9.2 Under DOS
> emu387 This unit provides support for the coprocessor emulator.
> go32 This unit provides access to possibilities of the GO32 DOS extender.
> 9.3 UnderWindows
> wincrt This implements a console in a standard GUI window, contrary to 
> the crt unit which is for
> the Windows console only.
> Windows This unit provides access to al Win32 API calls. Effort has 
> been taken to make sure that
> it is compatible to the Delphi version of this unit, so code for 
> Delphi is easily ported to Free
> Pascal.
> opengl provides access to the low-level opengl functions in WINDOWS.
> winmouse provides access to the mouse in WINDOWS.
> ole2 provides access to the OLE capabilities of WINDOWS.
> winsock provides acces to the WINDOWS sockets API Winsock.
> 9.4 Under Linux
> linux This unit provides access to the LINUX operating system. It 
> provides most file and I/O handling
> routines that you may need. It implements most of the standard C 
> library constructs that you
> will find on a Unix system. If you do a lot of disk/file operations, 
> the use of this unit is
> recommended over the one you use under Dos.
> graph Is an implementation of Borlands graph unit, which works on the 
> Linux console. Its implementation
> is as complete as on the other platforms (it shares the same code). It 
> uses the
> libvga and libvgagl graphics libraries, so you need these installed 
> for this unit to work. Also,
> programs using this library need to be run as root, or setuid root, 
> and hence are a potential
> security risk.
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> ports This implements the various port[] constructs. These are 
> provided for compatibility only,
> and it is not recommended to use them extensively. Programs using this 
> construct must be run
> as ruit or setuid root, and are a serious security risk on your system.
> 9.5 Under OS/2
> doscalls interface to doscalls.dll.
> dive interface to dive.dll
> emx provides access to the EMX extender.
> pm* interface units for the program manager functions.
> viocalls interface to viocalls.dll screen handling library.
> moucalls interface to moucalls.dll mouse handling library.
> kbdcalls interface to kbdcalls.dll keyboard handling library.
> moncalls interface to moncalls.dll monitoring handling library.
> 9.6 Unit availability
> Standard unit availability for each of the supported platforms is 
> given in the FAQ / Knowledge base.
>

-- 
Thomas Miller
Wash DC Delphi SIG Chairperson
Delphi Client/Server Certified Developer
BSS Accounting & Distribution Software
BSS Enterprise Accounting FrameWork

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