- [CPC] Standard In , Standard Out and all theother I/O stuff

From: [at]} <Rex>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:03:23 -0500

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        Lars, you might look at Opal, from the Component Pascal Collection. This looks pretty good. The drawback is that it doesn't work with the BB IDE, so it's hard to debug with it. I think that may be the problem with the whole concept. If anyone knows more about how to use it, please let us know.

        Various other compilers are sometimes recommended. Whatever the merits of particular compilers, it's truly unfortunate if one has to change to Zonnon for .NET or FPC to read a keystroke or display a character, BB to create a native-code graphic Windows application, maybe something else for Linux or Mac, and back to BB to use .DLLs from another language. The problem, of course, is that every one of these is a different language. This fragmentation can limit the usefulness of all these languages.

        It was pointed out that BB neglects console I/O because it is a framework. This is true, but CP is not a framework, and BB has a CP compiler, so it can do this task. This is not a criticism of the framework. I'm just pointing out that there are no CP native-code compilers with this capability.

        So, just in case someone has the urge to write an I/O module, does anyone know anything about what is involved? For example, Lars, you said you wrote one for FPC from the winapi. Is that code relevant and available?

Rex Couture

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