Lazarus and FreePascal

From	"P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
Subject	Lazarus and FreePascal
Date	2016-08-23 00:50 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<npgkmc$n6q$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Recently I discovered FreePascal and the Lazarus IDE. I was rather skeptical 
about how useful it might be as a replacement for Borland Delphi (D4Pro) 
which I have been using for over 15 years for Windows GUI apps. So yesterday 
I decided to download them and install on my new Toshiba Satellite Win10 
laptop.

I was pleasantly surprised, and I was able to convert, build and run some 
simple Delphi projects. But unfortunately I was unable to install the 
ComDrv32 serial port component I recently adopted for my legacy BTSA3 and 
Ortmaster projects,  or the SerialNG component I had been using since about 
2004. The SerialNG would not work on Win10.

So I joined the Lazarus discussion forum, and found that someone had 
provided an open source TLazSerial component. I was able to install the 
TLazSerial component and build the demo GPS Simulator. I have a USB serial 
port designed in a custom data acquisition board, and when a Ctrl-T 
character is sent, it returns a stream of 240 unique character pairs, at 
4800 characters per second, on a 57.6 kB connection. I was able to 
accomplish this with a TEST button and an OnClick handler.

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,20481.120.html

Here is the download page:
http://www.freepascal.org/download.var

Paul

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Lazarus and FreePascal "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2016-08-23 00:50 -0400
  Re: Lazarus and FreePascal "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2016-08-23 01:30 -0400
  Re: Lazarus and FreePascal Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2016-08-23 11:14 +0200
    Re: Lazarus and FreePascal "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2016-08-23 18:21 -0400
      Re: Lazarus and FreePascal Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2016-08-24 08:30 +0000
  Re: Lazarus and FreePascal Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2016-08-23 12:00 +0000
    Re: Lazarus and FreePascal "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2016-08-23 17:40 -0400

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