[Lazarus] Form events firing order and count

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sun Feb 18 19:34:37 CET 2018



On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Florian Klämpfl via Lazarus wrote:

> Am 18.02.2018 um 19:18 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus:
>> On 2018-02-18 18:14, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
>>> On 2018-02-18 18:10, Florian Klämpfl via Lazarus wrote:
>>>> What makes you think so?
>>>
>>> Michael van Canneyt.
>> 
>> 
>> And quoting the official FPC documentation from the Free Pascal website:
>> 
>> "Free Pascal is designed to be, as much as possible, source compatible with Turbo Pascal 7.0 and
>> Delphi 7 (although this goal is not yet attained), ..."
>
> Does it exclude other versions? No. This list also does not mention ISO or ObjFPC, so it is clear,
> the two mentioned versions are only examples. Besides this, if you followed fpc development, you
> should quickly realize that this page is simply outdated: no word on aarch64 which is supported for
> years as well as jvm and m68k, iOS is not mentioned. You should know also that FPC contains a lot of
> stuff of newer delphis starting with advanced records, type helpers etc. which is for sure not D7.

I will update this page, it is indeed in dire need of a review.

That said, a small look at the language guide will of course convince even
the most malicious person that we also aim to be compatible - at the language 
level - with recent Delphis...

Michael.


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