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mickhead

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Pascal through visual
« on: November 03, 2014, 12:44:55 am »
Friends, once was a visual IDE for Pascal OS/2, Speed perhaps? Is software still available, opened, etc?

Thank you.

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Re: Pascal through visual
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2014, 10:05:39 am »
Hi Mick,

You are probably referring to Sybil? (Sort of like Delphi, I think it shares class names etc)

WDSybil is the open source version: http://www.wdsibyl.org/en

There is also Virtual Pascal but I don't know whether the GUI part (Lazarus) is available for OS/2

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Re: Pascal through visual
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2014, 03:48:19 pm »
Hi.

I don't know much about this subject. EDM/2 have listed the Pascal apps here: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Category:Tools#Pascal.2FDelphi.2FObjectPascal
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Re: Pascal through visual
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2014, 08:49:18 pm »
Hi Mick,

You are probably referring to Sybil? (Sort of like Delphi, I think it shares class names etc)

WDSybil is the open source version: http://www.wdsibyl.org/en

There is also Virtual Pascal but I don't know whether the GUI part (Lazarus) is available for OS/2

Speedsoft Pascal became Sybil that in turn was forked into WDSybil and Lazarus. The original poster should download WDSybil (note that he has to register at the site listed above to be able to download the package). Lazarus is the frontend to FreePascal rather than Virtual Pascal and the first thing the Lazarus developers did when they started the project was to throw out the OS/2 part of the source and in general showed hostility to the idea of continuing OS/2 development of Lazarus, so despite the existence of a current FreePascal port to OS/2-eCS, a Lazarus port has never existed and probably never will.

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Re: Pascal through visual
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2014, 09:38:48 pm »
Doesn't fp also have a GUI that doesn't run on OS/2? Interested as the most advanced inf viewer is Docview which seems to be available for everything but OS/2
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/1.2/

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Re: Pascal through visual
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2014, 09:58:34 pm »
The original poster should download WDSybil (note that he has to register at the site listed above to be able to download the package). Lazarus is the frontend to FreePascal rather than Virtual Pascal and the first thing the Lazarus developers did when they started the project was to throw out the OS/2 part of the source
That is unfortunate as otherwise to my opinion the Lazarus developers create good work.
Thank you for all responders and I will investigate new options.

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Re: Pascal through visual
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2014, 10:27:26 am »
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Interested as the most advanced inf viewer is Docview which seems to be available for everything but OS/2
DocView is based on NewView which is only available for OS/2 :-)

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Re: Pascal through visual
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2014, 06:40:17 pm »
Lazarus is the frontend to FreePascal rather than Virtual Pascal

Doh! I knew that. I have it installed on my Mac (out of curiosity mostly, I have not built anything with it)