Pascal is an imperative language from the Wirthian family created in 1969. It lives on in compilers like Free Pascal and Delphi.
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Human-like mouse movement
The code will move the mouse from a start point (xs, ys) to finish point (xe, ye) like a human would.
I'd like some help possibly shortening the code (by optimizing it) and making it more readable.
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Auto-click the sequence
The following pascal script needs a bit of context for it's purpose to be understood. For those who don't give about purpose, feel free to skip ahead.
Background
A game I'm terribly fond of has a ...
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Giving money to the bank
Lets say we need to write an algorithm for giving money to the bank. We need to know interest rate, money which we put every year on our account, and amount of money we want to get. F.e int. rate is 1%...
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Binary and linear search methods for a number-guessing game
This is a code written is Pascal (Delphi). It asks the user to think of a number between min_ and max_ and then guesses the ...
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Pass the password back
This code simply receives a very basic 'password' (numbers, letters, nothing fancy). After you press enter, it will display it back. The only special key I'm handling is backspace (code ...
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Generating Position
I'm written the following code to calculate the position of a motor during each timestep, the result of which will be compared with feedback from a quadrature encoder and subjected to a PID algorithm. ...
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Yellow Pages Search
I've written code in Free Pascal based on a contest problem (The contest insists that I have to write with Pascal). It works like charm, but I think it still need some improvements, from memory usage ...
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Multithread debug logger for Free Pascal / Lazarus
Debug experience can be much improved in the Lazarus development interface. Please, if you use this free development environment and have the same felling, do not consider this affirmation simply as a ...
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Function to split text
The following pascal function (compiled with Delphi) will split strings. It works perfectly, but how to improve the code? For example, to avoid using the repeat-until loop.
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Sync eye movements with external events
This solution was used to synchronize events between two applications: An eye tracking software, Python, and a stimulus control software, object Free Pascal/Delphi. It avoided a rewrite of the ...
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Enhancing speed of looping cycle using Freepascal
I use Lazarus 1.2.4 and Freepascal 2.6.4.
I have created a program that reads a disk in buffers of 64Kb (tried various buffer sizes) using a repeat...until loop. Each buffer is hashed using the SHA1 ...
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Drawing and Painting a Menu Component
I have produced a working menu component for a project I'm working on, but would like to reduce the amount of code used and improve the methods - especially in the Paint implementation - still further,...
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Eight Directions Crossword
I solved a problem which you can read about here, but it gives me "time limit exceeded" even though it runs in 4 seconds. I really don't understand why.
I don't think my code can be any simpler, ...
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Painting Tom Sawyer's Fence - programming on Free Pascal
Tom Sawyer has many friends who paints his fence. Each friend painted
contiguous part of the fence. Some planks could stay unpainted, some
could be painted several times. Program must output the ...
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Querying MySQL from an external application
I have a database that I need to query over and over as fast as possible. My queries execute pretty quickly, but there seems to be some additional lag. I have a feeling that this lag is due to the ...
