Re: [Lazarus] Ideas for improving lazarus.dci code templates

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
I can only agree with all Graeme's remarks, except the last, which I think is a bit overkill. Michael. On Wed, 13 May 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > Over the years I have noticed some shortcomings in the lazarus.dci > handling. Here are some of my ideas. Please comment on them befor

Re: [Lazarus] Ubuntu 9.04 (Lazarus too slow)

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > 2009/5/6 Michael Van Canneyt : > > > > Or install KUbuntu 9.04, which works lightning fast, and so far > > without visible bugs. I updated a PC and a Laptop, and all went > > smoothly... > > Sorry Michael, but it

Re: [Lazarus] Ubuntu 9.04 (Lazarus too slow)

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:26 PM, "Leonardo M. Ramé" > > wrote: > > > > Does anyone faced the same problem? > > I don't have slowness, but I do have other graphics problems with > fpGUI Toolkit and MSEgui and applications run under WINE. Ubun

Re: [Lazarus] Latest RTL, FCL and LCL online docs

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Vincent Snijders > wrote: > > > > I just do: > > FPCSRCDIR=/path/to/fpc/sources > > make rtl.chk FPCSRCDIR=$FPCSRCDIR > > That's even better. :-) > > Michael, could you add this to the readme file as well? Done

Re: [Lazarus] Latest RTL, FCL and LCL online docs

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
> > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys > wrote: > > > > Thanks, the description is now much better (clearer).  I still have > > problems though. Can I use a symlink'ed docs directory? The layout is > > still as I shown in my

Re: [Lazarus] Latest RTL, FCL and LCL online docs

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: > > > > The following should do it: > > > > make rtl.chk > > make fcl.chk > > > > And you don't need latex2html, but tex4ht for th

Re: [Lazarus] Latest RTL, FCL and LCL online docs

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: > > > > What is so hard about typing > > make html > > ? > > /opt/fpcdocs_svn $ make html > make -C ../compiler/utils msg2inc > make: *** ..

Re: [Lazarus] Latest RTL, FCL and LCL online docs

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Vincent Snijders > wrote: > > > > I tried to do it for the off line docs, but the --footer-date > > parameter is overridden by the --footer parameter which adds a link to > > the on-line documentation. So for now,

Re: [Lazarus] Online LCL docs - Error 404

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > The online LCL documentation is outdated. > > I am using 0.9.27. I selected the ModalResult property of a TButton in > the Object Inspector. I pressed F1 and the following URL was opened in > my web browser. Displaying error 404. > > http://www.f

Re: [Lazarus] Import Form from previous project

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, German C. Basisty wrote: > My fellow colegs: > > > > Im trying to import to my current project some form developed for an earlier > project. So I copyed the .pas and .lfm from the older project folder to the > current project folder, then I opened them via lazarus IDE an

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: > > > > You miss the point, namely that a 'tag' is just a convention between > > people. Nowhere it says that a tag should be set in concrete to l

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: > > > > Even in CVS - the mother of all revision systems - a tag could be moved, > > so there also it could be that you had to do a cvs up on a tag. > &g

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Vincent Snijders > wrote: > > > > I am abusing the tool, because it is a tool after all, not a law. Sorry to > > confuse > > you with it, but I never realized you would get into trouble with git. svn > > export >

Re: [Lazarus] subversion mirror

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Vincent Snijders > wrote: > > > > Every minute. > > > > Vincent > > > Thanks. Doesn't that keep the main server very busy? It does, but much less than when everybody would use the main server. Michael.

Re: [Lazarus] ORM in Lazarus / Freepascal

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Giuseppe Luigi Punzi wrote: > Hi Michael, first of all, thanks for the fast answer. > > Michael Van Canneyt escribió: > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Giuseppe Luigi Punzi wrote: > > > > > >> When I was playing with Smalltalk, I learned a litt

Re: [Lazarus] ORM in Lazarus / Freepascal

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Giuseppe Luigi Punzi wrote: > When I was playing with Smalltalk, I learned a little about ORM. > > Now, I would like to try it under Lazarus/Frepascal. I searched, and > found tiOPF. But requires FBLib, and I'm getting a lot of errors trying > to compile it under Windows (

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi wxWidget plugin for Lazarus

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, svaa wrote: > Hello: > > By the way, Watching the demo I can see that Lazarus compiles (or > complies and links) very slow compared to codegear. And it is just > "hello world" program. > I have always felt the Lazarus was a little slow, but this demo has > shown it clea

Re: [Lazarus] Clipboard.HasFormat issue

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > > Is there a reason why ClipBoard.HasFormat() is so slow ? > > > > Putting a call to ClipBoard.HasFormat() in an OnUpdate handler of an action > > coupled to a toolbutton, serio

[Lazarus] Clipboard.HasFormat issue

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hi, Is there a reason why ClipBoard.HasFormat() is so slow ? Putting a call to ClipBoard.HasFormat() in an OnUpdate handler of an action coupled to a toolbutton, seriously slows down an application, to the point of being unusable. If I comment out the call, the application responds normally. Thi

Re: [Lazarus] Controlling DPI

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, ik wrote: > I would like to allow users to set their own DPI as they think it best for > them. A zoom factor or the actual DPI ? The former is possible, the latter I have no idea how to do this. Michael. ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Controlling DPI

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > 2009/3/28 ik : > > > > How can I control the DPI of a Lazarus based application regardless of the > > environment (gnome/kde etc..) DPI ? > > Umm, good question. I thought there was a Screen.DPI or > Screen.DotsPerInch setting, but I can't find it

Re: [Lazarus] Easiest way to "case" strings

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Flávio Etrusco wrote: > >> > >> Can anyone say why there is no string case statement in Object Pascal?   > >> I've > >> always wondered about this as sometimes it hard to avoid 10-20 > >> If..then..else > >> if statements. > >> > >> Would the compiled code of a string c

Re: [Lazarus] Easiest way to "case" strings

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Lee Jenkins wrote: > Vincent Snijders wrote: > > Reenen Laurie schreef: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm sure most of you have had this... is there an easy way to have a > >> case statement that's based on "strings" rather than ordinal types. Is > >> there somewhere a shortcut? > >

Re: [Lazarus] Easiest way to "case" strings

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Reenen Laurie wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure most of you have had this... is there an easy way to have a case > statement that's based on "strings" rather than ordinal types. Is there > somewhere a shortcut? > > The only solution I can think of is defining constants with strin

Re: [Lazarus] Exception dialog

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Martin Friebe wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Martin Friebe wrote: > > > >>> To reject the current value of the field from the OnValidate event > >>> handler, raise an exception. > >>> >

Re: [Lazarus] Exception dialog

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Martin Friebe wrote: > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > Please note, I don't use db-aware components, but here follows the > > help from Kylix 3. > > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Martin Friebe wrote: > > > >> I have to admit, I have limited knowledge of the exact det

Re: [Lazarus] Exception dialog

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Martin Friebe wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > > "In a GUI application, you rely on the program's event loop" > Well, in my very personal opinion: This is just a bad design id

Re: [Lazarus] Exception dialog

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Martin Friebe wrote: > Luca Olivetti wrote: > > En/na Hans-Peter Diettrich ha escrit: > > > > > >> Insert your exception handler in an more appropriate place, depending on > >> the concrete application. The user can expect a diagnosis of what went > >> wrong, and a chan

Re: [Lazarus] Exception dialog

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > > Is there a reason why the default exception dialog has a cancel > > button to kill the application ? > > An unhandled exception IMO is due to some software bug, which the user

Re: [Lazarus] Exception dialog

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Samuel Herzog wrote: > > Oh, good point to discuss about the use of exceptions. > > I use exceptions only for really "unexpected" things. Well, Borland introduced specially the 'Abort' exception to let the programmer 'jump out' of routines in case of need. It's never show

[Lazarus] Exception dialog

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hello, Is there a reason why the default exception dialog has a cancel button to kill the application ? We often use an exception to signal wrong entry of data or so, because it stops all further processing. If the user then uses the cancel button, the program is simply ended, which is not wh

Re: [Lazarus] TFloatSpinEdit and DecimalSeparator (GTK)

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Paul Ishenin wrote: > Bart wrote: > > Shouldn't we then strive to make SysUtils use locale settings on all > > platforms? > > As it is now, it's rather inconsistent. > > > > Maybe I should ask on the pfc mailinglist? > > > As I know the core of the fpc rtl (and sysutils

Re: [Lazarus] Stringgrid woes...

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > Not in delphi 7, I tested ? > > > > However, it is called when you set EditorMode explicitly to false. > > But never by itself. > > > Yep, I was wrong, details tend

Re: [Lazarus] Stringgrid woes...

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Jesus Reyes wrote: > > > > In Delphi, Setting > > > > EditorMode:=False; > > > > Saves the data (setedittext is called again). In Lazarus, > > it is not called. > > > > I'm taking notes. Great :-) > > > I think it would also be a good idea to have an event which

Re: [Lazarus] Code Folding mess and Code Divider feature

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Martin Friebe wrote: > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This relates to the new bug report: > > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13322 > > > > Code Folding seems to have gone way overboard! It simply makes the > > editor look like a mess at the moment (Lazar

Re: [Lazarus] Stringgrid woes...

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: > Jesus Reyes wrote: > > > > Is this different on Delphi? I would like to improve compatibility if it's > > not. If OnSetEditText is enough in Delphi to know when editing is finished > > then I think we should do it also. > > > It appears to be dif

Re: [Lazarus] Stringgrid woes...

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Jesus Reyes wrote: > > This makes it completely impossible to do any checking of > > the entered > > values, because the SetEditText() event has no way of > > knowing when the > > editing ends. In my opinion, the SetEditText() should only > > be called > > when the editing i

Re: [Lazarus] Stringgrid woes...

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > >... > > Is there a reason for the current behaviour, and can it be changed ? > > > With Delphi, I used to check the grid.EditorMode property in > OnSetEditText handler, and skip a

[Lazarus] Stringgrid woes...

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hello, The stringgrid editor does the following: procedure TStringCellEditor.Change; begin inherited Change; if FGrid<>nil then begin FGrid.SetEditText(FCol, FRow, Text); end; end; procedure TStringCellEditor.EditingDone; begin inherited EditingDone; if FGrid<>nil then FGrid.E

Re: [Lazarus] GPL'ed projects and closed-sourced tools

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > I got told in the CodeGear newsgroups that if you create a GPL'ed > project, the tools used to create that project must also be GPL'ed > otherwise somebody might require a commercial compiler to compile the > GPL'ed project. > > I have nev

Re: [Lazarus] MySQL Database Component and Parameter Binding

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Andrew Brunner wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the MySQL Database component in Lazarus does > Parameter Binding for Insert and Update? Yes. > > I'm needing a Component to implement binding parameters for Insert and > Update methods. > > I also need a component that enumera

Re: [Lazarus] PBear and Gecko SDK components in Lazarus..

2009-02-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, domini...@savagesoftware.com.au wrote: > Hi all, > From reading this thread... > http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,6158.15.html > > It seems that Phil had done some work in getting PBear working with > Lazarus. Does anyone know who Phil is, and if this i

Re: [Lazarus] Examples of IniPropStorage?

2009-02-22 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, David W Noon wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 13:39 +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, David W Noon wrote: > > > > >Name_field.Text := Ini_props.ReadString('Name', ''); > > > > > &

Re: [Lazarus] Examples of IniPropStorage?

2009-02-22 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, David W Noon wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 19:06 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: > > > En/na David W Noon ha escrit: > [snip] > > > If there are none, could somebody please give me a quick sample they > > > have knocked up for their own use? Thanks in advance. > > > > Drop a T

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.26, 0.9.26.1, 0.9.26.2, 0.9.27 ou 0.9.28? (Silvio Cl écio)

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > 2009/2/16 Vincent Snijders : > > I have a feeling something got lost in the translation from Portuguese > > to English or from English to Dutch in the next paragraph, because I > > don't understand your point. > > Basically he said he wa

Re: [Lazarus] How to query Enabled/Disabled component state?

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > Something weird I just noticed. I have not tested this under Delphi 7, > but I have tested it with Lazarus GTK1 and GTK2 widget set. See > attached image to help explain > > If I do Panel1.Enabled = False, all components are disabled > (

Re: [Lazarus] Docking and Layout managers

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Mattias Gärtner wrote: > Zitat von Hans-Peter Diettrich : > > > Mattias Gärtner schrieb: > > > > > Maybe I misunderstood your proposal. > > > What parts of TWinControl should be moved to TContainerControl? > > > Do you want to move the ControlCount and Controls properties to

Re: [Lazarus] creating multiple non-modal form instances

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: > > > > Just do a > > > > With TLearnerListForm.Create(Application) do > >begin > >Initialize; > >Show; > >

Re: [Lazarus] creating multiple non-modal form instances

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys > wrote: > > > > How do I create such multiple instances? > > The following seems to work Anybody see any issues with this? > > > procedure DisplayLearners; > var >

Re: [Lazarus] creating multiple non-modal form instances

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > I have a listing screen (grid based) that allows various views and > filters - selected by the user. I want the user to be able to open > multiple instances of that listing screen. Each with there own views > and filters. > > How do I crea

Re: [Lazarus] LCL based image viewer like ACDSee?

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Sebastian Kraft wrote: > On Sonntag, 1. Februar 2009 17:53:40 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:14 PM, dmitry boyarintsev > > > > wrote: > > > Graeme, what's your interest in this kind of software? > > > > If none exist, to write such an application usin

Re: [Lazarus] ptInRect question

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > > Is there a reason why the top/left sides are included (>=), and the > > left/bottom sides are not included ? I would expect them to be included as > > well. > > There exist

[Lazarus] Canvas clipping ?

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hi, Is TCanvas clipping supported ? I set cliprect, but nothing happens... Michael. ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] ptInRect question

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: > AFAIK, Delphi compat.Here's the delphi code from Types unit. > > function PtInRect(const Rect: TRect; const P: TPoint): Boolean; > begin > Result := (P.X >= Rect.Left) and (P.X < Rect.Right) and (P.Y >= Rect.Top) > and (P.Y < Rect.Bottom);

[Lazarus] ptInRect question

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hi, I have a question regarding the following function: function PtInRect(const Rect : TRect;const p : TPoint) : Boolean; begin PtInRect:=(p.y>=Rect.Top) and (p.y=Rect.Left) and (p.x=), and the left/bottom sides are not included ? I would expect them to be included as

Re: [Lazarus] TFileStream

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dave Coventry wrote: > = snip === >case ftype of > 43://'+' > begin >FS:=TFileStream.Create(fname, fmshareDenyWrite); >Try > FS.Seek(pos,soFromBeginning); > FS.ReadBuffer(fldheader[0],4); >

Re: [Lazarus] TFileStream

2009-01-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Dave Coventry wrote: > 2009/1/26 Andrew Brunner : > > Actually, I'm thinking you're creating a memory problem with using > > fillchar and passing the pointer to the dynarray instead of the > > element. Try using FillChar with the zero element again... The > > reason why th

Re: [Lazarus] TFileStream

2009-01-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Dave Coventry wrote: > Hi Michael. > > The file is accessed correctly the first time, but fails the second time. > > 2009/1/26 Michael Van Canneyt : > > This is so by default, unless you create threads yourself ? > > No, I didn't. >

Re: [Lazarus] TFileStream

2009-01-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Dave Coventry wrote: > Hi AJ. > > I was under the impression that this: > > FS:=TFileStream.Create(fname, fmshareDenyWrite); > Try >FS.ReadBuffer(hdbuffer[0],32); > Finally >FreeAndNil(FS);<- > end; > > would free the File Pointer to be used again. That i

Re: [Lazarus] Where to place definition of a record?

2009-01-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Dave Coventry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm following a suggestion for producing my own records > so that I can define a custom TStringlist as detailed in this > article: > http://dn.codegear.com/article/33423 > > However, I am unsure of where to post this code and am > wondering i

Re: [Lazarus] Docking manager implementation

2009-01-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: > > > > What's the big fuss all about ? > > * the layout manager can do complex layout without nesting panels or > other layout managers. > * Auto

Re: [Lazarus] Docking manager implementation

2009-01-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich > wrote: > > > >> I then downloaded the swingdemoapp.jar file and ran it via the command > >> line. > > > > I got a swingdemoapp.jnlp, and a swtdemoappbase.jar. > > Here is a direct link to t

Re: [Lazarus] Not sure if the Laz Devs have seen this...

2009-01-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > I used git and mercurial at work for small projects to test things a > little bit and both are a real pain compared with svn and I saw no > increased productivity for small projects and I cannot imagine how this > should be different for fpc or laza

Re: [Lazarus] fpWeb - Apache Modules

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Henry Vermaak > wrote: > > > > just for interest sake, have you measured how long it takes to set up > > the connection relative to how long the network transfer takes? it'll > > obviously be dependant on the co

Re: [Lazarus] Fatal: Internal error 200208151

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, User wrote: > I get the error: > > Fatal: Internal error 200208151 This is an internal compiler error; We need more information about how you got this to be able to help. Michael. ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepas

Re: [Lazarus] Not sure if the Laz Devs have seen this...

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Dave Coventry wrote: > Please don't shoot me: :) Why would we do this ? > > I just thought you might be interested in this: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/git_gaining_ground/ Git is certainly promising (I keep an eye on it since some time), but a bit hard on

Re: [Lazarus] Linux

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Bernd Mueller wrote: > c...@freemail.hu wrote: > > Thanks for the answers and suggestions everyone! > > > > The speed issue I have is that simple things, like popup menues, clicking > > on > > tabs of a pagecontrol, changing tasks ...almost everything is handled too > >

Re: [Lazarus] Sqlite usage

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, SteveG wrote: > Is it possible to have the sqlite3.dll library (WinXP) dynamically > loaded rather than static linked into my Laz program ? > The sqlite dll is not in the Windows path (by choice), and I would like > to be able to point my prog to it at run time. > > At t

Re: [Lazarus] FYI: qt is going to be LGPL

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > This is just fantastic. It really adds a lot of value to the > lazarus-qt interface. > > And even more, it becomes a viable substitute for the gtk2 interface > in UNIXes. The only problem being that Qt 4.5 would be required, which > mean

Re: [Lazarus] real user name

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Reenen Laurie wrote: > Ok, so if I want code in which I want to get the username, which is > crossplatform... how should it look? > > {$ifdef windows} > username := GetEnvironmentVariable('USERNAME'); > {$endif} I'm not sure if this is correct; There is a windows call to

Re: [Lazarus] real user name

2009-01-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Reenen Laurie wrote: > Sorry for digging up an old thread... > > I just want to know... Is this code crossplatfrom? > > GetUserData(FpGetuid, Data); > > Result.Name:= Data.pw_name; > > Result.Real_name:= Data.pw_gecos; > > Result.User_id:= Data.pw_uid; > > Result.Group_id:

Re: [Lazarus] Randomize

2008-12-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Lv wrote: > Randomize seems to be 1 second dependent on the system clock. > I cannot remember if this used to be the same in Borland Delphi/Pascal > The example below shows a 1 second tick sensitivity to random number > creation. > > Am I missing something? > > > uses uni

Re: [Lazarus] FpGUI Interface - basic TLabel

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Andreas Maier wrote: > Hello, > > last days i've played with implementig (basic) TLabel-support for the > fpGUI-Interface. I have now a few basics running. (under Win32, but i > will test it under linux x86_64 too). > Does it make sence to implement more things for the fpGU

Re: [Lazarus] about gif images

2008-12-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, C Western wrote: > Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Do you have a fpimage reader for gif? > > > > Mattias > > > > > I put together a GIF reader based on fpimage a little while ago. I > hadn't offered it for lazarus as it was based rather heavily on a unit > in the RXLibrary,

Re: [Lazarus] flickering on statusbar panel

2008-12-19 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:52:18 +0100 > Andrea Mauri wrote: > > > The code I wrote in the e-mail is just a sample! > > Anyway, create a new project, drop a label, a statusbar and a button > > on the form. Create a panel on the statusbar. > > On butto

Re: [Lazarus] csvexporter

2008-12-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Andrea Mauri wrote: > I am developing a cross platform application. > Yesterday I dropped a csvexporter on a form (and I was under win). The > lazdbexport unit have been added by the IDE. > Then today, working on my Ubuntu pc at home I tried to recompile the > same project

Re: [Lazarus] What is current status of fpGUI?

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Aleksa Todorovic wrote: > Hi, all! > > In the team I am part of, we are evaulating several GUI frameworks for > our next project. One of the options (and I hope one we will choose, > since other member of the team are more into some C++ solution) is to > use Lazarus with fpG

Re: [Lazarus] Examples of lazDaemon

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, User wrote: > I have installed the lazDaemon package but I do not know how to create a > Daemon application. I need some examples. Check the examples/cleandirs directory for an example. Michael. ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@l

Re: [Lazarus] Data-aware calendar

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Charl van Jaarsveldt wrote: > I would like to use a data aware calendar in my program, but TDBCalendar > seems like it only comes as a big full-s-ze calendar. I would like > something like the textfield with a calendar button that is data aware. Am I > missing something or d

Re: [Lazarus] Curved text

2008-12-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Mattias Gärtner wrote: > Zitat von Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone by any chance have a routine to draw curved text ? > > aggpas has. I didn't use it yet with fpimage. Aha.

[Lazarus] Curved text

2008-12-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hi, Does anyone by any chance have a routine to draw curved text ? Michael. ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] SQLConnector

2008-12-01 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > Op maandag 01-12-2008 om 16:48 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Andrea > Mauri: > > where I can find information about how to use the SQLConnector > > component? Is it a general object that can be used to connect to > > different database types (SQ

Re: [Lazarus] The db-aware controls allow editing a readonly-dataset

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > Hi all, > > When a dataset is read-only, the db-aware controls allow editing. The > changes aren't send to the dataset, though. Which is very confusing for > the user. > > I don't know how to fix it. I can change TDatalink.ReadOnly so that is >

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus with Oracle database

2008-11-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Based on the amount of things you want to try and do, I estimate > > that there must be at least 11 clones of you in South Af

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus with Oracle database

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody user Lazarus, SqlDB and Oracle? Is there any major > issues, or is it smooth sailing. > I want to try out the free Oracle Database 10g Express Edition under Linux. > http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/inde

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd > > > Apropos cross-compiling and noting that I was using a big-endian > > processor, I did notice that the uidesigner icons were blank but didn't > > want to mention it until I'd got x86 and SPARC

Re: [Lazarus] Turbopower's OnGuard or some licensing package

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Is there a port of Turbopower's OnGuard component to Lazarus or Free Pascal? > > The original one is very Win32 specific. I also found a Kylix CLX > version at: http://tponguardclx.sourceforge.net/ > So if nobody ported OnGaurd to Free Pascal yet

Re: [Lazarus] Forums on www.lazarus.freepascal.org is virtually unusable

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Maybe Michael H. can find out why it's slow and then we can look for > solutions how to improve it for example by moving part of the site to > another machine. And while you're at it, update the look of the lazarus site, so it is more in sync with

[Lazarus] Bug 0012616

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hi, Someone entered bug ID 0012616. I confirm this bug, it's really annoying because you can't edit a single imagelist any more :( I did a SVN update today, and got this error, so it must have been a recent change that caused this. Michael. ___ Lazar

Re: [Lazarus] SVN integration into Lazarus IDE (suggestions)

2008-11-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Paul Ishenin wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > I second this. Borland has (had) a special API in the IDE for this. > > Specifically, this would mean that lazarus provides an interface > > in ideintf, which is then implemented for various vers

Re: [Lazarus] SVN integration into Lazarus IDE (suggestions)

2008-11-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: > Imho, it's better to make Generic Version Control integration plugin, rather > than SVN plugin. > > So actually ANY version control tool can be used with the same GUI (CVS, > SVN, Git .. and others). All control tool provides common features, like

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus repository in Git (summary)

2008-11-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > As promised, here is the final details of comparing SubVersion and Git > using the *full* Lazarus history. > > > So there is no doubt that Git is extremely optimized for size and it's > very impressive how much information it can store in

Re: [Lazarus] Fix for bug in TTabcontrol/TPageControl/TNotebook

2008-11-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Vincent Snijders wrote: > 2008/11/4 Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hi, > > > > The TNBPages(TStrings) class does not implement the GetObect and PutObject > > calls of TStrings correctly. > > > > That is, If

Re: [Lazarus] Grid question

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 11/4/08, Jesus Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > How can I force the grid to invalidate (or draw if visible) > > > a single cell ? > > > > > > > > > grid.InvalidateCell(ColIndx,RowIndex); That is what I also expected... > > > >

[Lazarus] Grid question

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hi, How can I force the grid to invalidate (or draw if visible) a single cell ? Michael. ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Fix for bug in TTabcontrol/TPageControl/TNotebook

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hi, The TNBPages(TStrings) class does not implement the GetObect and PutObject calls of TStrings correctly. That is, If I do a MyNoteBook.Pages.AddObject('SomeString',SomeObject); the SomeObject is simply lost. (logical, PutObject is not implemented) Instead, the MyNoteBook.Pages.Objects r

Re: [Lazarus] IDE idea

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Mac Programmer wrote: > I've been working recently with QGIS (www.qgis.org), a slick, cross- > platform, Qt-based GIS. QGIS has a feature that is so cool, you > almost have to see it to appreciate it. But here's a brief > description anyway: > > QGIS supports plugins wr

Re: [Lazarus] Commercial components for Lazarus

2008-10-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Oh no. :) Simply: What is the attitude of the developers, who are using > > Lazarus as their development tool? Would they buy commercial 3rd party > > components to improve thi

Re: [Lazarus] Commercial components for Lazarus

2008-10-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > "Would the lazarus community pay commercial developers to port their > > components ?" > > > > Am I correct ? > > > Oh no. :) Simply: What is the attitude of the developers, who are using > Lazarus as their development tool? Would they

Re: [Lazarus] Commercial components for Lazarus

2008-10-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello List, > > I have written a post to the database section of the Lazarus forum about a > commercial database engine recently ported for Lazarus, which made me think > about the whole "Commercial components for Lazarus" issue. This is a part

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