Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-07 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/5/2013 13:01, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: I just recently installed a snapshot version of Lazarus on Windows (I cannot copy the version number from the "about" window because I cannot select text. Why?). right click on the help window where the graphic is ;) --

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread stdreamer
On 5/3/2013 8:01 μμ, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Am 2013-03-05 13:57, schrieb Reinier Olislagers: > Please don't post this kind of stuff. Instead help make Lazarus better > by raising bug reports with concrete issues and preferably patches. Sorry if I am as frustrated too. But mostly when I point

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Am 2013-03-05 13:57, schrieb Reinier Olislagers: > Please don't post this kind of stuff. Instead help make Lazarus better > by raising bug reports with concrete issues and preferably patches. Sorry if I am as frustrated too. But mostly when I pointed to whatever issue either noone was interested

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-3-2013 15:08, appjaws wrote: > On 05/03/13 12:50, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > >>> >>> Is F1 the only way to access the integrated help? >> Yep. Do note that you need to put the cursor on a keyword (e.g. begin, >> or for or while...). > > Maaaybe I have the wrong expectations with regard

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread appjaws
On 05/03/13 12:50, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Is F1 the only way to access the integrated help? Yep. Do note that you need to put the cursor on a keyword (e.g. begin, or for or while...). Maaaybe I have the wrong expectations with regard to the Help system. If I press F1 with begin clicke

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-3-2013 13:45, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > > Am 2013-03-05 13:29, schrieb appjaws: >> Is F1 the only way to access the integrated help? >> >> Why is this so difficult? Why isn't it automatically installed >> when Lazarus is installed? >> >> Any other ideas? regards frustrated Paul >> > Yes,

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-3-2013 13:29, appjaws wrote: > On 04/03/13 18:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 4-3-2013 16:54, appjaws wrote: >>> On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: > On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: >

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Am 2013-03-05 13:29, schrieb appjaws: Is F1 the only way to access the integrated help? Why is this so difficult? Why isn't it automatically installed when Lazarus is installed? Any other ideas? regards frustrated Paul Yes, I feel the same. I used TurboPascal and Delphi over decades and ther

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread appjaws
On 04/03/13 18:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 16:54, appjaws wrote: On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with la

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-3-2013 16:54, appjaws wrote: > On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: >>> On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: > Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and > fpc 2.6.0

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread appjaws
On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your curso

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: > On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: >>> Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and >>> fpc 2.6.0 >>> > Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press > F1 a

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread appjaws
On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are available.

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:34:05 +0100 Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: > Do SaveToFile/LoadFromFile handle Unicode/UTF8 properly? The TStrings stuff > is in LCL which AFAIK doesn't use UTF8. The content is loaded correctly, but the Filename passed to SaveToFile/LoadFromFile must be system encoding. Maybe

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
Do SaveToFile/LoadFromFile handle Unicode/UTF8 properly? The TStrings stuff is in LCL which AFAIK doesn't use UTF8. On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:14 AM, waldo kitty wrote: > On 3/2/2013 13:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> Note that if you download the helpfiles manually, you might have to be >> car

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/2/2013 13:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Note that if you download the helpfiles manually, you might have to be careful of exactly where you put them: it's easy to have a situation you've unpacked them in a slightly different directory from where lhelp expects. agreed... and if following the

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Flávio Etrusco
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Reinier Olislagers schrieb: > > >>> What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required >>> functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a >>> property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods that a

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread appjaws
On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are available.

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: > Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and > fpc 2.6.0 > >>> Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press >>> F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are available. > > I don't think my built in help

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi Paul, I'm going to respond to the list as well so they know what's going on. On 2-3-2013 17:35, Paul wrote: > Thank you Reinier for your offer to look at my code.I am new to Lazarus > and am working through some delphi books to try and learn, but this has > got me stumped. > I tried a new for

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/2/2013 07:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion is of little help :-( this is what i was going to write b

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Martin
On 02/03/2013 13:49, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile I tried the following line but I just get an err

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread leledumbo
> I don't think my built in help is working, F1 does nothing. How do I enable built in help? http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Help_in_the_IDE -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-Ok-I-give-up-tp4029554p4029579.html Sent

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread appjaws
Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are available. I don't think my built in help is working, F1 does nothing. How do I enable bu

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: >> Code completion finds the Lines property without problems. > > How is this helpful in finding the property, which finally implements Clear > or some other task? First you find Lines, then you find Clear. It is very helpful. :) Your i

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Sven Barth
On 02.03.2013 15:57, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: On 2013-03-02 13:49:48 +, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? MemoCallNote.Lines.SaveToFile ('/home/paul

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Juha Manninen schrieb: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion is of little help :-(

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Reinier Olislagers schrieb: What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion is of little help :-( True, but what other suggestion do you have apart fro

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2013-03-02 13:49:48 +, appjaws wrote: > On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > >On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: > >>Hi, > >>How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a > >>Memo? > > MemoCallNote.Lines.SaveToFile ('/home/paul/tmpinfo/MyTempFile.txt'); >

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-3-2013 14:49, appjaws wrote: > On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: >>> Hi, >>> How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a >>> Memo? >> Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile >> Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile > > I tried the following line bu

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread appjaws
On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile I tried the following line but I just get an error message :- Call.pas(87,17) Error:

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required > functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a property > (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion is of little help :-( Code completion fi

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Juha Manninen schrieb: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, appjaws wrote: Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? See Memo.Lines. It has Clear and Text and everything that TStr

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-3-2013 13:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Juha Manninen schrieb: >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, appjaws wrote: >>> Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , >>> Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? >> >> See Memo.Lines. >> It has Clear and Text and everythi

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Juha Manninen schrieb: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, appjaws wrote: Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? See Memo.Lines. It has Clear and Text and everything that TStrings supports. How to find it? With a new component

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, appjaws wrote: > Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , > Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? See Memo.Lines. It has Clear and Text and everything that TStrings supports. How to find it? With a new component I usually look at its

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? I have tried all sorts, I am using Lazarus 1.0.6 on linux. Simple: Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile('/home/yourname/yourfile.txt'); And Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile('/home/yourname/yourfi

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: > Hi, > How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a > Memo? Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile > Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , > Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? Type Memo. then

[Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread appjaws
Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? I have tried all sorts, I am using Lazarus 1.0.6 on linux. How this started was because I wanted to write the content of my Memo to the clipboard and be able to paste it back in again, but I couldn't figure out how