Re: [Lazarus] IDE editor's NoteBook component problems
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 13:49:43 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: If you right-click the tabs, you get a list of available tabs and you can switch to the tab you want by selecting it. What more do you need ? If I have 100 open files, no matter what the visual control, I will need to switch. I often have more than 100 open files. If somebody is interrested how it is done in MSEide: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=165409ssid=94936 MSEide has the editor tabs on the right. Double clicking on a tab moves it on the top of the list, drag and drop by mouse is also possible. The with of the tabs can be changed by mouse drag. Ctrl+E or the popup menu item 'Select Page' opens a window with alphabetically ordered editor filenames, the size of the window is variable and stored in project file: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=165409ssid=79656 I got no objections from the users up to now so this method seems to be accepted. Martin -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] http://svn2.freepascal.org is out of sync
Hi, The backup/mirror repository is out of sync with he primary repository. It seems to be stuck at r21274. For the live of me I couldn't figure out why the Git mirror doesn't have the r21283 fix that Mattias committed, then when I tried to query the svn2 repository directly using svn CLI client it said the commit does not exist. Looking at the primary svn repository and they are available. Could somebody kick the backup (svn2.freepascal.org) repository into gear please. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] http://svn2.freepascal.org is out of sync
Vincent Snijders wrote: Done. Thanks Vincent. Git mirror is back in sync as well. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility
Mattias Gaertner wrote: That way I can simply hover the move over a method or property and see if it is protected or public etc... Implemented in 21283. Hi Mattias, I get an error in the IDE Messages window. And the tooltip doesn't have any visibility specified. I'm using Lazarus r21307 under Linux compiled with GTK2 widgetset. See attached screenshot. I don't think you have to worry about the duplicated hints in the tooltip. The documentation is currently in fpdoc and inline format, which causes the duplicates - I'm not sure if that can be improved on. (maybe if fpdoc help exists, do not use inline comments in tooltip?). Anyway, here is the output Lazarus gave in the command line. As far as I can see, the HTML tags seem correct. Each opening tag has a corresponding closing tag. And BR being the exception, which I believe is normal. -- TCodeHelpManager.GetHint END Hint=HTMLBODYfunction TtiObject.IsValid(var AErrorMessage:string):boolean;BR /home/graemeg/programming/3rdParty/tiOPF2/Source/Core/tiObject.pas(430,17)BR BR BTtiObject.IsValid/BBR Is the Object a valid oneBR BR : Is the Object a valid one. Does it adhere to all the business rules you defined?BR BTtiObject.IsValid/BBR Is the Object a valid oneBR BR : Is the Object a valid one. Does it adhere to all the business rules you defined?BR BTtiObject.IsValid/BBR Is the Object a valid oneBR BR : Is the Object a valid one. Does it adhere to all the business rules you defined?/BODY/HTML -- Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ inline: code_tooltip2.png-- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] opengl and compiz
Compiz/linux currently is very touchy depending on your card, kernel and distro (xorg version). If you have say Ubuntu 9.04 with kernel .28 and the new xorg and you have intel or ati (pre r500, no longer officialy fglrx driver supported) cards you're pretty much screwed when it comes to openGL. Compiz itself works, but opengl is only up to 1.3 version and has bugged compozing (due to kernel mode setting not being in the kernel yet). All this should change in .30 and .31 kernels and with latest drivers and xorg, although I wouldn't hold my breath for openGL 2.0 functionality (on the bright side, these changes they are making will be great for all the OSS 3d drivers). It's one of those big OSS overhauls. So atm. if openGL is fishy and you don't have closed source drivers, don't fuss about it much :) Ales P.S: for more info, see the phoronix forums and articles -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] IDE editor's NoteBook component problems
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: If you right-click the tabs, you get a list of available tabs and you can switch to the tab you want by selecting it. What more do you need ? Apparently that is only available to the lucky few that use the GTK2 widgetset. As far as I know, that open is not available in any other widgetset. As for why I don't like the popup menu. I like to see things instantly and just straight to it. The popup is extra mouse clicks. ;-) Like I said: If you have sufficiently open files, you'll get to a point where you no longer can show them all. Happens faster than you think. So your hack will work for another 15 files or so, and then you're again stuck. Like I showed when I first discovered the tabs in the windows menu: http://www.dommelstein.nl/scrap/unit_menu.png Marc -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] How to query vertical scrollbar width?
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Hi, I'm working on some GUI code in the tiOPF project that currently works with VCL, LCL and fpGUI. Is there a cross-platfrom, LCL way to query the width of the current widgetset scrollbars? Defaults in Win2000 and WinXP seem to be 15px wide for the vertical scrollbar, but I am sure that with custom themes, that value might change. So we don't want to hard-code any values. == You can detect if the scrollbars are showing using the Win32 API like this: You can get the size of the scrollbars using Win32 API function GetSystemMetrics(). GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYHSCROLL) // Height of horizontal scrollbar GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXVSCROLL) // Width of vertical scrollbar == I would try: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/lclintf/getsystemmetrics.html Vincent -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys grae...@opensoft.homeip.net: Mattias Gaertner wrote: That way I can simply hover the move over a method or property and see if it is protected or public etc... Implemented in 21283. Hi Mattias, I get an error in the IDE Messages window. And the tooltip doesn't have any visibility specified. I'm using Lazarus r21307 under Linux compiled with GTK2 widgetset. Fixed. See attached screenshot. I don't think you have to worry about the duplicated hints in the tooltip. The documentation is currently in fpdoc and inline format, which causes the duplicates - I'm not sure if that can be improved on. (maybe if fpdoc help exists, do not use inline comments in tooltip?). Yes, please create a feature report. Anyway, here is the output Lazarus gave in the command line. As far as I can see, the HTML tags seem correct. Each opening tag has a corresponding closing tag. And BR being the exception, which I believe is normal. Yes. Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] How to query vertical scrollbar width?
Vincent Snijders wrote: I would try: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/lclintf/getsystemmetrics.html Thanks Vincent, that got me 80% there... :-) Unfortunately my problems tend to me more difficult than normal. Under GTK (I don't know about other GUI toolkits or other themes), the scrollbar can sometimes be outside the component. See attached screenshot, where I am using the popular GTK ClearLooks theme. The call: GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXVSCROLL); does indeed return the width of a Vertical Scrollbar - in my case it is 15 pixels. But what about the small gap between the StringGrid and the Vertical Scrollbar? How do I get that value? Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ inline: system_metrics.png-- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility
Mattias Gärtner wrote: I get an error in the IDE Messages window. And the tooltip doesn't Fixed. Thanks, those errors are now gone, but the tooltip still doesn't seem to display the visibility in all cases. See attached images. In image 2 it shows the property as public which is correct, but in image 3 (in implementation section) and image 4 (in interface section) the visibility is not shown I'm still trying to figure out if there is some pattern. I'm not sure if it is due to the latter two being methods instead of properties. If you want to test without needing tiOPF source code, the same thing happens on the TInterfacedObject class definition. None of the methods or property tooltips show the visibility in the tooltip. Yes, please create a feature report. Created one. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14384 Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ inline: Screenshot-2.pnginline: Screenshot-4.pnginline: Screenshot-3.png-- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] local procedure - MultiThreadProc
I need to call ProcThreadPool.DoParallel with local procedure as a parameter. Does DoParallel allow local procedures to pass a procedural parameters ? I get err: Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got address of local procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register, expected procedure variable type of procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register Best regards Tomek -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] local procedure - MultiThreadProc
Zitat von Jan Kowalski bor...@gmail.com: I need to call ProcThreadPool.DoParallel with local procedure as a parameter. Does DoParallel allow local procedures to pass a procedural parameters ? I get err: Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got address of local procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register, expected procedure variable type of procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register That would be really helpful. But I don't know how to define a local procedure type: type TMTLocalProcedure = procedure(Index: PtrInt; Data: Pointer; Item: Pointer); ? var p: TMTLocalProcedure; procedure TestWithLocalProc; procedure LocalProc(Index: PtrInt; Data: Pointer; Item: TMultiThreadProcItem); begin end; begin p:=...@localproc; end; Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] local procedure - MultiThreadProc
Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Jan Kowalski bor...@gmail.com: I need to call ProcThreadPool.DoParallel with local procedure as a parameter. Does DoParallel allow local procedures to pass a procedural parameters ? I get err: Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got address of local procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register, expected procedure variable type of procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register That would be really helpful. But I don't know how to define a local procedure type: I wouldn't be sure it's possible. It makes no sense. My guess: A local (nested) procedure has access to the outer(parent or grand-parent if recursive) procedures variables (stackframe). Therefore a local procedure must expect to be somewhere below this parent. If it was given as a pointer to some other procedure/object, and then called later, this may happen outside the parent. Then no such stackframe does exist, and the local procedure can not work. Martin type TMTLocalProcedure = procedure(Index: PtrInt; Data: Pointer; Item: Pointer); ? var p: TMTLocalProcedure; procedure TestWithLocalProc; procedure LocalProc(Index: PtrInt; Data: Pointer; Item: TMultiThreadProcItem); begin end; begin p:=...@localproc; end; Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] local procedure - MultiThreadProc
Martin schreef: Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Jan Kowalski bor...@gmail.com: I need to call ProcThreadPool.DoParallel with local procedure as a parameter. Does DoParallel allow local procedures to pass a procedural parameters ? I get err: Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got address of local procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register, expected procedure variable type of procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register That would be really helpful. But I don't know how to define a local procedure type: I wouldn't be sure it's possible. It makes no sense. My guess: A local (nested) procedure has access to the outer(parent or grand-parent if recursive) procedures variables (stackframe). Therefore a local procedure must expect to be somewhere below this parent. If it was given as a pointer to some other procedure/object, and then called later, this may happen outside the parent. Then no such stackframe does exist, and the local procedure can not work. And therefore such a local procedure type must be a combination of local scope and address: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Mac_Local_Procedure_Parameters This feature is not yet implemented: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Language_related_articles#Ideas_for_new_stuff Vincent -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys grae...@opensoft.homeip.net: Mattias Gärtner wrote: I get an error in the IDE Messages window. And the tooltip doesn't Fixed. Thanks, those errors are now gone, but the tooltip still doesn't seem to display the visibility in all cases. See attached images. In image 2 it shows the property as public which is correct, but in image 3 (in implementation section) and image 4 (in interface section) the visibility is not shown I'm still trying to figure out if there is some pattern. I'm not sure if it is due to the latter two being methods instead of properties. Yes, it was. Fixed. Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] local procedure - MultiThreadProc
Zitat von Vincent Snijders vsnijd...@vodafonevast.nl: Martin schreef: Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Jan Kowalski bor...@gmail.com: I need to call ProcThreadPool.DoParallel with local procedure as a parameter. Does DoParallel allow local procedures to pass a procedural parameters ? I get err: Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got address of local procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register, expected procedure variable type of procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register That would be really helpful. But I don't know how to define a local procedure type: I wouldn't be sure it's possible. It makes no sense. It makes enough sense in this case. For example when you want to execute a loop in parallel, then you extract the loop into a procedure. With a local procedure you can keep the variables, which would make the process quite easy. If you can not use a local procedure, then you must define a record and move the local variables there. Of course nested local procedures creates a whole bunch of problems, so maybe the record approach is much safer. Maybe the extract procedure tool can be extended to do some of the monotone work automatically. I will explain the process in more detail on the wiki. My guess: A local (nested) procedure has access to the outer(parent or grand-parent if recursive) procedures variables (stackframe). Therefore a local procedure must expect to be somewhere below this parent. If it was given as a pointer to some other procedure/object, and then called later, this may happen outside the parent. Then no such stackframe does exist, and the local procedure can not work. And therefore such a local procedure type must be a combination of local scope and address: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Mac_Local_Procedure_Parameters This feature is not yet implemented: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Language_related_articles#Ideas_for_new_stuff Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] local procedure - MultiThreadProc
Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Vincent Snijders vsnijd...@vodafonevast.nl: Martin schreef: Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Jan Kowalski bor...@gmail.com: I need to call ProcThreadPool.DoParallel with local procedure as a parameter. Does DoParallel allow local procedures to pass a procedural parameters ? I get err: Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got address of local procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register, expected procedure variable type of procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register That would be really helpful. But I don't know how to define a local procedure type: I wouldn't be sure it's possible. It makes no sense. It makes enough sense in this case. Sorry badly worded on my behalf. It makes no sense, should have been: it can not be used the same way like normal procedure references, because it is limited to the scope. the way described on the link by Vincent indeed makes sense For example when you want to execute a loop in parallel, then you extract the loop into a procedure. With a local procedure you can keep the variables, which would make the process quite easy. If you can not use a local procedure, then you must define a record and move the local variables there. Of course nested local procedures creates a whole bunch of problems, so maybe the record approach is much safer. Maybe the extract procedure tool can be extended to do some of the monotone work automatically. I will explain the process in more detail on the wiki. My guess: A local (nested) procedure has access to the outer(parent or grand-parent if recursive) procedures variables (stackframe). Therefore a local procedure must expect to be somewhere below this parent. If it was given as a pointer to some other procedure/object, and then called later, this may happen outside the parent. Then no such stackframe does exist, and the local procedure can not work. And therefore such a local procedure type must be a combination of local scope and address: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Mac_Local_Procedure_Parameters This feature is not yet implemented: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Language_related_articles#Ideas_for_new_stuff Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Jedi Code Formatter - sync with upstream
Hi, How often is JCF changes merged/synced from upstream? What is the correct development procedure for JCF in Lazarus? Because I make changes in my JCF code that is included with Lazarus. But last time I created a patch and added to Mantis, I was told to rather submit it in the upstream JCF project on sourceforge. I don't think this is ideal development path. Couldn't it be committed in Lazarus repository and then pushed from Laz repo to JCF repo in SourceForge by whoever has write access to both? Anyway, I have a few more fixes locally, but ain't sure where it must go. Lazarus Mantis bug report or JCF SourceForge project. The problem is, I do not track the JCF SourceForge project, so I don't know is such bugs have already been fixed or not. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Jedi Code Formatter - sync with upstream
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: How often is JCF changes merged/synced from upstream? Depends on changes JCF project have. If it is only some version change or another non-functional changes then I see no reason to update lazarus copy. What is the correct development procedure for JCF in Lazarus? Because I make changes in my JCF code that is included with Lazarus. But last time I created a patch and added to Mantis, I was told to rather submit it in the upstream JCF project on sourceforge. I don't think this is ideal development path. Correct is to report your changes to the JCF project. But I see at moment Anthony (main JCF developer) does not do anything with his project. Therefore if it is something related to FPC you can send your patches to me or post them to our tracker to the packages subproject. Couldn't it be committed in Lazarus repository and then pushed from Laz repo to JCF repo in SourceForge by whoever has write access to both? Anyway, I have a few more fixes locally, but ain't sure where it must go. Lazarus Mantis bug report or JCF SourceForge project. The problem is, I do not track the JCF SourceForge project, so I don't know is such bugs have already been fixed or not. Best regards, Paul Ishenin. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: This was my experience as well, when working on PasDoc. That's why I implemented the editor for PasDoc2 to not touch the source code for Interesting idea, but why not simply use fpdoc (included with FPC) instead of modifying PasDoc? And for Delphi users, give them a compiled binary of lazde to download - this is what I have done for tiOPF - though developers still seem to keep adding docs inline. :-( Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Jedi Code Formatter - sync with upstream
Paul Ishenin wrote: Correct is to report your changes to the JCF project. But I see at moment Anthony (main JCF developer) does not do anything with his That was my problem... what if upstream takes forever to commit a supplied patch. That means Lazarus stays with a buggy JCF when it doesn't have to be. project. Therefore if it is something related to FPC you can send your patches to me or post them to our tracker to the packages subproject. All my patches will be related to FPC. ;-) That's the only compiler I use, and Lazarus is the only IDE I use. Currently the JCF (v2.44) in Lazarus produces many inconsistency compared to jcfNotepad.exe version 2.38. So I run most of my code formatting externally via jcfNotepad, but would really like to start using JCF inside Lazarus IDE. And no, I can't setup jcfNotepad.exe via Lazarus Tools menu, because I run Lazarus under Linux and jcfNotepad.exe is a Windows app. I tried though ;-) I'll start committing my patches to Mantis. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Mantis: Lazarus Packages JCF is missing
Hi, Can somebody add JCF (Jedi Code Formatter) as a category in Mantis (Lazarus Packages). I was told by Paul to submit JCF patches in the Packages section of Mantis, but no JCF category exists. Or should I place in under the patch category? Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] local procedure - MultiThreadProc
Mattias Gärtner schrieb: Zitat von Vincent Snijders vsnijd...@vodafonevast.nl: Martin schreef: Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Jan Kowalski bor...@gmail.com: I need to call ProcThreadPool.DoParallel with local procedure as a parameter. Does DoParallel allow local procedures to pass a procedural parameters ? I get err: Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got address of local procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register, expected procedure variable type of procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register That would be really helpful. But I don't know how to define a local procedure type: I wouldn't be sure it's possible. It makes no sense. It makes enough sense in this case. For example when you want to execute a loop in parallel, then you extract the loop into a procedure. With a local procedure you can keep the variables, which would make the process quite easy. If you can not use a local procedure, then you must define a record and move the local variables there. Of course nested local procedures creates a whole bunch of problems, so maybe the record approach is much safer. Maybe the extract procedure tool can be extended to do some of the monotone work automatically. I will explain the process in more detail on the wiki. You can create a thread call for local procedures, it needs some hacking though: no type checking is possible, you've to work with pointers and pass the context explicitly. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: though developers still seem to keep adding docs inline. :-( speaking for myself (and i guess there are many like me), i develop on the fly and those times that i do write documentation, i do tend to do it as i develop a routine... this offers me two items of interest... first being that the doc for that routine is written and second to keep me on track with what that routine does so i don't wander afield somewhere while working on it... then again, i still tend to pull up TP6 and sometimes BP7 for most of my coding because i am still trying to learn FPC and Lazarus and their interfaces... and that last statement brings me to a comment you (Graeme) made the other day... i feel the same as you (and no flame intended to anyone) that programmers ARE users... they are users of the tools they use to create their tools and applications... i am a simple user of FPC, Lazarus and their interfaces and the code they generate ;) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility
waldo kitty schreef: and that last statement brings me to a comment you (Graeme) made the other day... i feel the same as you (and no flame intended to anyone) that programmers ARE users... they are users of the tools they use to create their tools and applications... i am a simple user of FPC, Lazarus and their interfaces and the code they generate ;) And I wonder why we said that programmers are not users. Vincent -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility
Vincent Snijders schreef: waldo kitty schreef: and that last statement brings me to a comment you (Graeme) made the other day... i feel the same as you (and no flame intended to anyone) that programmers ARE users... they are users of the tools they use to create their tools and applications... i am a simple user of FPC, Lazarus and their interfaces and the code they generate ;) And I wonder why we said that programmers are not users. I meant: I wonder who said that programmers are not users. Vincent -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] local procedure - MultiThreadProc
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:33:59 +0200 Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Mattias Gärtner schrieb: Zitat von Vincent Snijders vsnijd...@vodafonevast.nl: Martin schreef: Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Jan Kowalski bor...@gmail.com: I need to call ProcThreadPool.DoParallel with local procedure as a parameter. Does DoParallel allow local procedures to pass a procedural parameters ? I get err: Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got address of local procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register, expected procedure variable type of procedure(Int64,Pointer,TMultiThreadProcItem);Register That would be really helpful. But I don't know how to define a local procedure type: I wouldn't be sure it's possible. It makes no sense. It makes enough sense in this case. For example when you want to execute a loop in parallel, then you extract the loop into a procedure. With a local procedure you can keep the variables, which would make the process quite easy. If you can not use a local procedure, then you must define a record and move the local variables there. Of course nested local procedures creates a whole bunch of problems, so maybe the record approach is much safer. Maybe the extract procedure tool can be extended to do some of the monotone work automatically. I will explain the process in more detail on the wiki. You can create a thread call for local procedures, it needs some hacking though: no type checking is possible, you've to work with pointers and pass the context explicitly. Can you give an example? Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] local procedure - MultiThreadProc
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: You can create a thread call for local procedures, it needs some hacking though: no type checking is possible, you've to work with pointers and pass the context explicitly. Can you give an example? See http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/objects/callpointerlocal.html and e.g. the comment of Jonas: (0014130) Jonas Maebe (manager) 2007-08-13 15:02 at http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=9432 -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility
Vincent Snijders wrote: Vincent Snijders schreef: waldo kitty schreef: and that last statement brings me to a comment you (Graeme) made the other day... i feel the same as you (and no flame intended to anyone) that programmers ARE users... they are users of the tools they use to create their tools and applications... i am a simple user of FPC, Lazarus and their interfaces and the code they generate ;) And I wonder why we said that programmers are not users. I meant: I wonder who said that programmers are not users. i don't recall ATM but i do remember reading it sometime back in the last few months... Graeme may recall but it is not really here or there in the grand scheme of things... i had wanted to reply to Graeme's original message to agree with him but didn't and then saw an opportunity to do so in my message :) i might be able to pull up that message were that was stated as i do keep all emails i've ever received... yup... all the way back to 1996 when i first started doing live access to the internet as compared to my previous UUCP online/offline methods ;) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE help and Application help formats
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:32:25 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys grae...@opensoft.homeip.net wrote: Mattias Gärtner wrote: Why do you write that? a) you don't know it b) you don't like it Clearly I don't know how to use application help, if it exists. See attached image... If I write my own LCL based application with Lazarus, as shown in the screenshot. How do I implement help for my application. See http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Add_Help_to_Your_Application [...] Test: - Put focus it TEdit and press F1. --- NOTHING HAPPENS. - Click the Help button. --- NOTHING HAPPENS Someone broke the example. I fixed it. How do I implement help for my application? What must the help format be? HLP, CHM, HTML, ??? Your choice. :) At the moment the LCL provides a help database for URLs and a viewer that simply starts the default browser. The URLs are html files in the example, but of course it can be any URL. The IDEIntf has a class for fpdoc help databases. The package ChmHelpPkg provides a viewer for chm files by starting and remote controlling lhelp. What help viewer is it going to use? - I'm running Linux, so no CHM help viewer comes standard. The chm viewer lhelp is part of lazarus. [...] Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
