Re: [lazarus] Error: Invalid Free Pascal Source Directory
Source files will be in /usr/share/fpc ... or somewhere close to that (you may have to dig around a little!) In general, Lazarus will be in the directory in which it is installed, fpc compiler will be in /usr/bin (or there will be a symbolic link from /usr/bin/ppc386 to /usr/(local)/lib/fpc/$version/..., make sure ppc386 is pointing to the correct version of the compiler), fpc units will be in /usr/lib/fpc/$version ... or /usr/local/lib/fpc/$version ... and fpc sources will be in /usr/share/fpc ... Regards - Chris Peter Williams wrote: Hi Vincent All, On 08/02/2008, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luk Vandelaer schreef: The correct path for you would be /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.4 Lazarus knows his way from there. No that is the path of the compiled units (.ppu and .o), not for the pascal *source* directory, with .pas, .pp and .inc files. I am more confused than ever now. Can you please tell me what is the correct path for Lazarus on a standard Linux Ubuntu system? Note that I used the Synaptic Package Manager to install Lazarus and it *appears* to be a complete installation... but give the error message: The current Free Pascal source directory /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units/i386-linux/ does not look correct. Choose OK to choose the default . Otherwise check Environment - Environment Options - File [OK] [ignore] Help please!!! Regards, PEW ;-))) from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] LazDoc for preparing documentation files
I have been trying out the new functionality of LazDoc in the IDE, on which Mattias Gaertner has been working very hard. Although it is still incomplete, and has been the subject of several bug reports, it has a number of useful features. One of these is the facility to 'copy from inherited', ie if a property has been described for an ancestor, the description can be pasted into the descendant's documentation. I have recently done this for the properties of TGroupBox and TComboBox in StdCtrls.xml, pasting in the descriptions from TCustomGroupBox and TCustomComboBox (or earlier ancestors such as TControl or TWinControl if the property is described there). It is very easy to use, but I believe we should not routinely use it until we are very sure the description in the ancestor class is correct and complete, because if we decide that the ancestor's description isn't right and we have already made the copies, we will have to retrace our steps and change all the descendants' properties as well. I should therefore welcome some quality control on the work I (and others) have done in writing descriptions for the components in the LCL. I started with TControl and other primitive components in Controls.xml, and worked through Graphics, Forms, Dialogs, and then into the components that are actually visible in the IDE, in StdCtrls, ExtCtrls and ComCtrls as well as Menus, and have recently started on Grids, DBCtrls and DBGrids. I tried to write the descriptions for the ancestors such as TCustomXx before describing TXx. In general I have not provided detailed descriptions for the child classes if the properties have been described in the ancestors; the on-line help and LazDoc hinting facility can trace the description back to the ancestor. We should wait until the descriptions for the primitive classes are complete and correct before pasting the descriptions into the visible components. (This will ultimately be needed for completion of the LCL manual, to make it like the RTL manual. At present, if a property is not described explicitly for a component, it doesn't appear in the HTML documentation files). I have also been concentrating on Public or Published properties, and recognise that there is still a lot to be done on the Protected properties. All comments are most welcome. Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] LazDoc for preparing documentation files
No pdf at present; html docs are built regularly and latest snapshot is at ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/ HTML is also visible on-line at http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/ I don't think we are ready for PDF yet - it would be full of holes! Regards - Chris Florian Klaempfl wrote: Chris Kirkpatrick schrieb: All comments are most welcome. Just curious, are the docs as pdf available somewhere or how can I build them? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started
The list of possible nodes is found, of course, in the FPDoc manual. Some examples of fairly densely populated descriptions are in StdCtrls, DBCtrls, Dialogs, and also in Controls, Graphics, and Forms. In general the TCustom components are the most fully described. StdCtrls, DBCtrls, Menus have got large Topic sections with extensive seealso references. (A Topic is not, of course, seen by LazDoc, nor is there a mechanism for creating one - there is such a mechanism in LazDE). I have submitted a new bug report. Regards - Chris Mattias Gärtner wrote: For examples see the first few entries in the public/published section for TComboBox and TCustomComboBox in stdctrls. Thanks. I was searching for some good examples. Where can I find a list of all possible nodes that lazde/ladoc creates? Or can you give me some examples, where I can see all flavors? To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started
Hi Mattias - I note from the bug report 0010686 that you have fixed the immediate problem, and on re-building Lazarus from SVN this morning I find that I can now save short descriptions from LazDoc in the IDE, and also things that I type in other boxes such as description. However the LazDoc Description panel does not show text that pre-exists in the XML file, and we run the risk of overtyping anything that may already be there by using LazDoc, as entries made using LazDoc do get saved; similarly, it fails to display the existing contents of seealso fields in the XML file. As noted before, LazDoc doesn't display formatted text (such as underline, italic or bold, marked by iword/i), and I find that if I try to copy inherited short titles I don't copy the italic etc words. For examples see the first few entries in the public/published section for TComboBox and TCustomComboBox in stdctrls. Should I raise a new Bug report, or add this to the existing one? Regards - Chris Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:33:23 + Chris Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mattias - I have looked at LazDoc in the IDE. It is very nice in principle, and allows us to copy inherited properties, for example. However, I cannot save any changes that I make with LazDoc in the IDE. If I make a change and press SAVE, then go to another property, when I come back to the property I just changed, there is nothing left! If I exit from the project, saving changes, none of my changes made with PazDoc are saved. I can still edit the XML file using LazDe as a separate application, and the changes are saved OK. I have submitted a bug report for the IDE LazDoc. Thanks. I will take a look. Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started
Hi John, Joost and Adrian - As you might know, I have been trying to get the documentation for parts of the Lazarus Component Library (LCL) into shape, mainly by putting information into the .XML files associated with each Unit, to enable generation of .HTML files using FPDoc. Quite a few elements in the LCL are now documented to the stage that useful information appears as on-line hints when using the Lazarus IDE. I have started trying to describe some of the Data-Aware components (see the DataAccess and Data Control tabs in the Component Palette) but am having to delve deeply into the SQLDb and Db files in the FCL in order to get information to describe the use of these components. So I should very much like to collaborate with you guys in improving the documentation of sqldb and fc-db, as well as the stuff in the LCL. I agree we should try to use the FPDoc approach as suggested by Joost. I have been given commit access to the /docs/xml/lcl/ directory in the lazarus SVN tree. At present the SQLDb and fcl-db documentation files would not appear in that pathway, and we would need to find some way of sharing our work on the files - perhaps we need to find a branch of SVN to which some or all of us gain access. I am copying this communication to the lazarus developers list, as they are the guys with write-access to the appropriate SVN repositories, and may be able to offer suggestions on how best to proceed. I am also copying it to the main lazarus mailing list, in the hope that more volunteers may emerge! Please keep in touch and keep the impetus going. Regards - Chris John wrote: Adrian Maier wrote: Are there any people still interested in making it possible to have some real docs for sqldb and fcl-db ? If so, let's organize ourselves and see what needs to be done . I am very interested in the subject but I can't do it myself alone : if I knew enough about sqldb I wouldn't be so unhappy about the lack of documentation . Hi Adrian, I am also. cheers, John Sunderland ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started
Explanation of some Lazarus documentation terms: FPDoc - the command-line tool that is part of FPC and is documented in the FPC manuals. Includes MakeSkel, for constructing a skeleton XML file from the unit source code. LazDE, aka Lazarus Documentation Editor - an application found in /lazarus/docedit/lazde.lpi which you have to compile and use to edit XML files built using MakeSkel; this is probably the most useful app for doing the documentation, but takes a bit of getting used to. LazDoc - part of the Lazarus IDE,; if you open a LazDoc window, you should (if you have specified the correct paths etc) be able to edit documentation XML files in parallel with the .pp or .pas source files. I'm afraid I've never got it to work satisfactorily. However, it now has a new feature (you don't even have to open a window or anything) whereby a hinting pop-up appears if you hover over a keyword etc in your source file in the source editor - it searches the source file and the XML file to find information about the keyword and displays it (usually the short description of the entity). It is very clever, but needs quite a lot of tweaking (acknowledged by the developers) to correct it and make it fully functional. I use it a lot to check on-line if the changes I have made with LazDE produce sensible results. There is also the option, of course, of hitting F1 for Help while highlighting a keyword, in which case you get taken to the appropriate SourceForge HTML file, which unfortunately can be several days out of date. Hope this helps. Regards - Chris John wrote: Chris Kirkpatrick wrote: Hi John, Joost and Adrian - snip So I should very much like to collaborate with you guys in improving the documentation of sqldb and fc-db, as well as the stuff in the LCL. I agree we should try to use the FPDoc approach as suggested by Joost. snip _ I agree with FPDoc in principle, but I haven't been able to get any sort of handle on how it works. And I HAVE downloaded the documentation for it and tried to read it. It was a while ago, but my memory is that, like most IT documentation, it assumes you know basically what you are trying to do, and just need to be reminded of the details. I am also confused about the difference/connection between fpdoc, lazdoc and lazde (have I even got the names right ? I think there have been others mentioned as well on this list). I'll try to have another read. :-) cheers, John Sunderland _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started
Hi Mattias - I have looked at LazDoc in the IDE. It is very nice in principle, and allows us to copy inherited properties, for example. However, I cannot save any changes that I make with LazDoc in the IDE. If I make a change and press SAVE, then go to another property, when I come back to the property I just changed, there is nothing left! If I exit from the project, saving changes, none of my changes made with PazDoc are saved. I can still edit the XML file using LazDe as a separate application, and the changes are saved OK. I have submitted a bug report for the IDE LazDoc. Regards - Chris Mattias Gärtner wrote: lazdoc and lazde are now the same (since two weeks). fpdoc is a command line utility. lazdoc/lazde is a graphical editor for fpdoc files. Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] What is wrong with the Toolbar?
I don't know whether the Toolbar has been correctly fixed (bug 0010530: Toolbar background not painted), but bug 0010562: (LazDe toolbar shows previous background) certainly has not been resolved - I had assumed it was a consequence of the previous bug, and should be resolved when it was fixed, but this has not happened. Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] some questions
There is also a more advanced tutorial which addresses the use of data-sensitive components: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/MySQLDatabases Hope it helps! Chris Roberto Padovani wrote: about accessing databases, there is a tutorial: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Database_Tutorial which is only a very brief introduction, but it's much better than nothing. After going through it a few times, after going through the forums many times, and after stumbling upon even more access violation errors, I managed to working with sqlite and mysql...at least for simple queries. In my project I went on with sqlite only, but the dataset interfaces are basically always the same; this is a very active list and if you ask, you'll probably get an answer. R# 2) I would like to use MySQL with Lazarus. I have no idea where to start. I placed a MySQL50conn module. I then tried to connect to the database using the HostName, DatabaseName, userName, password. Is there a field for port? Is there a simple example to retrieve data from a MySQL. I have a form that essentially has some combobox and they are to be filled with info from the MySQL database. Please help. Thanks Lefti _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Primitive classes in fpc/lazarus
Several types and classes that are ancestors of classes in the LCL are not found in the RTL, and it is difficult to document the LCL classes completely without them. These include many classes with TFPx prefixes; some examples are TFPCanvas and related classes, found in fpc/packages/fcl-image/src/fpcanvas.pp, fpimage.pp and many others. Is there a way of bringing them into the documentation system so that we can fully trace the ancestry of LCL components? FPCanvas, for instance, has the description of how to do the actual drawing referred to by many of the methods in lcl/Graphics/TCanvas. Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Primitive classes in fpc/lazarus
Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos wrote: Is RTL documented in the same XML format that LCL documents? As far as I know, all the on-line help files for RTL and FCL were produced in the same way as the LCL documentation, using .XML files and FPCDoc. The RTL and FCL descriptor files are not, however, in the SVN repository or distributions, as the libraries and their documentation are considered to be much more mature and stable. I imagine you could get access to the XML files by asking one of the devels. Chris If yes, because not to integrate RTL documents with LCL documents? Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos Doctors.net.uk education: Totally independent, totally free.http://www.doctors.net.uk/education Click here https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/21Qtk2GuofovwMvJrhx1Y9vLjQhMjDU8TzmE7jxtgFKyK1f5sq0IeaUlJuBCtWcaWV6ApbausZjM3j6LfxIN4veQashe0fWyiOzYieR1Q67M3hPDraBVadeS1ekGmI28ld6W7lXM6LmdbnGuogJZ6evEmIdDFlHlBwz9hZBN9dWQpnBKPY+RUbGXLiQT%21EWBc60ybYuZOOelKpVkq0BdFvkILP3Zs3F+ to report this email as spam. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff
Hi Wanderlan - A standard patch from a Diff would be fine. Yu can either post it on the mailing list, or you can avoid annoying all the other recipients (!) by sending direct to me at the above email. If you like I can make minor alterations before committing. Earliest undocumented ancestor of TStringGrid is TCustomGrid, so that would be a good place to start. Please concentrate on the public or published properties - anyway, these are the only ones that MakeSkel will have put into the skeleton XML file. Regards - Chris Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos wrote: Ok Chris, I have noticed that you like to write ... I will take the deepest ancestor to TStringGrid, not documented yet, and will begin documenting from there. This approach is ok? How would you prefer to receive the material to review it? Is a standard patch ok? Or not? Perhaps XML, HTML, plain text...What will be more productive for you? TIA Wanderlan On 11/20/07, Chris Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wanderlan - I have started at the 'ancestor' level of the LCL, and have produced documentation for several of the Classes in Controls, mainly TControl, TWinControl, TCustomControl; then I did some work on Dialogs, Forms (TForm, TApplication, TScreen and TScrollBox) and Graphics (TBitMap, TBrush, TCanvas, TPen). I have tried to concentrate on those public or published properties and methods that are regularly found in descendant classes, so that once defined in the ancestor the inherited property need not be defined again (unless the descendant needs to override the inherited property). I then started to work on StdCtrls and Buttons, to describe the widgets that are most frequently used in forms. I had already done some work on StdCtrls, ComCtrls and ExtCtrls about two years ago, and Mattijs Willemstein had also written some documentation, but then I got very busy at work and was unable to do anything for a while. I am now back in production! I would be very grateful for your contributions to Grids, particularly as this is an area that I understand only poorly! I should be more than happy to help with 'English' problems, and our objective should be to write code that will be easily translatable into other languages, once we have got the basic information correct. I look forward to a fruitful collaboration. Regards - Chris Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos wrote: Hi Chris, What you already documented? You are alone in this? What are your priorities? What should be documented next? How english is not my native language, my texts' style can look a bit convoluted...;} Wanderlan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff
Mattias Gaertner wrote: Please concentrate on the public or published properties - anyway, these are the only ones that MakeSkel will have put into the skeleton XML file. Would it hurt, if other tools add entries for private and protected members? No, absolutely not. It would be great to have access to some of the protected/private entries, particularly in the seealso Chris Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff
Hi Wanderlan - I am currently trying to assemble on-line help for the LCL, and if you are offering to help, I am delighted! The tool we use is FPCDoc, which takes the source xx.pas or xx.pp and extracts all the identifiers, declared classes and types, procedures and functions, etc, and then looks at a descriptor file which we have constructed that gives details of the procedures, properties etc. This documentation is contained in a xx.xml file, and it is the construction of these .xml files that is occupying my time at present. FPCDoc uses the original xx.pas file and the xx.xml file to construct HTML files that are used to provide the on-line help that is currently accessed through SourceForge, but will eventually be included as help-files in the distribution. There is a utility called LazDE (for Lazarus Documentation Editor) that is quite useful in constructing and editing the .xml files, although I do quite a lot of the work using a conventional test editor. Details of LazDE are found here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation_Editor and I suggest you read that thoroughly, together with the FPCDoc manual. If you want to collaborate in doing some of the documentation, and particularly if yuo have an understanding of some of the more abstruse aspects of programming, please let me know and we can decide on priorities. With kindest regards - Chris Kirkpatrick Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos wrote: Hello Mattias, I did some tests now and all is quick... Probably Sourceforge site, that host the Lazarus help, was slow when I tested. And this occurs frequently. Sorry by my precipitate comment.:( One suggestion: Pascal reserved words would be recognized to show articles at FP Reference Guide and furthers guides. Two asks: How to colaborate for write more descriptions in RTL/FCL/LCL online help? How to complete the help when there are missing links? For example: AddDisk routine there isn't a link. Can FPDoc help with it? TIA Wanderlan On 11/20/07, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:23:53 -0300 Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tryed Live Search with optimal results http://search.live.com/ It is more quick and its parser is better than Google. For example, try this syntax in Live Search: TStringGrid (site:lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net OR site:www.lazarus.freepascal.org) It would replace the Lazarus IDE Help engine too, that is slow. What do you mean with 'Lazarus IDE Help engine'? At the moment the IDE just collects some context information and starts an external browser to fetch the page from the internet. Do you mean starting an external browser and fetching an internet page is slow, or do you mean the IDE help system is slow? I'm currently working on an integrated FPDoc browser. Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff
Hi Wanderlan - I have started at the 'ancestor' level of the LCL, and have produced documentation for several of the Classes in Controls, mainly TControl, TWinControl, TCustomControl; then I did some work on Dialogs, Forms (TForm, TApplication, TScreen and TScrollBox) and Graphics (TBitMap, TBrush, TCanvas, TPen). I have tried to concentrate on those public or published properties and methods that are regularly found in descendant classes, so that once defined in the ancestor the inherited property need not be defined again (unless the descendant needs to override the inherited property). I then started to work on StdCtrls and Buttons, to describe the widgets that are most frequently used in forms. I had already done some work on StdCtrls, ComCtrls and ExtCtrls about two years ago, and Mattijs Willemstein had also written some documentation, but then I got very busy at work and was unable to do anything for a while. I am now back in production! I would be very grateful for your contributions to Grids, particularly as this is an area that I understand only poorly! I should be more than happy to help with 'English' problems, and our objective should be to write code that will be easily translatable into other languages, once we have got the basic information correct. I look forward to a fruitful collaboration. Regards - Chris Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos wrote: Hi Chris, What you already documented? You are alone in this? What are your priorities? What should be documented next? How english is not my native language, my texts' style can look a bit convoluted...;} Wanderlan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] DataAccess components in lazarus 2.9.24
A live CD is one that you put in your CD rive and boot from it; it usually contains a distribution of linux, like Mepis, Ubuntu or Koppix, which gets installed in a RAMDISK and you can run it without involving the computer's hard drive. Good for evaluating software (you can run linux on windows computer, for example) and can also be used to install the operating system. You can download the ISO image from the appropriate website and burn your own CD, or get the CD for a trivial cost from the distributors. Regards - Chris Lee Jenkins wrote: Jury Azovtzev wrote: Hallo! I tryied to make education LiveCD with lazarus for students in local college. But when i run all i found out there is not transactions, Mysql and PostrgreSQL components in new lazarus anymore. Could someone explane? Are they in other place now? Or what i have to do to make application with data access functions? Sorry to be so dense, but can someone explain the concept of a LiveCD? Is it like TrixBox for Asterisk which included CentOS, Asterisk (et all) as a one off installation? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] latest SVN revision
Thanks. After even more recent SVN (fpc r8594, lazarus r12606) and 'make cleanall all') lazarus compiled successfully. Regards - Chris Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:42:43 +0100 Chris Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - Attempting to recompile lazarus from command line with 'make'. (Same problem previously occurred when I tried to rebuild from lazarus ide). Latest SVN revision for lazarus (12586) Latest SVN for fpc (3925) - re-compiled/installed OK (have even deleted local version of lazarus and done a new checkout) Only one version of fpc.cfg (in /etc/) with correct links to /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/ OS: Mepis-32 version 6.5 (a variant of debian linux) Repeatedly getting error: .. /usr/bin/ppc386 -gl -dgtk1 -Fu../../units/i386-linux -Fu. -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/units/i386-linux/rtl -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/units/i386-linux/gtk -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/units/i386-linux/x11 -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/units/i386-linux/opengl -FE. -FU../../units/i386-linux/gtk -Fl/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3 -Fl/lib -Fl/lib32 -Fl/usr/lib -Fl/usr/X11R6/lib -Fl/usr/lib32 -Fl/usr/X11R6/lib32 -di386 interfaces.pp Free Pascal Compiler version 2.3.1 [2007/10/25] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2007 by Florian Klaempfl Target OS: Linux for i386 Compiling interfaces.pp PPU Loading /home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl/units/i386-linux/interfacebase.ppu PPU Source: interfacebase.pp not found PPU Source: winapih.inc not found PPU Source: lclintfh.inc not found PPU Source: interfacebase.inc not found PPU Source: intfbasewinapi.inc not found PPU Source: intfbaselcl.inc not found PPU Loading /home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl/units/i386-linux/interfacebase.ppu PPU Source: interfacebase.pp not found PPU Source: winapih.inc not found PPU Source: lclintfh.inc not found PPU Source: interfacebase.inc not found PPU Source: intfbasewinapi.inc not found PPU Source: intfbaselcl.inc not found Recompiling InterfaceBase, checksum changed for Themes interfacebase.pp(35,16) Fatal: Can't find unit InterfaceBase used by LCLIntf Fatal: Compilation aborted make[3]: *** [interfaces.ppu] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl/interfaces/gtk' make[2]: *** [gtk_all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl/interfaces' make[1]: *** [interfaces] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl' make: *** [lcl] Error 2 Any ideas? checksum changed means, the compiler found an old ppu. This can happen, if some files were renamed. Therefore it is recommended to use 'make clean all' or even 'make cleanall all' after an svn update. If this does not work, compile with 'make OPT=-vut log.txt'. Then explore the created log.txt. Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] latest SVN revision
Hi all - Attempting to recompile lazarus from command line with 'make'. (Same problem previously occurred when I tried to rebuild from lazarus ide). Latest SVN revision for lazarus (12586) Latest SVN for fpc (3925) - re-compiled/installed OK (have even deleted local version of lazarus and done a new checkout) Only one version of fpc.cfg (in /etc/) with correct links to /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/ OS: Mepis-32 version 6.5 (a variant of debian linux) Repeatedly getting error: .. /usr/bin/ppc386 -gl -dgtk1 -Fu../../units/i386-linux -Fu. -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/units/i386-linux/rtl -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/units/i386-linux/gtk -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/units/i386-linux/x11 -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.3.1/units/i386-linux/opengl -FE. -FU../../units/i386-linux/gtk -Fl/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3 -Fl/lib -Fl/lib32 -Fl/usr/lib -Fl/usr/X11R6/lib -Fl/usr/lib32 -Fl/usr/X11R6/lib32 -di386 interfaces.pp Free Pascal Compiler version 2.3.1 [2007/10/25] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2007 by Florian Klaempfl Target OS: Linux for i386 Compiling interfaces.pp PPU Loading /home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl/units/i386-linux/interfacebase.ppu PPU Source: interfacebase.pp not found PPU Source: winapih.inc not found PPU Source: lclintfh.inc not found PPU Source: interfacebase.inc not found PPU Source: intfbasewinapi.inc not found PPU Source: intfbaselcl.inc not found PPU Loading /home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl/units/i386-linux/interfacebase.ppu PPU Source: interfacebase.pp not found PPU Source: winapih.inc not found PPU Source: lclintfh.inc not found PPU Source: interfacebase.inc not found PPU Source: intfbasewinapi.inc not found PPU Source: intfbaselcl.inc not found Recompiling InterfaceBase, checksum changed for Themes interfacebase.pp(35,16) Fatal: Can't find unit InterfaceBase used by LCLIntf Fatal: Compilation aborted make[3]: *** [interfaces.ppu] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl/interfaces/gtk' make[2]: *** [gtk_all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl/interfaces' make[1]: *** [interfaces] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl' make: *** [lcl] Error 2 Any ideas? Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Another icons for Lazarus
wile64 wrote: Thank you for your answers, but not to forget that the icons make 16x16 pixels! There is necessary to remain simple and clear ;) Here a first proposal on the Marc idea. -- Laurent. My Web : http://wile64.neuf.fr/ French Forum : http://lazforum-fr.tuxfamily.org/index.php Looks remarkably like KDiskFree and KwikDisk icons in Linux, but no harm for that. I like it. Regards - Chris
Re: [lazarus] Overview of LCL architecture.
Bruce Tulloch wrote: I thought I'd have a go at finding a bug I reported today: http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=9676 and I think I might get to the bottom of it eventually. My question here is a tangential to this... Is there any overview documentation about the architecture of the LCL and what the normal sequence of events is for a typical GUI application in general? I'm talking internally and down to the widget interface level. How closely to Delphi's VCL does the LCL correspond and how useful (or misleading) is Borland's documentation when trying to understanding LCL's internal design at these levels below the VCL API layer. For example, in this specific case I think the problem is that the TComboBox name is being rendered (by GTK) before the component streaming of the TComboBox has even started (in TWinControl.InitializeWnd). The TPanel works because its Caption is not rendered at this point in the LCL bootstrap sequence. However I'm not confident of this diagnosis yet because I don't know the normal sequence of events and what is supposed to happen. I will soldier on with the debugger to learn by example but if there is a source of information that might speed up the process and help avoid any blind alleys it would be most welcome :-) Many thanks, Bruce. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives You might try looking at the on-line help for the LCL. The easiest way to get there is to put the cursor on a key-word in your editor, and press F1. Provided yu have an internet connection, you will be taken to a HTML document describing the item, and you should find plenty of links to help you, for example, to trace the ancestry of a particular component and the properties defined in the ancestors. I don't know if this helps; please be aware that the LCL documentation for Lazarus is still in a pretty primitive state and needs a lot of work (do I hear offers of help?), but you can discern the underlying structure of any components you use. Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Mouse wheel and Lazarus IDE editor
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:32:26 +0200 Burkhard Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 1. September 2007 15:20 schrieb Marc Weustink: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29-Aug-2007 10:04 Subject: Mouse wheel and Lazarus IDE editor To: lazarus@miraclec.com Hi, I'm using Lazarus under Linux compiled with the GTK1 toolkit. Lazarasu v0.9.23 (r11831). When I scroll the mouse wheel up or down, the editor always scrolls down. It seems to happen more frequent now than a couple months back. Lazarus seems to ignore the wheel direction and always scroll down. I've seen this to, always in synedit, and iirc only on gtk. But the behaviour depends on the size(length) of the edited text (at least thats the feeling I have). Have others experienced the same problems? The only way to fix the issue, is to quit Lazarus completely and then restart Lazarus again. Never tried that. Marc I haven't noticed any pattern as to when the bug occurs and cannot reproduce the bug on demand. It happens at random interfiles, around twice a day now. I don't think it's related to the size but to using the scrollbar of the synedit. See: http://www.hu.freepascal.org/fpcircbot/ cgifpcbot?channel=lazarus-idefromdate=2007-07-20todate=2007-07-20fromtime=22% 3A04%3A00totime=22%3A15%3A00 The gtk1 has such a 'bug'. I never saw this bug with gtk2. Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives I have observed this behaviour in gtk1. I find that if the edit window scrolls the wrong way using the mouse-wheel, clicking the pointer on the scroll bar itself restores correct behaviour, at least for a while. Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] LazDE documentation editor won't build HTML file
I am trying to use LazDE (documentation editor) to construct an HTML file based on a recently edited XML documentation file. All tools including LazDE and Lazarus built from latest SVN. Mepis32 v6.5 (a variant of debian linux) Intel Pentium4 with 512 MB memory. I (consistently) get the following output - needless to say, 'Documentation was NOT successfully built'! Building docs using command: fpdoc --package=lcl --output=/home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/doc.tmp/ --format=html --content --descr=/home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/docs/xml/lcl/controls.xml --input=/home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/lcl/controls.pp FPDoc - Free Pascal Documentation Tool Version 2.3.1 [2007/08/27] (c) 2000 - 2003 Areca Systems GmbH / Sebastian Guenther, [EMAIL PROTECTED] An unhandled exception occurred at $08075A88 : EFOpenError : Unable to open file /home/kirkpatc/FreePascal/lazarus/docs/xml/lcl/controls.xml $08075A88 $080D16DE $0809C475 $080492C2 $08049901 Documentation successfully built. Any suggestions? Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] LazDoc
Thanks - after recompiling everything using latest versions and all compatible with each other, it works! When will we learn? Regards - Chris Vincent Snijders wrote: Chris Kirkpatrick schreef: I have recently started trying to create documentation for Lazarus, after a prolonged break. Running a variant of Debian Linux (Mepis 6.5) I have checked out the latest SVN for lazarus and fpc, compiled lazde and started trying to edit. If I run the just-compiled version of lazde and try to open an XML file that already contains data, the app closes with a message 'execution stopped'. If I run lazde from the command line and try to open a file containing data, I get a segmentation fault and the application terminates. Any suggestions? So you use fpc 2.3.1 and Lazarus 0.9.23 from SVN? What file did you open? I just tried arrows.xml and I did not get an error message (on windows). Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] LazDoc
I have recently started trying to create documentation for Lazarus, after a prolonged break. Running a variant of Debian Linux (Mepis 6.5) I have checked out the latest SVN for lazarus and fpc, compiled lazde and started trying to edit. If I run the just-compiled version of lazde and try to open an XML file that already contains data, the app closes with a message 'execution stopped'. If I run lazde from the command line and try to open a file containing data, I get a segmentation fault and the application terminates. Any suggestions? Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Gdk-error on launching lazarus
On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 13:50 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Chris Kirkpatrick wrote: Hi folks - New installation of Mepis 6 (with ububtu kernel) on Toshiba satellite - 512MB RAM Latest libgdk-pixbuf-dev from Debian repository Latest libgtk2 latest subversion fpc and lazarus - both compile OK on launching lazatus I get the following errors [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./lazarus TApplication.IconChanged - TODO: convert this message...no implementation in gtk or win32 NOTE: editor options config file not found - using defaults NOTE: miscellaneous options file not found - using defaults NOTE: codetools config file not found - using defaults NOTE: help options config file not found - using defaults snip Gdk-ERROR **: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) serial 7630 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0 This indicates not enough memory or too little colors in your display. Michael. I am happy to report that with the latest, final issue of Mepis 6.0 (ie not the Beta or release candidate versions) Lazarus instals and runs OK without the above errors. Whatever pathological things were happening seem to have been cured. I hope other users will have a similar happy experience. Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives Doctors.net.uk education: totally independent, totally free. http://www.doctors.net.uk/education ___ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Gdk-error on launching lazarus
Hi folks - New installation of Mepis 6 (with ububtu kernel) on Toshiba satellite - 512MB RAM Latest libgdk-pixbuf-dev from Debian repository Latest libgtk2 latest subversion fpc and lazarus - both compile OK on launching lazatus I get the following errors [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./lazarus TApplication.IconChanged - TODO: convert this message...no implementation in gtk or win32 NOTE: editor options config file not found - using defaults NOTE: miscellaneous options file not found - using defaults NOTE: codetools config file not found - using defaults NOTE: help options config file not found - using defaults snip Gdk-ERROR **: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) serial 7630 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0 Gdk-ERROR **: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) serial 7631 error_code 9 request_code 62 minor_code 0 I have looked for Gdk-ERROR in Google - lots of entries (rather old, circa 20001-2003) reporting the error for a random selection of applications (SSH, Firefox, dillo, etc) but no bright ideas about solutions. Any ideas? Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Wiki
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to propose to merge the following pages; http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Lazarus_IDE_ToDo_List http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Roadmapfile=index into http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Road_To_1.0 Anybody oppose? Darius Good idea Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives National Patient Safety Agency - supporting Doctors.net.uk members in safe practice. http://www.doctors.net.uk/NPSA ___ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Relative paths for Lazarus and FPC libraries
I quote something I wrote on the Lazarus-CCR Wiki: Installing Lazarus under Windows The current releases of the Windows Lazarus binary packages install very easily, and should work 'out-of-the-box'. It is even possible to install the whole Lazarus/FPC package on a portable USB drive (capacity at least 256 MB), for use in environments where you are not allowed to install software on your Windows workstation or where you haven't got administrator privileges. You do have to be a little careful about adjusting the paths in the compiler and environment options and the fpc.cfg file. It may also be necessary to keep the directory for test compilation on your portable drive. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO SET UP RELATIVE PATHS IN THESE TAGS AND FILES, SO THAT THE ADDRESSING WORKS WHEN YOU MOVE THE USB DEVICE TO ANOTHER MACHINE WHERE IT HAS A DIFFERENT DRIVE LETTER? It would be helpful to be able to make a single entry in the Environment Options and Project Options rather having to change between E:\... and F:\... if I move my USB drive from one windows machine to another. Any ideas? Regards - Chris _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
