[lazarus] Reminder: PATCH to fix Crashes on Carbon in FindEnclosingBlock
Hello, I am attaching a simple patch to fix crashes on Carbon. It is important that the Unicode text buffer remains intact all the time between BeginTextRender and EndTextRender. Otherwise, there may or may not be access violations deep inside the Carbon framework. (like http://www.superflexible.com/Crash.tiff) Cheers, Tobias http://www.superflexible.com carboncanvas-tg-2007-12-04-fixes-crash!.patch Description: Binary data
[lazarus] PATCH to fix Crashes on Carbon in FindEnclosingBlock
Hello, I am attaching a simple patch to fix crashes on Carbon. It is important that the Unicode text buffer remains intact all the time between BeginTextRender and EndTextRender. Otherwise, there may or may not be access violations deep inside the Carbon framework. (like http://www.superflexible.com/Crash.tiff) Cheers, Tobias http://www.superflexible.com carboncanvas-tg-2007-12-04-fixes-crash!.patch Description: Binary data
[lazarus] Crashes on Carbon in FindEnclosingBlock (MORE INFO)
Hello, the latest LCL causes these crashes too. I have seen this problem even a few months ago, so it is not anything new. Has nobody else seen it? http://www.superflexible.com/Crash.tiff Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Crashes on Carbon in FindEnclosingBlock
Hello, I am fighting occasional crashes of my program. It uses the Carbon widgetset on Tiger / Intel. Approximately 1 in 10.000 ExtTextOut operations causes a crash. I have no idea what to do. Here's a call stack for the crash: http://www.superflexible.com/Crash.tiff My LCL is a few weeks old. Has this been fixed or how can I debug it? Thanks. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] About and Help on Carbon Menu Bar
Hello, is there a known best way to get the "About My App" menu item into the so-called "Application Menu" on the Mac OS Menu bar? Also is there a way to get the keyboard shortcut for Help to be Cmd-? rather than F1? If not I'll probably construct my menu directly using Carbon Menu Manager ... Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] IDE Crashes on Mac OS (gtk)
Hello, the latest SVN version crashes a little more often than usual. The Find in Files dialog does not appear at all, instead there is an access violation. This is on Mac OS X 10.4 (i386) under X11 (gtk). Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Carbon TMemo with invisible font
Hello, some change made since last week caused my TMemo to use the same color for the font that is used for the background. Only selected text can be seen. It does not matter which colors I choose for foreground or background. My quick fix is to comment out the body of TCarbonMemo.SetFont in CarbonEdits.pp. But the actual cause is not in this function, since CarbonEdits.pp has not changed lately. Any ideas? Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] compiled file size on OS X
Hello, I noticed that my compiled Lazarus programs are huge. I assume they contain debug info or something else that can be stripped. Interestingly, GNU DB debug info is not checked on the Linker tab sheet, but I can debug anyway, within Lazarus. How can I get the binaries smaller? Thanks. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Adding AllowFractionalPositioning to TCarbonDeviceContext
Hi Philip, thanks for your research! I can confirm that in my program, only TLabel is affected strongly, but TStringGrid also shows slightly incorrect text rendering. TStringGrid does not have any problems with editing text even with my patch, because it seems to use a standard Mac OS Edit field for editing. I think we need to tell TCarbonDeviceContext which kind of text rendering is needed. I still think we should add something like Mattias proposed and add > function SetFontFractionalPositioning(DC: HDC; > UseFractionalPositioning: boolean): boolean; > to carboncanvas.pp By the way if you can send a demo app (binary or source) with your custom control I could make some screenshots on my i386 iMac (1680x1050). I will also be getting Leopard tomorrow. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Adding AllowFractionalPositioning to TCarbonDeviceContext
Hi Phil and others, I think if we only make careful amendments to carboncanvas.pp and nowhere else, then nobody needs to be horrified any more. I did not see your screenshots! I can confirm that the text won't look identical to the buttons even with my changes, but that is not so important. It might be intended by Apple. So if you could live with the change that Mattias proposed, I would go ahead and prepare a patch to add this function: > function SetFontFractionalPositioning(DC: HDC; > UseFractionalPositioning: boolean): boolean; > to carboncanvas.pp Which you would need to call just once for any Canvas involved. Since this is Carbon-internal, we could include it in 0.9.23. What do you think? Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Lessingstr. 42 48485 Neuenkirchen, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com --- Registered at register court Steinfurt as HRA 5061 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Hübl _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Adding AllowFractionalPositioning to TCarbonDeviceContext
> There's a Font property, Pitch ... fpfixed That sounds promising. I would like to try and submit a patch which disables the fractional spacing only when the Pitch is fpfixed. Then Philip can try if his component still works. I read somewhere that if TCarbonDeviceContext.BeginTextRender was broken after 0.9.22, then it must be fixed before the next official release. Right now I am not sure when it was broken. But it is definitely broken right now. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Adding AllowFractionalPositioning to TCarbonDeviceContext
> You can add for example > > function SetFontFractionalPositioning(DC: HDC; > UseFractionalPositioning: boolean): boolean; > to carboncanvas.pp Thanks, Mattias! I will propose a new patch based on this sugestion. Then SynEdit and Philip would have to use it, because I think the default should be true for all the labels and such. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Carbon Widgetset: character spacing problems
Phil wrote: > There's probably quite a lot going on here. Tomas is actually passing > a total of 8 options, including options to turn off kerning, to use > rounded text metrics instead of fractional, and others, as well as > disabling fractional spacing in the rendering of the line. Hi Phil, could you find out which of these options are actually needed? I think the combination of so many disable-options may cause the problem. Currently, the text is simply displayed in a very bad and a very wrong way. It is almost unreadable. Please look at it again: http://www.superflexible.com/characterspacing.png Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Adding AllowFractionalPositioning to TCarbonDeviceContext
Hello, if we add the property to TCarbonDeviceContext, is that accessible from a custom component in a reasonable way? Would Phil be willing to change a property in TCarbonDeviceContext using the appropriate typecasts? Fractional positioning should never be turned off globally for the application, since I am sure Phil's applications will use TLabels too. So the property must be in each canvas or DC. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Proposing a new TCanvas property such as AllowFractionalPositioning
> a new property could make everybody happy _today_. >> And everybody unhappy in the future because it is very ad-hoc Not necessarily. If we make it general and generally useful, it can be quite a good thing. So I agree, the word Carbon should not appear in the property name. UseFractionalPositioning, for example. That sounds like a pretty generic and useful property. The custom controls that have problems with it would set it to false only on Carbon. So they would need some conditional compilation on Carbon, for the time being. Until the fractional positioning has been sorted out. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Proposing a new TCanvas property such as AllowFractionalPositioning
> AFAIK other widgetsets have fractionals too and you don't need a > parameter. OK then we'll call the new property AllowCarbonFractionalPositioning > - either implement scale factors for TCanvas > - or add TextOut/TextExtent/... functions with floats to TCanvas. Sounds like long-term solutions ... a new property could make everybody happy _today_. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Lessingstr. 42 48485 Neuenkirchen, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com --- Registered at register court Steinfurt as HRA 5061 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Hübl _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Proposing a new TCanvas property such as AllowFractionalPositioning
Hello, after considering everything I believe that we need a new property in TCanvas. Custom controls that can't work with fractional positioning would have to set the property to false after the canvas is created. By default it would be true. Does that sound good? Should I do it? I don't think we can fulfill everybody's requirements without this. The alternative would be a new parameter for all functions that use BeginTextRender. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Carbon Widgetset: character spacing problems
Phil wrote: > As I feared, your fix busted my custom control. Please revert the > change until a better solution is arrived at. Please make a suggestion on how your custom control can let the ExtTextOut function know that it cannot handle fractional positions. I think you need to help with this. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Carbon Widgetset: character spacing problems
> I'm porting a large custom control that had character positioning > problems on Carbon (other widgetsets were fine) until Tomas fixed > BeginTextRender. You mean, until he broke BeginTextRender. The general functionality of BeginTextRender was broken in favor of one or two custom controls. This needs to be re-done properly. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Lessingstr. 42 48485 Neuenkirchen, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com --- Registered at register court Steinfurt as HRA 5061 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Hübl _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Carbon Widgetset: character spacing problems
Hi Phil, my test program is just a label and a button. I have not made ANY font specifications. The button shows the text correctly, while the label does not. You just need to type text long enough so that you see it. There must be some way for a control to specify if it needs to have the Fractional Positioning disabled or not. Maybe the font properties could specify if it is a fixed width font or a proportional font? I have recompiled the LCL with my patch, and at least TEdit continues to work normally. In a normal app with normal controls, fractional positioning seems to be badly needed. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Lessingstr. 42 48485 Neuenkirchen, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com --- Registered at register court Steinfurt as HRA 5061 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Hübl _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Carbon Widgetset: character spacing problems
> > > SynEdit needs disabled fractional positions. It sets DX<>nil. > Have you tried > if DX<>nil then Hello, thanks, that works for me! I am attaching a proposed patch. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com carboncanvas-tg-2007-11-03.patch Description: Binary data
Re: [lazarus] Carbon Widgetset: character spacing problems
> SynEdit needs disabled fractional positions. It sets DX<>nil. So, can you add some kind of condition so that they are only disabled when necessary? The collateral damage seems to be considerable. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen www.superflexible.com _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Carbon Widgetset: character spacing problems
> Fix TCarbonDeviceContext.ExtTextOut. The image looks as if it draws a > proportional font monospaced. OK the problem is caused by TCarbonDeviceContext.BeginTextRender. In my opinion, the lines following the comment // disable fractional positions up to the next comment should be removed. I don't know what the original intention was. My app uses various different controls and they all look nicer without these lines. Opinions? Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Carbon Widgetset: character spacing problems
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to get the best font for dialog items. The best I can get is shown on the following screenshot: http://www.superflexible.com/characterspacing.png The text in the button is fine, this seems to be the default Mac OS look. I want to use the same font for the TLabel too. But it looks different and there are spacing problems: between many characters, there is a strange extra space (for example, between i and s in the first word). I am using the latest Lazarus SVN. What needs to be done to make this look nicer? Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Missing symbols in Mac OS 10.3
Hi, oh dear, after fixing the first unresolved symbols, OS 10.3 reveals a lot more. I suppose we can forget 10.3 for the Carbon widgetset? Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Missing symbols in Mac OS 10.3
Hello, I just succeeded in my first cross-compiling and I am now trying my app on a G3 Mac. The Carbon widgetset is used. The following symbols are not available on 10.3: kUTType* (used by CarbonClipboard) kCGColorSpaceGenericRGB (used by CarbonProc) kCGColorSpaceGenericGray I'm now trying to make some quick hacks to avoid these symbols, but I wonder how we will be able to solve this problem officially? I think 10.3 should be supported. It seems not to be a lot that's missing. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Access violations when using Watches while debugging on OS X i386
> > TDBGWATCH_DOCHANGED, line 2636 of debugger.pp > > Only one line? > No context? In the XTerm window, there was only this one line. Would I be able to see a longer stack trace somewhere else? Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Access violations when using Watches while debugging on OS X i386
> Can you provide an example and/or backtrace? It's hard to create on purpose. Here's a stack trace: TDBGWATCH_DOCHANGED, line 2636 of debugger.pp I'll try what happens when I disable the FSlave mechanism in this function ;=) Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Access violations when using Watches while debugging on OS X i386
Hello, the Watches window produces an AV in Lazarus after a few times stepping through the program. Is there a way to fix this on OS X i386? Thanks. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Close component?
Hello, here's a description of when this happens. This is probably not so important and it only happens with some pairs of inherited forms, so I don't know if I can supply a sample project for this issue. The question "Close component?" is never shown when I am closing a form. The question pops up when I open a form that is the ancestor class of a form that is already open. For example, Form B is a descendant of Form A. Form B is already open. Now I open Form A, and I am asked if I want to close Form B. I just close the question dialog and both forms are then open the way I want it. If the project desktop is saved with both files open, then the next time you start Lazarus, it also asks if you want to close Form A. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Close component?
Hello, I think this is a bug report, but also a question. When I start Lazarus and it loads my project, the first thing it does often is ask me the following: Close component? Close component FMainForm:TFMainForm? The bug report is that Lazarus should never ask this question when loading a project. The question is: under what circumstances does this dialog box make any sense? Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Transparency Problems
> Image1.Picture.Bitmap.Transparent := True Fantastic! I am very happy now! I think I tried this about a month ago but back then it did not help. Today it works great. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Transparency Problems
Hello, I have put a sample project here: http://www.tgtools.com/privatemac.zip (4.5MB with compiled app) But all you really need to do is load the small unit SmallTestMain into the IDE, so I have put it here separately: http://www.tgtools.com/TranspTestUnit.zip It contains a very small image but the missing transparency can be seen very clearly. If you say that I should use .png files with alpha channels rather than .bmp files I can probably do that too. Thanks for looking into it! Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Transparency Problems
Hello, I have a question. A few months ago, I could place a TImage on my form and load a BMP picture with a lot of white pixels as background. These white pixels would then be handled as transparent if the property "Transparent" is true. Since a few months ago, this does not work any more. Is transparency now restricted to .png files with alpha layers? I am using lazarus on an i386 Mac. I am compiling for Carbon but the problem is already visible in the IDE. I originally submitted this as bug #0009634 but apparently it is not a Carbon-specific problem. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] New Patch: codetools/directorycacher.pas (fixes finding files)
> We must use a function that is compatible to the case > insensitive check of ComparePCharFirstCaseInsThenCase. Yes, the new function should be identical with one exception, it should return 0 when the file matches in a case insensitive comparison. I will send a list of files privately. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] New Patch: codetools/directorycacher.pas (fixes finding files)
Hello, I would like to submit the attached patch. This reinstates my original fix, with some additional comments and applying the fix in another location in the same source file. I have still been having heavy problems with files not being found by CodeTools. THIS FIXES THE PROBLEMS. This is not a shot in the dark. This is a well thought through and tested patch. The reason for the failures of the old version is that the binary searches in this unit were using a different comparison function from the one that the list of files was originally sorted with. Sorting a list with one comparison function, then doing a binary search with a different one, can cause the binary search to fail. On some systems, there may be fewer problems than on mine because the two different comparison functions may happen to use the same order of characters. On Mac OS X, the binary search failed when filenames with underscores were used. Some comparison functions sort the underscore _ before the letters, while other comparison functions sort the underscore after the letters. Cheers, Tobias DirCache-TG-2007-10-08.patch Description: Binary data
Re: [lazarus] Patch: codetools/directorycacher.pas (fixes finding files)
Hello Matthias, I'm afraid it is not fixed. I had spent hours to verify the validity of my submission. It really really is the wrong search function. With this search function, you just don't find some files. The list has been sorted with a different search function. Also, the binary search algorithm does not search in any "direction". It uses two indices, one starting at 0 and the other starting at FListing.NameCount-1. So the whole list is searched, and if you use the correct search function, then you will find it without looking in another direction. Cheers, Tobias Matthias wrote: > The problem was probably something that the algorithm only searched in > one direction, not the wrong search function. Can you test, if it is > fixed? as a reply to my original submission: > > I would like to submit the attached patch. I noticed that some of my > > source files could not be found by the IDE. The reason is that in > > TCTDirectoryCache.FindUnitSource, the binary search uses a different > > comparison function from the one that FListing was originally sorted > > with. > > > > Sorting a list with one comparison function, then doing a binary > > search with a different one, can cause the binary search to fail. > > > > On Mac OS X, the binary search failed when filenames with underscores > > were used. Some comparison functions sort the underscore _ before the > > letters, while other comparison functions sort the underscore after > > the letters. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TRegistry crash on Mac OS X
Hello, there are one or two bugs in xmlreg.pp that can cause crashes. I am talking about the xmlreg.pp in fpcsrc\packages\fcl-registry\src. Around line 355, it is not verified whether Node.FirstChild is nil. Around line 720, the function does not return any value. I have copied the file into my project directory and made some fixes. Luckily, the fpc compiler now uses my version rather than the default version. I don't know how to submit the fixes so I've put the updated file here: http://www.superflexible.com/xmlreg.pp Cheers, Tobias Giesen _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Patch: codetools/directorycacher.pas (fixes finding files)
Hello, I would like to submit the attached patch. I noticed that some of my source files could not be found by the IDE. The reason is that in TCTDirectoryCache.FindUnitSource, the binary search uses a different comparison function from the one that FListing was originally sorted with. Sorting a list with one comparison function, then doing a binary search with a different one, can cause the binary search to fail. On Mac OS X, the binary search failed when filenames with underscores were used. Some comparison functions sort the underscore _ before the letters, while other comparison functions sort the underscore after the letters. Cheers, Tobias DirCache-TG-2007-09-28.patch Description: Binary data
Re: [lazarus] When does the main form show?
> I am processing a number of routines in the FormActivate event I think it would be much better if you put a TTimer component on your form and put only Timer1.Enabled:=true into your FormActivate or FormShow event. Don't do lengthy processing in those events. Inside the timer execute event (such as Timer1Timer), you would do Timer1.Enabled:=false and then you would process your routines which may take minutes while the form is already shown. You should also disable any dialog elements in the form while your routines are running and call Application.ProcessMessages as often as you can so that the form can be moved across the screen, minimized and so forth. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen --- www.superflexible.com _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Crash when running compiled Carbon app as different user on i386 Mac
Hello, I am using the latest snapshot installers with FPC 2.2.1. I think the cause for the crash is in the LCL and most likely the Carbon widgetset, since unit forms.pp is mentioned in the call stack. I will put some checkpoints in the program and see where that takes me! Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Crash when running compiled Carbon app as different user on i386 Mac
Hello, my app has been running fine lately, so I thought I'd try to log on to Mac OS X as a different user and run the compiled application. As it turns out, it crashes before reaching the main program. The crash only occurs when I launch it by double-clicking the application bundle. When I start just the binary, a terminal window opens and it shows its Main Form just fine, but I can't focus it. Here's a the fist part of the crash log. At the point where I cut it, the last two lines are repeated a few hundred times more. Any ideas? Thanks. Tobias -- Host Name: iMac Date/Time: 2007-09-15 14:42:54.504 +0200 OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R2218) Report Version: 4 Command: MyMacApp Path:/borland/exec/MyMacApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyMacApp Parent: WindowServer [921] Version: ??? (1.0) PID:953 Thread: 0 Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xbf78 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 MyMacApp0x00012983 SYSTEM_SYSGETMEM_FIXED$LONGINT$$POINTER + 3 1 MyMacApp0xccb2 SYSTEM_TOBJECT_$__NEWINSTANCE$$TOBJECT + 18 2 MyMacApp0x000da15e SYSUTILS_RUNERRORTOEXCEPT$LONGINT$POINTER$POINTER + 862 3 MyMacApp0x00010e07 FPC_BREAK_ERROR + 39 4 MyMacApp0x000f7c20 LCLPROC_DEBUGLN$ANSISTRING + 112 (LCLProc.pas:1370) 5 MyMacApp0x00034cf9 FORMS_EXCEPTIONOCCURRED$TOBJECT$POINTER$LONGINT$PPOINTER + 73 (Forms.pp:1379) 6 MyMacApp0xdbba SYSTEM_DOUNHANDLEDEXCEPTION + 74 7 MyMacApp0xded9 FPC_RERAISE + 41 8 MyMacApp0xdbba SYSTEM_DOUNHANDLEDEXCEPTION + 74 9 MyMacApp0xded9 FPC_RERAISE + 41 10 MyMacApp0xdbba SYSTEM_DOUNHANDLEDEXCEPTION + 74 11 MyMacApp0xded9 FPC_RERAISE + 41 12 MyMacApp0xdbba SYSTEM_DOUNHANDLEDEXCEPTION + 74 13 MyMacApp0xded9 FPC_RERAISE + 41 14 MyMacApp0xdbba SYSTEM_DOUNHANDLEDEXCEPTION + 74 15 MyMacApp0xded9 FPC_RERAISE + 41 16 MyMacApp0xdbba SYSTEM_DOUNHANDLEDEXCEPTION + 74 17 MyMacApp0xded9 FPC_RERAISE + 41 18 MyMacApp0xdbba SYSTEM_DOUNHANDLEDEXCEPTION + 74 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Possible Carbon Widgetset Change in carbonproc.pp
Hello, yes it works, slightly corrected like this: if CGRectIsNull(ARect)<>0 then begin WriteLn(StdErr,'CGRectToRect is null, returning a zero TRect.'); Result.Left := 0; Result.Top := 0; Result.Right := 0; Result.Bottom := 0; Exit; end; Cheers, Tobias > Can you please test this code: > [...] > if CGRectIsNull(ARect) then > [...] > I searched the apple docs through, but can't find anything others concerning > this issue. If this won't work, we can use your solution. > > Tom _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Possible Carbon Widgetset Change in carbonproc.pp
Hello, I had problems with arithmetic exceptions in the following routine. I was not able to find the root of the problem, so I added this quick safety check. This makes my application work stable. Should I submit this as a patch? The problem is that ARect.origin.x sometimes is +Inf or other invalid numbers. function CGRectToRect(const ARect: CGRect): TRect; begin if (ARect.origin.x<-1e10) or (ARect.origin.x>1e10) then begin WriteLn(StdErr,'CGRectToRect: ARect.origin.x is suspicious, returning a zero TRect.'); Result.Left := 0; Result.Top := 0; Result.Right := 0; Result.Bottom := 0; Exit; end; Result.Left := Floor(ARect.origin.x); Result.Top := Floor(ARect.origin.y); Result.Right := Ceil(ARect.origin.x + ARect.size.width); Result.Bottom := Ceil(ARect.origin.y + ARect.size.height); end; Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open file dialog blank after last update
> if Length(AText) >= S then . Which line in masks.pas would this be? I would like to make the change here manually, as it's not in the daily snapshot yet. It probably will be tomorrow, right? Thanks! Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Lessingstr. 42 48485 Neuenkirchen, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com --- Registered at register court Steinfurt as HRA 5061 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Hübl _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TImage Transparency broken on Macintosh OS X
Hi Tom, sorry - the Carbon widget is affected. Cheers, Tobias > Can you please post which widget (carbon or gtk1) is affected? > > Tom > >I have updated my lazarus using the latest snapshot installer. Now the > >Transparent property in a TImage does not seem to work any more. I have > >images with a lot of white pixels, including all four corners. These > >should be transparent. The previous build where this worked was from > >August 17. Now I have the snapshot from September 7. > > > >Is it possible to fix this? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] TImage Transparency broken on Macintosh OS X
Hello, I have updated my lazarus using the latest snapshot installer. Now the Transparent property in a TImage does not seem to work any more. I have images with a lot of white pixels, including all four corners. These should be transparent. The previous build where this worked was from August 17. Now I have the snapshot from September 7. Is it possible to fix this? Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Source files not found although they are there
Hello, apparently adding the unit to the main program did not fix the issue. I will analyze this more and try to make a demo project to produce the problem. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Lessingstr. 42 48485 Neuenkirchen, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com --- Registered at register court Steinfurt as HRA 5061 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Hübl _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Source files not found although they are there
Hello, many thanks for your replies! I have found some interesting things that you pointed me too. However I think the cause is the relative search paths being sent to the compiler. The file that is not found is in the path ../units, and it was used by another file in ../units. The first file is found, but then another file in the same folder is not found. The error does not occur if the compiler encounters the file before it is used by a unit that's not in the main folder. For example, I have now added the unit to the top of the main program's uses clause and that has fixed the problem. If we could choose absolute paths to be passed to the compiler, that would be great! Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Source files not found although they are there
Hello, I am using a recent Lazarus build on my Intel iMac. I have the problem that some of my source units aren't found when the program is recompiled using F9 or Ctrl-F9. I always have to do a "Build All". That works. These units are of course in the search path for the application. Does anybody have an idea? Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] GDB version on Mac OS X
Hello, the post about the GDB version made me think; Apple includes version 6.3.50 with XCode 2.4. I am just downloading the XCode 2.4.1 update but I doubt that it contains a much newer version of GDB. Is it possible to install a newer GDB version on an Intel Mac? If so, where would I get a precompiled version? Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Debugging on CPU level (Intel MacOS X)
Hello, I have a crash, caused by either CPU registers with invalid values or the stack having been overwritten. I think I need to debug this on CPU level on an Intel MacOS X computer. Is there a way to do it, possibly with an external debugger rather than using the Lazarus GUI? Thanks for any tips! Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Component or library for HTTP and/or WebDAV protocol on Mac OS X
Michael wrote: > There is code for HTTP (synapse, Indy, ICS, lnet). > I have code for Webdav, which I plucked from internet somewhere, and which > I corrected and enhanced. Hi Michael, thanks for the quick reply! Are you using WebDAV on Windows? Do you think any of (synapse, Indy, ICS, lnet) might be suited best for a Mac OS X port? I also need https ... Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Component or library for HTTP and/or WebDAV protocol on Mac OS X
Hello, I am looking for a component or library which will eventually enable me to access a WebDAV server from my client application, which I am making with Lazarus. Is there a recommended component or library for HTTP, or even WebDAV? I am ready to invest a lot of time into this, so if I have to create something new or port a library that currently works on Windows or Linux, how should I proceed? Is there a library that I should port over to Macintosh? Probably not Indy 10? Should I try to use the Carbon API or Unix sockets? Any advice or opinions are very welcome. Cheers, Tobias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Unicode support and fonts
> The standard MS Sans Serif supports only western latin glyphs. MS Sans Serif is not the standard font on Windows. Many years ago, Tahoma was introduced as the new standard font to use for dialogs. It is a TrueType with support for very many languages. Since it includes languages like Arabic, Hebrew and a few Indian languages, I am pretty sure that Russian and Polish is included too. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Lessingstr. 42 48485 Neuenkirchen, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com --- Registered at register court Steinfurt as HRA 5061 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Hübl _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] PATCH: definition of HKEY in regdef.inc
> > in regdef.inc > What is the location of this file? /usr/local/share/fpcsrc/fcl/inc > > Cardinal on i386 Mac > Are you using Windows througth Boot Camp or something similar? No, I am using the native MacOS X i386 lazarus version. I need to use some Windows structs inside of my app, even if most of the API does not exist. Some parts of the Windows API are emulated. In any case DWORD is the type to use in any Windows API context. Not Cardinal. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Lessingstr. 42 48485 Neuenkirchen, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com --- Registered at register court Steinfurt as HRA 5061 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Hübl _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] PATCH: definition of HKEY in regdef.inc
> > Cardinal on i386 Mac apparently cannot handle values like > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER which is $8001. > > > > I don't understand. Cardinal and DWORD are both 32 bits > unsigned integers. I don't understand either, but the facts are that DWORD is always the standard type to use in a Windows API context, and that assigning a DWORD value such as the above mentioned to a Cardinal variable produces a range check error. There is probably some compiler bug there, but in this case we should use consistent types anyway, which means always DWORD, never Cardinal, when you are working with or simulating a Windows API. DWORD is defined as LongWord, so it is a different compiler type. Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] PATCH: definition of HKEY in regdef.inc
Hello, in regdef.inc, HKEY is defined as Cardinal. However, this causes range check errors on Mac i386. I had to change it to DWORD. Maybe you would like to adopt this change (regdef.inc line 62). Cardinal on i386 Mac apparently cannot handle values like HKEY_CURRENT_USER which is $8001. Thanks! Tobias Giesen www.superflexible.com _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Debugging a Range Check Error on Mac OS X
Hello, I am using one very simple form which I converted from a .dfm file using lazres. It shows fine, but when I click on a button whose ModalResult should close the form, I get a Range Check Error. How can I debug this? The Range Check Error dialog only asks me if I want to risk continuing the program, but it does not indicate where to look for the error. The debugger does not catch the exception either. The checkbox "Stop on Lazarus Exceptions" does not stick, it is deselected each time I go into the Debugger Options window. I am currently using the 20070509 snapshots for Mac OS X, because the latest ones crash a lot. Still I think the debugger does not work, I cannot make breakpoints work or anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
