Re: [lazarus] Converting Delphi 5 source to Lazarus source
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:47:52 +1100 Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a number of Delphi 5 projects which I want to port to Lazarus projects. I there a simple way for me to convert the projects and forms .pas file within them to Lazarus code? I was thinking that maybe someone has written a Delphi to Lazarus source code conversion program. IDE Menu / Tools / Convert ... It can already convert simple projects and is described in our wiki at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Code_Conversion_Guide The wiki seems currently down. The basic idea is to backup of your Delphi project and then start the converter on a copy. It changes some files and might stop with an error. You fix the error and start it again. Repeat this until it runs through. Then you have to fix the Delphi sugar. Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC
On Feb 11, 2008 9:36 AM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we should add IFDEF's for fpc 2.2.0 to keep the current code. That's even better =) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
you can also check the example at your local lazarus dir. I think it's something like lazarus/examples/trayicon -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ha scritto: On Feb 11, 2008 8:21 AM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do not get true console applications under Windows, because all windows installations have a GUI installed. All Mac OS X installations too. :-) Actually Macs have a server edition and althougth I never saw that I think it doesn't have a gui: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve Nope. Take a look at the Getting Started Manual: http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/Getting_Started_v10.5.pdf The idea of just point and click is originally an Apple idea. It was part of the idea one computer if each house, which was revolutionary for the time! Also, I read somewhere that Microsoft recently launched or at least made a beta of a new revolutionary Windows Server. The great inovation? It doesn't have a GUI, so it's more stable Knowing a bit Redmond people, I'm afraid it's MSDos based! ;-) Having said that I have also seen Linux and FreeBSD servers with GUI (KDE) running 24/7. I personally think the technicians were lazy, but it seamed to work well. Our Linux based company servers have KDE running 24/7, so that unskilled people can check daily backups, and do other minor things, clicking on a few dedicated icons on the desktop. No problem whatsoever. Uptime depends only on kernel updates. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong (O. Wilde) _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
FWIW, I use XN Resource Editor to create my main form icon to show in windows and that seems to work fine (as does windres for creating the resource) so I wonder if its anything to to do with using windres or not ?? Ok, the last difference that I see from here between your project and the example is the icon file. That shouldn't cause any problem, but just in case try to use the .ico file from the example on your project and see if it works. Also try to compile and run the example project. Those things should put the problem on a corner. Anyway, it's just a question of logic, if the example works, how is your program different? -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 3:56 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M:\lazarus\projects\maestrom:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres -i M :\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.rc -o m:\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.res gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres: no resources windres complains it can't find cpp, which means that your path is wrong, otherwise he would have found it. before executing the line above fix the path: PATH=m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\ The .res file needs to be generate with windres, you can't use another tool AFAIK. Thanks Felipe, I added the lazarus bin folder to my path as you suggested and that allowed me to create the .res file. However, the icon still will not show up in the task bar. I traced through the code and it is getting called (tried both TrayIcon.Show and TrayIcon.Visible := true), but is not showing up in task bar. FWIW, I use XN Resource Editor to create my main form icon to show in windows and that seems to work fine (as does windres for creating the resource) so I wonder if its anything to to do with using windres or not ?? Thanks again, -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
On Feb 11, 2008 3:56 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M:\lazarus\projects\maestrom:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres -i M :\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.rc -o m:\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.res gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres: no resources windres complains it can't find cpp, which means that your path is wrong, otherwise he would have found it. before executing the line above fix the path: PATH=m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\ The .res file needs to be generate with windres, you can't use another tool AFAIK. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Converting Delphi 5 source to Lazarus source
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RE: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
Hi Graeme, Thanks for the tips. Console apps with the Laz GUI linked in (i.e., linked against a widgetset via inclusion of interfaces unit) work fine on Windows and Carbon and even with GTK on OS X if run in an X termimal. However, I would like to be able to have a truer console app (and a much smaller one too). ColorToRGB is widgetset-dependent so I can't use that if I want a true console app. Another problem I've run into is trying to decide what RGB value to use for color constants. For example, ColorToRGB(clBtnFace) returns different RGB values on Windows, OS X Carbon and OS X GTK, as implemented by the widgetsets' GetSysColor. Probably different values would also be returned on the same platform depending on user preferences too. So I guess my problem is how to map color constants for use, say, in other programs or in a Web browser. Maybe just use a default Windows set of RGB values or something would make sense. Thanks. -Phil -Original Message- From: Graeme Geldenhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:09 AM To: lazarus@miraclec.com Subject: Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app On 10/02/2008, Hess, Philip J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, now the app has the same issues as any Mac GUI app compiled with GTK, in that even though it's a console app (sort of), it will only run under X11. And no way to compile for Carbon with lazbuild unless the framework carbon stuff already set in the .lpi. That's correct. You can't include the 'interfaces' unit in a console application because it requires (pulls in) GUI code. You will not notice anything under Windows, because Windows always has a GUI installed. Under Linux it's easily noticed when you don't run a X Server and try an execute a console application that uses 'interfaces' unit. I had this same issue in the tiOPF project and console unit tests on my Linux server which doesn't run a X Window server installed. Some unit tests required the clipboard, which is a GUI feature in LCL or VCL. I had to rework the unit tests to exclude those tests when run as a true console application. RGB value _or_ a color constant like clBtnFace (value of 15). If someone passes a color constant to one of these functions, they'll get an unexpected result. So it seems as though RedGreenBlue, etc. should either call ColorToRGB first or else the param type should be Again correct and what I forgot to mention in my previous post. If you pass in a cl color alias (like clBtnFace etc) you first need to lookup the RGB equivalent color value via ColorToRGB. In fpGUI it's possible to do without requiring a true GUI installed, but I'm not sure what would happen under Windows etc... Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ 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] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: TIcon isn't fully implemented on Windows so it doesn't give a HICON handle that TTrayIcon needs. See bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10305 The wiki page explains how to make TTrayIcon work everywhere: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TrayIcon#Demonstration_program_1 thanks, I tried this using an icon that was already inside a .rc file for windows. I use this for icon of main form in Windows anyway. I added an additional icon to the resource and followed the instructions on the wiki and still no success unfortunately. SystrayIcon.Icon.Handle := LoadIcon(HINSTANCE, MAKEINTRESOURCE(101)); SystrayIcon.Visible := true; I simply added another icon to the resource and called it 101, but obviously that is not the way to go. Must the icon be in its own resource file or can it be placed in the existing resource file I already have? Also, if its dependent on a handle, can I just load an icon from file and then pass the handle of that to the TTrayIcon.Icon.Handle property? I don't think this is the case either since I have tried this too with no success. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 11/02/2008, Giuliano Colla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our Linux based company servers have KDE running 24/7, so that unskilled people can check daily backups, and do other minor things, clicking on a few dedicated icons on the desktop. No problem whatsoever. Uptime depends only on kernel updates. We run a Windows 2003 server and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Linux) server side by side. The Linux server has no GUI. All maintenance on the Linux server is done via scripts and works beautifully. I'm thinking of rewriting some of those scripts into a single maintenance application using FPC's console GUI framework (that Turbo Pascal look - I can't remember the name now). The Linux server does about four times the work compared to the Windows server, and it's uptime is also way higher (as in months). Start-up time is also impressive. The Windows server takes about 5-7 minutes to boot - Linux is up in 30 seconds (and it's a slower machine). The latter drives the windows administrators nuts! :-) Based on our company servers I think non-GUI servers kick ass. but now I'm way off-topic again Regards, - Graeme - Hi Graeme, I don't doubt anything you have said, but you are mistaking the difference between windows and *nix for the difference between gui and non-gui. I ran HP-UX servers for years without any problems, despite always having the CDE GUI environment available. cheers, John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
On 11/02/2008, Giuliano Colla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our Linux based company servers have KDE running 24/7, so that unskilled people can check daily backups, and do other minor things, clicking on a few dedicated icons on the desktop. No problem whatsoever. Uptime depends only on kernel updates. We run a Windows 2003 server and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Linux) server side by side. The Linux server has no GUI. All maintenance on the Linux server is done via scripts and works beautifully. I'm thinking of rewriting some of those scripts into a single maintenance application using FPC's console GUI framework (that Turbo Pascal look - I can't remember the name now). The Linux server does about four times the work compared to the Windows server, and it's uptime is also way higher (as in months). Start-up time is also impressive. The Windows server takes about 5-7 minutes to boot - Linux is up in 30 seconds (and it's a slower machine). The latter drives the windows administrators nuts! :-) Based on our company servers I think non-GUI servers kick ass. but now I'm way off-topic again Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 2:43 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I simply added another icon to the resource and called it 101, but obviously that is not the way to go. Must the icon be in its own resource file or can it be placed in the existing resource file I already have? I think that being on a separate resource file makes no difference. Did you rebuild your rc file? Yes, I rebuilt and opened it up with different editors (VS2005, XNResource) and the Icon is there labeled 101 as in the example. Actually, I had to use XNResource editor to place the icon because the windres errors out when I try to use it, not sure what I'm doing wrong with that: M:\lazarus\projects\maestrom:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres -i M :\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.rc -o m:\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.res gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres: no resources At any rate, the icon is definitely inside the resource file. I also tried loading an icon and handing the handle to TTrayIcon and that didn't seem to work either. I also tried using the icon suppled with the demo thinking maybe it was something with the icon, but that does not work either. I also tried changing the icon ID in the resource from integer to string value just in case, but that doesn't work either. I'm just not sure what I could be doing wrong. Seems I will have to deploy the sample application in /examples and show that when I need to show a try icon ;) -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
On Feb 11, 2008 2:43 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I simply added another icon to the resource and called it 101, but obviously
that is not the way to go. Must the icon be in its own resource file or can
it
be placed in the existing resource file I already have?
I think that being on a separate resource file makes no difference.
Did you rebuild your rc file?
Recent fpc versions can build it directly from the rc file, but I
don't remeber when that was added. I still do it the old way. Make a
script that will call windres to built it:
PATH=path/to/fpc/bin/dir
windres -i myresource.rc -o myresource.res
And then {$R Resource.res}
Also, if its dependent on a handle, can I just load an icon from file and then
pass the handle of that to the TTrayIcon.Icon.Handle property?
Sure, just put a HICON handle there. I never did it this way, so I
don't know what function to use. You can read the msdn docs to see
what functions return a HICON:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=ensafe=activeq=site%3Amsdn2.microsoft.com+HICONbtnG=Search
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Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
Quoting Giuliano Colla [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Knowing a bit Redmond people, I'm afraid it's MSDos based! ;-) All things old become new again ;-) _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:50:40AM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 9:36 AM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we should add IFDEF's for fpc 2.2.0 to keep the current code. That's even better =) Moreover it only affects win32/64 in the first place. So people grabbing binaries from outdated package systems is less of a problem. Windows users generally go for all-in-one installers. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
TIcon isn't fully implemented on Windows so it doesn't give a HICON handle that TTrayIcon needs. See bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10305 The wiki page explains how to make TTrayIcon work everywhere: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TrayIcon#Demonstration_program_1 thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] cross-platform balloon tip/help window
On Feb 11, 2008 8:51 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Do you handle the positioning of the window correctly, even for multi-display setups? Desktop position vs Screen position? I don't know, I don't have multi-display setups to test. 2) Does the position get adjusted if the taskbar (say under Windows) is located on the left edge or top edge of a screen. For example, I use it on the left edge due to a wide screen monitor. Lots of applications don't consider this and position a window in the top right *behind* the taskbar. The tricky part is on TWSCustomTrayIcon.GetPosition. Getting the position of the tray was quite easy under gtk1. I don't remember if I also did for gtk2 but it should be very similar. Under Windows on the other hand it's a nightmare. The best I found is some crazy code that allocates memory inside the tray application to query data and goes around like crazy trying to find our icon inside the taskbar app, and uses some API only available on Windows 2000+ (which is bad because they I have to dinamically load them =( ) So I took a simpler approach and I try to detect where the tray is (actually I failed doing that so I just detect where the whole taskbar is) and try to put the window in a suitable position. It works nicely here for taskbar on the bottom. Taskbar on the right it doesn't work. I think taskbar on the left should work. Anyway, the code is still very young and needs time to mature. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:16:16AM +0700, Paul Ishenin wrote:
since 2.2.0. (the shell* units are mostly post 2.2.0 though). Most no
There are some issues that must be still resolved:
- TNMLVCustomDraw win32extra definition doesn't match commctrl one.
I will fix this in lazarus. If we look at winapi definition then
typedef struct tagNMLVCUSTOMDRAW {
NMCUSTOMDRAW nmcd;
COLORREF clrText;
COLORREF clrTextBk;
...
}
In lazarus definition NMCUSTOMDRAW fields are moved from nested record
field into TNMLVCUSTOMDRAW itself.
Ah, now I see. Note that the winapi version is already in commctrls. It
doesn't need redefinition
- comctrlversion* constants are not known in the SDK. What are these?
- DSC_ constants are unknown in SDK (DSC_MODAL, DSC_MODELESS)
(so these will stay)
notes:
- cdrf_NOTIFYITEMERASE not available in SDK 6.0!?!?! - added for now
anyway, since some other constants (swp_*) have comments that defines
from wine were added.
open msdn for NM_CUSTOMDRAW (list view) and you'll see CDRF_NOTIFYITEMERASE
(I grepped the headers of a SDK (6.0) dled last week. No match. Note that I
copied it anyway)
My full notes of the conversion is here:
- http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/win32extranotes.txt
I found this:
swp_* new items added, one not in sdk, but comments says it is from wine.
Comment actually says that this one value is not documented, but windows
itself uses it. IIRC name of this const has been taken from wine since
there is no official name for undocumented const :)
Yes, but it was good enough, it is copied.
I'll merge these changes to 2.2.1 today, since they mostly are nearly only
constants, and then the symbols can be removed/ifdefed from win32extra.
Big thanks.
They were merged to 2.2.1 yesterdayevening, and since your comments don't
need more changes FPC side, I guess Lazarus can start changing when they
want.
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Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: TIcon isn't fully implemented on Windows so it doesn't give a HICON handle that TTrayIcon needs. See bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10305 The wiki page explains how to make TTrayIcon work everywhere: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TrayIcon#Demonstration_program_1 thanks, Thanks Felipe, Wiki was was down last night so I didn't run across the article, just looking at the source. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC
On Feb 11, 2008 8:58 AM, Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They were merged to 2.2.1 yesterdayevening, and since your comments don't need more changes FPC side, I guess Lazarus can start changing when they want. Althougth we already require 2.2.1 for wince I'd rather not also require for win32 now. The time to download subversion fpc and build it is considerable, not to mention many people won't know how to do that (lazarus svn is popular). I'd rather wait for 2.2.2 before changing that. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
On 11/02/2008, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Mac OS X installations too. :-) Actually Macs have a server edition and althougth I never saw that I think it doesn't have a gui: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve I thought there had to be something like that... Also, I read somewhere that Microsoft recently launched or at least made a beta of a new revolutionary Windows Server. The great innovation? It doesn't have a GUI, so it's more stable And let me guess, they already submitted their patent application for it. :-) Should we tell them *unix has done it since forever! Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schreef: On Feb 11, 2008 8:58 AM, Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They were merged to 2.2.1 yesterdayevening, and since your comments don't need more changes FPC side, I guess Lazarus can start changing when they want. Althougth we already require 2.2.1 for wince I'd rather not also require for win32 now. The time to download subversion fpc and build it is considerable, not to mention many people won't know how to do that (lazarus svn is popular). I'd rather wait for 2.2.2 before changing that. I think we should add IFDEF's for fpc 2.2.0 to keep the current code. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] GamePack 1.0 Released
I did so, but still the same behavior. Just to note, I commented out the lines and then rebuilt the IDE a couple of times to be sure. Thanks Lee, At least it rules out the obvious. I will be home this weekend where I have a windows machine, I'll give it a shot when I'm there and see if I can locate and fix the bug. A.J. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Clarke's law Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced -Gehm's corollary Any technologist that is distinguishable from a magician is insufficiently advanced - My corollary The worlds worst webcomic: http://silentcoder.co.za/scartoonz The worlds best cybercafe manager: http://outkafe.outkastsolutions.co.za begin:vcard fn:AJ Venter n:Venter;AJ org:Global Pact Trading Pty. Ltd.;OutKast Solutions email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Director of Product Development tel;work:+27 21 554 5059 tel;fax:+27 11 252 9197 tel;cell:+27 83 455 9978 url:http://www.outkastsolutions.co.za version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 3:56 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M:\lazarus\projects\maestrom:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres -i M :\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.rc -o m:\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.res gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres: no resources windres complains it can't find cpp, which means that your path is wrong, otherwise he would have found it. before executing the line above fix the path: PATH=m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\ The .res file needs to be generate with windres, you can't use another tool AFAIK. Ah, well that could be the problem. I'll try it with that command. Thanks a bunch, -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] LoadCursor replacement
Thanks! :-)
Paul Ishenin wrote:
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I found this in Delphi Win32 code:
Screen.Cursors[crCrossSmall] := LoadCursor(hInstance,
'CURSOR_CROSSSMALL');
What is the replacement in Linux?
In LCL you should use this:
LoadCursorFromLazarusResource('CURSOR_CROSSSMALL') and place cursor in
..lrs resource.
Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.
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[lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC
I merged the few remaining symbols into FPC units. Note that most of the symbols that win32extra provides are already in commctrl, and thus in FPC since 2.2.0. (the shell* units are mostly post 2.2.0 though). Most no There are some issues that must be still resolved: - TNMLVCustomDraw win32extra definition doesn't match commctrl one. - comctrlversion* constants are not known in the SDK. What are these? - DSC_ constants are unknown in SDK (DSC_MODAL, DSC_MODELESS) notes: - BIF_* are in shlobj AND shellapi, probably due to conversion error. One set might disappear as soon as I find out which one Delphi uses. - cdrf_NOTIFYITEMERASE not available in SDK 6.0!?!?! - added for now anyway, since some other constants (swp_*) have comments that defines from wine were added. - openfilename struct: windows unit has been strongly updated with comdlg structs a while ago. Note that openfilename_nt4 refers to the old struct and openfilename to the new (w2k) struct, which is slightly different from the win32extra version where the _nt4 symbols are simply an alias for the w2k one. My full notes of the conversion is here: - http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/win32extranotes.txt I'll merge these changes to 2.2.1 today, since they mostly are nearly only constants, and then the symbols can be removed/ifdefed from win32extra. Lazarus will need some mods, mostly importing of winunits-base units (commctrl,activex,shlobj,shellapi) _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
RE: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
Not concerned about myself. I'm preparing something for others to compile and want to make it as easy as possible. Thanks. -Phil -Original Message- From: Vincent Snijders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 2/10/2008 1:12 AM To: lazarus@miraclec.com Subject: Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app Hess, Philip J schreef: Of course, now the app has the same issues as any Mac GUI app compiled with GTK, in that even though it's a console app (sort of), it will only run under X11. And no way to compile for Carbon with lazbuild unless the framework carbon stuff already set in the .lpi. Maybe you should set the framework parameters in the fpc.cfg, under #ifdef LCLCarbon, if you don't want to pass them always. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives winmail.dat
[lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Hi all, Opening up the example project in /example directory, the project works fine. However, when I add a TTrayIcon to the main form of my project (assigon icon, etc) and execute TrayIcon.Visible := true, the icon doesn't appear in the system tray. Gain, the examples project does, but it loads the icon from a resource. Is this necessary or can I just assign the icon at design time? Not sure if that has anything to do with it... Thanks for any pointers. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC
Marco van de Voort wrote:
I merged the few remaining symbols into FPC units. Note that most of the
symbols that win32extra provides are already in commctrl, and thus in FPC
since 2.2.0. (the shell* units are mostly post 2.2.0 though). Most no
There are some issues that must be still resolved:
- TNMLVCustomDraw win32extra definition doesn't match commctrl one.
I will fix this in lazarus. If we look at winapi definition then
typedef struct tagNMLVCUSTOMDRAW {
NMCUSTOMDRAW nmcd;
COLORREF clrText;
COLORREF clrTextBk;
...
}
In lazarus definition NMCUSTOMDRAW fields are moved from nested record
field into TNMLVCUSTOMDRAW itself.
- comctrlversion* constants are not known in the SDK. What are these?
no need to move them to fpc
- DSC_ constants are unknown in SDK (DSC_MODAL, DSC_MODELESS)
just for internal use = no need to move to fpc
notes:
- cdrf_NOTIFYITEMERASE not available in SDK 6.0!?!?! - added for now
anyway, since some other constants (swp_*) have comments that defines
from wine were added.
open msdn for NM_CUSTOMDRAW (list view) and you'll see CDRF_NOTIFYITEMERASE
- openfilename struct: windows unit has been strongly updated with comdlg
structs a while ago. Note that openfilename_nt4 refers to the old struct
and
openfilename to the new (w2k) struct, which is slightly different from the
win32extra version where the _nt4 symbols are simply an alias for the w2k
one.
hope Vincent will comment
My full notes of the conversion is here:
- http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/win32extranotes.txt
I found this:
swp_* new items added, one not in sdk, but comments says it is from wine.
Comment actually says that this one value is not documented, but windows
itself uses it. IIRC name of this const has been taken from wine since
there is no official name for undocumented const :)
I'll merge these changes to 2.2.1 today, since they mostly are nearly only
constants, and then the symbols can be removed/ifdefed from win32extra.
Big thanks.
Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.
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Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
On Feb 11, 2008 8:21 AM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do not get true console applications under Windows, because all windows installations have a GUI installed. All Mac OS X installations too. :-) Actually Macs have a server edition and althougth I never saw that I think it doesn't have a gui: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve Also, I read somewhere that Microsoft recently launched or at least made a beta of a new revolutionary Windows Server. The great inovation? It doesn't have a GUI, so it's more stable Having said that I have also seen Linux and FreeBSD servers with GUI (KDE) running 24/7. I personally think the technicians were lazy, but it seamed to work well. bye, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
On 11/02/2008, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do not get true console applications under Windows, because all windows installations have a GUI installed. All Mac OS X installations too. :-) Interesting, even servers? Or don't you get Mac OS X servers? So even though Macs use the *BSD OS (forgot it's name) as the underlying OS, you can't install without a GUI? As you can guess I know next to nothing about Macs. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
On 10/02/2008, Hess, Philip J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, now the app has the same issues as any Mac GUI app compiled with GTK, in that even though it's a console app (sort of), it will only run under X11. And no way to compile for Carbon with lazbuild unless the framework carbon stuff already set in the .lpi. That's correct. You can't include the 'interfaces' unit in a console application because it requires (pulls in) GUI code. You will not notice anything under Windows, because Windows always has a GUI installed. Under Linux it's easily noticed when you don't run a X Server and try an execute a console application that uses 'interfaces' unit. I had this same issue in the tiOPF project and console unit tests on my Linux server which doesn't run a X Window server installed. Some unit tests required the clipboard, which is a GUI feature in LCL or VCL. I had to rework the unit tests to exclude those tests when run as a true console application. RGB value _or_ a color constant like clBtnFace (value of 15). If someone passes a color constant to one of these functions, they'll get an unexpected result. So it seems as though RedGreenBlue, etc. should either call ColorToRGB first or else the param type should be Again correct and what I forgot to mention in my previous post. If you pass in a cl color alias (like clBtnFace etc) you first need to lookup the RGB equivalent color value via ColorToRGB. In fpGUI it's possible to do without requiring a true GUI installed, but I'm not sure what would happen under Windows etc... Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] cross-platform balloon tip/help window
On Feb 11, 2008 7:45 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where could I find this cross-platform balloon help window you implemented? In the Common Controls pallete of a recent Lazarus =) TTrayIcon uses that to implement ShowBallonHint. It still needs work to look better, but all the basics are there. I also added the possibility that the widgetset may override this and implement it's own, but no widgetset currently does that. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: On 09/02/2008, Hess, Philip J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This console app runs okay on Delphi. Is there something I'm missing here or is this just not possible with Lazarus? You do not get true console applications under Windows, because all windows installations have a GUI installed. All Mac OS X installations too. :-) Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Converting Delphi 5 source to Lazarus source
Hi All, I have a number of Delphi 5 projects which I want to port to Lazarus projects. I there a simple way for me to convert the projects and forms .pas file within them to Lazarus code? I was thinking that maybe someone has written a Delphi to Lazarus source code conversion program. Regards, PEW from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] cross-platform balloon tip/help window
On 11/02/2008, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where could I find this cross-platform balloon help window you implemented? In the Common Controls palette of a recent Lazarus =) Excellent, thanks Felipe. This is going to come in handy. :) I'm sure that looking at the code should answer my questions, but if you have the time... 1) Do you handle the positioning of the window correctly, even for multi-display setups? Desktop position vs Screen position? 2) Does the position get adjusted if the taskbar (say under Windows) is located on the left edge or top edge of a screen. For example, I use it on the left edge due to a wide screen monitor. Lots of applications don't consider this and position a window in the top right *behind* the taskbar. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
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
Re: [lazarus] Error: Invalid Free Pascal Source Directory
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 18:04:28 +1100 Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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... Sorry. No, it is not complete. Either try our ubuntu repository or download and install the fpc_src package from sf: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89339 The fpc_src package installs the sources to /usr/share/fpcsrc. [...] 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!!! Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Win32 compilation error : Import library not found for libz
Hi all, Anyone have any ideas? Dominique Dominique Louis wrote: My uses clause is as follows uses Zlib, // To avoid linking to objects Sysutils, Classes; This works fine on Mac OS X, but on Win32 I get the error mentioned. Yes I'm using the zlib that ships with FPC. Dominique. Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Are you using/linking a external (.dll or .so) or are you using the zlib unit (implementation in object pascal) included with FPC? Regards, - Graeme - On 30/01/2008, Dominique Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just been trying to compile some code that makes use of Zlib and when I try to compile it from within Lazarus I get the following error Error: Import library not found for libz at the linking stage. It's the only thing stopping it from linking. Is this a bug in FPC 2.2.1 or am I missing the libz.o file? I'm using the snapshot from 27th of Jan 2008, if that makes any difference. Thanks, Dominique. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Win32 compilation error : Import library not found for libz
Dominique Louis schreef: Hi all, Anyone have any ideas? Yes, drop zlib and use paszlib. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] LoadCursor replacement
I found this in Delphi Win32 code: Screen.Cursors[crCrossSmall] := LoadCursor(hInstance, 'CURSOR_CROSSSMALL'); What is the replacement in Linux? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] LoadCursor replacement
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found this in Delphi Win32 code:
Screen.Cursors[crCrossSmall] := LoadCursor(hInstance,
'CURSOR_CROSSSMALL');
What is the replacement in Linux?
In LCL you should use this:
LoadCursorFromLazarusResource('CURSOR_CROSSSMALL') and place cursor in
.lrs resource.
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Re: [lazarus] Win32 compilation error : Import library not found for libz
Marco van de Voort wrote: I've just been trying to compile some code that makes use of Zlib and when I try to compile it from within Lazarus I get the following error Error: Import library not found for libz at the linking stage. It's the only thing stopping it from linking. Is this a bug in FPC 2.2.1 or am I missing the libz.o file? I'm using the snapshot from 27th of Jan 2008, if that makes any difference. The zlib unit simply links to the zlib library (libz.so libz.dll). It seems that you are missing that one. IOW it is different from the borland one that does have a zlib implementation The paszlib package provides an compatible (though older) zlib implementation in pascal. Ok, but shouldn't it work with both? Are there any plans to update paszlib to a more recent version of zlib? Dominique. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Win32 compilation error : Import library not found for libz
Ok, but shouldn't it work with both? Vincent Snijders wrote: Dominique Louis schreef: Hi all, Anyone have any ideas? Yes, drop zlib and use paszlib. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] FW: [FPC 0010433]: Can't compile IDE to add package
From time to time I receive blank bug reports like the one below. Today I received several so I logged into Mantis and saw that a couple weeks ago there was a message to me from Vincent related to this bug - I never saw the message, probably because it came to me as a blank e-mail. Is there a simple explanation for what's happening here or a way to correct Mantis? Thanks. -Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 2/9/2008 2:10 PM To: Hess, Philip J Subject: [FPC 0010433]: Can't compile IDE to add package
Re[2]: [lazarus] Win32 compilation error : Import library not found for libz
Hello Dominique,
Saturday, February 9, 2008, 8:42:46 PM, you wrote:
DL Marco van de Voort wrote:
I've just been trying to compile some code that makes use of Zlib and
when I try to compile it from within Lazarus I get the following error
DL Ok, but shouldn't it work with both?
DL Are there any plans to update paszlib to a more recent version of zlib?
Yes, and it works (I'm using both with a $DEFINE) but the zlib needs
zlib1.dll which is AFAIK the regular zlib.dll renamed (reason
unknown).
{$ifdef netware} {zlib.nlm comes with netware6}
libz='zlib';
{$else}
{$ifdef windows}
libz='zlib1';
{$else windows}
libz='z';
{$endif windows}
{$endif}
paszlib is 1.1.2 meanwhile zlib is 1.1.3 and AFAIK the difference is
related to a NULL pointer in the 'C' version which may be present or
not in the Pascal version, but as it has not been updated I think that
the paszlib is not affected by the bug.
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Re: [lazarus] FW: [FPC 0010433]: Can't compile IDE to add package
Hess, Philip J schreef: From time to time I receive blank bug reports like the one below. Today I received several so I logged into Mantis and saw that a couple weeks ago there was a message to me from Vincent related to this bug - I never saw the message, probably because it came to me as a blank e-mail. Is there a simple explanation for what's happening here or a way to correct Mantis? A bug in Mantis or our coniguration of it, that it doesn't add notes, if they are too big. Hopefully it will be fixed, after the upgrade of Mantis soon. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Win32 compilation error : Import library not found for libz
Dominique Louis schreef: Ok, but shouldn't it work with both? If you have a compatible zlib dll. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
I need to call ColorToRGB in a console app. Adding Graphics to uses allows lazbuild to compile the console app okay, but I get an AV when running it, presumably because the widgetset that actually implements ColorToRGB isn't getting linked into the app, as evidenced by otool -L (on Mac): /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.1.10) If any widgetset code were linked in, I would see something like this: /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 128.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.1.10) This console app runs okay on Delphi. Is there something I'm missing here or is this just not possible with Lazarus? Thanks. -Phil
Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:42:22 -0500 Hess, Philip J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to call ColorToRGB in a console app. Adding Graphics to uses allows lazbuild to compile the console app okay, but I get an AV when running it, presumably because the widgetset that actually implements ColorToRGB isn't getting linked into the app, as evidenced by otool -L (on Mac): /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.1.10) If any widgetset code were linked in, I would see something like this: /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 128.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.1.10) This console app runs okay on Delphi. Is there something I'm missing here or is this just not possible with Lazarus? Did you add the 'interfaces' unit as one of the first units of your program? Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
RE: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
Excellent, that's what I was forgetting. Of course, now the app has the same issues as any Mac GUI app compiled with GTK, in that even though it's a console app (sort of), it will only run under X11. And no way to compile for Carbon with lazbuild unless the framework carbon stuff already set in the .lpi. Also, looking at some of the functions in Graphics.pp, I wonder if it's confusing to use TColor for params with functions like RedGreenBlue, InvertColor, etc. TColor can be a full RGB value _or_ a color constant like clBtnFace (value of 15). If someone passes a color constant to one of these functions, they'll get an unexpected result. So it seems as though RedGreenBlue, etc. should either call ColorToRGB first or else the param type should be LongInt or something to make it clearer that a color constant should not be passed. Same with ColorToRGB - in Delphi the return type is LongInt, not TColor, since it only returns RGB values, not color constants. Thanks. -Phil -Original Message- From: Mattias Gaertner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 2/9/2008 6:53 PM To: lazarus@miraclec.com Subject: Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:42:22 -0500 Hess, Philip J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to call ColorToRGB in a console app. Adding Graphics to uses allows lazbuild to compile the console app okay, but I get an AV when running it, presumably because the widgetset that actually implements ColorToRGB isn't getting linked into the app, as evidenced by otool -L (on Mac): /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.1.10) If any widgetset code were linked in, I would see something like this: /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 128.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.1.10) This console app runs okay on Delphi. Is there something I'm missing here or is this just not possible with Lazarus? Did you add the 'interfaces' unit as one of the first units of your program? Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives winmail.dat
Re: [lazarus] ColorToRGB in console app
Hess, Philip J schreef: Of course, now the app has the same issues as any Mac GUI app compiled with GTK, in that even though it's a console app (sort of), it will only run under X11. And no way to compile for Carbon with lazbuild unless the framework carbon stuff already set in the .lpi. Maybe you should set the framework parameters in the fpc.cfg, under #ifdef LCLCarbon, if you don't want to pass them always. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Error: Invalid Free Pascal Source Directory
On Friday 08 February 2008 09:41, Peter Williams wrote: Hi all, I installed Lazarus and Free Pascal on my Linux Ubuntu pc using the Synaptic Package Manager. However, when I start Lazarus I get the following error message (see subject). 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] Note that the above listed directory ( /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units/i386-linux/ ) *does* exist. What am I doing wrong?!? Can someone please tell me the URL for downloading any files I'm missing and also what is the exact directory in which they should reside? The correct path for you would be /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.4 Lazarus knows his way from there. Luk _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Error: Invalid Free Pascal Source Directory
Hi all, I installed Lazarus and Free Pascal on my Linux Ubuntu pc using the Synaptic Package Manager. However, when I start Lazarus I get the following error message (see subject). 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] Note that the above listed directory ( /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units/i386-linux/ ) *does* exist. What am I doing wrong?!? Can someone please tell me the URL for downloading any files I'm missing and also what is the exact directory in which they should reside? -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] postgres revisited
Hi all Earlier I reported a problem finding libpq.dll. I then suspected a problem on my disc and did a complete Windows XP re-install, followed by a postgres 8.3 install and then a Lazarus 0.9.25 re-install. I started by changing fpc.cfg to add the library path of the libpq.dll file to fpc.cfg and that had no effect. The TPQConnection still could not find the file libpq.dll when trying to set the connection to active. Restarting Lazarus also did not improve this situation.(Maybe it needed to reread fpc.cfg?). I finally resorted to copying the libpq file into /windows/sytem32 and tried to connect again. This time round Lazarus asked for ssleay32.dll as well as vsinit.dll. After duly downloading and copying these files into system32. On trying to connect this time I get the message The ordinal 284 could not be located in the link library SSLEAY32.DLL. Even trying with different versions of ssleay32 does not solve the problem. At this point Lazarus shows the connection as Active in the object inspector but seems to be frozen. Switching to another task in the windows taskbar brings Lazarus out of its reverie and gives me the message Can not load the PostgreSQL client. Is it installed?(libpq.dll). Does anybody have any idea how to rectify this problem? Regards. Alex _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Error: Invalid Free Pascal Source Directory
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:41:11 +1100 Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I installed Lazarus and Free Pascal on my Linux Ubuntu pc using the Synaptic Package Manager. However, when I start Lazarus I get the following error message (see subject). 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] Note that the above listed directory ( /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units/i386-linux/ ) *does* exist. What am I doing wrong?!? Can someone please tell me the URL for downloading any files I'm missing and also what is the exact directory in which they should reside? The IDE searches the FPC sources, which is provided by a package called fpc-src. As ubuntu user, you can use: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#Getting_Lazarus_from_our_Ubuntu_repository Then you will get the current fpc 2.2.0 too (instead of the old 2.0.4). Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Error: Invalid Free Pascal Source Directory
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:45:00 +0100 Luk Vandelaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 08 February 2008 09:41, Peter Williams wrote: Hi all, I installed Lazarus and Free Pascal on my Linux Ubuntu pc using the Synaptic Package Manager. However, when I start Lazarus I get the following error message (see subject). 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] Note that the above listed directory ( /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units/i386-linux/ ) *does* exist. What am I doing wrong?!? Can someone please tell me the URL for downloading any files I'm missing and also what is the exact directory in which they should reside? The correct path for you would be /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.4 Lazarus knows his way from there. No. This path contains the FPC binary units - not the FPC sources. Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Error: Invalid Free Pascal Source Directory
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. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] postgres revisited
Alex du Plessis schreef: Hi all Earlier I reported a problem finding libpq.dll. I then suspected a problem on my disc and did a complete Windows XP re-install, followed by a postgres 8.3 install and then a Lazarus 0.9.25 re-install. I started by changing fpc.cfg to add the library path of the libpq.dll file to fpc.cfg and that had no effect. The TPQConnection still could not find the file libpq.dll when trying to set the connection to active. Restarting Lazarus also did not improve this situation.(Maybe it needed to reread fpc.cfg?). I finally resorted to copying the libpq file into /windows/sytem32 and tried to connect again. This time round Lazarus asked for ssleay32.dll as well as vsinit.dll. After duly downloading and copying these files into system32. As Marc said a couple of days ago, copying to system32 is not the 'correct' way to do this. Add The directory that contains the libpq.dll to the PATH environment variable instead. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] postgres revisited
Marc Weustink wrote: Alex du Plessis wrote: Alex du Plessis wrote: Hi all Earlier I reported a problem finding libpq.dll. I then suspected a problem on my disc and did a complete Windows XP re-install, followed by a postgres 8.3 install and then a Lazarus 0.9.25 re-install. I started by changing fpc.cfg to add the library path of the libpq.dll file to fpc.cfg and that had no effect. The TPQConnection still could not find the file libpq.dll when trying to set the connection to active. Restarting Lazarus also did not improve this situation.(Maybe it needed to reread fpc.cfg?). I finally resorted to copying the libpq file into /windows/sytem32 and tried to connect again. This time round Lazarus asked for ssleay32.dll as well as vsinit.dll. After duly downloading and copying these files into system32. On trying to connect this time I get the message The ordinal 284 could not be located in the link library SSLEAY32.DLL. Even trying with different versions of ssleay32 does not solve the problem. At this point Lazarus shows the connection as Active in the object inspector but seems to be frozen. Switching to another task in the windows taskbar brings Lazarus out of its reverie and gives me the message Can not load the PostgreSQL client. Is it installed?(libpq.dll). Does anybody have any idea how to rectify this problem? Regards. Alex _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives Thanx for the advice, I have already adjusted the PATH variable. However it still does not solve the problem of looking for an unknown ordinal value in ssleay32? where did you find the SSLEAY32.dll ? You said you downloaded and copied it ? Marc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives I searched on the web and downloaded from there. Should I have obtained it from a specific location? Copied it into system32. Alex _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] postgres revisited
Alex du Plessis schreef: Marc Weustink wrote: Alex du Plessis wrote: Alex du Plessis wrote: Hi all Earlier I reported a problem finding libpq.dll. I then suspected a problem on my disc and did a complete Windows XP re-install, followed by a postgres 8.3 install and then a Lazarus 0.9.25 re-install. I started by changing fpc.cfg to add the library path of the libpq.dll file to fpc.cfg and that had no effect. The TPQConnection still could not find the file libpq.dll when trying to set the connection to active. Restarting Lazarus also did not improve this situation.(Maybe it needed to reread fpc.cfg?). I finally resorted to copying the libpq file into /windows/sytem32 and tried to connect again. This time round Lazarus asked for ssleay32.dll as well as vsinit.dll. After duly downloading and copying these files into system32. On trying to connect this time I get the message The ordinal 284 could not be located in the link library SSLEAY32.DLL. Even trying with different versions of ssleay32 does not solve the problem. At this point Lazarus shows the connection as Active in the object inspector but seems to be frozen. Switching to another task in the windows taskbar brings Lazarus out of its reverie and gives me the message Can not load the PostgreSQL client. Is it installed?(libpq.dll). Does anybody have any idea how to rectify this problem? Regards. Alex _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives Thanx for the advice, I have already adjusted the PATH variable. However it still does not solve the problem of looking for an unknown ordinal value in ssleay32? where did you find the SSLEAY32.dll ? You said you downloaded and copied it ? Marc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives I searched on the web and downloaded from there. Should I have obtained it from a specific location? Copied it into system32. I have ssleay32.dll in C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin, which was created when installing PostgreSQL 8.3 the other day. Vincent P.S. How hard is it to remove footers from an email before replying? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] postgres revisited
Alex du Plessis wrote: Alex du Plessis wrote: Hi all Earlier I reported a problem finding libpq.dll. I then suspected a problem on my disc and did a complete Windows XP re-install, followed by a postgres 8.3 install and then a Lazarus 0.9.25 re-install. I started by changing fpc.cfg to add the library path of the libpq.dll file to fpc.cfg and that had no effect. The TPQConnection still could not find the file libpq.dll when trying to set the connection to active. Restarting Lazarus also did not improve this situation.(Maybe it needed to reread fpc.cfg?). I finally resorted to copying the libpq file into /windows/sytem32 and tried to connect again. This time round Lazarus asked for ssleay32.dll as well as vsinit.dll. After duly downloading and copying these files into system32. On trying to connect this time I get the message The ordinal 284 could not be located in the link library SSLEAY32.DLL. Even trying with different versions of ssleay32 does not solve the problem. At this point Lazarus shows the connection as Active in the object inspector but seems to be frozen. Switching to another task in the windows taskbar brings Lazarus out of its reverie and gives me the message Can not load the PostgreSQL client. Is it installed?(libpq.dll). Does anybody have any idea how to rectify this problem? Regards. Alex _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives Thanx for the advice, I have already adjusted the PATH variable. However it still does not solve the problem of looking for an unknown ordinal value in ssleay32? where did you find the SSLEAY32.dll ? You said you downloaded and copied it ? Marc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] My first GUI Application
Looks nice, congrats. Gerard.
Re: [lazarus] GTK2 Help [OT]
Hi, If you can, try to install debian instead (Sorry, I just don't like RH distro's thy sucks imho) ;) You should know that with yum you must first clean the repository cache, and then read it again (as I said, they sucks). The best way is to add a new repository with your rpm's made for centos 4.4, and last, try to upgrade to centos 5.5 final. Ido On Feb 8, 2008 3:34 AM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry for off topic request, but I'd like to see what an app looks like on gtk2 and I'm having a dickens of a time trying to upgrade my current gtk2 on Centos 4.4. Can someone suggest a simple way to upgrade this? I've tried yum, but it doesn't seem to think there is a new version of gtk2 than my current 2.4.13-22 version. Thanks and sorry for OT post. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] My first GUI Application
Wow, cool application. What version of Asterisk does your manager works with ? Ido On Feb 8, 2008 7:41 AM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've written several console/daemon apps with Lazarus/Freepascal, but this is my first GUI app that really does anything and aside from some gotchas getting it to run on Linux (developed on WinXP), it seems to be running very well. http://leebo.dreamhosters.com/images/guiApp.png There's a few idiosyncrasies with the fonts (size, etc) between Win32 and GTK, but all in all, I'm very happy with results thus far. Kudos to the developers and community. I'm hooked. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] postgres revisited
Alex du Plessis wrote: Hi all Earlier I reported a problem finding libpq.dll. I then suspected a problem on my disc and did a complete Windows XP re-install, followed by a postgres 8.3 install and then a Lazarus 0.9.25 re-install. I started by changing fpc.cfg to add the library path of the libpq.dll file to fpc.cfg and that had no effect. The TPQConnection still could not find the file libpq.dll when trying to set the connection to active. Restarting Lazarus also did not improve this situation.(Maybe it needed to reread fpc.cfg?). I finally resorted to copying the libpq file into /windows/sytem32 and tried to connect again. This time round Lazarus asked for ssleay32.dll as well as vsinit.dll. After duly downloading and copying these files into system32. On trying to connect this time I get the message The ordinal 284 could not be located in the link library SSLEAY32.DLL. Even trying with different versions of ssleay32 does not solve the problem. At this point Lazarus shows the connection as Active in the object inspector but seems to be frozen. Switching to another task in the windows taskbar brings Lazarus out of its reverie and gives me the message Can not load the PostgreSQL client. Is it installed?(libpq.dll). Does anybody have any idea how to rectify this problem? Regards. Alex _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives Thanx for the advice, I have already adjusted the PATH variable. However it still does not solve the problem of looking for an unknown ordinal value in ssleay32? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] postgres revisited
Vincent Snijders wrote: Alex du Plessis schreef: Marc Weustink wrote: Alex du Plessis wrote: Alex du Plessis wrote: Hi all Earlier I reported a problem finding libpq.dll. I then suspected a problem on my disc and did a complete Windows XP re-install, followed by a postgres 8.3 install and then a Lazarus 0.9.25 re-install. I started by changing fpc.cfg to add the library path of the libpq.dll file to fpc.cfg and that had no effect. The TPQConnection still could not find the file libpq.dll when trying to set the connection to active. Restarting Lazarus also did not improve this situation.(Maybe it needed to reread fpc.cfg?). I finally resorted to copying the libpq file into /windows/sytem32 and tried to connect again. This time round Lazarus asked for ssleay32.dll as well as vsinit.dll. After duly downloading and copying these files into system32. On trying to connect this time I get the message The ordinal 284 could not be located in the link library SSLEAY32.DLL. Even trying with different versions of ssleay32 does not solve the problem. At this point Lazarus shows the connection as Active in the object inspector but seems to be frozen. Switching to another task in the windows taskbar brings Lazarus out of its reverie and gives me the message Can not load the PostgreSQL client. Is it installed?(libpq.dll). Does anybody have any idea how to rectify this problem? Regards. Alex _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives Thanx for the advice, I have already adjusted the PATH variable. However it still does not solve the problem of looking for an unknown ordinal value in ssleay32? where did you find the SSLEAY32.dll ? You said you downloaded and copied it ? Marc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives I searched on the web and downloaded from there. Should I have obtained it from a specific location? Copied it into system32. I have ssleay32.dll in C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin, which was created when installing PostgreSQL 8.3 the other day. Vincent P.S. How hard is it to remove footers from an email before replying? It seems I'm the right real idiot for the day - my apologies for not looking properly and for not removing footers. Thanks for the advice on postgres. Regards Alex _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] My first GUI Application
ik wrote: On Feb 8, 2008 3:43 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ik wrote: Wow, cool application. What version of Asterisk does your manager works with ? Ido Thanks guys, I'm on Asterisk 1.2.12 here at my office, but I'd assume that it would work on 1.4 as well. I don't think they made any breakable changes to AMI in 1.4. There are additions to 1.4 and 1.6 I will check these out. But if the (ugly) protocol for AMI remains backwards compatible then again, I assume that it would work. I will definitely check out the addition to AMI as I have been hoping for more standardized output. A business associate introduced me to Asterisk a year or so ago and I'm addicted to it since. This current project is actually a rewrite of one of 3 existing products that I've written for Asterisk (not counting AGI apps, etc) already. I worked at a company that developed applications above Asterisk, until they stopped developing, and now I'm a freelancer in this field. I also added support for Asterisk to talk in proper Hebrew (the recordings are from a person that does it for a living), and now I'm writing some Asterisk module for a test, I'll release it under GPL. And I'm also the co-editor of www.asterisk.org.il :) Look informative from the volume of text. I can't read Hebrew ;) http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/Default.aspx (Delphi) http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/asterpas.aspx (Lazarus/Freepascal/Rem PascalScript) http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/maestro.aspx (Delphi - currently being re-written in lazarus) I've also written several little applications including a wrapper around AGI/FastAGI for ObjectPascal, Cepstral Swift AGI Wrapper, etc. I started working on AGI/FastAGI library for lnet 6 months ago, but I do not have time to finish it (and it requires some rewrite). I'm thinking of releasing ours under LGPL so that others are able to help with its development. Ours is written with Synapse and RemObjects pascalscript engine. Please let me know if you are interested. I forgot to mention that I also wrote a proxy server for AMI recently too. I know there is a couple out there already (AstManProxy), but sometimes its better to write your own so you can have control over its features and destiny, I think. Someone else in our office is working on integration between Asterisk and our P.O.S. application for for use with Drive Thru's, Pizza Delivery operations as well. Asterisk is a lot like FreePascal/Lazarus. Once its under your skin, its difficult to dig it out! Well, if Asterisk would have written in FPC, then things would be even better ;) But Mark told us (I met him last year) that he loves C :( Yes, many C zealots over there, but I don't know C (other than to read it a bit) so I cannot contribute anything to the project itself. I was going to learn C, but I think I'd rather sand paper sensitive parts of my body instead ;) It would be very interesting to see an application with the same complexity of Asterisk written in FPC, especially from a performance standpoint. Mark seems like a very nice fellow. He was on the VOIP conference last Friday or the Friday before, I think. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
En/na Antonio Sanguigni ha escrit: Thanks all, guys. I'll have a look at your suggests. Note that all suggestions are distro specific. As more and more distro move to freedesktop, maybe the best cross-distro solution is to use the freedesktop standards, e.g. xdg-open: http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/XdgUtils (but then you have to provide a fall-back if xdg is not available) Bye -- Luca Olivetti Wetron Automatización S.A. http://www.wetron.es/ Tel. +34 93 5883004 Fax +34 93 5883007 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] GamePack 1.0 Released
A.J. Venter wrote: I downloaded and installed the components fine. However, when trying to load the demo project, the IDE hangs and eats up 50% CPU. End Task'ing the lazarus process in Windows is necessary at that point. Is this only linux/gtk? Or is Win32 supported? Hi Lee, It's definitely meant to be a multiplatform suite. You seem to have discovered a win32 specific bug. Since I only use native components that means that it must be something the w32 widget set does different. Logically - only visual components could have issues with widget set implementations. That limits it to TDoubleBuffer. The only part of TDoubleBuffer that is active during design is the paint method - so it seems win32 isn't handling that right. Please try the following for me (I have no access to a windows machine for a while) Fine the lines in doublebuffer.pas that read: if csDesigning in ComponentState then Self.Canvas.CopyRect(rect(0,0,width,height),FBackground.BitMap.Canvas,rect(0,0,width,height)); And comment them out. This will have no impact on running programs, it will just prevent the background from being visible at designtime - but it may solve your problem. Please let me know if it does, so I can update the code on my side (I would use an IFDEF I imagine). Win32 experts: If this works, how SHOULD I do it instead ? Ciao A.J. I did so, but still the same behavior. Just to note, I commented out the lines and then rebuilt the IDE a couple of times to be sure. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] My first GUI Application
On Feb 8, 2008 3:43 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ik wrote: Wow, cool application. What version of Asterisk does your manager works with ? Ido Thanks guys, I'm on Asterisk 1.2.12 here at my office, but I'd assume that it would work on 1.4 as well. I don't think they made any breakable changes to AMI in 1.4. There are additions to 1.4 and 1.6 A business associate introduced me to Asterisk a year or so ago and I'm addicted to it since. This current project is actually a rewrite of one of 3 existing products that I've written for Asterisk (not counting AGI apps, etc) already. I worked at a company that developed applications above Asterisk, until they stopped developing, and now I'm a freelancer in this field. I also added support for Asterisk to talk in proper Hebrew (the recordings are from a person that does it for a living), and now I'm writing some Asterisk module for a test, I'll release it under GPL. And I'm also the co-editor of www.asterisk.org.il :) http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/Default.aspx (Delphi) http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/asterpas.aspx (Lazarus/Freepascal/Rem PascalScript) http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/maestro.aspx (Delphi - currently being re-written in lazarus) I've also written several little applications including a wrapper around AGI/FastAGI for ObjectPascal, Cepstral Swift AGI Wrapper, etc. I started working on AGI/FastAGI library for lnet 6 months ago, but I do not have time to finish it (and it requires some rewrite). Someone else in our office is working on integration between Asterisk and our P.O.S. application for for use with Drive Thru's, Pizza Delivery operations as well. Asterisk is a lot like FreePascal/Lazarus. Once its under your skin, its difficult to dig it out! Well, if Asterisk would have written in FPC, then things would be even better ;) But Mark told us (I met him last year) that he loves C :( -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. Ido -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] GTK2 Help [OT]
ik wrote: Hi, If you can, try to install debian instead (Sorry, I just don't like RH distro's thy sucks imho) ;) You should know that with yum you must first clean the repository cache, and then read it again (as I said, they sucks). The best way is to add a new repository with your rpm's made for centos 4.4, and last, try to upgrade to centos 5.5 final. Ido Hi Ido, Thanks for the tip. Other distros scare me ;) I may try ubuntu as people seem to feel that one is pretty easy to setup an administer. I'm pretty confident that any shortcomings of CentOS are overshadowed by my inexperience with linux in general anyway ;) I'll give Debian a try as well as ubuntu when a I get a chance. Again, thanks for the tip. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Form.SessionProperites question
Hi all, First, great job on the SessionProperties functionality, a great feature. Secondly, I have a couple of questions in using it with TXMLPropStorage component. 1. (More of an issue than a question) The settings do not seem to get saved when you close the form from code (calling forms .Close method) or if I create the form with another form as owner and then close the owner form. 2. Can someone lend a tip to be able to control the settings at runtime? In other words, I'd like to be able to create multiple profiles and when applied, they load the forms with TXMLPropStorage and force them to use a specific so that the user can have different placement of applicable forms when they want. I'm assuming this could be done in OnRestoreProperties or OnRestoringProperties to specify the file to use? Thanks again, -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] GTK2 Help [OT]
Giuliano Colla wrote: Lee Jenkins ha scritto: ik wrote: Hi, If you can, try to install debian instead (Sorry, I just don't like RH distro's thy sucks imho) ;) You should know that with yum you must first clean the repository cache, and then read it again (as I said, they sucks). The best way is to add a new repository with your rpm's made for centos 4.4, and last, try to upgrade to centos 5.5 final. Ido Hi Ido, Thanks for the tip. Other distros scare me ;) I may try ubuntu as people seem to feel that one is pretty easy to setup an administer. I'm pretty confident that any shortcomings of CentOS are overshadowed by my inexperience with linux in general anyway ;) My rule of thumb with Linux distros. More or less all of them try to make your life easy if you don't have enough GB on your HD, so they propose a subset of packages for normal, workstation or whatever, which provides you with a minimal set for with what you need to surf the web, to write your documents, etc. But if you need to make some kind of development (even just install a source package) you end up missing a lot of -devel packages, which have different names for each distro, and you have a hell of a time sorting out what you need. My solution has always been: install everything. If you don't have disk space constraints it's the easiest way out. You lose some disk space, but save a lot of time, and have always at hand what you need. rpm or deb based doesn't make a big difference: with deb you have apt-get as default, but you may install it also in non deb distros, rpm distro's use yum which gives pretty much the same functionalities. Just my 2 cents. Giuliano Thanks Giuliano, I usually check the Developer packets on CentOS installation wizard. Thanks for the tip. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
Am Freitag 08 Februar 2008 schrieb Luca Olivetti: En/na Antonio Sanguigni ha escrit: Thanks all, guys. I'll have a look at your suggests. Note that all suggestions are distro specific. As more and more distro move to freedesktop, maybe the best cross-distro solution is to use the freedesktop standards, e.g. xdg-open: http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/XdgUtils (but then you have to provide a fall-back if xdg is not available) kfmclient exec for KDE (kfmclient exec http://kde.org ) gnome-open for Gnome (gnome-open http://gnome.org) exo-open for XFCE _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] My first GUI Application
ik wrote: On Feb 8, 2008 3:43 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ik wrote: Wow, cool application. What version of Asterisk does your manager works with ? Ido Thanks guys, I'm on Asterisk 1.2.12 here at my office, but I'd assume that it would work on 1.4 as well. I don't think they made any breakable changes to AMI in 1.4. There are additions to 1.4 and 1.6 Apparently, not just additions, but changes that impact my existing code and what it looks for when events and request responses arrive: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/doc/manager_1_1.txt?revision=98152view=markup -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] GTK2 Help [OT]
Lee Jenkins ha scritto: ik wrote: Hi, If you can, try to install debian instead (Sorry, I just don't like RH distro's thy sucks imho) ;) You should know that with yum you must first clean the repository cache, and then read it again (as I said, they sucks). The best way is to add a new repository with your rpm's made for centos 4.4, and last, try to upgrade to centos 5.5 final. Ido Hi Ido, Thanks for the tip. Other distros scare me ;) I may try ubuntu as people seem to feel that one is pretty easy to setup an administer. I'm pretty confident that any shortcomings of CentOS are overshadowed by my inexperience with linux in general anyway ;) My rule of thumb with Linux distros. More or less all of them try to make your life easy if you don't have enough GB on your HD, so they propose a subset of packages for normal, workstation or whatever, which provides you with a minimal set for with what you need to surf the web, to write your documents, etc. But if you need to make some kind of development (even just install a source package) you end up missing a lot of -devel packages, which have different names for each distro, and you have a hell of a time sorting out what you need. My solution has always been: install everything. If you don't have disk space constraints it's the easiest way out. You lose some disk space, but save a lot of time, and have always at hand what you need. rpm or deb based doesn't make a big difference: with deb you have apt-get as default, but you may install it also in non deb distros, rpm distro's use yum which gives pretty much the same functionalities. Just my 2 cents. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong (O. Wilde) _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] My first GUI Application
ik wrote: Wow, cool application. What version of Asterisk does your manager works with ? Ido Thanks guys, I'm on Asterisk 1.2.12 here at my office, but I'd assume that it would work on 1.4 as well. I don't think they made any breakable changes to AMI in 1.4. A business associate introduced me to Asterisk a year or so ago and I'm addicted to it since. This current project is actually a rewrite of one of 3 existing products that I've written for Asterisk (not counting AGI apps, etc) already. http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/Default.aspx (Delphi) http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/asterpas.aspx (Lazarus/Freepascal/Rem PascalScript) http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/maestro.aspx (Delphi - currently being re-written in lazarus) I've also written several little applications including a wrapper around AGI/FastAGI for ObjectPascal, Cepstral Swift AGI Wrapper, etc. Someone else in our office is working on integration between Asterisk and our P.O.S. application for for use with Drive Thru's, Pizza Delivery operations as well. Asterisk is a lot like FreePascal/Lazarus. Once its under your skin, its difficult to dig it out! -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] FPC compiler for virtual machines?
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:37:41PM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 10:45 PM, Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There already is FPC on mobile devices. For the rest, the FAQ mostly applies: http://www.hu.freepascal.org/faq.var#dotnet I think this is a little bit too intransigent. Many mobiles run only Java, so there is no other path to support them. Nobody says there _should_ be a path then. My experience with Symbian makes me think I should have instead started a Java port. The Symbian is such a mess that a Java port would maybe be easier to do and achieve support for a hugely superior number of devices. There is even a Java assembler out there. I'm not 100% convinced that it can't be abstracted just like if it was just another platform. The question is not if you can't shoehorn FPC into something it wasn't designed for, but if the result is more than an academic exercise. IOW, is a FPC that has parts of the language removed, where datatypes change meaning, possible extensions that don't work on native etc still a FPC as we know today ? The Delphi.NET experiment of Borland shows this perfectly. Superficially everything is ok, but practically you see each after the other halt the shared codebases and do a proper new framework based on .NET classes and types. In Borlands case, the shared source between classic and .NET was mostly temporary, for transition purposes, but how do you see this for FPC? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] FPC compiler for virtual machines?
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Marco Alvarado wrote: 2008/2/6, Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Options for a Pascal compiler which targets Java: 1. http://www.mhccorp.com/pasjvm.shtml 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDletPascal. Dead product? Download: http://www.softlookup.com/display.asp?id=157709 I know MIDletPascal, and it's a perfect example. It suffers the same problem that Delphi has now, it's not Open Source. You have to wait for it's development team to fix bugs, and the most important is that if the team takes a different path (or vanishes), you will have to jump to another compiler to keep on track, maybe a compiler for another language as it is the case with Pascal. I'd rather give my engine support for an unperfect compiler that anyone can continue developing (reminds me of Lazarus), than a compiler that can die unexpectedly. Well, what stops you from getting started ? Many people have asked the questions you asked, none have actually contributed. The FPC team has no direct interest in this, but that doesn't mean we will not offer help in the form of explanations to whoever wants to try anyway... Michael. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Who is the controlling 'native' widget set in LCL?
Hi, I'm not trying to start a flame war, I would simply like to understand the thinking and decision process of the core lazarus developers regarding the LCL features. I'm sure any developer using LCL would like the following answers as well. For more background on this issue see the mantis bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=9285 In summary. TButton.Color is not available in LCL because Win32 doesn't allow a button face to change color without custom drawing. Yet other widget sets do like Qt and GTK1. Comments from Paul: Kylix = qt = library that draw widgets itself Win32 = library that also has some mids about widget drawing Why LCL should invent hacks to force win32 draw color buttons? If win32 does not want to do that why LCL should have ability to override designed by ms devels way of button drawing? LCL is library of native widgets = library that uses abilities of underlying libraries. If they (win32 or other) doesnot support something then LCL should not invent own ways. My opinion - this issue should be closed. Comments from Me: -- Ok, so LCL uses native widgets - I get that. Well, Qt is a supported widget set of LCL. So Qt should in all respects be consider 'native'. So now, because Win32 doesn't allow Button.Color, Qt may not use Button.Color either! That's a bit unfair. The LCL now limits developers only to what Win32 can do! What happened to LCL being cross-platform? What about the features of other underlying native widget sets? Is Win32 the controlling widget set for LCL. If Win32 doesn't support something, neither may the other widget sets? So, my question again: Is Win32 the controlling widget set in LCL? Is Win32 the deciding widget set for what is allowed in the LCL? If Win32 doesn't support it, it's not going to be supported in the LCL - even if the other native widget sets support a function? How do the core developers decide what is allowed in the LCL and what isn't? What criteria do they use? As a extra argument to Paul: MS developers decided not support MouseEnter and MouseLeave OS level events in Win32. Other widget sets do. Borland even had to hack their own support for it in the VCL. Then in Windows XP and Vista the Microsoft developers show that a 'hot' state over buttons are cool, yet the underlying Win32 still doesn't support MouseEnter and MouseLeave OS events! I wouldn't stake my life on what MS developers decided is good! They sometimes come up with pretty shitty ideas of what they think is right! Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Who is the controlling 'native' widget set in LCL?
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: So, my question again: Is Win32 the controlling widget set in LCL? Is Win32 the deciding widget set for what is allowed in the LCL? If Win32 doesn't support it, it's not going to be supported in the LCL - even if the other native widget sets support a function? I guess in case of doubts, the VCL is the reference. If one wants to explore all features of a certain widget set, he has simply to use a direct interface to the widget set. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Who is the controlling 'native' widget set in LCL?
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I'm not trying to start a flame war, I would simply like to understand the thinking and decision process of the core lazarus developers regarding the LCL features. I'm sure any developer using LCL would like the following answers as well. For more background on this issue see the mantis bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=9285 In summary. TButton.Color is not available in LCL because Win32 doesn't allow a button face to change color without custom drawing. Yet other widget sets do like Qt and GTK1. That problem has been havily discussed in lazarus-dev list and we came to the conclusion that such properties should be in LCL, but on the other hand they must be marked some way in object inspector as non cross platform. Best regards, Paul Ishenin. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Open URL in a browser
Hi all, I'm trying to create an hyperlink component but I'm having some difficult to catch default browser under Linux. In Windows it has to be easier but I would like to find an elegant cross-platform way. I saw the Lazarus Ide has Help - OnLine help menu which I can get a look. Any suggest to better understand the code ? I saw there are THelpViewer class and THelpDatabase and their containers but I cannot be able to understand deeply how this code is working. Thanks Antonio -- Antonio Sanguigni alias slapshot -- GioveLUG (Linux User Group) - http://www.giovelug.org Edupup (Educational distro) - http://www.edupup.org
Re: [lazarus] Behavior of ClientToScreen in scrolling windows across different widget sets
Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: While debugging scrolling bugs in LCL i found that ClientToScreen acts differently according to the widget set. These are the behaviors: 1) The returned value is related to the actual position, i.e., it does not consider the scroll offset. If you pass Point(0,0) the value will be the same regardless of the scroll position. (Gtk1) 2) The returned value is related to the virtual position, i.e, it takes into account the scroll offset. If you pass Point(0, 0) the value changes inversely to scrollbar position. (Gtk2) 3) The returned value is related to the virtual position, i.e, it takes into account the scroll offset. If you pass Point(0, 0) the value changes the same amount of scrollbar position. (Win32) 4) Nothing. Qt has no visible scrollbars so... Notes: Delphi does the same as (1)/Gtk1 Not really, internally Delphi does it like 2. All controls are moved. (3) is clearly buggy. Between (1) and (2) is a design decision. We started like delphi, move controls and report corrected values when asked. However this aproach is very inefficient on all widgetsets except win32. So the new approach is that controls stay at their position and only the virtual parent gets an offset. This means that the top/left of a control on a say scrollbox are allways the same, an offset to the virtual parent top/left. So now ClientToScreen. The top/left of a scrolled control needs to get a scrolled offset, so that is reflects the real position relative to the real parent of the control. Marc Attached is a patch that makes win32 acts like (2)/gtk2. It changes the offset signal when calculating the LCL bounds. With the change it becomes consistent with the TCustomGroupBox signal convention (LCL bounds at Right/Down of win32 +, at Left/Up -). It also fixes the scrolling paint and setcursor of non TWincontrol. Luiz _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
Hi, On Debian bases system (I don't know on others) there is an alternative that known as x-www-browser that holds the default web browser. On Feb 7, 2008 12:18 PM, Antonio Sanguigni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to create an hyperlink component but I'm having some difficult to catch default browser under Linux. In Windows it has to be easier but I would like to find an elegant cross-platform way. I saw the Lazarus Ide has Help - OnLine help menu which I can get a look. Any suggest to better understand the code ? I saw there are THelpViewer class and THelpDatabase and their containers but I cannot be able to understand deeply how this code is working. Thanks Antonio -- Antonio Sanguigni alias slapshot -- GioveLUG (Linux User Group) - http://www.giovelug.org Edupup (Educational distro) - http://www.edupup.org Ido -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Who is the controlling 'native' widget set in LCL?
On 07/02/2008, Paul Ishenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In summary. TButton.Color is not available in LCL because Win32 doesn't allow a button face to change color without custom drawing. Yet other widget sets do like Qt and GTK1. That problem has been havily discussed in lazarus-dev list and we came to the conclusion that such properties should be in LCL, but on the other hand they must be marked some way in object inspector as non cross platform. My apologies. I didn't know of a 'lazarus-dev' mailing list. When was this decided, in the last 7 days? Because from your comment in he mantis bug report dated 2008-02-01 (7 days ago), your clearly stated that it _shouldn't_ be supported. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
See also environnement variable $BROWSER under linux -- Laurent. My Components: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Wile64 French Forum : http://lazforum-fr.tuxfamily.org/index.php
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
On 07/02/2008, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See also environnement variable $BROWSER under linux there is also the sensible-browser script that makes things easy (at least on debian). henry _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
On 07/02/2008, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See also environnement variable $BROWSER under linux Wow, I never knew about that. It's available in Ubuntu 7.10 as well. Is that a LSB standard? I see the /etc/alternatives directory is full of such files... :-) Nice one, it's about time Linux helped developers detect favoured applications. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
On 07/02/2008, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Debian bases system (I don't know on others) there is an alternative that known as x-www-browser that holds the default web browser. Wow, I never knew about that. It's available in Ubuntu 7.10 as well. Is that a LSB standard? I see the /etc/alternatives directory is full of such files... :-) Nice one, it's about time Linux helped developers detect favoured applications. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
Oops, I meant the reply to Ido's email On 07/02/2008, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/02/2008, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See also environnement variable $BROWSER under linux Wow, I never knew about that. It's available in Ubuntu 7.10 as well. Is that a LSB standard? I see the /etc/alternatives directory is full of such files... :-) Nice one, it's about time Linux helped developers detect favoured applications. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
Antonio Sanguigni schreef: Hi all, I'm trying to create an hyperlink component but I'm having some difficult to catch default browser under Linux. In Windows it has to be easier but I would like to find an elegant cross-platform way. I saw the Lazarus Ide has Help - OnLine help menu which I can get a look. Any suggest to better understand the code ? I saw there are THelpViewer class and THelpDatabase and their containers but I cannot be able to understand deeply how this code is working. See also lazarus\examples\openbrowser Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] FPC compiler for virtual machines?
I've been investigating, and came to the conclussion that the best compiler I can do IS NOT a compiler, BUT an specialiced translator. I could use customizable templates to transform Pascal code into each VM's natural language, then take advantage of the command-line compilers for those VMs. There are open-source compilers that will fit perfectly on this project. At least MTASC, is a much faster and optimal compiler than the actual Macromedia/Adobe Flash compiler. Crappy and cheaty, maybe, but will output the best optimal code possible, and also will save myself from the HUGE task of creating real compilers, since I must keep focused on my game engine. If we remove pointers, goto's (...what else?), there is almost a one-on-one correspondence between Object Pascal and ECMA's scripts (javascript and actionscript), Java and .NET. But will require some cheating with the class frameworks (thinking on FPC's RTL and the LCL), like converting TBitmap into MovieClip, as an example. As said it's a language mutilation, but it's something a programmer can live with if he/she wants to target those virtual platforms, Delphi .NET shows that as you mentioned. -Marco _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
2008/2/7 wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: See also environnement variable $BROWSER under linux On my machine it is not set (Kubuntu 7.10 amd64)... -- Laurent. My Components: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Wile64 French Forum : http://lazforum-fr.tuxfamily.org/index.php Ido -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
2008/2/7, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 07/02/2008, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See also environnement variable $BROWSER under linux Wow, I never knew about that. It's available in Ubuntu 7.10 as well. Is that a LSB standard? This is Debian, I have on my Ubuntu 7.10 and others are also I see the /etc/alternatives directory is full of such files... :-) Nice one, it's about time Linux helped developers detect favoured applications. I Found it but I do not know where :) Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives -- Laurent. My Components: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Wile64 French Forum : http://lazforum-fr.tuxfamily.org/index.php
RE: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser
Orpheus has a TOvcURL component for hyperlinks. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/OrphPort Thanks. -Phil From: Antonio Sanguigni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:19 AM To: lazarus@miraclec.com Subject: [lazarus] Open URL in a browser Hi all, I'm trying to create an hyperlink component but I'm having some difficult to catch default browser under Linux. In Windows it has to be easier but I would like to find an elegant cross-platform way. I saw the Lazarus Ide has Help - OnLine help menu which I can get a look. Any suggest to better understand the code ? I saw there are THelpViewer class and THelpDatabase and their containers but I cannot be able to understand deeply how this code is working. Thanks Antonio -- Antonio Sanguigni alias slapshot -- GioveLUG (Linux User Group) - http://www.giovelug.org Edupup (Educational distro) - http://www.edupup.org
Re: [lazarus] Linux Journal Poll: Pascal does not exist
Quoting Marco Alvarado [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Working with an underground language gives a cool feeling :D Please see attached image ;-) Cheers (with a tequila) mramirez attachment: Black-T-Shirt-Lazarus.JPG
