Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-04 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. To answer your question about screen readers, basically, a screen reader reads in synthesized speech what a sighted person would read on their monitor. The way it works is that the program gets information from the operating system about what is on the screen. This means that on W

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-04 Thread Micha Nelissen
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I'm curious... How do you manage to create a GUI or use a GUI program if you are blind? Sorry, I don't know how screen readers work? Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader for a start? Micha ___ fpc-pascal maillist

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-04 Thread Ryan Mann
Thanks. I will check this out. Ryan On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:45 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Ryan Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK thanks, but where can I find information about doing this? The lazarus tutorial on the Wiki talks about using the IDE.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-04 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Ryan Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK thanks, but where can I find information about doing this? The lazarus > tutorial on the Wiki talks about using the IDE. Hello, I added a tutorial about this in the wiki: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LCL_Tips#Creati

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anybody know how I can store the output of a program into a variable > in windows batch files? I'm trying to capture the following output > like I have done in the unix shell script. > fpctarget=`fpc -iTP`-`fpc -iTO`

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Ryan Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I tried to compile FPGUI using build.bat on Windows earlier today > and I got an error. It should now be fixed in revision 1051. Please get a svn update and try again. The windows build.bat file did not try and create

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-03 Thread Ryan Mann
Actually, I tried to compile FPGUI using build.bat on Windows earlier today and I got an error. If you want, I can try it again and get the exact error message. By the way, does FPGUI use Windows API on Windows? If it does that's good because the GUIs it creates are probably accessible to sc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Ryan Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK thanks, but where can I find information about doing this? The lazarus > tutorial on the Wiki talks about using the IDE. fpGUI Toolkit has a readme.txt file in the 'src' directory explaining how you can develop applications

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-03 Thread Ryan Mann
OK thanks, but where can I find information about doing this? The lazarus tutorial on the Wiki talks about using the IDE. Thanks. Ryan On Dec 3, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Michael Fuchs wrote: Ryan Mann schrieb: [..] Instead of using the IDE to design graphical interfaces, is it possible to write a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Ryan Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I'm blind and the Lazarus IDE does not work that well with my screen > reader. Instead of using the IDE to design graphical interfaces, is it > possible to write a graphical interface using Pascal code? Yes, by all mea

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Fuchs
Ryan Mann schrieb: [..] Instead of using the IDE to design graphical interfaces, is it possible to write a graphical interface using Pascal code? Of course, you can create all components dynamicly and give them their positions by code. It is like programming with Turbo Vision/Free Vision. g

[fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-03 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. I'm blind and the Lazarus IDE does not work that well with my screen reader. Instead of using the IDE to design graphical interfaces, is it possible to write a graphical interface using Pascal code? Thanks for any help. Ryan Ryan Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Break The Matrix http://www.