[Gambas-user] Deprecated

2018-07-14 Thread John Rose
Christof, You state that the list is deprecated but people are still posting to it. If deprecated, the list need to be 'stopped'. Also, I am not able to send to the list that you state is the replacement: messages are rejected. When I try to subscribe to the new list, nothing happens and I

[Gambas-user] Lorenz

2018-07-13 Thread John Rose
@zxMarce I think that I've finally worked out how to post to Gambas. It's been years since I did it and the email address has changed. You can email me on john.aaron.r...@gmail.com I've not tried the FIALKA (post war?). Lorenz is purely Gambas. It's modified from the original in that some

[Gambas-user] Apps

2018-07-13 Thread John Rose
post to the user list: though I only look at the daily digest. -- John -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slas

[Gambas-user] Fwd: Re: How to specify a string constant in an Exec statement

2017-12-15 Thread John Rose
Thanks, Charlie. John Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] How to specify a string constant in an Exec statement Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:42:14 + From: Charlie Ogier <char...@cogier.com> To: John Rose <john.aaron.r...@gmail.com> On 14

[Gambas-user] How to specify a string constant in an Exec statement

2017-12-14 Thread John Rose
does not work. I've tried omitting the 2 lots of \" but that doesn't help. My code used to be (which worked): Exec ["get_iplayer", " --force", "--type=TV] To sOutput -- John -- Check ou

[Gambas-user] [SPAM] Fw: new message

2015-11-09 Thread John Hutchinson
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[Gambas-user] [SPAM] Fw: new message

2015-11-09 Thread John Hutchinson
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Re: [Gambas-user] Cannot start gambas3-3.7.1 after compilation

2015-05-27 Thread John Frankish
Hi, I just compiled gambas3-3.7.1 from source against qt-4.8.6 and gtk-3.16.1, but when I try to start it, I get this: $ gambas3 Stock.Themes_Read.698: #45: File or directory does not exist Project.Main.334 The error is on a line that tries to browse the /usr/share/icons directory.

Re: [Gambas-user] Cannot start gambas3-3.7.1 after compilation

2015-05-27 Thread John Frankish
I finally finished and recompiled gambas3 and it seems to work. The patch file is 40kb :-o I did not attach the patch as I mostly just changed /usr/{bin, lib, sbin, share} and /etc to /usr/local/{bin, lib, sbin, share} and /usr/local/etc rather than incorporate $PREFIX or add

[Gambas-user] Cannot start gambas3-3.7.1 after compilation

2015-05-26 Thread John Frankish
glossary? I cannot use gdb with gambas3 to check the error as gdb sees it as a script Regards John -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50

Re: [Gambas-user] Cannot start gambas3-3.7.1 after compilation

2015-05-26 Thread John Frankish
and gambas3 was compiled to /usr/local... Do I need to go through the source to look for other hard links to /usr? Regards John -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out

Re: [Gambas-user] Cannot start gambas3-3.7.1 after compilation

2015-05-26 Thread John Frankish
Hi, I just compiled gambas3-3.7.1 from source against qt-4.8.6 and gtk-3.16.1, but when I try to start it, I get this: $ gambas3 Stock.Themes_Read.698: #45: File or directory does not exist Project.Main.334 The error is on a line that tries to browse the /usr/share/icons directory.

Re: [Gambas-user] Bizarre results when entering a £ symbol into a TextArea or TextBox

2015-03-22 Thread John Rose
to have String methods applied to it when using Len etc. Am I correct? Possible solution is to use sText = String.Mid(PrintedTextBox.Text, 1, String.Len(PrintedTextBox)) instead of sText = PrintedTextBox.Text, but I guess that would mean that String methods would also have to be used on sText. John

Re: [Gambas-user] Maskbox mask text entry

2015-03-19 Thread John Rose
On 18/03/15 11:30, John Rose wrote: I have a Maskbox with mask [A-Za-z][A-Za-z]. I noticed that the IDE does not show the MaxLength property. I want the user to be able to enter lower case have the entry displayed as upper case for either of the 2 characters. When I run the attached Test app

[Gambas-user] Maskbox mask text entry

2015-03-18 Thread John Rose
- USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Could this 'Stable' ppa contain a jinxed Gambas version? -- John Test.tar.gz Description: application/gzip -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored

Re: [Gambas-user] Bizarre results when entering a £ symbol into a TextArea or TextBox

2015-03-18 Thread John Rose
characters such as $. John On 17/03/15 15:50, Jussi Lahtinen wrote: Oh I missed you are using Mid() function, it is only for ASCII characters, use String.Mid() instead. Jussi On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:33 PM, John Rose john.aaron.r...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/03/15 13:33, Jussi Lahtinen wrote

[Gambas-user] Bizarre results when entering a £ symbol into a TextArea or TextBox

2015-03-17 Thread John Rose
wonder if this could be due to Gambas/Ubuntu regarding my keyboard as American even though it's 'installed' within Ubuntu as British. -- John Test.tar.gz Description: application/gzip -- Dive into the World of Parallel

Re: [Gambas-user] Bizarre results when entering a £ symbol into a TextArea or TextBox

2015-03-17 Thread John Rose
On 17/03/15 13:33, Jussi Lahtinen wrote: Maybe the console takes only ASCII characters? Jussi On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:00 PM, John Rose john.aaron.r...@gmail.com wrote: When entering a £ character (i.e. the British pound symbol not the American one) into a TextArea or TextBox, it seems

Re: [Gambas-user] Possible bug with Text property of MaskBox

2015-03-13 Thread John Rose
On 10/03/15 17:21, John Rose wrote: I've found what I think is a bug on the Text property of the Maskbox control. When I set it with a Text property (conforming to its Mask property), it shows as blank at runtime. However, if I set it by code to the same value, it works OK. Test project

Re: [Gambas-user] Problem with Exist Open functions with filename containing spaces

2015-03-13 Thread John Rose
On 12/03/15 12:19, Benoît Minisini wrote: Le 12/03/2015 13:11, John Rose a écrit : On 12/03/15 11:38, Tobias Boege wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, John Rose wrote: On 12/03/15 10:37, Tobias Boege wrote: Public Sub Main() Dim sPath As String = Temp$(with spaces) Dim hFile As Stream Dim

[Gambas-user] Problem with Exist Open functions with filename containing spaces

2015-03-12 Thread John Rose
that single quotes can encircle the filename) to copy/move the file to a file with filename not containing space characters and then open the copied file instead. BTW the 'plain out' file is a text file which gEdit opens OK. -- John

Re: [Gambas-user] Problem with Exist Open functions with filename containing spaces

2015-03-12 Thread John Rose
On 12/03/15 11:38, Tobias Boege wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, John Rose wrote: On 12/03/15 10:37, Tobias Boege wrote: Public Sub Main() Dim sPath As String = Temp$(with spaces) Dim hFile As Stream Dim sLine As String File.Save(sPath, some string) Debug Path =;; sPath Debug

Re: [Gambas-user] Problem with Exist Open functions with filename containing spaces

2015-03-12 Thread John Rose
On 12/03/15 10:37, Tobias Boege wrote: Public Sub Main() Dim sPath As String = Temp$(with spaces) Dim hFile As Stream Dim sLine As String File.Save(sPath, some string) Debug Path =;; sPath Debug Exist =;; Exist(sPath) Debug Content = hFile = Open sPath For Input For

[Gambas-user] Possible bug with Text property of MaskBox

2015-03-10 Thread John Rose
or just a stupid mistake of mine. -- John Test.tar.gz Description: application/gzip -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot

Re: [Gambas-user] Red no entry sign on Debug

2015-03-09 Thread John Rose
On 09/03/15 12:57, Fabien Bodard wrote: So we really need a pièce of code that show the problem. Le 9 mars 2015 08:34, John Rose john.aaron.r...@gmail.com a écrit : On 08/03/15 22:52, adamn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:58:56 + John Rose john.aaron.r...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Gambas-user] Red no entry sign on Debug

2015-03-09 Thread John Rose
StartPositionValueBox. Is this a problem with my understanding of the Mask property? If so, would it be better to make them TextBoxes or do something else? John PS I've top posted this time as you are top posting. Tobi requested me on another query not to do bottom posting. Is top or bottom posting

Re: [Gambas-user] Red no entry sign on Debug

2015-03-09 Thread John Rose
On 08/03/15 22:52, adamn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:58:56 + John Rose john.aaron.r...@gmail.com wrote: I compiled and saved a project OK. When I try to run it within the IDE, all it does is to display a red no entry sign near the bottom of the screen. It does not display

Re: [Gambas-user] Possible bug in ValueBox coding of gb.form Component

2015-03-08 Thread John Rose
On 08/03/15 19:28, Willy Raets wrote: On zo, 2015-03-08 at 16:44 +, John Rose wrote: I've attached a Test project. The significant controls are 13 ValueBoxes (named CypheredValueBox 1 etc, all in Group Cyphered) and 13 MaskBoxes (named PlainMaskBox1 etc, all in Group Plain): please ignore

[Gambas-user] Possible bug in ValueBox coding of gb.form Component

2015-03-08 Thread John Rose
, the event Cyphered_Change does not execute; however, when I change any PlainMaskBox to another alphabetic, the event Plain_Change does execute. To me this seems like a bug in the gb.form Component. Am I correct? -- John Test.tar.gz Description: application/gzip

Re: [Gambas-user] Clearing data from TextAreas ListBoxes

2015-03-03 Thread John Rose
On 03/03/15 09:53, Tobias Boege wrote: On Tue, 03 Mar 2015, John Rose wrote: On 03/03/15 08:31, Fabien Bodard wrote: And th?? controls Will not be cleared until the procedure is not ended. Use an ascyncronous call to your external program can help you. You can use a timer trigger too

[Gambas-user] Clearing data from TextAreas ListBoxes

2015-03-02 Thread John Rose
.Clear .Refresh End With Is the above the correct method of causing the clearance to happen on the screen immediately? -- John -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored

Re: [Gambas-user] Clearing data from TextAreas ListBoxes

2015-03-02 Thread John Rose
and interestingly when it finished it did not add to the controls' contents (i.e. it cleared them before populating them again). John On 02/03/15 19:25, Tobias Boege wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2015, John Rose wrote: I have a Click event on a Button. At runtime, clicking the button should cause clearing

[Gambas-user] Exec Standard Output

2015-02-25 Thread John Rose
I looked at the documentation on Streams answered my own question. I should have used Line Input #Last, sLine rather than Read #Last, sLine, -256 -- John -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go

[Gambas-user] Exec Standard Output

2015-02-25 Thread John Rose
When I run a CLI program (which I didn't write) in Terminal, lines are displayed as I would hope in terms of line feeds: john@JohnDesktop:~$ /opt/Enigma/turing_bombe_all_wheels 'Temporary/Enigma/FHPQX Menu3.txt' 5 # Switches defined: GPU=0 SOFTWARE_MODE

[Gambas-user] Standard Input Exec

2015-02-25 Thread John Rose
would I need to enter on the command line to test this app? -- John -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your

[Gambas-user] Fwd: Re: List Boxes

2015-02-23 Thread John Rose
not always get selected when I selected another item in a different ComboBox. And there are no timers. John -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business

[Gambas-user] List Boxes

2015-02-23 Thread John Rose
() With StopComboBox .Index = SteckersComboBox.Index .Refresh End With With ReflectorAndRotorsComboBox .Index = SteckersComboBox.Index .Refresh End With End What's wrong with this coding? -- John -- Download BIRT

Re: [Gambas-user] SetFocus to next MaskBox in a Group

2015-02-12 Thread John Rose
Tobias, Thanks. I've used your second method. It's so easy when you know how! John On 12/02/15 13:12, Tobias Boege wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, John Rose wrote: I have a set of MaskBoxes (each with Group Cyphered with MaxLength of 1) with Names of CypheredMaskBox1, CypheredMaskBox2

[Gambas-user] SetFocus to next MaskBox in a Group

2015-02-12 Thread John Rose
= CStr(iNextTag) strNextCyphered = CypheredMaskBox strNextTag -- John -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media

Re: [Gambas-user] Class info contradicts by Gambas added class info

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
On 20/09/14 01:31, Willy Raets wrote: On za, 2014-09-20 at 00:19 +0100, John Leake wrote: Thank you. Should the documentation in the wiki also be updated to reflect this new behaviour ? I don't think so as the fix should make Gambas confirm the documentation :) It only fixes your

[Gambas-user] Static Classes and Modules

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
Hi All, Could someone please clarify the characteristics of a static class. My understanding of Static Classes from other languages is: They cannot be created or more precisely no more than one instance of the class can exist. This means that if a process alters the state of the class then that

Re: [Gambas-user] Static Classes and Modules

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
Thanks Tobi, So could someone tell me if a class without any dynamic variable ie a static class, can or cannot be created ? Or you can try it out. What I did was creating a module and making objects from it with New -- it works, but those objects are even more limited than I had

Re: [Gambas-user] How to get Count(Current_month).Days ?

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
What about datediff(date(year(now),month(now),1,0,0,0,0),date(year(now),month(now)+1,1,0,0,0,0),gb.day) -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.

Re: [Gambas-user] How to get Count(Current_month).Days ?

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
Or more concicely datediff(date(year(now),month(now),1),date(year(now),month(now)+1,1),gb.day) -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
It the original files that generated the compiler are not available it is too risky to reverse engineer them. On 20/09/14 14:29, Tobias Boege wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, John Leake wrote: Hi All, Could anyone point me to the languages definitive specification as used by yacc and lex ? I

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
Anyone know when the parser and compiler were last generated ? -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
. On 20/09/14 19:01, Tobias Boege wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, John Leake wrote: Anyone know when the parser and compiler were last generated ? What makes you so sure that the sources are generated? I don't know the compiler at all (!) but these sources look hand-written, everywhere. I am

Re: [Gambas-user] Static Classes and Modules

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
they should be indistinguishable from each other. If the language allows you probe deeper (like obtaining the address of the object) then the results returned should be the same. On 20/09/14 19:49, B Bruen wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 10:55:06 +0100 John Leake jle...@socit.co.uk wrote: Thanks

Re: [Gambas-user] Static Classes and Modules

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
. On 20/09/14 22:01, B Bruen wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:24:46 +0200 Benoît Minisini gam...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Le 20/09/2014 11:55, John Leake a écrit : Thanks Tobi, So could someone tell me if a class without any dynamic variable ie a static class, can or cannot be created

[Gambas-user] Alternate language generation.

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
Hi All, Do any of you old-timers to gambas recall any questions/interest in using the IDE to generate source for other languages ? -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.

Re: [Gambas-user] Alternate language generation.

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
When did you arrive and what period do you refer to ? On 20/09/14 22:34, Tobias Boege wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, John Leake wrote: Hi All, Do any of you old-timers to gambas recall any questions/interest in using the IDE to generate source for other languages ? I do not but I have seen

Re: [Gambas-user] Static Classes and Modules

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
The actual name 'Static Class Method or Static Class Variable' and the name 'Class Method or Class Variable' are exactly the same thing. They are directly synonymous with a static variable within a subroutine or function that retains its value between calls to that sub or func (ie it is not on

Re: [Gambas-user] Alternate language generation.

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
Are the archives searchable in any real meaningful way ? Or is that a silly question/obvious. I am getting tired so please respond as though I am a moron. On 20/09/14 23:29, Tobias Boege wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, John Leake wrote: When did you arrive and what period do you refer

Re: [Gambas-user] Alternate language generation.

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
This is in great danger of getting off topic but holy shit. It has certainly come a long way since then. Who gave birth ? When did it come under source code control ? -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that

Re: [Gambas-user] Class info contradicts by Gambas added class info

2014-09-19 Thread John Leake
Indeed. I removed the constraint where a class without dynamic variable is not instanciable. But I don't know why I suddenly found that useful... I am also dabbling with source comments and auto generated help wrt modules in general and singleton objects. Would the SVN commit history shine

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
it used to be. (5) Thunderbird text menus not working. Any one got any bright ideas where I should start to unravel this mess ? Best regards, John Leake -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
Some of the symptoms (1) System wide keyboard short cuts all fucked up. (2) No Window decoration. (3) Window layering, focus, bring to top - knackered. (4) Default position on window launch not what it used to be. (5) Thunderbird text menus not working. (6) Firefox

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
Some of the symptoms (1) System wide keyboard short cuts all fucked up. (2) No Window decoration. (3) Window layering, focus, bring to top - knackered. (4) Default position on window launch not what it used to be. (5) Thunderbird text menus not working. (6) Firefox

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
/me scratches head... Ubuntu 12.04LTS with metacity and gnome2? I thought Ubuntu switched to Unity a LOOONG time ago or am I missing something here? The distro is BackBox 3.13 which is Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS with a light front end instead of all that unity bloatware.

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
John, not to offense, but your messages are mess. What is your distro, Ubuntu or BackBox? Why metacity?? Neither of them uses metacity. Hi Jussi, No offence taken. I have been trying to find out why my threading is a mess but have not got to the bottom of that yet. BackBox 3.13 is based

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
If you use BackBox, uninstall metacity and try to delete ~/.cache/sessions. Assuming you still have xfwm4 installed. Done and I do have xfwm4 installed and I am back to an almost unusable system. -- Want excitement?

Re: [Gambas-user] Locating a function's source code?

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
Hi Jussi, I too am interested in this. How do you get from wishing to find out about Hex$ to the url http://sourceforge.net/p/gambas/code/HEAD/tree/gambas/trunk/main/gbx/gbx_subr_conv.c Best regards, John Leake

Re: [Gambas-user] IDE image editing.

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
Hey that looks cool. Thank you. You can certainly get someons attention with a few -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control.

Re: [Gambas-user] IDE image editing.

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
I was joking. It is ignorance on my part and I have written about my concerns wrt generating unnecessary noise. If only people would say from the start something like; 'Did you know these threads are hard to follow, can I help you do it right'.

Re: [Gambas-user] IDE image editing.

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
many thanks. -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable.

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
Just watch the Linus 2007 video and make your own mind up. On 17/09/14 15:39, Jussi Lahtinen wrote: 1) SVN will not detect a corruption - with Git the sha1 hash will confirm that your source is unadulterated no matter who you pull it from. Applies to situation where there is more than one

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
One more thing is disk space. With SVN there are two entire copies of the repo. On Git there is one and all the rest are diffs. On the corruption front it works by sha hashing so you are mathematically guaranteed that the code is sound! On 17/09/14 17:22, Christof Thalhofer wrote: Am

[Gambas-user] Building /trunk

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
I am working through the build errors in output.txt and the first header file that cannot be found is ffi.h Could someone tell me what the C standard header path should be set to. [System] Gambas=3.5.90 OperatingSystem=Linux Kernel=3.11.0-26-generic Architecture=x86_64 Distribution=Ubuntu 12.04.5

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
Nearly there. || THESE COMPONENTS ARE DISABLED: || - gb.jit || Unable to find file: libintl.so || Unable to find file: libiconv.so Any ideas ? On 17/09/14 20:04, Tobias Boege wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, John Leake wrote: I am working through the build errors in output.txt and the first header

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
more help suggested I install llvm and the feeling I got was almost better than sex. Conclusion -- If all the docs relating to building trunk were combined and in the same place I would have got here with just a single request for help. Many thanks to you all, John Leake On 17/09/14 20:58

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
What is going on here ? I really do not understand. I (John Leake the gambas newbie) started a new thread about the problems I was experiencing in attempting to build from svn trunk. Please do not loose sight of the fact that it all worked in the end (which is a major achievement). I

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
Sorry guys I did about sixteen hours on this yesterday and only had about 4 hours sleep last night so I will just have to call it a dorris and let all you fit youngsters slug it out. -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
I cannot deal with this right now. Despite purging Gambas3 autoremove and update and reinstalling my desktop it has all turned to ratshit!!! On 18/09/14 01:39, John Leake wrote: WARNING - building Gambas3 can fuck up your desktop. My window borders have vanished

[Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
=libcairo.so.2.11000.2 Curl=libcurl.so.4.2.0 DBus=libdbus-1.so.3.5.8 GStreamer=libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.30.0 GStreamer=libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.1.0 GTK+=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.10 Poppler=libpoppler.so.19.0.0 Qt4=libQtCore.so.4.8.1 SDL=libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.3 John Leake

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
I'm talking about the development version. Sorry, no wonder you want to get it out quickly. Will down load, build and report back. -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
I followed the docs for v3 Compiling the Subversion repository. I checked out trunk and did $ ./reconf-all ... $ ./configure -C But there are lots of inaccessible header files. Attached the config.log config.log.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
regards, John P.S. I don't know why I keep going to the wrong place in the help. Also I have not gone through each of tools yet I just assumed that the reconf and autoconf scripts would be the quickest way of finding any incompatibility. output.txt.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
log gives you enough info to fix building from trunk. John P.S. My installation of Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS is a pretty clean install that is only about 4 weeks old on this machine. One other thing, I am concerned with, is how much noise I am generating and if I am going to be using daily builds might

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
Back on topic re Subject. If in the IDE you select a ToggleButton and set its Foreground or Background colour and then later wish put either back to its default (by selecting the control, then highlighting the property and pressing delete) the control is deleted instead of the property.

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
On 16/09/14 22:04, John Leake wrote: Back on topic re Subject. If in the IDE you select a ToggleButton and set its Foreground or Background colour and then later wish put either back to its default (by selecting the control, then highlighting the property and pressing delete) the control

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
input as being a bug then that is your right and I am fine with that. I am in the process of importing the repo into git so that I can work independently and you are welcome to clone it and explore what I have done. Still friends ? Best regards, John Leake

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
Hi guys, ToolTip has the behaviour as Text property. -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce. Perforce version control. Predictably reliable.

Re: [Gambas-user] IDE image editing.

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
Did you know that the image size tool button is no longer available in 3.5.90 [System] Gambas=3.5.90 OperatingSystem=Linux Kernel=3.11.0-26-generic Architecture=x86_64 Distribution=Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS Desktop=XFCE Theme=QGtk Language=en_GB.UTF-8 Memory=7863M [Libraries] Cairo=libcairo.so.2.11000.2

Re: [Gambas-user] form grab handles

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
IDE - form design. Are the form grab handles supposed to be visible/active when a control is clicked ? -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce. Perforce

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
experiences. Hey it might just be too much for me an I will just wither away. Things should not be a hassle if you are importing perceived improvements. Should I call it Gambas-for-ideots ? I hope to continue the collaboration. Best regards, John Leake

Re: [Gambas-user] form grab handles

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
IDE - form design. Are the form grab handles supposed to be visible/active when a control is clicked ? Why not? Please start a new thread when you want to talk about another subject! Thanks. Sorry, I changed the email subject. What else should I do ?

Re: [Gambas-user] IDE image editing.

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
Le 17/09/2014 00:28, John Leake a écrit : Did you know that the image size tool button is no longer available in 3.5.90 No idea what you are talking about, but please start a new thread when the subject changes! Sorry the context is in the Subject. I must have a misunderstanding how

Re: [Gambas-user] form grab handles

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
Create a *new* message instead of simply replying to a message from a thread that already exists. Creating a new message will create a new thread. Thank you. I have just elucidated my difficulty with this. Where do I create a *new* message ?

Re: [Gambas-user] IDE image editing.

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
When editing an image in the IDE under 3.5.4 there was an image size tool bar button. It is no longer there under 3.5.90 -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose

Re: [Gambas-user] How to create a new thread

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
On 09/16/2014 08:36 PM, John Leake wrote: Create a *new* message instead of simply replying to a message from a thread that already exists. Creating a new message will create a new thread. Thank you. I have just elucidated my difficulty with this. Where do I create a *new* message

Re: [Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
of alternatives. Jussi On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:19 AM, John Leake jle...@socit.co.uk wrote: Do I have to question my understanding of criticism? I really think this is criticism and where I come from this is nothing bad. Especially if the criticising person does it the conciliatory

Re: [Gambas-user] IDE image editing.

2014-09-16 Thread John Leake
Sorry, more ignorance on my part. Its no wonder all you gambas gurus have no idea what I am talking about! On 17/09/14 02:37, Benoît Minisini wrote: Le 17/09/2014 02:49, John Leake a écrit : When editing an image in the IDE under 3.5.4 there was an image size tool bar button

[Gambas-user] Modules

2014-09-15 Thread John Leake
Hi All, I am really struggling with the Gambas 3 documentation. Can anyone tell me where I can find out what constitutes a 'module' ? Best regards, John Leake -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production

Re: [Gambas-user] Modules

2014-09-15 Thread John Leake
A module is just a class whose all methods and properties are static. It's a thing coming from Visual Basic. Thank you. When and how is an instance instantiated ? -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production

Re: [Gambas-user] Modules

2014-09-15 Thread John Leake
What scope do Functions/Subs and variables have when defined or declared within a module ? -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version

Re: [Gambas-user] Planning the release of Gambas 3.6...

2014-09-15 Thread John Leake
Any chance of adding opacity and colour to simple controls ? -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce. Perforce version control. Predictably reliable.

[Gambas-user] Exec statement not working though equivalent Terminal command works

2014-07-10 Thread John Rose
single quotes around each of the paths in the corresponding Terminal command)?I've tried doing: Exec [mplex, -f, 8, -o, 'sCombinedPath', 'sVideoPath', 'sAudioPath'] but it didn't work. -- Regards, John -- Open source

[Gambas-user] Exec statement not working though equivalent Terminal command works

2014-07-09 Thread John Rose
in a Terminal e.g. mplex -f 8-o '/home/john/Videos/q.mpg''/home/john/Videos/The Story of Science_ Power, Proof20140621_2000.m2v' '/home/john/Videos/The Story of Science_ Power, Proof20140621_2000.mp2'. The Print statement shows (at runtime): mplex -f 8-o '/home/john/Videos

[Gambas-user] Exec statement not working though equivalent Terminal command works

2014-07-09 Thread John Rose
in a Terminal works. -- Regards, John CombineAV.tar.gz Description: application/gzip -- Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM

[Gambas-user] ec statement with parameters containing spaces

2014-07-07 Thread John Rose
in a Terminal e.g. mplex -f 8-o '/home/john/Videos/q.mpg''/home/john/Videos/The Story of Science_ Power, Proof20140621_2000.m2v' '/home/john/Videos/The Story of Science_ Power, Proof20140621_2000.mp2' The Print statement shows (at runtime): mplex -f 8-o '/home/john/Videos

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