Re: [Lazarus] Ho do I display playing cards with Lazarus?

2008-11-12 Thread Reenen Laurie
I am writing Daring Apprentice... but it's a *little* more than your average card game I guess... http://daringapprentice.wikispaces.com For me it was important to be able to turn cards sideways, and I had worked with GLScene before then... so I went for glscene... overkill! :-) Regards,

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. Does anybody have any experience of or preference for one or the other of

Re: [Lazarus] KOL socketclient object

2008-11-12 Thread John vd Waeter
Aleš Katona wrote: lNetComponents is the visual lNet package and it tries to make a LCLEventer which tries to integrate into LCL/widgetset main loop (see my callaction note from before). Obviously this will fail without LCL, although I'd expect a compile-time error, not a runtime error.

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. Does anybody have any experience of or preference for one or the other of these, in particular

[Lazarus] Quick Compile command question

2008-11-12 Thread Fabio Dell'Aria
Hi to all, as first thing I want to do my congratulations to the developing team, really a great work. Now my question! :) What is the difference from the normal Build (Ctrl+F9) command and the Quick Compile command? When can I use one or other? What are the advantages and disadvantages? --

Re: [Lazarus] KOL socketclient object

2008-11-12 Thread Bogusław Brandys
Aleš Katona pisze: lNetComponents is the visual lNet package and it tries to make a LCLEventer which tries to integrate into LCL/widgetset main loop (see my callaction note from before). Obviously this will fail without LCL, although I'd expect a compile-time error, not a runtime error.

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-12 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/11/11 Aleš Katona [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now don't get me wrong.. there's nothing wrong on going to other solutions (even ones which have cost as products) if your situation warrants it. I have also sometimes used different solutions where time didn't permit to fix the various FPC/Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: Thanks Luca, I'll investigate. It's only for a Velleman K8055 USB board I'm tinkering with- just a few low-speed analogues and digitals. I took a look at the program at http://linuxk8055.free.fr/ and it seems pretty simple, you should have no problem

[Lazarus] Bug 0012616

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hi, Someone entered bug ID 0012616. I confirm this bug, it's really annoying because you can't edit a single imagelist any more :( I did a SVN update today, and got this error, so it must have been a recent change that caused this. Michael. ___

Re: [Lazarus] Quick Compile command question

2008-11-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Fabio Dell'Aria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference from the normal Build (Ctrl+F9) command and the Quick Compile command? Build = Compile + Linking Quick Compile = only does compiling, no linking (so you don't get a new executable). The latter

Re: [Lazarus] Bug 0012616

2008-11-12 Thread Gerard N/A
Hi, It to be have been fixed in rev. 17356 Regards, Gerard. ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Aleš Katona wrote: Now don't get me wrong.. there's nothing wrong on going to other solutions (even ones which have cost as products) if your situation warrants it. I have also sometimes used different solutions where time didn't permit to fix the various FPC/Lazarus problems (for

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Luca Olivetti wrote: I took a look at the program at http://linuxk8055.free.fr/ and it seems pretty simple, you should have no problem driving it from freepascal. Yes, that's the one I used but it's got some build problems that had me scratching my head. I'm hoping to be able to use Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/11/12 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Henry, noted in particular openusb. ARM is one of the platforms I'm being asked about, as is SPARC- the latter could obviously be a challenge if there are embedded endianness issues anywhere. hmm, i've used libusb on a big endian arm

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: you can send it my way. i've got an acer n30 that i've used with lazarus before, so it wouldn't hurt testing on that. Thanks, I'll drop him a note to make sure he sees this. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: i think you are misunderstanding mark, here. the fact that he is taking the time to test and write detailed emails _is_ his contribution. the hardest part of solving the problem is pinpointing it, in many cases. this problem might not even be related to lazarus, i

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: i used the one by Uwe Zimmermann (the api is quite stable - at least if you're using the 0.1.12 version, which hasn't been updated a lot). i've got it working on arm-linux without any problems (iirc). if you're interested in doing isochronous or asynchronous i/o, you

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: 2008/11/12 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Henry, noted in particular openusb. ARM is one of the platforms I'm being asked about, as is SPARC- the latter could obviously be a challenge if there are embedded endianness issues anywhere. hmm, i've used libusb

Re: [Lazarus] Bug 0012616

2008-11-12 Thread Gerard N/A
Was: It seems to have been fixed... On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Gerard N/A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It to be have been fixed in rev. 17356 Regards, Gerard. ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Héctor Fiandor Rosario wrote: Dear Mark, my congratulations for yor work in LFP. I am very happy with this compiler and really, it was very easy to migrate from Delphi5 to LFP I don't know why you're thanking me- I certainly don't deserve any of it. :-) There's a long list of the people

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-12 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/11/12 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I then copied the application over to the PDA again. The program load time (i.e. from tapping the icon to the start of drawing the window) was much better, but disappointingly the execution speed was not observably

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I then copied the application over to the PDA again. The program load time (i.e. from tapping the icon to the start of drawing the window) was much better, but disappointingly the execution speed was not observably different, i.e. it still took a second to draw the

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/11/11 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. Does anybody have any experience of or preference for one or the other of these, in

[Lazarus] tsqlquery.locate

2008-11-12 Thread Terry A. Haimann
When I run: Var Fnd: Boolean; Begin Fnd := MyQuery.Locate('MyIdx', 'MyValue', []); If Fnd = True Then ShowMessage('Record Found') Else ShowMessage('Record Not Found'); I get a message Record Found but the record doesn't change in the form. Now in Delphi when I used the locate method, I would put

[Lazarus] Forums on www.lazarus.freepascal.org is virtually unusable

2008-11-12 Thread ABorka
Is there any chance to do something with that website to improve the speed? It casts a really bad light on Lazarus/Freepascal that the website www.lazarus.freepascal.org is virtually unusable and most of the time it takes minutes to get a page loaded because of the timeouts. To post something

Re: [Lazarus] Forums on www.lazarus.freepascal.org is virtually unusable

2008-11-12 Thread Lord Satan
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:04:22 -0800 ABorka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any chance to do something with that website to improve the speed? I won't hold my breath. This beast is an undead monster way beyond its natural lifespan, refusing to accept its fate and rest eternally. Avoid it at any

Re: [Lazarus] Forums on www.lazarus.freepascal.org is virtually unusable

2008-11-12 Thread Brad Campbell
ABorka wrote: Is there any chance to do something with that website to improve the speed? It casts a really bad light on Lazarus/Freepascal that the website www.lazarus.freepascal.org is virtually unusable and most of the time it takes minutes to get a page loaded because of the timeouts.