[Lazarus] Lazarus based commercial accounting package

2009-02-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Lazarus developers, I just got word from the BS1 Accounting author that one of his developer customers which bought the source code, ported BS1 Accounting to Lazarus and runs it on Linux, Windows and MacOS. That's excellent news! :) BS1 Accounting http://www.bs1software.com Regards, -

[Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Is there already a wiki pages that lists features that Lazarus has, but Delphi doesn't? Or features that Lazarus had way before Delphi did? I always get told that Lazarus is light years behind Delphi. I always disagree, but would like to point them to a web page to list those items. eg:

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Hi, Is there already a wiki pages that lists features that Lazarus has, but Delphi doesn't? Or features that Lazarus had way before Delphi did? Almost any wiki page mentioning Delphi mentions features that Delphi doesn't: Linux, OS X,

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Gerard N/A schrieb: Hi Graeme, This is not to start a flame war, but would you care to explain: * Lazarus has much better Packages than Delphi's dumb packages. I'd like to port a Delphi app wich uses package based plugins and as far as I know there is no way I can do that with

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Indeed, because using packages as a plugin system is abusing packages: packages have no well defined and stable abi being usable from any language thus they are not the right choose for a good plugin system. How

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread theo
I think you get the idea. Not really. Why are you constantly trying to convince Delphi people to switch to Lazarus, even in the Embarcadero Forums? That's indecent imho. It's important for the Pascal Language that CodeGear is selling products. Please stop it. It helps nothing. Regards Theo

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM, theo x...@theo.ch wrote: Why are you constantly trying to convince Delphi people to switch to Lazarus, even in the Embarcadero Forums? I'm not telling them to dump Delphi. As I stated over and over - a bit of competition is great! In the newsgroup, I was

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Gerard N/A
Hi Graeme, This is not to start a flame war, but would you care to explain: * Lazarus has much better Packages than Delphi's dumb packages. I'd like to port a Delphi app wich uses package based plugins and as far as I know there is no way I can do that with FPC/Lazarus? Best regards,

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Gerard N/A gerardusmerca...@gmail.com wrote: This is not to start a flame war, but would you care to explain: Hey, finally your original email got through How weird? Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Gerard N/A schrieb: This is not to start a flame war, but would you care to explain: * Lazarus has much better Packages than Delphi's dumb packages. I'd like to port a Delphi app wich uses package based

Re: [Lazarus] File open dialog doesn't work on an user account in Mac OS X

2009-02-20 Thread ghf03464
Dmitry, Bad news. SVN 18769 Lazarus makes the same fault. The backtrace is attached. Haruo. - Original Message - Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:30:55 +0300 From: dmitry boyarintsev skalogryz.li...@gmail.com To: General mailing list lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] File

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Gerard N/A
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Gerard N/A schrieb: Hi Graeme, This is not to start a flame war, but would you care to explain: * Lazarus has much better Packages than Delphi's dumb packages. I'd like to port a Delphi app wich uses package

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Bee
Why are you constantly trying to convince Delphi people to switch to Lazarus, even in the Embarcadero Forums? I'm with Graeme in this regard because I rant about this in their forum once in a while. No, we never try to convince them to switch. What we do was convincing them that they do have

Re: [Lazarus] Debugger problems

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 22:03, Alex du Plessis alexdu...@telkomsa.net wrote: Any pointers on how to get the debugger going? Currently a debugger in Lazarus is barely usable. However, if you submit a bug report http://bugs.freepascal.org/ and attach a sample project to demonstrate a bug, there

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Bee
Indeed, because using packages as a plugin system is abusing packages: packages have no well defined and stable abi being usable from any language thus they are not the right choose for a good plugin system. Maybe for the start we could ignore accessibility factor from other languages. To me,

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Bee schrieb: Indeed, because using packages as a plugin system is abusing packages: packages have no well defined and stable abi being usable from any language thus they are not the right choose for a good plugin system. Maybe for the start we could ignore accessibility factor from other

Re: [Lazarus] Debugger problems

2009-02-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Alexander Klenin kle...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 22:03, Alex du Plessis alexdu...@telkomsa.net wrote: Any pointers on how to get the debugger going? Currently a debugger in Lazarus is barely usable. Yeah, that is one thing I seriously miss

Re: [Lazarus] Debugger problems

2009-02-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Bee bi...@brawijaya.ac.id wrote: I don't know in Windows, but I use it on Linux and Mac in daily basis. Yes, it has glitches here and there, but mostly it works to me. I can't imagine writing a program without a proper debugger. ;) What do you do different to

Re: [Lazarus] Problem using the SVN program: source files mutilated

2009-02-20 Thread Bart
So I should now do svn revert this will undo all changes I made. and after that svn update and I get my own patch back in the proper way? Bart ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Debugger problems

2009-02-20 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Bee bi...@brawijaya.ac.id wrote: I don't know in Windows, but I use it on Linux and Mac in daily basis. Yes, it has glitches here and there, but mostly it works to me. I can't imagine writing a program without a proper debugger. ;)

Re: [Lazarus] Problem using the SVN program: source files mutilated

2009-02-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Bart bartjun...@gmail.com wrote: So I should now do svn revert If you are in the root directory of Lazarus and you do the following, it will revert (undo) all local changes recursively. svn revert -R . To only revert changes in the current directory, but

[Lazarus] Free Pascal category at SourceForge

2009-02-20 Thread Johannes W. Dietrich
Maybe you are interested in a recent feature request I have proposed for the SourceForge site, the creation of a Free Pascal category in their Trove Software map. You may access (and comment) the request via http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2384662group_id=1atid=350001;

Re: [Lazarus] Debugger problems

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 22:44, Marc Weustink marc.weust...@cuperus.nl wrote: I wonder too what you do differently. How do you think I develop lazarus myself ? I agree that issues Graeme mentioned are tolerable, although inconvenient. For me, however, debugger, just crashes of freezes after 2-3

[Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Klenin
If any core developer has time, please have a look at commits made for http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13214 , in particular r18774. It works as far as I can test, but is that an 'official' way to create parent-child relation between components? Things such as ReadState override seem

Re: [Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
How did you solve the problem of MQ with win32 line endings? ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:09, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: How did you solve the problem of MQ with win32 line endings? I did not :-( I resorted to manually converting files back and forth. It is not hard, but tedious. -- Alexander S. Klenin

Re: [Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Klenin
By the way, Mercurial mirror seems to be stuck again since r18773. What is the problem with it? -- Alexander S. Klenin ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Alexander Klenin schrieb: By the way, Mercurial mirror seems to be stuck again since r18773. What is the problem with it? Here it is at 18780? ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Alexander Klenin schrieb: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:09, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: How did you solve the problem of MQ with win32 line endings? I did not :-( I resorted to manually converting files back and forth. It is not hard, but tedious. So we cannot recommend

Re: [Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:23, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Alexander Klenin schrieb: By the way, Mercurial mirror seems to be stuck again since r18773. What is the problem with it? Here it is at 18780? Works for me now, too. What is the update interval? It seems some

Re: [Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Alexander Klenin schrieb: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:23, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Alexander Klenin schrieb: By the way, Mercurial mirror seems to be stuck again since r18773. What is the problem with it? Here it is at 18780? Works for me now, too. What is the update

Re: [Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 03:17, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:28, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Actually, I think we still can. The DVCS model itself is so powerful It should first solve the awkwardness of line ending problem, it

Re: [Lazarus] TAChart child/parent control integration: request for review

2009-02-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Alexander Klenin schrieb: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 03:17, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:28, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Actually, I think we still can. The DVCS model itself is so powerful It should first solve the awkwardness

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Leslie Kaye
Sadly Delphi just became a M$ database front-end. http://www.embarcadero-events.eu/ Hope my assumption is not true but if it is then Lazarus - we are about to get an influx of huge number of disillusioned Delphi developers who do not work on enterprise database projects or those who do work

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

2009-02-20 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: Why are you constantly trying to convince Delphi people to switch to Lazarus, even in the Embarcadero Forums? I'm not telling them to dump Delphi. As I stated over and over - a bit of competition is great! In the newsgroup, I was simply stating that other

Re: [Lazarus] Debugger problems

2009-02-20 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: Currently a debugger in Lazarus is barely usable. Yeah, that is one thing I seriously miss about Delphi and Kylix (thought not nearly enough to make me switch back). Is there no way we can hook (tie in) the Kylix or Delphi debugger into Lazarus? Which debugger

Re: [Lazarus] Debugger problems

2009-02-20 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marc Weustink schrieb: tooltip on identifiers don't work, Always, unless used on properties. In that case I use the Evaluation dialog to inspect the membervar. Sorry, Graeme is right :-( In most cases I cannot inspect local variables, due to no such symbol in context errors, even with

Re: [Lazarus] Problem using the SVN program: source files mutilated

2009-02-20 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Bart schrieb: So I should now do svn revert this will undo all changes I made. and after that svn update and I get my own patch back in the proper way? Or you fix the marked conflicts in the source code. This is what the markers are good for - prevent compilation of code, where SVN

Re: [Lazarus] Debugger problems

2009-02-20 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
Is this a platform issue? (I'm primarily using Windows) it's debugger issue. GDB just don't understand some of the FPC expressions. ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus