Re: [Lazarus] fppkg gui

2009-03-28 Thread John Meyer
matt shaffer wrote: > Simple, upload the file to a file host (google for a free one) then > share the link with the mailing list. Then we can all download it if > we like. > > 2009/3/28 Carlos German Tejero > > > Hi to all!!! > I'm develop a simple fronte

Re: [Lazarus] Drawing text in WinCE

2009-01-29 Thread John vd Waeter
thout major problems. But what is output when you try: with SatellitePaintBox do begin Canvas.Textou(1,1,'Abc'); end; ? John ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] fsStayOnTop under windows

2009-01-28 Thread John vd Waeter
7;t know what it does exactly, but it sure helped! It survives all other applications! ;-) Well, that said, the taskmanager-form seems to use the same strong stayontop... fwiw! kind regards, John ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.26 very slow with GTK2 in fedora 8

2009-01-01 Thread John Sunderland
Perhaps you could give more details of your environment. regards, John Sunderland ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus forum

2008-12-22 Thread John vd Waeter
Now THAT is a big improvement! Thanks! John Marc Weustink wrote: > Hi, > This week Paul and I have been busy setting up a new forum on a new > server sponsored by firmos.at. All existing users and messages from the > old forum are transfered to the new forum. We hope you wi

Re: [Lazarus] Where does Lazarus store/look for global settings/options?

2008-11-24 Thread John vd Waeter
> Windows: depends on the installation. I'm not sure if GetAppConfigDir > depends on windows version. Maybe Vincent can tell. > On winxp I found them under: C:\Documents and Settings\John\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus Note that "local Settings" is a hi

Re: [Lazarus] One server and several clients [lNet]

2008-11-14 Thread John vd Waeter
uot; and not for all the clients. > > Thanks. > > Best regards. You probably are broadcasting (=sending to ip=0.0.0.0)? Using UDP? When reading "Hello" you should take note of the senders ip-address and port and then send the "How are you" to that i

Re: [Lazarus] KOL socketclient object

2008-11-12 Thread John vd Waeter
, like myTCP := tlTCP.Create(nil) See the "console" examples on how to use them. The code inside the components does not get triggered by LCL-events. So you have to trigger the code yourself by frequently calling the CallAction method. GL! John ___

Re: [Lazarus] New about dialog in 0.9.27 (svn trunk)

2008-10-20 Thread John Stoneham
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Bee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Strange? What does your Contributors tab look like? Before the text > > used to be in a memo and left aligned. Now it's a PaintBox, centre > > aligned text and scrolling upwards. > > Just an empty space. No text, no scrolling, n

Re: [Lazarus] Using the "build_html.sh" script on Mac OS X doesn't work [solution inside]

2008-10-15 Thread John Stoneham
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Henry Vermaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > yes, i know about that way, since i use bash, but i thought it was > bash specific? have you tested with other shells? you can also use > "basename" to remove suffixes. > Well, the script invokes bash to run itself (th

Re: [Lazarus] Using the "build_html.sh" script on Mac OS X doesn't work [solution inside]

2008-10-15 Thread John Stoneham
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:33 PM, John Stoneham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Alright, I don't know what the deal is with sed on OS X, if it's behaving > properly or what (sed syntax has always eluded me). Anyway I've attached two > patch files t

Re: [Lazarus] Using the "build_html.sh" script on Mac OS X doesn't work [solution inside]

2008-10-15 Thread John Stoneham
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Vincent Snijders < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Stoneham schreef: > > > I did not notice that, because you change still did contain the sed call: > > # create description file list > DescrFiles='' > for unit in $UnitLis

Re: [Lazarus] Using the "build_html.sh" script on Mac OS X doesn't work [solution inside]

2008-10-15 Thread John Stoneham
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:13 PM, John Stoneham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Henry Vermaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> yes, maybe it's getting confused by the multiple -e. have you tried >> sed 's/\(\.pp\|\.pas\)\b//g&#

Re: [Lazarus] Combined index.html to fcl , lcl , rtl index.html files .

2008-10-15 Thread John Stoneham
2008/10/15 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Dear Sirs , > > > Free Pascal and Lazarus documentation is contained in three directories : > ../fcl , ../lcl , ../rtl with index.html files > for each one . > > I have prepared a simple index.html as a reference to three of > those ind

Re: [Lazarus] Using the "build_html.sh" script on Mac OS X doesn't work [solution inside]

2008-10-15 Thread John Stoneham
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Henry Vermaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > yes, maybe it's getting confused by the multiple -e. have you tried > sed 's/\(\.pp\|\.pas\)\b//g'? that sed should probably only run once, > too (on the output of the ls). > Yeah, I figured it was the sed command that

Re: [Lazarus] 0.9.26 released

2008-10-14 Thread John Stoneham
Congrats all the way around! On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.26 release. This release > is based on fpc 2.2.2. > > This release can be downloaded from the sourceforge download page: > http://sourceforge.n

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus questions (auto complete, searching, docking, edit height)

2008-10-10 Thread John Stoneham
2008/10/10 Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Could be, I never had SO many objects :-) > Maybe you should split the form up in frames, then ? > > Michael. > > Bacially, the app is all about preferences, and is divided up with many tab pages and sub-pages and sub-tabs, so they all appear

Re: [Lazarus] matching bracket problems (Carbon)

2008-10-10 Thread John Stoneham
If the actual > textdrawer gets a different width => all sort of strange things can happen. > That could explain an operating system dependent issue. > > > Martin > > > > John Stoneham wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Mattias Gärtner

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus questions (auto complete, searching, docking, edit height)

2008-10-10 Thread John Stoneham
2008/10/10 Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, John Stoneham wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Mattias Gärtner > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > Zitat von Marius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: &g

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus questions (auto complete, searching, docking, edit height)

2008-10-10 Thread John Stoneham
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Mattias Gärtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Zitat von Marius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > -Would it be a problem to have a seperate IDE window for the structure > > view instead of a fixed one in the object inspector. IMO the current > > structure view is to small an

Re: [Lazarus] matching bracket problems (Carbon)

2008-10-10 Thread John Stoneham
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Mattias Gärtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Zitat von John Stoneham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I've been using the latest svn (Carbon) for a while now, updating once a > day > > or so, and matching brackets never seem to high

[Lazarus] matching bracket problems (Carbon)

2008-10-09 Thread John Stoneham
I've been using the latest svn (Carbon) for a while now, updating once a day or so, and matching brackets never seem to highlight properly. This issue appears on 10.4.11 and 10.5.3 (different builds for Tiger and Leopard). Usually, they don't highlight at all. When they do highlight, one or both of

Re: [Lazarus] Using the "build_html.sh" script on Mac OS X doesn't work [solution inside]

2008-10-08 Thread John Stoneham
Well, I think I've fixed the script with two simple lines. The original build_lcl_html.sh (and build_gtkintf_html.sh as well) have the following around line 30 or so: --- # create description file list DescrFiles='' for unit in $UnitList; do ShortFile=`echo $unit

Re: [Lazarus] About {$R *.res}...

2008-10-08 Thread John vd Waeter
d Barts suggestion also worked... specify the filename instead of * and the IDE leaves it untouched... But thanks for the links... :-) John ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] About {$R *.res}...

2008-10-07 Thread John vd Waeter
, John ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Installing in MacOSX

2008-10-07 Thread John Stoneham
You shouldn't run it from X11 anymore. The lastest version of Lazarus is built with native Carbon widgets. Just click on lazarus.app in the Finder (the one with the kitty head icon). 2008/10/7 Bruno Chavez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I can't find it in anywere, then I start the X11 and in the terminal

Re: [Lazarus] Using the "build_html.sh" script on Mac OS X doesn't work

2008-10-07 Thread John Stoneham
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > John Stoneham schreef: > > For a while now, I've maintained a local copy of the fcl, rtl, and lcl > > docs by creating a mirror using wget. This is a nasty kludge, but it > works. &

[Lazarus] Using the "build_html.sh" script on Mac OS X doesn't work

2008-10-07 Thread John Stoneham
I've been trying for quite a while to build the html documentation using the supplied build_html.sh script, however it never seems to work. Here's the error I get: An unhandled exception occurred at $00035510 : EFOpenError : Unable to open file "../../xml/lcl/alllclunits.pp.xml" $00035510 $000

[Lazarus] Problem with tabs (bug more urgent than shown in Mantis)

2008-09-25 Thread John Stoneham
Bug 0012068 concerns selecting a tab in the IDE editor (Carbon build), and that sometimes the page does not change when selecting the tab for the page. The target version for the bug is => 1.0. However, the bug is more prevalent than just affecting the IDE. Programs created with tabs and tab pages

[Lazarus] TSaveDialog.InitialDir on Mac OS X

2008-09-22 Thread John Stoneham
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but setting TSaveDialog.InitialDir doesn't seem to have any effect on OS X (carbon). It works as expected with TOpenDialog, which is odd because according to the source TSaveDialog inherits from TOpenDialog and that method isn't overridden. Is there some extra

Re: [Lazarus] Showmodal trouble

2008-09-18 Thread John vd Waeter
ppen only at the first Showmodal. Now every form has had its first showmodal. Speaking of workarounds ;-) goodluck! John ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Is this a new microsoft approach?

2008-08-14 Thread John vd Waeter
arts of the registry (like e.g. HKLM). Single user says: No problem, all runs fine! John > Gustavo > > ps: excuse my english > ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Is this a new microsoft approach?

2008-08-14 Thread John vd Waeter
Jon Bertrand wrote: > I'm being told by our install team that on Vista "Documents and Settings" is > "problematic". AFAIK "documents and settings\all users\application data\..." is the XP-way. The Vista-way is to use "/Programdata/Progname..."

Re: [Lazarus] Mac OS X (Carbon), executable placement issue

2008-08-02 Thread John Stoneham
2008/7/31 Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > John, > > > > Using a symlink to the executable is simply for your convenience in > developing. When it's time to distribute the app, of course you would want > to place the executable inside the .app folder, a

[Lazarus] Mac OS X (Carbon), executable placement issue

2008-07-31 Thread John Stoneham
First of all, let me say I'm ecstatic about the progress on the native Carbon Mac OS X build. I've recently switched to Mac OS X completely (no Windows at all for me anymore), so finding Lazarus can use native Carbon widgets was like finding Christmas in July! :) One thing that I question, though,

[Lazarus] is the website down?

2008-07-20 Thread John Meyer
I haven't been able to bring it up for the past couple of days. ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Advice about creating database-aware application with Lazarus

2008-06-22 Thread John
l - I even have Delphi 1 running on XP (don't ask why !) as well as using D4 extensively on it, due to some applications that use paradox dbs. > > (snip) > Cheers, John Sunderland ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Advice about creating database-aware application with Lazarus

2008-06-22 Thread John
ll set up at design time as you would in Delphi. The only code was in a 'commit' button: procedure TForm1.BitBtn1Click(Sender: TObject); begin SQLQuery1.ApplyUpdates; SQLTransaction1.CommitRetaining; end; cheers, John Sunderland __

Re: [Lazarus] Google reports -- Reported Attack Site!

2008-06-19 Thread John vd Waeter
> Tested with Firefox 3.0, Firefox 2 and IE 6 on Windows XP professional. > No problem for me. It's the safety-setting on Firefox: Tools/Options/Safety (or security or whatever it is called in English) John ___ Lazarus mailing l

[Lazarus] Google says "this site may harm your computer"

2008-06-16 Thread John vd Waeter
When clicking a link on a Google search result that points to lazarus.freepascal.org... "Site is listed as suspiciuous"... ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus site offline?

2008-04-29 Thread John vd Waeter
Online again, thanks! (and even somewhat faster... ;-)) John John vd Waeter wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone out there to take a look at lazarus.freepascal.org? > > (hmmm, looking at the e-mail address I hope this message gets through...) > >

[Lazarus] Lazarus site offline?

2008-04-29 Thread John vd Waeter
Hi all, Anyone out there to take a look at lazarus.freepascal.org? (hmmm, looking at the e-mail address I hope this message gets through...) Kind regerds, John ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] Dual screen, weird hints behaviour?

2008-03-06 Thread John vd Waeter
offscreen and there is no text visible. If I drag the form back to the mainscreen, hints are ok. Same thing happens when dragging the Lazarus mainpanel to the other screen. Using 0.9.25 build 14443 John ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Why TDateEdit is no more published?

2008-02-25 Thread John
as convenient 2) I can't get it to work anyway! cheers, John Sunderland ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Opinions required on what the ReadOnly property should do for LCL controls.

2008-02-21 Thread John
without disabling the whole control - I think I have to agree with Gerard cheers, John Sunderland There's a discussion going on about TDateTimeEdit.ReadOnly in Mantis report 10861. It's not a technical discussion, it's more about what ReadOnly should and shouldn&#

[Lazarus] Amendment of documentation suggestion for strtotime

2008-02-18 Thread John
'a', 'A', 'p' or 'P'. cheers, John Sunderland ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus