Re: [Lazarus] Embedded font

2017-02-06 Thread Luca Olivetti via Lazarus
El 06/02/17 a les 22:06, Darius Blaszyk via Lazarus ha escrit: Hi, Is it possible to embed a font for a GUI application in Lazarus in a platform independent way? I've been looking on the internet and I only found windows specific solutions so far. You already know the windows way, so I'll

Re: [Lazarus] TDataModule for non-database non-visual components

2017-02-06 Thread Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus
On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:17:48 +0200 Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus wrote: > Hi all, > > A simple question, is it ok to use a TDataModule for non-visual components > that can be shared among forms (and generally contain app-wide stuff)? Yes. That's their purpose.

[Lazarus] Embedded font

2017-02-06 Thread Darius Blaszyk via Lazarus
Hi, Is it possible to embed a font for a GUI application in Lazarus in a platform independent way? I've been looking on the internet and I only found windows specific solutions so far. Regards, Darius -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Synedit tab

2017-02-06 Thread Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus
On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 12:22:06 +0100 Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: >[...] > (Regarding Packages there seems to be some ambiguity with "installed" > "used" and "loaded". ) I hope this helps: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Packages#Package_states

[Lazarus] Synedit Highligter: hide found character sequence

2017-02-06 Thread Michael Schnell via Lazarus
Hi SynEdit Experts, Doing a special kind of text editor (that in fact needs to feature an invisible signature for each word in the text): Is it possible to do a highlighter that results in hiding the character sequences found by the highlighting criterion (in fact on screen replaces it by a

Re: [Lazarus] Synedit tab

2017-02-06 Thread Michael Schnell via Lazarus
On 06.02.2017 11:30, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: Check if you installed syneditdsgn package. In the "Install/Uninstall Packages" menu in the "Installed" Window there is "SynEditDsgn". But other than "SynEdit 1.0" same features a small green "+". No Idea if this is an error indication.

Re: [Lazarus] Synedit tab

2017-02-06 Thread Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus
On 06.02.2017 11:20, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: I tried to open an old project I once started to test using SynEdit. It does compile and work, but when trying to see the form I get an messages of not installed components. In fact the "sysEdit" tab that is described in the Wiki is not

[Lazarus] Synedit tab

2017-02-06 Thread Michael Schnell via Lazarus
I tried to open an old project I once started to test using SynEdit. It does compile and work, but when trying to see the form I get an messages of not installed components. In fact the "sysEdit" tab that is described in the Wiki is not seen in the Lazarus IDE. How to activate it ? Thanks,

Re: [Lazarus] DateTimePicker not installed?

2017-02-06 Thread Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus
On 06.02.2017 1:52, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: I installed pkg DateTimeControls. picture added. You have to install the design-time package DateTimeCtrlsDsgn. We have this documented (sometimes we don't forget :) )

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Component-dialog: small button

2017-02-06 Thread Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus
On 06.02.2017 10:15, C Western via Lazarus wrote: Indeed, though this minimum width should also depend on the font size, so requires some programming on each form (though maybe a single fixed value would work in most cases). Constraints are scaled according to current DPI settings in Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Component-dialog: small button

2017-02-06 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 06/02/17 09:04, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 06.02.2017 9:49, C Western via Lazarus wrote: It looks like a button that has been autosized; I must admit my feeling is that autosized buttons should have a minimum width You can use the Constraints property to set the minimum width in

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Component-dialog: small button

2017-02-06 Thread Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus
On 06.02.2017 9:49, C Western via Lazarus wrote: It looks like a button that has been autosized; I must admit my feeling is that autosized buttons should have a minimum width You can use the Constraints property to set the minimum width in your own programs. Ondrej --

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Component-dialog: small button

2017-02-06 Thread Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus
On 06.02.2017 3:28, wkitty42--- via Lazarus wrote: On 02/05/2017 07:41 PM, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: In this dialog, button Use is too narrow. Can i make diff, to make it wide, e.g. 80pix? ummm, it looks plenty big enough... all of the letters show with no clipping on either side... what am

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Component-dialog: small button

2017-02-06 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 06/02/17 02:28, wkitty42--- via Lazarus wrote: On 02/05/2017 07:41 PM, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: In this dialog, button Use is too narrow. Can i make diff, to make it wide, e.g. 80pix? ummm, it looks plenty big enough... all of the letters show with no clipping on either side... what am i