[Lazarus] Lazarus for writing 3D Desktop Environment/Window manager for Linux?

2021-06-24 Thread Chavoux Luyt via lazarus
Hi Background: I have played a bit with Lazarus over the years, but have never used it to write any big or commercial projects (I have used both older versions of Delphi, C++ Builder and Visual Studio with C# for that). However, it seems to me as if modern Lazarus has everything and more than Delp

[Lazarus] Tools for self-extracting executables?

2019-02-18 Thread Chavoux Luyt via lazarus
Hi all, Many moons ago I wrote small self-extracting executable programs in Delphi... the executable would basically include both the program itself as well as some INI and data files; when running it would access itself on disk, find the addresses within the exe file where each data file starts (

[Lazarus] Lazarus directory settings

2018-03-01 Thread Chavoux Luyt via Lazarus
Second stupid question: Under options I can set the default Lazarus directory. Is there a setting somewhere for default ppu (or unit source) directory? I get an error when trying to install a new component (unrelated to lazreport): lazarus.pp(1,1) Fatal: Cannot find lazreport used by Lazarus. Howe

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Digest, Vol 121, Issue 49

2018-03-01 Thread Chavoux Luyt via Lazarus
Hi I am feeling very stupid now, but not sure where exactly to look. I installed Lazarus using aptitude on Debian (under /use/libs/lazarus). However, I see that that whole directory tree belongs to root. So if I install a new package, how does it get added to the IDE (since I am running lazarus as

[Lazarus] Favourite stand-alone db file?

2017-11-26 Thread Chavoux Luyt via Lazarus
Hi, I remember that years ago in Delphi I often used Paradox (less often dBase) to create a small stand-alone database with my Delphi desktop programs. It had tge advantage of 1. using Delphi database controls, 2. no need for a database server or DBMS to be installed on the client's machine (= les

Re: [Lazarus] Animation library

2017-03-08 Thread Chavoux Luyt via Lazarus
Hi Graeme, > I've been using JWM non-stop for the last 4 years! I'll never return to > a bloated "desktop environment" again. > Sounds interesting to me... I always tend to have multiple desktop environments/window managers installed. i have two questions: 1. Do you have any idea how it compares

Re: [Lazarus] Old Lazarus code fail at runtime

2016-12-28 Thread Chavoux Luyt via Lazarus
Hi, From: Giuliano Colla > Just a wild guess. The villain might be some property (such as FileName, > Filter or InitialDir) that you did set up with old Lazarus at design > time and which isn't compatible with current version. Revising the > design time properties of your File Open Dialog with Ob

[Lazarus] Old Lazarus code fail at runtime

2016-12-27 Thread Chavoux Luyt via Lazarus
Hi, I wrote a small program for Linux in a previous version of Lazarus which compiled and ran without problems before. I have now updated to fpc 3.0.0 and Lazarus 1.6 (backports version for Debian X86_64 Jessie). The code still compiles perfectly (it had a number of warnings, but these have now di