Re: [Lazarus] Using Microsoft Excel workbooks with Lazarus

2024-02-21 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
G'day, >>> I am writing an application that requires extensive use of Microsoft Excel .xlsx worksheets. >>> I have no success using OCDB connections. Does anyone use TODBCConnection with excel? >> Why not use the fpspreadsheet that comes with lazarus ? > I am using the fpspreadsheet , but being

Re: [Lazarus] Issue compiling under MacOS

2024-01-08 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
> Does your fpc.cfg contain > -XR/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/ Many thanks, this was the resolution. Cheers Mike On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 at 18:45, Mattias Gaertner via lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > > > On 07.01.24 10:50, Michael

Re: [Lazarus] Issue compiling under MacOS

2024-01-07 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
> Adding -ld_classic as per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77153800/xcode-15-c-compilation-errors got me nowhere. Well, to be correct, it got me past the " ld: library 'c' not found" error, but introduced me to a "ld: framework not found Cocoa" error. Cheers Mike On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 at 17:4

[Lazarus] Issue compiling under MacOS

2024-01-07 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
G'day, Apologies for this. I've just bought a MacMini specifically for Laz development, and I'm stuck with an issue that seems be plaguing several other projects. The apologies are because I'm new to Mac, I might not be reporting this correctly - and the info to resolve may be on the web, our fo

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus/Zoom Conflict

2020-05-11 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
> Now all of the database edit fields > when I type in them double entry. If I type -2.5, I get "--22..55" I had this one a few years ago. There's a configuration file to change somewhere, and I'm afraid I can't remember exactly. Searching the forum got me to the following, which feels differen

Re: [Lazarus] IDE trunk cannot build on fpc 3.0.2

2020-02-27 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
>> My solution for now is to revert to revision 62638 > I guess the right solution is to build clean Yes, thanks for that. Something had gone wrong with my system somewhere. Even after a make clean I was having problems with main.pp. I use Tortoise SVN, and multiple SVN Clean with all options en

Re: [Lazarus] IDE trunk cannot build on fpc 3.0.2

2020-02-26 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 8:05 PM AlexeyT wrote >> pkgmanager.pas(77,78) Error (5000) Id not found TObjectArray$2 I'm hitting this error on Windows. fpc 3.0.4 > Does "TObjectArray$2" mean the compiler does not find the second parameter? No idea. Warning - the following does not contain known

Re: [Lazarus] Multi-platform console application, how to handle file paths?

2019-10-29 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
> maybe they could start from A: N :-) I work offshore for a variety of clients, and using their PCs. I always ensure my USB key mount at B: (so I don't have to tweak paths in my fpc and Lazarus installs), I code in an encrypted folder that I mount at A: (using Veracrypt). The encrypted

Re: [Lazarus] Image Shop, a tool for students learning to program

2019-05-01 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
> https://www.getlazarus.org/learn/tutorials/examples/imageshop/ Very nice. Reminds me of the power of DirectShow utility GraphEdit: back in the day that did a lot to de-mystify video processing for me. Many thanks (for this, and for the build scripts you provided, I still use them :-) ) Mike -

Re: [Lazarus] How to use RunCommandIndir() in a thread?

2019-04-15 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
G'day, Sorry for not replying earlier, I'm under the pump at work. I run multiple ffprobe calls, each in their own thread. I can report there is no problem. So ffprobe itself is threadsafe. I also use a (Lazarus) app called dmMediaConverter that calls ffmpeg in threads to convert video, so aga

Re: [Lazarus] fpexif leak

2019-04-09 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
> Oh, sorry, I did not see this one Not a problem. Many thanks :-) Cheers Mike -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] fpexif leak

2019-04-09 Thread Michael Thompson via lazarus
G'day, I posted a patch for fpexif a little while back. Not sure who maintains fpexif, but could they review and hopefully apply? I forgot to add 'patch' to the name of the ticket I raised. I'm convinced it's a typo in the code... An object is being created but only freed if an exception is ra

Re: [Lazarus] fixes_1_8 - DBLookupComboBox broken

2018-01-11 Thread Michael Thompson via Lazarus
On 11 January 2018 at 19:22, Werner Pamler via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Please open "dblookupcombobox.inc" (in (lazarus)/lcl/include), find the > method TDBLookupCombobox.Select and replace it by the following code which > restores the code before r56990/r55911 for the cas

Re: [Lazarus] fixes_1_8 - DBLookupComboBox broken

2018-01-10 Thread Michael Thompson via Lazarus
On 11 January 2018 at 05:18, Werner Pamler via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Am 10.01.2018 um 21:57 schrieb Werner Pamler via Lazarus: > >> Am 10.01.2018 um 20:21 schrieb Gabor Boros via Lazarus: >> >>> I don't know. Attached a simple example. With it I can reproduce the >>> pr

Re: [Lazarus] type IntegerList

2017-11-13 Thread Michael Thompson via Lazarus
On 14 November 2017 at 01:58, Alexey via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > shows it's useful. It supports Longint or PtrInt or PtrUInt? Or i need > another list for PtrInt > You may already be aware, but check out the warnings in this page https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/

Re: [Lazarus] Win64 bit "Can not load SQLite client library "sqlite3.dll"

2017-11-12 Thread Michael Thompson via Lazarus
On 12 November 2017 at 22:17, Dennis via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > At first, I though it is because the existing sqlite3.dll is win32 format > so I went to https://sqlite.org/download.html to download > https://sqlite.org/2017/sqlite-dll-win64-x64-321.zip > I've just d

Re: [Lazarus] Who is using Object Pascal in production?

2017-10-27 Thread Michael Thompson via Lazarus
On 27 October 2017 at 20:26, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > I would like to propose a discussion about "What is the relevance of > Object Pascal nowadays". > I don't want waste your time. I just want to know if we are growing > and being more relevan

Re: [Lazarus] lazarus for visually impaired user

2017-10-24 Thread Michael Thompson via Lazarus
On 25 October 2017 at 03:48, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Who of us would initiate crout founding campaign by using Indigo or other > servers, so Lazarus would become fully accessible. While not putting my hand up to be involved (too busy I'm afraid),

Re: [Lazarus] In search of a component for holding a table of strings

2017-01-02 Thread Michael Thompson via Lazarus
> I am in need of a component/clas that can hold a > 2 dimensional "table" of strings. It has taken me a ridiculously long time to discover bufdataset, but right now I'm re-writing whole chunks of code to use these. Advantage for me: Filtering/Locate/Sort. For debug purposes, if you want to see