Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Andrea Mauri via Lazarus wrote: Il 28/09/2017 12:15, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus ha scritto: Normally you can, but you will need to copy some additional units from the trunk version of the FPC source repo (in particular, fpexprpars, and fcl-pdf) fpReport

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Andrea Mauri via Lazarus wrote: Il 27/09/2017 12:50, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus ha scritto: ps: Note that I compiled your project using the latest fpReport from FPC Trunk. I simply set the correct Unit Source Path in the project. You don't need to use FPC Trunk

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-09-27 09:38, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: What is my mistake of understanding ? You made a couple of mistakes and highlighted a bug in the PDF exporter. Mistakes: 1. You never registered the standard page sizes with:

Re: [Lazarus] [ANN] Xavier for XML — Compatible with FPC and Delphi

On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-09-24 09:02, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: Of course I would normally agree with that, but if you look at the Java annotations in that article Just curious, I know C# has annotations support too. Does Delphi? Yes.

Re: [Lazarus] [ANN] Xavier for XML — Compatible with FPC and Delphi

On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-09-23 12:36, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: FPC doesn't even cover the most basic of things - no decent debugger that can handle all the Object Pascal language features. :-/ > Of course not. FPC is not a debugger, it is a

Re: [Lazarus] [ANN] Xavier for XML — Compatible with FPC and Delphi

On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-09-21 04:06, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: Nah... most of them know nothing about true OOP. They believe that an object is a "record" with getters and setters... anyway. If I understand you correctly...

Re: [Lazarus] [ANN] Xavier for XML — Compatible with FPC and Delphi

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: Hi, I'm working in my new "pet project&quo

Re: [Lazarus] [ANN] Xavier for XML — Compatible with FPC and Delphi

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: Hi, I'm working in my new "pet project" called Xavier. Xavier is an object-oriented library for work with XML. I don't understand the 'why' ? Should I understand that you consider the DOM units not object-oriented ?

Re: [Lazarus] Why Laz2_DOM, laz2_XMLRead, and laz2_XMLWrite?

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Michael Van C

Re: [Lazarus] Why Laz2_DOM, laz2_XMLRead, and laz2_XMLWrite?

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: These units work using UTF8. The DOM units use UnicodeString (UTF16). Given that these units are quite stable in

Re: [Lazarus] Why Laz2_DOM, laz2_XMLRead, and laz2_XMLWrite?

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: Hi, Nowadays we have Unicode and so on. Is there any reason to these units (Laz2_DOM, laz2_XMLRead, and laz2_XMLWrite) still exists? I've always used them, but days ago I needed to use XPath and the xpath unit works using

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 13.09.2017 20:33, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-09-13 19:17, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: Similarly, every field in a database I create is always uniquely named. So if I ask "where is field TX_ID'

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: Of course there can be collisions - if it happens you have to resolve them with explicit namespaces. Making the whole point moot. You can understand namespaces and subnamespaces as a concept for folder structure within code. Of course you

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 13.09.2017 12:03, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: The benefit of writing fpreport.exporthtml versus fpreportexporthtml is zero. You forgot one thing: third-party

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:28:55 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt wrote: [...] The benefit of writing fpreport.exporthtml versus fpreportexporthtml is zero. It's a little bit better than zero. For example shorter uses

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: The benefit of writing fpreport.exporthtml versus fpreportexporthtml is zero. You forgot one thing: third-party libraries. E.g. your fpReport could use the "fprep" namespace. In the fpReport package you then define to use the fprep

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: As long as there are no command-line switch and directive for setting namespaces, they are completely useless. And even with them, the benefit is doubtful. The benefit of writing fpreport.exporthtml versus fpreportexporthtml is zero.

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:44:23 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: [...] As long as there are no command-line switch and directive for setting namespaces, they are completely u

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-09-12 19:01, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: It is new. Please rename (it's easy for new component) all files: usually its good with one prefix. E.g. fprep_*.*. hahaha... I had the units like that, using underscores. eg:

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: On 12.09.2017 21:25, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: Why would people see filename conflicts ? None of these files exist yet. because files like dlginputcombo.pp, fradbfdata.*, frmresizeelements.* may exist in BIG app. The ones

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: Definitely not. It is good to do (some users will see filename conflicts in big apps). no big apps ready on FPRep yet. Why would people see filename conflicts ? None of these files exist yet. And there are already apps in production using

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: Hi It is new. Please rename (it's easy for new component) all files: usually its good with one prefix. E.g. fprep_*.*. Definitely not. Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Dangers of using Move command to insert data into a TBytes array?

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: I just want to check with you which way is safer when using Move() commands in a procedure to combine two TBytes arrays by inserting one into the other at a specified point. What I need to do is the following: - Increase the size of the

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport -> Lazarus reportdsg.lpr

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: Is is not better to call the standard fonts of the system in TFPReportDesignerForm.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); ? if gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Count=0 then begin

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport -> Lazarus reportdsg.lpr

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: Am 21.08.2017 11:25 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus" < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>: On 2017-08-21 10:18, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: /usr/local/share/fonts /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts fonts

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport -> Lazarus reportdsg.lpr

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: It is possible to use a standard font and give a warning instead of fire an exception. Eg. Font not found, using standardfont instead ? That is what I meant with introducing aliases. The problem is of course that you

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport -> Lazarus reportdsg.lpr

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-08-21 09:54, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: These problems will only occur if you're using non-standard fonts. What if you wanted "self contained reports" eg like the demos in fpReport where we

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport -> Lazarus reportdsg.lpr

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-08-21 09:18, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: The '../demos/fonts' and other hardcoded values are maybe not really a good idea:) For the life of me, I couldn't think of another solution. eg: you might have a headless

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport -> Lazarus reportdsg.lpr

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: I think there ara som issues with the fonts. frmreportdesignermain.pp around line 395 if gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Count=0 then begin {$IFDEF UNIX} gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add(ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0))+'../demos/fonts/');

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport released

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 21.08.2017 1:38, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-08-20 21:16, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: The freetype dll searched by the fpreport was freetype-6.dll, but the actual freetype-2.3.5-1-bin.zip has only a

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport released

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: I'm on Win10 Pro/64 1703. The needed fonts are not found by the program, because they are not in my system (%windir%/fonts). In fpTTF only the WinDir is added to the searchlist. So an Exception is raised and the execution of the

Re: [Lazarus] fpReport released

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: Thx Michael & Graeme for the fcl-report. But is there a fcl-report package for Lazarus, because the web-demo asked me for ? Or should be an extra package for Lazarus planned ? This is an old package from when the sources were in a

[Lazarus] fpReport released

Hello, A long time wait. But it finally made it: fpreport has been committed to FPC SVN: packages/fcl-report. It should compile on windows, linux, freebsd and darwin. Features and architecture are described on: http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPReport Short highlights: - Banded report design. -

Re: [Lazarus] Reporting engine - What it's state?

On Sat, 19 Aug 2017, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: and the week goes by :-) It's not yet over. Any news about the report-engine ? Or had i miss this in the (fpc) trunk ? No, it is planned for tomorrow. I have other things on my plate as well :) Michael.--

Re: [Lazarus] GlobalMemoryStatus is Windows only, how to get installed RAM on Linux ?

On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, Landmesser John via Lazarus wrote: googled in vain ... ... and "TsmBios" ( -> Win/Linux https://github.com/RRUZ/tsmbios ) won't compile :-( So how to get Information about installed RAM on Linux for example? Ok, i could grep "hwinfo" or such in a terminal but thats

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: On 15.08.2017 22:45, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: How is that not "abuse"??? IMHO it's a major shortcoming to define "string" as "printable text". On the contrary. That is exactly what it means. Anything else is just a

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:26:34 +0200 Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: On 15.08.2017 11:15, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote: > Why shouldn't there be a single char type that intuitively represents > a

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: On 15.08.2017 12:15, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: What does S[2] mean in your proposal ? Is it 1, 2, 4 or even 8 bytes ? Regarding the users' appreciation, the S[x] notation is decently incompatible between the different

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:02:28 +0200 Michael Schnell via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: On 15.08.2017 11:52, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > This cannot be solved properly except by duplicating the cla

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: On 15.08.2017 11:25, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: WideString/UnicodeString for those that want 2-byte characters. A codepage-aware single-byte string for those that want 1-byte characters. The shortstring is even still

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:47:58 +0200 Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: [...] The main problem of such a dynamic type would be the inability to do fast indexing as the compiler would need to insert runtime

Re: [Lazarus] Reporting engine - What it's state?

Hi, I will commit the code to FPC svn the coming week. Michael. On Fri, 11 Aug 2017, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: Hi, pls, where can the actual 'unstable ?' Code found ? fpc trunk, where ? Thanks Andreas Am 24.07.2017 um 08:54 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus: On Mon, 24

Re: [Lazarus] High DPI ?

On Sat, 5 Aug 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 05.08.2017 14:16, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: How can I check that the IDE has actually enabled/activated HDPI and uses big icons/button images? Check for Application.Scaled := True in lazarus.pp. This enables Hi-DPI

[Lazarus] High DPI ?

Hello, I'm running lazarus on a high-dpi laptop. The laptop has a dual-boot Linux mint and Mac OS. I run Lazarus on both OS-es but I seriously doubt it has enabled HighDPI, because the icon buttons are still very small. How can I check that the IDE has actually enabled/activated HDPI and uses

Re: [Lazarus] Optimize SwapEndian for widestring?

On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: Pls tell can I optimize this func? E.g. calc each char's PWord and read/write word. Probably this will be faster: function SSwapEndian(const S: UnicodeString): UnicodeString; var i: integer; p :pwidechar; begin Result:= S;

Re: [Lazarus] FCL DOM [vs] laz2_DOM, and more

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017, Michalis Kamburelis via Lazarus wrote: 2017-07-30 10:00 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>: On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: Hi, Nowadays, we have full Unicode support in FPC. So, my qu

Re: [Lazarus] FCL DOM [vs] laz2_DOM, and more

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: Hi, Nowadays, we have full Unicode support in FPC. So, my question is: The units bellow is still necessary to use XML with Lazarus or we can use just the original provided by FCL? laz2_DOM laz2_XMLRead laz2_XMLWrite

Re: [Lazarus] ComparePoints func

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Reimar Grabowski via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:53:34 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-07-26 17:27, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: > Hm, in my app Int makes sense: i need to compare Points in binary > search, and

Re: [Lazarus] ComparePoints func

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: On 26.07.2017 18:11, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: ComparePoints() returning a Integer is not a very friendly return type either, Hm, in my app Int makes sense: i need to compare Points in binary search, and see: >, <, =. This

Re: [Lazarus] ComparePoints func

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-07-26 14:54, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: I think LCL has many Compare funcs, but misses func for TPoint. Here it's comparing x/y screen coordinates Why not extend TPoint with an IsEquals() method, so you can do something

Re: [Lazarus] Reporting engine - What it's state?

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Gabor Boros via Lazarus wrote: Hi All, 2015. 07. 09. 21:45 keltezéssel, Michael Van Canneyt írta: Just an opinion: I am working with Graeme Geldenhuys to create a reporting engine from scratch. I think Lazreport's design contains some fundamental flaws, which can only

Re: [Lazarus] Breaking change

On Sun, 23 Jul 2017, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: On 23.07.2017 12:50, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: Hello, I have fixed bug 28760: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=28760 This will cause compilation of win32wsdialogs.pp to fail, in particular in class procedure

Re: [Lazarus] Breaking change

On Sun, 23 Jul 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 23.07.2017 12:50, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: Directly passing an interface where (T)REFIID is expected, will no longer be possible. What is the fix? "@GetTypeData(TypeInfo(IShellItem))^.Guid" ? That is on

Re: [Lazarus] Breaking change

On Sun, 23 Jul 2017, Martok via Lazarus wrote: { IUnknown } function QueryInterface({$IFDEF FPC_HAS_CONSTREF}constref{$ELSE}const{$ENDIF} IID: TGUID; out Obj): Hresult; virtual; {$IFNDEF WINDOWS}cdecl{$ELSE}stdcall{$ENDIF}; That is a historical monstrosity :) I a gree we can do

Re: [Lazarus] Breaking change

On Sun, 23 Jul 2017, Martok via Lazarus wrote: Am 23.07.2017 um 14:24 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus: The pointer-ness of REFIID is an artefact of the C-ABI. It is not meant to mean 'pass a pointer to a GUID-struct', but 'pass a GUID using byref'. We have constref for that. See

Re: [Lazarus] Breaking change

On Sun, 23 Jul 2017, Martok via Lazarus wrote: Hello, I have fixed bug 28760: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=28760 as the reporter: not really. The pointer-ness of REFIID is an artefact of the C-ABI. It is not meant to mean 'pass a pointer to a GUID-struct', but 'pass a GUID

[Lazarus] Breaking change

Hello, I have fixed bug 28760: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=28760 This will cause compilation of win32wsdialogs.pp to fail, in particular in class procedure TWin32WSOpenDialog.SetupVistaFileDialog(ADialog: IFileDialog; const AOpenDialog: TOpenDialog); search for: if InitialDir

[Lazarus] TStringStream changes

Hello, TStringStream now observes encoding, following the fix for: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30508 Basically, this is a Delphi compatibility fix. This may impact some programs which use encodings that deviate from the default system encoding. In that case, the solution is to

Re: [Lazarus] Congrats to the FPC/Lazarus projects - job well done!

On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: IMO we should give the Lazarus foundation more importance/advertisement. It should be the other way around. The foundation should

Re: [Lazarus] Cross OS API Wrappers

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, R0b0t1 via Lazarus wrote: Hello, I was wondering if cross-platform (Linux, BSD, Windows) wrappers exist for certain goals like "create a system timer" or "use asynchronous IO." A good example would be a class which uses timerfds and epoll on Linux, kqueues and kevent on

Re: [Lazarus] GetAppConfigDir and GetAppConfigDirUTF8 and Apache

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, Andrea Mauri via Lazarus wrote: Dear all, I have a question related GetAppConfigDir function when the application is called from a script being run by apache. One of my application user gets this result from GetAppConfigDir(False): /root/.config/myappname since my app

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 3 of 1.8.0

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 12:49 AM, brian via Lazarus wrote: I think "annoying" is a bit of an understatement, myself. If the final release of 1.8 still shows the problem *for me*, then I'm certainly going to

Re: [Lazarus] Res leaks on exiting gtk2 app

On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:02:34 +0300 Alexey via Lazarus wrote: CudaText app, gtk2 WS. I run it from terminal, it loads dir to Treeview [only top level of /usr], i exit. Why do you think this is a bug in

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus The Complete Guide

On Tue, 23 May 2017, Salvatore Coppola via Lazarus wrote: Hi to all the authors, is in program a new edition of the guide? Yes, but no date is set. Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org

Re: [Lazarus] Attn Michael, uses section

On Thu, 18 May 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2017 13:46:07 +0200 Joe via Lazarus wrote: [...] > Either move the Windows unit in front of the SysUtils unit, or use > SysUtils.GetEnvironmentVariable Yes, both solutions work; thank

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.8.0

On Thu, 18 May 2017, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote: El 18/05/17 a les 09:17, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus ha escrit: El 17/05/17 a les 20:22, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus ha escrit: El 17/05/17 a les 20:16, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus ha escrit: Excellent, this is OK, with my selected fonts and

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.8.0

On Thu, 18 May 2017, Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus wrote: I've noticed that the window shrinking bug in window maker with Gtk2 is still there, but i finally managed to figure it out and made a fix. I originally wrote the fix in 1.8RC1 so it should apply there, but the patch is against SVN.

Re: [Lazarus] Form resize to standard size in IDE.

On Tue, 16 May 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 16.05.2017 20:44, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: Anything else I can do ? (except dumping linux mint, obviously...) Maybe this is an option for you until it gets properly fixed: you could build the IDE for Qt. (You can

Re: [Lazarus] Form resize to standard size in IDE.

On Mon, 8 May 2017, zeljko wrote: On 08.05.2017 15:51, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: How can I investigate this ? Where can/should I put some writelns to see what is happening ? I don't mind helping out, but I need some pointers where to start. Gtk2WSForms.pp , line 168 see my comment

Re: [Lazarus] Menu editor unstable? - stack trace

On Tue, 9 May 2017, Michael W. Vogel via Lazarus wrote: Am 09.05.2017 um 15:15 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus: Hi, I manage to reliably reproduce it ! 1 Open attached project. 2 Double click MainMenu1 to edit 3 Under MenuItem5, delete MenuItem14,13,12,11 (I use the - button

Re: [Lazarus] Menu editor unstable? - stack trace

- Open project - Select a popup menu (there are several) - Double click to edit - Select menu item 1 - Immediatly select menu item 2 Here, the crash happens when going to the object inspector. If you want, you can add a minimal example and explain every single step again, what you do,

[Lazarus] intercepting keyboard events

Hi, How can I respond to keyboard events in a TCustomControl (and hence TWinControl) descendent ? I have asigned the various OnKey* events handlers but they are not called. My control also does not seem to receive focus when clicked, I assume this is why it doesn't get keyboard events

Re: [Lazarus] Menu editor unstable? - stack trace

On Mon, 8 May 2017, Michael W. Vogel via Lazarus wrote: Am 08.05.2017 um 15:09 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus: I managed to produce a stacktrace. Hopefully this, combined with the stacktrace at the end is sufficient to solve the issue. Michael. (gdb) cont Continuing. WARNING

Re: [Lazarus] Form resize to standard size in IDE.

On Mon, 8 May 2017, zeljko wrote: On 08.05.2017 12:08, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2017, Fabio Luis Girardi via Lazarus wrote: Em 8 de mai de 2017 04:43, "Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus" < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> escreveu: On Mon, 8

Re: [Lazarus] Menu editor unstable? - stack trace

y On Mon, 8 May 2017, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2017, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: Can you please create a proper backtrace with gdb using the latest Lazarus trunk. It shows also function names and parameter values etc. I was actually able to reproduce

Re: [Lazarus] Menu editor unstable? - stack trace

On Mon, 8 May 2017, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: Can you please create a proper backtrace with gdb using the latest Lazarus trunk. It shows also function names and parameter values etc. I was actually able to reproduce the access violation once but not more however much I tried. The

Re: [Lazarus] Form resize to standard size in IDE.

On Mon, 8 May 2017, Fabio Luis Girardi via Lazarus wrote: Em 8 de mai de 2017 04:43, "Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus" < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> escreveu: On Mon, 8 May 2017, Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus wrote: Maybe it is also related to the problem i mentione

Re: [Lazarus] Form resize to standard size in IDE.

On Mon, 8 May 2017, Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus wrote: Maybe it is also related to the problem i mentioned a few days ago? It does sound kind of similar to what i demo in the video here: https://webmshare.com/q78rb It certainly looks like it. Michael. On Mon, May 8, 2017 at

Re: [Lazarus] Form resize to standard size in IDE.

On Sun, 7 May 2017, zeljko wrote: If you suspect on HiDPI then you should disable scaling at application level (lazaruside) via Application.Scaled := False (or similar prop name) . In that case TCustomForm.Scaled should not be taken into account in any case. Is there a command-line option

Re: [Lazarus] RTTI grid with multiple objects ?

On Sun, 7 May 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2017 15:15:29 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: Hello, How to make the RTTI property grid display the properties of a set of TComponents ? Currently I have: (

[Lazarus] RTTI grid with multiple objects ?

Hello, How to make the RTTI property grid display the properties of a set of TComponents ? Currently I have: (MyGrid is the property grid) Var I : integer; L : TPersistentSelectionList; begin C:=0; L:=MyGrid.Selection; L.BeginUpdate; try L.Clear; if Not

Re: [Lazarus] TSQLQuery Scroll events

On Sun, 7 May 2017, kapibara via Lazarus wrote: I made a test app to unerstand more about TSQLQuery events. It requires SQLite and has one table with three records. 1) Why does the dataset scroll 6 times to open a query that has a resultset with three records? 2) Also, directly after

Re: [Lazarus] Annoying lazarus mailing list behaviour

On Sun, 7 May 2017, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: Am 07.05.2017 12:11 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus" < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>: Hi, Can we please get rid of the Cc: being added to the mails sent through the lazarus mailing list ? In most cases, when

Re: [Lazarus] Menu editor unstable?

On Sun, 7 May 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2017 21:26:38 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: [...] I have not exactly been able to reproduce reliably, but the following just triggered it: - Start IDE - Open p

Re: [Lazarus] Installation issue - unit not found

On Sun, 7 May 2017, Gabriella Lynns via Lazarus wrote: I have been trying to install Lazarus for two unprivileged users, each in a subdirectory of their own $HOME  I've been using a script originally from getlazarus.org   The first installation went smoothly. The second, using exactly the

Re: [Lazarus] Making sources compatible with Delphi (but Lazarus is priority)

On Fri, 5 May 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2017 12:52:48 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: [...] I propose to let the compiler observe the BOM. But I don't think more is needed. FPC observes the BOM

Re: [Lazarus] Making sources compatible with Delphi (but Lazarus is priority)

On Fri, 5 May 2017, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: What tricks do you still need in 3.0.x ? The annoying tricky part with our UTF-8 solution is the assignment of Unicode string li

Re: [Lazarus] Making sources compatible with Delphi (but Lazarus is priority)

On Fri, 5 May 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 05.05.2017 11:17, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-05-05 07:43, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: As far as I know, you don't need any tricks to work

Re: [Lazarus] Making sources compatible with Delphi (but Lazarus is priority)

On Fri, 5 May 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 05.05.2017 11:06, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-05-05 07:43, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: As far as I know, you don't need any tricks to work with unicode filenames or output in 3.0.2. Maybe with exception

Re: [Lazarus] Making sources compatible with Delphi (but Lazarus is priority)

On Fri, 5 May 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-05-05 07:43, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: As far as I know, you don't need any tricks to work with unicode filenames or output in 3.0.2. Maybe with exception of TStrings and TFileStream. Again, I didn't have time

Re: [Lazarus] Startup environment: to Gui, or not to GUI?

On Thu, 4 May 2017, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: On 11/04/17 09:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: Apologies if this is an FAQ. Is there an orthodox way that a Lazarus program can very early on look at how it's been started and decide whether it can usefully fall back to a text

Re: [Lazarus] Configure IDE dlg tab-set

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:13:43 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: [...] I like your use of "soon" :-) Given that the dialog has not changed substantially in many years,

Re: [Lazarus] Configure IDE dlg tab-set

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:49:02 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: [...] *If* something needs to be removed, I would remove the listbox. It only takes up a lot of space, and it's

Re: [Lazarus] Configure IDE dlg tab-set

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Sandro Cumerlato via Lazarus wrote: With Michael explanation it looks like the best solution. Sorry for my misunderstanding. ? No need to apologize. All is clear in the end, that's what matters :) Michael. -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Configure IDE dlg tab-set

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Sandro Cumerlato via Lazarus wrote: If I have understand correctly, it is better to have only one list. I prefer the left Listbox. Ah... Why is it better ? I quite like the fact that there are 2 possibilities ? Seems very much like a matter of taste to me. Michael.

Re: [Lazarus] Configure IDE dlg tab-set

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Sandro Cumerlato via Lazarus wrote: On 23 Apr 2017 10:30, "Graeme Geldenhuys Simply remove the listbox and then place error state icons in the tabs where applicable. So you will still get an overview of what settings are wrong. -1 IMHO left ListBox is better because

Re: [Lazarus] Configure IDE dlg tab-set

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: This dialog has one tabset -from PageControl, and another - from left Listbox/Listview. Confusing. Better leave one Listbox. Picture. Can you explain in more detail what is wrong with the dialog ? I look at this picture, and I see absolutely

Re: [Lazarus] Quick Video: A Web Application

On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Santiago A. via Lazarus wrote: El 19/04/2017 a las 17:09, Anthony Walter via Lazarus escribió: Thank you all for the feedback and discussion. From me, the implementer and designer, I can say the most difficult part of creating this project, and in most projects, is not

Re: [Lazarus] Quick Video: A Web Application

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: This isn't a free pascal or lazarus project, but something I wrote using typescript quite a while ago. http://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/cloud-files.mp4 Soon, you'll be able to write this app in Free Pascal. Michael. --

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus for Chromebook (Chrome OS)?

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Bob B. via Lazarus wrote: Millions of Chromebooks are sold quarterly, and that will increase because schools in USA are now providing them to students.  Also Chrome OS now runs Android apps (if the processor is capable).  Any chance of Laz for Chrome OS? Just thought I

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