Re: [Lazarus] locate command for dBase

On 5/26/23 7:31 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: On Fri, 26 May 2023, wkitty42--- via lazarus wrote: i don't see where you did a seek to the record you are trying to get to... granted, it has been a long while since i did anything with FPC/Lazarus or an dBase databases but it

Re: [Lazarus] locate command for dBase

On 5/25/23 8:12 PM, john Ward via lazarus wrote:   if   temp.Locate('temp_no', (tempid),[loPartialkey])   then   begin     showmessage('we found the field or Partial' + tempid);     showmessage('current temp_no is ');     tno := temp.FieldbyName('temp_no').asString;    showmessage('tempn

Re: [Lazarus] runcommand doesn't work?

On 3/9/23 8:28 PM, john Ward via lazarus wrote: *I have a program, segment included below, that partially works.  The first 'runcommand' example works, but the 2nd doesn't?* *If I type the lp command line, it prints perfectly..* perhaps "which lp" will give you the proper path? also "whereis l

Re: [Lazarus] How to list available serial orts on Ubuuntu?

On 11/28/22 5:31 AM, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: I haved a debugging tool program created on Windows and I am orting it to Linux Ubuntu. It seems to build just fine except for a combobox fill function which uses the Windows way of populating the selectoer box with the serial ports available on

Re: [Lazarus] Displaying Tree Data from a Shell/Terminal command in a TListView [Linux Debian]

On 11/26/22 8:24 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane via lazarus wrote: After asking for help on the Lazarus forum  I twiddled with the font size and then it displayed the tree lines perfectly but I would like to know if there is a way to do this using a TListView without having to be stuck with a Monospace

Re: [Lazarus] Question

On 12/21/21 8:28 AM, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:   git log --pretty=oneline ae9017^..871307 | grep -Ei -e "UTF-?8" i forgot to also add this list of commits that appear to be specific to various FPC versions used behind Lazarus or used to compile Lazarus... git log --pretty=oneline ae

Re: [Lazarus] Question

On 12/21/21 3:15 AM, Евгений Кадисов via lazarus wrote: Thank you once more. It turned out that the problem was not solved. When I have (2.0.12 instead of 2.0.10) [...] perhaps looking at the changelogs for the differences between these two versions will help you find what you need to change i

Re: [Lazarus] Question

On 12/20/21 6:35 AM, Евгений Кадисов via lazarus wrote: Thank you. It seems I have found the reason. ok... and the reason/solution is/was? i ask so that others might find it if they have similar problems... пн, 20 дек. 2021 г. в 13:58, wkitty42--- via lazarus mailto:lazarus@lists.lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Question

On 12/20/21 2:46 AM, Евгений Кадисов via lazarus wrote: Dear lazarus programmers. After the change of the Lazarus version a command "find" fails when it must find a word written with russian letters. What must I do? what must you do? maybe provide a little more information? what version of la

Re: [Lazarus] Can I configure Lazarus (or the project) to only add symbols on debug?

On 12/14/21 3:29 AM, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: This is exactly what I needed, thanks for explaining it! :) don't you love it when a plan comes together? :) -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approval. *Please keep mailing list traffic on the list where it belon

Re: [Lazarus] All Demos Are Done

On 12/2/21 6:52 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk via lazarus wrote: At the top of the your supplied link page , the following message is displayed ( which is not copyable , I wrote it below myself ) : (i) To play video , you may need to install the required video codecs. if your system cannot play th

Re: [Lazarus] Masks: the naming of ...

On 11/2/21 6:24 PM, Bart via lazarus wrote: Untracked files: (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed) components/lazutils/test/backup/ components/lazutils/test/testmasks.or nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) Is there

Re: [Lazarus] Command line program - CPU overused - do I need profiling?

On 10/4/21 4:33 AM, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: This is the main loop in the program following creatrion of the handler objects (which are idle): QuitSignal:=false; While not (bSTerm or bSInt or bsHup) do While not QuitSignal do begin //Eternal lo

Re: [Lazarus] How to find out which version of Lazarus was used to build last?

On 1/23/21 10:25 AM, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote: Maybe I asked poorly. I meant: What modifications are needed because of updating FPC and Lazarus? Why don't you try it? Obviously backup your sources. or branch the repo and see then open the sources and see what happens... -- NOTE: No o

Re: [Lazarus] Tooltip shows value of some but not all const items....

On 1/2/21 6:09 AM, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: MKFILE= #$E5; this is a constant... REMMEASON: char = #$D5; this is a typed constant... that's the difference between the two i see immediately... i don't think there's a setting like you asked about but i haven't looked... seems lik

Re: [Lazarus] Losing desktop when restarting Lazarus - where are desktop settings saved?

On 12/27/20 5:15 PM, Mattias Gaertner via lazarus wrote: When the IDE starts, and there is no environmentoptions.xml file it copies it from the secondary config directory. Maybe you are seeing that? i think one of the main questions is "how does that file come up missing on a long time working

Re: [Lazarus] Using Chrome API in Lazarus - possible on Linux?

On 12/6/20 3:34 AM, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: But it clearly should be possible since the browsers (both Chrome and Firefox) have the ability of moving backwards inside the stream and view stuff that was played say a couple of hours ago. i'm pretty sure this is allowed or not by the provi

Re: [Lazarus] Where are the coolbar and desktop config files saved?

On 10/4/20 4:09 AM, Mr Bee via lazarus wrote: Never mind. I've found all the Lazarus user setting files. They all are in the "/Users//AppData/Local/lazarus". The "AppData" is a hidden folder, make sure you enable "Hidden Items" option in the File Explorer. FWIW: you can simply open the search

Re: [Lazarus] Google Calendar API TEvent start or _end (TDatetime) question

tment must... Il giorno gio 4 giu 2020 alle ore 17:24 wkitty42--- via lazarus mailto:lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>> ha scritto: On 6/4/20 10:37 AM, Francesco Sammarco via lazarus wrote: > If anyone cares I think I have found a working way. Basically I do the insertion &

Re: [Lazarus] Google Calendar API TEvent start or _end (TDatetime) question

On 6/4/20 10:37 AM, Francesco Sammarco via lazarus wrote: If anyone cares I think I have found a working way. Basically I do the insertion or updating of the appointment. The API returns the content of the newly updated or inserted appointment, I compare the hours contained with the hours I want

Re: [Lazarus] Keyboard mapping probelm

On 5/17/20 10:00 AM, Brian via lazarus wrote: On 5/16/20 3:03 PM, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote: It was allegedly fixed in trunk r63089 less than 3 weeks ago. See: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30863 If nobody gets the duplicate key problem with trunk any more, that issue and all i

Re: [Lazarus] Keyboard mapping probelm

On 5/6/20 6:33 PM, Brian via lazarus wrote: What I intend to do is to run some searches of my entire tree, looking for anything with lazar or fp in the name. Once I've got that information, I'll work through the lists and delete anything that looks fpc or lazarus related. Then I'll try fpcupdelux

Re: [Lazarus] Keyboard mapping probelm

On 5/6/20 7:48 AM, Brian via lazarus wrote: Just some additional information here. I have a copy of the latest Debian-based version of Linux Mint running in a virtual machine (my main system is the Ubuntu-based Mint) so I installed Lazarus and FPC from the Debian repositories. This gave me FPC 3.

Re: [Lazarus] Keyboard mapping probelm

On 5/5/20 6:00 PM, Brian via lazarus wrote: To save some trial and error, can anybody tell me which was the last version of Lazarus (for Linux, if that makes a difference) that doesn't exhibit the problem of an 'm' producing a line feed and an 'i' producing a tab then an 'i'? check your key ma

Re: [Lazarus] Environment monitoring software on Linux?

On 9/26/19 11:12 AM, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: Is cron the best way or is there some similar function like the Windows services one can easily create? generally speaking, cron is the equivalent of the winwhatever scheduler... If so is there some sample code in FreePascal for implementing

Re: [Lazarus] How to do insert/update and select on database

On 6/3/19 8:21 AM, Darius Blaszyk via lazarus wrote: Thanks. As always good and to the point advice! AKA "Bikini format" - short and to the point -=B-) -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approval. *Please keep mailing list traffic on the list unless* *a sign

Re: [Lazarus] Command line interpretation on Linux console program...

On 4/11/19 9:49 PM, Carlos E. R. via lazarus wrote: That assumes that you will never operate that program on different languages than yours, because, for instance, here the decimal separator is a comma. not for *whole* seconds ;) -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approv

Re: [Lazarus] Raspbian FPC 3.3.1 and Lazarus 2.0 Available

On 2/21/19 9:48 AM, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:14:40 -0500, wkitty42--- via lazarus if you are still getting the same file even after it has been changed, that means that something between you and the source server is caching it and hasn't updated the cache sinc

Re: [Lazarus] Raspbian FPC 3.3.1 and Lazarus 2.0 Available

On 2/21/19 5:38 AM, Joe via lazarus wrote: Am 21.02.2019 um 00:09 schrieb Bo Berglund via lazarus: What kind of network connection do you have? I am on 250/100 Mbit/s fiber myself. We have a VDSL connection with 265/42 Mbit/s. I tried (at 11:30 hours local time) to download the newest version

Re: [Lazarus] Tell me, does this application exist?

On 1/6/19 9:29 AM, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: wkitty42, Yes, I want to use a tablet as a digitizer for a desktop computer, but with a modification. I want the tablet to be able to have easy access to specific commands for programs, such as change brush shape, size, color, change the ac

Re: [Lazarus] Tell me, does this application exist?

On 1/6/19 1:31 AM, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: What I was attempting to describe is a tablet application that provides a specialized input view to a desktop application using an android tablet. so in the most simple terms, you are wanting to use a tablet as a digitizer for a desktop syst

Re: [Lazarus] Auto session store etc.

On 1/4/19 10:33 AM, Marco van de Voort via lazarus wrote: Unfortunately the undo is often only for the session. that information can also be saved so that it persists between front-to-back sessions... it could also be saved as part of the project data so that it is specific to that one projec

Re: [Lazarus] Crowdfunding to speed up the development of pas2js in Lazarus Widgetset and fpDebug to FPC

On 12/29/18 10:53 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2018, Joost van der Sluis via lazarus wrote: If one wants reoccurring contributions, better use Liberapay. It also supports teams. And it's code is fully open-source. This looks interesting. At least they don't seem to

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Spotter

On 09/24/2018 09:00 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2018, AlexeyT via Lazarus wrote: 1- If i hold Up/Down key (edit is focused), i dont get many up/down moves in listbox. (only one move. Ubuntu 18 gtk2). > Don't keep it pressed. press multiple times. auto-key-repea

Re: [Lazarus] FileUtils.DeleteDirectory help

On 07/21/2018 07:28 AM, AlexeyT via Lazarus wrote: Pls add a comment to FileUtil.DeleteDirectoty() about 2nd parameter OnlyChildren. my guesses were: - delete only subitems of dir, of one level, but don't delete dir - delete only subitems, of ALL levels, but leave source dir - delete ALSO subite

Re: [Lazarus] TMysql57Connection won't connect to localhost

On 05/29/2018 10:52 PM, larrydalton71 via Lazarus wrote: How does TMysql57Connection know how to connect to the server if there is no hostname defined? because if there's no host name it will try using a unix socket defined for the server... that /is/ local but not localhost and not using tcp

Re: [Lazarus] IDE multi-caret options wishes

On 05/22/2018 05:12 AM, AlexeyT via Lazarus wrote: Okay,  so better use "text cursor" and "mouse pointer". yes! :) -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approval. *Please keep mailing list traffic on the list unless* *a signed and pre-paid contract is in effec

Re: [Lazarus] IDE multi-caret options wishes

On 05/22/2018 04:55 AM, AlexeyT via Lazarus wrote: You're right, but: IDE is for major audience, so need to use major terms, of current time: cursor is mouse cursor. not when i'm typing in the/an editor... that mouse thing is just trash to be moved out of the way so i can read what is typed..

Re: [Lazarus] A fix for an annoying problem on Linux

On 04/02/2018 09:51 AM, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: Here you go ... what did you change? i see the code you added but i do not see any difference in the pictures you posted... -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approval. *Please keep mailing list traffic o

Re: [Lazarus] Test this please

On 03/26/2018 09:16 AM, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: Santiago, Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the failed login, my initial though was to not add a "Failed login" dialog for security purposes. That is to not tell people why nothing happened in an attempt to better secure your files. Se

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release 1.8.2

On 03/04/2018 05:51 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2018-03-04 11:22, Haruo Toda via Lazarus wrote: Is Sourceforge troubling? I cannot download 1.8.2 too. I think there is some global service outage or something. I haven't been able to access a few Git repositories or hosted proje

Re: [Lazarus] Package filenames with _package

On 01/08/2018 04:38 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: Even better, Linux and FreeBSD don't even need file extensions. File Extensions are simply for [some] human benefit (unlike Windows that requires them). Linux and FreeBSD OS's query the first 4-8 bytes of a file to accurately determine

Re: [Lazarus] Problem accessing the lazarus forums...

On 12/04/2017 04:25 AM, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:52:34 +0100, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: A normal fpc install puts it in /etc/fpc.cfg Thanks, that is where I found it now! I wonder why this did not work before? sudo find / -name fpc.cfg Now it does. tha

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling to win32 from debian stretch

On 12/03/2017 03:29 PM, kardan via Lazarus wrote: Thanks for the info. Just tried it again: $ git svn fetch && make all Makefile:2918: *** The only supported starting compiler version is 3.0.2. You are trying to build with 3.0.4.. Stop. as noted previously, you /MUST/ use 3.0.2 to build 3.0.4

Re: [Lazarus] [PATCH] Fix problems with writing ProductVersion in VersionInfo

On 10/04/2017 04:05 AM, el es via Lazarus wrote: Hi Dmitry, On 04/10/17 03:51, Dmitry D. Chernov via Lazarus wrote: No, I mean, like in my signature, "Dmitry D. Chernov". Anyway that's not critical. _ Dmitry D. Chernov Waldo meant to say : the cyrylic characters have been that way in y

Re: [Lazarus] [PATCH] Fix problems with writing ProductVersion in VersionInfo

On 10/03/2017 06:09 PM, Чернов Дмитрий via Lazarus wrote: Thank you. But please don't write my name in Cyrillic anymore. ;-) do you mean like above in the quote header? the characters that arrived here as depicted in juha's post and your original?? -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given

Re: [Lazarus] FPReport file names

On 09/13/2017 05:13 AM, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:44:23 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: [...] I tested in Delphi: c:\Temp>dcc32 /NSos /NSweb testns.dpr Embarcadero Delphi for Win32 compiler version 30.0 Copyright (c) 1983,2015 Embarcadero Te

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

On 08/21/2017 05:49 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-08-21 10:35, 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 ? I don't like that. First, how ar

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On 08/17/2017 01:10 AM, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: Am 17.08.2017 04:16 schrieb "wkitty42--- via Lazarus" > On 08/16/2017 06:46 PM, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote: >> I started using strings as communication buffers since delphi 2. There >> weren't even dynam

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On 08/16/2017 06:46 PM, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote: I started using strings as communication buffers since delphi 2. There weren't even dynamic arrays then... really? delphi came from TP/BP... i was (still am, actually) using dynamic arrays in TP6 ;) -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On 08/16/2017 07:30 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-08-16 18:35, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: You are wrong. The string types in 3.0.x and 3.1 are like this: Thanks for correcting me. I was thinking of the "$modeswitch unicodestring" option. will that modeswitch take care

Re: [Lazarus] String vs WideString

On 08/15/2017 05:25 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: As it is now, FPC offers a way out for all cases: WideString/UnicodeString for those that want 2-byte characters. what if 3 and 4 byte characters are required? will they also work in UnicodeStrings? i'm looking at this from a li

Re: [Lazarus] List down?

On 08/12/2017 12:42 AM, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 22:33:50 -0500, R0b0t1 via Lazarus wrote: The forums are far more active, and the developers seem to be fairly active on the forums if you need a response quickly. Is there an NNTP interface (News) for the forums? no

Re: [Lazarus] List down?

On 08/10/2017 05:11 AM, John Landmesser via Lazarus wrote: just to see if my post will be shown on lazarus-ide.org the list seems to be fine to me from wy over here... because: *Last message date:*/Sat Aug 5 16:27:27 CEST 2017/ / / /... or just holiday? / but i do see the same w

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

On 05/04/2017 10:56 AM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:47 PM, wkitty42--- via Lazarus wrote: On 05/03/2017 05:21 AM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: Encoding does not matter any more, as long as it is Unicode. reminds me of a saying that is attributed to Henry

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

On 05/03/2017 05:21 AM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: Encoding does not matter any more, as long as it is Unicode. reminds me of a saying that is attributed to Henry Ford... Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black. :) -- NOTE: No off-list as

Re: [Lazarus] Terminal window while debugging

On 03/05/2017 07:49 AM, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: If you want a terminal window on Linux you need to enable it in the project settings (don't remember the correct name right now, but the default setting AFAIK is that it's disabled and using "xterm", you'll need to adjust that for your system)

Re: [Lazarus] Terminal window while debugging

On 03/05/2017 05:57 AM, Darius Blaszyk via Lazarus wrote: On Linux I don't get the terminal to show when debugging a command line application. How can I instruct the IDE to display the terminal? There is the console window, but I prefer to see the terminal instead. On windows this seems to be han

Re: [Lazarus] TruBrain user activation

On 03/03/2017 03:30 PM, Marc Weustink via Lazarus wrote: Freshdesk isnt a spammer , but ticket support system. Someone used the lazarus address to subscribe to the trubrain ticket system :( we've gone through something similar on the snort mailing list in the recent past... filing formal spam

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

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 missing?? -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is giv

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

On 01/17/2017 01:11 PM, Lars via Lazarus wrote: fpGUI is, in every way possible, a wrapper. It wrapps low level x11/win32 calls into a usable frameworks called fpGUI Object orientation is often a wrapper around system calls, fpGUI is object oriented and makes low level calls so someone can use

Re: [Lazarus] Temp dir for unnamed proj

On 12/20/2016 01:36 PM, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: On 20.12.2016 20:44, wkitty42--- via Lazarus wrote: you can change the name of the temp folder where unnamed projects are compiled... I see that this is not true. I entered in options dlg "temp"== not found any options with it. S

Re: [Lazarus] Temp dir for unnamed proj

On 12/20/2016 11:21 AM, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: Wish: make a subfolder for temp unnamed proj files. Inside tmp/, make subdir. Now I see such crap files in my ~/tmp, not good for viewing temp, and finding LOGs here: you can change the name of the temp folder where unnamed projects are compil

Re: [Lazarus] DoomRL based of FPC now open sourced

On 12/07/2016 11:55 PM, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: Lars, DoomRL has nothing to do with Doom, other than borrowing the theme/setting. It's a rogue-like game or RPG in a Doom setting. it can also be played in ASCII mode or 3D graphics... i watched yesterday's ChaosForge stream on twitch.

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

On 11/10/2016 08:11 PM, Lars via Lazarus wrote: The best reason to have some local (whatever how limited) widget is for IDE popups of helptext instead of an external browser. External browser requires alt-tabbing away from the ide which is a pain. A external browser cannot be communicated with

Re: [Lazarus] Run FPC on Raspberry Pi3 in command line mode

On 10/29/2016 01:23 AM, Ken Kashmarek via Lazarus wrote: I have been runing FPC v3 on Windows 7 from a command line window. The Windows 7 version of the IDE sucks. I want to run FPC v3 on my Raspberry Pi3 the same way, from a command line window (not the GUI IDE interface). Is that possible?

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

On 10/24/2016 01:53 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk via Lazarus wrote: I have the book : https://www.amazon.com/Lazarus-Complete-Guide-pascal-teaching/dp/9490968021 ( Lazarus The complete Guide ) i've been looking for that book off and on since i heard about it... amazon currently shows it as unava

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

On 10/14/2016 07:04 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2016-10-14 12:01, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: and maybe incite them every now and again Oops, that meant to read: "...and maybe entice them..." incite works, too :) -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without pri

Re: [Lazarus] Notice: Due to Hurricane Matthew I'll be unavailable for the next few days

On 10/05/2016 01:12 PM, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: Due to Hurricane Matthew I'm being evacuated from my home for a few days. If anyone wants to check up on me or my home I've set up a continuous live video stream from my living room. It can be used to monitor the current situation. My liv

Re: [Lazarus] Messages from who?

On 10/01/2016 12:59 PM, DougC via Lazarus wrote: I have no problem figuring out how to reply to the place I want to reply to. i wasn't sure... some readers operate in different ways... t-bird, i know, has reply, reply list and reply all... The problem I have is seeing who the original sende

Re: [Lazarus] Messages from who?

On 10/01/2016 08:44 AM, DougC via Lazarus wrote: Yes, DougC is me but I see lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org in FROM: so I guess it's my email client doing this. Sigh. Sorry about the noise! no... the list was changed due to the email security stuff that some