Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
The content pages, will have a navigation bar below the shrinked header. The shrinked header will be static which will show the appropriate slide in regard with the content being displayed. Here's my proposal for content page layout: http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/676/lazwebnewsubpage03021

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: On 2 February 2010 20:02, Vincent Snijders wrote: I think about adding the files on SF to ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases. The hard (time consuming) part is adding links to it. It cannot hardly be faster than mkdir releases and rsync frs.sourceforge.n

Re: [Lazarus] Expanding EditBox

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
03.02.2010 7:23, JoshyFun wrote: I had a little extend feature for EditBox but it needs a message in Windows (only to get a bit better look) and in other platforms it could be solved using plain LCL. So the question is how to integrate that message for Win32/64 without the usual #ifdef. Should a

[Lazarus] Expanding EditBox

2010-02-02 Thread JoshyFun
Hello Lazarus-List, I had a little extend feature for EditBox but it needs a message in Windows (only to get a bit better look) and in other platforms it could be solved using plain LCL. So the question is how to integrate that message for Win32/64 without the usual #ifdef. Should a new function b

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/2/2010 09:08, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Juha Manninen schrieb: Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png Below it, it's an animated large header which will show some highlight features of FPC/Lazarus in rotation. Please don't make the animations very h

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/2/2010 06:13, Juha Manninen wrote: Hi, Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png Below it, it's an animated large header which will show some highlight features of FPC/Lazarus in rotation. Please don't make the animations very heavy for CPU. There are ma

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/2/2010 04:59, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:45:12AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Bee Jay wrote: Here's the blue one: http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3214/lazwebnew020210blue.png Another spelling mistake in the bottom of the page. The spelling is "IDE" and n

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
03.02.2010 5:04, Juha Manninen wrote: What you say? When I first saw your converter patches I decided that first someone need to check the style of your patches. If it is wrong then correct you. And then we can give you rights to commit to delphi converter. I asked Mattias to review since

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 February 2010 18:01, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > And that should be it. Ah you beat me to it, I should have read all message before I replied. Sorry for the duplicate -- Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI too

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 February 2010 16:08, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > > If somebody knows how to deactivate animations in Firefox, any hints are > very welcome! Very easy. In address URL type: about:config Accept the "I'll be careful" message. Search for "image.animation_mode" The default value is "normal"

Re: [Lazarus] how to send keyboard (or mouse) message with lazarus?

2010-02-02 Thread Creatxr
i'm sorry. i did't know where is the "lazarusdir" . now i found it "/usr/lib/lazarus/components/mouseandkeyinput" (it seems it doesn't be included with lazarus0.9.24) but it can't be compile after i use "project inspector" added "LaMouseAndKeyInput" to project.

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Nicholls
Hi Juha, I know a number of people who would be interested in your delphi converter, including myself :) An easy to use 3d modeling package has now gone open source: www.delgine.com https://sourceforge.net/projects/deled/ The project has currently been written using Delphi, but some of us

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-02 Thread ik
http://ik.homelinux.org/ On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 23:54, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > 2010/2/2 ik : > > > > You can always use public proxy or anonymizers for having different IP > > addresses. > > > Have you ever found a reliable anonymous public proxy? I haven't! Yes > you can Google for them and

[Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-02 Thread Juha Manninen
Hello Lazarus developers! My issue #0015641 + patch for improving converter is seemingly waiting for approval from Mattias Gärtner (as do some other patches of mine). Now, is Mattias really the right person to check such a patch? He is busy. His main focus is not in Delphi converter. I perfectl

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2010/2/2 ik : > > You can always use public proxy or anonymizers for having different IP > addresses. Have you ever found a reliable anonymous public proxy? I haven't! Yes you can Google for them and you will get list with 100's of proxies, but then when you try and use them they don't exist etc

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 February 2010 20:02, Vincent Snijders wrote: > > I think about adding the files on SF to > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases. The hard (time consuming) > part is adding links to it. It shouldn't be... In fact it will probably be less work than the current process of publishing so

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 2/2/2010 2:49 AM, Bee Jay wrote: I've made a very basic design, just to show off my page layout and content structure proposal. It's not yet about the true design (color, theme, etc) and the accessories (images, icons, etc). Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew0202

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Santiago A. schreef: Forgetting policy and going back to the problem: As far as I know, you only use sourceforge to store files, you don't use any other service of SF (blogs, website, revision system etc), so it will be easy to upload them in other server. I sugest to create lazarus project in h

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-02 Thread ik
http://ik.homelinux.org/ On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 18:19, Santiago A. wrote: > Hello: > > 1) It is unfair, when people from other countries (even Cuba o Iran ) > contributed, they thought that sourceforge would be available for > everybody, now they have changed the deal unilaterally. Moreover, My

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-02 Thread Santiago A.
Hello: 1) It is unfair, when people from other countries (even Cuba o Iran ) contributed, they thought that sourceforge would be available for everybody, now they have changed the deal unilaterally. Moreover, My contact in Cuba has helped in translating several projects into Spanish, now he can't

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Juha Manninen schrieb: Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png Below it, it's an animated large header which will show some highlight features of FPC/Lazarus in rotation. Please don't make the animations ve

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Martin
On 02/02/2010 14:08, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Juha Manninen schrieb: Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png Below it, it's an animated large header which will show some highlight features of FPC/Lazarus in rotation. Please don't make the animations ver

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Juha Manninen schrieb: Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png Below it, it's an animated large header which will show some highlight features of FPC/Lazarus in rotation. Please don't make the animations very heavy for CPU. I have a mental problem with an

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Marco van de Voort schrieb: > >> I would not use the term IDE, but RAD, and reserve IDE for the textmode IDE. > > IMO RAD is a development model or qualifier ("RAD Studio"), while IDE is > a concrete implementation (FP IDE, Lazarus IDE, Delphi IDE). In the > given

Re: [Lazarus] n-tier solution for FPC/Lazarus

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Is there a FPC or Lazarus component similar to Delphi's MIDAS to allow us to write n-tier software? Note I'm only interested in Desktop style applications. I guess if nothing exists, one could try something like WebServices SOAP+XML+HTTP or so

Re: [Lazarus] n-tier solution for FPC/Lazarus

2010-02-02 Thread Leonardo M.
El mar, 02-02-2010 a las 15:04 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: > I know I asked this exact question before, but that was 2 years ago. Just > wanted to find out if there was any progress in this department. > > Regards, > - Graeme - > I don't know if it's already any improvement in this area

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
02.02.2010 19:18, Bee Jay wrote: Good idea. But, IMO, it should be put upfront instead of hidden beneath the mantis system. It will ease people who want to donate to the development, not just for technical things, but for other non technical things as well e.g. creating a tutorial, writing an a

Re: [Lazarus] n-tier solution for FPC/Lazarus

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I know I asked this exact question before, but that was 2 years ago. Just wanted to find out if there was any progress in this department. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- __

[Lazarus] n-tier solution for FPC/Lazarus

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Is there a FPC or Lazarus component similar to Delphi's MIDAS to allow us to write n-tier software? Note I'm only interested in Desktop style applications. I guess if nothing exists, one could try something like WebServices SOAP+XML+HTTP or something. The middle tier app being an embedded HTT

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Paul Ishenin wrote: Maybe bounty field can be added to the bug-tracker. So if a reporter want to pay some money for the issue he/she can fill that field? Anyway, bounties does not differ from regular issues - just reporter want to pay to speedup the solution. G

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bee Jay wrote: 8. Account integrator. Since we have many applications for the website i.e. wiki, forum, mantis, svn, etc. I think we should make one app to synchronized a single account across those apps. So, the user would only remember 1 accoun

Re: [Lazarus] How to encrypt/decrypt with OpenSSL unit

2010-02-02 Thread dayat
Yes, with base64 unit. Graeme and DoDi thanks for the advices. Regards Hidayat On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > dayat schrieb: > > > Thanks Sir, did you know how to encrypt/decrypt string with base64 encode >> using openssl unit in freepascal. Have you an example to

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
02.02.2010 17:56, Bee Jay wrote: 5. Code bounty manager, it's not available, only a page on Wiki. I think we should build a new app for this for more accountable participants. This app could become a way to boost FPC and Lazarus development. Maybe bounty field can be added to the bug-tracker. S

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 3: the merger

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: I'd keep it FPC and Lazarus only. More choice only confuses, and the deep integration with the other two projects is also not there. I agree, only FPC and Lazarus that need to be merged. The other should have its own website, but we pr

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: One more thing: 8. Account integrator. Since we have many applications for the website i.e. wiki, forum, mantis, svn, etc. I think we should make one app to synchronized a single account across those apps. So, the user would only reme

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bee Jay wrote: 1. Wiki, it's already available. Maybe we should reconstructure the content so they could be better categorized. 2. Bug tracker, it's already available using Mantis. Maybe we should fix the appearance so its theme could fit the new design. 3. Source code bro

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 3: the merger

2010-02-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:53:30PM +0700, Paul Ishenin wrote: > > > > The main sites remain separate. > > For now I agree. But later we can create products menu with: Free > Pascal, Lazarus, MseIDE & MseGUI , FpGUI. After all some FPC developers > are working on lazarus and some lazarus develope

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marco van de Voort schrieb: I would not use the term IDE, but RAD, and reserve IDE for the textmode IDE. IMO RAD is a development model or qualifier ("RAD Studio"), while IDE is a concrete implementation (FP IDE, Lazarus IDE, Delphi IDE). In the given context it should be clear that the "Laz

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 3: the merger

2010-02-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Only the forum, bugtracker and and wiki are the same. The main sites remain separate. For now I agree. But later we can create products menu with: Free Pascal, Lazarus, MseIDE & MseGUI , FpGUI. After all some FPC developers are working on lazarus and some lazaru

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
1. Wiki, it's already available. Maybe we should reconstructure the content so they could be better categorized. 2. Bug tracker, it's already available using Mantis. Maybe we should fix the appearance so its theme could fit the new design. 3. Source code browser, it's already available using SV

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: Please don't make the animations very heavy for CPU. There are many pages with animated ads that hog 70% of my CPU and I don't want to keep them open for long. It'd be a simple JS animation, not flash and nothing fancy. Another wish: I stil

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Juha Manninen wrote: > > Please don't make the animations very heavy for CPU. Yes, please don't. And please don't use cheesy animations like the running cheetah either - that is so 80's style! Very cheesy!! > There are many pages with animated ads that hog 70% of my CPU and I don't > want > t

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: 4. Contributed code repo, it's already available through Contributed Units on FPC site. I think we should build a new one for this using fpWeb. I was planning to do so. I will also rewrite the testsuite tool. Great news. This is a hid

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Juha Manninen
Hi, > Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png > Below it, it's an animated large header which will show some highlight > features of FPC/Lazarus in rotation. Please don't make the animations very heavy for CPU. There are many pages with animated ads that hog 70

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bee Jay wrote: If you mean in FPC, count me in :) From the content structure that I proposed on the other thread, we need some applications to accompany the web site. 1. Wiki, it's already available. Maybe we should reconstructure the content so they could be better c

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 3: the merger

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
For now I agree. But later we can create products menu with: Free Pascal, Lazarus, MseIDE & MseGUI , FpGUI. After all some FPC developers are working on lazarus and some lazarus developers are working on fpc. Contradictly, I prefer both are merged for now. It'll be easier to create and ma

Re: [Lazarus] how to send keyboard (or mouse) message with lazarus?

2010-02-02 Thread theo
i didn't find where it is. it has too poor document with lazarus. A document doesn't help if you don't read it. ;-) It's written here http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/MouseAndKeyInput See: Location: lazarusdir/components/mouseandkeyinput -- ___ L

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 3: the merger

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Paul Ishenin wrote: 02.02.2010 17:47, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bee Jay wrote: Seems it was discussed before already. Yes, at least FPC community forum and lazarus forums can be merged (before this already happened with the wiki and the bug tracker

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
If you mean in FPC, count me in :) From the content structure that I proposed on the other thread, we need some applications to accompany the web site. 1. Wiki, it's already available. Maybe we should reconstructure the content so they could be better categorized. 2. Bug tracker, it's alre

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 3: the merger

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
02.02.2010 17:47, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bee Jay wrote: Seems it was discussed before already. Yes, at least FPC community forum and lazarus forums can be merged (before this already happened with the wiki and the bug tracker). So, I may safely assume that the websit

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 3: the merger

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bee Jay wrote: Seems it was discussed before already. Yes, at least FPC community forum and lazarus forums can be merged (before this already happened with the wiki and the bug tracker). So, I may safely assume that the website of FPC and Lazarus will be merged on this

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 3: the merger

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
Seems it was discussed before already. Yes, at least FPC community forum and lazarus forums can be merged (before this already happened with the wiki and the bug tracker). So, I may safely assume that the website of FPC and Lazarus will be merged on this work. Not? -- -Bee- ...making bu

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 1: the appearance

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
It would be better a custom design... Could we talk to the Rik - http://silvioclecio.blogspot.com/2009/12/rik-lee-inkscape-com-arte.html Could you help me provide the images, icon, etc for the new web site? My designer is doing this in his spare time, I can't push him too much because he al

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
Instead or in addition to the "text feature highlights" some icons or screenshots? So users can visually recognize the most important features? Yes, that's the plan. My designer needs some time to design the required images and icons. Once it's done, I will post it on the appearance thre

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
Ok, and how a user can 'see' where he is? And what we are looking at now is the first level navigation. What about the second and third? Good question. I haven't finish the deeper pages layout proposal. The content pages, will have a navigation bar below the shrinked header. The shrinked h

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Martin
On 02/02/2010 07:49, Bee Jay wrote: I've made a very basic design, just to show off my page layout and content structure proposal. It's not yet about the true design (color, theme, etc) and the accessories (images, icons, etc). Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew0202

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:05:05AM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > >> Another spelling mistake in the bottom of the page. The spelling is "IDE" > >> and not "I.D.E". :-) > > > > I would not use the term IDE, but RAD, and reserve IDE for the textmode IDE. > > No, since lazarus is not a RAD. It

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
02.02.2010 17:16, Juha Manninen wrote: I place the wiki link on Contribution section, not on Docs section, because I want to emphasize the "contribution" rather than the "document". ;) It means lots of contents must be moved from wiki to the new static pages, right? Not exatly. Maybe the main

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Juha Manninen
> I place the wiki link on Contribution section, not on Docs section, > because I want to emphasize the "contribution" rather than the > "document". ;) It means lots of contents must be moved from wiki to the new static pages, right? Regards, Juha Manninen -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:45:12AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Bee Jay wrote: Here's the blue one: http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3214/lazwebnew020210blue.png Another spelling mistake in the bottom of the page. The spelling is "IDE" a

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:45:12AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Bee Jay wrote: > > > > Here's the blue one: > > http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3214/lazwebnew020210blue.png > > Another spelling mistake in the bottom of the page. The spelling is "IDE" > and not "I.D.E". :-) I would not

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:49:07AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Bee Jay wrote: > > > > Is there anything still missing from there? > > No the content is MUCH better than the current website. I like the "summary > information" and the roadmap (links) at the bottom. On page for the user > and

Re: [Lazarus] How to encrypt/decrypt with OpenSSL unit

2010-02-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
dayat schrieb: Thanks Sir, did you know how to encrypt/decrypt string with base64 encode using openssl unit in freepascal. Have you an example to do this. For base64 use base64 unit in the FCL. I have no idea about openssl or examples. DoDi -- _

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:35 +0700, Bee Jay wrote: > > The big header section isn't static. It will be slide-like > > presentation that will highlight key features of both FPC and Lazarus. > > One more thing. The header section is available on the front page > only. It wouldn't be available on

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:35 +0700, Bee Jay wrote: > > The big header section isn't static. It will be slide-like > > presentation that will highlight key features of both FPC and Lazarus. > > One more thing. The header section is available on the front page > only. It wouldn't be available on

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Bee Jay wrote: A design like this can even be served using current smf/tp site (till our own pascalbased is ready) Well, actually I'm thinking about Wordpress. I'm trying to collaborate both ideas, using available mostly php-based CMS or build custom CMS based on fpWeb. Also the contents can be

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
The big header section isn't static. It will be slide-like presentation that will highlight key features of both FPC and Lazarus. One more thing. The header section is available on the front page only. It wouldn't be available on the other deeper pages. The top link section and footer sitem

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
A design like this can even be served using current smf/tp site (till our own pascalbased is ready) Well, actually I'm thinking about Wordpress. I'm trying to collaborate both ideas, using available mostly php-based CMS or build custom CMS based on fpWeb. Also the contents can be obtained f

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
02.02.2010 16:27, Bee Jay wrote: - native (more to Lazarus) - cross platform (more to FPC) I would say vice-versa. Best regards, Paul Ishenin. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mail

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
I really like the page design! Thanks. I have a suggestion for the wording at the top of the page - see it below. You will see it is a bit more explanatory, perhaps more suitable for students. It also omits 'native', and I suggest this can be picked up in your 'cross-platform' stuff belo

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Bee Jay wrote: Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png Still I think that we must use blue colors. IDE uses blue logo, blue icons. Everywhere the blue color dominates. Web site can't be brown but everything else blue. And I think that we are not able to change l

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
Perhaps i'm the only one missing a link to the Wiki pages? It's available on the footer section. It's my understanding that most of the current content for developers is placed on the wiki. So perhaps such a link should be placed in the top bar along with the downloads and support. The to

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote: > Perhaps i'm the only one missing a link to the Wiki pages? It is there, at the bottom of the page under "Public Contributions", then the first link "Public wiki". Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Torsten Bonde Christiansen
Bee Jay wrote: Personally, I like the other color scheme more than this one. But, I would rather go with color scheme which is more in spirit of whole project. (btw, how about having blue behind Lazarus less "intense" - maybe more like those at the top and bottom?) BTW, my post is about the con

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
For example, when you click on 'support(s)' what kind of page do you see? Of is if a menu which shows when you hover your mouse above it, so that 'Mailing lists','online forum', 'IRC' etc appears? My approach is to be less JS as possible, more static HTML/CSS. It'll be easier to maintain. S

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Aleksa Todorovic
2010/2/2 Mike Parr : > It also omits 'native', and I suggest this can be picked up in > your 'cross-platform' stuff below. For any advanced user "native" is as important as "cross-platform". This tells one that FPC is not interpreter or VM based, but real native compiler. -- _

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Paul Ishenin wrote: 02.02.2010 15:44, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Brown. But that's personal, offcourse. No matter what we like. I believe it is possible to draw it perfect using blue colors. Again IDE icons and logos can't be in another color sheme as a web-site. I a

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Bee Jay wrote: > > BTW, which one do you like? the brown one or the blue one? :) Yes, the 'Code once, Compile everywhere' slogan is important. Just like the similar slogan used in Java. As for color, I think the blue theme should be used. After all, FPC, Lazarus, Wiki and Mantis websites alread

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 15:40 +0700, Bee Jay wrote: > > Personally, I like the other color scheme more than this one. But, I > > would rather go with color scheme which is more in spirit of whole > > project. (btw, how about having blue behind Lazarus less "intense" - > > maybe more like those at the

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Parr
Hi Bee Jay I really like the page design! I have a suggestion for the wording at the top of the page - see it below. You will see it is a bit more explanatory, perhaps more suitable for students. It also omits 'native', and I suggest this can be picked up in your 'cross-platform' stuff below. (

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
02.02.2010 15:44, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Brown. But that's personal, offcourse. No matter what we like. I believe it is possible to draw it perfect using blue colors. Again IDE icons and logos can't be in another color sheme as a web-site. Best regards, Paul Ishenin. -- __

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Bee Jay wrote: > > Is there anything still missing from there? No the content is MUCH better than the current website. I like the "summary information" and the roadmap (links) at the bottom. On page for the user and they can easily branch off from there no more specific information. Easy to spot!

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 15:35 +0700, Bee Jay wrote: > > Looks good. Maybe we can add a tagline to the brownish header. 'Code > > once, compile everywhere' could be it maybe. It has to tell what > > Lazarus/fpc is as less as words possible. > > Yes, as I asked previously, I need help about the wordin

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Bee Jay wrote: > > Here's the blue one: > http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3214/lazwebnew020210blue.png Another spelling mistake in the bottom of the page. The spelling is "IDE" and not "I.D.E". :-) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal h

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Bee Jay wrote: > > Here's the blue one: > http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3214/lazwebnew020210blue.png Looks good, but isn't there a spelling mistake in the title on content. It seem so many people make this mistake. The correct spelling is "Free Pascal" and *not* "FreePascal". See website

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
Personally, I like the other color scheme more than this one. But, I would rather go with color scheme which is more in spirit of whole project. (btw, how about having blue behind Lazarus less "intense" - maybe more like those at the top and bottom?) BTW, my post is about the content structure a

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
Looks good. Maybe we can add a tagline to the brownish header. 'Code once, compile everywhere' could be it maybe. It has to tell what Lazarus/fpc is as less as words possible. Yes, as I asked previously, I need help about the wording. Somebody who has a bit knowledge about marketting may propo

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Aleksa Todorovic
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 09:26, Bee Jay wrote: >>> Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png >> >> Still I think that we must use blue colors. IDE uses blue logo, blue >> icons. Everywhere the blue color dominates. Web site can't be brown but >> everything else blue. A

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-02 Thread ik
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 22:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 31 January 2010 21:46, svaa wrote: > > Hello: > > > > Because of USA policy, Sourceforge has blocked users from Cuba, Iran > > North Corea and other "rogue countries". > > > Thinking about this a bit more, it is totally ridiculous. It's

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:49 +0700, Bee Jay wrote: > I've made a very basic design, just to show off my page layout and > content structure proposal. It's not yet about the true design (color, > theme, etc) and the accessories (images, icons, etc). > > Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
Something like this could easily apply to Lazarus too, and it is relatively little effort to setup. Also designing the website so that in doesn't use serverside includes etc makes it easier for users to checkout the website from the repository and simply use a web browser to view the content

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bee Jay wrote: Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png Still I think that we must use blue colors. IDE uses blue logo, blue icons. Everywhere the blue color dominates. Web site can't be brown but everything else blue. And I think that we

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Bee Jay
Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png Still I think that we must use blue colors. IDE uses blue logo, blue icons. Everywhere the blue color dominates. Web site can't be brown but everything else blue. And I think that we are not able to change logo and al

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Just thought I would mention that static pages is probably easier than any CMS. Applying relatively simple CSS can make it look beautiful without the need for fancy HTML. To help with maintaining the website, we have done the following in the tiOPF project. The HTML content is actually in the

Re: [Lazarus] How to encrypt/decrypt with OpenSSL unit

2010-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
dayat wrote: > Thanks Sir, did you know how to encrypt/decrypt string with base64 > encode using openssl unit in freepascal. Have you an example to do this. I don't, but FPC includes a base64 unit that can encode/decode without the need of OpenSSL. Here is examples of each... http://opensoft.h

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
02.02.2010 14:49, Bee Jay wrote: Take a look at http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5716/lazwebnew020210.png Still I think that we must use blue colors. IDE uses blue logo, blue icons. Everywhere the blue color dominates. Web site can't be brown but everything else blue. And I think that we are