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

2010-02-03 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Paul Ishenin wrote: 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 all icons to brown in a reasonable time. Blue is only

Re: [Lazarus] Call Load/Unload library from procedure

2010-02-03 Thread cobines
2010/2/3 fabio : > Hi, > I need help with libraries. I'm working on Win XP with lazarus 0.9.29 > and fpc 2.4.1. > I attached sample project app and project library. > I'm not sure whether this is a bug or something I do not know, the > problem is that when I use library in public form procedure I g

Re: [Lazarus] Call Load/Unload library from procedure

2010-02-03 Thread fabio
Dnia 2010-02-03, o godz. 09:24:47 cobines napisał(a): > You have specified different calling conventions: cdecl in main > program and stdcall in the library. I think calling conventions should > match. I do not know what to do, it works only with cdecl in main and stdcall in lib. If I set correc

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-03 Thread Santiago A.
Many projects, as Lazarus, use Sourceforge only for downloads. I suppose that there are two main reasons: 1) Visibility (People search software in SF) 2) Save bandwidth from their own servers. If a project becomes popular and many people downloads it, SF has resources and specialized systems for d

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Santiago A. schrieb: > Many projects, as Lazarus, use Sourceforge only for downloads. I suppose > that there are two main reasons: > 1) Visibility (People search software in SF) > 2) Save bandwidth from their own servers. If a project becomes popular > and many people downloads it, SF has resources

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Vincent Snijders wrote: > > It cannot hardly be faster than mkdir releases and rsync > frs.sourceforge.net/some.path/lazarus. Oh, I haven't released something on SourceForge in ages. The last time I had to ftp files to SourceForge. Then go to the Admin pages. Create a new section/category for th

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

2010-02-03 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: If somebody knows how to deactivate animations in Firefox, any hints are very welcome! Use the about:config url. filter on image.animation_mode Set value to 'none' (no quotes) And that should be it. Bingo! :-) DoDi -- __

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

2010-02-03 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Creatxr schrieb: lazarus 0.9.26.2-2 beta I'd upgrade to a more recent version. DoDi -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Santiago A. wrote: > organized in a web page. I think it is not a good idea to show just a > minimalist list of files as browser show FTP list, it looks too amateur > even abandoned. Not necessarily if the files on the ftp site have self-explanatory names - which I believe they already have. Reme

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Santiago A. wrote: > organized in a web page. I think it is not a good idea to show just a > minimalist list of files as browser show FTP list, it looks too amateur > even abandoned. Another positive point for a ftp list is that you get to see the file sizes. I *hate* websites that have download l

Re: [Lazarus] Call Load/Unload library from procedure

2010-02-03 Thread cobines
I'm not exactly sure, but it might have something to do with memory allocation, because it works with Word type, but not with strings. You cannot return strings because I think they are allocated by one memory manager (in dll) and deallocated by another (in main program). You would have to link mai

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

2010-02-03 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 14:58 +0700, Bee Jay wrote: > > 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 la

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

2010-02-03 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 03/2/10 7:58, Bee Jay wrote: Here's my proposal for content page layout: http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/676/lazwebnewsubpage030210.png Please share your idea and opinions. Your work, even in drafts is good, and bodes well for a revamped web presence that has flair and simplicity as well

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

2010-02-03 Thread Bee Jay
On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Nice. Thanks. I think that this part should be the same throughout the whole site. No, the header will be changed according to what content being displayed on the page. If it's FPC specific, then the header will show FPC banner. If

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

2010-02-03 Thread Bee Jay
However, if we are making a concerted effort to present a more 'professional' web image, perhaps it is time to impose a more consistent style on the more public and static pages, and agree on a few rules of style and spelling (British or American English? IDE or I.D.E.? and suchlike). What

Re: [Lazarus] Call Load/Unload library from procedure

2010-02-03 Thread Thierry Coq
Hello, I confirm the calling conventions should match. Maybe try using the pascal calling convention to debug your code, it is more robust. In addition, using strings in DLL calls is a for a beginner. Start with arrays of char or PChar. Allocate the memory to the PCHAR and pass it as a param

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

2010-02-03 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] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Juha Manninen wrote: > That's what I do also. > A separate branch is good for new experimental features which would break the > main project somehow. However, my patches clearly fix issues of an existing A workflow we have adopted at work allows for experimental features, maintenance branches,

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > I think Lazarus could benefit from such a workflow too. There seems to be > more and more experimental feature that go untested because they are > "experimental". Getting more developers to simply switch to another branch > at allow testing of new features before they g

Re: [Lazarus] Call Load/Unload library from procedure

2010-02-03 Thread fabio
Dnia 2010-02-03, o godz. 10:49:32 Thierry Coq napisał(a): > Hello, > > I confirm the calling conventions should match. Maybe try using the > pascal calling convention to debug your code, it is more robust. > > In addition, using strings in DLL calls is a for a > beginner. Start with arrays of

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Juha Manninen
Hi. > I know a number of people who would be interested in your delphi > converter, including myself :) Good to know! (Although it is not really MY converter, but I am willing to improve it.) > An easy to use 3d modeling package has now gone open source: > www.delgine.com > https://sourceforg

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > Years of experience with fpc showed that very few people are testing > such branches. Even rcs aren't intensively tested, just look at the > resource trouble with fpc 2.4.0 Not to get into all that again (you can read the archives), but SubVersion doesn't lend itself t

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Florian Klaempfl wrote: Years of experience with fpc showed that very few people are testing such branches. Even rcs aren't intensively tested, just look at the resource trouble with fpc 2.4.0 Not to get into all that again (you can read the archives), but SubVersion

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> Years of experience with fpc showed that very few people are testing >> such branches. Even rcs aren't intensively tested, just look at the >> resource trouble with fpc 2.4.0 > > Not to get into all that again (you can read the archives), Y

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marc Weustink schrieb: > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> Florian Klaempfl wrote: >>> >>> Years of experience with fpc showed that very few people are testing >>> such branches. Even rcs aren't intensively tested, just look at the >>> resource trouble with fpc 2.4.0 >> >> Not to get into all that again

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Flávio Etrusco
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: >> I think Lazarus could benefit from such a workflow too. There seems to be >> more and more experimental feature that go untested because they are >> "experimental". Getting more developers to simply switch to a

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Florian Klaempfl wrote: > flor...@ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ svn switch > http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/fixes_2_4 > log > flor...@ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ ifconfig eth0 | grep "RX bytes" > RX bytes:57681323 (57.6 MB) TX bytes:1814129 (1.8 MB) OK, so I create a pat

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Marc Weustink wrote: > simple svn statement and a few secs waiting. svn switch But that downloads the whole repository every time you run that command. See my reply to Florian why this is an issue. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal h

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Marc Weustink wrote: simple svn statement and a few secs waiting. svn switch But that downloads the whole repository every time you run that command. See my reply to Florian why this is an issue. Then you do something wrong. It only downloads the diff. Marc -

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> flor...@ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ svn switch >> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/fixes_2_4 > log >> flor...@ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ ifconfig eth0 | grep "RX bytes" >> RX bytes:57681323 (57.6 MB) TX bytes:181412

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Florian Klaempfl wrote: flor...@ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ svn switch http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/fixes_2_4 > log flor...@ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ ifconfig eth0 | grep "RX bytes" RX bytes:57681323 (57.6 MB) TX bytes:1814129 (1.8 MB)

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > Marc Weustink wrote: >> simple svn statement and a few secs waiting. > > svn switch > > But that downloads the whole repository every time you run that command. Who says that? His Godness Linus? Even the best compression cannot fold the FPC sources into 0.5 MB.

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Marc Weustink wrote: simple svn statement and a few secs waiting. svn switch But that downloads the whole repository every time you run that command. This is not correct. It downloads a diff. I do this multiple times a day. Try it. Micha

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Flávio Etrusco schrieb: > Florian, I for one - which had tried some branches only a few times - > think that the main culprits for this is lack of > information/advertisement of these/the relevant branches But this is not svn's fault. We can tell only people to test RCs, no more no less. -- _

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Marc Weustink wrote: > > Then you do something wrong. It only downloads the diff. Then my svn repository was seriously screwed or something, because it took forever and downloaded for ages. Since then I abandoned the idea of branches with SubVersion. [...I have to add, this was 3+ years ago...]

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Ishenin
03.02.2010 19:46, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Then my svn repository was seriously screwed or something, because it took forever and downloaded for ages. Since then I abandoned the idea of branches with SubVersion. [...I have to add, this was 3+ years ago...] I don't think that it is a good idea

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > But this is not svn's fault. We can tell only people to test RCs, no > more no less. I tested 2.4.0-rc since the day it was announced. For once I did my part and even noted those issues in the wiki. But like YOU and other Lazarus team developers, the resources bug elud

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Marc Weustink wrote: Then you do something wrong. It only downloads the diff. Then my svn repository was seriously screwed or something, because it took forever and downloaded for ages. Since then I abandoned the idea of branches with SubVersion

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

2010-02-03 Thread Klenongan
And here's mine, with more 'elegant' touch to it. I use large fonts and white overall to make a neutral appearance --as I don't know Lazarus' "color"--. The page uses less text as possible on the front page, inspired by Mercurial, VLC, Wordpress website so that new visitors wont be overwhelmed by i

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

2010-02-03 Thread Juha Manninen
Hi. > And here's mine, with more 'elegant' touch to it. I use large fonts > and white overall to make a neutral appearance --as I don't know > Lazarus' "color"--. The page uses less text as possible on the front > page, inspired by Mercurial, VLC, Wordpress website so that new > visitors wont be o

Re: [Lazarus] AV in Wince/ARM when run app.

2010-02-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Zaher Dirkey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Zaher Dirkey wrote: > >> I cannot run my application on WinCE (WM 5 and WM 6.1) >> when i remote debug it crash in >> >> application.inc line 386 >> Res := FindResource(HInstance, PChar('MAINICON'), RT_GROU

Re: [Lazarus] Expanding EditBox

2010-02-03 Thread JoshyFun
Hello Lazarus-List, Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 2:20:32 AM, you wrote: >> function be added to intfbasewinapi ? or is there a better way to do >> it ? The message is an EM_ message for TextBox. PI> You can add TWSCustomEdit.SetSomething() and override it on win32 PI> widgetset only: Ok, I'll im

[Lazarus] ADO connections

2010-02-03 Thread Héctor Fiandor Rosario
Dear friends: I have received a Delphi7 Project to interact with an Access Database using ADO I need to know if FP and Lazarus have this possibilities as in Delphi. thanks in advance, Ing. Héctor F. Fiandor hfian...@infomed.sld.cu -- Este mensaje le ha llegado mediante el servicio de co

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

2010-02-03 Thread Bee Jay
On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Klenongan wrote: And here's mine, with more 'elegant' touch to it. I use large fonts and white overall to make a neutral appearance --as I don't know Lazarus' "color"--. Yes, it look more elegant. It's a nice design, I must say. The page uses less text as possible

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

2010-02-03 Thread Klenongan
I took minimalist approach because most new visitors will be overwhelmed by things they have to read just to download the damned thing. There are many reason why open source projects nowadays put a big button on their front page just so anyone who visit the page for the first time (either by word o

[Lazarus] Lazarus 'front page' and Google SEO

2010-02-03 Thread Mike Parr
Hi All speaking as someone who knew about Free Pascal for years, but who has just found Lazarus, I wonder if we ought to think about search engines? This relates to - for example - the talk about use of IDE or I.D.E. What key words/terms ought to in the page? For example: free IDE open

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

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Schneider
> > I suggest we use our own images. I already asked help from someone on the > > other thread to help us on this. I think these pictures are under CreativCommons http://animalphotos.info/a/topics/animals/mammals/cheetahs/ http://www.piqs.de/schnelluebersicht/search/gepard/ -- ___

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

2010-02-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
Choose the picture you like it and trace it with Inkscape or corel draw then start to clean it up. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Michael Schneider wrote: > > > > I suggest we use our own images. I already asked help from someone on > the > > > other thread to help us on this. > I think these p

Re: [Lazarus] ADO connections

2010-02-03 Thread Flávio Etrusco
\hi, Assuming you've researched a bit already, I guess it's what it seems: there's no support in FCL/packages, and I've seem no ADO library ported for FPC. Maybe you can start by taking an existing ADO library (I've seem some "betterADO" and the like) I see how much effort it'd to adapt to FCL/how

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

2010-02-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/3/2010 08:16, Klenongan wrote: And here's mine, with more 'elegant' touch to it. I use large fonts and white overall to make a neutral appearance --as I don't know Lazarus' "color"--. The page uses less text as possible on the front page, inspired by Mercurial, VLC, Wordpress website so that

Re: [Lazarus] ADO connections

2010-02-03 Thread Héctor Fiandor Rosario
Dear Flávio: Thanks for your answer. The problem is that some of my clients are using an Accounting System based in MicrosoftAccess and I manage some part of the Cost Accounting routines in Excel. I generate an Excel Sheet with the information to be introduced in the Accounting System. This t

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-02-03 Thread Vincent Snijders
svaa schreef: Not necessarily to move away from Sourceforge, but maybe to have a mirror in an alternative repository without such restrictions and link it in Lazarus' site You can download the latest release from ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/ too. Feel free to update the

Re: [Lazarus] FCL-Web and new WebDesign packages

2010-02-03 Thread Lee Jenkins
Lee Jenkins wrote: Bee Jay wrote: It would be better if the server side interface is plain and independent to any JS framework API. The interface result then could be "translated" to any client side API, or SOAP, or WST, or whatever is required format by the client side framework using some ki

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Nicholls
- Original Message - From: "Juha Manninen" To: "Lazarus mailing list" Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements Hi. I know a number of people who would be interested in your delphi converter, including myself :) Good to know

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

2010-02-03 Thread Creatxr
i've tried the daily build and 9.28. it has the same problem. it can't be compile after i use "project inspector" added "LaMouseAndKeyInput" to project. "Compiling package LazMouseAndKeyInput 0.1" completed /usr/bin/ld: warning: /home/creatxr/WORK/lazarus/f

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

2010-02-03 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Klenongan schrieb: And here's mine, with more 'elegant' touch to it. I use large fonts and white overall to make a neutral appearance --as I don't know Lazarus' "color"--. The page uses less text as possible on the front page, inspired by Mercurial, VLC, Wordpress website so that new visitors wo

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

2010-02-03 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Schneider schrieb: I suggest we use our own images. I already asked help from someone on the other thread to help us on this. I think these pictures are under CreativCommons http://animalphotos.info/a/topics/animals/mammals/cheetahs/ The "Three Cheetahs" image could reflect the multi-p

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

2010-02-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/3/2010 18:37, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Michael Schneider schrieb: I suggest we use our own images. I already asked help from someone on the other thread to help us on this. I think these pictures are under CreativCommons http://animalphotos.info/a/topics/animals/mammals/cheetahs/ The

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

2010-02-03 Thread Paul van Helden
I think these pictures are under CreativCommons http://animalphotos.info/a/topics/animals/mammals/cheetahs/ http://www.piqs.de/schnelluebersicht/search/gepard/ Is it just me or are there others that would agree that using real life animal pictures are just plain cheezy? (Well, the current L

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

2010-02-03 Thread Martin
On 04/02/2010 05:24, Paul van Helden wrote: It seems a significant portion of open source projects pick some animal, almost as some type of "mascot", and that is cool. There isn't one example, however, that I can think of where such website looks like some page on National Geographic. From pe

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

2010-02-03 Thread Lance Collins
Paul wrote A related topic that's been bothering me: can we please discuss a name change for Lazarus as well? It's not like a name change will hurt the project at this stage, methinks... Have you noticed that Firefox now has an add-on called Lazarus? Isn't that irritating? Cheers Lance

Re: [Lazarus] ADO connections

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Héctor Fiandor Rosario wrote: > Dear friends: > > I have received a Delphi7 Project to interact with an Access Database using > ADO > > I need to know if FP and Lazarus have this possibilities as in Delphi. I need to tackle the same problem in a few months - converting old Access data to Fireb

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

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Ishenin
04.02.2010 13:27, Lance Collins wrote: Have you noticed that Firefox now has an add-on called Lazarus? Isn't that irritating? If you goodle for Delphi you find more things than Delphi from Embarcadero. Best regards, Paul Ishenin. -- ___ Lazarus m

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

2010-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Klenongan wrote: > > Preview: > http://xs.to/image-FAED_4B6973FF.jpg The big cheetah image makes me feel like I'm on a wildlife website and not a software tools website. PS: I had a good laugh at the year range in the copyright notice. Very optimistic that Lazarus will still be around. If it is

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

2010-02-03 Thread Paul van Helden
On 2010/02/04 07:56 AM, Martin wrote: I had the "National Geographic" impression too... I did like the proposal from Bee Jay ( http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/676/lazwebnewsubpage030210.png ) I don't like the gradient fill blue (old fashioned) and even less the idea of rotating banners in