Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Paul Ishenin wrote: > My current goal is to stabilize what we have and to release 1.0. For a project goal, it would be hard to top that one for conciseness and clarity of purpose... well said, Paul! Thanks, -Tom -- __

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: [...If you are easily offended to what I normally write, stop reading now...] I'll add some more possibly offending opinions :-] This worrying issues is more visible lately than ever before. I'm starting to worry that Lazarus team is trying so hard to catch a movin

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Ishenin
06.03.2010 4:59, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Yes I know we are all busy and have REAL jobs, but then give more developers write access and delicate work to those developers. We constangly give write access to more and more developers. Since the year begin Luiz and Juha got an ability to commit thei

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > This is a continuation of my issues regarding the tab-type components. > Lazarus team doesn't have enough manpower or resources to maintain > duplicate components, Like what? TNotebook and TPageControl? They have the same internal (in the

Re: [Lazarus] PageControl vs NoteBook vs TabControl

2010-03-05 Thread Andreas Schneider
Am Freitag 05 März 2010 22:20:51 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Wouldn't it be better to simply have one tab-type component? All > efforts placed on only improving one component? Here's a problem: TNotebook is _not_ a tab-type component (well, actually it shouldn't be a tab-type component). The De

[Lazarus] Detecting the start of a service and simulate a click in the yes button of its window

2010-03-05 Thread Arí Ricardo Ody
I would like to know if it's possible to make a program to detect if a service has started in windows. If affirmative this service shows a window and I must to simulate a click on the “yes” button of this same window, e.g, the program will think that someone click yes in the windows it shows whe

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 5 March 2010 21:59, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > [...If you are easily offended to what I normally write, stop reading now...] > > > This is a continuation of my issues regarding the tab-type components. > Lazarus team doesn't have enough manpower or resources to maintain > duplicate comp

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Maxim Ganetsky
06.03.2010 1:06, Vincent Snijders пишет: Somebody with time can tell me what revisions to merge and it will be done. Did you find the revision to be cherry picked? Consider merging the following revisions: maybe 21839 maybe 21860 maybe 21863 maybe 21866 21875 21904 21927 21933 21934 maybe 2225

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Flávio Etrusco
> > This is a continuation of my issues regarding the tab-type components. > Lazarus team doesn't have enough manpower or resources to maintain > duplicate components, chase a moving target which has dedicated > developers and corporate money backing (Delphi), and still implement > it's own unique

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Florian Klaempfl
> Also, what's the state of Mantis bug reports? The statistics pages in > Mantis is hidden from general users (we don't have access). It causes a lot of load: it takes several seconds to load it. I've attached a summary graph for lazarus. <>-- ___ Lazaru

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: The "fixes" branch has been totally unusable for months because the form designer is broken (you cannot move/resize components) and nothing is being done regarding that - even though it has been reported numerous times. Somebody with time can tell me what revisions to

[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, [...If you are easily offended to what I normally write, stop reading now...] This is a continuation of my issues regarding the tab-type components. Lazarus team doesn't have enough manpower or resources to maintain duplicate components, chase a moving target which has dedicated developers a

Re: [Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

2010-03-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/2/3, 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/pu

Re: [Lazarus] PageControl vs NoteBook vs TabControl

2010-03-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 5 March 2010 14:24, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > I think it's a nice effort, but wouldn't it be better to improve the > correct control (TPageControl) instead of making the wrong control > better at what it isn't supposed to do? Wouldn't it be better to simply have one tab-type comp

Re: [Lazarus] last svn error

2010-03-05 Thread Andrea Mauri
Il 05/03/2010 17.42, Paul Ishenin ha scritto: Please update and retest. ok it works. andrea -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] last svn error

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Ishenin
05.03.2010 19:27, Andrea Mauri wrote: in the last svn (Lazarus 0.9.29 r23841 FPC 2.4.0 i386-win32-win32/win64) I got the following error during rebuild: C:\lazarus_svn\components\opengl\glwin32wglcontext.pas(267,3) Error: Wrong number of parameters specified for call to "PrepareCreateWindow" wh

Re: [Lazarus] last svn error

2010-03-05 Thread Andrea Mauri
Il 05/03/2010 13.54, Mattias Gärtner ha scritto: I don't have windows here at the moment. Can you create a fix? sorry but I don't know what to do. I don't know why the patch that introduce the error was submitted and what those function do. andrea -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] last svn error

2010-03-05 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Andrea Mauri : Il 05/03/2010 13.27, Andrea Mauri ha scritto: C:\lazarus_svn\components\opengl\glwin32wglcontext.pas(267,3) Error: Wrong number of parameters specified for call to "PrepareCreateWindow" I think is related to revision 23840: lcl: change use of CreateParams: - move TFo

Re: [Lazarus] last svn error

2010-03-05 Thread Andrea Mauri
Il 05/03/2010 13.27, Andrea Mauri ha scritto: C:\lazarus_svn\components\opengl\glwin32wglcontext.pas(267,3) Error: Wrong number of parameters specified for call to "PrepareCreateWindow" I think is related to revision 23840: lcl: change use of CreateParams: - move TForm.PopupParent handling to

Re: [Lazarus] PageControl vs NoteBook vs TabControl

2010-03-05 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:06 PM, zeljko wrote: > Well, IDE source editor uses TNoteBook.Options (nboShowCloseButtons comes to > my mind), which isn't available on TPageControl. It should be easy to add that to TPageControl, I'll see if I have time later today. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho --

[Lazarus] last svn error

2010-03-05 Thread Andrea Mauri
in the last svn (Lazarus 0.9.29 r23841 FPC 2.4.0 i386-win32-win32/win64) I got the following error during rebuild: C:\lazarus_svn\components\opengl\glwin32wglcontext.pas(267,3) Error: Wrong number of parameters specified for call to "PrepareCreateWindow" what can I do? -- __

Re: [Lazarus] PageControl vs NoteBook vs TabControl

2010-03-05 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2010/3/4 Flávio Etrusco : > I've just noticed the although TabPosition isn't published in > TNotebook it's actually implemented in gtk and public. Is it > implemented in Windows? > If so, can it be published? And can the attached patch be accepted? ;-) I think it's a nice effort, but wouldn't it b

Re: [Lazarus] PageControl vs NoteBook vs TabControl

2010-03-05 Thread Marc Weustink
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Just continuing ... TNotebook is widely used as a TPageControl because first someone created the wrong TNotebook and only later TPageControl was added ... Not entirely. In the early days of lazarus, the original TNotebook was correct. Then someone thought, we