Re: [Lazarus] Updating an app "on the fly"

2010-06-20 Thread Thierry Coq
Dear Michael, ... For example, Packages share the same memory space and class inheritance tree. Libraries do not. You're absolutely right. Your example will fail for instance when using strings, exceptions and classes. Yes, the example will fail for classes and exceptions. You are correct. B

Re: [Lazarus] Updating an app "on the fly"

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: FPC loads foreign libraries externally all the time. But you also don't communicate on Pascal level between with them, and keep the RTL/libc states totally apart. I refer to this as the "manual" solution. (which is btw not as easy as many people think, specially for la

[Lazarus] dBase TIP - how to "append from array records reindex" (example)

2010-06-20 Thread Peter E Williams
Hi Lazarus Folk, I hope that this is not too off topic but in view of the discussions about embedded databases I thought I would share a tip from many years ago about using the XBASE "append from array aRec reindex" command with the REINDEX parameter: * Rebuilds open indexes after all recor

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 6/19/2010 2:00 PM, Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.06.2010 16:20, schrieb Doug Chamberlin: Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. Are you aware that this cheetah is also the Free Pascal logo which is displayed on http://www.freepascal.org/ since ages (at le

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Adem
On 2010-06-20 14:12, Doug Chamberlin wrote: And, to continue in the insanely pedantic tradition of threads here, it is more a mascot, not a logo. Speaking of pedanticism: Cheetah live only in a small portion of the world [see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Cheetah_range.gif

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 02:26:20PM +0300, Adem wrote: > Speaking of pedanticism: > > Cheetah live only in a small portion of the world [see > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Cheetah_range.gif ]. > > FPC/Lazarus, OTOH, isn't so restricted. > > Shouldn't the mascot be a member

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread jjb
If you're going to keep the moving image might as well make it 3-D:) On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Adem wrote: > On 2010-06-20 14:12, Doug Chamberlin wrote: > >> And, to continue in the insanel

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Adem
On 2010-06-20 14:41, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 02:26:20PM +0300, Adem wrote: Shouldn't the mascot be a member of Canidae family --coyote, volf, jackal, fox or preferably a dog. If you find one that runs faster than a Cheetah, I don't see why not. Cheetah's

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marco van de Voort schrieb: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 02:26:20PM +0300, Adem wrote: Speaking of pedanticism: Cheetah live only in a small portion of the world [see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Cheetah_range.gif ]. FPC/Lazarus, OTOH, isn't so restricted. Shouldn't the mas

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/19/2010 14:37, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:20:46AM -0400, Doug Chamberlin wrote: Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. That (Cheetah) is the FPC logo, and IMHO should stay no matter what. +1 But IMHO the animation coul

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/19/2010 16:24, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 19 June 2010 20:37, Marco van de Voort wrote: But IMHO the animation could be done away with. I think that's the point everybody is trying to make. ;-) yeah but there is a difference between "remove the animated gif" and "remove the animat

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 03:37:13PM +0300, Adem wrote: > On 2010-06-20 14:41, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 02:26:20PM +0300, Adem wrote: > > > >> Shouldn't the mascot be a member of Canidae family --coyote, volf, > >> jackal, fox or preferably a dog. > >> > > If yo

Re: [Lazarus] Updating an app "on the fly"

2010-06-20 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 09:36:25AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > FPC loads foreign libraries externally all the time. But you also don't > > communicate on Pascal level between with them, and keep the RTL/libc states > > totally apart. > > > > I refer to this as the "manual" solution. (which

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 20 June 2010 13:12, Doug Chamberlin wrote: > Oh, and cheetahs are a specific variation of leopard. Just to clear things up a bit. Just because it "looks" similar doesn't mean it is a "variation of". A Cheetah and Leopard are very different. A Leopard and Jaguar are more related. Leopards may s

Re: [Lazarus] solved [Re: gdb and qt]

2010-06-20 Thread Bogusław Brandys
zeljko wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 19:31, Martin wrote: sorry found it had the qt5pas.dll, only in my laz dir, not in project... It's strange, I thought that lazarus installs that dll in C:\windows\system32. Is there any wiki page how to use Lazarus with Qt on windows ? Boguslaw --

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Just to clear things up a bit. Just because it "looks" similar doesn't > mean it is a "variation of". A Cheetah and Leopard are very different. > A Leopard and Jaguar are more related. > > Leopards may sometimes be confused with two other

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 6/20/2010 1:32 PM, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: www.lazarussupport.com - is the first professional support for Lazarus users, that's the point, not cats animations, right? Correct. And that is why the suggestion to remove the animation is being made. IMO the presence of the animation detra

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/20/2010 13:46, Doug Chamberlin wrote: On 6/20/2010 1:32 PM, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: www.lazarussupport.com - is the first professional support for Lazarus users, that's the point, not cats animations, right? Correct. And that is why the suggestion to remove the animation is being made.

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 6/20/2010 2:45 PM, waldo kitty wrote: hummm... maybe it should be a flash animation, then? there are thousands of professional and corporate sites that (for some silly reason) seem to feel that flash animation is ok :rolleyes: hummm... maybe there should be NO animation, then? Point 1: Jus

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Adem
On 2010-06-20 19:11, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: the cheetah has simple spots, evenly spread; the jaguar has small spots inside the polygonal rosettes; while the leopard normally has rounder, smaller rosettes than those of the jaguar. Alright. Even though I might have a little quibble with the masc

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread John Meyer
Let's try this another way: This new site has just copied the FPC/Laz site. I've asked that they remove this part because it bothers me. Others have agreed. No one has yet to voice a different opinion. This subject has come up before and had similar results bu no changes have been made. I brought

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Rigel Rig
Great work!  - Програма за световното първенство по футбол в ЮАР 2010. Виж ТУК! http://sportni.bg/worldcup2010/?tid=20&oid=1004-- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.

Re: [Lazarus] solved [Re: gdb and qt]

2010-06-20 Thread zeljko
On Sunday 20 June 2010 19:05, Bogusław Brandys wrote: > zeljko wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 19:31, Martin wrote: > >> sorry found it > >> > >> had the qt5pas.dll, only in my laz dir, not in project... > > > > It's strange, I thought that lazarus installs that dll in > > C:\windows\system32. >

[Lazarus] SVN2 stuck on 26103

2010-06-20 Thread Torsten Bonde Christiansen
Can someone please kick the SVN2 server into gear. It is stuck on revision 26103 (14 june 2010). Kind regards, Torsten Bonde Christiansen. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/lis