2010/7/30 Bogusław Brandys :
> How difficult would be to add text orientation in cell ?
Now the following works:
MyWorksheet.WriteUTF8Text(0, 0, Str_First);
MyWorksheet.WriteTextRotation(0, 0, rt90DegreeClockwiseRotation);
Only in biff 8 format and only for texts at the moment.
You can choo
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:53:47 +0200
Bernd Kreuss wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>
> > Thanks. Applied.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I have noticed that the html hints (at least on GTK2) look quite ugly:
> They have a white background and absolutely no border.
They are painted with your theme.
Here they l
30.07.2010 9:07, Alexander Klenin wrote:
No, Project Options -> OK did not change .lpr file in any way.
.res file did not appear either.
This means that you have no resources: no manifest, no icon, no version
information.
Remove the old rc and manifest files if they are present and add a n
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:25, Paul Ishenin wrote:
> 29.07.2010 17:35, Alexander Klenin wrote:
>
>> Hm, so should I take the patch from the bug report as is
>> (it just deletes $IFDEF line), or should I add $R line instead?
>> I have just verified that all projects compile fine without $R --
>> is
SteveG wrote:
SteveG wrote:
Paul Ishenin wrote:
30.07.2010 8:06, SteveG wrote:
Would anybody know how to obtain the address of the following control?
Arg1 := @Application.Components[0];
This results in "Variable identifier expected" error
A class instance is already a pointer.
Arg1 := App
On 7/29/2010 19:49, Wildfire wrote:
A few years ago I worked for a large internet technical support dept for
business customers. One call I recieved went something like this...
Caller: So what does this super duper line give me that's better than a normal
one.
Me: Instead of 56kb/s you can down
SteveG wrote:
Paul Ishenin wrote:
30.07.2010 8:06, SteveG wrote:
Would anybody know how to obtain the address of the following control?
Arg1 := @Application.Components[0];
This results in "Variable identifier expected" error
A class instance is already a pointer.
Arg1 := Application.Compon
Paul Ishenin wrote:
30.07.2010 8:06, SteveG wrote:
Would anybody know how to obtain the address of the following control?
Arg1 := @Application.Components[0];
This results in "Variable identifier expected" error
A class instance is already a pointer.
Arg1 := Application.Components[0] is enou
30.07.2010 8:06, SteveG wrote:
Would anybody know how to obtain the address of the following control?
Arg1 := @Application.Components[0];
This results in "Variable identifier expected" error
A class instance is already a pointer.
Arg1 := Application.Components[0] is enough.
Best regards,
Pa
29.07.2010 17:35, Alexander Klenin wrote:
Hm, so should I take the patch from the bug report as is
(it just deletes $IFDEF line), or should I add $R line instead?
I have just verified that all projects compile fine without $R --
is it really needed?
Just open the project in the IDE, go to proj
Would anybody know how to obtain the address of the following control?
Arg1 := @Application.Components[0];
This results in "Variable identifier expected" error
Thanks - SteveG
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Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> Thanks. Applied.
Thanks.
I have noticed that the html hints (at least on GTK2) look quite ugly:
They have a white background and absolutely no border.
The following is a hack to make them look like they should at least on
GTK2 (I have *not* tested this on windows and o
- Original Message -
From: "José Mejuto"
To: "Lazarus mailing list"
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Installing lazarus on Windows, horror story goes on
Hello Lazarus-List,
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 6:00:49 PM, you wrote:
JM> I personally managed to insta
Hello Lazarus-List,
Friday, July 30, 2010, 12:12:30 AM, you wrote:
>> It looks like we aren't that bad either.
BB> How difficult would be to add text orientation in cell ?
BB> Or any other cell formatting (though it's a minor issue for me) ?
BB> Many report cases require for crosstab reports to h
Hello Lazarus-List,
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 6:00:49 PM, you wrote:
JM> I personally managed to install it. Lucky me :-)
JM> I think I underestimated the difficulty of installation for a
JM> non-programmer.
A non-programmer or system admin (or at least personal system admin)
takes different ment
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
2010/7/29 Koenraad Lelon :
It seems I forgot that I downloaded it via svn. The files are from
28-06-2010, about 9:00.
I tried excel5demo and excel8demo.
This is what I get :
Just try again with the latest subversion and excel8demo. I just fixed
the issue. It
2010/7/29 Koenraad Lelon :
> It seems I forgot that I downloaded it via svn. The files are from
> 28-06-2010, about 9:00.
> I tried excel5demo and excel8demo.
> This is what I get :
Just try again with the latest subversion and excel8demo. I just fixed
the issue. It now works.
Can I use your file
2010/7/29 Michael Van Canneyt
> I'm sorry to say, but it is your own fault that it fails.
>
> You should never use the released version of Lazarus to compile a program
> developed in the latest (SVN) version.
> That can never work. (the unknown property should already have given you a
> clue, act
On 7/29/2010 10:14, Juha Manninen wrote:
I really don't know what went wrong. The fact is however that something went
wrong for a person who can install most other SW. It means the installation is
not as easy as it should be.
i kinda have to disagree there... it is not the installation or the
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Juha Manninen wrote:
I booted Windows XP on a mini-laptop. It is practically non-touched since I
bought the machine. I installed and used Linux since then.
For the first time I downloaded and installed the official Lazarus Windows
installer. It goes smootly, SourceForge
I booted Windows XP on a mini-laptop. It is practically non-touched since I
bought the machine. I installed and used Linux since then.
For the first time I downloaded and installed the official Lazarus Windows
installer. It goes smootly, SourceForge offers you a Download Now link and
the installati
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 07/29/2010 04:30 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Strange advise. OpenOffice is not always available to the end user where
the program must run ?
Open Office is free, Excel is not. So I think OO is more "available".
Well, not in a corporate en
2010/7/29 dmitry boyarintsev
> 2010/7/29 Juha Manninen :
> > I personally managed to install it. Lucky me :-)
>
> Glad to hear, that everything works as expected.
>
Yes, it works in my machines for my own development. I will look at the
friend's Lazarus installation later (if he still wants it)
2010/7/29 Andreas Schneider
> Either way it
> taught me that I definitely can't trust Java to "just run everywhere".
>
Yes, I have heard of similar cases. The slogan is changed to:
"Write once, debug everywhere"
Juha
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If you need a non-Lazarus solution and are competent in Java, then it
may be worth looking at POI (Poor Obfuscation Implementation) and HSSF
(Horrible Spreadsheet Format).
http://www.javabeat.net/articles/41-apache-poi-reading-excel-sheet-using-java-1.html
I wasn't aware of the existence of fpspr
2010/7/29 Juha Manninen :
> I personally managed to install it. Lucky me :-)
Glad to hear, that everything works as expected.
Btw, is your project close sourced?
You also need let Andrew Brunner know what OSX version your friend using.
If Andrew's OSX is 10.6, and your friend's is 10.5, the proj
2010/7/29 Henry Vermaak
>
> Yawn. Nobody will help you if you don't give specific
> errors/screenshots. Also, take your peazip complaints somewhere else.
>
> If you can't even manage to install it, how will you be able to
> program useful software?
>
I personally managed to install it. Lucky m
On 07/29/2010 04:30 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Strange advise. OpenOffice is not always available to the end user
where the program must run ?
Open Office is free, Excel is not. So I think OO is more "available".
-Michael
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2010/7/29 Andrew Brunner
>
> That IS a good one... But at least for the topic of this case... Juha,
> send me the zip of the project and I'll send you the binary.
>
Thanks. I will send it private.
Actually I asked this already on a mail to skalogryz:
Do the OSX binaries have much variation?
It
2010/7/29 dmitry boyarintsev
> Please, provide more accurate information:
> * Lazarus/FPC version being installed.
> * exact error messages
> * where the Lazarus was installed. (it feels like project's working
> directories contained spaces and/or nont Ansi chars)
>
> I could also help your frien
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:24:46 -0300, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>> I think I must learn GUI programming with Java and port the code. Java
is
>> already installed on those machines and runs for sure.
>> The other choise is to boot Windows XP on my mini-laptop, install
Lazarus
>> there and build th
Op 29-07-10 16:30, Michael Van Canneyt schreef:
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>
>> Ah, excel 5+ binary format is terrible ... I would be more inclined to
>> fix something readable like OpenDocument or OOXML. You can use
>> OpenOffice which is free to convert a XLS
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Bernd Kreuss wrote:
> [Idea:] Maybe somebody with a Mac and a lot of traffic quota and free
> electricity could setup a server that would receive zipped Lazarus
> projects via email, automatically build them and mail the resulting
> binary back to where it came fr
2010/7/29 Juha Manninen :
> 2010/7/29 Andrew Brunner
> You understood the situation little wrong. He is not planning to write SW,
> he only wants to build and run the program I made, on his platform (OSX)
> which is different from mine (Linux).
> Remember the ad: Write once, compile everywhere.
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
Ah, excel 5+ binary format is terrible ... I would be more inclined to
fix something readable like OpenDocument or OOXML. You can use
OpenOffice which is free to convert a XLS to OpenDocument.
Strange advise.
OpenOffice is not always
Ah, excel 5+ binary format is terrible ... I would be more inclined to
fix something readable like OpenDocument or OOXML. You can use
OpenOffice which is free to convert a XLS to OpenDocument.
thanks,
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Juha Manninen wrote:
> Ok,
> we had a Skype phone+chat session with my friend again trying to install
> Lazarus
I would not try (not even think about it!) to let an end user install my
entire development environment on his machine, only to compile a program
I wrote for him.
I would try *everythin
Hi Juha,
2010/7/29 Juha Manninen :
> [snip]
> Before that we were fighting with zip packages. The Windows machine didn't
> have a zip program installed. I made a mistake first and recommended Peazip
> "because it is made with Lazarus". My friend installed it but the UI is so
> weird that he couldn
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Juha Manninen wrote:
2010/7/29 Andrew Brunner
2010/7/29 Juha Manninen :
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say what I think is the
obvious. If installing software on a computer is hard - writing
software for said computer is going to be even harder.
You underst
2010/7/29 Andrew Brunner
> 2010/7/29 Juha Manninen :
>
> I'm going to go out on a limb here and say what I think is the
> obvious. If installing software on a computer is hard - writing
> software for said computer is going to be even harder.
>
You understood the situation little wrong. He is n
> Josh, don't sell yourself short! You already are way ahead of many.
>
> My advice is to stick with Lazarus/FPC as they will help you get where you
> want to go faster.
>
> Just keep learning!
Thank you, Doug. I will. I feel motivated :)
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On 29/07/2010 14:26, Juha Manninen wrote:
Ok,
we had a Skype phone+chat session with my friend again trying to
install Lazarus, this time on a Windows XP laptop. I thought it must
be an easy task and we are done quickly. I was wrong again!
He managed to install Lazarus by himself. So yes, it
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:35:42 +0200
Bernd Kreuss wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > Fixed in svn rev 26882.
>
> OK. Here is the rest to activate the new hint windows. I can't find any
> unwanted or faulty behavior anymore.
Thanks. Applied.
Mattias
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2010/7/29 Juha Manninen :
> ... I thought it must be an easy task and we are done quickly. I was wrong
> again!...
> ... Then we both were so pissed off that we closed the Skype session. F**k!...
> ... My friend installed it but the UI is so weird that he couldn't use it. ...
> ... Why this Lazaru
2010/7/29 Juha Manninen :
> Ok,
> we had a Skype phone+chat session with my friend again trying to install
> Lazarus, this time on a Windows XP laptop. I thought it must be an easy task
> and we are done quickly. I was wrong again!
>
> He managed to install Lazarus by himself. So yes, it is easy to
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Juha Manninen wrote:
Ok,
we had a Skype phone+chat session with my friend again trying to install
Lazarus, this time on a Windows XP laptop. I thought it must be an easy task
and we are done quickly. I was wrong again!
He managed to install Lazarus by himself. So yes, it
2010/7/29 Juha Manninen :
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say what I think is the
obvious. If installing software on a computer is hard - writing
software for said computer is going to be even harder.
Perhaps the person you are working with could pay you money to develop
the application i
Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> Fixed in svn rev 26882.
OK. Here is the rest to activate the new hint windows. I can't find any
unwanted or faulty behavior anymore.
Bernd
Index: ide/codebrowser.pas
===
--- ide/codebrowser.pas (Revision 2
Ok,
we had a Skype phone+chat session with my friend again trying to install
Lazarus, this time on a Windows XP laptop. I thought it must be an easy task
and we are done quickly. I was wrong again!
He managed to install Lazarus by himself. So yes, it is easy to install but
read on... First he mad
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Koenraad Lelon
wrote:
> I'm having troubles reading a spreadsheet with the demo's of
> fpspreadsheet. The demo's crash.
Which demo exactly and which format?
> The fpspreadsheet is the version included in Lazarus 0.9.28.2.
I didn't know it is included in Lazarus
Hi,
I'm having troubles reading a spreadsheet with the demo's of
fpspreadsheet. The demo's crash. Could I send a spreadsheet so someone
can look why the demo's crash ? If that gets fixed I can go further and
make my own application.
The fpspreadsheet is the version included in Lazarus 0.9.28.2.
Th
First of all, software over it. And if I become advanced enough, write one from
scratch.
Josh Lee
Programmer - Owner of JLSoftware
On 29 Jul 2010, at 12:47 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Josh Lee
> wrote:
>> Sorry, PDA was the only name I could t
On 7/28/2010 4:45 PM, Josh Lee wrote:
In my life, I would like to code a PDA
I know it's far-fetched, and I would have to become much more advanced. I
would really love to have some sort of handheld device with a keyboard in my
pocket, I would take it out, and boot it up, and have a command li
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Josh Lee wrote:
> Sorry, PDA was the only name I could think of to describe this
Ok, PDA is the right word. The problem was that you should have
specified that you want to write the entire software system of the
PDA, not just a software running on top of an exist
Josh Lee wrote:
I would first want to code a pre-built PDA that already has an OS, then
eventually as I learn enough, code an empty one from scratch. (And maybe even
build one - Although that would take a lot of knowledge into hardware, I guess)
In that case see links posted in this thread, a
On 29 July 2010 11:19, Mark Morgan Lloyd
wrote:
> Henry Vermaak wrote:
>
>> supporter like Adobe, they can do it to anyone. I can't believe
>> developers take this lying down, either, as I just won't take the risk in
>> spending time and energy developing for a platform where someone can flick a
> What does PDA stand for in this case?
>
> I know only Personal Digital Assistent.
Sorry, PDA was the only name I could think of to describe this - I mean a
small, handheld device with a keyboard,with that you organise data via command
line or a GUI.
Similar to this, which was my childish in
I would first want to code a pre-built PDA that already has an OS, then
eventually as I learn enough, code an empty one from scratch. (And maybe even
build one - Although that would take a lot of knowledge into hardware, I guess)
Josh Lee
Programmer - Owner of JLSoftware
On 29 Jul 2010, at 09:4
On 29/07/10 10:19, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Henry Vermaak wrote:
supporter like Adobe, they can do it to anyone. I can't believe
developers take this lying down, either, as I just won't take the risk
in spending time and energy developing for a platform where someone
can flick a kill switch on
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 13:10, Paul Ishenin wrote:
> 29.07.2010 8:08, Alexander Klenin wrote:
>>
>> However, my question is -- is this yet another incompatible change
>> made without any warning? Or did I miss it?
>
> I wrote about this change here:
> http://lazarus-dev.blogspot.com/2010/02/work-o
Henry Vermaak wrote:
supporter like Adobe, they can do it to anyone. I can't believe
developers take this lying down, either, as I just won't take the risk
in spending time and energy developing for a platform where someone can
flick a kill switch on my app at any time.
I agree, but we also
The license agreement says that they can ban your app if it is not written
in C/C++/Obj C,
So in "theory" they can ban any apps that aren't. But in fact, they have
approved lots of non-C/C++/Obj C apps
and these are selling just fine on the app store.
I think the question comes down to whether yo
On 07/29/2010 10:45 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
What does PDA stand for in this case?
I know only Personal Digital Assistent.
I don't suppose hes in Epidural anesthesia, which is called PDA
("Periduralanästhesie" ->
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periduralan%C3%A4sthesie) in Germany
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Josh Lee wrote:
> In my life, I would like to code a PDA
What does PDA stand for in this case?
I know only Personal Digital Assistent.
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On 29/07/10 09:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
We appear to be back at a situation where some people say that FPC
(hence Lazarus) can't be used legitimately with Apple's SDK, and others
saying that Apple have already accepted FPC-written apps so have
probably relaxed the requirement. I for one rema
Josh Lee wrote:
In my life, I would like to code a PDA
The big question is whether you mean that you'd like to take a lifeless
PCB, possibly that you've designed and built, and get it to do useful
stuff, or simply to take a PDA that somebody else has brought to life
and write software on to
Michael Schnell wrote:
On 07/28/2010 10:19 AM, dmitry boyarintsev wrote:
It would be a good promotion for FPC/Lazarus, but the Apple might ban
the applications as well,
No problem as lately the court ruled that Apple's jailing application
distribution in their own stores is not protected by t
2010/7/27 Cox, Stuart TRAN:EX
> As a matter of interest, are you using some form of the Bin Packing or
> Knapsack algorithms to underpin your woodworking program?
>
I think so yes. Only the knapsack weights must be <= a given value, the wood
board lengths must be >= the value. Otherwise the same
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