Re: [Lazarus] More to discuss about Main-Menu

2011-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-03-08 04:46, waldo kitty het geskryf: do you mean that it is more logical than using a menu labeled START to find the SHUTDOWN or REBOOT option??? :lol: :-) And then some people wonder why I DON'T use Windows! Under Linux most distros call that the Application or Logo, Distro Logo

Re: [Lazarus] More to discuss about Main-Menu

2011-03-08 Thread Samuel Herzog
Please, Please. Think about this thread from a absolute beginners point of view. He starts the IDE the first time and of course he wants to see some action. Probably he will choose Run and see an empty form. Next step. He will look for some examples to open and run. Of course he starts looking

Re: [Lazarus] The perfect Linux distro for FPC and Lazarus development

2011-03-08 Thread Sven Barth
Am 07.03.2011 10:30, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: Op 2011-03-07 11:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf: however is that Debian/Ubuntu do have a fairly well-tested mechanism in place for upgrading libraries etc. when necessary, while Slackware- at least when I last looked- has to be reinstalled

Re: [Lazarus] The perfect Linux distro for FPC and Lazarus development

2011-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-03-08 10:43, Sven Barth het geskryf: because Arch follows the principle of a rolling release with rather bleeding edge packages (like Gentoo, but normally not compiled from I'm past the stage of always wanting the bleeding edge stuff. Now I just want a stable system that always works.

Re: [Lazarus] The perfect Linux distro for FPC and Lazarus development

2011-03-08 Thread Frank Church
On 7 March 2011 12:33, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: Op 2011-03-07 12:58, Frank Church het geskryf: How about a stock VMWare, VirtualBox, Amazon EC2 image that is setup just right for perfect Lazarus/FPC development, with all the options setup exactly right? I thought

[Lazarus] Catch ObjC Exception in TTrayIcon?

2011-03-08 Thread Tobias Giesen
Hello, on one of my customer's machines, the line TrayIcon1.Visible:=true; terminates the program, apparently with an ObjC exception inside MacOS. I wonder if this exception can be caught and handled, or what could be the cause? It works fine on all my machines. Cheers, Tobias

Re: [Lazarus] The perfect Linux distro for FPC and Lazarus development

2011-03-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:57:12AM +, Frank Church wrote: I think the real issue here is a lot of leading Lazarus/FPC developers are comfortable and satisfied with their computer setup and organization, which they probably have spent a long time perfecting, pre cloud and pre Web 2.0 and

Re: [Lazarus] Catch ObjC Exception in TTrayIcon?

2011-03-08 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Hello, Is there anything special about this machine? Maybe he has a newer Mac OS X version or something? -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Catch ObjC Exception in TTrayIcon?

2011-03-08 Thread Tobias Giesen
Is there anything special about this machine? Maybe he has a newer Mac OS X version or something? Apparently the problem appeared with the 10.6.6 update, but it runs fine on many other such machines. I have asked the user all kinds of questions in this direction (screen/appearance etc.) but he

Re: [Lazarus] The perfect Linux distro for FPC and Lazarus development

2011-03-08 Thread Frank Church
On 8 March 2011 11:48, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:57:12AM +, Frank Church wrote: I think the real issue here is a lot of leading Lazarus/FPC developers are comfortable and satisfied with their computer setup and organization, which they

Re: [Lazarus] More to discuss about Main-Menu

2011-03-08 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: So, as usual, it's just Microsoft that got it wrong. :) You remember Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to log in? A nightmare for old MS-DOS users :-( DoDi -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Switch off curser in TListBox

2011-03-08 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Jürgen Hestermann schrieb: It seems I have to reprogram many of the LCL routines when doing only slighty special things. When platform widgets (TWinControl descendants) are involved, they dictate the way they work. I thought the LCL existed just to to avoid digging into such details.

Re: [Lazarus] The perfect Linux distro for FPC and Lazarus development

2011-03-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Frank Church said: Before you judge other people's procedures and actions, at least build a case why it could be beneficial. The last attempt (the Netscape community server engine), didn't fare so well, because just one person knew it. I am not judging other