[Lazarus] Subject line with TAB characters inserted

2011-03-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, A little while ago, somebody mentioned the annoying thing of subject lines starting to look different with TAB characters inserted in them. I have noticed this for a while now, but couldn't figure out what was causing it. I think I figured out the culprit. The issue is with Gmail! It see

Re: [Lazarus] More menu changes

2011-03-09 Thread Juha Manninen
Michael Van Canneyt kirjoitti keskiviikko 09 maaliskuu 2011 23:37:49: > Please leave the options dialog as it is. It works well. > > One place for all settings is GOOD ! > > Often you don't know where exactly a setting is, but now you can find it > easily. If you split the dialog it into many, it

Re: [Lazarus] More menu changes

2011-03-09 Thread Martin
On 09/03/2011 21:31, Juha Manninen wrote: Now there is a huge Options dialog where even the list of setting page names (in a treeview) doesn't fit into the default sized window but must be scrolled. .. I would like to see the big Options dialog splitted to many, and have them under the menu. Th

Re: [Lazarus] More menu changes

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Juha Manninen wrote: Hi other settings could go there, too. Scan FPC directory would go to Tools. Enviroment menu would go away. On the other hand some packages can register their settings into a menu. It makes sense to have one dedicated menu for settings. I would like to

[Lazarus] More menu changes

2011-03-09 Thread Juha Manninen
Hi I moved items between Edit, Source, Refactor and Tools menus. Now also some packages register their menu items under Source, View and Environment menus instead of Tools menu. I am quite happy with most item locations. However "Enviroment" menu needs some attention as Martin noted. Now there i

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

2011-03-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:24:02 -0300 William Oliveira Ferreira wrote: > Touching in *Think about this thread from a absolute beginners point of > view. *Well, a strange thing (as i think) is try to run [F9] a unsaved > project (i think it happens on build to but i didn´t test), compiler raises > a L

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

2011-03-09 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
Touching in *Think about this thread from a absolute beginners point of view. *Well, a strange thing (as i think) is try to run [F9] a unsaved project (i think it happens on build to but i didn´t test), compiler raises a Linking Fail error, but if you saves the project in some folder than compiler

Re: [Lazarus] exception handling

2011-03-09 Thread Andrea Mauri
Il 09/03/2011 17:29, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: Some LCL widgetsets use this: {$if defined(cpui386) or defined(cpux86_64)} {$IFDEF windows} Set8087CW($133F); {$ELSE} SetExceptionMask(GetExceptionMask + [exZeroDivide,exInvalidOp]); {$ENDIF} {$ifend} thanks!

Re: [Lazarus] exception handling

2011-03-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:17:19 +0100 Andrea Mauri wrote: > Il 09/03/2011 12:49, Hans-Peter Diettrich ha scritto: > > I'd check this just before the operation, then you won't get an > > exception at all. You can wrap that in a MyLn function, if you need ln() > > more often. > ok. I know. but my ques

Re: [Lazarus] exception handling

2011-03-09 Thread Andrea Mauri
Il 09/03/2011 12:49, Hans-Peter Diettrich ha scritto: I'd check this just before the operation, then you won't get an exception at all. You can wrap that in a MyLn function, if you need ln() more often. ok. I know. but my question is more general and it is: The gui app handles this operation gi

Re: [Lazarus] exception handling

2011-03-09 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Andrea Mauri schrieb: The calculations are under try except. For what reason? An exception down in some calculation doesn't give you any clue of what exactly went wrong, only that *something* went wrong. Sometimes happens that the argument (a) of b:= ln(a) is negative. I'd check this ju

[Lazarus] exception handling

2011-03-09 Thread Andrea Mauri
Dear all, I developed an application that perform some calculations. This application has a gui version and a console version, it runs on windows and linux. Both apps use the same units for calculation, only the interface units are different. I have some problems in the exception handling. Some

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

2011-03-09 Thread Lukasz Sokol
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