Re: [Lazarus] lhelp compilation doesn't seem to pick up primary config path

2012-08-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 3-8-2012 17:14, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > On 3-8-2012 16:26, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> Pressing F1 will induce lhelp compilation which fails on my test >> environment because the default lazarus primary config path is used. > I think it's a bug. Unfortunately no time to go digging how to ge

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-8-2012 0:22, silvioprog wrote: > 2012/8/3 Mattias Gaertner : > [...] >> There is no question that wrong translations must be fixed or removed >> so that the default (English) is shown. > > +1 > > IMHO, the IDE could come completely in English as default. Who needs > of translated IDE, can ch

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Salvatore Coppola
2012/8/3 Martin : > On 03/08/2012 18:54, Salvatore Coppola wrote: >> >> LinuxMint LMDE 201204 with MATE and mintMenu 64bit >> FPC 2.6.0. from debian repository >> lazarus_1_0_RC1 from svn >> built without problem >> customizing IDE color work only with the combobox >> i.e. >> not all the items are

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Maxim Ganetsky
04.08.2012 4:25, silvioprog пишет: 2012/8/3 Maxim Ganetsky : 04.08.2012 2:57, silvioprog пишет: Maybe installer can be improved to ask preferred language. I think that's a great solution for all problems with internationalization, and currently several programs use this approach. Please c

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread silvioprog
2012/8/3 Maxim Ganetsky : > 04.08.2012 2:57, silvioprog пишет: >> >> Here in Brazil all programmers (yes, ALL) use Delphi in english. >> >> I think very strange the IDE capture the current language of operating >> system (portuguese) and uses it as default. x( > > There is Brazilian Portuguese tran

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 August 2012 23:18, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Can you give me the place where it says help is working "out of the > box"? Messages from 10th July 2012... I have no idea if Reinier is a core lazarus developer - I assumed we was. Anyway, he mentioned lhelp/chm as the default help. You did no

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Maxim Ganetsky
04.08.2012 2:57, silvioprog пишет: Here in Brazil all programmers (yes, ALL) use Delphi in english. I think very strange the IDE capture the current language of operating system (portuguese) and uses it as default. x( There is Brazilian Portuguese translation, which is well maintained and com

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2012-08-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd < markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > Why is this relevant to a project which is predominantly European? It is good idea from SourceForge to make it project responsibility, compared to google, googlecode forbid my country for all projects.

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2012-08-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:32:08 +0200 Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 3-8-2012 21:16, Zaher Dirkey wrote: Hi, Please would you change and option in SourceForge project of Lazaus and FPC in Admin page, to this - This project does NOT incorporate, access, call

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Martin
On 04/08/2012 00:02, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:38:04 +0100 Martin wrote: On 03/08/2012 23:18, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Can you give me the place where it says help is working "out of the box"? It looks this was the first message to use the phrase: http://lists.lazarus.fre

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Avishai
I use English IDE on Hebrew system. I have never thought it was a good idea to let Locale decide these things. Not for the IDE and not for my programs. On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:57 AM, silvioprog wrote: > 2012/8/3 Zaher Dirkey : > > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Mattias Gaertner < > nc-gaert.

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:38:04 +0100 Martin wrote: > On 03/08/2012 23:18, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:05:46 +0100 > > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > > >> On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > >>> Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release > >>

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread silvioprog
2012/8/3 Zaher Dirkey : > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Mattias Gaertner > wrote: >> >> >> There is no question that wrong translations must be fixed or removed >> so that the default (English) is shown. >> >> What about the texts and hints? > > > I think po files 10% translated, idk how to meas

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Martin
On 03/08/2012 23:18, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:05:46 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. Summary: The help is still not working out of the box. Can you

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2012-08-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:32:08 +0200 > > Lazarus does not use the blowfish unit, but it ships fpc on its > download pages. > > Mattias > Is there a mirror outside sourceforge at least for release versions. Best Regards Zaher Dirkey -- _

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:22 AM, silvioprog wrote: > IMHO, the IDE could come completely in English as default. Who needs > of translated IDE, can choose the language manually via tools | > options. > I agree at least for incomplete languages. Best Regards Zaher Dirkey -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > There is no question that wrong translations must be fixed or removed > so that the default (English) is shown. > > What about the texts and hints? I think po files 10% translated, idk how to measure it, a lot of sentences is not transl

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:32:08 +0200 Reinier Olislagers wrote: > On 3-8-2012 21:16, Zaher Dirkey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Please would you change and option in SourceForge project of Lazaus and > > FPC in Admin page, to this > > - > > This project does NOT incorporate, access, call u

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread silvioprog
2012/8/3 Mattias Gaertner : [...] > There is no question that wrong translations must be fixed or removed > so that the default (English) is shown. +1 IMHO, the IDE could come completely in English as default. Who needs of translated IDE, can choose the language manually via tools | options. Wel

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:05:46 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. > > Summary: > The help is still not working out of the box. Can you give me the place where it says

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 00:35:24 +0300 Zaher Dirkey wrote: > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Mattias Gaertner > wrote: > > > > If i translated we will not used at all, no will one use it. > > > > Which item is this? > > > > > There is many items not translated, and it will take long time to finish

Re: [Lazarus] New doc CHM snapshot (RC1 testing)

2012-08-03 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: Hi Marco, The CHM files are all double spaced in LHelp. This applies to class declarations, unit lists etc. The online (HTML) versions are not double spaced. About a year ago I could fix that by using your CSS file. But I never could figure out what really makes tha

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Ludo Brands schrieb: What do we do with Lazarus though? At least the 1.0 code base would presumably need Win9x support. We could e.g. branch it off and have a separate Win9x architecture branch based on the (to be created) Win9x branch off FPC trunk in time for 1.2? Or is there a much smarter

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > If i translated we will not used at all, no will one use it. > > Which item is this? > > There is many items not translated, and it will take long time to finish it, even that, we will no use this translation, because we study the progr

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:51:54 +0300 Zaher Dirkey wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Mattias Gaertner > wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:40:12 +0300 > > Zaher Dirkey wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Would you please remove Arabic language from the release version. > > > > > > Because: > > > 1

Re: [Lazarus] A bit odd: after rebuild of 1.1, splashscreen shows 0.9.31

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:03:27 +0200 Bart wrote: > Hi, > > Just curious. > Whenever i rebuild 1.1, when the newly built Lazarus restarts, the > splashscreen shows version number 0.9.31. > When closing and the restarting Lazarus, it correctly shows 1.1 again. > It looks odd. Update your startlazaru

[Lazarus] A bit odd: after rebuild of 1.1, splashscreen shows 0.9.31

2012-08-03 Thread Bart
Hi, Just curious. Whenever i rebuild 1.1, when the newly built Lazarus restarts, the splashscreen shows version number 0.9.31. When closing and the restarting Lazarus, it correctly shows 1.1 again. It looks odd. Bart -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:40:12 +0300 > Zaher Dirkey wrote: > > > Hi, > > Would you please remove Arabic language from the release version. > > > > Because: > > 1 - it is incomplete at all, and have wrong translation, look at > attachment. >

Re: [Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:40:12 +0300 Zaher Dirkey wrote: > Hi, > Would you please remove Arabic language from the release version. > > Because: > 1 - it is incomplete at all, and have wrong translation, look at attachment. Can you translate for us? > 2 - All Arabic developers use English IDE for

[Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

2012-08-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
Hi, Would you please remove Arabic language from the release version. Because: 1 - it is incomplete at all, and have wrong translation, look at attachment. 2 - All Arabic developers use English IDE for all languages. Best Regards Zaher Dirkey <>-- ___ L

Re: [Lazarus] System.Enum.GetNames

2012-08-03 Thread silvioprog
2012/8/3 silvioprog : > Hellow! :) > > How to I get a list of the names of a specified enumeration type? Eg: > > http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/Method.asp?NameSpace=System&Class=Enum&Type=Class&Method=GetNames > > I'm trying to create a function *similar* to implode function of PHP, > but to work wi

[Lazarus] System.Enum.GetNames

2012-08-03 Thread silvioprog
Hellow! :) How to I get a list of the names of a specified enumeration type? Eg: http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/Method.asp?NameSpace=System&Class=Enum&Type=Class&Method=GetNames I'm trying to create a function *similar* to implode function of PHP, but to work with enums. Thx. -- Silvio Clécio

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 21:16, Zaher Dirkey wrote: Hi, Please would you change and option in SourceForge project of Lazaus and FPC in Admin page, to this - This project does NOT incorporate, access, call upon, or otherwise use encryption of any kind, including, but not limited to, open sou

[Lazarus] OT: Peazip in Sourceforge Project of the Month contest

2012-08-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, Just noticed that the Peazip archiver GUI, which is built with Lazarus, is a contestant for Project of the Month on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-vote-092012/ Anybody wanting to vote, please do ;) Regards, Reinier -- ___ Lazar

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2012-08-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 3-8-2012 21:16, Zaher Dirkey wrote: > Hi, > > Please would you change and option in SourceForge project of Lazaus and > FPC in Admin page, to this > - > This project does NOT incorporate, access, call upon, or otherwise use > encryption of any kind, including, but not limited to

Re: [Lazarus] Call for translations updates for 1.0 release and pending Portuguese translation removal

2012-08-03 Thread Maxim Ganetsky
03.08.2012 22:59, William Oliveira Ferreira пишет: understood. I´m adapting PT-BR translation, so, i'll offer it when finished. Brazilian Portuguese translation is maintained by Marcelo B Paula. Please contact him first in order not to waste your effort. -- Best regards, Maxim Ganetsky

[Lazarus] (no subject)

2012-08-03 Thread Zaher Dirkey
Hi, Please would you change and option in SourceForge project of Lazaus and FPC in Admin page, to this - This project does NOT incorporate, access, call upon, or otherwise use encryption of any kind, including, but not limited to, open source algorithms and/or calls to encryption i

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Martin
On 03/08/2012 18:54, Salvatore Coppola wrote: LinuxMint LMDE 201204 with MATE and mintMenu 64bit FPC 2.6.0. from debian repository lazarus_1_0_RC1 from svn built without problem customizing IDE color work only with the combobox i.e. not all the items are selectable from the sourcebox for instance

Re: [Lazarus] Call for translations updates for 1.0 release and pending Portuguese translation removal

2012-08-03 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
understood. I´m adapting PT-BR translation, so, i'll offer it when finished. 2012/8/3 Martin > On 03/08/2012 19:30, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote: > > Inside IDE Options > Editor > Mouse > For all those special keys settings, i´m trying to understand because i > never looked at that. > Alt-C

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Martin
On 03/08/2012 18:54, Salvatore Coppola wrote: LinuxMint LMDE 201204 with MATE and mintMenu 64bit FPC 2.6.0. from debian repository lazarus_1_0_RC1 from svn built without problem customizing IDE color work only with the combobox i.e. not all the items are selectable from the sourcebox for instance

Re: [Lazarus] Call for translations updates for 1.0 release and pending Portuguese translation removal

2012-08-03 Thread Martin
On 03/08/2012 19:30, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote: Inside IDE Options > Editor > Mouse For all those special keys settings, i´m trying to understand because i never looked at that. Alt-Ctrl Button means that when I hold Alt+Ctrl and press Left 1 (example), it will call that action? http:/

Re: [Lazarus] Call for translations updates for 1.0 release and pending Portuguese translation removal

2012-08-03 Thread Martin
On 03/08/2012 19:30, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote: Inside IDE Options > Editor > Mouse For all those special keys settings, i´m trying to understand because i never looked at that. Alt-Ctrl Button means that when I hold Alt+Ctrl and press Left 1 (example), it will call that action? Yes. F

Re: [Lazarus] Call for translations updates for 1.0 release and pending Portuguese translation removal

2012-08-03 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
Inside IDE Options > Editor > Mouse For all those special keys settings, i´m trying to understand because i never looked at that. Alt-Ctrl Button means that when I hold Alt+Ctrl and press Left 1 (example), it will call that action? 2012/8/3 William Oliveira Ferreira > thanks, i'll take a look >

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Salvatore Coppola
With Setting Tools-->Options ...-->Desktop-->Language-->English [en] it work fine but with Automatic or Italian the problem is there Salvatore 2012/8/3 Salvatore Coppola : > LinuxMint LMDE 201204 with MATE and mintMenu 64bit > FPC 2.6.0. from debian repository > lazarus_1_0_RC1 from svn > built w

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Salvatore Coppola
LinuxMint LMDE 201204 with MATE and mintMenu 64bit FPC 2.6.0. from debian repository lazarus_1_0_RC1 from svn built without problem customizing IDE color work only with the combobox i.e. not all the items are selectable from the sourcebox for instance Text block, Folded code marker, Assembler, Exec

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Samuel Herzog
Ok, now I am trough all 101 examples. I  just tried to open, compile and run the examples. I do not judge if the example does what its supposed to do. Will be online tomorrow again. Sam Lazarus 1.0RC examples: bitbutton  ---> OK checkbox   ---> not OK   RunError(103) because of "writeln" c

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
2012/8/3 Graeme Geldenhuys > The default "IDE Options" dialog is too small to fit all the main > content (to the right of the treeview). See the screenshot where lots > of content is clipped. Most developers would consider default dialog > sizes to fit all default content. I Think it´s caused

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
2012/8/3 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara > Em 3/8/2012 03:30, Bart escreveu: > > On 8/3/12, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: >> >> >> Removing support for win9x would help cleanup the win32 widgetset >>> >> I totally agree. >> Someday a decision should be made to cut the dead wood. >> > > IMO th

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 18:49, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, On 3 August 2012 17:23, Sven Barth wrote: Also it's magnificient to see a NT based OS booting so lighting fast even on a VM :D (I myself have not yet tried it on hardware, but others have and it's getting more stable by the week) I love that

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Samuel Herzog
Hi, I am currently testing the "examples" which come with RC1. (on windows xp sp3 with classic design) Tasks: I open each example in the IDE. I try to compile each example. I try to run each example. Will soon inform about the "findings". Sam-- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 3 August 2012 17:23, Sven Barth wrote: > > Also it's magnificient to see a NT based OS booting so lighting fast even on > a VM :D (I myself have not yet tried it on hardware, but others have and > it's getting more stable by the week) I love that too. Does it beat Ubuntu though - I'll hav

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 17:00, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0200, Sven Barth wrote: win2000 could run decently with 192MB, but is already deprecated (and was always expensive). XP could run with 256MB, but barely, and the requirements due to updates have increased over t

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 16:58, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, On 3 August 2012 15:38, Sven Barth wrote: If I'd not run Linux on such a machine I'd prefer to use ReactOS (even if it would crash every now and then) before going near a 9x. :) We actually had a look at ReactOS too (about 2 years ago) - but

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 16:57, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:35:46PM +0200, Sven Barth wrote: I'm not waiting or repacking on win9x issues popping up during release process anymore. If it is going to be a viable target, people must work and test with it also between releases and wi

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Free Pascal downloads plummeting on SourceForge

2012-08-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.08.2012 18:04, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > On 3 August 2012 16:52, Florian Klämpfl wrote: >> >> Of course, for an OSS project the development activity is much more >> important ... > > > Indeed. I have some git commands that does that. Unfortunately that > is not perfect either, because

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Free Pascal downloads plummeting on SourceForge

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 August 2012 16:52, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > > Of course, for an OSS project the development activity is much more > important ... Indeed. I have some git commands that does that. Unfortunately that is not perfect either, because SVN doesn't distinguish between the contributor and committer

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, > > Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. Another bug... ;-) [with a patch] http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22566 -- Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit htt

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Free Pascal downloads plummeting on SourceForge

2012-08-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.08.2012 17:50, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: > Am 03.08.2012 10:28, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: >> Hi Everybody, >> >> Lets just face the facts Such download statics are just "eye >> candy" for SourceForge. There is no way you can take those as a >> reliable source of information. > > The abs

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Free Pascal downloads plummeting on SourceForge

2012-08-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.08.2012 10:28, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Hi Everybody, > > Lets just face the facts Such download statics are just "eye > candy" for SourceForge. There is no way you can take those as a > reliable source of information. The absolute numbers are indeed of no interest but the relative

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 3 August 2012 14:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.1 [2012/02/29] for x86_64 Please update your fpc. To quote you... "This release has been built with fpc 2.6.0 " So I would have expected any FPC 2.6.1 revision (any fixes revision afte

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Em 3/8/2012 03:30, Bart escreveu: On 8/3/12, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: Removing support for win9x would help cleanup the win32 widgetset I totally agree. Someday a decision should be made to cut the dead wood. IMO the best time is now (after 1.0). The same for old gtk2 (2.8 etc)

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 03/08/12 15:26, Sven Barth wrote: > On 03.08.2012 11:08, Henry Vermaak wrote: >> I personally think it's immoral to support these operating systems. >> People should be forced away from them for their own good (security >> wise), since they obviously know no better. By supporting them, you >> j

Re: [Lazarus] lhelp compilation doesn't seem to pick up primary config path

2012-08-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 3-8-2012 16:26, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > Hi list, > > I mentioned this earlier, but on testing just now it happened again. > > Also, Graeme's recent message on lhelp compilation failing with a > different primary config path triggered me. > > With current fpcup, a bare metal install does n

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0200, Sven Barth wrote: > > > > win2000 could run decently with 192MB, but is already deprecated (and was > > always expensive). XP could run with 256MB, but barely, and the > > requirements due to updates have increased over time. 384MB might be > > doable, bu

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 3 August 2012 15:38, Sven Barth wrote: > > If I'd not run Linux on such a machine I'd prefer to use ReactOS (even if it > would crash every now and then) before going near a 9x. :) We actually had a look at ReactOS too (about 2 years ago) - but then it was just too unstable. I guess it mi

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:23:30PM +0200, Sven Barth wrote: > > > > But for someone to still want to buy Win3.1 in 2008, there must > > clearly be some obscure need for it - in this day and age. Weird, I > > know. :-) > > In my university's system for Microsoft software I can still download > DOS

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:35:46PM +0200, Sven Barth wrote: > > I'm not waiting or repacking on win9x issues popping up during release > > process anymore. If it is going to be a viable target, people must work and > > test with it also between releases and with trunk. > > > > Same goes for Dos an

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 August 2012 15:26, Sven Barth wrote: > > You must see it that way: Win9x systems are so old that nobody even wants to > write malicious software for them anymore :P (yes, this is ment with a bit > of irony/sarcasm) So now Win3.11 might just be the "safest" OS around. :-) -- Regards, -

Re: [Lazarus] New doc CHM snapshot (RC1 testing)

2012-08-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 03:26:14PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > Please test an report irregularities in this thread. > > On the first screen after opening the ref.chm file... "Michael van > Canneyt" 's name is garbled. After all his hard work creating those > FPC docs, I think we owe it to

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/3/2012 04:34, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Current installer for 1.0RC1 indeed does not run on WinMe. How ridiculous is it that the applications will probably run fine on older Windows versions, but the INSTALLER is the limiting factor and this is the same thing with the adobe flash in

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 3 August 2012 15:27, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Was there any error message? > It shows the found .po files in the lazarus Directory. No errors, and there are lots of *.po files in the directory tree. Report as a bug: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22564 Again, I couldn't t

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 August 2012 15:25, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >> $ xdpyinfo | grep inch >> resolution: 96x96 dots per inch > > Please create a bug report. There is no v1.0 RC1 option in the bug tracker, so I picked 1.1 (SVN). Here is the bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22563 -- Regar

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 3 August 2012 15:24, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > For historical reasons the "all" target builds the default, it does not > build all add ons and not all nice-to-haves. I thought "help now works out of the box" means "default". I guess my English is not that good today. > The lazarus s

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 11:33, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 09:43:55AM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Ehmm.. I'm trying to contain myself, but WHY does Lazarus 1 and 1+ even support Win9x/ME anymore? Because not everybody feels the need to "fix" what isn't broken. That is a very

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 13:30, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:04:13PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: (win9x support might be something that will get harder when more unicode centric releases as fpc/trunk.7.1 come out, though the unicode changes are glacial at the moment) That doe

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Graeme Geldenhuys hat am 3. August 2012 um 16:08 geschrieben:> Hi, > > On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. > > > Is English now the only supported language in the IDE for v1.0? I > remember there use

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 11:08, Henry Vermaak wrote: I personally think it's immoral to support these operating systems. People should be forced away from them for their own good (security wise), since they obviously know no better. By supporting them, you just drag out the process. You must see it that

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > That is sale, not support. We are not removing old releases from FTP yet :-) > > But for someone to still want to buy Win3.1 in 2008, there must > clearly be some obscure need for it - in this day and age. Weird, I > know. :-) I happen to know

[Lazarus] lhelp compilation doesn't seem to pick up primary config path

2012-08-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, I mentioned this earlier, but on testing just now it happened again. Also, Graeme's recent message on lhelp compilation failing with a different primary config path triggered me. With current fpcup, a bare metal install does not seem to compile lhelp, but does compile useride. So far, s

Re: [Lazarus] New doc CHM snapshot (RC1 testing)

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Marco, > > Please test an report irregularities in this thread. On the first screen after opening the ref.chm file... "Michael van Canneyt" 's name is garbled. After all his hard work creating those FPC docs, I think we owe it to him to at least get his name right. ;-) -- Regards, - Gra

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Graeme Geldenhuys hat am 3. August 2012 um 16:02 geschrieben:> Hi, > > On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. > > > The default "IDE Options" dialog is too small to fit all the main > content (to the ri

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Graeme Geldenhuys hat am 3. August 2012 um 15:51 geschrieben:> Hi, > > On 3 August 2012 14:28, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > "make all" does not build lhelp. > > Why not? I though LHelp is now the default help viewer, and CHM help > should work out of the box? For historical reasons the "all

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 12:17, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, On 3 August 2012 10:49, Marco van de Voort wrote: That is sale, not support. We are not removing old releases from FTP yet :-) But for someone to still want to buy Win3.1 in 2008, there must clearly be some obscure need for it - in this day

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 August 2012 15:15, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > As you know there is no revision define in FPC. > Lazarus supports only the last fpc 2.6.1, not any. OK, thinking about that a bit more, that seems fair. -- Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cro

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.08.2012 15:40, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 3 August 2012 14:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.1 [2012/02/29] for x86_64 Please update your fpc. To quote you... "This release has been built with fpc 2.6.0 " So I would have expected any FPC 2.6.1 revision (a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Graeme Geldenhuys hat am 3. August 2012 um 15:40 geschrieben:> On 3 August 2012 14:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > >> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.1 [2012/02/29] for x86_64 > > > > Please update your fpc. > > > To quote you... "This release has been built with fpc 2.6.0 " Yes. > > So I woul

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. Is English now the only supported language in the IDE for v1.0? I remember there used to be many more languages to choose from. Now the IDE only shows English as a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. The default "IDE Options" dialog is too small to fit all the main content (to the right of the treeview). See the screenshot where lots of content is clipped. Most

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 3 August 2012 14:28, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > "make all" does not build lhelp. Why not? I though LHelp is now the default help viewer, and CHM help should work out of the box? > > Have you installed the chmhelppkg? I shouldn't need to, especially when we were told "help now works ou

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 August 2012 14:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.1 [2012/02/29] for x86_64 > > Please update your fpc. To quote you... "This release has been built with fpc 2.6.0 " So I would have expected any FPC 2.6.1 revision (any fixes revision after FPC 2.6.0 release) sh

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Graeme Geldenhuys hat am 3. August 2012 um 15:26 geschrieben:> On 3 August 2012 14:13, Aleksa Todorovic wrote: > >> [snip] > >> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.1 [2012/02/29] for x86_64 > >> [snip] > >> I'm running OpenSUSE 12.1 64-bit and using FPC 2.6.0 > > > > Since you used 2.6.1 (and not

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Graeme Geldenhuys hat am 3. August 2012 um 15:19 geschrieben:> Hi, > > On 3 August 2012 14:05, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > >> > >> Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. > > > > Summary: > > The help is sti

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Graeme Geldenhuys hat am 3. August 2012 um 15:05 geschrieben:> On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. > > Summary: > The help is still not working out of the box. > > Details: > I running OpenSUSE 12.1

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 August 2012 14:13, Aleksa Todorovic wrote: >> [snip] >> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.1 [2012/02/29] for x86_64 >> [snip] >> I'm running OpenSUSE 12.1 64-bit and using FPC 2.6.0 > > Since you used 2.6.1 (and not 2.6.0) to compile lazarus, could it be > that 2.6.1 cannot find mssqlconn of 2

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 3 August 2012 14:05, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >> >> Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. > > Summary: > The help is still not working out of the box. I see the "lazarus-1.0RC1-0-src.tar.gz" file inc

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 3-8-2012 14:56, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >> >> Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. > > > I downloaded the the rc1 src archive (tar.gz). I unpacked it, entered > the directory and ran... > >

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Graeme Geldenhuys hat am 3. August 2012 um 14:56 geschrieben:> Hi, > > On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. > > > I downloaded the the rc1 src archive (tar.gz). I unpacked it, entered > the directory

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Aleksa Todorovic
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.1 [2012/02/29] for x86_64 > [snip] > I'm running OpenSUSE 12.1 64-bit and using FPC 2.6.0 Since you used 2.6.1 (and not 2.6.0) to compile lazarus, could it be that 2.6.1 cannot find mssqlcon

Re: [Lazarus] New doc CHM snapshot (RC1 testing)

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Marco, On 3 August 2012 13:53, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > Could also be css (wrong css file) related, but I'm not that deep into html. I remember having the same "double spacing" issue some months (maybe a year) back when I generated tiOPF HTML files. In the end it came down to the HTML ou

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 1 August 2012 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. Summary: The help is still not working out of the box. Details: I running OpenSUSE 12.1 64-bit. I download rc1 from the src tarball (tar.gz). After I did a 'make clean

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