Reinier Olislagers wrote:
Hi list,
If you use the free Notepad++ text editor, you might have wanted to
write a plugin for that in FPC/Lazarus.
Ludo and I have ported over the Delphi "Hello World" template so now you
can try and do exactly that.
It's a first release, but initial tests on both t
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Reinier Olislagers <
reinierolislag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please see screenshot attached for an idea of how this could look.
>
Your basic idea of merging the dialogs MAY be good (?) but I don't like
your way of implementing it. Sorry.
The dialogs should merge in
On 19-8-2012 14:37, Juha Manninen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Reinier Olislagers
> mailto:reinierolislag...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Please see screenshot attached for an idea of how this could look.
>
Hi Juha,
Thanks for your quick comments.
> Your basic idea of merging the dia
19.08.2012 15:58, Reinier Olislagers пишет:
Hi list,
The setup dialog that appears when you start Lazarus with e.g. the
compiler set to a non-existent file and the options dialog cover the
same settings and overlap a lot.
This "overlapping" is made on purpose. The idea behind Initial Setup is
On 19/08/2012 12:58, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
Hi list,
The setup dialog that appears when you start Lazarus with e.g. the
compiler set to a non-existent file and the options dialog cover the
same settings and overlap a lot.
Maybe it's a good idea to think about merging them into one for future
On 19/08/2012 14:02, Maxim Ganetsky wrote:
This "overlapping" is made on purpose. The idea behind Initial Setup
is exactly to emphasize the most important options to unexperienced
users, because Options dialog has heaps of options which can cause
confusion.
If you want to indicate pages w
On 19-8-2012 15:17, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 14:02, Maxim Ganetsky wrote:
>>
>> This "overlapping" is made on purpose. The idea behind Initial Setup
>> is exactly to emphasize the most important options to unexperienced
>> users, because Options dialog has heaps of options which can cause
>> c
On 19-8-2012 15:10, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 12:58, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> About the automatic search. I would not want the search for possible
> locations be started each time I run the options (On my system - having
> many installations - it takes 30 seconds)
It could be called just be
> The setup dialog, is meant to have only a very few settings. I do not
> think we should display the full option dialog.
> By showing only selected settings, it is much easier for the
> user to see
> what needs to be fixed.
>
> At the moment the only thing, that I think should still be
> adde
On 19/08/2012 14:24, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
While I see your point, now the user gets 2 different visualisations of
the same settings. I'd prefer a single layout so the user starts to
recognize things. The user will probably see the complicated options
menu sooner or later anyway - keeping him
On 19/08/2012 14:28, Ludo Brands wrote:
For a new user lazarus is now showing a form that is definitely much easier
to understand than the full options window but he has no way to get back to
that easy form when he has second thoughts (an old compiler selected for
example). Perhaps merge the 2 fo
On 19-8-2012 15:40, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 14:24, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> While I see your point, now the user gets 2 different visualisations of
>> the same settings. I'd prefer a single layout so the user starts to
>> recognize things. The user will probably see the complicated option
> > For a new user lazarus is now showing a form that is
> definitely much
> > easier to understand than the full options window but he
> has no way to
> > get back to that easy form when he has second thoughts (an old
> > compiler selected for example). Perhaps merge the 2 forms into one
> >
On 19/08/2012 14:48, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 19-8-2012 15:40, Martin wrote:
On 19/08/2012 14:24, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
While I see your point, now the user gets 2 different visualisations of
the same settings. I'd prefer a single layout so the user starts to
recognize things. The user
On 19/08/2012 14:57, Ludo Brands wrote:
Having the same dialog with 2 "faces" makes sharing code also easier.
The "faces" (GUI layout) and the sharing of code are to entirely
independent issues. And one should not influence the other.
Code can be shared by extracting it into a GUI independe
On 19-8-2012 16:12, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 14:48, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 19-8-2012 15:40, Martin wrote:
>>> On 19/08/2012 14:24, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> Let's agree to disagree ;)
>>
>
> Maybe, but maybe not so fast. WE need at least to agree, what we
> disagree about.
That's
On 19/08/2012 15:24, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
For this one could also add, to reset al window positions to default, or
reset the keymapping... though care must be taken not to add to many things
Do you mean via command line options? Or as a GUI option inside the
setup dialog?
In the setup dia
On 19-8-2012 16:17, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 14:57, Ludo Brands wrote:
>> Having the same dialog with 2 "faces" makes sharing code also easier.
>>
>
> The "faces" (GUI layout) and the sharing of code are to entirely
> independent issues. And one should not influence the other.
Yes, but visua
On 19/08/2012 15:24, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
If the setup is kept as it. That does not mean that the options can not
be improved. They very much still should be improved.
Only merging the setup into the options is not the way to go.
Disagreed ;)
To clarify my point. I only speak about the
On 19-8-2012 16:36, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 15:24, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>> If the setup is kept as it. That does not mean that the options can not
>>> be improved. They very much still should be improved.
>>>
>>> Only merging the setup into the options is not the way to go.
>> Disagreed
On 19/08/2012 15:30, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 19-8-2012 16:17, Martin wrote:
The "faces" (GUI layout) and the sharing of code are to entirely
independent issues. And one should not influence the other.
Yes, but visual consistency for the user is an argument.
The setup dialog presents the se
On 19/08/2012 15:42, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
That makes it (to me) impossible to have a setup-like access to it.
Then why not use the basic (vs advanced) options screen. Presumably the
basic screen would group those elements anyway?
Because it hasn't been implemented
The basic would probab
On 19-8-2012 16:58, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 15:42, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>> That makes it (to me) impossible to have a setup-like access to it.
>> Then why not use the basic (vs advanced) options screen. Presumably the
>> basic screen would group those elements anyway?
>>
>>
> Because it
On 19-8-2012 16:53, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 15:30, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 19-8-2012 16:17, Martin wrote:
> The proposed merge (picture) added a 2nd set of categories (copied from
> the setup) to the option.
> That means, that in the option, one and the same setting will then be
> acc
On 19/08/2012 16:12, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
Because it hasn't been implemented
Then we can stop the entire discussion right now as it's all about
changes that haven't been implemented.
Yes,
Its discuss first, then implement (If someone volunteers)
Better, than someone writing a lot of cod
On 19-8-2012 17:23, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 16:12, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>> Because it hasn't been implemented
>> Then we can stop the entire discussion right now as it's all about
>> changes that haven't been implemented.
> Yes,
>
> Its discuss first, then implement
Yes, I understand
On 19/08/2012 16:17, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 19-8-2012 16:53, Martin wrote:
On 19/08/2012 15:30, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 19-8-2012 16:17, Martin wrote:
The proposed merge (picture) added a 2nd set of categories (copied from
the setup) to the option.
That means, that in the option, on
On 19-8-2012 17:43, Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 16:17, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 19-8-2012 16:53, Martin wrote:
>>> On 19/08/2012 15:30, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 19-8-2012 16:17, Martin wrote:
> the option dialog (even in a none advanced mode) will always have more
> options than t
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:10:46 +0100
Martin wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 12:58, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > The setup dialog that appears when you start Lazarus with e.g. the
> > compiler set to a non-existent file and the options dialog cover the
> > same settings and overlap a lot.
>
On 19/08/2012 16:50, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
12 16:17, Martin wrote:
the option dialog (even in a none advanced mode) will always have more
options than the setup. So it needs different grouping.
- The setup is easiest to understand, with the one page per setting.
- The Option just can not do
Hello,
I am trying to get drag and drop to work but I am not an expert with
all this low level GTK2 api. In the end I want to be able to drag
files from my application to the file manager. My application is
displaying a list of items (that represent files) in the scrollbox (I
have essentially emul
Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:10:46 +0100
Martin wrote:
So there are intentional differences, and they should be kept.
I would even say, there should be more.
The current setup dialog combines several messagedlg.
There are some functions that checks many settings and may s
Strangely, this popular and useful component seems to be missing from Lazarus.
Why?
A. G.
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Because Delphi's RichEdit is a wrapper over Win32 API component which doesn't
have counterpart in other widgetsets. There are two alternatives which are
built in a cross-platform way:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/RichMemo
http://wiki.freepascal.org/RichView (no editing features AFAIK)
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:14:22 +
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:10:46 +0100
> > Martin wrote:
>
> >> So there are intentional differences, and they should be kept.
> >
> > I would even say, there should be more.
> >
> > The current setup dialog
Mattias Gaertner wrote:
I particularly like the setup dialogue's feature of displaying candidate
Lazarus directories rather than everything. It would be nice if it could
be extended to look at what versions of Lazarus were in "peer"
directories, and to work out what compiler version each expec
On 2012-08-19 12:37:11 -0700, leledumbo wrote:
> Because Delphi's RichEdit is a wrapper over Win32 API component which doesn't
> have counterpart in other widgetsets. There are two alternatives which are
> built in a cross-platform way:
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/RichMemo
> http://wiki.freepascal
On 19/08/12 22:39, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
Hopefully some day somebody will convert TRichView (www.richview.com),
That URL now advertises a "home window blinds" product. :)
Regards,
- Graeme -
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fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal
http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/
On 2012-08-19 23:04:11 +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 19/08/12 22:39, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
> >Hopefully some day somebody will convert TRichView (www.richview.com),
>
> That URL now advertises a "home window blinds" product. :)
>
>
>
> Regards,
> - Graeme -
>
Hehe, sorry, it's www.
On 8/19/2012 18:04, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 19/08/12 22:39, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
Hopefully some day somebody will convert TRichView (www.richview.com),
That URL now advertises a "home window blinds" product. :)
agreed... however, trichview.com appears to turn up a valid and related si
2012/8/15 Martin :
> Does anyone have an idea?
>
> I am using firefox. If I fill out any form on any website (including
> textfields) and I accidental navigate away (e.g.) browser back) then I can
> go and use the opposite (browser forward) to get back to the page with the
> form. And firefox resto
For only displaying some colored text (not editing) it might be enough
to use the html control from turbopower_ipro that comes with lazarus,
so no installing of 3rd party component needed.
For example I am soon going to use this control to display the
incoming chat messages in my (yet to be writte
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