Re: [Lazarus] ChmHelpPkg: better way to show all CHMs when starting lhelp?

2012-10-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Let's see if somebody has some good ideas about the problem described below. Thanks, Reinier On 21-7-2012 13:56, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Editing ChmHelpPkg to try and solve bug 22110 Help (at least CHM help) should open all help files to enable content/index search I want to open all .chm

[Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Santiago A.
Hello: I have an old delphi application (a small ERP) running on a customer. People connect using Windows Remote Desktop. There are plans to increase the number of remote connections a lot (due crisis, many employers will work only partial time from their homes). I think that the remote desktop

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Fuchs
Am 29.10.2012 11:54, schrieb Santiago A.: Due people who connect remotely don't need the full application, just a small subset, I was thinking about programing a reduced version in Lazarus as frontend of the data, and show only the GUI remotely. I have a couple of ideas: Using a remote

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Santiago A.
El 29/10/2012 12:07, Michael Fuchs escribió: I would split the application in a client and a server part. The client contains the GUI part and communicates via SOAP/XML-RPC/JSON-RPC/BINARY protocol with the server part. The server part includes business logic and data storing. Michael

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Santiago A. wrote: Using a remote Xwindows server (Are there good Xwindows server for win32?) Making a web application using ExtJs Doctrine has it that the X protocol isn't very good over long-distance comms, i.e. anything other than an in-memory or LAN connection; it might be improved if

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Ludo Brands
Using a remote Xwindows server (Are there good Xwindows server for win32?) Making a web application using ExtJs Any hint? New ideas? Experiences? Xming is one of the better Xservers for windows. I'm running 6.9.0.31 since a while on XP sp2 but from time to time it crashes which is quite

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ludo Brands wrote: Using a remote Xwindows server (Are there good Xwindows server for win32?) Making a web application using ExtJs Any hint? New ideas? Experiences? Xming is one of the better Xservers for windows. I'm running 6.9.0.31 since a while on XP sp2 but from time to time it crashes

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/29/2012 11:54 AM, Santiago A. wrote: Any hint? New ideas? Experiences? You could generate a web application, providing a browser-interface to the users via Apache or IIS. Unfortunately Lazarus does not offer very much support for this. But some support indeed recently has been

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread SkyDiablo
i cant see the solution, i think it is the wrong binutilspack, right? Am 28.10.2012 21:40, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: SkyDiablo wrote: it is a simple openWRT linux system. okay, i think i need other binunits/toolchain for compiling? can anyone help me to compile the right toolchain for

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/29/2012 11:54 AM, Santiago A. wrote: Using a remote Xwindows server (Are there good Xwindows server for win32?) I once used XMing. It did work, but I think NX Free seems more advanced. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Antonio Fortuny
Le 29/10/2012 12:52, Michael Schnell a écrit : On 10/29/2012 11:54 AM, Santiago A. wrote: Using a remote Xwindows server (Are there good Xwindows server for win32?) I once used XMing. It did work, but I think NX Free seems more advanced. -Michael Right. I'm using it with OpenSuse 11.2 as

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Fuchs
Am 29.10.2012 12:19, schrieb Santiago A.: Well, that would be the ideal solution, but I don't want to implement a full protocol all calls and answers. Isn't there already a protocol defined to communicate in lazaris? With the Webservice-Toolkit [1] you can easily implement this

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Fuchs
Am 29.10.2012 13:01, schrieb Michael Fuchs: With the Webservice-Toolkit [1] you can easily implement this communication way. Sorry, forgot the link: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Web_Service_Toolkit Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
SkyDiablo wrote: i cant see the solution, i think it is the wrong binutilspack, right? What do you mean? Am 28.10.2012 21:40, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: SkyDiablo wrote: it is a simple openWRT linux system. okay, i think i need other binunits/toolchain for compiling? can anyone help me to

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Antonio Fortuny
Le 29/10/2012 12:52, Michael Schnell a écrit : On 10/29/2012 11:54 AM, Santiago A. wrote: Using a remote Xwindows server (Are there good Xwindows server for win32?) I once used XMing. It did work, but I think NX Free seems more advanced. Look at http://www.nomachine.com/ -Michael --

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/29/2012 11:54 AM, Santiago A. wrote: Hello: I have an old delphi application Any hint? New ideas? Experiences? You could make it a client/server application. I have no experience on this using Lazarus, but on Delphi my colleagues very successfully use the commercial RemObjects kit,

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread SkyDiablo
okay, again from scratch. I downloaded and installed the bintuils for windows: Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2012.03-63 for MIPS GNU / Linux - https://sourcery.mentor.com/GNUToolchain/release2190 Then I looked at the FPC 2.7.x Sources downloaded (daily snapshot) -

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2012-10-29 11:54:16 +0100, Santiago A. wrote: Hello: I have an old delphi application (a small ERP) running on a customer. People connect using Windows Remote Desktop. There are plans to increase the number of remote connections a lot (due crisis, many employers will work only partial

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
I'm exporting now ... Lazarus revision 39186 FPC revision 22875 But this was from yesterday so it would be - at least on revision. Downloaded lazarus install for Windows 64 from lazarus.freepascal.org website It came with FPC 2.6.0 and placed in ./lazarus/fpc I opened my project but could not

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
Another problem is that when I go to install Lazarus in my Program Files Folder I get Selected folder contains spaces, please select a folder without spaces in it. This IMO is totally unacceptable. Some people aren't going appreciate that. But having A Lazarus install outside Program Files

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/29 Andrew Brunner atbrun...@aurawin.com: Another problem is that when I go to install Lazarus in my Program Files Folder I get Selected folder contains spaces, please select a folder without spaces in it. This IMO is totally unacceptable. Some people aren't going appreciate that.

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-10-2012 13:57, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi Santiago, did you try to run the application from a remote location?, by just publishing the database (assuming you are using a TCP database, such as Firebird, Postgresql, SQL Server, ) port on your router, you could connect the client to

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
SkyDiablo wrote: okay, again from scratch. I downloaded and installed the bintuils for windows: No. You've already said that you've got a Debian (presumably x86) system available. Use that, and follow the instructions I put in the wiki page: I wrote those line-by-line as I was doing the job

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread SkyDiablo
Having the cross compiler and RTL, you should then be able to either build a native compiler etc. or to compile trivial programs (some fancy stuff won't work yet because you haven't built the full FCL). The native compiler can be copied onto your mipsel system, and is currently good enough

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
On 10/29/2012 08:31 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: In the past some third part tools didn't work corectly with paths with space. To prevent trouble, Lazarus refuses to install in Program Files. (A highly irregular install is preferable over an install, that results in a Lazarus that doesn't work)

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Santiago A.
El 29/10/12 14:38, Reinier Olislagers escribió: On 29-10-2012 13:57, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi Santiago, did you try to run the application from a remote location?, by just publishing the database (assuming you are using a TCP database, such as Firebird, Postgresql, SQL Server, ) port on

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
After installing Lazarus 1.0.2 binaries I try to compile my project and get Fatal: Can't find unit pqconnection used by uDatabase If I click on the pqconnection unit CodeTools brings me right to the proper file. What can't fpc find the unit? What entry is missing from the fpc.cfg file?

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/29/2012 03:21 PM, Santiago A. wrote: I don't know why, but standard dataware controls generate a lot of traffic. This is because they mostly use SOAP which produces a huge overhead. That is why we like RemObjects. which is appropriately scalable. -Michael --

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/29 Andrew Brunner atbrun...@aurawin.com: On 10/29/2012 08:31 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: In the past some third part tools didn't work corectly with paths with space. To prevent trouble, Lazarus refuses to install in Program Files. (A highly irregular install is preferable over an

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 29/10/2012 12:44, SkyDiablo wrote: okay, again from scratch. I downloaded and installed the bintuils for windows: [snip] # sh helloWorld4MIPS helloWorld4MIPS: line 1: syntax error: unexpected ( what can or should I do now that I can programs under lazarus for my router which is

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Santiago A.
El 29/10/12 14:38, Reinier Olislagers escribió: On 29-10-2012 13:57, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi Santiago, did you try to run the application from a remote location?, by just publishing the database (assuming you are using a TCP database, such as Firebird, Postgresql, SQL Server, ) port on

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-10-2012 15:05, Andrew Brunner wrote: On 10/29/2012 08:31 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: The space path issues is a show stopper. Each day Lazarus is downloaded as no space paths allowed translates into a stunted growth rate. This is simply forcing some developers to abort the install and

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
SkyDiablo wrote: Having the cross compiler and RTL, you should then be able to either build a native compiler etc. or to compile trivial programs (some fancy stuff won't work yet because you haven't built the full FCL). The native compiler can be copied onto your mipsel system, and is

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Ludo Brands
I don't know why, but standard dataware controls generate a lot of traffic. Perhaps it is a problem of bad application design, but things that work properly in a LAN are almost unusable in a WAN. That is also my experience. If a client server app is not developped from the beginning for

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Martin
On 29/10/2012 14:47, Vincent Snijders wrote: 2012/10/29 Andrew Brunner atbrun...@aurawin.com: On 10/29/2012 08:31 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: In the past some third part tools didn't work corectly with paths with space. To prevent trouble, Lazarus refuses to install in Program Files. (A

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2012-10-29 15:54:45 +0100, Santiago A. wrote: El 29/10/12 14:38, Reinier Olislagers escribió: On 29-10-2012 13:57, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi Santiago, did you try to run the application from a remote location?, by just publishing the database (assuming you are using a TCP database,

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
On 10/29/2012 09:47 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: Why? If it was not fixable at that time? We don't create the linker, nor the debugger. I have no idea about linker and debugger idiosyncrasies. I don't know myself. I am merely pointing out facts. It is a known issue for me. There even is a

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
On 10/29/2012 09:55 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Ranting even more won't get anything done. Test and create patches, stop complaining. I'm not complaining, just alerting first and trying to see how to get resolution via the proper channels. If you don't want to do that, choose a different

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-10-2012 17:06, Andrew Brunner wrote: On 10/29/2012 09:55 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Ranting even more won't get anything done. Test and create patches, stop complaining. I'm not complaining, just alerting first and trying to see how to get resolution via the proper channels. Yes,

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread SkyDiablo
Am 29.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Lukasz Sokol: You produced an /executable/ ? Then why not just do ./helloWorld4MIPS in the dir where the binary is copied to ? (yes, dot-slash is needed unless you have this directory added to PATH) AFAIK, doing sh $file will attempt to run it as shell

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread José Mejuto
El 29/10/2012 16:59, Andrew Brunner escribió: Ok. There are issues. There has to be progress and resolution to move forward. It is better. Just go give you perspective here. The enemy is NEVER better. And this particular one is as bad as it gets. Hello, In the past other development

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
SkyDiablo wrote: Am 29.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Lukasz Sokol: You produced an /executable/ ? Then why not just do ./helloWorld4MIPS in the dir where the binary is copied to ? (yes, dot-slash is needed unless you have this directory added to PATH) AFAIK, doing sh $file will attempt to run

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Santiago A.
El 29/10/2012 16:55, Leonardo M. Ramé escribió: On 2012-10-29 15:54:45 +0100, Santiago A. wrote: No matter which protocol I'll use, I will do through a SSH tunnel or VPN. Now, even remote desktop connections are done by an SSH tunnel with client private keys. The problem is not security, but

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread duilio foschi
give a look to this product: http://thinstuff.com/ DF -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread duilio foschi
also: http://www.terminalserviceplus.com/ DF -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Bernd
2012/10/29 Antonio Fortuny a.fort...@sitasoftware.lu: Using a remote Xwindows server (Are there good Xwindows server for win32?) I once used XMing. It did work, but I think NX Free seems more advanced. -Michael Right. I'm using it with OpenSuse 11.2 as server and a Windows client on

Re: [Lazarus] Remote application

2012-10-29 Thread Santiago A.
El 29/10/2012 18:10, duilio foschi escribió: give a look to this product: http://thinstuff.com/ DF -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus Thinstuff is a

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: SkyDiablo wrote: Am 29.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Lukasz Sokol: You produced an /executable/ ? Then why not just do ./helloWorld4MIPS in the dir where the binary is copied to ? (yes, dot-slash is needed unless you have this directory added to PATH) AFAIK, doing sh

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
José Mejuto schrieb: In the past other development environments (or even commercial apps. like some POS) create a subst'ed drive to run the software, so in the start it subst to a new drive letter, and move execution to that drive. With XP and upper a hardlink to X:\Lazarus from Program

[Lazarus] Splash window with drop shadow

2012-10-29 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I'm wondering if there's a way to create an splash screen (a borderless window) with a drop shadow, I'm thinking of something like showing a PNG with shadow on screen, but without its background window. Better if it's cross platform. Regards, -- Leonardo M. Ramé