Re: [Lazarus] Ready-made lhelp after SVN update was: Re: Help with... help!

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-3-2013 7:54, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > On 4-3-2013 20:16, waldo kitty wrote: >> On 3/4/2013 04:46, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >>> On 2-3-2013 17:51, waldo kitty wrote: On 3/2/2013 00:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> that's too much... my script already does the following specifically to

Re: [Lazarus] Ready-made lhelp after SVN update was: Re: Help with... help!

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-3-2013 20:16, waldo kitty wrote: > On 3/4/2013 04:46, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 2-3-2013 17:51, waldo kitty wrote: >>> On 3/2/2013 00:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > that's too much... my script already does the following specifically to > not use bigide... sorry, my crystal ball is in t

Re: [Lazarus] Why Ln(0) and 1/0 does not trigger Exception?

2013-03-04 Thread Xiangrong Fang
X := 0; Ln(X) seems to generated an exception without need to adjust exception mask. The reason I ask is that I get a strange crash while doing my charting program, I just suspected the reason being an exception is slipped through without being caught. As this happened outside of IDE, I don't know

Re: [Lazarus] LongString does not work?

2013-03-04 Thread Sven Barth
Am 04.03.2013 17:10, schrieb Luca Olivetti: Al 03/03/13 21:52, En/na Sven Barth ha escrit: On 03.03.2013 20:32, Luca Olivetti wrote: Al 03/03/13 14:34, En/na Sven Barth ha escrit: For "packed" there is the guarantee though that the layout will stay the same. Are you sure? Does the same guara

Re: [Lazarus] Why Ln(0) and 1/0 does not trigger Exception?

2013-03-04 Thread Sven Barth
Am 04.03.2013 16:05, schrieb Xiangrong Fang: As title. My question is not just "it is a language construct", but "WHY". What's the benefit of doing so? I already wrote this in the other thread: if you write "ln(0)" then the compiler will hardcode this as "NaN". I don't know what will happen wi

Re: [Lazarus] Ready-made lhelp after SVN update was: Re: Help with... help!

2013-03-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/4/2013 04:46, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:51, waldo kitty wrote: On 3/2/2013 00:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Guys, Anybody else interested in getting F1 to show the offline help if context-sensitive help is not appropriate? i followed a wiki page that the help points to...

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-3-2013 16:54, appjaws wrote: > On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: >>> On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: > Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and > fpc 2.6.0

Re: [Lazarus] Installing Lazarus 1.1 with fpc 2.6.2 on Ubuntu

2013-03-04 Thread Bart
On 3/4/13, Jorge Gonçalves wrote: > Hi, > Here can I find information about installing lazarus 1.1 with fpc 2.6.2 on > Ubuntu ? > > > Regards > jGoncalves > Download ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.2/i386-linux/fpc-2.6.2.i386-linux.tar (or install fpc 2.6.2 from repository, if it is a

Re: [Lazarus] LongString does not work?

2013-03-04 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 03/03/13 21:52, En/na Sven Barth ha escrit: > On 03.03.2013 20:32, Luca Olivetti wrote: >> Al 03/03/13 14:34, En/na Sven Barth ha escrit: >> >>> For "packed" there is the >>> guarantee though that the layout will stay the same. >> >> Are you sure? Does the same guarantee apply to bitpacked? >> L

[Lazarus] Installing Lazarus 1.1 with fpc 2.6.2 on Ubuntu

2013-03-04 Thread Jorge Gonçalves
Hi, Here can I find information about installing lazarus 1.1 with fpc 2.6.2 on Ubuntu ? Regards jGoncalves -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread appjaws
On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your curso

Re: [Lazarus] Why Ln(0) and 1/0 does not trigger Exception?

2013-03-04 Thread Marc Weustink
IIRC, 1/0 defined as constant defines Infinity. Don't know about LN Marc Xiangrong Fang wrote: As title. My question is not just "it is a language construct", but "WHY". What's the benefit of doing so? Thanks. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazaru

[Lazarus] Why Ln(0) and 1/0 does not trigger Exception?

2013-03-04 Thread Xiangrong Fang
As title. My question is not just "it is a language construct", but "WHY". What's the benefit of doing so? Thanks. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] "buffer" and string

2013-03-04 Thread leledumbo
> If a buffer expect the first "element", and count is the number of elements to write, then what is the unit size of that element? is it always "byte"? From http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/classes/thandlestream.write.html: "Write overrides the Write method of TStream. It uses the Handle p

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: > On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: >>> Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and >>> fpc 2.6.0 >>> > Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press > F1 a

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread appjaws
On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are available.

Re: [Lazarus] Maintainers: packages without description: please add them

2013-03-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-04 09:44, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > > "The editor toolbar plug-in allows you to define toolbar buttons to any > of the IDE menu items. " Yes. :) ps: This is a good idea, to get descent description in all packages. I have also before wondered what some of the obscurely named package

Re: [Lazarus] Using the clipboard in linux

2013-03-04 Thread appjaws
On 03/03/13 17:41, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: appjaws wrote: On 03/03/13 17:04, Flávio Etrusco wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:20 PM, appjaws wrote: How do I save, copy to and paste from the clipboard using a kde environment on linux 64? I am using Lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0. Thanks for any he

Re: [Lazarus] Small grammar fix Laz makefile.fpc

2013-03-04 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:42:50 +0100 Reinier Olislagers wrote: > Too small to raise a bug IMO. Thanks. Applied. Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Ready-made lhelp after SVN update was: Re: Help with... help!

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-3-2013 17:51, waldo kitty wrote: > On 3/2/2013 00:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> Guys, >> >> Anybody else interested in getting F1 to show the offline help if >> context-sensitive help is not appropriate? > > i followed a wiki page that the help points to... the only thing i'm not > sure of

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:34:05 +0100 Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: > Do SaveToFile/LoadFromFile handle Unicode/UTF8 properly? The TStrings stuff > is in LCL which AFAIK doesn't use UTF8. The content is loaded correctly, but the Filename passed to SaveToFile/LoadFromFile must be system encoding. Maybe

Re: [Lazarus] Maintainers: packages without description: please add them

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-3-2013 10:36, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2013-03-02 05:12, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> >> editortoolbar >> ? (current description says Editor Toolbar, but what kind of editor is >> meant? what kind of toolbar?) > > I thought the description was obvious, but I guess not. It is the > toolba

[Lazarus] Small grammar fix Laz makefile.fpc

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Too small to raise a bug IMO. Thanks, Reinier Index: Makefile.fpc === --- Makefile.fpc(revision 40476) +++ Makefile.fpc(working copy) @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ @$(ECHO) " allbuild minimal IDE, lazbuild, s

Re: [Lazarus] Maintainers: packages without description: please add them

2013-03-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-02 05:12, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > > editortoolbar > ? (current description says Editor Toolbar, but what kind of editor is > meant? what kind of toolbar?) I thought the description was obvious, but I guess not. It is the toolbar for the Lazurus IDE editor. http://wiki.freepascal

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
Do SaveToFile/LoadFromFile handle Unicode/UTF8 properly? The TStrings stuff is in LCL which AFAIK doesn't use UTF8. On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:14 AM, waldo kitty wrote: > On 3/2/2013 13:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> Note that if you download the helpfiles manually, you might have to be >> car