Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

2014-01-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2014-01-04 04:34, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: Is there a way to ignore all these and make everything to work with UTF-8? Like setting some global variable that makes all strings (ansistrings) UTF-8 codepage or something We will have to wait for FPC 2.8.0 (or 3.0) which should have much

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

2014-01-04 Thread Jy V
+1 On 1/4/14, Kostas Michalopoulos badsectorac...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to ignore all these and make everything to work with UTF-8? Like setting some global variable that makes all strings (ansistrings) UTF-8 codepage or something that also causes any system-specific calls (Assign,

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

2014-01-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Jy V wrote: +1 On 1/4/14, Kostas Michalopoulos badsectorac...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to ignore all these and make everything to work with UTF-8? Like setting some global variable that makes all strings (ansistrings) UTF-8 codepage or something that also causes

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

2014-01-04 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
That is great, i *really* don't want to think about different encodings between OSes and such and if i can make a UTF-8 everywhere flag (where everywhere means LCL, FCL, RTL, Windows, Linux, OS X, etc :-P) it would be perfect for me :-) On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Michael Van Canneyt

[Lazarus] What are the prerequisites for compiling Lazarus on a KDE based system?

2014-01-04 Thread vfclists .
What are the known prerequisites for installing Lazarus on a KDE based system? I am able to build Lazarus using fpcup on existing Ubuntu 12.04 systems running KDE, but I am unable to get it working on a newly installed system so I suspect that some of the required libraries have not been

[Lazarus] Alpha transparency on GTK2 widgetset

2014-01-04 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
Hello, I have a problem with the GTK2 widgetset: it doesn't seem to support alpha channel. I'm using TLazIntfImage and related classes/objects (TRawImage) to load and display images (converting from/to custom bitmap structure to native structures so i can use them with canvas for drawing, adding

Re: [Lazarus] What are the prerequisites for compiling Lazarus on a KDE based system?

2014-01-04 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:52 PM, vfclists . vfcli...@gmail.com wrote: What are the known prerequisites for installing Lazarus on a KDE based system? The prerequisites do not depend on your desktop system. There must be devel versions for the widgetset you use. For GTK2 it is package

Re: [Lazarus] Alpha transparency on GTK2 widgetset

2014-01-04 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Kostas Michalopoulos badsectorac...@gmail.com wrote: What is the problem with (full) transparency in GTK2? I have no idea. Is anyone working on this? Unfortunately not. There are only few people who know the GTK2 bindings code. We would need more contributors

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

2014-01-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2014-01-04 11:32, Marcos Douglas wrote: Maybe we are not seeing something, many details... Agreed. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] What are the prerequisites for compiling Lazarus on a KDE based system?

2014-01-04 Thread leledumbo
Just check what -lXXX are missing -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-What-are-the-prerequisites-for-compiling-Lazarus-on-a-KDE-based-system-tp4035177p4035181.html Sent from the Free Pascal - Lazarus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [Lazarus] Alpha transparency on GTK2 widgetset

2014-01-04 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
Looking in the code, I think i see the problem. The graphics operations for GTK2 use GDK drawables which do not support alpha blending. The bitmaps can be stored in 32bit pixbufs, but those are not drawables and when a graphics operation is needed (drawing to a canvas or blitting from one image to

Re: [Lazarus] Alpha transparency on GTK2 widgetset

2014-01-04 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
I've made a patch that fixes the common cases (drawing an image with an alpha channel with optional scaling and flipping). It can be downloaded here: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25491 Here is also an image showing what this fixes: http://i.imgur.com/FH8wbX0.png The test program

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

2014-01-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 10:08:07AM +, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: We will have to wait for FPC 2.8.0 (or 3.0) which should have much better built-in Unicode support. String encoding conversion should then be taken care of automatically. Unfortunately it seems that the FPC RTL (there will be

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

2014-01-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 09:32:25AM -0200, Marcos Douglas wrote: Once that FPC release is made, then we will start seeing what performance impact it will have on all systems. Now is too early to tell. +1 You always said this, ie, UnicodeString should be UTF-8 on Unix plataform and UTF-16

Re: [Lazarus] What are the prerequisites for compiling Lazarus on a KDE based system?

2014-01-04 Thread vfclists .
On 4 January 2014 14:28, leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id wrote: Just check what -lXXX are missing Can you explain it further? I am building Lazarus using fpcup. -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com --

[Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-04 Thread vfclists .
Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers? This mailing list appears to be mainly for Lazarus users rather than the developers. Is there a separate mailing list for that, or does it take place in Bugzilla or some other place? -- Frank Church ===

Re: [Lazarus] Alpha transparency on GTK2 widgetset

2014-01-04 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Kostas Michalopoulos badsectorac...@gmail.com wrote: I've made a patch that fixes the common cases (drawing an image with an alpha channel with optional scaling and flipping). It works well and I applied it. Thanks! I also attached many related bug reports to

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-04 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:39 PM, vfclists . vfcli...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers? Yes there is. Can be joined by invitation only. Most of the members also have a commit access to SVN repo. You will be invited, too, if you became a Lazarus developer.

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-04 Thread vfclists .
On 4 January 2014 22:06, Juha Manninen juha.mannine...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:39 PM, vfclists . vfcli...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers? Yes there is. Can be joined by invitation only. Most of the members also have a commit

Re: [Lazarus] Alpha transparency on GTK2 widgetset

2014-01-04 Thread Michael Fuchs
Am 04.01.2014 19:22, schrieb Kostas Michalopoulos: I've made a patch that fixes the common cases (drawing an image with an alpha channel with optional scaling and flipping). Wow, thank you very much for this patch. This bug was a steady annoyance. Will this patch go into the upcoming 1.2

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-04 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:26 AM, vfclists . vfcli...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of Lazarus developments and improvements, whether fully implemented or planned go unnoticed and I wonder if this is the reason why. What might those unnoticed developments and improvements be? I believe this is a

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-04 Thread vfclists .
On 4 January 2014 23:18, Juha Manninen juha.mannine...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:26 AM, vfclists . vfcli...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of Lazarus developments and improvements, whether fully implemented or planned go unnoticed and I wonder if this is the reason why. What

Re: [Lazarus] Alpha transparency on GTK2 widgetset

2014-01-04 Thread Bart
On 1/5/14, Michael Fuchs freepas...@ypa-software.de wrote: Will this patch go into the upcoming 1.2 Version? If you want to make sure it is at least considered, then add it to the merge requests on http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2_fixes_branch Bart --

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-04 Thread Martin Frb
On 05/01/2014 00:48, vfclists . wrote: I have always had this nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right about Lazarus and this explains it. I have been using Lazarus on and off for about 4 years now. From the start I don't think I used more the 10% of what Lazarus offered and in the

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-04 Thread Martin Frb
On 05/01/2014 00:48, vfclists . wrote: I think being able to see what is coming and follow their development will encourage more participants and more bug fixing as well. In any case if Lazarus developers feel that this approach has proved to be the best over the years then they are entitled

Re: [Lazarus] What are the prerequisites for compiling Lazarus on a KDE based system?

2014-01-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 1/4/2014 4:37 PM, vfclists . wrote: On 4 January 2014 14:28, leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id mailto:leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id wrote: Just check what -lXXX are missing Can you explain it further? I am building Lazarus using fpcup. +1!!n i'm running into similar situations