[Lazarus] MariaDB access - modifying the MySQL56Connection component

2015-06-27 Thread Susie Nicol
Hi This question has obviously been asked many times before, but I am having trouble dealing with the answers. I run MariaDB, rather than MYSQL, using OpenSUSE 13.2, with Lazarus 1.4, Free Pascal 2.6.4, downloaded from Sourceforge. I have the usual issue getting a database connection: "TMySQL56Co

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread Gordon Cooper
I am fully in agreement with Graeme. Have given up working with Lazarus (I'm now only a hobby programmer) because of the constant changes and inconsistencies. In old age, I prefer stability. Gordon. On 06/27/2015 07:59 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I know it doesn't work like that in open so

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-27 15:05, Zoë Peterson wrote: > AFAIK we've submitted all/most of our LCL changes to the bug tracker, Fantastic to hear - many thanks for that and the updated info. Regards, - Graeme - -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.f

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread zeljko
On 06/27/2015 04:05 PM, Zoë Peterson wrote: Minor correction: We're using LCL-Carbon on OS X. When I mentioned reusing our Qt code, I was just referring to on Linux. We have a lot of behavior the VCL/LCL aren't designed for, a ton of custom controls, and extensive platform specific look & fe

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Zoë Peterson wrote: AFAIK we've submitted all/most of our LCL changes to the bug tracker, though I'll admit David hasn't been proactive about actually committing them into the official repository. The big trouble with sharing the rest of our enhancements is that they'

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread Zoë Peterson
> On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys > wrote: > Yes and No. I think there hand was forced. They wrote their own Qt3 for > CLX, and due to Kylix, was limited to 32-bit only. Credit where credit's due, the CLX/Qt3 port was originally Andreas Hausladen's. We did do a lot of work on i

Re: [Lazarus] OOP - where do you start?

2015-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Am 26.06.2015 um 14:47 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Last night I was working on a relatively new project. This got me thinking... How do others tackle such a task? So here is my question: Wh

Re: [Lazarus] systemd

2015-06-27 Thread SPRL AFOR
Le 27/06/2015 14:31, Luca Olivetti a écrit : El 27/06/15 a les 13:47, A. Fortuny ha escrit: Hi Folks. Currently I have some services running in a linux box (OpenSuse 11.2) and they will be moved to an OpenSuse 13.2. I want to move the services from SysV to systemd. Did you see this? http://w

Re: [Lazarus] systemd

2015-06-27 Thread Luca Olivetti
El 27/06/15 a les 13:47, A. Fortuny ha escrit: Hi Folks. Currently I have some services running in a linux box (OpenSuse 11.2) and they will be moved to an OpenSuse 13.2. I want to move the services from SysV to systemd. Did you see this? http://wiki.freepascal.org/Daemons_and_Services#Linux_

Re: [Lazarus] OOP - where do you start?

2015-06-27 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 26.06.2015 um 14:47 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > > > On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Last night I was working on a relatively new project. This got me >> thinking... How do others tackle such a task? >> >> So here is my question: >> >> When faced with a new dat

[Lazarus] systemd

2015-06-27 Thread A. Fortuny
Hi Folks. Currently I have some services running in a linux box (OpenSuse 11.2) and they will be moved to an OpenSuse 13.2. I want to move the services from SysV to systemd. I noticed that in the service configuration file (namely /usr/lin/systemd/system/MyService.service) there are some optio

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2015-06-27 10:31, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I am strongly beginning to feel something is wrong with me... You are predominately a backend man. ;-) Currently yes. But I've written numerous GUI programs in Lazarus. Can you give some exampl

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-27 11:17, zeljko wrote: > Use QtLCL on all platforms and you'll get same result as with fpgui (of > course Qt takes OS theme look, so that's difference definitelly I mentioned that too. It is probably the exact reason why Scooter Software chose to use LCL-QT on OSX and Linux... To try

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread zeljko
On 06/27/2015 09:59 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2015-06-27 07:38, leledumbo wrote: They get their product done, we got our bu gs fixed and hopefully some new features, too :) I know it doesn't work like that in open source software project, but I seriously think Lazarus should stop new fea

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-27 10:31, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > I am strongly beginning to feel something is wrong with me... You are predominately a backend man. ;-) > Can you give some examples ? Sure... * Events fired in different orders depending on the widgetset you use. I can't remember which comp

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2015-06-27 07:38, leledumbo wrote: They get their product done, we got our bu gs fixed and hopefully some new features, too :) I know it doesn't work like that in open source software project, but I seriously think Lazarus should stop new fea

Re: [Lazarus] Beyond Compare finally moved to LCL

2015-06-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-27 07:38, leledumbo wrote: > They get their product done, we got our bu gs fixed > and hopefully some new features, too :) I know it doesn't work like that in open source software project, but I seriously think Lazarus should stop new features for a while and concentrate on bug fixing a