Re: [Lazarus] Debian (Sid): fpc 3.0.0+dfsg-2 cannot compile lazarus trunc

2016-02-01 Thread John Landmesser
Am 01.02.2016 um 18:47 schrieb Mattias Gaertner: On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:20:59 +0100 John Landmesser wrote: Is this the new FPC 3.0.0 from Debian unstable? Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.f

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Sven Barth
Am 01.02.2016 16:18 schrieb "Anthony Walter" : > > Sven, > > What's the current road map look like for closures? Is it even on the radar? If so, and if no major work has been done on it yet, an improved syntax would go a long way in usability. Someone is working on them and a prototype exists (loo

Re: [Lazarus] Debian (Sid): fpc 3.0.0+dfsg-2 cannot compile lazarus trunc

2016-02-01 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:20:59 +0100 John Landmesser wrote: > Does anybody else has issues with Debians fpc 3.0.0+dfsg-2 Is this the new FPC 3.0.0 from Debian unstable? > fpc 3.0.0+dfsg-2 hangs on ..linking Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@

[Lazarus] Debian (Sid): fpc 3.0.0+dfsg-2 cannot compile lazarus trunc

2016-02-01 Thread John Landmesser
Does anybody else has issues with Debians fpc 3.0.0+dfsg-2 Downgraded to fpc 2.6.4 to compile Lazarus trunc again! My system: Lazarus 1.7 r1.5 FPC 2.6.4 x86_64-linux-gtk 2 ( Misleading information here, its Revision 51468 ) fpc 3.0.0+dfsg-2 hangs on ..linking ok, thats Debian related, but I'm

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Sven, What's the current road map look like for closures? Is it even on the radar? If so, and if no major work has been done on it yet, an improved syntax would go a long way in usability. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Sven Barth
Am 01.02.2016 13:54 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" : > > > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Anthony Walter wrote: > >> Just a bit of information, my Cross.Codebot library has threading built in >> to the socket protocol implementations, so with regards to explaining it I >> could just show the source code or I

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/01/2016 03:00 PM, Bo Berglund wrote: And very complex to hack into as well. If I can provide any help., please let me know. So I turned to Indy10 now Not a good idea IMHO, Indy is exceptionally complex. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:53:30 +0100, Michael Schnell wrote: >On 02/01/2016 12:47 PM, Bo Berglund wrote: >> Blocking sockets is where I am now... >So Porting AsyncPro would be a great exercise :-) !!! > >This is an exceptionally useful tool, great open source code once done >by a professional tea,

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Anthony Walter wrote: Michael, if you or anyone with commit rights feels comfortable adding a derived thread class (TSimpleThread) with the features I've described to the classes unit, then I'll post my implementation to mantis as a patch. I feel comfortable with this :-)

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Michael, if you or anyone with commit rights feels comfortable adding a derived thread class (TSimpleThread) with the features I've described to the classes unit, then I'll post my implementation to mantis as a patch. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@l

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Michael, My implementation adds an optional Status property to a thread, which then necessitates an instance. When Status is written (that's the optional part) in a background thread its value is copied temporarily to a private field, then the thread invokes Synchronize. Before your status changed

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Anthony Walter wrote: Just a bit of information, my Cross.Codebot library has threading built in to the socket protocol implementations, so with regards to explaining it I could just show the source code or I could write it a again just to demonstrate. With regards to comp

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/01/2016 12:47 PM, Bo Berglund wrote: Blocking sockets is where I am now... So Porting AsyncPro would be a great exercise :-) !!! This is an exceptionally useful tool, great open source code once done by a professional tea, but done in a Windows-only and outdated way (not using TThread.Q

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Just a bit of information, my Cross.Codebot library has threading built in to the socket protocol implementations, so with regards to explaining it I could just show the source code or I could write it a again just to demonstrate. With regards to complexity, I never define a new thread class, whic

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:21:45 +0100, Michael Schnell wrote: >On 01/31/2016 11:10 PM, Anthony Walter wrote: >> Thanks for the idea Bo. I'll put it near the top of my queue. >> >+1 > >IMHO the knowledge about the (great) thread Features of Lazarus are by >far not spread wide enough. I could not a

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Video: Getting Started

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Fixed. Thanks for catching that. :) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Video: Getting Started

2016-02-01 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
It could have been worse: "Lazarus Leering Center" :-) Michael. On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Anthony Walter wrote: Dang it. Correction coming pronto. On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:43:15 -0500 Anthony Walter wrote: I've posted a tutorial video, w

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Video: Getting Started

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Dang it. Correction coming pronto. On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:43:15 -0500 > Anthony Walter wrote: > > > I've posted a tutorial video, which is the first in a series, titled > > "Getting Started". It's available for viewing here: > > > > http:

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Video: Getting Started

2016-02-01 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:43:15 -0500 Anthony Walter wrote: > I've posted a tutorial video, which is the first in a series, titled > "Getting Started". It's available for viewing here: > > http://www.getlazarus.org/learn/tutorials/start/ > > Additional tutorial videos with progressively more advanc

Re: [Lazarus] change Font on TButton do not work?

2016-02-01 Thread Josef Schnieder
I modified the font: First the encoding was "symbol" -> problem as described (it doesn't matter, when i change the charset) than copy the chars, so that the encoding is "UnicodeBmp" -> problem is solved The solution for me is to modify the font. best regards Josef Am 01.02.2016 um 11:18 s

[Lazarus] Tutorial Video: Getting Started

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Walter
I've posted a tutorial video, which is the first in a series, titled "Getting Started". It's available for viewing here: http://www.getlazarus.org/learn/tutorials/start/ Additional tutorial videos with progressively more advanced subject matter will be posted to the tutorials section regularly. U

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-01 Thread Michael Schnell
On 01/31/2016 11:10 PM, Anthony Walter wrote: Thanks for the idea Bo. I'll put it near the top of my queue. +1 IMHO the knowledge about the (great) thread Features of Lazarus are by far not spread wide enough. The "lesson" should include: - Motivation for the usage of threads: - -

Re: [Lazarus] change Font on TButton do not work?

2016-02-01 Thread Bart
On 1/31/16, Josef Schnieder wrote: > But the button caption is unchanged. It appears an "A" instead of "*". > I tested the Font in Libreoffice and it works well. > > any idea? Turn of themes. Bart -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.fre