Re: [Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

2016-04-01 Thread Anthony Walter
I am running mate as the desktop environment which may account for a greater than normal memory usage than the default Raspbian environment, though it's not too much more. I will say this though, increasing the swap file from the default of 100MB to 1024MB seems to alleviate the problem. -- __

Re: [Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

2016-04-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Calling the compiler directly works on most any project/program. I am not sure how to build Lazarus (with my preferred packages) using lazbuild or fpc. The "make useride" command fails exactly like I described in my original post. As a side note, I am able to have GPU memory set to 128MB or more an

[Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

2016-03-31 Thread Anthony Walter
I believe this problem effects a lot of people using the Raspberry Pi, and possibly other platforms as well. The problem: Recently I been using "make all" on Lazarus sources, or trying to rebuild the IDE, such as when installing or removing packages, and experiencing build fails. This will happe

[Lazarus] Xamarin becomes free and open-source

2016-03-31 Thread Anthony Walter
I thought this was newsworthy and of interest to us: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

2016-03-25 Thread Anthony Walter
> You'll generally need something like 512Mb of available memory, i.e. RAM + swap, > with the linker in particular benefiting from extra. Around here, I'm being firmly > discouraged (by other colleagues with an electronics background) from putting > swap on the card, but instead putting it on an ex

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

2016-03-23 Thread Anthony Walter
Seeing as how SD CARD space is a premium on the Pi you should probably clean up after you build and install. This include doing things like this after make install: cd $HOME/fpc rm -rf .svn find packages -name units | xargs rm -rf {0} find rtl -name units | xargs rm -rf {0} find packages -iname "*

[Lazarus] Testing Rapberry Pi 3 performance

2016-03-22 Thread Anthony Walter
I recorded a very brief video of the performance of Raspberry Pi and Lazarus is quite usable. Video here: http://www.getlazarus.org/setup/raspberry/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mai

Re: [Lazarus] Three-DS:Parx-GDI, it's big enuff for a "shoebox" fits more in "cupboard"

2016-03-22 Thread Anthony Walter
"Here at Gestapo U @ the anti-social faculties witch & warlock, burning & pilgrimage scramble! scramble! scramble! this is Radio-Freedom's GNU C/C+, mutiny edition Devkitpro & the NinjaHax::ctrulib latest v1.0.0" English please. Also, please refrain from linking to content requiring a Facebook acc

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

2016-03-20 Thread Anthony Walter
It would seem the issue is related to running without enough of memory. I decreased my GPU/RAM split, rebooted to text mode, and "make all"'ed on Lazarus successfully. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.f

[Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

2016-03-20 Thread Anthony Walter
Has anyone here built Lazarus from SVN sources on the Raspberry Pi 3 yet? I keep running into various issues. This my latest issue from: Using a compiler from fpc/branches/fixes_3_0 build with: make all OPT="-dFPC_ARMHF" && make install PREFIX=$BASE/fpc And the compiler works fine svn co h

[Lazarus] Microsoft SQL Server coming to Linux

2016-03-07 Thread Anthony Walter
For those of you using Linux with interest in database development here is some news for you: Microsoft SQL Server will soon be officially supported on Linux. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/ Microsoft Executive Vide President Scott Gu has been coordina

[Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 Now Available

2016-02-29 Thread Anthony Walter
This is just a heads up to Lazrus/FPC users who are interested in the Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi is now available. New features include integrated wireless bluetooth, and a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 clocked at 1.2 GHz. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale -- _

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Desktops redesign

2016-02-25 Thread Anthony Walter
Ondrej, a couple of questions. Do you plan to tackle the incorrect layout restore problem with docked layouts? Issue #29200 Do you plan to provide a better default layout, or management of default layouts? Currently when you install anchor docking the first layout you are given is essentially bro

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Anthony Walter
I've wanted this feature for a while. I think adding simple global property on TToolBar to show/hide captions would suffice. In the interim here is a workaround, editing the IDE while it's running: http://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/small-toolbars.mp4 Graeme: I often post video recordings of bu

Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Anthony Walter
> Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft? Flight Simulator Direct3D Halo All game related. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Anthony Walter
I think this is big news and of interest to our community since Xamarin provides a cross platform IDE + Tookit. Also, of all the other (than Delphi/Free Pascal) languages out there I feel C# is the next most acceptable with proper PME/generics/other stuff. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/welcoming-

Re: [Lazarus] Video Tutorial: Introducing Lazarus

2016-02-10 Thread Anthony Walter
Doh-oh, I posted the correction but have no idea how long AWS CloudFront takes to propagate changes. I was just using plain old S3, but I turned on CloudFront earlier tonight because I read they give you 50 gigs of transfer free every month. -- ___ Lazar

Re: [Lazarus] Video Tutorial: Introducing Lazarus

2016-02-09 Thread Anthony Walter
Dmitry, I have a friend who is a television news talent reading my scripts. My reading voice sounds like this: http://cache.getlazarus.org/audio/sysrpl.m4a My friend does a better job and it only takes him a few minutes to record stuff. Plus he has a way better microphone. --

[Lazarus] Video Tutorial: Introducing Lazarus

2016-02-09 Thread Anthony Walter
I've published a new video in my tutorial series. This new video serves as an introduction the Lazarus IDE for the uninitiated. Feel free to post this link to other websites. I'm hoping it reaches people who haven't given the idea of development with Lazarus its due consideration. http://www.getla

Re: [Lazarus] Problem with Sparta docked form designer

2016-02-07 Thread Anthony Walter
I was looking at the code. There might not be an easy solution but the docked designer really needs to support this feature. Can you point out where in the package you are picking the class for and then creating the docked design control? -- ___ Lazarus m

[Lazarus] Problem with Sparta docked form designer

2016-02-07 Thread Anthony Walter
There is a problem with the Sparta docked form designer and inherited forms. Since some of you might not know you can easily register custom inherited forms with Lazarus I made a brief video going over the problem: http://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/docked-designer-issue.mp4 I am producing a few

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-02-05 Thread Anthony Walter
Michael, I submitted TSimpleThread to mantis. It's filed under issue #29597. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

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 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 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] 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 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

[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

2016-01-31 Thread Anthony Walter
Thanks for the idea Bo. I'll put it near the top of my queue. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-01-28 Thread Anthony Walter
Noted. I might add that as a beginning level video tutorial. Right now I am writing javascript canvas code to convert text to lexical diagrams and slicing a screen shot of the IDE for a visual popover guide, -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazar

[Lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus learning center

2016-01-28 Thread Anthony Walter
This is just a heads up to anyone interested. As you know a few months ago I created a new documentation site at http://docs.getlazarus.org that improves the help system for Free Pascal and Lazarus. Continuing along the same vein I've started work on a new series of Free Pascal and Lazarus pages w

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry PI, minor glitch.

2016-01-23 Thread Anthony Walter
In "Tools > Options" check that "Environment > Compiler Executable" points to the full fpc path. Also make sure you launch Lazarus using "lazarus.desktop" file and you're not just double clicking on the lazarus executable file in the lazarus folder. Use "ls" in a terminal to see the actual file nam

Re: [Lazarus] Get Lazarus January 2016 Update

2016-01-22 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay Don a new Pi bundle has been uploaded which fixes the rebuild IDE problem you experienced. Just run setup.sh again to update. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazaru

Re: [Lazarus] Get Lazarus January 2016 Update

2016-01-21 Thread Anthony Walter
Mattias, I am pretty sure the problem is I removed a few files I shouldn't have while attempting to reduce the total install size for Pi. I'll issue a post an updated Pi bundle in a few hours (later tonight). -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.laz

Re: [Lazarus] Get Lazarus January 2016 Update

2016-01-21 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay Don, that's a valid problem. I'll look into it and reissue a new bundle for the Pi. I may have been overzealous in removing files from the lazarus folder to squeeze down the size. I'll message you when it's fixed and tested. You'll just need to rerun the setup script and give it the same fold

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus January 2016 Update Can't install custom components.

2016-01-21 Thread Anthony Walter
Don, you should probably take this to the forums at http://www.getlazarus.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=22 But to answer your question, in order to reduce the total install size of Raspberry Pi I've removed many fpc packages which do not fall under the domain of the rtl or fcl. I know for a lot of pe

Re: [Lazarus] Get Lazarus January 2016 Update

2016-01-21 Thread Anthony Walter
Sandro, If you're using my bundles and you want more packages, just use the "Packages > Install/Uninstall Packages" menu item, choose any of the packages you want, then click "Save and rebuild IDE". If the package you want to install isn't in the "Install/Uninstall Packages" list, then use the "P

Re: [Lazarus] Get Lazarus January 2016 Update

2016-01-21 Thread Anthony Walter
Petr, I'm unsure when or if the official Lazarus builds will include anchor docking and the docked form designer installed and arranged ergonomically. These are additional packages which users are supposed to know about and install themselves. There is also the of issue that there is no default an

[Lazarus] Get Lazarus January 2016 Update

2016-01-20 Thread Anthony Walter
I've posted new installer for Free Pascal and Lazarus at getlazarus.org. Here is an overview of the what's new: Video: http://www.getlazarus.org/new/ Changes include: A new Lazarus layout with the component pallet removed and coolbar buttons in its place. The a docked form designer is now the d

Re: [Lazarus] SVN Server Problems?

2016-01-19 Thread Anthony Walter
Maciej, that fixed it. Thank you :) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] SVN Server Problems?

2016-01-19 Thread Anthony Walter
I am having a problem on multiple machines with the free pascal SVN server. When executing a full checkout with a revision number the SVN connection is failing after an arbitrary amount of time. svn: E000104: Error retrieving REPORT: Connection reset by peer What's the deal? Is anyone else able t

[Lazarus] fpc trunk fails "make all"

2016-01-18 Thread Anthony Walter
While trying to "make all" of fpc on Window I am receiving and error on: make -C packages clean The error message is: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop. Here is the more output in context: C:/Development/build/fpc.3.0.0/bin/i386-win32/rm.exe -f fpcmade.i386-win32 Package.fpc p

Re: [Lazarus] Docking search results

2016-01-17 Thread Anthony Walter
I agree with Ondrej. I will be always be using docking using both anchor docking and the docked designer. I suspect most others people will as well, given that they're available and function correctly. Personally, I prefer to have the message window and search results docked at the bottom all the t

Re: [Lazarus] Can I build a Lazarus GUI program only with fpc installed?

2016-01-17 Thread Anthony Walter
At a minimum for lcl graphics form applications you need the lcl and lazbuild installed, as well as a valid set of config files, all of which are included with Lazarus. If you want to build just using fpc, then you'll need to gather at least those pieces together, and the easiest way to do that is

[Lazarus] Video: Fixing anchor docking previews on OSX

2016-01-17 Thread Anthony Walter
Problem: On Macintosh the anchor docking system doesn't provide a preview window, making arranging docked layouts on OSX cumbersome to say the least. I think this issue is going to become more important as work progresses on anchor docking and the sparta docked form designer. Video detailing my so

Re: [Lazarus] Web vs desktop development

2016-01-15 Thread Anthony Walter
+1 On security considerations. I forget to mention that. Installing software on Windows has gotten so bad with so many download sites or software producers bundling adware, or even spyway and malware. Microsoft themselves seem to have thrown in the towel with Windows 10, packing in key logging, lo

[Lazarus] Web vs desktop development

2016-01-15 Thread Anthony Walter
On a programming web forum someone said regarding Lazarus: On just cursory review, looks compelling. However, I get so little call these days for native/desktop applications. Seems everyone wants web now. I replied: I agree that web applications are far superior in many situations. Compared to d

Re: [Lazarus] Video: Tool to aid in developing the Lazarus IDE

2016-01-14 Thread Anthony Walter
Petr, I've been trying help to fix up the docked form designer, and also the new menu editor. I think once a few more issues are fixed it'll be the best Lazarus configuration IMO. That is, having anchor docking installed so that IDE windows can be docked, and a docked form designer for the form ed

[Lazarus] Video: Tool to aid in developing the Lazarus IDE

2016-01-13 Thread Anthony Walter
I put together a tool which some of you might find helpful either in developing the Lazarus IDE or your own applications. http://www.getlazarus.org/apps/appexplore/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.fre

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

2016-01-11 Thread Anthony Walter
Howard, good job on the new menu designer. It's working very nicely right now. I'll take a look at modifying TShadowMenu to be a scrolling control without the need for a TScrollBox. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://l

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

2016-01-11 Thread Anthony Walter
On my system suddenly all is well with the new menu editor. Nice work :) The docked form designer still has the issue where it's not being realigned/repainted when a TMainMenu is placed on it. Issue 29370. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazaru

[Lazarus] "Video: Anyone want to take over this library?"

2016-01-11 Thread Anthony Walter
This is a portion of my old Windows only Delphi library for shell controls: http://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/shellctrls-delphi.mp4 The manual: http://www.codebot.org/shell/ Does anyone have any interested taking the library it over and bringing it into Lazarus? Obviously it would still be Win

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

2016-01-11 Thread Anthony Walter
Bart: Not really. When you free a component it's removed from the owner's list. Others: If I can dig up my D7 SE installer I'll attempt to verify. I distinctly remember being surprised at this behavior in D5 1999, but I could be mis-remembering. -- ___ L

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

2016-01-11 Thread Anthony Walter
I Delphi at least if you create a component with AOwner set to nil it actually (tested under Delphi 7 at least) would set the Owner to Application. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailma

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

2016-01-11 Thread Anthony Walter
Very nice. I like the new design. Side note: Who wrote that FScroller for the new menu editor? It acts very erratic for me on Gtk2. I don't know about on other widget sets. See issue 29369. Why not use TScrollBox or make TShadowMenu a TScrollingWinControl? -- __

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

2016-01-11 Thread Anthony Walter
The point is, on a TPopupMenu if the pattern to the right is always alias arrows, and the pattern below is always check board, then it's entirely superfluous, nonessential, redundant, and unneeded. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepas

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

2016-01-11 Thread Anthony Walter
In my opinion the top one is kind of terrible. Just look at this video: http://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/menu-arrows.mp4 No matter where I click it always shows the same pattern: ugly blue check board below, ugly aliased triangles to the right. I can tell the item is going to be inserted below

Re: [Lazarus] NewMenuDesigner: Removing start-up modal dialog

2016-01-11 Thread Anthony Walter
I say no to the modal startup dialog as well. It really doesn't work (click) for me. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

2016-01-10 Thread Anthony Walter
Relevant link: http://www.codebot.org/delphi/?doc=9579 I've been submitting few patches the past few days and am considering submitting a few more complex fixes, mostly having to do with the new docked form editor and the new menu editor. As I get more involved I am trying to figure out which ID

[Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

2016-01-10 Thread Anthony Walter
In the image below, which style do you prefer. The top or bottom? http://cache.getlazarus.org/images/menu-patterns.gif -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Unable to compile Lazarus after revision 51233

2016-01-10 Thread Anthony Walter
Fixed. I was going to file a report+fix earlier but I had to take a break for the Redskins game :( the frowny face is for their loss -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/laza

Re: [Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

2016-01-07 Thread Anthony Walter
> Napoleon conquered the world some 200 years ago. That is long enough as nobody seems to have strong negative association with his actions Follow this link if you want to see why WW2, and by extension the people who created it and the symbols they used, is such a big deal: http://www.fallen.io/w

Re: [Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

2016-01-07 Thread Anthony Walter
> Napoleon conquered the world some 200 years ago. That is long enough as nobody seems to have strong negative association with his actions Napoleon didn't try to exterminate a race of people by cooking 6 million of them in factory ovens 24/7. Europe has long a history of anti semitism, somethin

Re: [Lazarus] Installation under SUSE

2016-01-06 Thread Anthony Walter
Gordon thanks for the zypper package names. I may incorporate them into the install script sometime in the future. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Installation under SUSE

2016-01-06 Thread Anthony Walter
Josef, I am the maintainer of http://www.getlazarus.org. Unfortunately each Linux distribution can use different package names for their distribution when compared to other distributions (eg. Redhat, Debian, Suse). There is no Linux standard for either a universal package management system or univ

Re: [Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

2016-01-06 Thread Anthony Walter
Regarding a patch, can whomever creates/applies it insure the PaintSwastika procedure does not default to the Nazi symbol characteristics? That is don't default the leaf widths to 1/5th the linear width (The Nazi version is the only swastika with those proportions. Please don't default to the Nazi

Re: [Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

2016-01-06 Thread Anthony Walter
There are many versions of the religious swastika symbol, but is only one version of the swastika is draw with the squared capped leaves and a stroke width exactly equal to 1/5th of the linear diameter. Guess which one the lcl function draws? http://cache.getlazarus.org/images/nazi_symbol.png And

[Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

2016-01-05 Thread Anthony Walter
While browsing the docs I found: http://docs.getlazarus.org/#lcl+extgraphics+paintswastika Do we really need this procedure in the lcl? I think it should probably be removed. If anyone wants to see the details of when it was committed to svn, the inserted revision number is 9692. -- _

Re: [Lazarus] Mantis image attachments

2016-01-05 Thread Anthony Walter
Here is the relevant mantis configuration setting: https://www.mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6069#p14718 -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Mantis image attachments

2016-01-05 Thread Anthony Walter
Can someone change the mantis bug tracker attachment settings such that image attachments can be viewed in the browser? Currently when you click an image attached to an issue it downloads the attachment as a file rather than just opening the image in the browser. This then necessitates several st

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus compile project via ssh?

2016-01-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Don, Regarding a script to setup FPC 3.0.0 and Lazarus on a virgin Pi, you might want to try my Pi installer script at this location: http://www.getlazarus.org/setup/?download#raspberry_pi The script doesn't require super user rights, it asks where you want to put FPC 3.0.0 and Lazarus (recent t

Re: [Lazarus] Design issues with the new menu editor

2016-01-03 Thread Anthony Walter
Howard, Thanks for your work on the new menu designer, and also thanks in advance for taking a look at it with the docked form designer installed. If you have svn access and need anything tested let me know. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.laza

[Lazarus] Design issues with the new menu editor

2016-01-03 Thread Anthony Walter
Ondrej has been rapidly fixing issues in mantis and noted that there are problems with the new menu designer and the docked form designer. http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29328 While testing I noticed a few design issues with the new menu editor which apparently isn't working nicely with

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-03 Thread Anthony Walter
Thanks, I'll test it out. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Ondrej Pokorny appreciation thread

2016-01-03 Thread Anthony Walter
Ondrej, I noticed you closed out a lot of issues related to the docked form designer recently. I just wanted to say thank you for your work and note to all that Ondrej's work has greatly increased the usability of the docked form designer. -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-03 Thread Anthony Walter
Michael, Regarding select into, it is needed because many times you select into in order to create a table without needing to define it. This is especially useful and perhaps almost necessary when creating temporary tables to cache/persists a result for a session. When I do work processing huge vo

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-02 Thread Anthony Walter
Michael, I checked out the lasted code from svn/fpc/trunk/packages/fcl-db/src/datadict and svn/lazarus/trunk/tools/lazdatadesktop. Everything builds fine and it looks/works a lot better. Although I can now connect to a remote mssql server, I found some problems with the "Run query". Here is a sh

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-02 Thread Anthony Walter
Michael, Thanks for the changes. I am checking them out and will create a new build to test the changes. If it works I may contribute a few changes to improve usability such as a connection wizard or some other dialog to guide first time users in creating/configuring a database connection. I know

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-02 Thread Anthony Walter
Michael, Just FYI currently there is no "fpddmssql.pp" (the dd is for data dictionary I suppose) so no, it's not as easy as just adding a unit name to the project source. New units must be created and a register function must be create for mssql to appear in the connections list. And as far as yo

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-02 Thread Anthony Walter
Sven, >> I don't see MSSQL support. I don't want to setup ODBC DSNs, > It *does* support MSSQL. It supports all databases that FPC supports. On my system LazDataDesktop does not show MSSQL as an option: http://cache.getlazarus.org/images/where-is-mssql.png -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-01 Thread Anthony Walter
K.P., Being able to connect to MSSL from Linux is kinda of the point. Installing Wine + setup or configuration of ODBC DSN configuration files and or drivers just to run a SQL client+editor kinda files into the "require a whole lot of extras" category. -- __

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Mark, I apologize if I was unclear. I didn't mean to imply some kind of SQL editor which can convert between various SQL dialects (T-SQL -> ?). I want something with a good syntax highlight editor (with block indent/mouse selection, and so on) which allows me to execute the SQL that is highlighted

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Michael, I don't want a "visual" table builder and I'm unsure how many others do. All I want is something to connect me to a database engine where I can then execute bits of SQL (it executes what you highlight), which is what my program does. Lazarus database desktop seems geared towards everythi

[Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

2016-01-01 Thread Anthony Walter
A few months ago I was trying to find a workable Microsoft SQL Server client/editor on Linux and couldn't find anything decent in the FOSS zone. I ended up writing my own simple SQL client/editor: http://cache.getlazarus.org/images/sqlclient.png The basic functionality is/was: Connect to a serve

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

2015-12-22 Thread Anthony Walter
Ondrej, The old menu designer was stay on top as well. Stay on top is needed because the a menu designer is typically a separate non docking window (a dialog). For all users menu editing invariably consists of: 1. Creating a menu (or sub menu) item using the menu editor dialog 2. Then editing the

Re: [Lazarus] Obviously I'm missing something.

2015-12-21 Thread Anthony Walter
Don, stop beating your head please: http://www.getlazarus.org/setup/?download#raspberry_pi -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus compile project via ssh?

2015-12-20 Thread Anthony Walter
Thanks everyone for your replies. Regarding cross compilation, my code contains a sections linking to the broadcom driver and several other files (a whole slew of different vchi modules), which in turns links to many other files. For cross compile to work I would need to find all the required libs

[Lazarus] Lazarus compile project via ssh?

2015-12-20 Thread Anthony Walter
I am wondering, is it possible to configure Lazarus to compile a project on a remote computer running a different platform/architecture through ssh? I've been doing Lazarus development on Linux on a quad core amd64 desktop PC for a while now and it feels comfortable. But I do have a few arm6/7 Ras

Re: [Lazarus] Syntax error compiling fpc 3.0.0 3.0.0rc1 3.0.0rc2

2015-12-19 Thread Anthony Walter
Donald, if all you want is a minimal FPC 3.0.0 for the Pi, I suggest you use my minimal installers from http://www.getlazarus.org The minimal version weights in at 40MB and includes the compiler, a few tools like the console "fp" ide, and the rtl (no fcl, no lcl). I also includes a fpc terminal sh

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi bundles now available

2015-12-19 Thread Anthony Walter
Don, thanks for the interest. I'm currently using a trunk revision. When 1.6 is final, I'll switch it to that. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Debian Packager released

2015-12-18 Thread Anthony Walter
Yeah, all my code requires FPC 3 or greater. You should have gotten an error message in codebot.inc when you try to use FPC 2.6.4. {$if fpc_fullversion < 3} 'This library requires the free pascal 3 or greater' {$endif} If you want to use more recent versions, the FPC and Lazarus bundles from

Re: [Lazarus] Debian Packager released

2015-12-16 Thread Anthony Walter
Can you give me information on your FPC version? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Two new Manage Desktops bugs

2015-12-16 Thread Anthony Walter
I've created two new bugs related to anchordocking and the "Manage desktops" dialog. Desktop manager restore incorrect docked layouts http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29200 (This issue can sometimes crash Lazarus) Docked windows renamed when saving desktops http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.p

Re: [Lazarus] Install FPC and Lazarus from source

2015-12-14 Thread Anthony Walter
OP said: So I went to use GetLazarus version, it is good but have many bugs because of its docking system and it will always be cropped I just want to point out that's there exists a *method to turn off* "have many bugs because of its docking system and it will always be cropped" >From within Laz

Re: [Lazarus] Release Candidate 1 of Lazarus 1.6

2015-12-13 Thread Anthony Walter
I updated the previously mentioned issue with information from gdb. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Release Candidate 1 of Lazarus 1.6

2015-12-12 Thread Anthony Walter
I am not sure how to backtrace on mantis, but here is the bug report I submitted. Maybe you can 1.6 RC tag it for me. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29178 -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freep

Re: [Lazarus] Release Candidate 1 of Lazarus 1.6

2015-12-12 Thread Anthony Walter
I don't know if this has been reported, but on several Lazarus installations I get a "Division by zero" exception when using the "Manage desktops" dialog, located under the "Tools -> Desktops ..." menu. On some systems the error is reported as a floating point exception and crashes Lazarus badly.

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Font

2015-12-11 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay, after some research I found an easy way to fix the problem. I thought this might be useful to others. You can easily define your own styles and change theme for Gtk2. Just create a files called ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and put whatever settings you prefer into it. For example to change the default font

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Font

2015-12-11 Thread Anthony Walter
Mattias, when I changed the Raspbian fonts (specifically the sizes) using the Raspbian tools the IDE font sizes do not reflect that change. I tried rebooting and the Lazarus fonts sizes are unchanged. I rebuilt Lazarus and the font sizes are unchanged. -- ___

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