Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 7/28/2010 4:45 PM, Josh Lee wrote: In my life, I would like to code a PDA I know it's far-fetched, and I would have to become much more advanced. I would really love to have some sort of handheld device with a keyboard in my pocket, I would take it out, and boot it up, and have a command

Re: [Lazarus] show declaration hints has more power in it than is really used

2010-07-24 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 7/24/2010 12:34 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I wonder if I could ask a question that follows on from Bernd's sentiment. He points out that the IDE will pick up a comment /before/ a declaration, but for getting on for 30 years I've been putting comments immediately /after/ and that includes

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Doug Chamberlin
From a different perspective I could say Manage your mailing lists!. I subscribe to about 20 different mailing lists. In some cases several of them all funnel into one local folder via my email client. I then review that folder for interesting stuff and ignore the threads I am not interested

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 7/2/2010 11:44 AM, Sven Barth wrote: Just a little correction: Although Adem has participated much in the parser thread, it was Hans-Peter Diettrich who started it. Thanks, Sven! -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Parser

2010-07-01 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 7/1/2010 1:14 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: - Make fcl-passrc complete. (*NOT* extract parser from compiler). +1 -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-21 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 6/20/2010 11:28 PM, John Meyer wrote: Let's try this another way: This new site has just copied the FPC/Laz site. I've asked that they remove this part because it bothers me. Others have agreed. No one has yet to voice a different opinion. This subject has come up before and had similar

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 6/19/2010 2:00 PM, Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.06.2010 16:20, schrieb Doug Chamberlin: Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. Are you aware that this cheetah is also the Free Pascal logo which is displayed on http://www.freepascal.org/ since ages

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 6/20/2010 1:32 PM, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: www.lazarussupport.com - is the first professional support for Lazarus users, that's the point, not cats animations, right? Correct. And that is why the suggestion to remove the animation is being made. IMO the presence of the animation

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 6/20/2010 2:45 PM, waldo kitty wrote: hummm... maybe it should be a flash animation, then? there are thousands of professional and corporate sites that (for some silly reason) seem to feel that flash animation is ok :rolleyes: hummm... maybe there should be NO animation, then? Point 1:

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-19 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Suggestion again: remove GTK1 from IDE and LCL

2010-06-05 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 6/5/2010 3:13 AM, waldo kitty wrote: On 6/4/2010 18:54, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'd hope that you don't. But right now it seems to me that Graeme is kvetching about the fact that Lazarus's GTK1 support is going downhill without making it clear whether he really wants to use it or whether

Re: [Lazarus] Using FPC parser/tokenizer for code formatting

2010-05-30 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Adem- I have great interest in a parser-based code formatting tool. However, I have doubt that using the compiler's parser is the best solution. So, I'd like to discuss some of the issues surrounding this decision. I'd like to get your ideas on the following problem. There are basically two

Re: [Lazarus] quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting case

2010-05-24 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 5/24/2010 11:27 AM, Alexander Klenin wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 02:24, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:20:05 -0400 Doug Chamberlindougchamber...@earthlink.net wrote: On 5/24/2010 11:03 AM, Alexander Klenin wrote: IMO, case

Re: [Lazarus] constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting case]

2010-05-24 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 5/24/2010 11:36 AM, Martin wrote: What is highlighting same as constant? If the value is a character constant, highlight as a string constant. if the value is an integer, highlight it as a numeric constant. If the value is an enumeration value, highlight it as an identifier. No need for

Re: [Lazarus] OOP basics - 2

2010-04-16 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 4/15/2010 4:37 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: To summarize: All I wanted to say is that 1. I don't think that each class should be in it's own unit; If it is beneficial to do so, I will. If not: I don't. 2. The structure of my classes has never forced me to solve circular references

Re: [Lazarus] Newcomers with Debian based systems

2010-03-16 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 3/15/2010 8:46 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: I've tried to intall Lazarus on a fresh Ubuntu (9.10) system, and ran into any number of problems, that will effectivly prevent any newcomer to ever give Lazarus an try :-( The official Ubuntu packages did not allow to install a working

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-08 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 3/8/2010 10:28 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: Because I'm now in about the 25th or already 30th likewise discussion in the years that I'm coremember, and they all turn out the same: - a large thread in the maillist archives - a lot of lost time. - Changes initiated after the disucssion are

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-07 Thread Doug Chamberlin
I agree with everything Tom has said. I hope everyone takes it to heart. I'm one of those who is lurking and waiting for a more stable project before jumping in and joining the team as a volunteer. I've tried both FPC and Lazarus and found them wanting for all the reasons that have already

Re: [Lazarus] debug windows layout

2010-03-01 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 3/1/2010 6:38 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: An SDI application requires to start a new instance for every document view/window. No it does not. One runnning application instance can manage multiple, independent SDI windows, each with a different document context. That's still SDI. It

Re: [Lazarus] debug windows layout

2010-02-27 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 2/27/2010 12:18 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: MDI (multi-document interface) is one big outer window with multiple other windows embedded inside that parent window. Most IDE's seem to go the MDI route. That's called SDI, not MDI. A single window contains frames, filling the entire

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-02 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 2/2/2010 2:49 AM, Bee Jay wrote: I've made a very basic design, just to show off my page layout and content structure proposal. It's not yet about the true design (color, theme, etc) and the accessories (images, icons, etc). Take a look at

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

2010-01-31 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 1/31/2010 4:58 AM, theo wrote: Hmm, the fact that this thread already has a lot of messages but the content thread (which it is all about imho) has not recieved one answer makes me a bit sceptical about this project... ;-) Yes, it seems like people are just recommending the database they

Re: [Lazarus] [Fwd: Re: Is Lazarus a Delphi plagiat?]

2010-01-29 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 1/29/2010 6:05 PM, Gustavo Enrique Jimenez wrote: Just google linux pascal compiler. Period. And that accomplishes what, exactly? Does not seem to relate to the current discussion at all. -- Doug C. - A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is

Re: [Lazarus] const array syntax

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Duncan Parsons wrote: Must confess, I feel arr:[0..end] of makes more sense to me than use of var or ..] The latter suggests something forgotten or a typo. I agree that just leaving out the ending limit is against the spirit of Pascal. I can live with the syntax of MyArray:[0..var] or

[Lazarus] Question for new installation

2010-01-03 Thread Doug Chamberlin
I have just started using FPC/Lazarus and m still setting up my installations on Ubuntu 9.10. I've run into a situation... I downloaded the new FPC 2.4.0 using the everything in one file tarball. I ran the install.sh script and all looks like it worked fine. I then downloaded the latest

Re: [Lazarus] [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: 2010/1/2 Doug Chamberlin dougchamber...@earthlink.net: I ran into a problem because the directory I was installing from contained an embedded space in the name. I'm just amazed that such issues still come up! Just about very file system being used in today's OSes can

Re: [Lazarus] [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Thanks for all the great work that has gone into 2.4.0! For my new year's resolution I'm going to commit to FPC and Lazarus. So, I'm installing the latest in a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 VM and diving in. I'll be pushing all this software hard and will probably be coming here for help. First problem:

[Lazarus] Installing lazarus with fpc 2.4.0

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Looks like there are not yet any Lazarus install downloads ready that contain fpc 2.4.0. That's what I'd like to start with, so I'm looking at the best way to install Laz 0.9.28.2 with fpc 2.4.0. I started installing lazarus but the dependency checking said it was going to install a bunch of

Re: [Lazarus] Installing lazarus with fpc 2.4.0

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Chamberlin
IntelliAdmin Support wrote: If you already have Lazarus installed, you can simply install the new compiler, with the sources...then launch Lazarus. Go to tools, and build Lazarus. After the build is finished you should be working with the new compiler OK, I get that. But I don't have Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Pascal Time Zone handling

2009-11-10 Thread Doug Chamberlin
JoshyFun wrote: I had written an unit to handle time change between zones at a given past time (and future if rules does not change). Maybe somebody wants to add it to the Lazarus CCR but the unit should work in plain fpc programas (without GUI) but I had only tested it with Lazarus. José-

Re: [Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

2009-09-11 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Alexander Klenin wrote: So I request community for a suitable ideas -- projects should be reasonably self-contained, not too hard, require actual coding and be interesting enough to motivate students. During the Embarcadero CodeRage sessions this week I took a look at the IOUtils unit

[Lazarus] Linux Journal #185 (Sep 2009)

2009-07-11 Thread Doug Chamberlin
The August 2009 Linux Journal magazine mentions that their next issue (Sep 2009, #185) will contain an article on Lazarus. The theme of the issue is cross platform software. I hope everyone supports this by buying a copy! I also hope they have been in touch with someone from the development