Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

On 3/3/12 4:14 PM, Andrew Haines wrote: > I of course recommend WordPerfect though the Windows version never > achieved the same usability as the dos version :) +1000 I've even found the recent Windows versions to be equal to the DOS version. Ignoring WordPerfect has been one of the biggest mista

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

On 3/1/12 8:58 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Rich Saunders schrieb: >> On 2/29/12 7:35 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: >>> Juha Manninen schrieb: >>>> So, what does the management mean in practice? Should Lazarus be >>>> managed differently from how i

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

On 2/29/12 7:35 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Juha Manninen schrieb: >> So, what does the management mean in practice? Should Lazarus be >> managed differently from how it is managed now? > IMO it's not so much a matter of management, but of mind shift. The > developers should share more of the

Re: [Lazarus] Missing Documentation

On 2/29/12 7:25 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Is it just me or are your excuses for not-contributing getting desperate? > I think I'm seeing a fair amount of miscommunication going on in this thread. I think that's the more likely reason why it goes on. --

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

On 2/28/12 8:52 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: > 2012/2/29 Rich Saunders <mailto:saunders.richar...@gmail.com>> > > Of course, the core developers would not be expected to do it > unless they chose to. I see it as a project management task. > > > Who is the project

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

On 2/28/12 7:28 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: > 2012/2/29 John Repucci > > > As much as I would like to get answers directly (and promptly) > from the source experts, I would prefer that the developers be > allowed to focus on development (if that is their pas

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

On 2/28/12 7:22 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: > 2012/2/28 Rich Saunders <mailto:saunders.richar...@gmail.com>> > > Another idea is for someone to summarize a lengthy exchange in a > mailing list. The summary would be something along the lines of: > "The idea

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

On 2/28/12 2:53 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: > 2012/2/28 Everton Vieira > > > I'll try once more to tell on what i'm refering: "project > managemant of the development". All that i have to say about it is > in that. Who some day had worked with project managemen

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

On 2/28/12 2:53 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: > 2012/2/28 Everton Vieira > > > I'll try once more to tell on what i'm refering: "project > managemant of the development". All that i have to say about it is > in that. Who some day had worked with project managemen

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

On 2/28/12 12:27 PM, Everton Vieira wrote: > I'm always looking for ways of more participation and, please, believe > me, today is not clear. If you work on a company, by example, > embarcadero, is very clear the way the work is done. There's a very > well knew structure of how that happens. Here,

Re: [Lazarus] How to close a window from code

On 2/1/12 12:49 PM, Timothy Groves wrote: > However, the Form1.Close version did, and that's what I'm using. Thanks! Tim- Note that using Self.Close; would be safer and much preferred over Form1.Close; when called within a TForm1 class method. It does not rely on the Form1 instance reference to

Re: [Lazarus] Free Pascal 2.6.0 released!

On 1/1/12 10:43 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: > [snip] > Details about these new features can be found at > http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_2.6.0 > [snip] This link produces a 400 error for me. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.la

Re: [Lazarus] Support for dotted unit name

On 11/4/11 3:17 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > Dotted unit name means dots in the unit name itself. For example > an.example.pas. I don't know a good example. Well, if unit names are tied to file names and embedded dots are becoming more common in file names, then I can understand the "pressure" to

Re: [Lazarus] Support for dotted unit name

On 11/3/11 7:03 PM, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote: > Sorry about my low knowlegde, maybe i am the most slow-learning mailer > of this list but i don't understand the advantage of using dots on > unit name. Could someon explain it to me? Say you use a bunch of units where XXX is defined multiple

Re: [Lazarus] debug hints in lazarus [Re: [fpc-devel] Status and ideas about debug info (stabs, dwarf / dwar3)]

On 9/15/11 1:21 PM, Martin wrote: That means the way they implemented their feature is extremely inconsistent: 1) in Delphi you are not supposed to edit source wile debugging 2) If inserting lines, in source while debugging (like in Lazarus) Delphi keeps track of line positions, so the executi

Re: [Lazarus] MS Access file - is it 'accessible' concurrently ?

On 9/7/11 12:57 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Eeehm, yes, it is a file-based database system. Still, Access developers have succesfully (and cheaply) been developing... +1 on everything Reiner has said! -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.laza

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Portuguese translation situation

Would it be possible to take this work group discussion off the main mailing list while details are being worked out? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Why I can't see my own messages in this list?

On 8/14/11 4:26 PM, Curt Carpenter wrote: I just joined the mail list yesterday, and as I recall there was a check-box when I set up my subscription that asked if I wanted the list to send me copies of my own messages. Could that, rather than Gmail, explain your problem? (I'm new, so don't k

Re: [Lazarus] Why I can't see my own messages in this list?

On 8/14/11 3:16 PM, Sven Barth wrote: Fascinating O.o Cause here it works without any problem... I use Thunderbird using IMAP and GMail is configured to apply labels that correspond to the mailing lists to all mails. All my own mails and all questions I ask are visible in the correct "label fol

Re: [Lazarus] Why I can't see my own messages in this list?

Gmail actively suppresses the messages you send to a mailing list when they are echoed back to the sending Gmail account. Apparently the Gmail implementers thought it would be adequate for you to have the sent message in your Sent folder. AFAIK, this is not configurable or able to be changed (a

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi XE2 uses FPC, plus VCL just not portable

On 8/7/11 2:25 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: [rant] Now Embarcadero p**sed me off even more. They have this WORLD TOUR, demoing what's new in Delphi XE2. Yeah, world tour my ass. That big continent in the middle of a world map - AFRICA - it's not part of the world as far as Embarcadero is concer

Re: [Lazarus] 'with' is evil, isn't it?

+1 Rich S. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] inconviniance....

On 3/17/11 7:39 PM, DSK wrote: The ability to NOT have the last project automatically loaded when Lazarus starts does exist. Environment Options Environment, Open last project on start checkbox. That won't work if it's a file you have [dbl]clicked on ... Eduards case. Not sure what would solv

Re: [Lazarus] inconviniance....

On 3/17/11 6:09 PM, Eduard Filipas wrote: inconviniance is that when having lazarus open and working on project and then clicking via explorer on some file it will open another instance of lazarus and opening same project and open a file and then you get this warnings that file changed on d

Re: [Lazarus] More explorations with tiOPF

On 3/15/11 11:15 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: - Firebird embedded does not work in virtual machines when the DB is on a network mapped drive. I have tested VMWare, Virtual Box and Virtual > PC. (This can also be a plus since I use this fact to inhibit one of > my apps to be run from a virtual bo

Re: [Lazarus] Identifier not found, but code completion works....

On 2/19/11 10:27 AM, Alexander Klenin wrote: 3. The uses section is split, reducing readability. I personally find the opposite -- if properly maintained, the separate "uses" lists are giving reader additional information about unit dependencies and at the same time reduce the amount of dependenc