Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-07 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/5/2013 13:01, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: I just recently installed a snapshot version of Lazarus on Windows (I cannot copy the version number from the about window because I cannot select text. Why?). right click on the help window where the graphic is ;) --

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread appjaws
On 04/03/13 18:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 16:54, appjaws wrote: On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Am 2013-03-05 13:29, schrieb appjaws: Is F1 the only way to access the integrated help? Why is this so difficult? Why isn't it automatically installed when Lazarus is installed? Any other ideas? regards frustrated Paul Yes, I feel the same. I used TurboPascal and Delphi over decades and

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-3-2013 13:29, appjaws wrote: On 04/03/13 18:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 16:54, appjaws wrote: On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-3-2013 13:45, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Am 2013-03-05 13:29, schrieb appjaws: Is F1 the only way to access the integrated help? Why is this so difficult? Why isn't it automatically installed when Lazarus is installed? Any other ideas? regards frustrated Paul Yes, I feel the same.

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread appjaws
On 05/03/13 12:50, Reinier Olislagers wrote: snip Is F1 the only way to access the integrated help? Yep. Do note that you need to put the cursor on a keyword (e.g. begin, or for or while...). Maaaybe I have the wrong expectations with regard to the Help system. If I press F1 with begin

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-3-2013 15:08, appjaws wrote: On 05/03/13 12:50, Reinier Olislagers wrote: snip Is F1 the only way to access the integrated help? Yep. Do note that you need to put the cursor on a keyword (e.g. begin, or for or while...). Maaaybe I have the wrong expectations with regard to the

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Am 2013-03-05 13:57, schrieb Reinier Olislagers: Please don't post this kind of stuff. Instead help make Lazarus better by raising bug reports with concrete issues and preferably patches. Sorry if I am as frustrated too. But mostly when I pointed to whatever issue either noone was interested

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-05 Thread stdreamer
On 5/3/2013 8:01 μμ, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Am 2013-03-05 13:57, schrieb Reinier Olislagers: Please don't post this kind of stuff. Instead help make Lazarus better by raising bug reports with concrete issues and preferably patches. Sorry if I am as frustrated too. But mostly when I

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
Do SaveToFile/LoadFromFile handle Unicode/UTF8 properly? The TStrings stuff is in LCL which AFAIK doesn't use UTF8. On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:14 AM, waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: On 3/2/2013 13:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Note that if you download the helpfiles manually, you

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:34:05 +0100 Kostas Michalopoulos badsectorac...@gmail.com wrote: Do SaveToFile/LoadFromFile handle Unicode/UTF8 properly? The TStrings stuff is in LCL which AFAIK doesn't use UTF8. The content is loaded correctly, but the Filename passed to SaveToFile/LoadFromFile must be

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread appjaws
On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 snip Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 snip Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread appjaws
On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 snip Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-3-2013 16:54, appjaws wrote: On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 snip Finally,

[Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread appjaws
Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? I have tried all sorts, I am using Lazarus 1.0.6 on linux. How this started was because I wanted to write the content of my Memo to the clipboard and be able to paste it back in again, but I couldn't figure out how

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? Type Memo. then

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? I have tried all sorts, I am using Lazarus 1.0.6 on linux. Simple: Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile('/home/yourname/yourfile.txt'); And

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, appjaws laza...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? See Memo.Lines. It has Clear and Text and everything that TStrings supports. How to find it? With a new component

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Juha Manninen schrieb: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, appjaws laza...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? See Memo.Lines. It has Clear and Text and everything that TStrings supports. How to find

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-3-2013 13:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Juha Manninen schrieb: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, appjaws laza...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? See Memo.Lines. It has Clear and Text

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Juha Manninen schrieb: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, appjaws laza...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear , Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal? See Memo.Lines. It has Clear and Text

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion is of little help :-(

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread appjaws
On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile I tried the following line but I just get an error message :- Call.pas(87,17) Error:

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-3-2013 14:49, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile I tried the following line but I just get an

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2013-03-02 13:49:48 +, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? MemoCallNote.Lines.SaveToFile ('/home/paul/tmpinfo/MyTempFile.txt'); Is there a

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Reinier Olislagers schrieb: What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion is of little help :-( True, but what other suggestion do you have apart

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Juha Manninen schrieb: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Sven Barth
On 02.03.2013 15:57, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: On 2013-03-02 13:49:48 +, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? MemoCallNote.Lines.SaveToFile

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Juha Manninen
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: Code completion finds the Lines property without problems. How is this helpful in finding the property, which finally implements Clear or some other task? First you find Lines, then you find Clear. It is very

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread appjaws
Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 snip Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are available. I don't think my built in help is working, F1 does nothing. How do I

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread leledumbo
I don't think my built in help is working, F1 does nothing. How do I enable built in help? http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Help_in_the_IDE -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-Ok-I-give-up-tp4029554p4029579.html Sent from the Free

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Martin
On 02/03/2013 13:49, appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote: Hi, How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile I tried the following line but I just get an

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/2/2013 07:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion is of little help :-( this is what i was going to write

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi Paul, I'm going to respond to the list as well so they know what's going on. On 2-3-2013 17:35, Paul wrote: Thank you Reinier for your offer to look at my code.I am new to Lazarus and am working through some delphi books to try and learn, but this has got me stumped. I tried a new form

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 snip Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are available. I don't think my built in help is

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread appjaws
On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 snip Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
appjaws wrote: On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote: Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0 snip Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press F1 and you'll see properties and methods

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread Flávio Etrusco
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code

Re: [Lazarus] Ok I give up!

2013-03-02 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/2/2013 13:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Note that if you download the helpfiles manually, you might have to be careful of exactly where you put them: it's easy to have a situation you've unpacked them in a slightly different directory from where lhelp expects. agreed... and if following