Re: [lazarus] Lazarus binaries size

2005-09-05 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 9/5/05, Tony Maro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Florian Köberle wrote:I did some rough tests the other day and the smallest I could get anexecutable that included the forms unit was just under 2MB witheverything stripped and smartlinking on the application, optimized code for size, etc.  Of course

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus binaries size

2005-09-05 Thread Tony Maro
Florian Köberle wrote: Alexander Todorov schrieb: Hi all, I've noticed that Lazarus produces very big binary files (.exe). I was thinking that it was linking all the gui stuff into the executable but maybe thing are not so simple as I think. In one of the previous threads someone mentioned tha

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus binaries size

2005-09-05 Thread Florian Köberle
Alexander Todorov schrieb: Hi all, I've noticed that Lazarus produces very big binary files (.exe). I was thinking that it was linking all the gui stuff into the executable but maybe thing are not so simple as I think. In one of the previous threads someone mentioned that Lazarus' dialogs are no

[lazarus] Lazarus binaries size

2005-09-05 Thread Alexander Todorov
Hi all, I've noticed that Lazarus produces very big binary files (.exe). I was thinking that it was linking all the gui stuff into the executable but maybe thing are not so simple as I think. In one of the previous threads someone mentioned that Lazarus' dialogs are not like Delphi's (i.e. resource

Re: [lazarus] MessageDlg

2005-09-05 Thread Alexsander Rosa
The idea is not force them to think, but just make the decision-making process easier. Often the users skip all text and go straight to the buttons; if the labels are clear, they can make the decision quickly. If they need to go back, change their state-of-mind, read AND understand the text to see

Re: [lazarus] MessageDlg

2005-09-05 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:04:04 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Alexsander Rosa wrote: > > > After years of development with this kind of dialog box (with a > > caption, a message ending with a question and buttons labeled Yes,

Re: [lazarus] MessageDlg

2005-09-05 Thread Alain Michaud
Hi, I think that in general, you can not force people to read or even think if they do not want do it. Usually when the computer crashes two or three times then they start worying... This is human nature. One idea would be to randomly change the position of the buttons or the que

[lazarus] Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-05 Thread Tony Maro
If anyone can point me in the right direction of how to create a menu entry in Gnome and/or KDE programmatically in Lazarus, I'd greatly appreciate it. I can throw an icon on the desktop pretty darn easy, but the menu's still escape me and the directions I've seen online so far are cryptic at

[lazarus] Native OS X apps

2005-09-05 Thread Chris Moody
Hi all, I was wondering, how far away are we to be able to create native OS X apps, that uses the Aqua interface? Will we soon have a Lazarus that doesn't require the X windows for OS X installed? thanks, Chris _ To uns

Re: Eclipse

2005-09-05 Thread L505
> > IDE For non-GUI devel > > -- > > If you ripped out all the visual components in Lazarus it would still be a > > good IDE. > > Lazarus needs to be marketed then, not just for creating visual GUI > > applications.. but for > > custom programs too. Eclipse seems to be kno

Re: Eclipse

2005-09-05 Thread L505
Old topic I'm replying to. Just catching up on my email. > > > This is already possible? See http://www.freepascal.org/docs.html the > > "with comments" > > part. Interesting, is there some sort of comment system on the unit references though, like for example the ones created with FPDOC. Tho

[lazarus] Help!! Compiling in Linux

2005-09-05 Thread Edwin Quijada
Hi! I am trying to do a simple app using Lazarus in Linux Suse 9.3. My app is a form with a botton that says "Hello World" and this seems an imposible thing. I have the last snapshot with rpm and installed this but when compile my app I get this errors: /usr/lib/libgdk.a(gdk.o)(.text+0x5f

Re: [lazarus] MessageDlg

2005-09-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Alexsander Rosa wrote: After years of development with this kind of dialog box (with a caption, a message ending with a question and buttons labeled Yes, No, Cancel etc), I've noticed than most non-tech users actually do not READ the message, they just read the labels of th

Re: [lazarus] MessageDlg

2005-09-05 Thread Alexsander Rosa
After years of development with this kind of dialog box (with a caption, a message ending with a question and buttons labeled Yes, No, Cancel etc), I've noticed than most non-tech users actually do not READ the message, they just read the labels of the buttons and click Yes or No (rarely Cancel), a

[lazarus] Indy9 win32 snapshot

2005-09-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
Requires - a totally up to date FPC (preferably todays), either 2.0.x or 2.1.x branch - win32 only for now. - Some sturdy nerves. This is all very alpha. Note: the telnet server is not working yet. If you want to work on it, (read: debug) use the windows telnet client to connect to it. To build: