Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/3/07, Lord Satan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the developer plans native widget support for the next major version of Pixel and looking at the screenshots I know why users demand it. Nonetheless you are right that it could be a gain for Lazarus. Nobody has seen the code of eLiquid, s

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/3/07, Lord Satan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the user has the choice between native and non native most will choose the native one. The same reason why KDE-guys use mostly QT apps and Gnome ones use mostly GTK apps. Maybe I'm just different. I use Ubuntu, which comes default with Gno

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Andrew Haines
Hess, Philip J wrote: > Maybe some of the problems with LCL behavior is with GTK. There's an > awful lot of code there compared to the other widgetsets. Of course the > Qt and Carbon widgetsets aren't finished yet, but it's hard to imagine > their codebases ever looking like GTK's. The Qt and Carbo

Re: [lazarus] ActiveX Data Object

2007-04-02 Thread dayat
the excel file is not database which in fact which I use, only supporter in activity of database. if Zeos attached at delphi, ado will join in protocol choice. I have tried to wear unit of delphi so that can use ado, but still not yet can. SQLDB's ODBC very busy to finish the problem of me. othe

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Lord Satan
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:45:48 -0300 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: > > An example of a widgetset that looks good is eLiquid from Pixel editor. > In this interview ( > http://www.linuxinterviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Lord Satan
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:51:10 +0200 "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seeing that you are a windows person Open Windows Media Player. > Any version from v8 onwards. How native does that look or feel > compared to the rest of the OS. So why may Microsoft get away with it > and oth

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: An example of a widgetset that looks good is eLiquid from Pixel editor. In this interview ( http://www.linuxinterviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=2 ) the Pixel developer considered Open Source eLiquid. The main concern was documen

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Micha Nelissen wrote: Burkhard Carstens wrote: However, with win32/gtk LCL this is even worse... seems like one never knows, whether an event was fired before or after .. These are all bugs. The developer interface should be as consistent as possible, yet the look and feel for the user

RE: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Albert Zeyer
Am Montag, den 02.04.2007, 18:22 -0400 schrieb Hess, Philip J: > A Mac feels much more "alive" than other computers. For example, when logging > in if you mistype your password the login dialog briefly wiggles from side to > side as if shaking its head no at you. You get the point instantly. On

RE: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Hess, Philip J
A Mac feels much more "alive" than other computers. For example, when logging in if you mistype your password the login dialog briefly wiggles from side to side as if shaking its head no at you. You get the point instantly. On other systems you would get a error dialog popping up, which you woul

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 4/2/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> THere was no study, however during the years, the inner workings of the >> LCL <-> Widgetset changed (and is still changing). >> > > I can imagine the inner workings changing - it is a mamoth task to > bind all th

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A interesting point is that popular apps, even Microsoft ones, like Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger, Firefox, WinAmp do not have the native look. They are written with another toolkit, or use custom draw controls. And do

RE: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Hess, Philip J
> Exactly. All events, plus everything alse will be in the widget set's > full control. Not to mention much less code layers and a lot smaller > 3rd Party library dependencies! Maybe some of the problems with LCL behavior is with GTK. There's an awful lot of code there compared to the other wid

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Example: OS X pulsing button. You might spend a lot of effort trying to reproduce this in the "painting backend", whereas by using the native I'm afraid I can't comment on OSX and will take you word for it. The only time I have seen OSX, was

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 4/2/07, Burkhard Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hmm, I prefer a ugly but working solution over a potentially beautifull but unusabel (from programmes pov) one. Dito Of course consistently working native widget bindings would be the best, but as said before, f

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: THere was no study, however during the years, the inner workings of the LCL <-> Widgetset changed (and is still changing). I can imagine the inner workings changing - it is a mamoth task to bind all those native widget sets. As Florian alr

RE: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Hess, Philip J
> These are all things that can be addressed in the painting backend and > event handling code of the supported platforms. I think it is much > harder to get C++ widget sets to play along in our Object Pascal world > than to modify some backend Object Pascal code. Example: OS X pulsing button. You

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > Was any study (or prototypes) done to help make the choice on how > Lazarus would implement widget sets? THere was no study, however during the years, the inner workings of the LCL <-> Widgetset changed (and is still changing). > For example: > > 1) Wrapping e

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Burkhard Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hmm, I prefer a ugly but working solution over a potentially beautifull but unusabel (from programmes pov) one. Dito Of course consistently working native widget bindings would be the best, but as said before, fpGUI can be ported quickly

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, but I think that if the application is used only in enterprises and such, the users probably won´t care. And then the enterprise will be more interrested in productivity then in a confortable user interface experience. Exa

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think a native feel is at least as, if not more important, than the look. I agree with you and with what Burkhard Carstens said. I would rather take a working but ugly widget set and build it from there. And non native widget differ

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMHO, a custom drawn widgetset is never better; as user I would refuse to use it, unless forced to. Tell that to all the KDE or Qt users out there! I really don't get this argument? Why wouldn't you? Think of what a widget set is (referri

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Burkhard Carstens
Am Montag, 2. April 2007 21:54 schrieb Micha Nelissen: > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > For the particular case of Graeme I have a small tendency to say > > the fpgui solution is better, > > IMHO, a custom drawn widgetset is never better; as user I would > refuse to use it, unless forced to

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On 4/2/07, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, a custom drawn widgetset is never better; as user I would refuse > > to use it, unless forced to. > > Yes, but I think that if the application is used only in enterprises > an

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Steven Graham
Marco van de Voort wrote: And non native widget differ much in little things. tab order, key bindings, resize behaviour, speed (non native widgets often feel sluggish) This sluggishness always puts me off _ To unsubscribe: m

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:00:16PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > > >Having native controls is simply something people request. Just try to > >convince somebody to use a Qt or GTK application on Windows or MacOS. > >They will tell you always it looks and behaves strange. Consistent > > Gettin

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/2/07, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMHO, a custom drawn widgetset is never better; as user I would refuse to use it, unless forced to. Yes, but I think that if the application is used only in enterprises and such, the users probably won´t care. And then the enterprise will be

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Micha Nelissen
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > For the particular case of Graeme I have a small tendency to say the > fpgui solution is better, IMHO, a custom drawn widgetset is never better; as user I would refuse to use it, unless forced to. > because once done it will remain done, and This has to do w

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
One thing that is probably missing on the analisys about building fpGUI vs. fixing Lazarus bugs is how much effort is there in making each of those things. I won´t pretend to have an ready answer, but I would say this is the most important question when choosing which one to do, if you consider t

Re: [lazarus] Regenerate Makefiles ?

2007-04-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: Should we consider this email *the* documentation, or will you write a bit more. I will write a bit more, don't worry :-) Not everybody can read german Toolbox articles. I know, this is not the intention. The main problem is time. The FPC testsuite is made us

Re: [lazarus] Regenerate Makefiles ?

2007-04-02 Thread Jesus Reyes
--- Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Michael Van Canneyt schreef: > > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > > >> On 4/2/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>> Yesterday I sent the Apache support to Mattias for inclusion in > Lazarus.

Re: [lazarus] AllocateHWnd

2007-04-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
What other doubts do we have about this subject? thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ma

Re: [lazarus] Regenerate Makefiles ?

2007-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt schreef: > > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > > > > On 4/2/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yesterday I sent the Apache support to Mattias for inclusion in Lazarus. > > > >

Re: [lazarus] TRadioGroup invisible on PageControl

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
OK, I'll create a new bug report then. Graeme. On 4/2/07, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > How do you reopen a bug report. I'm trying to reopen #6982 or #2013. [...] > I'm using Gtk1 under Lazarus (SVN r10847). Those two bugs had to do with windows

Re: [lazarus] Regenerate Makefiles ?

2007-04-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 4/2/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yesterday I sent the Apache support to Mattias for inclusion in Lazarus. It should then work on Linux-x86_64 too. What do you mean by that? Apache sup

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Micha Nelissen
Burkhard Carstens wrote: > However, with win32/gtk LCL this is even worse... seems like one never > knows, whether an event was fired before or after .. These are all bugs. The developer interface should be as consistent as possible, yet the look and feel for the user as native as possible. Probl

Re: [lazarus] TRadioGroup invisible on PageControl

2007-04-02 Thread Micha Nelissen
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > How do you reopen a bug report. I'm trying to reopen #6982 or #2013. [...] > I'm using Gtk1 under Lazarus (SVN r10847). Those two bugs had to do with windows XP theming bugs, not gtk1 related. Micha

Re: [lazarus] Mantis is missing 0.9.23 (SVN) in the dropdown list

2007-04-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Marc Weustink schreef: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Sorry, it was for Lazarus. ??? thought that I added them. Strange. They were added, but the checkbox for released was not yet set. The version numbers for LazTarget were already updated and I didn't have to do anything about those. Vincent

Re: [lazarus] Mantis is missing 0.9.23 (SVN) in the dropdown list

2007-04-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Sorry, it was for Lazarus. ??? thought that I added them. Strange. Marc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.fr

Re: [lazarus] Align = alTop question (missing BorderStyle workaround)

2007-04-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > As a workaround for the missing BorderStyle property (compared to > CLX), I use a TLabel and TPanel to get the same effect. See attached > image (image1). All TLabel and TPanel components are aligned alTop, > except for the last (green) TPanel, which it alClien

Re: [lazarus] Regenerate Makefiles ?

2007-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On 4/2/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yesterday I sent the Apache support to Mattias for inclusion in Lazarus. > > It should then work on Linux-x86_64 too. > > What do you mean by that? Apache support on Lazarus?

RE: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Hess, Philip J
Mac: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/qmacstyle.html: "Widget size - Mac OS X allows widgets to have specific fixed sizes. Qt does not fully implement this behavior so as to maintain cross-platform compatibility. As a result some widgets sizes may be inappropriate (and subsequently not rendered co

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Den Jean schrieb: > On Monday 02 April 2007 17:46, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> convince somebody to use a Qt or GTK application on Windows or MacOS. >> They will tell you always it looks and behaves strange. Consistent > > ??? > > Qt uses Windows XP style engine on windows so it > really looks li

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Den Jean
On Monday 02 April 2007 17:46, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > convince somebody to use a Qt or GTK application on Windows or MacOS. > They will tell you always it looks and behaves strange. Consistent ??? Qt uses Windows XP style engine on windows so it really looks like any other real windows XP app

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-04-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
The Firebird website and IPPhoenix have lot's of tools for every task you might need :) Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > On 4/2/07, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Having native controls is simply something people request. Just try to >> convince somebody to use a Qt or GTK application on Windows or MacOS. >> They will tell you always it looks and behaves strange. Consis

Re: [lazarus] Tips for trayicon

2007-04-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
trayIcon1.Hide; trayIcon1.Show; Maybe this is the problem ? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Get the best of all worlds, having a custom widgetset means one can change it's behavior and even use native themes if required or maybe even linking to existing engines like GTK-QT engine does providing QT look for GTK apps using the QT engine, probably windows widgets have the behavior most peop

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Burkhard Carstens
Am Montag, 2. April 2007 17:37 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Hi, > > Was any study (or prototypes) done to help make the choice on how > Lazarus would implement widget sets? > > For example: > > 1) Wrapping existing native widgets with the LCL (as is currently > done) vs Writing a native (object pas

Re: [lazarus] ActiveX Data Object

2007-04-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I remember Zeos had ADO support but dunno if it's for lazarus too ... _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having native controls is simply something people request. Just try to convince somebody to use a Qt or GTK application on Windows or MacOS. They will tell you always it looks and behaves strange. Consistent Getting a native look is easy.

Re: [lazarus] ActiveX Data Object

2007-04-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Maybe SQLDB's ODBC Connector might just work :) Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

RE: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Hess, Philip J
Use native controls: LCL, wxWidgets Implement custom controls: Qt, GTK At first glance Qt looks like a great choice and is probably worth every penny of its commercial license to the developer who needs a solid, small, fast UI library that looks similar across platforms. But Felipe and I discover

Re: [lazarus] Regenerate Makefiles ?

2007-04-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/2/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yesterday I sent the Apache support to Mattias for inclusion in Lazarus. It should then work on Linux-x86_64 too. What do you mean by that? Apache support on Lazarus? -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _

Re: [lazarus] AllocateHWnd

2007-04-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/2/07, Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I notice that win64's classes.pp includes stubs for AllocateHWnd and MakeObjectInstance. Perhaps we could hear from the FPC team about whether they plan to add these functions to other platforms. We can ask, but afaik AllocateHWnd cannot be i

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Steven Graham
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: Your input would be greatly appreciated. Afaik Lazarus has two goals: being VCL compatible and using the native widget sets of a platform. Having native controls is simply something people request. Just try to convince somebody to use

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/2/07, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having native controls is simply something people request. Just try to convince somebody to use a Qt or GTK application on Windows or MacOS. They will tell you always it looks and behaves strange. Consistent behaviour across platforms is nice

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > > Your input would be greatly appreciated. Afaik Lazarus has two goals: being VCL compatible and using the native widget sets of a platform. Having native controls is simply something people request. Just try to convince somebody to use a Qt or GTK application on Win

[lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Was any study (or prototypes) done to help make the choice on how Lazarus would implement widget sets? For example: 1) Wrapping existing native widgets with the LCL (as is currently done) vs Writing a native (object pascal) widget sets from scratch (like fpGUI or MSEgui) and implementing th

Re: [lazarus] AllocateHWnd

2007-04-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schreef: On 4/2/07, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He should use SetWindowLongPtr on win64, otherwise he looses 32 bits. SetWindowLongPtr cannot be used on win32 with fpc 2.0.4. The app will refuse to run saying the function doesn´t exist. My patch ins

Re: [lazarus] AllocateHWnd

2007-04-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/2/07, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He should use SetWindowLongPtr on win64, otherwise he looses 32 bits. SetWindowLongPtr cannot be used on win32 with fpc 2.0.4. The app will refuse to run saying the function doesn´t exist. My patch instead uses TWin32WidgetSet.SetWindowLon

Re: [lazarus] TRadioGroup invisible on PageControl

2007-04-02 Thread Burkhard Carstens
Am Montag, 2. April 2007 16:49 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Hi, > > How do you reopen a bug report. I'm trying to reopen #6982 or #2013. > One used to be able to add a note, which reopened the bug report, but > I can't seem to do that now. No such option exits. At the bottom of the "Viewing Issu

Re: [lazarus] AllocateHWnd

2007-04-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Hess, Philip J schreef: Felipe's implementation, which instead stores the object method's code and data pointers (4 bytes) in the window's user data, which is retrieved by the actual callback function to reconstitute the object method and call it, is cleaner and potentially cross-platform: Set

[lazarus] TRadioGroup invisible on PageControl

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, How do you reopen a bug report. I'm trying to reopen #6982 or #2013. One used to be able to add a note, which reopened the bug report, but I can't seem to do that now. No such option exits. Anyway bug #6982 fixed the same problem I had with TRadioButton's dropped on a PageControl with TabS

Re: [lazarus] Align = alTop question (missing BorderStyle workaround)

2007-04-02 Thread Andrew Haines
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > As a workaround for the missing BorderStyle property (compared to > CLX), I use a TLabel and TPanel to get the same effect. See attached > image (image1). All TLabel and TPanel components are aligned alTop, > except for the last (green) TPanel, which it alClien

RE: [lazarus] AllocateHWnd

2007-04-02 Thread Hess, Philip J
I notice that win64's classes.pp includes stubs for AllocateHWnd and MakeObjectInstance. Perhaps we could hear from the FPC team about whether they plan to add these functions to other platforms. In Delphi AllocateHWnd calls MakeObjectInstance to convert the object method to a WindowProc callback

[lazarus] Align = alTop question (missing BorderStyle workaround)

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, As a workaround for the missing BorderStyle property (compared to CLX), I use a TLabel and TPanel to get the same effect. See attached image (image1). All TLabel and TPanel components are aligned alTop, except for the last (green) TPanel, which it alClient. The order at design time and run

Re: TGroupBox.BorderStyle missing

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Delphi 7 it is TWinControl | TCustomControl | TCustomGroupBox | TGroupBox I added an extra note to my bug report (after I sent the email) explaining what you see in Delphi 7 VCL hierachy. To recap on my n

Re: TGroupBox.BorderStyle missing

2007-04-02 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:27:40 +0200 "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I filed a bug report for this. > > http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=8608 > > It affects the following components I far as I can see. TListView, > TGroupBox and TRadioGroup. The main problems is that

Re: [lazarus] AllocateHWnd

2007-04-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Ok, since noone answered so far I will. Basically I think this method is very hard to be implemented on Gtk, simply because the concept in which it is based does not exist there ( a function that can handle a generic message). And even if it is implemented, I fail to see how it could be used at a

Re: [lazarus] Mantis is missing 0.9.23 (SVN) in the dropdown list

2007-04-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Vincent Snijders wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: As the subject says 0.9.22 and 0.9.23(SVN) is missing from the Mantis product version combobox. Added. For patches I initially had the idea that is doesn't matter on which version it got reported. Thats why I didn't add the SVN version

Re: [lazarus] Mantis is missing 0.9.23 (SVN) in the dropdown list

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Thanks Vincent. G. On 4/2/07, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: > As the subject says 0.9.22 and 0.9.23(SVN) is missing from the > Mantis product version combobox. Added. Vincent _

Re: [lazarus] Mantis is missing 0.9.23 (SVN) in the dropdown list

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Sorry, it was for Lazarus. G. On 4/2/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > As the subject says 0.9.22 and 0.9.23(SVN) is missing from the > Mantis product version combobox. For what project ? Marc __

Re: TGroupBox.BorderStyle missing

2007-04-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I filed a bug report for this. http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=8608 It affects the following components I far as I can see. TListView, TGroupBox and TRadioGroup. The main problems is that the TFrameControl class is missing from the LCL hierarchy, which im

Re: [lazarus] Mantis is missing 0.9.23 (SVN) in the dropdown list

2007-04-02 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: As the subject says 0.9.22 and 0.9.23(SVN) is missing from the Mantis product version combobox. For what project ? Marc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"

Re: [lazarus] Mantis is missing 0.9.23 (SVN) in the dropdown list

2007-04-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: As the subject says 0.9.22 and 0.9.23(SVN) is missing from the Mantis product version combobox. Added. Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the

[lazarus] Mantis is missing 0.9.23 (SVN) in the dropdown list

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
As the subject says 0.9.22 and 0.9.23(SVN) is missing from the Mantis product version combobox. -- Graeme Geldenhuys There's no place like S34° 03.168' E018° 49.342' _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: TGroupBox.BorderStyle missing

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I filed a bug report for this. http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=8608 It affects the following components I far as I can see. TListView, TGroupBox and TRadioGroup. The main problems is that the TFrameControl class is missing from the LCL hierarchy, which implements the BorderStyle f

[lazarus] TGroupBox.BorderStyle missing

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Any reason why BorderStyle is missing as a published property in TGroupBox? I'm trying to create a dialog based on the Gnome UI Style Guide, where the caption is in bold and defines a group of controls. The controls are indented compared to the caption. I thought the GroupBox would be perfe

Re: [lazarus] docs on BorderSpacing [CellAlignHorizontal & CellAlignVertical]

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW: Where is the LCL (fpdoc) class documentation on the web? I might as well add it to that as well, if it exists. Ignore that question!!! Found it very easily on the website menu. -- Graeme Geldenhuys There's no place like S34°

Re: [lazarus] docs on BorderSpacing [CellAlignHorizontal & CellAlignVertical]

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/2/07, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IIRC, they were explained in the source. Yep, I did remember correctly: Never even occurred to me looking in the source! :-) Thanks for the info Vincent. I'll create a wiki page with that details shortly. BTW: Where is the LCL (fpdo

Re: [lazarus] docs on BorderSpacing [CellAlignHorizontal & CellAlignVertical]

2007-04-02 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:07:29 +0200 "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Any know of some documentation on TGroupBox and TPanel's BorderSpacing > property. Doing a WIKI search for BorderSpacing didn't show anything > usefull. > > In the Object Inspector, BorderSpacing, has Cell

Re: [lazarus] docs on BorderSpacing [CellAlignHorizontal & CellAlignVertical]

2007-04-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Hi, Any know of some documentation on TGroupBox and TPanel's BorderSpacing property. Doing a WIKI search for BorderSpacing didn't show anything usefull. In the Object Inspector, BorderSpacing, has CellAlignHorizontal and CellAlignVertical sub properties, but I have kn

[lazarus] docs on BorderSpacing [CellAlignHorizontal & CellAlignVertical]

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Any know of some documentation on TGroupBox and TPanel's BorderSpacing property. Doing a WIKI search for BorderSpacing didn't show anything usefull. In the Object Inspector, BorderSpacing, has CellAlignHorizontal and CellAlignVertical sub properties, but I have know idea what they do. Changi

Re: [lazarus] ActiveX Data Object

2007-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, dayat wrote: > Greeting, i new member, > > how to install ADO (ActiveX Data Object) to lazarus, because I will use > excel as database. You cannot install this in lazarus, unfortunately. Also, using excel as a database is a very bad idea. If you are allowed to choose: For

Re: [lazarus] skin for my application with bitmap

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
When you say skinning do you mean just the form background, or all widget controls + form background? For widget controls, do you want to include things like scrollbars, up/down buttons in scrollbars, comboboxes etc.. How far do you want to go with the skinning of you application? If you are run

[lazarus] ActiveX Data Object

2007-04-02 Thread dayat
Greeting, i new member, how to install ADO (ActiveX Data Object) to lazarus, because I will use excel as database. thank you of its aid dayat

Re: [lazarus] License clarification for lazarus plug-ins

2007-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Thanks Micha, that is handy to know! Graeme. On 3/30/07, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, If you haven't noticed yet, we have put an entry in the FAQ on the wiki clarifying the license requirements for plug-ins in combination with Lazarus, as there has been some confusion in

Re: [lazarus] PostgreSQL

2007-04-02 Thread Bram Kuijvenhoven
Darmawan Sugiarto wrote: Congratulation Lazarus 9.0.22 is already solve this problem thanks to developer I can confirm the similar problems with MySQL/MyODBC also disappeared in 0.9.22! Great work. Note to self: next time test with trunk version of Laz too :) Regards, Bram