Re: [lazarus] [patch] - grids.pas (GridLineWidth)

2007-04-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Hi Philip Something off-topic that I noticed about you previous emails. I believe you are using MS Outlook for sending email. I highly recommend you change you default email format from the Microsoft proprietary TNEF (RichText) format to HTML or even better Plain Te

Re: [lazarus] [patch] - grids.pas (GridLineWidth)

2007-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/18/07, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is not true. I have never had blank messages from Philip. I am using Thunderbird on windows. I guess Thunderbird is smart enough to read that mail format. Ok, their are a select few email clients that can read TNEF format, but it i

Re: [lazarus] Plug-in functionality

2007-04-18 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 18/04/07, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/18/07, Lee Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That may be my mistake then Christian. I thought I read that somewhere, > I've never tried it. Nonetheless, that is good news. What doesn´t work on Free Pascal is creating a

[lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
Hi, The win32 widgetset can be used (with more or less success) on several windows versions, starting from windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, XP 64, Vista 64 bits. Because Microsoft has done such a good job with the 64 port of the 32 bit winapi to 64 bits and the fpc windows unit abstracts rem

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Vincent Snijders schrieb: > Hi, > > The win32 widgetset can be used (with more or less success) on several > windows versions, starting from windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, XP 64, > Vista 64 bits. > > Because Microsoft has done such a good job with the 64 port of the 32 > bit winapi to 64 bits

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Vincent Snijders schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > The win32 widgetset can be used (with more or less success) on several > > windows versions, starting from windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, XP 64, > > Vista 64 bits. > > > > Because Microsoft has done suc

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Sergei Gorelkin
Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 1:26:42 PM, Vincent wrote: VS> The only one I can think of is just "win", but that might be a bit short. 'win' is not shorter than 'gtk', and even 33% longer than 'qt' :-) Maybe 'mswin'? Or 'msw', like wxWidgets abbreviate Windows stuff. -- Best regards, Sergei ___

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Marc Weustink
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Vincent Snijders schrieb: Hi, The win32 widgetset can be used (with more or less success) on several windows versions, starting from windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, XP 64, Vista 64 bits. Because Microsoft has done suc

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/18/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or maybe WinGDI ? > > Because it uses the GDI library widgets... Good one I agree, this one makes the most sense. Even better might be 'GDI' on it's own. I don't know of any other platform that has a GDI library other than Windows. Als

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Tiziano_mk
Vincent Snijders wrote: Hi, The only one I can think of is just "win", but that might be a bit short. winX ? rgds tiziano _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: On 4/18/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or maybe WinGDI ? > > Because it uses the GDI library widgets... Good one I agree, this one makes the most sense. Even better might be 'GDI' on it's own. I don't know of any other platform that has a GDI libr

Re: [lazarus] Delphi incompatibilities in TForm

2007-04-18 Thread Giuliano Colla
Lee Jenkins ha scritto: Flávio Etrusco wrote: 2) Delphi Form has a Bitmap property which allows to set a background image on the form, while Lazarus does not. What version is it? I vaguely remember seeing this on a very recent version of Delphi (probably Turbo Delphi Explorer), but in Delphi7

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:44:03PM +0100, Steven Graham wrote: > I have a program that I've made with lazaus which in the main form is a > Toolbar and a some menus, the menu items and toolbar buttons are all > setup with actions in an action list. The trouble I'm finding is that if > they have b

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Graeme Geldenhuys wrote, On 18/04/07 11:15: > On 4/18/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Or maybe WinGDI ? >> > >> > Because it uses the GDI library widgets... >> >> Good one > > I agree, this one makes the most sense. Even better might be 'GDI' on > it's own. I don't know of a

RE: [lazarus] [patch] - grids.pas (GridLineWidth)

2007-04-18 Thread Hess, Philip J
I have been sending in "Plain Text". I've always had Outlook set to "Convert to HTML format". A brief reading of the link you included seems to indicate that TNEF only involves attachments. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Graeme Geldenhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [lazarus] Plug-in functionality

2007-04-18 Thread Lee Jenkins
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 4/18/07, Lee Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That may be my mistake then Christian. I thought I read that somewhere, I've never tried it. Nonetheless, that is good news. What doesn´t work on Free Pascal is creating a dll that exports classes, like for

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Marc Weustink
Sam Liddicott wrote: * Graeme Geldenhuys wrote, On 18/04/07 11:15: On 4/18/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Or maybe WinGDI ? Because it uses the GDI library widgets... Good one I agree, this one makes the most sense. Even better might be 'GDI' on it's own. I don't know of any

Re: [lazarus] [patch] - grids.pas (GridLineWidth)

2007-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/18/07, Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been sending in "Plain Text". I've always had Outlook set to "Convert to HTML format". That's weird. Yeah, your last email didn't have a winmail.dat file attached and viewing the message source it shows text/html as the format.

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Marc Weustink
Tiziano_mk wrote: Vincent Snijders wrote: Hi, The only one I can think of is just "win", but that might be a bit short. winX ? It is no X Marc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" a

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marc Weustink schrieb: > Sam Liddicott wrote: >> * Graeme Geldenhuys wrote, On 18/04/07 11:15: >>> On 4/18/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Or maybe WinGDI ? > > Because it uses the GDI library widgets... Good one >>> I agree, this one makes the most sense. Even

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/18/07, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it really gdi only? I guess you use at least gdi+ GDI sounds also some old fashined to me. I'm no low level Windows expert, but isn't GDI+ only Win2000 (or was that WinXP) and later? Also I thought GDI+ was just a few extensions (ext

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread George Lober
Vincent Snijders wrote: > Hi, > > The win32 widgetset can be used (with more or less success) on several > windows versions, starting from windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, XP > 64, Vista 64 bits. > > Because Microsoft has done such a good job with the 64 port of the 32 > bit winapi to 64 bits and

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
I would vote for gdi or winapi -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Marc Weustink
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Marc Weustink schrieb: Sam Liddicott wrote: * Graeme Geldenhuys wrote, On 18/04/07 11:15: On 4/18/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Or maybe WinGDI ? Because it uses the GDI library widgets... Good one I agree, this one makes the most sense. Even better

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marc Weustink schrieb: >>> If we don't use GDI, we need another widgetset anyhow, so win would not >>> fit there. >> >> Is it really gdi only? I guess you use at least gdi+ > > IIRC lazarus doens't use gdi+ api calls. Still, I think wingdi sounds old fashioned ;)

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Sergei Gorelkin
Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 6:05:19 PM, Graeme wrote: GG> On 4/18/07, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Is it really gdi only? I guess you use at least gdi+ >> GDI sounds also some old fashined to me. >> GG> I'm no low level Windows expert, but isn't GDI+ only Win2000 (or was GG> t

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 18/04/07, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would vote for gdi or winapi i'd vote for winapi, since the gdi is not the widget set and lazarus doesn't call it directly (?). henry _ To unsubscribe: ma

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Steven Graham
Marco van de Voort wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:44:03PM +0100, Steven Graham wrote: I have a program that I've made with lazaus which in the main form is a Toolbar and a some menus, the menu items and toolbar buttons are all setup with actions in an action list. The trouble I'm finding

Fwd: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Damn incorrect Reply-To headers. -- Forwarded message -- From: Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 18, 2007 5:09 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set? To: Sergei Gorelkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 4/18/07, Sergei Gorelkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Павел Ишенин
Just opened my platform sdk and looked at list of technologies. We are using at least: common controls, gdi, shell (maybe smth other). So GDI cant describe all win32 widgetset. For me win32_64 is better. Paul. _ To unsubscribe

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
If the name is winapi, it will be a little strange to have the files: winapiwinapi.inc and winapiwinapih.inc -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subjec

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Paul Michell
I also think winapi best describes what it is. Paul On Wednesday 18 April 2007 4:00 pm, Henry Vermaak wrote: > On 18/04/07, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would vote for gdi or winapi > > i'd vote for winapi, since the gdi is not the widget set and lazarus > does

Re: [lazarus] [patch] - grids.pas (GridLineWidth)

2007-04-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Vincent Snijders wrote: > Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: >> The TNEF format can only be read by MS Outlook, not even Outlook >> Express can read it. For all other mail clients, they will only see a >> WinMail.dat attachment and a blank message body. > > This is not true. I have never had blank messag

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew Haines
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > If the name is winapi, it will be a little strange to have the files: > winapiwinapi.inc and winapiwinapih.inc > Still winapi seems most appropriate. mswindows? Andrew _ To unsubscribe: m

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Steven Graham wrote: > h that's interesting. I've done some extra testing with this and the > error in the other post is when the screen colour depth is at 8-bit, 256 > colours. When set to 16-bit colour, the program runs but the bitmaps > don't show. This is interesting as they are only 16 col

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Steven Graham
Micha Nelissen wrote: 8-bit needs palette support which we don't have. Since almost no one needs it, it's unlikely to be implemented. Micha I see!! right, that explains the error in 8 bit. Is a shame as I run a lot of my old machines in 8-bit in order to run them at my LCD's native 1280x1

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Steven Graham wrote: > I see!! right, that explains the error in 8 bit. Is a shame as I run a > lot of my old machines in 8-bit in order to run them at my LCD's native > 1280x1024. > > right, so why are the bitmaps not being shown on 16-bit colour? could it > me the comctrl? Could be, what versio

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:19:39 -0400 Andrew Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > If the name is winapi, it will be a little strange to have the > > files: winapiwinapi.inc and winapiwinapih.inc It's the right name. They map LCL winapi like calls to the winapi.

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Steven Graham
Micha Nelissen wrote: Could be, what version of Internet Explorer do you have ? Can you upgrade it ? The Win98 SE machines have IE 5.0, on 95 so far I've used IE 3. I could try to upgrade the machines _ To unsubscribe: mai

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Marc Weustink
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:19:39 -0400 Andrew Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: If the name is winapi, it will be a little strange to have the files: winapiwinapi.inc and winapiwinapih.inc It's the right name. They map LCL winapi like ca

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
Marc Weustink schreef: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:19:39 -0400 Andrew Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: If the name is winapi, it will be a little strange to have the files: winapiwinapi.inc and winapiwinapih.inc It's the right name. The

RE: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Hess, Philip J
To my mind, "win32" does not suggest so much 32 bits as it does the set of functions introduced with Windows 95. The difference between win32 and win16 is chiefly the additional functions, not so much the 32 vs 16 bits. win32 is the same set of functions that is being called by the win32 widgetset

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Marc Weustink
Vincent Snijders wrote: Marc Weustink schreef: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:19:39 -0400 Andrew Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: If the name is winapi, it will be a little strange to have the files: winapiwinapi.inc and winapiwinapih.inc

Re: [lazarus] New name for the win32 widget set?

2007-04-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/18/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the line of WinCE it would then be Win or Win3264 or win32_64 Yes, but we could also think that wince is actually called winceapi, only shortened =) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Giulio Bernardi
8-bit needs palette support which we don't have. Since almost no one needs it, it's unlikely to be implemented. Micha Out of curiosity, what is needed for palette support? A couple of years ago I implemented some classes that implement color quantization, dithering and so on. They are part o

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Steven Graham wrote: > Micha Nelissen wrote: >> >> Could be, what version of Internet Explorer do you have ? Can you >> upgrade it ? >> > The Win98 SE machines have IE 5.0, on 95 so far I've used IE 3. I could > try to upgrade the machines IE 3 could well be too old. Try using at least IE 4.0.

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Steven Graham
Micha Nelissen wrote: IE 3 could well be too old. Try using at least IE 4.0. IIRC, even (early) Borland Delphi/BCB TToolBar wouldn't work properly on Win95/IE3 :-). Micha I've now tried with IE 5.5 SP2 and the bitmaps still aren't being displayed. __

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4/18/07, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > right, so why are the bitmaps not being shown on 16-bit colour? could it > me the comctrl? Could be, what version of Internet Explorer do you have ? Can you upgrade it ? This is why I love it when they sue Microsoft for unfair business

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Marc Weustink
Giulio Bernardi wrote: 8-bit needs palette support which we don't have. Since almost no one needs it, it's unlikely to be implemented. Micha Out of curiosity, what is needed for palette support? A couple of years ago I implemented some classes that implement color quantization, dithering an

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Steven Graham wrote: > I've now tried with IE 5.5 SP2 and the bitmaps still aren't being > displayed. Ok right, need some more info then. FPC version ? Lazarus version ? Do you have a simple test app to reproduce ? And/or refer me to a bug report, please. Micha __

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2007-04-18 Thread claudio cesar trevisani
Can anybody tell me about possible vector graphic component (capability to read, write and show svf or cgm file format)??? In linux box, of course... Trevisani - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/