Re: [lazarus] Linux Journal Poll: Pascal does not exist

I'm not complaining, Felipe. It's just a pointer to a poll. 2008/2/6, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Complain with whoever made the pool. > > Althougth that doesn't mean anything anyway. > > -- > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > >

[lazarus] Linux Journal Poll: Pascal does not exist

http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1006101 18. What is your favorite programming language? AdaCC++C#FortranBASICJavaCommon LispSchemeErlangMLOCAMLPrologHaskellEiffel Other? Write-in your vote -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa Linux User #113925

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

nts, even if this costs a few standards. 2008/1/29, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:50:11AM -0300, Alexsander Rosa wrote: > > OpenOffice needs to blend in the user's interface. > > SAP R/3 does not. > > Why not? They migh

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

OpenOffice needs to blend in the user's interface. SAP R/3 does not. Different users, different needs. 2008/1/29, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:04:11PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > It would be nice if what you said was documented on the Lazarus wiki

Re: [lazarus] Introduction

My 2 cents: Our company develops a 400+ KLOC software, and ERP-like package. We have customers running it under Windows and Linux, sometimes both in the same environment side-by-side. We used Kylix at first, but some of our customers with mixed environments complained about the visual differences.

Re: [lazarus] Production quality crosss platform applications

BTW, is there a comparision chart for these? - fpGUI - MSEide & MSEgui - Key Objects Library and Mirror Classes Kit(KOL/MCK) I think it's better to use one of them than play catch

[lazarus] Making things clear

Free Pascal with LCL <=> C/C++ with wxWidgets Free Pascal with fpGui <=> C/C++ with FLTK Am I right? -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa Linux User #113925

Re: [lazarus] Why IDE automatically insert empty events reactors implementations if its declarations presented ?

Delphi removes empty event handlers when you save, not at compile time. It's a nice feature and it does not remove code you wrote yourself. 2007/12/28, Damien Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Dec 28, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Vincent Snijders wrote: > > > Andrey Gusev schreef: > >> It may be explained

Re: [lazarus] showmessage or similar that closes without a prompt

Why not use a TMemo? You could show several messages, like a progress log. Alternatively, you could show the information in the status bar. 2007/12/13, el stamatakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > I would like to display a message but not wait for the user to hit ok. I > would like to display it

Re: [lazarus] Slash dot effect?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect http://slashdot.org 2007/11/20, "Leonardo M. Ramé" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What means Slash dot effect? > > Leonardo > > _ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Site is down

Slashdot effect? Is there a story about Lazarus on Slashdot right now? 2007/11/20, "Leonardo M. Ramé" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Please, check why lazarus.freepascal.org is down. > > Leonardo. > > _ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PR

Re: [lazarus] The use of Variants?

How does it work? 2007/11/13, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 13/11/2007, Alexsander Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Variants can be NULL. That's a great thing. > > > > We already have NULL support in tiOPF without the

Re: [lazarus] The use of Variants?

Variants can be NULL. That's a great thing. 2007/11/13, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this > in another NG and would like some outside opinion. > > My personal opinion on Variants: > > * I don't like them. [if

[lazarus] Recent snapshot with heavy flicker under Windows XP

When a dialog with lots of items is shown in the IDE (like Project Compiler Options), it's possible to see the widgets being drawn. Have you guys seen this happening? -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa _ To unsubscribe: mai

Re: [lazarus] Borland Kylix & Trolltech

This is OLD news. Really old, like 2000. Look that it mentions Inprise/Borland and a "project" codenamed Kylix. 2007/6/16, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I take it this is an old announcement? Thought the date of the announcement (as per the webpage) is June 2007. http://trolltech

Re: [lazarus] New features since Delphi 7...

Some of these new IDE features are sweet! http://dn.codegear.com/article/34323 2007/5/21, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, Here is some interesting Delphi features I found title: New since Delphi 7... Anybody interested in implementing a few. At least FPC and Lazarus beat them to a fe

Re: [lazarus] Delphi incompatibilities in TForm

IIRC, it's because the "design choice" was to let the Window Manager choose the color. 2007/4/16, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Trying to convert to Lazarus Delphi projects, I stumbled in quite a number of incompatibilities. Let's start with TForm. 1) TForm.Color property sicks stubbornly

Re: [lazarus] a bounty

Probably it would be fair to split the money. 2006/10/31, johnf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:28, Matt Henley wrote: > The best metric for me would be the developers feeling confident > enough to setting gtk2 as the default toolkit for building the IDE for > Linux in a relea

Re: [lazarus] a bounty

It's over US$ 500 now. 2006/10/31, Burkhard Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Am Dienstag, 31. Oktober 2006 18:23 schrieb A.J. Venter: > I will add another 100USD to the bounty. > > That's 300USD so far in other words :) > A.J. > > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 19:19, johnf wrote: > > I will offer $200

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus and DOT Net

I'm not a Java fan, but I have a say about this: Java is one language, many platforms. .NET is many languages, one platform. If we consider that Free Pascal is also "one language, many platforms" and DOES NOT require a Virtual Machine, we are better served here. 2006/10/30, Marc Weustink <[EMAI

Re: [lazarus] avoiding multi-instance detection

The /var/run solution is almost canonic for Linux. But how to do this in a multi-platform way? 2006/10/3, Ales Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: /var/run with pids is also present in FreeBSD 5.x+ But it's just a dumpspace for these things.. It still doesn't add anything useful :) I think there's som

Re: Free Pascal widget set

Light? It reminds me FLTK: http://www.fltk.org 2006/8/20, Aleš Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And is already done... And is crappy and slow... _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the

Re: [lazarus] Help with lazarus in ubuntu 6.06

This also works on 6.06: http://port2laz.blogspot.com/2005/12/installing-lazarus-on-k-ubuntu-510.html 2006/8/17, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: David Lyon wrote: > Just my 2c worth... > > I'm using ubuntu and just waiting to see something more stable before > investing/wasting some time l

Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide

See this: http://port2laz.blogspot.com/2006/01/fpc-202-and-postgresql3dyn.html 2006/8/9, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Marco van de Voort wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Darius Blaszijk wrote: > >>I was planning on doing a "make clean bigide" but the compiler complains

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

Kylix is dead. 2006/8/9, Zlatko Matić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What about Kylix? Would they enable Turbo Kylix as well? - Original Message - From: "m2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer Lord_ZealoN a écrit : > Delphi go

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

They (Borland and the "DevCo") are talking about a "free download" version (Explorer Edition), like Microsoft's Visual Studio Express Edition. No "Open Source" here, it's a free (gratis) as beer version, not free (libre) as speech. They will keep only 2 versions: Explorer and Professional (under $

Re: [lazarus] problems with SQLdb components and Postgres

the problem is not in SQLdb, but in FPC itself? Regards, Zlatko - Original Message ----- From: "Alexsander Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] problems with SQLdb components and Postgres So the best thing for PostgreSQL

Re: [lazarus] problems with SQLdb components and Postgres

So the best thing for PostgreSQL users is to bury sqldb for good and use Zeos instead? Is this correct? 2006/7/28, Alexandre Leclerc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2006/7/28, Zlatko Matić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unfortnately, Lazarus+PostgreSQL doesn't work properly with recent snapshots > such as Lazarus-

Re: [lazarus] Using sqldb from FPC 2.0.2 with PostgreSQL: no LIMIT clause?

, johnf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 31 July 2006 14:21, Alexsander Rosa wrote: > With Lazarus from SVN, FPC 2.0.2, Ubuntu 6.06 and PostgreSQL 8.1.4 > (and some 8.1.3 in the network), the LIMIT clause is triggering a > "prepare" error. Is this a lack of features of sqldb

[lazarus] Using sqldb from FPC 2.0.2 with PostgreSQL: no LIMIT clause?

With Lazarus from SVN, FPC 2.0.2, Ubuntu 6.06 and PostgreSQL 8.1.4 (and some 8.1.3 in the network), the LIMIT clause is triggering a "prepare" error. Is this a lack of features of sqldb or maybe some misconfiguration from my part? Without the LIMIT clause the query worked fine. If there's some co

Re: [lazarus] Dependencies under Linux

> > For the record: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ldd /opt/gnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) > libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /opt/gnome/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 > (0x402e2000) > libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /opt/gnome/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 > (0x402f600

Re: [lazarus] Sharing a project between Delphi 5+ and Lazarus

> We just went through that process. We started porting a Delphi app to > Linux, and later decided to drop Delphi completely and now only do > development in Lazarus (Win32 and Linux) and it make our live _much_ > easier! > > Regards, > - Graeme - > > > > On 21

Re: [lazarus] Sharing a project between Delphi 5+ and Lazarus

Here, Simon Kessel (CrossFPC's author) annouces it: http://groups.google.com.br/group/borland.public.kylix.non-technical/browse_frm/thread/38216d142e25dfba The "official" site (http://crossfpc.untergrund.net/) was last updated last year. Is this project still active? Is it available for download s

[lazarus] Sharing a project between Delphi 5+ and Lazarus

I think it would be nice if we could share a project between the two IDE's, including the forms. Everytime I need to mantain the "original" Delphi project, i know that my "under conversion" Lazarus project is getting more and more obsolete. More over, a lot of properties/components had to be remove

Re: [lazarus] Diminishing executable

This issue is real. After you know what to do it's simple, but why not make things simpler for newbies? It would be nice to have an option to automatically run "strip" after the project is compiled AND have it enabled by default. It's fast; the "strip" will barely be noticed. Many developers, when

Re: [lazarus] HTTP GET

. You just need to add a line HTTP.Headers.Clear; between consecutive calls of HTTPMethod, to clear the headers. Alex2006/3/14, Alexsander Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there a problem in using it many times or for binary files? I'm getting "Bad request" in the secon

Re: [lazarus] HTTP GET

Is there a problem in using it many times or for binary files? I'm getting "Bad request" in the second call of HTTPMethod, like: if HTTP.HTTPMethod('GET', 'http://10.10.0.1/file1.txt') then // more code if HTTP.HTTPMethod('GET', 'http://10.10.0.1/file1.exe') then AFAIK, "Bad Request" is when the

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus advocacy : Best App wrtitten in Lazarus

Maybe somethink like "spreadfirefox.com": uselazarus.com or something like that, with a CMS inplace so the mantainers could easily edit/add pages. Alex2006/3/14, Alexander Todorov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 3/14/06, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I think it would be good to have such a

Re: [lazarus] System Information

If your distro follows the LSB, it should have a file at: /etc/lsb-release The content of this file on my Linux box:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ cat lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=5.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=breezy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu (The Breezy Badger Release)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc

Re: [lazarus] Parameter not used ...

Assert(True) will raise another hint?2006/2/25, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Vincent Snijders wrote:> Geno Roupsky wrote:>>> There are very few situations where the sender is nil and still if you>> expect such a case you can always write something like:>> >> Assert((Sender = nil) or (Sende

Re: [lazarus] Parameter not used ...

Just to confirm: the Assert workaround with assertions turned off will avoid the hint AND will not generate code, right? If so, this is better than any other workaround! But anyway it would be nicer if FPC could have a flag to ignore this specific hint when the parameter is a specific string ("Sen

[lazarus] Enhanced versions of TStringGrid

I was talking with Jesus about his TAttrStringGrid (attached to issue 1360): http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=1360 Maybe it could be part of LCL? I mean, we could have the standard, Delphi-compatible TStringGrid AND a new grid, descendant of the standard, with extra features. O

Re: Re[2]: [lazarus] About the $mode objfpc and $mode delphi

It would be nice to have a grid with these differences. (Hint: I will try to write it and post here as soon as I have the time)2006/2/17, Andi Wangsadijaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:Hello Vincent,On Friday, February 17, 2006, 20:13:01,  you wrote: > See> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progap4.

Re: [lazarus] Conversion Tool (Delphi - Lazarus): standalone or inside the IDE?

dea is attached. >> 2006/2/15, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:> >> > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:00:39 -0300> > Alexsander Rosa < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> > > After a few "quick looks", I do not fully understand the structure of>

Re: [lazarus] StringGrid Editor, Columns Editor and FindInFiles Dialog converted to lfm

Is there a wish list of conversion to lfm? 2006/2/17, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:12:07 +0100Tomas Gregorovic <_tom_@centrum.cz> wrote:> Hi,> I have converted StringGrid Editor, Columns Editor and FindInFiles> Dialog to lfm. >> The Columns Editor now uses generic Co

Re: [lazarus] Conversion Tool (Delphi - Lazarus): standalone or inside the IDE?

s below.main.pp is a monster.Eventually the source editor stuff and the form editor stuff will become separate parts.> 2006/2/14, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:22:21 -0300> > Alexsander Rosa < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >

Re: [lazarus] Conversion Tool (Delphi - Lazarus): standalone or inside the IDE?

After a few "quick looks", I do not fully understand the structure of the Lazarus source code. I would be easier for me if I could start a separate application for early limited tests and, after it proves itself worthy, someone more familiar with Lazarus source tree could help me to integrate the t

[lazarus] Conversion Tool (Delphi - Lazarus): standalone or inside the IDE?

I was looking at the sources of "main.pp", specifically in the DoConvertDelphi* bit. In my opinion, it would be better if the conversion tool was *separated* from the IDE, as a standalone application. In the current design, it's very embedded in the IDE, and with several menu items to be used. I wa

Re: What should I install?

azarus-ide channel for the help. Alex 2005/12/26, Alexsander Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: My goal is to port/develop my own applications - and eventually write some minor patches for Lazarus only (not for Free Pascal). The development itself will be done under Windows AND Linux (at first, most

[lazarus] What should I install?

My goal is to port/develop my own applications - and eventually write some minor patches for Lazarus only (not for Free Pascal). The development itself will be done under Windows AND Linux (at first, mostly under Windows because of Delphi), as the app must run in both. What should I install? a) C

[lazarus] SQLDB - Datetime, libmysql.dll

How are these problems being addressed?-- Atenciosamente,Alexsander da Rosa

Re: [lazarus] Snapshot and latest subversion very unstable

The snapshots are built agains WHICH version of FPC? IMHO they should use a stable release... 2005/12/19, Peter Vreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:52:55 +0100> "SALVATORE COPPOLA" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>> I experienced that on opening a project or a package Lazarus give an A

Re: [lazarus] Running a project always performs compile and link sequence

Why is this (sharing a source directory) a bad thing? What would be the right way?2005/12/9, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:27:41 +0100Micha Nelissen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:(...)It is common under Delphi to put some often used units into a directory andadd this dir

Re: [lazarus] Conversion Tool (Delphi -> Lazarus)

ect link to download the latest one is: http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ConvertFiles.zip Alex2005/12/9, Darius Blaszijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Alexsander,   The link seems to lead to nowhere. Could you check it please?   Darius - Original Message ----- From: Alexs

[lazarus] Conversion Tool (Delphi -> Lazarus)

http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/authors/a0004033.htm This is a conversion tool that helps migration from Delphi to Kylix, converting projects from CLX to VCL and from VCL to CLX. It works with "data repositories", with pairs of search/replace strings. It also changes the extensions of the files, and so o

Re: [lazarus] Running a project always performs compile and link sequence

I use Ctrl-F9 on Delphi often, too. Very useful, but only because it is fast. So really, the linker is the issue. Now I find the idea of theinternal linker not so bad (up in this thread)... the moment the linker is faster. I think this is the main difference with Delphi.Ctrl+F9 was a matter of a se

Re: [lazarus] Day 1: Porting an app from Delphi (CLX) to Lazarus

I started a blog on this: http://port2laz.blogspot.com/ Leclerc, my OPF is custom made. It's not tiOPF. My OPF uses the TPQConnection, that AFAIK uses pglib (and not ODBC). Alex2005/12/6, Alexandre Leclerc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 12/5/05, Alexsander Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[lazarus] Day 1: Porting an app from Delphi (CLX) to Lazarus

Today I started the porting of a medium-sized application (~100 kloc) from D7 with CLX to Lazarus (used the 2005-12-05 snapshot). I was wondering if a diary of this could be useful - I do not want to forget what I'm doing. Right now I'm porting the Object Persistence Framework (OPF), and managed to

Re: [lazarus] Willing to help

2005/9/29, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:53:31 +0200 > Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alexsander Rosa wrote: > > > My plan is to mimic Delphi as close as possible. > > Why not do it better? ;) Of course, bu

Re: [lazarus] Willing to help

My plan is to mimic Delphi as close as possible. In Delphi, if you type Ctrl-Shift-C to auto complete a class, then save, it does NOT erase the newly created empty method, unless you type it BEFORE the first auto-generated "private" keyword (the one followed by a comment { Private declarations }).

[lazarus] Willing to help

I added a note on issue 1044: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=1044 As many new-comers, I am not familiar with the structure of the code. I have experience in software development, but lack the (unpaid) time to follow the code up and down to figure out where (i.e., in which lin

[lazarus] FYI: Kylix is now classic

Borland Classic Products now lists Kylix 3 among classic products such as Borland Turbo C++ (which seems to include C++ BuilderX Personal) and Turbo Assembler. http://www.borland.com/us/products/classic_products/index.html Is it dead now? ;-) Alex -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa ___

Re: [lazarus] MessageDlg

ty tests confirm this). I provided some links about it in a previous post. Alex 2005/9/7, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alexsander Rosa wrote: > > IMHO the glyphs are *less* important than the text. A simple version > > of this function could accept text-only buttons - f

Re: [lazarus] MessageDlg

IMHO the glyphs are *less* important than the text. A simple version of this function could accept text-only buttons - following the modern human interface trends - and optionally an array of glyphs, if they are needed at all. Alex 2005/9/6, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael Van Canney

Re: [lazarus] MessageDlg

ould be to randomly change the position of the buttons or > the > question, size of the form, etc... > > Alain > > > > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 17:04 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Alexsander Rosa wrote: > > > > >

Re: [lazarus] MessageDlg

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

Re: [lazarus] OT: Did any onw saw Delphi 2005?

I do not know about you, but I try to avoid at all costs using 3rd party components. Right now the only 3rd party visual component I use in D7 is TMS's AdvStringGrid. This self-imposed restriction was, at first, to ease the port to Kylix. Now it's done, but the restriction goes on as it will ease t

Re: [lazarus] Desde Chile...

In english (sorry for any errors, actually neither english nor spanish are my native language - i speak pt-br): "Thanks for your answers... I have experience in Delphi development since version 1. I know several development tools and have some Linux training. I'm looking for multiplatform tools and