Re: [lazarus] Lazarus File bigger then Delphi File?

2007-01-19 Thread m2
Florian Klaempfl a écrit : m2 schrieb: Florian Klaempfl a écrit : George Birbilis schrieb: let me ask you a few questions: are you still using 1.44 floppies? are you sending compiled execs 20 times a day via 56k modem connection? no? then why 1 or 2 mb bigger is so bad

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus File bigger then Delphi File?

2007-01-18 Thread m2
Florian Klaempfl a écrit : George Birbilis schrieb: let me ask you a few questions: are you still using 1.44 floppies? are you sending compiled execs 20 times a day via 56k modem connection? no? then why 1 or 2 mb bigger is so bad for you? btw, delphi is NOT

Re: [lazarus] The spirit lost of Borland

2006-09-15 Thread m2
George Birbilis a écrit : But Delphi and Laz/FPC are not comparable. On one hand, you have Delphi-Micro$oft-or-die and, on the other hand, the almost-all-OS's Laz/FPC. How do you write a Linux program with the fantastic Delphi IDE? You cannot. End of the comparison. Period. Kylix was a ported

Re: [lazarus] The spirit lost of Borland

2006-09-14 Thread m2
Bisma Jayadi a écrit : Is it you who sent a post yesterday, saying the Turbo Delphi IDE is better than the Lazarus one? I didn't mean to say that Delphi IDE is better than Lazarus in ALL aspects. I'm just trying to be fair... each has its own good and bad. I think both need to learn from

Re: [lazarus] The spirit lost of Borland

2006-09-14 Thread m2
Bisma Jayadi a écrit : Yes but most of the problems come from the fact that (besides Lazarus and FPC peoples work for free during their free time) Lazarus/FPC is multi-processors and multi-OS's whereas Delphi is only multi-Microsoft. No matter what are the reasons behind the lack of

Re: [lazarus] The spirit lost of Borland

2006-09-13 Thread m2
Bisma Jayadi a écrit : very interesting, does it works also with TurboDelphi? Yes, it does work, at least for me. :) I think you should also send this link in the borland newsgroup. they are all crying about this issue... :-) This link

[lazarus] 2.0.4-rc3 available

2006-08-15 Thread m2
Hello, Where is it available? The ftp link ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.0.4-rc3/i386-win32/fpc-2.0.4.i386-win32.exe doesn't work (550, failed to change directory !?) and Google doesn't seem to know rc3. mm _ To

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread m2
Lord_ZealoN a écrit : Delphi going to OpenSource? No. Al Boldi was saying that nothing can beat open source, i.e., Borland may do what they want, they won't beat FPC+Lazarus. Moreover, I find it strange that after having announced they wanted to sell all that concerns programming tools, they

Re: [lazarus] Mantis?

2006-08-07 Thread m2
Vincent Snijders a écrit : m2 schreef: Hello, I just reported 3 bugs but Mantis registered 4 (twice the same, #7224 and #7226). mm I deleted #7226. Regarding the bug #7223, I found the problem. All is ok when one sets MainForm.Visible := false (and MainForm.ShowInTaskBar := stDefault

Re: [lazarus] Mantis?

2006-08-04 Thread m2
Vincent Snijders a écrit : m2 schreef: Hello, I just reported 3 bugs but Mantis registered 4 (twice the same, #7224 and #7226). mm I deleted #7226. Ok. Thanks. BTW, how can I correct an error in a bug report? (I do not yet master Mantis). In the report #7224, this is not TListBox.Visible

[lazarus] Mantis?

2006-08-03 Thread m2
Hello, I just reported 3 bugs but Mantis registered 4 (twice the same, #7224 and #7226). mm _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-20 Thread m2
without it is required to understand anything. On 5/19/06, m2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't care whether the Lazarus team decides to change the name or not. Now, I know and use Lazarus. For me its name has no more importance, I know what is behind it. But this is not the case for those who

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-20 Thread m2
L505 a écrit : I'm a complete atheist and still share much of you POV because Brazil is largely (and my family is) Catholic (so I have some idea of what these people IMHO-stupid people think. Unfortunately, I don't know why, intelligent + phylosophical + logicist atheist...) Belief is a wise

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-20 Thread m2
Florian Klaempfl a écrit : m2 wrote: Certainly not. Not seeing something where there is nothing and where it is not necessary that there is something is not a belief, it is a knowledge. I don't not to believe that there is a Rammstein CD in orbit around Pluto, I do know there is none (but don't

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-19 Thread m2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Florian Klaempfl wrote: Lv wrote: So if you guys want to change the name, where does it leave users like me presenting papers at conferences and citing Lazarus in technical papers as my

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-17 Thread m2
Dale Welch a écrit : Perhaps we better rename Pascal... after all... what does Pascal mean? It Means Passover. It's a Jewish (Christian - Easter) holiday.:-) Pascal comes from the name of the French mathematician, physician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) who built a famous

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-13 Thread m2
Michael Van Canneyt a écrit : People taking offense at this name only make themselves ridiculous. I refuse to take that (or them) serious. ( Yes, and I will take the risk that I will burn eternally in hell for this ;-) ) As far as I am concerned, it is not a matter of offense. I am as atheist

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus vs Patents

2006-04-29 Thread m2
Michael Van Canneyt a écrit : Assuming that we are actually infringing on any patents (which I don't believe): It perfectly sums up the problem : you don't believe. But you cannot know. The only way to know whether a software is infringing a patent is to publish this software and to wait for

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Foundation pros

2006-04-27 Thread m2
Florian Klaempfl a écrit : Ok, to get this discussion to something useful and have some hard numbers: What should do a lazarus foundation having 100 Eur 1000 Eur 1 Eur 10 Eur 100 Eur 1000 Eur ? To get ready to be sued by a new kind of racketters called software patent holders?

Re: [lazarus] Compiled with Lazarus

2006-04-18 Thread m2
Darius Blaszijk a écrit : Would be interesting to see a more detailed comparison in speed between delphi and fpc validating the same large prime. Keep us posted. With big numbers, the speed is the same. With such numbers 99% of the running time is spent in computations and both versions make

[lazarus] Compiled with Lazarus

2006-04-16 Thread m2
Hello, To let you know that I uploaded Primo 2.2.0 (beta 6) on my site, see http://www.ellipsa.net/primo/beta.html The file primo-b.zip contains an executable for WinXP. Well, Primo being a program that certifies the primality of big integers (when they are prime, of course), I suppose that it

Re: [lazarus] New icons for the Lazarus IDE

2006-04-15 Thread m2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : New icons for the Lazarus IDE: http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery Opinions? Nice. Except the one with the American flag. Why this flag? Are Lazarus and FPC American projects? mm _ To

[lazarus] About the TPageControl problem

2006-04-14 Thread m2
Hello, A few days ago I reported a bug (#1984) concerning TPageControl (for Win32). I wrote that setting AllowChange to false doesn't prevent to open any page. I was wrong, in fact, the problem is that the event handler OnChanging is never called (so AllowChange is never set to false). I

Re: [lazarus] TPageControl

2006-03-17 Thread m2
Micha Nelissen a écrit : m2 wrote: procedure TPrimoForm.BookChanging(Sender: TObject; var AllowChange: Boolean); begin if FTaskRunning then AllowChange := false; end; doesn't work as it does with Delphi. Is it a normal behaviour (i.e., is the Lazarus TPageControl type different from

Re: [lazarus] TPageControl

2006-03-16 Thread m2
Lepidosteus a écrit : If you find no clean way of doing it, using OnChange to set back the page the user should watch should be okay. I know it's not a clean way, but it at least it's working. Thanks but I cannot use this. Two of the pages of the TPageControl are dialog boxes that are