Re: [lazarus] porn on lazarus wiki

2008-01-09 Thread A.J. Venter
willem wrote: Well I am a newbie of Lazarus. So i did use the Lazarus Wiki many times. But I did notice that Porn sites did also discoved the Wiki of Lazarus. But the Lazarus Core Developers are not distured by this Fact !!! We are busy evaluating each and every link very, very carefully and

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
Thanks for the response AJ. The other factor that comes into play is that we had lots of IFDEF's in our old code when we used Delphi and Kylix. Moving over to Lazarus we had the intent of not needing IFDEF's again as we run on mixed platforms. The above is a possible solution, but not ideal.

Re: [lazarus] Introduction

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
Have a look on SourceForge. I have seen quite a few toolkits implemented in C/C++ and uses OpenGL or SDL or whatever hw acceleration they picked. Eeeek ! Components should NOT require hardware acceleration support ! There is still a significant number of computers without this feature. The b

Re: [lazarus] why do delphi users hate lazarus so much?

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
Hi all, Well I've read this thread with interest, and now I want to interject. I learned pascal on my own in primary school. In high school I studied it much further. Then I entered university and it was all java (which I grew to hate). I began to work professionally, and learned many languages,

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
I remember I was told to use a custom theme file, but that would change it for all application, and I needed to change colors based on data entered in forms (validation things), so that solution was totally useless. Sorry for the late response, I am backreading a bit - but I thought you should k

Re: [lazarus] Introduction

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
MSEide+MSEgui is designed with the goal to provide identical look and feel on Linux and win32: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/ Another main focus of MSEide+MSEgui are database components. Does it support lazarus components however ? I wouldn't even THINK of using it if I couldn'

Re: [lazarus] why do delphi users hate lazarus so much?

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
Wow, this is a great success story! I hope you don't mind, but I've added your project to the wiki of 3rd-party projects developed with Lazarus (feel free to edit it): http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Lazarus#OutKafe Maybe you could add a screenshot or two here: http://wiki.laz

Re: [lazarus] Okay, well I am willing to contribute something to Lazarus. Who should I talk to?

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
Warren Postma wrote: There is something I'd like to see that I'm willing to work with other people, and contribute my time to. What I'm interested in is a 100% native carbon, 0% gtk/x-windows Lazarus for Mac OS X. Is there a Mac-OS-Lazarus mailing list? I'll join it. I've gotten the GTK ver

[lazarus] Wider use case for gamepack ?

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
Hi all, I've been working on my gamepack component package for a long time (nearly 4 years now) and it's quite a nice set. Not perfect of course, but it's two components for gametype graphics do work very nicely. Gamepack provides the following components: TDoubleBuffer: A doublebufferd drawin

Re: [lazarus] why do delphi users hate lazarus so much?

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
Kindly send the website's URL please ;) http://outkafe.outkastsolutions.co.za Ciao A.J. -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Clarke's law "Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced" -Gehm's corollary "Any technologis

Re: [lazarus] Wider use case for gamepack ?

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
I'd be using it, if this components would allow me for a not so game-type solution: Is it possible to draw some shape and connectors in "visio"-style having text entires inside a border and arrange using some sort of (semi-automatic, self written) layout algorithm? Well there isn't such an algor

Re: [lazarus] Wider use case for gamepack ?

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
Sounds like you put some serious work into your gamepack, but I don't think that something as specialised as this should be a standard component. Remember that it is only usefull for 2D games on old hardware as you can get all of this (and some nice features more) by using OpenGL for your render

Re: [lazarus] Wider use case for gamepack ?

2008-01-30 Thread A.J. Venter
John Stoneham wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 1:00 AM, A.J. Venter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Anyway, I think I explained now what makes it special in depth. Either the dev's will think it's cool, or they won't. I won't feel bad if they don't - it's their prerog

Re: [lazarus] Wider use case for gamepack ? [LCL Keyboard handling discussion]

2008-01-30 Thread A.J. Venter
Me too, I'd like to play around and maybe do something useful (or funny :) with it. It could at least be put on the CCR if not into lazarus distribution itself. That may be a good start. I'll submit it to the CCR as soon as I finish 1.0 Please note I combined two posts below: How about a midd

Re: [lazarus] Wider use case for gamepack ?

2008-01-31 Thread A.J. Venter
First of all, I never wanted to bash your components and I think the CCR is a good place for them. I just don't think that it should be shipped with lazarus. And you have every right to be proud of your work. Fair enough. I didn't think it was being bashed, just that I needed to explain their

Re: [lazarus] Wider use case for gamepack ?

2008-02-01 Thread A.J. Venter
discuss it on the list when people have tecnical questions, or I want advice on solving technical problems., not in terms of the merit of it's existence. A.J. -- A.J. Venter Director of Product Development Tel.: +27 21 554 5059 Fax: +27 11 252 9197 Outkast Solutions IT www.outkastsoluti

Re: [lazarus] Wider use case for gamepack ? [LCL Keyboard handling discussion]

2008-02-01 Thread A.J. Venter
> TForm only get's the events from the keyboard if "KeyPreview" is set, > IIRC. Apparently it's not a good way to go because enforcing key preview > on the form may spoil some other techniques or hinder existing programs > from working. > > I hope someone having intimate LCL knowledge can jump in h

[lazarus] GamePack 1.0 Released

2008-02-04 Thread A.J. Venter
Hi all, As I promised last week, I finished and released GamePack version 1.0. The keyboard event handling is not yet as good as I would like, but this is not a crucial aspect as it's something that belongs on the lazarus level anyway. Having said that, the other functionalities are all there as

Re: [lazarus] GamePack 1.0 Released

2008-02-05 Thread A.J. Venter
mramirez wrote: Quoting "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, As I promised last week, I finished and released GamePack version 1.0. Could be see some screenshots ? As you wish. I added some screenshots to the wiki page: http://outkastsolutions.co.za/outkast/

Re: [lazarus] GamePack 1.0 Released

2008-02-05 Thread A.J. Venter
Dominique Louis wrote: Hi A.J. You may want to post about your project over on www.pascalgamedevelopment.com. There was talk on there about trying and release a game development pack that would allow FreePascal to target Nintendo GameBoy Advance and Dual Screen. Well gamepack per se won't

Re: [lazarus] GamePack 1.0 Released

2008-02-06 Thread A.J. Venter
I downloaded and installed the components fine. However, when trying to load the demo project, the IDE hangs and eats up 50% CPU. End Task'ing the lazarus process in Windows is necessary at that point. Is this only linux/gtk? Or is Win32 supported? Hi Lee, It's definitely meant to be a mu

Re: [lazarus] GamePack 1.0 Released

2008-02-11 Thread A.J. Venter
I did so, but still the same behavior. Just to note, I commented out the lines and then rebuilt the IDE a couple of times to be sure. Thanks Lee, At least it rules out the obvious. I will be home this weekend where I have a windows machine, I'll give it a shot when I'm there and see if I can l

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

2006-03-14 Thread A.J. Venter
gt; > _ > > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives > > -- > Aten

[lazarus] gridview - scrolling

2006-03-20 Thread A.J. Venter
can fix it ? Ciao A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.

Re: [lazarus] gridview - scrolling

2006-03-20 Thread A.J. Venter
On Monday 20 March 2006 20:30, Jesus Reyes wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 2:12 AM > Subject: [lazarus] gridview - scrolling > > > I received the following bug

Re: [lazarus] Which distribution to use in order to install lazarus without problems?

2006-03-27 Thread A.J. Venter
ve run my laz apps on it, though I found that the tgz packages from slackware for gtk and gdk-pixbuf worked better than the suze packages - so this may well affect the IDE as well. A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front

Re: [lazarus] Problem with the Calendar Component

2006-04-11 Thread A.J. Venter
Calendar1.date +1; > Calendar1.Date := IntToStr(StrToInt(Calendar1.Date)+1); -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.geto

[lazarus] Fwd: Idea for a Lazarus project

2006-04-19 Thread A.J. Venter
hi->Kylix. -chris -- "Semper in excretum set alta variant" - My father A.J. Venter - http://www.silentcoder.co.za --- -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of th

[lazarus] Hardware specific access violation ?

2006-04-26 Thread A.J. Venter
ciple. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.getopenlab.com | +27 82 726 5103 (South Africa) http://www.silentcoder.co.za| +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) __

[lazarus] ULONG_PTR

2006-05-03 Thread A.J. Venter
an older revision. Ciao A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.getopenlab.com | +27

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-09 Thread A.J. Venter
at that, but I will because this is interesting me a lot for > our own help file creation. > Did you look at the webcvs link ? It is quite possible the code is only in CVS. A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the mo

[lazarus] TXMLpropstorage section

2006-05-11 Thread A.J. Venter
bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread A.J. Venter
OOo codebase (sorry - I don't contribute to java projects as a matter of principle :p ) A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect

Re: [lazarus] TXMLpropstorage section

2006-05-12 Thread A.J. Venter
n front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: [lazarus] Turbopower ipro HTML Viewer

2006-05-12 Thread A.J. Venter
s, to show parsed wikiquote results in, to power the "get new wordlists" feature in tappytux etc. Ciao A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief

[lazarus] Show hint from code

2006-05-18 Thread A.J. Venter
s possible but I thought I would ask anyway. Am I going to have to create a custom widget to get nice message popups ? A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief S

Re: [lazarus] Show hint from code

2006-05-18 Thread A.J. Venter
gfault is somewhere in the pango libs, presumably this means there is a font bug in gtk2 that hits the IDE pretty hard). Ciao A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter

Re: [lazarus] Show hint from code

2006-05-18 Thread A.J. Venter
e a look. Thanks It would be nicer to have wole done in GTK2, but that is not urgent, I don't need gtk2 for developing it. Ciao A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front

Re: [lazarus] Show hint from code

2006-05-18 Thread A.J. Venter
On Friday 19 May 2006 01:02, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On 5/18/06, A.J. Venter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may well be right, although I have no idea how to do a borderless > > window. My catch is I need this for a project due end of the month - so > >

Re: [lazarus] Who needs Unicode controls.

2006-05-18 Thread A.J. Venter
sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Show hint from code

2006-05-18 Thread A.J. Venter
gnal.c:1788: instance `0x840bc90' has no handler with id `670' -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect

Re: [lazarus] Show hint from code

2006-05-18 Thread A.J. Venter
ep back in history - e.g. it doesn't show me what is REALLY wrong. Mattias you wouldn't have any theories perhaps ? If I have any idea where to look for the cause of the bug I would be happy to fix it. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a ca

[lazarus] GTK2 Bug - was Show hint from code

2006-05-19 Thread A.J. Venter
as the IDE widgetset 2) This happens REGARDLESS of what components are installed - even on a brand new fresh install with no .lazarus in existence yet. I also attach an LDD on the lazarus executable. GTK2 version is: gtk+2-2.8.7 But I have the same problem on other versions both older and ne

Re: [lazarus] GTK2 Bug - was Show hint from code

2006-05-19 Thread A.J. Venter
debug this one for you - all I need is a hint on where to look. A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab Internat

Re: [lazarus] GTK2 Bug - was Show hint from code

2006-05-19 Thread A.J. Venter
mine which one so I can fix the code... A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.g

Re: [lazarus] GTK2 Bug - was Show hint from code

2006-05-19 Thread A.J. Venter
"80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.getopenlab.com | +27 82 726 5103 (South Africa) http:

[lazarus] TrayIcon patch

2006-05-19 Thread A.J. Venter
Attached patch fixes compilation of trayicon for GTK2 projects. Ciao A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www

[lazarus] Anybody know what is wrong here ?

2006-05-19 Thread A.J. Venter
s inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 Unit simple_html; {A simple file based html viewer component based

Re: [lazarus] Anybody know what is wrong here ?

2006-05-20 Thread A.J. Venter
re's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___

Re: [lazarus] Anybody know what is wrong here ?

2006-05-20 Thread A.J. Venter
b08 in TAPPLICATION__RUN (this=0xb7b90014) at application.inc:1023 #40 0x08053653 in main () at project1.lpr:16 I cannot see anything usefull there, but maybe somebody else can. A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of

[lazarus] Win32 Lazarus programmer wanted

2006-05-21 Thread A.J. Venter
J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.sil

[lazarus] PopupNotifier - Patch

2006-05-30 Thread A.J. Venter
mponent, a lazarus package for it and a small demo program that shows how to use it. If it's accepted, I'll write a wiki page documenting it in full. Ciao A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor"

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus under GTK2

2006-06-06 Thread A.J. Venter
"80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.getopenlab.com | +27 82 726 5103 (South Africa) htt

Re: [lazarus] About ReadlnFromStream in ide/wutils.pas

2006-06-07 Thread A.J. Venter
;there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 __

[lazarus] Patch - PopupNotifier.Onclose

2006-06-13 Thread A.J. Venter
he monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 Index: components/popupnotifier/demo/unit1.lrs === --- components/popupnotifier/demo/unit

Re: [lazarus] Running only one instance of the program

2006-06-14 Thread A.J. Venter
a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Running only one instance of the program

2006-06-14 Thread A.J. Venter
? -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103

Re: [lazarus] Running only one instance of the program

2006-06-14 Thread A.J. Venter
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject >archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscur

Re: [lazarus] Subclassing forms

2006-06-26 Thread A.J. Venter
g a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Any king of IsNumeric() function arround?

2006-06-27 Thread A.J. Venter
"unsubscribe" as the Subject >archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab Internat

[lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
cation of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.getopenlab.com | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.silentcoder.co.za| +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) pgpITnRtEI6Sm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
the consensus seems to be that lazarus cannot do it at present ? A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenL

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
hind alternatives. I am not so concerned about binary-sizes - but for my customers, memory tends to be a prescious thing. A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so.&qu

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
tware engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.getopenlab.com | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.silentcoder.co.za| +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) pgpTmEerzzpiz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [lazarus] Transparent glyphs

2006-08-10 Thread A.J. Venter
;ve been looking for to fix transparency in TappyTux under win32 - thanks. A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab Internati

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-17 Thread A.J. Venter
sible := true; (And inverse for hiding) By that logic one should be able to do either: TWindow.Grabmouse ; Or TWindow.MouseGrabbed := True; What do you think ? -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is

Re: [lazarus] Console application

2006-08-21 Thread A.J. Venter
an easilly adapt from - and which will also show you how to do all the other things that the posix standards expect from a services (like handling the various signals). Ciao A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the m

Re: [lazarus] fpGUI and Qt

2006-09-04 Thread A.J. Venter
e appropriate handler- be that DCOP or DCOM :) See this page for more information: http://tom.acrewoods.net/writing/kde4 I for one would love to be able to port my apps to RuDI eventually. Ciao A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sittin

[lazarus] Patch - slackware package build script

2006-09-14 Thread A.J. Venter
a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder.co.za| +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) GPG Key: http://pgp

Re: [lazarus] Patch - slackware package build script

2006-09-14 Thread A.J. Venter
#x27;s job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder.co.za| +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) GPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11

Re: [lazarus] Patch - slackware package build script

2006-09-15 Thread A.J. Venter
ives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83

[lazarus] Why is uppercase(ansistring) a resource hog ?

2006-09-18 Thread A.J. Venter
o it ? Ciao A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://

[lazarus] Why does this crash ?

2006-09-18 Thread A.J. Venter
nitLength(NewLength:Integer); Begin FUnitLength := NewLength; SaveToDB; end; Procedure TZC_Settings.SetPricePerUnit(NewPrice : Real); Begin FPricePerUnit := NewPrice; SaveToDB; end; initialization end. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the un

Re: [lazarus] Why does this crash ?

2006-09-19 Thread A.J. Venter
Mmm, So does nobody know what I'm doing wrong ? Or is it not a problem in my code ? Any idea what I should check ? A.J. On Monday 18 September 2006 15:17, A.J. Venter wrote: > I have just started on a new project, which is mysql backed - beginning > with a fairly abstract unit wh

Re: [lazarus] Why does this crash ?

2006-09-19 Thread A.J. Venter
27;t fixed but quite likely). > > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:13 +0200, A.J. Venter wrote: > > Mmm, > > So does nobody know what I'm doing wrong ? Or is it not a problem in my > > code ? Any idea what I should check ? > > > > A.J. > > > > On Monday

Re: [lazarus] Why does this crash ?

2006-09-19 Thread A.J. Venter
% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder.co.za| +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) GPG Key

Re: [lazarus] Why does this crash ?

2006-09-19 Thread A.J. Venter
- oh well, at least I made the choice early on. A.J. On Tuesday 19 September 2006 13:23, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:14 +0200, A.J. Venter wrote: > > Okay I did a bit of looking around. > > It seems there are different units for every single mysql versio

Re: [lazarus] new translations

2006-09-21 Thread A.J. Venter
r a complete new translation, not an update to an existing >> language. > > Thats makes no difference > > Marc > > _ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe&quo

Re: [lazarus] new translations

2006-09-21 Thread A.J. Venter
> > Help would be great. I am sure I will get stuck on some programming > terms. It would be nice if I could email someone regarding those. > Thanks for the offer. Absolutely, mail me anything you would like advice/discussion on :) A.J. -- A.J. Venter Chief Software Archite

Re: [lazarus] new translations

2006-09-21 Thread A.J. Venter
en in the 1950's). In short -yes, specifying ZA is actually important. A.J. -- A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect - OpenLab International +27 82 726 5103 http://www.getopenlab.com http://www.silentcoder.co.za _ To unsubsc

Re: [lazarus] avoiding multi-instance detection

2006-09-28 Thread A.J. Venter
Just a simple question: would that be possible to simply query the list of actual processes that are running? 'ps ax' for example; then you can find your application? Yep, you could do this with a TProcess - however, having said that - as I said before when this same question was discussed - the

[lazarus] BUG - IpHTMLPanel on Linux WideScreen resolutions

2006-10-03 Thread A.J. Venter
1280x800. Any ideas ? -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa

[lazarus] Preventing a form from taking focus

2006-10-04 Thread A.J. Venter
ngineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) htt

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode - GTK2 Patch

2006-10-04 Thread A.J. Venter
% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder.co.za| +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) GPG Key

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode - GTK2 Patch

2006-10-05 Thread A.J. Venter
> "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The attached patch makes SetFormFullScreen work for GTK2 apps as well > > as GTK1 > > Thanks. Applied. Well I did it because I needed it (if you recall, I was the one who orriginally requested the fullscreen fea

Re: [lazarus] Much Qt Progress

2006-10-10 Thread A.J. Venter
application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder

[lazarus] BUG: TTRayIcon Hints under GTK

2006-10-11 Thread A.J. Venter
% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder.co.za| +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) GPG Key

[lazarus] PostGreSQL on win32

2006-10-20 Thread A.J. Venter
y at least make sure the app can find them from an installed base - how do I do this ? A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect

Re: [lazarus] PostGreSQL on win32

2006-10-20 Thread A.J. Venter
On Friday 20 October 2006 12:05, Alexander Klenin wrote: > On 10/20/06, A.J. Venter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried copying the dll's from the postgres lib directory into > > c:\lazarus, into c:\windows\system32 > > > > Not being a regular windows de

Re: [lazarus] a bounty

2006-10-31 Thread A.J. Venter
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject >archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretendi

Re: [lazarus] a bounty

2006-10-31 Thread A.J. Venter
is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder.co.

Re: [lazarus] a bounty

2006-10-31 Thread A.J. Venter
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 20:16, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:58:09 +0200 > > "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I were to claim the bounty with the svn version of today, saying > > > that gtk2 is as good as gtk1, why

Re: [lazarus] a bounty

2006-10-31 Thread A.J. Venter
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 20:39, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On 10/31/06, A.J. Venter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually though -for me personally, QT would be a more important - once > > KDE4 is out, openlab WILL switch, and nothing would make me happier tha

Re: [lazarus] Threading: Running different Forms in different Threads

2006-11-15 Thread A.J. Venter
a dirty hack, is to split your app into different PROGRAMS, then fork them as separate PROCESSES instead. -- "I think, therefore I am liberal" A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.sile

[lazarus] Password hashing function

2006-11-24 Thread A.J. Venter
would you guys reccomend ? -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) h

Re: [lazarus] Password hashing function

2006-11-24 Thread A.J. Venter
T password FROM login WHERE username = '+QS(FUserName)+';'); UPMD5 := PQgetvalue(FResult,0,0); ValidatePassword := TPMD5 = UPMD5; runPlugins(OnValidPassword,FUserName); end; -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80

Re: [lazarus] Password hashing function

2006-11-27 Thread A.J. Venter
's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder.co.za| +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) GPG Key: http://pgp.mit

[lazarus] Forcing fonts

2005-08-22 Thread A.J. Venter
manage to all fit on screen as it is. -- A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.getopenlab.com http://www.silentcoder.co.za _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: [lazarus] Forcing fonts

2005-08-22 Thread A.J. Venter
Erm, nevermind, I finally found the right file to edit (/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc), all I needed was one line to force the default font size down to sane levels. A.J. On Monday 22 August 2005 11:30, A.J. Venter wrote: > Hi all, > Okay, the WIKI states that font setting is very limited (unless y

Re: [lazarus] Forcing fonts

2005-08-22 Thread A.J. Venter
ts. I know the gnome guys have this thing about deciding how every human being on the planet ought to think but surely they didn't make it impossible to do this ? Did they ? A.J. On Monday 22 August 2005 11:59, A.J. Venter wrote: > Erm, nevermind, I finally found the right file to edit &

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