Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] FreeBSD compile errors

2014-08-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2014-08-04 20:28, Martin Schreiber wrote: I mean booting in Linux and mounting the BSD ZFS filesystem in order to read/write data from/to BSD. Yup, that is exactly what I do. I have a 5TB RAID-Z1 disk array primarily used by FreeBSD. But I can dock my external Linux hard drive, reboot into

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] FreeBSD compile errors

2014-08-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Martin, Revisiting the ability to compile MSEide under FreeBSD (I'm using 64-bit OS) using FPC 2.6.4 Here is my compilation script. == #!/bin/sh rm units/x86_64-freebsd/* # Some compiler defines supported by MSEide # -dmse_no_ifi \

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] IDE's form designer: Undelete componentdoesn't restore position properly

2013-10-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Curious why you need an undelete option in the form designer? Simply use your source code repository (hopefully Git) and let it revert lines of code for you. It's probably more reliable and takes mere seconds - plus you get undelete for anything tracked by the repository. ;) Regards, -

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] fpGUI

2013-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
@Martin, Sorry for this. Not sure why the user posted fpGUI related questions here. @Алексей Логинов, fpGUI has its own support newsgroups, so please move any future fpGUI posts there. Please see the following URL for details: http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/support.shtml On 2013-10-05 20:54,

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] fpGUI

2013-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-10-07 10:45, Алексей Логинов wrote: http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/support.shtml I saw, but I understood nothing how to use newsgroups. They work just like emails, but you don't need to enter a To address. :) Simply register the server with your news client, subscribe to the groups you

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] fpGUI

2013-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-10-07 10:47, Martin Schreiber wrote: What happens if you set LANG=en_US@utf8 so it uses the English version? That's a strange value format... Here under Linux and FreeBSD it is as follows: set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Note the dot, not the at sign. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] How to retrieve MSEide+MSEgui version of 2010 april ?

2013-10-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-10-04 11:01, Ivanko B wrote: Hmm, me skipped ,spacedb, when searching replacing. Time to learn regex! ;-) Regards, - Graeme - -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] How to retrieve MSEide+MSEgui version of 2010 april ?

2013-10-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-10-03 15:53, Ivanko B wrote: What to fix in old (y2010) MSEgui files to cope the MSEide fails to compile... finddir() doesn't match compile error with fpc 2.6.2 ? With out exact error message it is hard, but probably you need FPC 2.6.0 compiler? Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] code folding

2013-09-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23/09/13 20:32, Sieghard wrote: Not just that - how often do you really need them? (I.e. navigate _by_ line number?) 1) Debugging with backtrace information, GDB gives you a file name and line position. Yes, jumping directly to that position is possible, but sometimes scrolling is also an

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23/09/13 10:06, Ivanko B wrote: Me was affaraid this (and some ohers) model because of huge crystall effect shown by I have never heard of the crystal effect before. No idea what it is, sorry. But it seems that this effect was highly exaggerated as to real feeling, correct ? All I can

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23/09/13 11:11, Ivanko B wrote: Oops,sure - me did a mistake. Cheaper U2713HM (edge W-LED, 16mln color) pro U2713H (matrix BG-LED, high-contrast, 1bln color) I just went on the Dell website, and it seems the U2711 has been replaced by the U2713H model. I haven't looked in more detail to

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] code folding

2013-09-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23/09/13 11:23, airpas wrote: how to show line numbers left of the source editor? You can't, and that bugs me too. :) I've been considering creating a local modification on my system to add that. I know it's more space efficient to not display them - probably what Martin went for, but it

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Ivanko, On 2013-09-20 23:05, Ivanko B wrote: Graeme, it seem that You had to switch to a large LED backlight monitor (27 inches me guess). How did You tune its backlight brightness level so that your eyes feel comfortable ? Correct, I switched from a dual 19 LCD setup to a single 27

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-09-21 09:18, Julio Jiménez wrote: As I said it was probably because no xorg.con supplied and this will be fixes setting the proper modeline in xorg.conf. I don't specify manual modeline's in my xorg.conf - I simply specify the monitro display size, and the resolution I'm interested

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA+ Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Saturday 21/09/2013 at 14:34, Ivanko B wrote: Me also had to swicth to 27 inches monitor (combo with analog+digital TV) LG 27MA53D-PZ IPS) - 1920x1080 for highly expected large 0.31mm I was specifically looking for the higher resolution 27 displays. I couldn't find many, but glad I

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-09-19 21:43, Sieghard wrote: This might be the reason, there _are_ differences between the systems. If Julio runs Linux, which he probabely does, it is quite possible that the VESA driver doesn't support all the built-in firmware functionality, as it is mainly provided as a fallback if

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Switching threads in the IDE

2013-09-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Martin, Continuing from my Lazarus mailing list discussion. I'm trying to use MSEide to attach to a running CGI process, so I can debug the CGI app. The CGI app has 3 threads, and it seems once I attach to the process, GDB always selects the last thread [this happens in Lazarus IDE too]. eg:

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-09-18 19:44, Julio Jiménez wrote: No way to disable EXA.. change modeset makes use of VESA driver and max resolution is 1024x768.. of course MSE runs fine with VESA Not sure if I understood you statement correctly. I run the X11 VESA driver here, under FreeBSD 9.1 and my resolution is

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] issue with jvm window manager

2013-07-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-18 16:08, minoshi wrote: If form has wo_noframe = true or wo_popup = true jvm window manager jvm or jwm? I'm using the latter, which is short for Joe's Window Manager. If you meant to say jwm, I can add that it does work (at least with fpGUI) and there is no issues in the window

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] issue with jvm window manager

2013-07-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-19 09:39, minoshi wrote: JWM, of cause. (In first message I wrote not correct, sorry). Problem is present. I get bug report from one user and check by myself. Like I said, it works here with fpGUI using JWM under FreeBSD 9.1. See link to screenshot. So the issue might be in MSEgui,

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] issue with jvm window manager

2013-07-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-19 12:43, Martin Schreiber wrote: I can not reproduce the problem with JWM 2.1.0 compiled on OpenSUSE 12.3. Just out of interest, I'm also running JWM 2.1.0 compiled from sources on FreeBSD 9.1 (64-bit). Regards, Graeme.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] code completion

2013-07-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-11 09:35, Ivanko B wrote: Definitely we need either to extend or to fork the INF generation tools. UTF-8 shoud be the only (or default) encoding for INF files. I am already implementing my own IPF Compiler in Object Pascal. On a side note: I have asked the developer to add a UTF-8

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] code completion

2013-07-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-11 09:31, Ivanko B wrote: There're several huge-sized different-way-of-thinking universes capable of living in isolation - Westen, Russian, Chineeze... English is the common language of the Wester universe only :) Fair enough. :) I originally come from Africa which is simply unknown

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] code completion

2013-07-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-09 18:06, airpas wrote: thanks Martin it works now . but exploring msegui units every time just to know classe's func/proc is annoying . This is where good documentation comes in handy - even skeleton documentation helps. Skeleton documentation is documentation of classes, methods,

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] code completion

2013-07-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-10 15:12, Ivanko B wrote: The INF format is excellent but lucks supporting unicode text - thsu quiet problematic for non-latins (and especially russians having Huh? The FPC Language Reference INF file is UTF-8 encoded (and so are many of my personal INF files). Other encodings are

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] code completion

2013-07-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-10 15:12, Ivanko B wrote: thsu quiet problematic for non-latins (and especially russians having different LINUX/WIN_ANSI/DOS_OEM encodings) . As bad as this might sound, English is the universal language for programmers around the globe. So if there is any documentation to be

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] code completion

2013-07-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-10 18:09, Ivanko B wrote: In fpc_lang_ref.inf, there's unredable text at FPC lang ref - Types - Record Types. Did you switch the top-right encoding combobox to UTF-8? WIPFC, the open source OpenWatcom IPF Compiler I use, doesn't have an option for setting the UTF-8 encoding in the

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEide+MSEgui 3.0beta1

2013-07-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29/06/13 20:17, Martin Schreiber wrote: Yes, because I think Object Pascal as it was originally designed by Borland is near by my ideal. Indeed, and I commend you for your efforts. Please consider building a debugger at the same time as the compiler. GDB is just awful for Object

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEide+MSEgui 3.0beta1

2013-07-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 01/07/13 20:23, Ivanko B wrote: TCL/TK, with its only debugging facilities of writting to console/log file. That's what I use now with Free Pascal! :) I use a customised dbugintf unit and my own Debug Server to display logs and fpGUI types. I also often use the tiLog unit from the tiOPF

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] wishlist

2013-05-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-05-19 01:30, Ivanko B wrote: It probably does not replace a full CORBA implementation. = Mainly its name services, me guess :) CORBA has a lot of functionality.. To be honest, MSEgui's IFI doesn't come close to what CORBA can do. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] assign event.

2013-04-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-24 20:37, Med Hamza wrote: tab3.tdbstringgrid1.onenter:=s; Wrong number of parameters specified for call to s) end; Change that line to... tab3.tdbstringgrid1.onenter := @s; FPC compiler mode 'objfpc' requires that you correctly reference a method pointer. Regards, -

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-21 06:34, Martin Schreiber wrote: BTW, I read your question about TFieldDef.Size in fpc-pascal. ;-) I don't see the relation to this message topic. My fpc-pascal post highlighted a bug (at least I think so) in the Zeos library. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-21 10:24, Martin Schreiber wrote: Or a bug in FCL SQLDB because of possible field value truncation. No, I fully agree with FPC devs that TFieldDef.Size should return exactly what the DDL scripts defined (eg: create table MyTest( mystringfield varchar(10) ). SqlDB, DOA (Direct Oracle

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-20 21:15, Ivanko B wrote: With errors fixed : --- $ LANG=ru_RU.CP1251 ./testutf8 Now use the full unicode range (BMP and above), and search for code points above BMP. Then modify the test to _correctly handle surrogates_ and BE or LE UTF-16. Then you

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-18 15:17, Ivanko B wrote: That's 3..4 times as faster than the index access ( which is built into almost ideal machine code). What is also interesting is that you can clearly see how much more the 32-bit FPC is optimised, compared to the 64-bit FPC - talking about the generated code

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-19 09:03, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: What is also interesting is that you can clearly see how much more the 32-bit FPC is optimised, compared to the 64-bit FPC Actually scrap that. On closer inspection, it was just the first UTF-8 test that was significantly faster that the 64-bit

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-17 19:58, Ivanko B wrote: For StrPos in massive russian text, UTF-8 is approx 9 times as slower than UTF16/32. That's a lot-lot slower without any compensation. Could I get a copy of the text and test code? Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-18 09:31, Martin Schreiber wrote: It counts the number of a known constant Russian character in a random string. In utf-16 and UCS4 this is an operation with numbers and string index, Does that Russian character have a surrogate pair? Remember that you can't use mystring[i] even

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-18 11:26, Martin Schreiber wrote: {$H+,R-} uses SysUtils, Windows;//strings; const TRIES = 1; CAPACITY = 100; var [...snip] Sorry, but that is not of the best tests... Anyway here is the results on my system. My changes: - Used epiktimer for

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-18 14:32, Ivanko B wrote: On some LINUX machine , it has even showed UTF8 to be 3 (!) times as faster then the others [and Ansistring included as well ] :) Clearly not just Linux. My initial test was under FreeBSD 9.1 (64-bit). The result below is from Windows 2000 (32-bit) running

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-17 18:46, Ivanko B wrote: AFAIK, it still needs B(ytes)O(rder)M(arker) - for proper placing 2+ bytes of characters. No it doesn't! The BOM in UTF-8 is just to indicate that the text is UTF-8, and not some other encoding. All that the BOM marker is used for is to tell editors that the

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 14/04/13 07:54, Ivanko B wrote: Some performance testing (by testcases written by FreepascalRu guys) has revealed that UTF8 is times or even orders as slower than UCS2. Not to rehash that whole argument, but that is absolute rubbish. If UTF-8 was so bad, then the W3C (internet standards),

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 14/04/13 09:45, Ivanko B wrote: Does it mean that the curent state of FPC+MSEgui already provides 100% correct handling (input, manipulations, displaying) strings with chars above BMP ? And if you use the dreaded UTF-8 [meant as sarcastic], you don't have to worry about anything, because a

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Is MSEgui UTF32 ready ?

2013-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 15/04/13 14:24, Martin Schreiber wrote: Eh, what about decomposed characters and 1,2,3 or 4 byte code points? UTF-8 implementations handle 1-4 byte code points as standard. It is part of any UTF-8 implementation. So a standard UTF-8 implementation can handle Unicode Planes 0-16 without any

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Benchmark

2013-04-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-11 06:16, Martin Schreiber wrote: Looks good, can you post the code somewhere? You work with Lazarus too AFAIK, can you make a a similar thing with Lazarus? I don't use LCL, only the Lazarus IDE (because MSEide doesn't run on FreeBSD wink). On a side note: I installed the Linux

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Benchmark

2013-04-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-10 13:42, Martin Schreiber wrote: Currently there is a discussion about performace of FireMonkey framework. Do you have a link to that message thread? Or if it is in the Embarcadero newsgroups, what news group, and the title of the thread. What is the performance of FireMonkey vs

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Benchmark

2013-04-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-04-10 13:42, Martin Schreiber wrote: Now I am very interested how other toolkits (Lazarus, fpGUI, Qt, GTK, LPTK...) behave with similar applications. Please report your findings. I couldn't see the original FireMonkey or VCL test applications and code. Downloading the zip archive is

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] something changed

2013-03-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-25 12:35, Martin Schreiber wrote: Into VERSION.TXT: 2013-01-20 Forking of classes.pp. Add mclasses after classes in uses. 2013-01-19 Forking of db.pas. Change db - mdb in uses. BTW: I'm not sure what you changed in the forks, but it should be possible to have your forked

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] CORBA in FPC

2013-03-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-19 17:05, Ivanko B wrote: Graeme, is there any progress ? No, sorry. I have been swamped with paying jobs for the last few months. I hardly had time for my existing open source projects too. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] mseide bug 64 bit: was tlistbox.dropdown.cols.deleterow

2013-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Patrick, Sparing me from reading 52 messages... I just saw brief comments about 64-bit Linux and troubles with MSEide. Are you saying you can't run the latest MSEide under 64-bit Linux any more? If so, I'll fire up my VM and give it a quick test. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] tlistbox.dropdown.cols.deleterow

2013-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-12 12:24, Patrick Goupell wrote: Any suggestions for compiler options besides -B? I use the following script to build mseide on my 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04. I also pulled the latest code and used the 'master' branch. The IDE compiled without problems, and I could compile one of my fpGUI

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] tlistbox.dropdown.cols.deleterow

2013-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-15 16:46, Martin Schreiber wrote: -Fu${PWD}/lib/common/kernel/i386-linux did you rename the directory after pull? It is lib/common/kernel/linux since some time. Ah, I did a 'git fetch', because I was busy in another branch. I forgot to fast-forward my master branch. I'll test

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] mseide bug 64 bit: was tlistbox.dropdown.cols.deleterow

2013-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-15 16:12, Patrick Goupell wrote: If you compile the current git source under 64 bit the mseide app does not run. OK, now that I remembered to fast-forward my 'master' branch. I do get a crash at application startup. I'll debug now. I just want to read the messages thread to see

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] mseide bug 64 bit: was tlistbox.dropdown.cols.deleterow

2013-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-15 16:54, Martin Schreiber wrote: Aha, now I can reproduce the problem, stay tuned. :-) Here is a quick backtrace... I'll take a look at the code too. --- graemeg@ubuntu:~/devel/msegui$ gdb ./mseide.elf GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-ubuntu Copyright (C)

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] mseide bug 64 bit: was tlistbox.dropdown.cols.deleterow

2013-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-15 18:05, Martin Schreiber wrote: Please try again with git master 36f7142d113eadeadda41147847b38cc15aecf84. Work fine here too. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Delphi/Kylix for MSEide+MSEgui

2013-03-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-05 20:56, Marcos Douglas wrote: Someone commented, on the fpc-list, to make a new debugger coded in Pascal because the gdb do not works very well using with Pascal Yes, I am working on that, but it is still far from usable. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] twidgetgrid

2013-03-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-04 19:26, Ivanko B wrote: Does Kylix here mean the need in quite old QT libs on target machines ? What is the running envirionment ? No, simply using the dcc (kylix) compiler (not the Kylix IDE), doesn't mean you need Qt. MSEgui and MSEide doesn't use QT either, so you compile from

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEide and Kylix compiler

2013-02-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Martin, I've seen many of your posts about FPC vs Delphi compiling performance. I have a FPTest test suite that clearly shows a similar issue. Application performance. I have a project with 180 unit tests that run in 2 second when compiled with Delphi 7, but takes nearly 17 seconds to run when

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] mse_no_ifi define doesn't seem to work any more

2013-02-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
As the subject line says. I'm compiling under FreeBSD. Got a compiler error in a IFI unit, so thought I would disable IFI support in the ide. I specified the -dmse_no_ifi compiler parameter, then got the following error pretty early in the compile. - Compiling

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] FreeBSD 64-bit support for MSEide

2013-02-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-02-13 09:46, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It then managed to compile everything, but now I get a problem at the linking stage. Seems to be related to libc API's. OK, I managed to fix a few of those linking errors, by replacing {$IFDEF linux} in the mselibc.pas unit to {$IFDEF unix}. See

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] mse_no_ifi define doesn't seem to work any more

2013-02-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-02-13 10:27, Martin Schreiber wrote: with -dmse_no_ifi. MSEide will not work with -dmse_no_ifi because it uses IFI to separate GUI and business logic. Then surely the define could be removed completely? Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] windows 64 bit

2013-02-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-02-12 15:42, Patrick Goupell wrote: How do you compile mseide projects for 64 bit windows? As far as I know 64-bit (any platform) is not officially supported. I have successfully run 64-bit Linux versions of MSEide, but it didn't start off without troubles. I assume it should take

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] windows 64 bit

2013-02-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-02-12 16:33, Patrick Goupell wrote: The program is compiled as a 32 bit windows program. Will it run on 64 bit? It should run okay. If not, how do I / we develop for 64 bit windows environments? You might be able to run Win32 apps under Win64, but you can't target Win64 directly. No

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] windows 64 bit

2013-02-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-02-12 17:17, Martin Schreiber wrote: Soon I'll be looking at getting MSEide to compile under 64-bit FreeBSD - my OS of choice these days. I haven't attempted it yet, but will let you know how it goes when I do. I am curious. :-) As expected, the msesysintf.pas unit gave errors. I

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] windows 64 bit

2013-02-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-02-12 21:54, Martin Schreiber wrote: Where is tthreadid for freebsd defined? I could not find it in rtl. [ rtl/bsd/sysosh.inc ] type { fd are int in C also for 64bit targets (x86_64) } THandle = Longint; TThreadRec = record end; TThreadID =

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] No-flicker alternatives to Delphi/Lazarus imaging

2013-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-02-02 11:14, Ivanko B wrote: PS: Graeme, fpGUI at SF seems no updates since 2011 march. Why ? Rare people can work with SVN/GIT etc CVS. The SourceForge stats must be screwed. I last pushed changes in Jan 2013. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] *** MSEgui has own classes and db units

2013-01-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 01/21/13 06:00, Ivanko B wrote: Branching with merging stashing is nightmare to understand :) Why? If you pull new changes, make sure you don't have any local modifications which could cause a conflict while pulling. So, simply stash your changes, then do a pull. Same applies to merging.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] *** MSEgui has own classes and db units

2013-01-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 01/20/13 17:59, Martin Schreiber wrote: With MSEgit: Just curious... how do you stash local changes before switching to a different branch, using MSEgit? In my daily working I have 9/10 times somewhere a local change I might want to keep. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] packages

2013-01-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 01/17/13 23:34, Ivanko B wrote: The startup script works - no need to configure IDE with it. But my FPC still can't find XLIB (smth wrong on my system - after HDD upgrade 500G - 2TB with Norton GHost) - it's another ( my personal troubles) hstory :) Search your hard drive for libX11.so

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Mailing list and Advertising footer

2013-01-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Is it only me, or do others feel the same. The mailing list footer, and the SourceForge advertising footer often takes up more lines than the actual message! Plus it totally screws with searching message bodies for some text. Here is an example: First 2 lines are actual message, the rest is

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEgui video demo

2013-01-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 01/12/13 07:26, Ivanko B wrote: AGIF are worse in that they can't be paused unless open in a special graphics editor so irrelevant for tuitorals etc. But they're excelnet just for demonstrating Exactly, Animated GIFs are only efficient if they are short. Plus I find them easier to make and

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEgui video demo

2013-01-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 01/08/13 21:48, Sieghard wrote: It's the same thing everytime this comes up - incompatibility prevails. Like I said, use OGG Video. It has a free and open source container and codec. Most web browser can play those videos, so you don't even need a dedicated video player. Regards, - Graeme

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEgui video demo

2013-01-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 01/06/13 16:57, Ivanko B wrote: Just convert it into a FLV video [as for YouTube ]. I double checked via MD5 and the source file I have and the one uploaded to my website are identical. The file is MPEG4 (or Divx), but it works fine here on two different PC's using VLC. If the file must be

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEgui video demo

2013-01-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Were you able to view this video? Perhaps your upload got corrupted. It plays fine here using VLC player. Regards, - Graeme - -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC,

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEgui video demo

2013-01-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I found a MSEide+MSEgui video demo on a old hard drive of mine. The video seems to be created by a user name Jan. Not sure the date of the video, but it is a 2 minute video creating a text editor in MSEgui. Quite a nice video, 21MB in size called mse_demo.mpeg I couldn't see it on the MSEgui

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEgui video demo

2013-01-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 04/01/13 14:57, Patrick Goupell wrote: Post the download. There is a spot for videos on the msegui.org website and I will put it there. OK, you can find it here... http://opensoft.homeip.net/~graemeg/videos/ Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] .mseide creation

2013-01-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 01/01/2013 18:41, Sieghard wrote: Indeed, that wouldn't do. So you're using mseide-msegui on a Windows 95, 98 or ME machine? What processor, and how's the performance? :-O My Windows development is done under Win2000 with NTFS and FAT32 partitions. Graeme.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] .mseide creation

2012-12-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 31/12/12 19:15, Sieghard wrote: You could have considered using links here - even Windows' NTFS provide them. No, because MSEide doesn't dictate that NTFS is a requirement. FAT16 or FAT32 could be used too. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] .mseide creation

2012-12-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 30/12/12 18:44, Patrick Goupell wrote: On my 64 bit system the compiler was set to ppcx86 and the target was set as i386-linux. Can that be set to x86_64-linux? No, it must be i386-linux, because that is a hard-coded directory path. I've raised this issue years ago. If you change that,

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] IDE question

2012-12-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 24/12/12 14:30, Patrick Goupell wrote: Is there a way to do this once so I don't have to rekey it for each new project? Use your project that has all the desired settings, and save a copy as a new template project. Then when you create new projects from templates, simply select that one.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEide+MSEgui 2.8.4

2012-12-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/12/12 09:36, Martin Schreiber wrote: Really? MSEide exists since 1999 in English language, there still is no serious English text about it. Why do you think it is different in Russian language? All I can add is that MSEide+MSEgui does have a much larger east-Europe and east-Asia

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEide+MSEgui 2.8.4

2012-12-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/12/12 12:47, Ivanko B wrote: meant nobody wrote a serious English text about MSEide+MSEgui since 1999, why should it be different in Russian language? == Anyway It should be a person capable of (or specialized on, timed on because of duties) writting SERIOUS

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEide+MSEgui 2.8.4

2012-12-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 14/12/12 20:15, Martin Schreiber wrote: This probably is the last version which depends on FPC-FCL. I often feel like doing the same. Hell, sometimes even replacing the RTL. I already have a slimmed down SysUtils and Classes unit in a private branch. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] G+ community for Free Pascal users

2012-12-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Everybody, Google created a new Community feature in Google+. Below is a link to a community dedicated to Free Pascal. https://plus.google.com/communities/114860965042324270757 If you are on Google+, feel free to visit and join. The community was setup by Marc Hanisch and already has 76

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] G+ community for Free Pascal users

2012-12-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-12-11 13:38, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: There is also a Delphi community for those interested: Oops, a copy-n-paste error. Here is the correct Delphi link: https://plus.google.com/communities/103113685381486591754 Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Need some marketing (to our Russian speaking friends)

2012-12-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-12-10 09:23, Julio Jiménez wrote: These numbers are related to downloaded packages only. It doesn't take in account Git users (like me). No, obviously not. Those numbers tend to be pretty useless, like most internet statistics. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Need some marketing (to our Russian speaking friends)

2012-12-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-12-09 17:09, Ivanko B wrote: The lady complains that the environment doesn't direct newbies clearly. Probably such kind of users needs smth like wizards :) No, I would say a Quick Start Guide and API documentation is required. Without end-user help, no tool is ever very good.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Need some marketing (to our Russian speaking friends)

2012-12-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-12-07 05:52, Martin Schreiber wrote: Hi, I found this: http://bluehairlady.blogspot.ch/2012/12/pascal.html Can somebody please write a hint about README.TXT and make some good statements about MSEide+MSEgui? ;-) I wouldn't bother. That author clearly doesn't know anything. Lets see…

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Incorrect code completion with name resolution

2012-11-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Having a class definition as shown below, and then using class completion in MSEide, the IDE incorrectly defines a method... procedure TMainForm.IMyIntf; begin end; ...when no such method should exist. 8-8-8-8-8 TMainForm =

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Load window layout

2012-11-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Martin, I only now discovered the Load window layout menu option under the View menu. What a brilliant feature!!! If only I found it sooner. For years I have been using Beyond Compare (diff viewer) to copy IDE layouts between my project. Now I can do it near instantly. :-) Regards, -

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About wo_popup, wo_splash.

2012-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Martin, On 2012-10-30 09:59, Martin Schreiber wrote: P.S. I wrote Tmplayer class , it helps work with mplayer. Interesting for you? Yes, do you want to place it on MSEuniverse? On a similar topic. We needed video playback in one of our company projects. We commissioned somebody to

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Using TrueType font without external library (originally from FreeType v1 Pascal version)

2012-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-10-30 16:10, wahono sri wrote: Hi Martin, I modified EasyLazFreetype to draw TTF font I could never figure this out. What is the benefit of that package? * Does it support ALL the features that the FreeType library does? * It is always going to be behind the actual FreeType library

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] FreePascal.Ru: analog of (Delphi's) OnDropFiles

2012-10-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-10-24 08:50, Martin Schreiber wrote: Not implemented yet. Is there a protocoll defined from freedesktop.org for the purpose? Yes, XDND ...and under Windows in is OLE DND. Please note that the Lazarus implementation of DND is extremely bad and very limited in functionality.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Code to traverse (to access at TMenuItem) all items of TMainMenu widget in run-time?

2012-09-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23/09/12 23:17, Sieghard wrote: (Do these generate different code, even?) I checked. No difference. FPC generates the same Assembly language in both cases. :) Graeme. -- Live Security Virtual Conference

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About double buffer strategy and SDL

2012-09-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 08/09/12 10:54, wahono sri wrote: it run slowly. Microsoft didn't support again for their product below winxp, why we should support it? We have lots of clients still using Win200. I even use Win2000 for all my windows development work - though I always run it in a VM now, and not on real

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About double buffer strategy and SDL

2012-09-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 08/09/12 11:33, wahono sri wrote: Official and unofficial OS supported by SDL 2 http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/default/README.Platforms Oh no, OS/2 is not in that list - it was for SDL 1.2 ;-) Also FreeBSD and Solaris being in the unofficial support list is a bit worrying. Regards, -

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] experimental porting MSEgui with SDL 2 and libcairo

2012-09-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 05/09/12 09:40, Martin Schreiber wrote: git archive downloads a subdirectory or single files, the tar.gz of Gitorious returns the whole tree if the repository. Indeed you are correct. 'git archive' can do what the original poster wanted. This is how it would looked like to get a single

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] experimental porting MSEgui with SDL 2 and libcairo

2012-09-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 05/09/12 09:40, Martin Schreiber wrote: git archive downloads a subdirectory or single files, the tar.gz of Gitorious returns the whole tree if the repository. Oh, I didn't know it allows for only subdirectories too. I normally use 'git archive' to generate source releases of fpGUI -

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] experimental porting MSEgui with SDL 2 and libcairo

2012-09-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 04/09/12 23:06, Patrick Goupell wrote: But if I want to just look at a specific directory / folder, why can't I? I don't want to change anything or push anything back, just look at it. If you host a mirror git repository on servers like SourceForge, GitHub, Gitorious etc. They all allow

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] experimental porting MSEgui with SDL 2 and libcairo

2012-09-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 03/09/12 19:42, Sieghard wrote: As for the answer, it is not possible for a simple reason. Git collects the whole history of a project. Files could have lived in ... Errr - and _why_, by any reason, should that be a hindrance to just pull the contents of one specific directory out of that

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