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lazarus · 2008-04

  1. Unmoveable forms?

    With delphi I used a trick involving windows messages to make a form unmoveable: procedure WMNCHitTest(var Msg: TWMNCHitTest);message WM_NCHitTest; procedure…

    Luca Olivetti, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    16
  2. Need Testers

    I implemented the biggest part of the multi form properties. For example using datamodules on forms. To enable it compile the IDE clean with -dEnableMultiFormProperties.…

    Mattias Gaertner, Carlos German Tejero, shoKwave
    7
  3. lazarus editor problems

    I have some problems with last lazarus svn. With last svn version I am not able to see some of my project's units. The editor shows an empty tab for such units. But I am…

    Andrea Mauri, Giulio Bernardi, Guadagnini David
    22
  4. Printing in Text mode on Windows?

    On Linux, I would think printing to CUPS in text mode to be easy, but Windows I'm not sure. I have a unit that I use in Delphi to do this, but tried to port it over to…

    Lee Jenkins, Jesus Reyes, Stephano
    8
  5. Handy script for Firebird users

    I created a script (Unix/Linux only at the moment) called 'mkdb' for use with our application deployment. We use the Firebird RDBMS and thought this might come in handy…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Henry Vermaak, Joost van der Sluis
    10
  6. Retrieving Parent.color property

    I am writing a component and need to get the parent.color property of the container that my component is sited on. 1. What is the best event to use in order to retrieve…

    Lee Jenkins
    0
  7. Cairo header update

    I looked into Luiz' updated headers for Cairo (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11175), and while they are ok in principle (improvements, beautification), the…

    Marco van de Voort
    0
  8. Read image from resources with TLazIntfImage

    how i can read PNG image from Lazarus resources using TLazIntfImage? I tried TPortableNetworkGraphic to read transparent PNG from resource or file, but in transparent…

    Valdas Jankūnas, cyber python, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    7
  9. Lazarus site offline?

    Anyone out there to take a ? (hmmm, looking at the e-mail address I hope this message gets through...) John

    John vd Waeter, José Luis Vassallo
    2
  10. TDirectoryTreeview Component

    I have posted the following on the forum, but just in case someone does not visit the forum and has an answer : The last few days I've been trying to create a…

    cyberpython, Paul Ishenin
    3
  11. Different units with same name (Mac OSX)

    How do I come about using different units with the same name in Lazarus for Mac OSX? For example, if I want to use Sound unit with Sound Manager Interfaces, it needs a…

    Bent Normann Olsen, Vincent Snijders
    2
  12. Lazarus IDE (GTK2) - flicker and slow redraws

    I'm not ranting, simply trying to find out if it's a local issue (system or software). Though, none of my other GTK2 applications have this problem, only Lazarus. I got…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, C Western, Damien Gerard
    14
  13. FPC error without line number

    Some days ago I talk asked here about the use of a hex addr when a FPC error didn't shows the line number. Someone told me to use: FPC <source-program> -gl -B Today I…

    Arí Ricardo Ody, Flávio Etrusco, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  14. document

    Please read the document. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: .xx.pif Type: application/octet-stream Size: 26112 bytes…

    Unknown author
    0
  15. PowerPDF Library

    Not sure if it's because my PowerPDF library sources are old, but apparently there was some changes to lazarus jpeg support? I had to make the following change to get it…

    Lee Jenkins
    0
  16. Unicode Again

    I'm trying to wrap my head around Unicode still. I compile my IDE 0.9.25 with Unicode support according to this:…

    Lee Jenkins, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  17. UTF-8 and Lazarus

    So what is still needed for full UTF-8 support in Lazarus (IDE and widgetsets). Is there something I need to enable when I compile it, or is it still missing features?…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, ik
    9
  18. Porting Large Application from Windows to Linux

    Needless to say. I've got a lot of Lazarus/Free Pascal errors. First, Is there a way to capture the contents of the Lazarus IDE Message window? Tried cutting from the…

    drew einhorn, Adrian De Armas, Chris Kirkpatrick
    9
  19. Error on compiling lazarus

    sorry for the stupid questions. Didn't have the chance to work with lazarus (on linux) for two months or so, and now when building lazarus (with "make clean all" - or…

    hy-soft, Marc Weustink, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  20. [patch] Contributors.utf8 file

    Attached is a minor patch for two more names I know needs to be spelt differently, when UTF-8 is fully supported. I'm sure there are many more names like this. - Graeme -

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  21. Building the Lazarus docs

    How can I build all lazarus docs? Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gärtner
    13
  22. Read PNG with transparency

    how i can read PNG image with transparency from file or resource? Currently i using code: uses LazPng; var img: TPngImage; begin img:=TPngImage.Create;…

    Valdas Jankūnas
    0
  23. Removing empty methods

    There is new IDE tool: Remove empty methods. Place source editor cursor on a class, right click to open the popup menu, refactoring / Show empty methods. Please test. If…

    Mattias Gaertner
    0
  24. Breakpoints

    is it normal when breakpoint from previous project remains in new project? For example: in project i analysing LCL code and set breakpoint on call…

    Valdas Jankūnas
    0
  25. Designer Guide Lines Problem

    Lazarus-0.9.25-fpc-2.2.1-20080419-win32 There seems to be a problem with designer guide lines when there are several objects (TShape in this case) on the form. …

    Lee Jenkins, Mattias Gaertner, Mattias Gärtner
    9
  26. Can we decide which IDE dialogs to keep

    I was waiting for this to happen and it was simply a matter of time before it did. Can we please decide which edit dialogs we want to keep in the IDE. Both is not a good…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Inoussa OUEDRAOGO, Marc Weustink
    4
  27. OS/2 INF help file format

    Does anybody know if such a reader has already been implemented in Free Pascal/Lazarus? I have some OS/2 INF files I would like to read under Windows and Linux. If no…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Dave Parsons
    2
  28. RTC / Real Thin Client - Port to Lazarus/Freepascal?

    Not sure if anyone here follows the Delphi newsgroups, particularly, b.p.d.thirdpartytools.general, but Danijel Tkalcec the author of Real Thin Client…

    Lee Jenkins, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  29. TCustomBitmap

    Tonight I introduced a new base class for all raster based images(*) This is to remove OO inpurities in the current TBitmap implementation (**), to keep the loaded and…

    Marc Weustink, Chris Kirkpatrick, Graeme Geldenhuys
    5
  30. Mouse Scroll distance in IDE Editor

    Is there a way to adjust the mouse scroll amount in the IDE Editor? For example, we can change the PgUp/PgDn with 'Scroll half page', but there is no setting I can see…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
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  32. windows snapshot, "Can't find unit InterfaceBase used by Interfaces"

    With today windows snapshot (Lazarus-0.9.25-fpc-2.2.1-20080423-win32.exe) freshly installed (after uninstalling the previous one and renaming the remaining directory),…

    Luca Olivetti, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    6
  33. make cleanall bigide fails

    I am running Windows XP and when I try to build revision 14947 (make cleanall bigide) I get: ... Compiling RestrictionBrowser.pas Compiling resource lazarus.rc Compiling…

    Søren Ager, Paul Ishenin, Vincent Snijders
    4
  34. Ideas for the editor

    implementing several editor windows for one source is rather simple, even applying different rules for each. Nevertheles because of the way the development of the editor…

    Martin Waldenburg, Damien Gerard, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    13
  35. How to find position in TMemo.lines

    I'm trying to determine where the which line in a TMemo the cursor is on. In Delphi I could use CaretPos. I didn't find anything in the documentation for TMemo that…

    Jon Foster, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Henry Vermaak
    6
  36. new nightlybuild:win32 -> arm-wince cross installer

    From today a new nightly build is added to lazarus snapshots download pages at: http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ It is a cross installer for arm wince based on fpc…

    Vincent Snijders, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Unknown author
    3
  37. Stackable file system abstraction layer

    Since a week ago I was working in an implementation of something like a stackable file system which does not require many changes in currently developed sources and let…

    JoshyFun, Graeme Geldenhuys
    2
  38. IDE : Name of unit that contains the Main menu...

    I'd like to tweak the IDE so that Ctrl+Shift+F brings up the Find in Files dialog. I'm happy to do the work if someone can point me to the right unit are the menus are…

    Dominique Louis, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  39. Antix Mepis and Lazarus

    I'm giving a chance to Antix Mepis on my old pc so, after terminated its installation I'm trying to install Lazarus. As usually I've done on other distro I downloaded…

    Antonio Sanguigni, Mattias Gaertner, Stephano
    2
  40. compiling 0.9.24 on win32 fails

    at first I'd like to ask, if Windows 98 (SE) is still on the list of supported platforms. Is it? If the answer is yes notice the following report, please: make clean all:

    Marc Santhoff, Bernd Mueller, Vincent Snijders
    5
  41. Unicode support enabled for win32 with fpc 2.2.1 and higher

    I just enabled WindowsUnicodeSupport in the svn version for Lazarus (revison 14883), if fpc 2.2.1 or later is used. This effects all applications compiled with the win32…

    Vincent Snijders, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Lee Jenkins
    21
  42. Re-install Lazarus

    I wonder if there is a chance to save configuraton of installed component so it should be needed just to restore the source code into the same locations as before and…

    Antonio Sanguigni, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    5
  43. Version 0.9.25 looks great

    With all the bug reports and requests for help that come in (many from me), I thought it would be nice to say that version 9.25 looks very good. Great job on new…

    Lee Jenkins, Igor, ik
    4
  44. Unicode support in source editor

    The IDE now (svn 14904) tries to find out the encoding of a source file and converts it to UTF-8 on loading and back on saving. The converter currently supports the…

    Mattias Gaertner, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, ik
    9
  45. Error on first time run of new project with latest snapshot

    Just downloaded and installed Lazarus-0.9.25-fpc-2.2.1-20080419-win32 and get the exception shown in the image attached when I run a program in the IDE the first time. …

    Lee Jenkins, JoshyFun, Marc Weustink
    4
  46. Keymappings file location?

    Can someone advise as to the location of the custom keymappings? I'm upgrading my lazarus and don't want to have to re-enter all my mappings. :) Lee "When my company…

    Lee Jenkins, Mattias Gaertner
    2
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  48. I only would like to understand...

    I posted a question about hexadecimal addresses of interruptions in FPC/Lazarus. I need to post the same questions 3 times till receive some answer. The answers was…

    Arí Ricardo Ody, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marc Santhoff
    3
  49. compiling IDE error

    under winXP, lazarus svn (14876), FPC 2.2, I am not able to rebuild lazarus. I got this error: C:\Programmi\Lazarus\ide\lazarus.pp(114,1) Error: Undefined symbol:…

    Andrea Mauri, Flávio Etrusco, Mattias Gärtner
    8
  50. New Windows CE "X" and "OK" title buttons policy

    I just fixed a long standing issue in the Windows CE interface, and because it involves a policy change I thougth it would be nice to give a public report. Basically the…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Lee Jenkins
    2