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lazarus · 2008-04

  1. lazarus TODO list

    I have some problems with Todo list in lazarus. I add a ToDO (popup menu in the IDE editor: Insert Todo) but when I click on View ToDo list in the Project menu I can't…

    Andrea Mauri, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gärtner
    4
  2. RTF based reporting engine & OpenOffice RTF support

    I've converted a old RTF reporting engine used in the tiOPF project (and Delphi) to work with Free Pascal. The reporting engine loads up a template rtf document,…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  3. Lazarus parser error on "vargars"

    For a long time, what appears to be a bug in Lazarus' code parser have been bothering me: it appears it cannot parse the "varargs" keyword. Every time it's asked to do…

    Steve Howe, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  4. GTK anchors

    On GTK(+) there is a support for control layout that can mirror and expand forms and components depending on their content and direction. Theoretically, it can not be…

    ik, Mattias Gaertner, Vincent Snijders
    4
  5. Is the address useful for debug?

    Sometimes when occurs an error in a FPC/Lazarus execution I receive only the hexadecimal address of the interruption. Is this address useful to determine the pascal…

    Arí Ricardo Ody, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Michael Van Canneyt
    5
  6. Class completion incorrectly written for interfaces

    I created a interface definition as show below. Note that both Getter methods are still missing. IMVPModel = interface(IInterface)…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marc Weustink
    9
  7. poDefault* at design time?

    By mistake I had one form set to poDefault without noticing, and for a long time it bugged me that each time I opened the project the form changed position and size. Is…

    Luca Olivetti, Paul Ishenin
    4
  8. Mac OS X Carbon Widgetset

    Is the development of the Carbon Widgetset also discussed in here? I recently wanted to use Mac OS X's Window-Sheets in an Application if is is compiled on Mac OS X and…

    Alexander Hofmann, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marc Weustink
    3
  9. Fwd: The results of your email commands

    When I send my unique subscribe e-mail I receive two confirmation messages and I, for safety, answer both of them... Below you can see the mailing list server action. I…

    Arí Ricardo Ody
    0
  10. Is anyone working with the simple datasets?

    I just tryed to investigate a TDBMemo bug, but I found myself completely unable to create any database app, using the simple datasets so I am curious to know if anyone…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys, Joost van der Sluis
    8
  11. Fonts Advise between Windows & Linux

    I am curious as to what others do in the case of applications that must be portable between Windows and Linux regarding fonts. The specific font that is actually used…

    Lee Jenkins, Albert Zeyer, Ales Katona
    18
  12. DrawText function problems

    I'm having a problem with drawing text on an image using the DrawText function where the area around the text masked out. Please see the attached image. This same…

    Lee Jenkins, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Funky Beast
    20
  13. Help drawing a transparent bitmap through a image list

    I'm trying to draw a bitmap (bmp file) transparent through a image list. The bitmap has a white area that i want to be transparent. I tried several combinations of…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, wile64
    6
  14. DestroyHandle not being called at design time

    While debugging an access violation that was occurring when destroying a visual component at design time but not at runtime i found that TWinControl.DestroyHandle is not…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    0
  15. Fwd: Lazarus Window Manager ?

    ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rudie Diedericks Date: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:56 PM Subject: Lazarus Window Manager ? To: "AJ Venter (E-mail)" Sorry for…

    A.J. Venter, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  16. Key combos working with gtk2

    I was just testing svn gtk2 ide, and I found that key combos, like the ones necessary to create ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, etc, are working o.O…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Paul Ishenin
    2
  17. How to restart application after crash

    I would like to create a custom 'exception handler dialog' for our applications to hook into Application.OnException(). It must have some options like saving a backtrace…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, ik
    7
  18. Unable to build Lazarus (svn head)

    When trying to build Lazarus on Ubuntu Linux with fpc 2.0.4 i'm getting the following error : Compiling /home/am/src/lazarus/lcl/interfaces/gtk/gtkproc.pp…

    Unknown author, Vincent Snijders
    2
  19. progress bar

    I would like to know if it is possible to use a progress bar in Marquee style (the highlighted part of the progress bar moves repeatedly along the length of the bar), I…

    Andrea Mauri
    0
  20. Mac OS X : RTF Memo component??

    Is anyone, who is using Lazarus for Mac OS X development, working on an RichTextFormatMemo type component? Is there any standard Mac OS X widget that could be wrapped up?

    Dominique Louis, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Tom Gregorovic
    2
  21. problem typing in IDE

    I have a problem with lazarus (v0.9.25 r14791 i386-win32-win32/win64svn), FPC 2.2 on Windows XP. Wherever I try to write in the lazarus IDE, except in the source editor…

    Andrea Mauri, Paul Ishenin
    1
  22. Mac OS X : Hints do not display when control Enabled := false..

    I just wanted to confirm that others have seen this behaviour. If ShowHint = true but Enabled = false then a control's Hint text is never displayed. I don't believe this…

    Dominique Louis, Tom Gregorovic
    5
  23. ann: new pascal magazine

    There is a new pascal magazine at http://www.blaisepascal.eu/ It might a good place to promote FreePascal and its technologies, e.g. - fpc features and supported…

    Bee, evilious, Joost van der Sluis
    4
  24. Who would write custom IDE feature?

    Who would be the best person to speak with about writing a custom IDE feature for lazarus code editor? I would like to see a smart auto code suggestion popup like C# in…

    Lee Jenkins, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Funky Beast
    9
  25. Mac OS X : TThread support

    When I try a very simple TThread test under Mac OS X ( Intel ) I get the error "RunError(232)", followed by a execution paused dialog that says "Procedure:…

    Dominique Louis, Vincent Snijders
    2
  26. UTF8FixBroken broken? ;-)

    It seems that, depending on the input, UTF8FixBroken will enter an infinite loop, e.g. s:=#248; UTF8FixBroken(pchar(s)); I think it's missing an "else p^:=' ';" (or an…

    Luca Olivetti, Mattias Gärtner
    1
  27. Detecting when mouse leaves TPanel

    As mentioned in a previous post, I created a simple descendant from TPanel for a special button that I need. When the mousedown event occurs, I change the background…

    Lee Jenkins, Graeme Geldenhuys, Micha Nelissen
    4
  28. TMaskEdit: EditMask property error

    Lazarus svn, fpc 2.2 on windows xp. If I click on the ellipsis button of the EditMask property of a TMaskedit I get an error: Error reading…

    Andrea Mauri, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, shoKwave
    6
  29. Registering Custom Components in IDE

    I've written a custom button inheriting from TPanel and it works very nicely, but I would like to add it to my palette so I can use it at design time. If found this:…

    Lee Jenkins, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    7
  30. svn2.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk/ stuck in r14665

    The mirror http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk/ has been stuck at r14665 for quite some time. I have problem accessing…

    Funky Beast, Antonio Sanguigni, Marc Weustink
    8
  31. svn error maskedit

    Under Ubuntu, lazarus svn, fpc Free Pascal Compiler version 2.2.0 [2008/04/01] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2007 by Florian Klaempfl I got Compiling ./widgetset/wsarrow.pp

    Andrea Mauri, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  32. Congratulations to Lazarus Developers

    I just want to congratulate Lazarus Developers; I Just saw the recent snapshot it is shiny! with beautiful icons. Best regards. Inoussa O.

    Inoussa OUEDRAOGO
    0
  33. TLabel WordWrap Doesn't Work?

    Is there a known issue with TLabel? I have WordWrap set to true and AutoSize set to false, yet the text will not wrap. Lee "Everything I needed to learn in life, I…

    Lee Jenkins, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  34. Lazarus svn does hang

    I have another weird problem catching svn up of my lazarus under Linux. I mean, trying just svn up in a console hangs. I don't receive any errors or similar warnings,…

    Antonio Sanguigni
    0
  35. Scrolling bug in TStringGrid

    While comparing fpGUI's StringGrid scrolling behaviour to Lazarus LCL and Delphi VCL, I came across a bug in LCL's StringGrid. See Mantis bug report:…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jesus Reyes A.
    2
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  37. Images - Speed of Loading?

    Can anyone offer relative experience in using various image types and their respective loading speeds under Win32 and Linux GTK1/GTK2? I would assume that bitmaps are…

    Lee Jenkins, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  38. calling a perl script

    I am trying to launch a perl script from Lazarus on Linux. The script takes some arguments. At the command line I type perl file.pl arg1 arg2 arg3 and it works. I cannot…

    el stamatakos, Mattias Gärtner, Steve Howe
    2
  39. AlphaBlending in Lazarus?

    Curious. Is Form alpha blending supported in Win32 and/or GTK* ? Lee "Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door."

    Lee Jenkins, Marc Weustink
    2
  40. LazReport - Has anyone got Grouping/Summing to work?

    I've used FastReport quite a bit in Delphi, but for the life of me, I can't seem to get the a Group Footer to dislplay a SUM of a field in the Master Data band. If I try…

    Lee Jenkins, Jesus Reyes A.
    1
  41. Some IDE dialogs are totally screwed in size

    I'm using Lazarus compiled with GTK1. v0.9.25 r14596M i386-linux-gtk I have seen a few dialogs in Lazarus that are completed screwed in size. Attached is 'Goto Line'…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Lee Jenkins, Mattias Gärtner
    5
  42. WinCE & LazReport

    I am just getting to know Lazarus, it is really promising. :) But at the monent I am focusing on it, bacause I am hoping that it could be the development tool I am…

    Unknown author, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    3