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lazarus · 2008-05

  1. Cross-compile on Linux from 32bits to 64bits

    Dear I'm using a 32 bits Linux system to developp and i want my program to be 64 Bits compatible. What is the best method to allow my program to be compatible on 32 And…

    TOUZEAU DAVID, Marco van de Voort, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  2. Need some help with UpdateSQL in TSQLQuery and TMySQL50Connection

    I'm having some trouble understanding the operation of the TSQLQuery. I'm using MySQL 5, TMySQL50Connection, and TSQLQuery. Several problems. First of all, it's not…

    Howard Lee Harkness, Jesus Reyes, Joost van der Sluis
    16
  3. Carbon: Simple component in a simple package with strange behavior

    Lately I've been trying to create a package with custom components, which works already on Lazarus Win32, but gets all kinds of errors on Mac OS X, so I created a…

    Bent Normann Olsen, EarMaster - Bent Olsen, Tom Gregorovic
    4
  4. TDBF Indexes

    I've been trying to create an index based on a boolean field and a integer. I can't find any documentation on constructing multi-column indexes. Being distantly familiar…

    Jon Foster, Marco van de Voort
    4
  5. Printer margins

    Printing to the 0,0 position in the canvas from the Printer seams to print nothing, until the margin is reached (Mac OS X), so I did a small research to find out which…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jesus Reyes
    14
  6. Mac OS X : Using TProcess to launch Unix command to Copy a Directory

    I'm passing the following command to a TProcess instance... cp -R /SomePath/MyGame.app /SomePath/MyNewGame.app via it's command line property, but it did not work. I…

    Dominique Louis, Mattias Gaertner, Vincent Snijders
    3
  7. TEST SQLITE

    @ Joost van der Sluis Ref: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11350 Thank but wich version of Lazarus could i download for tested your correction ? Regard Chris

    Chris37, Damien Gerard, Joost van der Sluis
    12
  8. wiki help with images

    How do I reference a image uploaded in one language (english), but in a another language (french, german) page? The same problem applies for the Lazarus pages on…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Henry Vermaak, Luca Olivetti
    9
  9. Postgres Dlls not found

    I'm flumoxed! My app fails with the error "Cannot load Postgres Client. Is it installed? (libpg.dll)". I've been developing my app on my laptop and initiallly was unable…

    Dave Coventry, Damien Gerard, Jalal
    28
  10. PostgreSQL database connection error

    Hellow everyone: I encountered an error when Postgresql in connection with Lazarus, as follows. My environment is window xp Chinese , the installation of the Lazzrus…

    peng, Damien Gerard, Joost van der Sluis
    12
  11. 0011231: FilelistBox shows Russian letters in file names wrongly

    Question to Vincent Snijders: Why you hasten to close #11231 issue, in fact the problem is not solved !? On my localized XP SP2 box FileListBox works wrongly. That even…

    Andrey Gusev, Graeme Geldenhuys, Vincent Snijders
    9
  12. Bitmap animation component

    I created a bitmap animation component for fpGUI. It works like the old Netscape spinning logo. One image with all the frames layout in in a horizontal position. It…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, A.J. Venter, Kostas Michalopoulos
    3
  13. Know if a form is active

    I would like to bring to front a form (and activate it -via the .show() method) only if it is not already the active window. I thought .Showing would be good for me but…

    Damien Gerard, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    2
  14. Carbon: Enter key inserts character in Edit fields

    I have a problem in my application compiled with Lazarus where pressing the Enter key inserts a character (possibly #13) into the Edit field, and then it invokes the…

    Tobias Giesen, Tom Gregorovic
    2
  15. Access a sqlite3 database from within a class

    Hello list! I would like to define a class, Tklasje, of my own which contains a database in the private section. Using this class I want to access the database. (another…

    Paul van der Vlis, Flávio Etrusco
    2
  16. Svn update for Arm only

    Hi I am using svn to download fpc sources. How do I compile the sources for ARCH ARM alone? How do I prevent downloading all other ARCH files in ~/fpc/rtl ? What could…

    Nataraj S Narayan, Henry Vermaak
    1
  17. 3rd party components

    After compiling a 3rd party components, lazarus always claims that i can't find the files of the new components, however it does not happen on the components that arrive…

    ik, Mattias Gaertner, Mattias Gärtner
    5
  18. Carbon and TMemo/TEdit

    I have in my app a TScrollBox (AutoScroll=True) with some controls created by hand as follow : E := TEdit.Create(nil); E.Parent := MyScrollBox; [...] Works fine under…

    Damien Gerard, JoshyFun, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  19. New project type in Lazarus

    I would like to create a new IDE Package that adds a new project type to the 'File | New' dialog. In the components directory there are a few examples of this for…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  20. No cursor in Lazarus

    Sometimes the cursor in Lazarus is gone, after a restart of the program, the cursor is back again. It's Lazarus version 0.9.24 beta from Ubuntu 8.04. Does somebody here…

    Paul van der Vlis, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gärtner
    6
  21. TSqlite3Connection apparently works with fpc 2.2.1 snapshot

    I just tested (not extensively) and it seems that TSqlite3Connection works just fine with fpc 2.2.1 (TSQLScript and TSQLConnector compile and register fine, but since I…

    Luca Olivetti, Vincent Snijders
    1
  22. How big can DB transactions go?

    I'm working on a SQL RDBMS tool, testing Index performance. My overall goal is to insert 500,000 records in a master table and 5mil in a details table. Using SqlDB, can…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Damien Gerard, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  23. Inactive Dataset

    I'm getting this: "operation cannot be performed on an inactive dataset". Googling (I'm on a slow dialup on someone else's line) seems to indicate that the problem is…

    Dave Coventry, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jalal
    23
  24. fpdoc enhancements

    At the request of some people on the lists, I added the following enhancement to fpdoc: If a method has no documentation node, the documentation will be searched in the…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  25. command line options

    I would like my application to understand command line options. For example if I type in gedit my app creates some error message if I enter gedit -test it opens the app.…

    el stamatakos, Joao Morais, Marco van de Voort
    4
  26. I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

    I ported the RackCtls components (http://www.picsoft.de/compon.htm basically since I used the 7 segment display one in the past, but the other controls could be useful…

    Luca Olivetti, A.J. Venter, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    13
  27. External: SIGSEGV

    I have tried to google for "External: SIGSEGV" exception, but nothing what came up helped. Is there any detailed explanation about when this exception occurs? In my…

    Unknown author, Bogusław Brandys, Jon Foster
    13
  28. Postgres database again...

    Just a quick question to the guys who were so good in offering assistance with my postgres database client and server; How do extract information from the database? I…

    Dave Coventry, Bogusław Brandys, Damien Gerard
    42
  29. rev 15229 and form parsing

    After the rev. 15229 (IDE: designer: implemented loading lists of ancestors) from Mattias, something got wrong with the parsing of one of my forms. I cannot create a…

    Joao Morais, Jesus Reyes, Mattias Gaertner
    9
  30. CodeTools doesn't look in the project's search path

    two questions: do I really need to copy the project's search paths into the separate CodeTools dialog so that my units are found? Or is this something I could try to…

    Tobias Giesen, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gärtner
    13
  31. SQLQuery1: Field not Found: "enquiryreferencenumber"

    Hi. Following Damien's instructions I have DROPped my original table and created a new one in it's place: CREATE table registration ( enquiryreferencenumber INT4 PRIMARY…

    Dave Coventry, Damien Gerard, Joost van der Sluis
    3
  32. What is 'Restriction Browser'?

    ------------------------[ forward ]-------------------------- ================================ http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=1188…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Bogusław Brandys, Marc Weustink
    7
  33. WARNING: Widestring Delete function causes crashes

    the Widestring Delete function in wstrings.inc accesses memory beyond the end of the string. This causes crashes after a while. The Delete function has been fixed in FPC…

    Tobias Giesen, Vincent Snijders
    2
  34. 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
  35. Compiling native KDE apps

    Hello everyone! I would like to ask if it is possible to compile native KDE applications using Lazarus, and if it is how can I do so?

    cyberpython, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  36. Newbe sqlite problem

    When I do a "select" in my sqlite query everything works fine. But when I do a "update" I get an error: ---- list index (-1) out of bounds. Press OK to ignore and risk…

    Paul van der Vlis, Chris37, Joost van der Sluis
    7
  37. Interesting things with latest snapshot of lazarus 9.25

    First off, I'd just like to say WOW it's taking absolutely forever for the next version of lazarus. It didn't take this long from 9.23-9.24; but then again it brought…

    matt shaffer, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Joao Morais
    7
  38. SetWindowRgn replacement in LCL

    Hello ! Which common function replaces Windows.SetWindowRgn function in LCL? Thanks. Best regards, TRoland http://www.rotursoft.sk http://exekutor.rotursoft.sk

    Roland Turcan, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  39. Menu editor is not functional ?

    It was partially functional a few months ago, If I correctly remember... All menu calls in menu editor window have no visible effect! Lazarus 15007 FPC 2.3.1 Can…

    Andrey Gusev, Mattias Gaertner, Vincent Snijders
    3
  40. Focus on modal form with ShowMessage

    When I use ShowMessage or MessageDlg to show info called from form shown modally on Windows the focus is not returned back to that form - I need to click on it to make…

    Bogusław Brandys
    0
  41. Trouble with TIBConnection and Numeric (N,6) fields.

    I've got a problem acessing a Firebird DB (2.0) with TIBConnection + TSQLQuery. I get 'Unkonwn field type <FieldName>' when opening querys wich do selects to tables…

    Gerard N/A, Joost van der Sluis
    3
  42. Visual Form Inheritance

    I found the following bug report on mantis: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=705 Which seems to indicate that VFI is implemented, but I'm unsure as to the what…

    Lee Jenkins, Graeme Geldenhuys, Joao Morais
    17
  43. Archives?

    The archives for this list do not appear to be searchable, and there are some large (4-year) gaps. Is there a good (easy) way to search the archives? Or do I need to…

    Howard Lee Harkness
    0
  44. ARM-WinCE - db engine, printing

    A question for those who have working ARM-WinCE applications with db and/or printing: would you recommend the DB engine, or printing solution you are using? Regards…

    Unknown author, Lee Jenkins, Zaher Dirkey
    10
  45. Connecting to a Postgres Database

    I'm using a windows machine (XP) running my app written with Lazarus and trying to connect to a Postgres Server. Whenever I turn the Connected field on my PQConnection…

    Dave Coventry, Damien Gerard, Jalal
    15
  46. Tsqlquery

    I would like to know read a rows number after an update or delete with TSqlquery and Oracle Connection They are not a property rowsaffected ! Are you an idea please ?…

    Chris37, Joost van der Sluis
    4
  47. Forms Color on Linux

    I have a couple of questions. 1. Is is a known limitation of gtk1 that you cannot change the form's color? I've tried to do this, but this (at design time) has no effect.

    Lee Jenkins, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    21
  48. CodeTools and TMySQL50Connection

    I'm trying to work with TMySQL50Connection, however, CodeTools (unlike the compiler itself) claims that it does not know what is TMySQL50Connection. Is there something I…

    ik, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  49. How to compile RTL in Lazarus?

    I wanted to convert Delphi units to lazarus units.When I used TReader.DefineBinaryProperty ( \fpc\2.2.0\souce\rtl\objpas\classes\reder.inc),I found that the size of…

    Tristan, Marco van de Voort, Paul Ishenin
    8
  50. Error rebuilding Lazarus IDE

    I am trying to recompile the Lazarus IDE from inside lazarus, and the build fails. I am using lazarus under WinXP SP2 Spanish, FPC 2.2.1 SVN today and LAZ SVN today…

    Horacio Jamilis, Vincent Snijders, Yury Sidorov
    12