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lazarus · 2008-07

  1. importing program into lazarus project

    I have a program written using fpc only that I'd like to import into a lazarus project. How can this be done the easiest way? (I did it this time by making a new "custom…

    Marc Santhoff, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    9
  2. offline IDE Help files

    The other day somebody asked me if there are offline help files available for the Lazarus IDE itself. I had a look, and everything seems to be online via the wiki site. …

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Bee, Vincent Snijders
    4
  3. MacOS 10.5 - Compiling a package stops without error message

    Hello ! When I try to compile my package with visual components using makefile, then compilation and linking successfully finishes. When I try to compile from IDE, then…

    Roland Turcan, Mattias Gaertner, Mattias Gärtner
    3
  4. Using extensions for text file names .

    In \fpc\ and \lazarus\ directories , some text file names do not have an extension such as *.TXT . This situation is causing difficulty in MS Windows because when I ( or…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, Lord Satan, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  5. Create transparency

    My code loads a PNG image from resource, modifies it, and then paints on canvas: var png: TPortableNetworkGraphic; img: TLazIntfImage; bmp: TBitmap; begin // load from…

    Valdas Jankūnas, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Marc Weustink
    6
  6. Questions about Lazarus

    I have a few questions about Lazarus, in particular for my OS, Linux Ubuntu 8.04 { Hardy Heron }: (1) Does Lazarus (or should I say Free Pascal) support "Virtual…

    Peter Williams, Chris Kirkpatrick, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  7. smart tabs but 2 spaces tab width

    I'm not really happy with lazarus' tab indentation feature. When the next line has an indentation wider than standard tab width, which is set to 2 spaces in my case, the…

    Marc Santhoff, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  8. Incompatible types for OnChange?

    I noticed something, which I can't explain. Here is the question in ide/editoroptions is procedure: procedure GeneralCheckBoxOnChange(Sender: TObject; Index: integer);…

    Martin Friebe, Marc Weustink, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  9. DBGrid Picklist

    How can I send you the test project we discussed in the bug report? bob k. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:…

    Bob K., Jesus Reyes
    1
  10. Synedits TokenAccu, uing move()

    In Synedit's PaintLines is a functioin called AddHighlightToken. At one point it copies the current token to the end of the TokenAccu. At this point a remark can be…

    Martin Friebe, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  11. Linker error recompiling Lazarus on Mac OS X

    I want to go back to gtk. But I get a linking error, and the Carbon IDE does not show any command line outputs. How can I solve this problem? Tobias

    Tobias Giesen, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  12. TStringList error

    I'm getting the error: unit1.pas(48,3) Warning: Local variable "List" does not seem to be initialized Here's the code (which used to work): unit Unit1; {$mode…

    Bob K., Cesar Romero, Vincent Snijders
    4
  13. synedit, and moving the cursor during automated operations

    See also: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11716 http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11474 Sometimes Synedit moves the cursor around to perform replace, search…

    Martin Friebe, Mattias Gärtner
    1
  14. Building Lazarus on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

    Hello General mailing list! I have upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.5.4 and the serious problem with compilation vanished, but I think, I have a little problem with library…

    Roland Turcan, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    10
  15. Migrating high integrated to windows library

    Im trying to migrate a high integrated to windows delphi librayr to lazarus. The library calls to many windows api functions for graphics. Theres any reference of…

    German Pablo Gentile, Tobias Giesen
    3
  16. is the website down?

    I haven't been able to bring it up for the past couple of days.

    John Meyer, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, matt shaffer
    2
  17. iconv header

    I've added an iconv header that's tested on freebsd/32, linux/32 and Darwin/ppc to FPC 2.3.1. I hope this can solve the ugly "run iconv utility" hack in lconvencoding in…

    Marco van de Voort
    0
  18. DisplayFormat property of dbgrid?

    I wasn't able to tell that the DisplayFormat property of dbgrid did anything at all. Is this documented anywhere? And apparently, there is no EditFormat I want to do is…

    Howard Lee Harkness
    0
  19. Mac OS X : LazBuild does not build with latest svn update

    The latest svn, revision 15796, does not build lazarus builder for either PowerPC or i386. The Error given in both cases is "lazbuild.lpr(337,62)Error:Wrong number of…

    Dominique Louis, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  20. Joke about Java

    "When we created Java, we where specially focused on bringhing our target programmers with a notably patience...and we did it!" (CEO JAVA Project - Sun Microsystems).…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Boian Mitov, cyberpython
    2
  21. Gtk2 division by 0 in themes fix

    I noticed you added a Set8087CW() to fix this problem, but it doesn't work for me, at least on amd64 with trackbar. I made a simple pure gtk+ C and pascal 1:1 program to…

    Ales Katona, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  22. Building Lazarus on MacOS 10.3.9 Panther

    Hello General mailing list! I have checked out the latest FPC and Lazarus SVNs. Building and installing FPC was without any problem. But the building of Lazarus has the…

    Roland Turcan, Tom Gregorovic
    2
  23. FPC version 2.2.2 RC2 is out

    After some testing and fixing minor installation and other issues, RC2 for version 2.2.2 is available for testing. Downloads for major platforms…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  24. Colouring StringGrids

    I'm using the following code to (unsuccessfully) colour the fields of a row in a tstringgrid if the second column is empty. if StringGrid2.Cells[1,i]='' then begin…

    Dave Coventry, Coppola Ing. Salvatore, Graeme Geldenhuys
    8
  25. Building lazarus on MacOS 10.3

    Hello 'General mailing list'! I have set the path variable into ~/.bash_profile to directory where I have installed the FPC compiler. If I execute "ppcppc" in any…

    Roland Turcan, Dominique Louis, Marc Weustink
    5
  26. More for the Lazarus Wish list

    This is more for the Wish list, if such a list exists for Lazarus. Lately I've been trying to isolate some AV's in Carbon, but sometimes I wish Lazarus could show me a…

    Bent Normann Olsen, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gärtner
    2
  27. ctrl mouse link in "compiler directives" or comments (which color)?

    I am trying to figure out, what is intended currently, and/or what may be acceptable. At current the implementation of the Ctrl Mouse Link suggests that out of the RGB…

    Martin Friebe, Mattias Gärtner
    2
  28. Article writers wanted.

    recently I spoke to Detlef Overbeek, editor of the Blaise Pascal magazine (http://blaisepascal.eu) and he asked me if there would be people interested in writing an…

    Marc Weustink, Boian Mitov, Chris Kirkpatrick
    3
  29. Installing Lazarus first time in FreeBSD 7 Stable ( 2008-06 ) .

    Installing Lazarus port as "root" in FreeBSD 7 Stable ( 2008-06 ) is giving the following errors : (1) "pkg_add -vr lazarus" is working but not like "pkg_add -vr fpc"…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
    0
  30. The drop-down menu not list data table

    I connect to a database, using the DBComboBox component, linked to a field in the Datasource, running, we can see the current record field values. However, the mouse…

    peng, Joost van der Sluis
    3
  31. Unreleased GDIObjects in GTK1 widgetset

    I am trying out the latest Lazarus Data Desktop application (included with Lazarus). I got the latest svn versions of FPC and Lazarus. It seems the LCL-GTK1 widgetset is…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  32. FPC 2.3.x and Lazarus

    I know this issue is probably an fpc one but I hope someone can give me some hints to go on. I have on my Arch Linux fpc 2.2.0 packaged one and svn lazarus snapshot.…

    Antonio Sanguigni, Marc Weustink, Mattias Gaertner
    7
  33. Carbon: Error rebuilding Lazarus

    I have installed the latest Lazarus snapshot for Mac i386 (0.9.25beta, FPC 2.2.2, r15730), and managed to set it up to be stable, compile test programs and applications,…

    Bent Normann Olsen, Ales Katona, Bee
    7
  34. bracket highlighting and context (eg mixing of quoted and unquoted brackets) / see bug 0009652

    This is a follow up to bug http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=9652 highlighted instead of the opening bracket after pos An unquoted bracket (which is meaningful…

    Martin Friebe, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  35. Mac OS X : Bitmap.Canvas.TextHeight/TextWidth causes AV!!

    As the subject says on Mac OS X, Intel, Any calls to Bitmap.Canvas.TextHeight or Bitmap.Canvas.TextWidth causes an AV. Dominique.

    Dominique Louis
    1
  36. lazarus-0.9.24-fpc-2.2.0-20071108-win64 - no text on buttons (64 bit vista)

    Most dialog boxes with Yes/No or Yes/No/Cancel or Ok/Cancel buttons only have the pictures but no text, when I installed lazarus 0.9.24 on Vista-x64. A demo app compiled…

    Warren Postma
    0
  37. Problems drag&dropping from a TStringGrid

    I'm porting some delphi code. In one of my forms I drag from a TStringGrid and drop to a TSpinEdit (to "visually" put the value in one of the rows of the string-grid in…

    Luca Olivetti, Jesus Reyes
    3
  38. Column-Selection-Mode and tabs (selecting half a tab)

    There is an "oddity", and I am trying to find out the correct behaviour: Set your editor options to: Tabs to spaces: NO smart tabs: NO tabs indent block:NO show special…

    Martin Friebe, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  39. Image changes - data desktop

    The images changes caused some problems in the lazarus database desktop. I have patched it so it works again with the new images code. There are some other small fixes…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Mattias Gärtner
    2
  40. Lazarus editor enhancements.

    I saw these two features in the Delphi 2007 "What's new" web page. They look like very handy features. Anybody have have the skills and time to implement these in…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, ik, Mattias Gärtner
    7
  41. TDbGrid and multiselect

    Under delphi 2, in a dbgrid with multiselect (and rowselect), the current row is part of the selection, and the selection is extended with shift+arrows up/down, as well…

    Luca Olivetti, Jesus Reyes
    6
  42. When adding a packages it adds to uses clause

    Why when I add one of my own custom packages, it adds the package's main unit to the projects uses clause? eg: I have a packages called fpgui_package.lpk and when I add…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Hess, Philip J
    8
  43. Is there anyone who use lazarus to develop the commercial products targeted on multiple platform?

    Especially on mac. Recently I plan to port some of my products from windows to mac, if it is possible :) So I doubted if someone did this before~ thanx for all the…

    davy zhang, Boian Mitov, Dominique Louis
    6
  44. new widget implementation - class hierarchy help required

    I'm working on the LCL-fpGUI widget set. I'm mainly working on two units. FpGuiWSControls.pas and FpGuiWSStdCtrls.pas. All components in FpGuiWSStdCtrls seem to descend…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Marc Weustink
    2
  45. SynEdit question (IFDEF SYN_LAZARUS)

    Hi I was just wondering, in Synedit, there are many Lazarus specific modifications. On top of this the original code (or what I believe to be the original code) is kept.…

    Martin Friebe, Mattias Gaertner, Mattias Gärtner
    10
  46. zeos and heaptrc (interfaces?)

    I was trying to detect memory leaks, so I activated the -gh (use heaptrc) option in compiler options. I left it activated and I added a zeos component (an sql query). As…

    Luca Olivetti, Boguslaw Brandys, Joao Morais
    6
  47. LGPL question

    The LCL and FPC is licensed under a modified LGPL. The text in COPYING.LGPL still refers to version 2 (1991). Can I license my modifications under the latest LGPL…

    Bart, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  48. New Lazarus package - MouseAndKeyInput

    I have finished new tool for Lazarus: MouseAndKeyInput package is a tool for cross-platform manipulation with mouse and key input. You can move mouse cursor to specified…

    Tom Gregorovic, davy zhang, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    2
  49. Bringing a form to the foreground

    Is there a portable way of bringing an application to the foreground, specifically so that its "Do you really want to quit?" dialogue is immediately visible? The…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  50. Java's Document & Elements model

    Has anybody studied or tried to implement the Java 'Document' model yet? Every text Swing component (JTextArea, JTextEdit, JTextPane etc) uses the Document class…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Guadagnini David
    20