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lazarus · 2009-08

  1. codetools tooltip showing method visibility

    Many times I am working with large classes that are much bigger than what is visible in the editor view. Is there any way the tooltip shown over a property or method can…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Alexander Shishkin, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    47
  2. IOI: Lazarus and Free Pascal

    International Olympiad in Informatics allows only c++ and free pascal. Provided editors : ... lazarus ...…

    Den Jean, Alexander Klenin, Florian Klaempfl
    10
  3. Release preparations

    We have started preparations for the upcoming Lazarus 0.9.28 release. svn trunk has been branched to a fixes_0_9_28 branch, which be used to create the release from.…

    Vincent Snijders, CubicDesign, Graeme Geldenhuys
    23
  4. IDE still unable to handle path containing spaces?

    While FPC had support for unit path (-Fu) containing spaces, Lazarus IDE still rejects them. If I forced them, the IDE couldn't handle them, as if they don't exist. Is…

    Bee Jay, dmitry boyarintsev, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  5. Git mirror now tracks "fixes_0.9.28" branch

    Just to let anybody interested know that "fixes_0.9.28" is now being tracked in the Git mirror as well. I'm using Git's cherry-pick command against trunk to keep the new…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  6. MDIform

    can someone help me to work with MDIForm? I tried to use as you would in Delphi, it did not work. thanks Andr? Lu?s Lazarus 9.26.2…

    André Almeida, zeljko
    1
  7. Default uses clause in project unit

    When you create a new project in Lazarus, the default uses classe in the *.lpr file looks as follows: --------------- uses {$IFDEF UNIX}{$IFDEF UseCThreads}…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Alexey S. Smirnov, Mattias Gaertner
    9
  8. International Olympiad in Informatics 2009 and FreePascal

    on the news on freepascal.org I see that International Olympiad in Informatics 2009 has been won by a person using freepascal. I searched the original homepage…

    Samuel Herzog, Luis R. Hilario B.
    1
  9. GTK2 app thows errors at application startup

    Every time I start up any LCL+GTK2 application, it throws the following error to the console window. Is this something to worry about? Do I need to report this in…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  10. TRadioGroup doesn't position content correctly at startup

    I have noticed this in Lazarus IDE and now also noticed this in my own LCL based applications. See the attached screenshots. When the application starts up the initial…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt, Torsten Bonde Christiansen
    3
  11. New CHM documentation snapshot

    I uploaded a new snapshot of the docs in CHM format. http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/doc-chm.zip Fixes in this snapshot: - the last snapshot had corrupted links -> fixed. -…

    Marco van de Voort
    0
  12. Groupboxes in the IDE

    Is there a reason, why the Lazarus IDE is using groupboxes with normal font as well as a combination of bevels and label with bold font for groupbox functionality? For…

    theo, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marc Weustink
    10
  13. Does anyone else having problems with FPC 2.5.1, GTK2 on Debian ?

    Hello everyone. My first post on Mailing-list. Some days ago i created a bugrep due to some strange behavior of TListview on Debian Etch. After some research, i?m not…

    Marcelo Borges de Paula, Henry Vermaak, Mattias Gärtner
    7
  14. Thread List Window in the IDE

    As far as I know, Lazarus doesn't have a Thread List Window available. So I am trying to setup and external tools menu item which will do this for me, but I am have some…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner, Mattias Gärtner
    8
  15. delphi - virus

    Just something I found: http://www.h-online.com/security/Virus-infects-development-environment--/news/114031

    Martin, Andrew Brunner, Bruce Tulloch
    18
  16. how to create pdf

    dear all, i want to create pdf file from text file which the data are dynamic, i have read the sample but the data are static which use powerpdf component, is there any…

    Dians
    0
  17. New version of Excel Interface unit available

    A new version of ExcelInterface is now available (version 0.4) here: http://tcoq.free.fr/composants.html It's provided as is, under the MPL 1.1 license. This is…

    Thierry Coq, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Leslie Kaye
    7
  18. TTrayIcon on Cocoa

    I've installed the Cocoa package and recompiled the LCL with the CarbonUseCocoa compiler define, and now the TrayIcon appears nicely in the status bar. But I can't click…

    Tobias Giesen, dmitry boyarintsev, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    16
  19. Lazarus IDE help and Application help formats

    This is exactly what I was thinking of doing as well. Thinking about this a bit more and what could apply to my own applications context sensitive help. He is the…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Andrew Haines, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    24
  20. Sorting, mergesort and quicksort

    Hello: Just a question. I've been lurking the source of LCL and I've seen that in many places (gtk, files and others...) to sort lists uses mergesort. As far as I know,…

    Santiago A., Hans-Peter Diettrich, Marco van de Voort
    5
  21. Help not working at all in Lazarus - No help found for Unit1.pas at (x, y)

    Hi. Every time I hit the F1 key in Lazarus IDE I get this error "No help found for Unit1.pas at (x,y)". How can I fix this? 10x -------------- next part --------------…

    CubicDesign, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  22. StringGrid cell validation implemented

    Hi, I would like to have replied to the original msg "StringGrid Woes" thread but even when at the moment I have more than 10000 msg in history that particular thread…

    Jesus Reyes, Graeme Geldenhuys, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    12
  23. TStringGrid Cell drawing

    Well, I've managed to custom draw cells, but it's a bit rough. Delphi seems to have a TStringGrid.drawcell function, but I couldn't find an equivalent in FPC/Lazarus. Is…

    Matt Shaffer, Graeme Geldenhuys, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    19
  24. Complicated stuff: How to interact with a specific shell window?

    Hi. I am new to Lazarus :) I need to write a graphic interface for an existing shell application (actually it is a collection of running daemons). The shell application…

    CubicDesign
    0
  25. StatusItem in a Carbon app

    I've been able to use the pascocoa sample code to add a status item to my Carbon app, and it works to some extent. At first it did not respond to clicks, so I switched…

    Tobias Giesen
    1
  26. Documentation and Help for Lazarus

    This thread seems to have changed into one that discusses the provision of Help for Lazarus, so I'm going to start a new thread. I am currently trying systematically to…

    Chris Kirkpatrick, Graeme Geldenhuys, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    24
  27. Duplicate typing in GTK2 widgets

    I am pleased to hear that 0.9.28 is coming out soon. I have checked recent version, 0.9.29.21373-20090821.i386.rpm. New GTK2 interface looks nice, but I met a serious…

    Haruyuki FUJIMAKI, Mattias Gaertner, Vincent Snijders
    4
  28. programmer / project statistics

    I read recently a section in the "Test-Driven Development" book by Kent Beck that JUnit and whatever his development environment was tracks programming statistics.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Henry Vermaak
    15
  29. How to set my locale

    I've just installed Lazalus, and rush to set my locale, Thai. Unfortunately, it does not work. Help, please Tawee L.

    Tawee Laoitichote, Mattias Gaertner, Mattias Gärtner
    6
  30. Lazarus has unique font sizes

    This is a classic case of seeing a problem for so long that later you don't even realize it is there. In all my years of working on computers, Lazarus is the *only*…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Chris Kirkpatrick, dmitry boyarintsev
    58
  31. local procedure - MultiThreadProc

    I need to call ProcThreadPool.DoParallel with "local" procedure as a parameter. Does DoParallel allow local procedures to pass a procedural parameters ? I get err: Error:

    Jan Kowalski, Florian Klaempfl, Martin
    12
  32. IDE help sample - asciidoc format

    In the message thread "Lazarus IDE help and Application help formats" I mentioned alternatives formats for the Lazarus IDE Help. As I said, I don't think the wiki and…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  33. opengl and compiz

    I saw that the bug ID 0011740 (OpenGLControl stutters with Compiz enabled ) is solved. Anyway I still encounter some problems using opengl when compiz is enabled. I…

    Andrea Mauri, Aleš Katona, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  34. Mantis: Lazarus > Packages > JCF is missing

    Can somebody add JCF (Jedi Code Formatter) as a category in Mantis (Lazarus > Packages). I was told by Paul to submit JCF patches in the Packages section of Mantis, but…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  35. Jedi Code Formatter - sync with upstream

    How often is JCF changes merged/synced from upstream? What is the correct development procedure for JCF in Lazarus? Because I make changes in my JCF code that is…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Paul Ishenin
    2
  36. How to query vertical scrollbar width?

    I'm working on some GUI code in the tiOPF project that currently works with VCL, LCL and fpGUI. We are resizing the last column of a StringGrid so that we leave space…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Vincent Snijders
    2
  37. IDE editor's NoteBook component problems

    Two questions... 1. Why is the TNoteBook component used for editor pages instead of the TPageControl. I thought the TPageControl was preferred component in applications?…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Funky Beast, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    20
  38. http://svn2.freepascal.org is out of sync

    The backup/mirror repository is out of sync with he primary repository. It seems to be the live of me I couldn't figure out why the Git mirror doesn't have the r21283…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Vincent Snijders
    2
  39. Problem with LAZEReport

    Hi every body I'm working with the french version of LAZEReport and I have a problem with the printing in vertical of a column header. Is that possible ? I select my…

    Unknown author
    0
  40. Debug component at design time

    How debug component at design time, can i run Lazarus from Lazarus then debug the component code?. Thanks in advance. Zaher Dirkey

    Zaher Dirkey, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  41. Lazarus and Windows 7

    I installed W7 Prof. today on my PC and tested several programs. Lazarus basically works though it cannot compile but this could be also to my lazarus installation.…

    Florian Klaempfl, dmitry boyarintsev, Graeme Geldenhuys
    12
  42. File write speed and random function

    I wrote a small (GUI) program with Delphi which tests the performance writing to a file on a drive. It creates a file and then writes "random" numbers to it. I have the…

    Jürgen Hestermann, JoshyFun
    1
  43. Issue: http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14365

    As I can not post in not mine bugs I'll add the comment here: The code does not perform the right job because the parent is changed but not the owner. I think that…

    JoshyFun
    0
  44. Website connectivity

    In the past, some people reported problems connecting to the main FPC website or the main SVN repository. Typical symptoms were empty HTML pages, but pinging to the…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  45. Server down

    There will be an update on the lazarus server that hosts www.lazarus.freepascal.org (web site and forum) and the mailing lists. We expect that everything will be up…

    Vincent Snijders
    0
  46. SQLDb ApplyUpdates

    Lazarus: SVN a week ago. fpc: 2.2.3, 2.2.4 Database: Firebird 1.5 and 2.1 Does anybody known a reason why this code will crash: SQLQuery1.Delete; SQLQuery1.ApplyUpdates;…

    JoshyFun, Joost van der Sluis
    3
  47. Scanline on certain size images seems to be failing : Access Violation...

    I have the following 2 functions to determine the transparency colour of a bitmap... // Returns the transparent color for the bitmap function…

    Unknown author, Mattias Gaertner, theo
    5
  48. Multi-threading support in IDE

    Does the Lazarus IDE use multi-threading for anything? Will it take advantage of a Quad Core processor? Examples where I think it could be used (if not already) -…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Andrew Brunner, dmitry boyarintsev
    103
  49. Problem with Includes during Design Time

    I get this error message when I'm in the IDE and try to double click any component on the form instance. TCodeToolManager.HandleException: "include file not found…

    Andrew Brunner, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  50. LazReport Status

    Please, keep us informed when you remove the dependency ;-) Luiz

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Florian Klaempfl, Graeme Geldenhuys
    21