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lazarus · 2010-01

  1. Window body dragging

    I am investigating how to make a component act like the title bar, in the sense that it can be used to drag the window around. We have 2 solutions at the moment: 1 - Use…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, dmitry boyarintsev, Flávio Etrusco
    32
  2. Sourceforge and Cuba

    Hello: Because of USA policy, Sourceforge has blocked users from Cuba, Iran North Corea and other "rogue countries".…

    svaa, Flávio Etrusco, Florian Klaempfl
    36
  3. Reconstructing Lazarus Website 1: the appearance

    Continuing our discussion on the other thread, let's get some real action. From this email, I will suggest and collecting some ideas about what we're gonna do with…

    Bee Jay, Aleksa Todorovic, dmitry boyarintsev
    18
  4. cross-distro (and OS) app installation - what would you like?

    Another way OSS works is that you're not our mommy. Okay, here's some feedback: Use a platform-specific tool for installation. On Windows, Inno Setup is powerful and…

    Phil Hess, Bogusław Brandys, Daniel Simoes de Ameida
    20
  5. CSV parser class

    I made a unit to work with files in CSV (comma separated values) format and would like to submit it to Lazarus CCR. What is the best way to proceed? Vladimir Zhirov

    Vladimir Zhirov, Alexander Klenin, Graeme Geldenhuys
    21
  6. Cross Compile: Host Linux amd64; "Guests": Linux i386, Win32, Win64

    you can install and run the i386 package on amd64, you just need to override the platform check with a --force option and some 32-bit compatibility libraries (which are…

    Benito van der Zander, Osvaldo Filho
    1
  7. FCL-Web and new WebDesign packages

    Some of you already know that I work on more web-components for Lazarus/Freepascal. I've created a new package (zipfile) which contains several packages which adds extra…

    Joost van der Sluis, Adrian Veith, Andrew Brunner
    52
  8. AV in Wince/ARM when run app.

    I cannot run my application on WinCE (WM 5 and WM 6.1) when i remote debug it crash in application.inc line 386 Res := FindResource(HInstance, PChar('MAINICON'),…

    Zaher Dirkey
    2
  9. Reconstructing Lazarus Website 4: the dev tool

    One more thing, but this is optional, we should give the decision to the one who are gonna do the real work: what tool are we going to use to serve the backend? PHP?…

    Bee Jay, Alex du Plessis, Dave Coventry
    38
  10. Reconstructing Lazarus Website 3: the merger

    The last thing is: should we merge FPC and Lazarus? If so, why? If not, what's the reason? This is important, IMO. Most people know Lazarus is the "official" FPC IDE.…

    Bee Jay, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Marco van de Voort
    10
  11. Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

    Now, let's talk about the content and its structure. From the first email, I have shared some references, maybe we could go from there. Some things need to be considered…

    Bee Jay, Aleksa Todorovic, Graeme Geldenhuys
    7
  12. [Fwd: Re: Is Lazarus a Delphi plagiat?]

    IMO a good add-on to the "Lazarus is invisible?" thread. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Anders Isaksson Subject: Re:…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Andreas Schneider, Andrew Brunner
    34
  13. Unable to create file jcfsettings.cfg

    I changed jcf code to save/load this file from the PrimaryConfigDir. Before it was placed near the lazarus.exe file. When lazarus runs the first time it saves old (and…

    Paul Ishenin, Marcelo B de Paula, silvioprog
    13
  14. Mouse move event

    Hi All. How can I catch mouse move event when Form is down in Taskbar ? FormMouseMove works only with active Form on the screen. Thank You.

    Milan Baša, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    1
  15. Icon loading not working

    Seems that loading images from the IDE doesn't work with yesterdays snapshots, 0.9.29 rev 23574 on Vista 32 Business Edition. Clicking the "LoadIcon" just about…

    Lee Jenkins, Paul Ishenin
    2
  16. Lazarus Forum seems to be hacked!

    The Lazarus forum (http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=forum) is very, very slow ATM, it takes me > 1 minute to load a page (tested on different…

    Bart, Florian Klaempfl, Marc Weustink
    19
  17. Cross Compile: Host Linux amd64; "Guests": Linux i386, Win32 , Win64

    How can i do this? Using the scripts I managed to create Debian packages for Win32 crosscompiler. In this case I can not install because the package is not generated for…

    Osvaldo Filho
    0
  18. Lazarus fails to find fpcres

    I normally don't add FPC bin directory to my PATH environment variable, because I use multiple versions of FPC. But around the time FPC 2.4.0 was released, Lazarus IDE…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Giulio Bernardi
    3
  19. Request to unlist Arabic language.

    I like to distribute Lazarus the official setup to some newbie students, but Lazarus use our locale to open with Arabic language, We all Arabic develpers use the English…

    Zaher Dirkey, Graeme Geldenhuys, ik
    6
  20. Make clean not cleaning all

    try "make bigideclean" Paul Ishenin.

    Paul Ishenin, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marcelo B de Paula
    11
  21. How to change default font for the application

    Hello lazarus project! How can I manipulate the default font for the application during application startup as in the past in CLX's "TApplication.Font". I want to avoid…

    Roland Turcan
    0
  22. cursor image

    Is there a cross platform (or a GTK/QT solution if not) how to get from X,Y the mouse cursor handle and from there to translate it to it's original icon ? Ido…

    ik, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Paul Ishenin
    7
  23. Carbon: TCalendar

    Does anybody know about not working TCalendar on Carbon? It doesn't react on click events. BTW: How can I search in bug tracker if this bug is already reported? Best…

    Roland Turcan, dmitry boyarintsev
    1
  24. Fatal: Internal Error 20051152

    It started to show this %subject% since I added some code into {$IF MyBoolCondition} example: {$MODE Delphi} Unit MyUnit; interface Uses MyConditions; {$IF MyCond}…

    Roland Turcan, Vincent Snijders
    1
  25. Lazarus is invisible?

    Hi everyone I've been using delphi 4, 5, 6 for years, and only recently discovered Lazarus. I will definitely use it. It seems to me that this is a major package, but…

    Mike Parr, Flávio Etrusco, Graeme Geldenhuys
    20
  26. ChangeBiDiModeAlignment is same BidiFlipAlignment

    In Controls.pp svn #23551 The new function ChangeBiDiModeAlignment work as the old one BidiFlipAlignment. If you like, change the name of BidiFlipAlignment to new one…

    Zaher Dirkey
    0
  27. Improving IDE Internationalization

    Happy new year to everyone. I?m having some troubles when using other compiler messages files to compile Lazarus or when using fpc compiled with other message file…

    Marcelo Borges de Paula, dmitry boyarintsev, Graeme Geldenhuys
    18
  28. Cucumber and other testing framework

    I wish to implement Cucumber <http://cukes.info/> (a BDD based testing framework). It has a protocol that needs to be implemented:…

    ik, Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  29. Powered by - Logo

    are there any logos which I can use in my software to show that it is developed with Lazarus? Maybe my eyes are getting worser in my age, but I have not found anything.…

    Michael Fuchs, Brad Campbell, Graeme Geldenhuys
    6
  30. bug report: I had to laugh

    Anybody had the joy of experiencing the following dialog? See the screenshot in the bug report. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15564 Is somebody promoting bigger…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Alexander Klenin, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    9
  31. Cross platform 'open file with default program'

    Does someone implemented a function to open the system default app associated of a given file type? Similar to OpenURL? Luiz

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, cobines, dmitry boyarintsev
    9
  32. AV in TGtk2WSCustomListBox.SetItemIndex

    is anybody else experiencing an AV with TListBox on Ubuntu (gtk2), e.g. when trying opening the Add Unit/Requirement in the project inspector. The AV is raised by calls…

    Flávio Etrusco, Marc Weustink, zeljko
    5
  33. Groudwork for Undo in Form Designer

    After lots of browsing and debugging I figured out how keyboard shortcuts are handled in Lazarus code. So complicated! They are just keypresses. My goal was to get Form…

    Juha Manninen, ajv, Aleksa Todorovic
    98
  34. Errors in some units from svn

    Hello I've updated the sources of lazarus via svn and when I compile the IDE, get some errors: 1. On *c:\lazarus\components\synedit\synpropertyeditobjectlist.pas*, the…

    Guionardo Furlan, Alexander Klenin
    3
  35. IDEIntf: Extract PropHooks from PropEdits unit

    I continue refactoring of PropEdits unit. I am ready to extract TPropertyEditHook into a separate unit. Although Paul have given me commit access to IDEIntf, he…

    Alexander Klenin, Mattias Gaertner, Mattias Gärtner
    8
  36. PropEdits.TGetStringProc duplicated Classes. TGetStrProc

    TGetStringProc = procedure(const s:ansistring) of object; TGetStrProc = procedure(const S: string) of object; I think TGetStringProc is redundant and should be removed.…

    Alexander Klenin, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Mattias Gaertner
    10
  37. cross-distro (and OS) app installation - what would you like?

    Our company projects requires a flexible and easy to use setup program to work on various Linux distros as well as Windows. Mac support will probably come in a year or…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    62
  38. DBGrid highlighting certain cells

    What is the recommended way of highlighting (by changing cell background color) certain cells based on there display value? In Delphi I did the following: *…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Andrea Mauri, Jesus Reyes
    4
  39. Command constants (Lazarus internals)

    About Lazarus internal code: I was planning to combine command constants from lazarus/components/synedit/SynEditKeyCmds.pp into lazarus/ideintf/IDECommands.pas Now I…

    Juha Manninen, Mattias Gärtner
    2
  40. Retrieve VersionInfo at runtime

    Is there a way to retrieve the version info that is stored in the project file at runtime? Luiz

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Brad Campbell, Graeme Geldenhuys
    14
  41. FTP Server component?

    I looked at lnet and TurboPower IPro components and only saw FTP Client components. Anybody know where I could get a FTP Server component? Alternatively, a free or…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Matt Shaffer, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  42. DBGrid painting confusion

    Inside TCustomDBGrid.DefaultDrawColumnCell, the code looks as follows: -------------------------------------------- procedure TCustomDBGrid.DefaultDrawColumnCell(const…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jesus Reyes
    2
  43. Application.QueueAsyncCall()

    Is QueueAsyncCall() threadsafe? Let's say I have a communications child thread and I want to trigger a call back in the main GUI thread. Traditionally I'd do something…

    Brad Campbell, cobines, Flávio Etrusco
    11
  44. Mouse cursor support under Linux (GTK1/GTK2)

    Is mouse cursor support also a known and "will not fix" issue? Just before I start a long running process I set Screen.Cursor := crHourGlass and then start the process.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Paul Ishenin
    2
  45. Error: illegal qualifier [ found

    I updated Lazarus svn to revision 23510, but from some revs (at least from some hours ago), when I press ctrl+space at the end of an array to open the menu I get the…

    Kjow, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  46. lazarus editor coloring

    I've noticed two things that are missing at Lazarus: 1. The ability to add/save new color style I'm making 2. Loading custom made coloring I always change the default…

    ik, Graeme Geldenhuys, Paul Ishenin
    3
  47. Can't compile Lazarus from latest svn

    I get error: Compiling E:\lazarus\packager\frames\compiler_buildvar_options.pas Compiling .\frames\compiler_conditionals_options.pas…

    Žilvinas Ledas, Mattias Gaertner, Paul Ishenin
    5
  48. Delphi mode syntax error

    I use Delphi style of programing in Lazarus to keep a compatibility with Kylix and therefore I want to get this code which is valid of Freepascal's ObjectPascal, but in…

    Roland Turcan, Alexander Klenin
    1
  49. vga dependency

    Hello all I am learning free pascal / lazarus by porting a delphi application at work to lazarus on linux ( Mandriva 2010 ). So far I have got it to compile but when I…

    tim launchbury, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  50. Build/Rebuild lazarus with components

    I need to compile lazarus in terminal (or command prompt) including all components already installed. I mean that I made a simple batch script on windows startup that…

    Kjow, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Luca Olivetti
    22