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lazarus · 2010-05

  1. Write to root window?

    I imagine its possible but I haven't a clue to know even where to beg in looking. Is it possible to write to the root window in X (i386 Linux)? I'd like to manipulate…

    Jon Foster, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marc Weustink
    4
  2. gdb and qt

    is gdb (as downloaded directly from mingw) known to have issues debugging QT apps? It keeps crashing here... (no idea, what if wants with "foo" => doesn't exist)…

    Martin, Bogusław Brandys, zeljko
    4
  3. Installing FPC/Lazarus on Windows using SVN, no binaries

    Whenever I used the Lazarus on Windows, has been through the binary compiled. Simply download and install. Now I'm want to install Lazarus on Windows but not using the…

    Marcos Douglas, Andrew Brunner, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
    54
  4. contnrs.pp(11, 35) Fatal: Can't find unit contnrs used by Masks

    Sorry for bothering you again. I (after compiling and installing fpc) again get this message when I create a new project, but an existing project still does compile OK.…

    Michael Schnell, Bogusław Brandys, Marc Weustink
    11
  5. fpweb for delphi?

    I saw fpWeb has potential to be known as a good web framework for pascal language. But, I also saw it's too heavily tighted with FPC infrastructure. Can we make it more…

    Bee Jay, Andrew Brunner, Dimitri Smits
    79
  6. easy cross-platform compiling??

    why can't one locate easily installable, pre-packaged "add-ons" (not correct term) for cross-compiling capabilities? for example, one might install the win32 flavor of…

    waldo kitty, Andreas Schneider, Florian Klaempfl
    17
  7. TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

    [oops, this went out from the wrong email address the first time I tried to send. Let me try this again, with the address I'm subscribed under] I'm using a snapshot…

    Rick, Alexander Klenin, waldo kitty
    22
  8. T*Edit align and anchors

    I have some problems with TDirectoryEdit, TFileNameEdit etc when I try to align them. For example if I set align = alTop the edit is aligned and the button disappears.…

    Andrea Mauri, Graeme Geldenhuys, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    9
  9. clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting "case"]

    On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 14:40 +0200, Message: 9 Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 21:27:18 +0100 From: Vannus Subject: On 27 May 2010 20:25, waldo kitty whereas:- and when it at that…

    Peter E Williams, Graeme Geldenhuys, Vannus
    2
  10. IDE layouts

    Here's my idea about loadable IDE layouts: 1) When the IDE starts, it looks for a user layout, then for a default layout, and if one is found, restores that screen…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, dmitry boyarintsev, Flávio Etrusco
    13
  11. User defined colorschemes

    It is now possible to export the color settings to an XML file. Other users can drop this xml file into there primary_conf_path/userschemes/ folder (may need to be…

    Martin, Graeme Geldenhuys, Maxim Ganetsky
    3
  12. Minimizing Lazarus apps

    Why Lazarus apps randomly minimizes at the left of the screen? Is it a bug? Ant?nio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:…

    Antônio, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  13. quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting "case"

    What are the opinions. Do you like/dislike the new highlighting of case-labels? e.g case a of *foo* : *bar*, *def*: end; In your opinion, should it be: - off by default…

    Martin, Alexander Klenin, dmitry boyarintsev
    81
  14. too many TXMLConfigs! (att: fcl-xml package maintainers)

    Hello Developers I'm a bit puzzled there're 2 units in fpc-xml: xmlcfg and xmlconfg Both of them declare TXMLConfig class. The interfaces of both classes seems to be…

    dmitry boyarintsev, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    8
  15. Lazarus Digest, Vol 28, Issue 174

    ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 9:16 AM Subject: Lazarus Digest, Vol 28, Issue 174

    Technical, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  16. Using FPC parser/tokenizer for code formatting

    [My first post here; please be forgiving.] Quite sometime ago I worked with Anthony (wasn't much, mainly testing and code suggestions etc.) for a while (2002-2003) on…

    Adem, Aleksa Todorovic, dmitry boyarintsev
    84
  17. Carbon - Ghost objects inside of components

    Hello Lazarus mailing list! I have got some ghost objects painted into components randomly and I don't know how to find out where the objects came from. The fact is…

    Roland Turcan, dmitry boyarintsev
    4
  18. DTD ENTITY question

    I am writing a general parser for DTD files and have made some headway. I need to know the general (canonical?) name for '*%HTMLlat1*;' at the end of the following line:…

    Adem, Sergei Gorelkin
    3
  19. Indy WebDAV

    anybody got this working at all? any other WebDAV clients out there that might work? - V -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:…

    Vannus, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  20. FCL-Image question

    FCL-Image is quite powerful (although notably slow), it is mostly suitable for my needs. I've got it writing a solid black PNG file just fine with the help of the wiki…

    Matt Shaffer
    0
  21. the one bug that was a great feature....

    http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16432 I really loved the old behaviour, you could do *one* clean build, and then the next time it would be a quick build again.…

    Martin
    0
  22. Question about SVN version stability

    I have a question regarding the current status of trunk. I have a self written component which is going into eternal loop in the area BoundsRect. It worked for several…

    theo, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  23. Installing Components

    I have a problem with installing components on upgrading from 0.9.26 to 0.9.29. I have installed several extra components on the previous versions of Lazarus (0.9.26)…

    Technical, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  24. Copying form client area to clipboard and to file

    Please excuse a dumb question, but I've done very little graphics programming and so far haven't found an answer in the docs or via Google. I want to be able to save a…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    4
  25. fpweb with fcgi samples

    I'm about to study fpWeb and its FCGI support. But I didn't see any example that are using FCGI in SVN trunk. There are only CGIs and Apache modules. Can they be used…

    Bee Jay, ABorka, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    39
  26. virus note about 0.9.28.2 package?

    Does someone know, if any virus scanner does not like the lazarus-0.9.28.2-fpc-2.2.4-win32.exe ? Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, José Mejuto
    8
  27. Regex and Syntax Highlighting

    Does anybody know of a website or article I can read about how to integrate regular expressions with an editor to end up with a editor that can handle syntax…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    42
  28. "unexpected feature" of TPaintBox

    the code below is part of a program to draw the Mandelbrot-set. It works, if the canvas is small (stamp-size). However, if the size is increased to 800x800, the middle…

    Engelbert Buxbaum, Marc Weustink, Martin
    4
  29. DBMaskEdit: A small contribuition for Lazarus project.

    This is a small contribuition for Lazarus project. (In attached) A screenshot in my IDE: http://imagebin.org/98483 Thanks, hope you like. ;) Silvio Clecio $ programmer…

    silvioprog, Florian Klaempfl, Graeme Geldenhuys
    21
  30. Auto-identation

    Hello Developers Need your help and suggestion. I can't switch off the auto-identation. I've the option off in Editor->General->Indent and Tabs->"Auto indent" But,…

    dmitry boyarintsev, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  31. fileutil unit dependencies

    Why FileUtil unit uses LCL? There is a comment in the unit: // For Smart Linking: Do not use the LCL! I would like to use some functions included in FileUtil (e.g.…

    Andrea Mauri, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  32. attn mattias / notebook onchange / sourceeditor

    they are no longer triggered at all? so we could skip the if, in sourceeditor and always call by hand? Revision: 25639 Author: mattias Date: 16:54:22, 25 May 2010…

    Martin, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  33. Download old fpc compiler versions

    Does anyone know where i can download old version of fpc (version 2.0.2-0 for linux) i checked the freepascal ftp repository and web, no luck.. Toan

    Toan Pham
    0
  34. component installation failure

    having not made any visual components since Delphi2 I have to ask: 1. When I want to install a visual component to lazarus, does it need to have a package file (.lpk) or…

    Marc Santhoff, Mattias Gaertner
    10
  35. editor colors changed drastically

    I've updated lazarus from svn coming from version 25285 to 25631 and now the editor colors are not shown as expected. The color scheme used is "Pascal Classis" with…

    Marc Santhoff, Martin
    5
  36. Structured info on class watch

    I have a question about debugging: when I a debug a program in Lazarus and point with the mouse to a class instance identifier, then in a hint the current values of the…

    Krisztián Nagy, Flávio Etrusco, Graeme Geldenhuys
    14
  37. KOL-CE function WndProcTransparent not working for Label

    Hi, All I'm testing the TKOLLabelEffect of KOL-CE under WinCE, and I found the property setting to Transparent would not working if any of its background objects has…

    Robin Hoo
    0
  38. Suggestion: Remove GTK1 support from IDE and LCL.

    Since Lazarus switched to using GTK2 by default under Linux, the GTK1 support and stability has been free falling. Maybe it's time to simply remove GTK1 support because…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Bart, Brad Campbell
    104
  39. fpWeb Apache2 Windows

    Hi, I'm trying to do some tests of fpWeb on Windows Seven 64bits using Apache2 (32bits). The first test I did was compiling the HelloWorld sample from…

    Leonardo Rame, ABorka, Joost van der Sluis
    7
  40. Additional compiler config file is ignored by IDE

    I wanted to use the additional compiler config file to enable multiple build modes (Release, Debug etc). The setting is found at: "Project > Options > Compiler Options…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner, Vincent Snijders
    5
  41. Build Lazarus error: Lazarus 0.9.29 r25597M FPC 2.4.0 i386-linux-gtk 2 (beta)

    After update to rev. 25559, I try rebuild IDE, but: (...) . . . "LCL" completed "Package Registration" completed "IDE Interface" completed "SynEdit" completed "Examples"…

    silvioprog, Paul Ishenin
    3
  42. Save from created in runtime to lfm

    I have the following code: Form := TForm.Create(nil); //add children Controls to Form The form is show in runtime correctly What i want is to save this created form (and…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  43. libmysql.dll

    Hi, I'm using Lazarus 0.9.29 64bits on Windows Seven 64bits. I can't make SqlDb's MySql Database connector to work. Just downloaded "MySQL Connector C 6.0.2" from Mysql…

    Leonardo Rame, Vannus
    2
  44. Hook TComponent streaming system

    I'd like to set some properties of a TComponent(TForm) through RTTI before TComponent.Loaded is called. After a call to TMyForm.Create, the component is initiated…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    16
  45. weird issue with executing project in lazarus

    I'm working with Lazarus 0.9.29 r23597:25589M FPC 2.5.1 x86_64-linux-gtk 2 (beta) . When I'm trying to execute (using Run or F9), lazarus trying to execute for some…

    ik, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  46. Fastest way to draw

    I'm experimenting with an Oscilloscope at the moment. I'm using a TImage on a form, and I'm writing using Image.Canvas.Pen / Image.Canvas.Line. Each refresh consists of…

    Brad Campbell, Duncan Parsons, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    13
  47. OT: Ideas for marketing Pascal + Lazarus

    I've seen the following ted talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man.html I wonder how would you market Pascal/Lazarus…

    ik, Antônio, Brad Campbell
    26
  48. Error: Identifier not found "CreateaNewIsland1Click"

    I am now getting an identifier not found error. In the error messages window, if I select Help the lazarus cannot find the local HTML help file. I cannot find my way…

    Peter E Williams, Andrew Brunner, patspiper
    5
  49. PRADO - PHP in Delphi/Lazarus style

    Just recenlty discovered this thing (Prado) that lets you develop PHP in the familiar TButton.OnClick that Lazarus/Delphi use.…

    Vannus, Andrew Brunner, Bee Jay
    3
  50. The default local HTML Help path is blank -- what should it be?

    I asked this question in my previous post but in hindsight I should have posted it as a separate question. Love and Friendship, Peter Eric Williams +61 3 6236-9675 (home…

    Peter E Williams, Mattias Gaertner
    1