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lazarus · 2010-07

  1. SQLitePass package install problems

    just tried to install the design time package for sqlitepass v0.51 under Lazarus 0.9.28.2/svn 22279/Win7 and it complains about not finding Laz_SqlitePassDbo_Runtime.pas.

    K. P., Frank Church, Howard Lee Harkness
    7
  2. Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

    I added a tuturial to compile and install FPC/Lazarus, from sources of SVN, on Windows. Link:…

    Marcos Douglas, Alexsander Rosa, Andreas Schneider
    55
  3. Lazarus Resources

    Hey, people. I'm quite a novice Lazarus programmer, and I would like a bit of help, please. How do I use Lazarus resources? I think I know what they are, files that can…

    Josh Lee, Antônio, Duncan Parsons
    20
  4. Reading a spreadsheet with fpspreadsheet

    I'm having troubles reading a spreadsheet with the demo's of fpspreadsheet. The demo's crash. Could I send a spreadsheet so someone can look why the demo's crash ? If…

    Koenraad Lelon, Bogusław Brandys, Dave Coventry
    22
  5. Some syntax changes

    Perhaps nobody noticed that in the past days the Pascal syntax has changed a bit. This leads to wrong behaviour of the code tools :-( Now unit properties can follow an…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Bernd Kreuss, Mattias Gaertner
    14
  6. Lazarus installation on Mac plus other thoughts

    Hi I have just witnessed how difficult installing Lazarus on Apple Mac can be, although I think the same applies to other operating systems, too. I made a program for my…

    Juha Manninen, Bernd Kreuss, Cox
    26
  7. Problem using TAsyncProcess.OnReadData

    I'm trying to use TAsyncProcess and got into trouble on other widgetsets than GTK2. The code below works fine on Ubuntu 10.04 x64 (GTK2) and openSUSE 11.3 i386 (GTK2),…

    shoKwave, Micha Nelissen
    1
  8. How to get superuser rights

    I've got a simple question. I'm writing a little app with lazarus for linux which executes some terminal commands through fpSystem(). I need superuser rights for this so…

    Krisztián Nagy, Bernd Kreuss, Marco van de Voort
    6
  9. CodeTools: what is an "identifier"

    I am just playing around with the CodeTools and have the following: where node.CodePos.Code is the code of a unit and P is the starting position of something like…

    Bernd Kreuss, Martin, Mattias Gaertner
    18
  10. Android NDK

    Android allows for doing "native" applications for Android powered devices (insted of doing APPs in Java) http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html Does this mean…

    Michael Schnell, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    13
  11. Installing lazarus on Windows, horror story goes on

    we had a Skype phone+chat session with my friend again trying to install Lazarus, this time on a Windows XP laptop. I thought it must be an easy task and we are done…

    Juha Manninen, Andreas Schneider, Andrew Brunner
    24
  12. Lazarus installer

    Hi I took the liberty to add a task for proper Lazarus installers into the new http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Season_of_Code page. Installation is now much too…

    Juha Manninen, Bernd Kreuss, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    5
  13. Resources on Windows

    Please somebody look at http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17054 I have verified that the patch applies and demos are still compilable after it (they compiled for me…

    Alexander Klenin, Paul Ishenin
    5
  14. Obtaining Control Address

    Would anybody know how to obtain the address of the following control? Arg1 := @Application.Components[0]; This results in "Variable identifier expected" error Thanks -…

    SteveG, Paul Ishenin
    4
  15. Installing Lazarus on Windows, my own experiences

    I booted Windows XP on a mini-laptop. It is practically non-touched since I bought the machine. I installed and used Linux since then. For the first time I downloaded…

    Juha Manninen, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  16. Coding A PDA

    Hello people. I've been programming for about 5 years, and I'm quite young in age. I just love programming so much. Ever since I tried a program at school called…

    Josh Lee, Doug Chamberlin, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    11
  17. Handheld development

    I was being asked about this the other day, the boss is thinking about PDAs. Can anybody summarise where Lazarus is at, for both Native and cross-development? I notice…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Andrew Brunner, Bee Jay
    27
  18. Gtk2 question

    Is it at all possible to determine which application (eg gedit/etc) had focus 'before' clicking on my laz app. Or another way - Is there a laz/fpc call to retrieve the…

    SteveG, Hans-Peter Diettrich, theo
    7
  19. Jump to implementation (inspired by Bernd Kreuss Codetool ideas "what is an "identifier"")

    I am making this a separate thread, because it got nothing to do with the old subject "[Lazarus] CodeTools: what is an "identifier"" The idea discussed there, fails due…

    Martin, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  20. Lazarus web site not accessible

    Hi, All Did you find that the lazarus web sites accessing are very slow or not available? I tried http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/, and got timeout. Tried…

    Robin Hoo, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Helmut Hartl
    7
  21. Lazarus Codetools

    Hi to all! I am using Lazarus 2 years. Now I want to try develop some features for Lazarus. I want make something like Eclipse (java IDE) feature. When user move mouse…

    Дмитрий Курашкин, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  22. Bugs and snapshots downloads?

    Is bugs.freepascal.org down? + The crosscompiler arm-wince fpc 2.4.3 win32 doesn't look good on the main downloadsite. Its only 1.5 MB? John

    John vd Waeter, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  23. Namespaces like URLs

    On 2010-07-27 8:49 AM, Martin wrote:Yes, in that example, 'laz_svn' would be a central indirection identifier to your 'C:\lazarus'. I give up. Can't keep writing the…

    Adem
    1
  24. TListView column size

    I am having trouble with the column sizing in TListView in vsReport mode. I have set AutoSize in my columns to true, but they still remain with the default very small…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, José Mejuto
    2
  25. Close button bkClose as "X"

    In a recent change (#26529) Dmitry changes the code in themes.pas to get a "stock icon" for close kind (a "X") which affects to TBitButton. Is this change intented ? If…

    José Mejuto, dmitry boyarintsev, Jesus Reyes
    4
  26. oldest supported version of FPC by Lazarus

    If I write patches for Lazarus, which is the oldest version of FPC that I have to test them with?

    Bernd Kreuss, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mattias Gärtner
    3
  27. "show declaration hints" has more power in it than is really used

    There is something that could boost productivity and learning curve of new developers by a factor of three at least and all needed infrastructure (at least the hardest…

    Bernd, Andreas Schneider, Bernd Kreuss
    65
  28. AggPas Perspective ... how to make it work?

    I continue fighting with AggPas included with lazarus to use it for a GPS software. To finish most of the drawing needs, I need to make AggPas to render the map in…

    Horacio Jamilis
    0
  29. Disabling DoAllAutoSize in wincontrol.inc?

    DoAllAutoSize is causing problems with some of my controls. It either hangs in infinite loops or raises exceptions. Can I disable it? My controls worked fine with older…

    Tobias Giesen, Mattias Gaertner, waldo kitty
    6
  30. LazIntfImage and OSX

    Hi, I am new to Lazarus/FPC and I got a first problem with using LazIntfImage under OSX: My small program reads out ExifData and small Thumbnail-Pictures out the files…

    Wolfram Söns, dmitry boyarintsev, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    21
  31. anchordockingdsgn on GTK2

    I've tried for the first time Anchordockingdsgn on GTK2. Impressive work. Thank you. There is one thing, that I would call a "show stopper" for practical use: Everytime…

    theo, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  32. GTK2 version questions

    Hello I have a question regarding this bug rep. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17010 Is there any backward-compatibility limit for Lazarus regarding GTK2…

    theo
    0
  33. Build and macros

    with macros (http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Macros_in_paths_and_filenames) I see that I can build project binary with the target CPU. e.g. putting in "Target…

    Kjow, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  34. tail on windows

    Is there any tail like program, that works for lazarus log files on windows? I found tail apps for win, but none of them can open a lazarus --debug-log while lazarus is…

    Martin, dmitry boyarintsev, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    18
  35. Lazarus Resources (2)

    Hello people. I've managed to compile a Lazarus resource, test.lrs. It has cmd.exe in it (I think!), and I'm trying to make a (useless) stand-alone program that takes…

    Josh Lee, John vd Waeter, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  36. Identifier Completion -> Unit not found

    Buenas staff (this message was send to Editor section of the forum, but nobody answered yet, sou I hope you can help me) I am organizing my package of utilities, for…

    Guionardo Furlan, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  37. Test

    new gmail IMAP connection. Juha

    Juha Manninen
    0
  38. does anyone remember polyglot?

    does anyone remember polyglot? here's the sources to the 10th anniversary edition that i've had stashed away for quite some time ;) somehow i don't think it can be…

    waldo kitty, Marc Weustink
    4
  39. Methods and stacks

    Can somebody please confirm that there's no mechanism by which a method can switch to a private stack. I've hacked together a very simple round-robin scheduler that I'm…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Schnell
    3
  40. Build Number

    Is it possible to use inside the application the build number? Since Lazarus has an auto-increment of the build number, I would to include a label with the revision in…

    Kjow, Mattias Gaertner, Paul Ishenin
    17
  41. Carbon Nested Windows

    i'm working on a bigger lazarus project running as a plugin and have the task to modify the carbon interface so that one can create a TForm within a given parent window…

    J. Stelkens, Paul Ishenin
    2
  42. Issue 16987: Source Editor: Ctrl+A moves cursor to the end of file

    [Martin requested me to reply here instead of the bugtracker] This is not a very compelling argument, since current implementation similarly prevents users from quickly…

    Alexander Klenin, Martin
    2
  43. Resolve an error message

    When I try to add an event to a button added to my program, I get the following error message: C:\Lazarus\LcL\forms.pp(45,3) Error: source not found: unit…

    Brian Smart
    0
  44. Error message

    I get the following error message when I try to run a test program: C:\Lazarus\LcL\forms.pp(45,3) Error: source not found: unit…

    Brian Smart, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  45. TListView.TopItem and TListView.GetItemAt()

    I am trying to get the Item that is currently visible at the top of the list. The reason why I need this is after inserting new items which unfortunately seems to always…

    Bernd, theo, Unknown author
    3
  46. Lazarus not take paths from extrafpc.cfg

    I put my search paths in extrafpc.cfg because i build my projects outside Lazarus using FPC, but Lazaurs at design time not take my search path in that cfg file while in…

    Zaher Dirkey, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  47. Creating a directory in the home directory

    I'm trying to create a temporary directory called ~/.mydirectory When I run this code: DirectoryPath:='~/.mydirectory/'; if not DirectoryExists(DirectoryPath) then try…

    Dave Coventry, dmitry boyarintsev
    5
  48. Fonts

    I'm developing a multiplatform app and I need to have the same look on all OS. Is it possible to include a my personal font in the Lazarus compiled binary to have the…

    Kjow, Duncan Parsons, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    6
  49. disable the debugger capturing the OutputDebugString() messages

    Whenever I run a program through the debugger it will no longer allow my debug messages that I send to the windows API function OutputDebugString() to go where they are…

    Bernd, Howard Page-Clark, Marc Weustink
    37
  50. MiComputer-List

    Nickname: Josh-PC Processor: Intel Atom Z520 1.22GHz RAM: 2GB Motherboard: Unknown Fan: Small CD-DVD Drive: None Hard Drive1: 250GB Hard Drive2: None Sound Card: Unknown…

    Josh Lee
    0