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lazarus · 2010-11

  1. StringGrid performance problems

    Op 2010-11-16 18:14, Lee Jenkins het geskryf: Following up from Lee's post, but related to StringGrids. I too tried to used LCL again, for a External Tracing/Debugging…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Alexsander Rosa, Jesus Reyes
    14
  2. Form position and size not preserved

    Since some time the UI position and size of the forms of Lazarus are not preserved anymore. If I for instance organize them in a certain way and then press compile, the…

    Darius Blaszyk, Bo Berglund, Graeme Geldenhuys
    9
  3. What is a TSQLTransaction and why do I need one?

    Before anything else I'd like to say that I'm entirely familiar with transactions in the SQL context. However I've been having a bit of difficulty sorting out the…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Alexsander Rosa, Graeme Geldenhuys
    70
  4. GUI development for web UI

    Well I know about the framework fur Javascript library in Lazarus, but I'm thinking in the past year or so, what will it take to design a gui application using Lazarus,…

    ik, ABorka, Dariusz Mazur
    111
  5. I desperately need some ideas of reducing edit, compile, debug cycle

    One thing that has always gottem to me when using Delphi and now Lazarus is the tedious edit, compile, debug cycle. It has been growing worse of late that now I am…

    Frank Church, Bo Berglund, Florian Klämpfl
    35
  6. How to use environment variables in lazarus IDE config?

    I would like to specify things like the base location of files using environment variables rather than entering full paths. In Delphi this can be done by using the…

    Bo Berglund, Mattias Gaertner, Sven Barth
    6
  7. How to tell lazarus the location of a used package?

    I have switched to using the SVN version of lazarus. I put it in parallel to the binary distribution lazarus so now I have two of them. After I retrieved lazarus from…

    Bo Berglund, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Lukasz Sokol
    26
  8. changing some FPC units

    I'm trying to make modification in some units that are part of the FPC (the .o and .ppu are in the units folder). I took the source code, made my modification, rebuilt…

    Alberto Manganaro, Joost van der Sluis, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  9. Locking down a string grid

    If using a string grid in a panel on a form, with the grid set r/o and the containers sized to be a good fit, what's the right way to prevent the user from moving the…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Jesus Reyes
    1
  10. New unit with resource with some components on it by default

    Is it possible to add a 'new module' option to the ide which has by default some components on it? With a TFileDescPascalUnitWithResource, it is possible to add a new…

    Joost van der Sluis, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  11. Lazarus add-in for fpmake

    I've implemented something new for fpmake. It now supports 'add-inns'. This are regular packages, but they can be used to compile fpmake's. So you can extend the…

    Joost van der Sluis, Unknown author
    1
  12. Loading old project into Lazarus_fixes causes lock-up...

    All of this is on Windows XP SP3 in a VMWare virtual machine. Originally I installed Lazarus + FPC from the downloadable setup file for Windows. It installed FPC 2.2.4…

    Bo Berglund, Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin
    28
  13. WebData - Formatting ExtJSon fields

    Hi, I'm using WebData and I need to format some numbers as Currency before sending back from my app to the browser. How can I do that? Leonardo M. Ram?…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Unknown author
    2
  14. Syntax checking from Lazarus

    In Delphi I use the "Syntax check" function a lot to verify that my project does not contain any illegal constructs or missing begin-end terminators etc. In Lazarus the…

    Bo Berglund, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  15. Small question regarding SpinEdit

    Hello together! Is it intended that a SpinEdit displays its name when it's dropped on a form at design time? It's working correctly at runtime (the default value is…

    Sven Barth, Paul Ishenin
    1
  16. Customizing IDE Toolbar

    Hi. Is there a tutorial or wiki file, on customizing (adding new toolbars or buttons) to the Lazarus IDE Toolbar. Not the component toolbar, but the toolbars for saving…

    Marco Aurelio Ramirez Carrillo, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  17. TPicture beginupdate or similar

    Hi again, I'm doing some transformations on a TImage using Canvas.CopyRect and don't want to show intermediate steps before the final one is done, I need to do something…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Benito van der Zander
    3
  18. Portable way to enumerate serial ports?

    Is there a way that one can use to list the actual serial ports available on a system that will work on both Windows and Linux? That is, is there a class/method or such…

    Bo Berglund, Bernd Mueller, Paul Breneman
    4
  19. Problem with revision 28344

    Hello all When updating from svn, applying revision 28344 causes my app to fail with runtime error 202. Is there a problem with this patch or do I need a workround or…

    tim launchbury, Paul Ishenin, zeljko
    6
  20. When do I need a component rather than a plain object?

    Does TObject have all the capabilities of TComponent apart from things like streaming and being used from the IDE component palette? I want to create an object which has…

    Frank Church, Andrea Mauri, Bo Berglund
    37
  21. gnu debugger

    a I use Lazarus on Arch Linux 64bit. I installed gdb and configured this debugger. But when add a breakpoint in my source and start compilation this not effect. What can…

    ugaciaka, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Martin
    7
  22. TImage wrong image format

    Hi, I think I found a bug after following the next steps: 1) Place a TImage on a newly created form. 2) Click on "..." on Object Inspector -> Picture and load an image (I

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  23. TBitmap magnifying glass effect

    Hi, I'm can anyone point me to an example on how to do a simple magnifying glass over a TImage?. What I want to do is to draw a zoomed area over a TImage at mouse…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    3
  24. Rev 28494 breaks building lazarus on non-windows (Martin?).

    Revision 28494 in the cmdlinedebugger.pp (Martin) breaks compiling on Linux. GetTickCount is a windows-only call. Please fix this ASAP. Michael.

    Michael Van Canneyt, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    7
  25. Component Palette Image

    I have 2 trivial questions about the images that appear in the component palette. After download the last version of Lazarus (Windowze), I noticed that the component's…

    Marco Aurelio Ramirez Carrillo, Paul Ishenin
    1
  26. Applying optimization to the project units

    sometimes it takes time for a Delphi developer to understand the logic of fpc/lazarus packages and it's indeed content and full. Recently tried to measure different…

    Max Vlasov, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    13
  27. Reading std::ostream from dll

    Hi, I'm working with a dll/so created with C++, that has a function which fills an std::ostream, and I need to read it from a FreePascal app using a buffer or TStream.…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Marco van de Voort
    2
  28. Displaying system menu

    Is there an easy and portable way of telling a form to display its system menu, for example in rsponse to a right-click? I'm trying to do something without border etc.…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Graeme Geldenhuys, Paul Ishenin
    8
  29. Carbon: Print out is mirrored

    When I print out over my printing module on Carbon then after second page it starts to print out mirrored where left is with right exchanged. This continues until I…

    Fred Flinestone, dmitry boyarintsev
    5
  30. Web Module not works on Linux

    Attached I send a project to reproduce the error. To reproduce the error, adds in "cgitest.lpr" the directive: {$DEFINE SOLVES_ERROR} On Ubuntu-10.10 I receive this…

    silvioprog, Graeme Geldenhuys, Joost van der Sluis
    33
  31. Debugging Lazarus IDE (Package access violation)

    I encountered several times when Package window fired access violation on different operations. I suppose I should report an issue, but just wondering, is it hard (if it…

    Max Vlasov, Mattias Gaertner, Paul Ishenin
    6
  32. Property TComponent.Tag change

    To remain compatible with the upcoming Delphi 64-bit release, I've changed the 'Tag' property type from Integer -> PtrInt. The practical upshot from this is that you can…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Žilvinas Ledas
    3
  33. object casting to pointer

    Hi. I'm working witha TTreeview, and trying to assign a object to a TTreeNode.data property: <code> MyTreeNode := myTreeview.add(nil, "MyTreeNode"); // any "TObject"…

    Marco Aurelio Ramirez Carrillo, Leonardo M. Ramé, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  34. Is there a Lazarus component that allows setting of visual properties at runtime and saving them?

    Is there a Lazarus component that allows setting of visual properties at runtime and saving them? I am thinking along the lines of the Object Debugger component by Marco…

    Frank Church, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  35. Installing LazReport - 8.0 or 0.9.7 - what version??

    For the first time I tried to add the package lazreport but I got this error: Unable to load package "lazreport (> = 8.00)" Steps I did: 1 - I clicked in menu: Package >…

    Marcos Douglas, Alexsander Rosa, José Mejuto
    5
  36. Windows Explorer context menu plug-in with fpc?

    Is it possible to make a Windows Explorer plug-in DLL using FPC/Lazarus? What I mean is the type where you see a submenu in the rightclick menu in Explorer like for…

    Bo Berglund, Paul Breneman, Sven Barth
    9
  37. false "disk is full" messages

    Has anybody else received false "Disk is full" error messages from Lazarus IDE? Lazarus 0.9.29 r28160 FPC 2.4.3 x86_64-linux-gtk 2 I restarted Lazarus IDE a few times,…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner, zeljko
    4
  38. Compiling error with GLScene

    when I compile Lazarus (FPC 2.5.1) with official GLScene >= r5319 ( svn co https://glscene.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/glscene/trunk GLScene ) I get this error on…

    Kjow
    1
  39. Delphi converter translations

    This mail is inspired by issue #17982: Replacement of dfm file The converter settings have a radiogroup for targets. I had to reorder them at one point when more options…

    Juha Manninen, Mattias Gärtner
    2
  40. New convert guidance

    Sorry if I posted in the wrong list. That's part of the question. I have just found Lazarus/FPC and I am blown away after a life of mainframe and PC VB6 and VB.net. …

    Kirby Leeper, Bo Berglund, Sven Barth
    2
  41. CI ( Continuous Integration )

    i realize that Lazarus is a "hobby" / volunteers project but is it possible to use some sort of Continuous Integration…

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Marc Weustink, Marco van de Voort
    10
  42. Turn a TGroupBox into a TPanel

    The "ChildSizing" property allow several nice things with TGroupBox [1], congratulations to the team. Under GTK2, the TPanel still have some annoying bugs. If we had in…

    Alexsander Rosa, Mattias Gaertner, zeljko
    3
  43. clDefault for brushes and fonts

    Hello, Lazarus mailing list. I want to inform you that starting with r28344 all controls default fonts an brushes will have clDefault color instead of clBtnFace/clWindow…

    Paul Ishenin, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Vincent Snijders
    5
  44. trunk WinCE broken

    i just updated my local tree and got the following errors. C:\Users\dimitris\Documents\Programming\FreePascal\lazarus\ideintf>make LCL_PLAT FORM=wince OS_TARGET=wince…

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Sven Barth
    3
  45. How do you create some kind of type definition based on adding a set if identical functions to different objects with different ancestors?

    I don't know whether interfaces are what I am looking for here. I am creating an object called TStateInfoSource which needs to display its state using different objects,…

    Frank Church, Max Vlasov
    2
  46. OnMouseWheel event issue

    I have a TPanel on a TForm and an event on the TForm.OnMouseWheel. This works when I use the mousewheel on the form. But as soon as the cursor is over the TPanel, the…

    Birger Jansen, And3mD, Vincent Snijders
    2
  47. Lazarus download page

    I've been playing to build some more user-friendly download page with installation instructions. Before I continue, I would like to know whay you guys find of the basic…

    Joost van der Sluis, Andreas Schneider, Bo Berglund
    15
  48. Make option for specific package

    I was wondering how I can "make" Lazarus build with specific packages. Right now I need lazdaemon installed in the ide when I use make clean bigide. But I'm always…

    Andrew Brunner, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    8
  49. Does Lazarus support component templates?

    Does Lazarus support component templates, like in http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Creating_and_using_component_templates_%28C%2B%2B%29 ? I think I saw them…

    Frank Church, Graeme Geldenhuys, Paul Ishenin
    3
  50. LCL Defines

    where can i find all the current LCL defines ? For example -dUseVistaDialogs or -UseCLDefault ... Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mattias Gaertner
    2