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lazarus · 2011-01

  1. anchors on centos

    I have an application running on win and linux. (lazarus svn fpc 2.4.2). I have some problems running it on CentOS 5.5. So I installed CentOS on virtualbox and I am…

    Andrea Mauri, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    22
  2. headaches trying to create x86_64 to i386 cross-compile deb package

    (Cross-posted from the fpc-pascal list at Jonas' suggestion) I've been trying to follow the directions here…

    Seth Grover, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    1
  3. portability directives and syntax highlighting

    Are portability directives like 'platform', 'deprecated' and 'library' supposed to be syntax highlighted like reserved words? I know they are not reserved works, but I…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin
    5
  4. Lazarus fails to start with "TWinControl.CreateWnd: The nogui widgetset does not support visual controls."

    I rebuilt the IDE with NoGUI option, and after closing and restart Lazarus it fails to open with the above message "TWinControl.CreateWnd: The nogui widgetset does not…

    Frank Church, Mattias Gaertner, Vincent Snijders
    8
  5. Project-Builder.org - GPL packages and project builder for multiple operating systems

    Anyone had luck using this? Would it work good for packaging up Lazarus + FPC ? http://www.project-builder.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML…

    Michael Joyner, Unknown author
    2
  6. Where is a list of valid options for lazarus make?

    In a recent post reply I was adviced to "make bigide" in order to include the SQLdb components on lazarus. But I have no idea how the "bigide" is used so I have tried to…

    Bo Berglund, dmitry boyarintsev, Marc Weustink
    16
  7. SQLdb not able to retrieve data from stored procedures?

    I am investigating Lazarus' capabilities for database work so I have made a very simple test application using ODBC and the SQLdb components. I am doing this on a…

    Bo Berglund, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Graeme Geldenhuys
    9
  8. Event handling example project

    I did a small example project (in fact an enhancement of the example/messages/uasynccall.pas example in the svn). Same lets you select to test - TThread.Synchronize -…

    Michael Schnell, José Mejuto, zeljko
    5
  9. Help: The system.ppu for this target was not found in the FPC binary directories.

    I deleted Lazarus and recompiled it again, and when I start it I get this error. So far it appears to be working okay. What does it mean? When I recompiled I did not…

    Frank Church, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  10. Wiki page is broken

    The following wiki page does not function correctly when you click the [edit] next to a topic. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Database_Tutorial If you want…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  11. TTrayIcon.Animate - Minor Repair

    No indication of who to thank for this component in the header ... thanks all the same. I ran into a problem swapping image lists [Icons property] where an Index error…

    Perpetual Newbie II, DaveK, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    2
  12. Get binary (byte by byte) from a HTTP host

    I'm tryng to download byte by byte from a binary in a HTTP host, but synapse put the header informations in my binary, e.g.: My original binary content:…

    silvioprog, ik, José Mejuto
    9
  13. invisible break points??

    I am having a very strange and frustrating experience with lazarus, in my fpGUI app. When running, after pressing a button in my app which calls a process, the app seems…

    David Emerson, Andreas Schneider, Graeme Geldenhuys
    31
  14. LCL improvement idea

    Following the RAD discussion, I thought of something. Often, I subclass a control just to set some properties to other than their default values. (TLabel.AutoSize and…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Alex Shishkin, Graeme Geldenhuys
    25
  15. Do data modules have GTK dependencies on Linux

    I have converted a program that uses data modules to Linux and I am sure tthey don't use any graphics widgets, but I keep getting 'error while loading shared libraries:…

    Frank Church, ik, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  16. Ruby-scripting for FPC and Lazarus

    I'ved started working on SynEdit syntaxt for Ruby<https://github.com/ik5/SynEdit-syntaxes>but lack of time stopped me. I have not yet looked on your work, but…

    ik, Ivan Shikhalev, Michael Van Canneyt
    10
  17. Help with forgotten SVN authorization

    Today I wanted to commit an update to my dockmanager example, and noticed that I forgot to move my access data (password...) to my new system :-( Who can help me? TIA…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich
    0
  18. GUI Front-end to Windows console application???

    I need to build a GUI application, which should act as a simple-to-use front-end to a Windows console program. The console program accepts a number of different…

    Bo Berglund, Andreas Schneider, Sven Barth
    7
  19. VFI

    Hi I started to test the Visual Form Inheritance feature after reading about Michael Van Canneyt's many forms. I never really used that feature in Delphi myself. In:…

    Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner, Unknown author
    7
  20. Commit frequency

    I just want to say that everytime I update I'm impressed by the amount of commits that have happened since my last update, sometimes even just the previous day. Great…

    Andrew Haines
    0
  21. Lazarus editor font height very small...

    I installed Lazarus on my WinXP virtual machine from the fixes_30 branch a couple of weeks ago, but have not used it yet (Xmas and all). Now I just started and found…

    Bo Berglund, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    18
  22. pascal component stream

    Some users suggested, that components should be stored in pascal source (optionally). IMO there is one big advantage: Storing in source means no need for the streaming…

    Mattias Gaertner, Graeme Geldenhuys, Max Vlasov
    6
  23. fpGUI for the LCL on x86 Linux, and standalone on SPARC Solaris 10

    I've got a number of machines here on which I've got a copy of FPC 2.4.2 which will build itself, which I think confers a reasonable level of confidence on the compiler…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    21
  24. lazarus app on centos 5.5

    I have an application running on win and linux. (lazarus svn fpc 2.4.2). I have some problems running it on CentOS 5.5. If I run my app on fedora or ubuntu lanching my…

    Andrea Mauri
    0
  25. Purpose of TShellTreeView.ShowRoot

    Hello together! I'm currently testing around on the TShell* controls and came to the ShowRoot property now. 1. Why is this property duplicated in Options as well? 2.…

    Sven Barth, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    2
  26. Taskbar button has wrong caption for main form (mantis #0018481)

    In Win32 widgetset the caption of taskbar button of the main form is the project's name instead of the form's name. Paul Ishenin explained that this is by design. On…

    cobines
    0
  27. Setting up debugger in Lazarus?????

    I just tried to debug my first Lazarus project on my newly installed development PC (Win XP Pro SP3). I have installed FPC2.4.2 and then retrieved lazarus from SVN and…

    Bo Berglund, José Mejuto, Martin
    4
  28. ERROR in a simple console app

    I tried to run an app, converted from Delphi, and I found some errors... So, I tried to run a simple app and I found errors too. The code (copy here…

    Marcos Douglas, Alex Shishkin, Henry Vermaak
    9
  29. event code tool compilation error

    Hi! Some hours ago, I updated my lazarus version via svn. After wait it completes, I tried rebuild Lazarus without success. The error is ... Compiling eventcodetool.pas…

    Unknown author, Martin, Mattias Gaertner
    7
  30. Can someone test, pleease - possible problem with dbg info

    In lazarus /debugger/test/Gdbmi is a program TestGdbmi If I insert a breakpoint at line 480 (either before start, or during run, then GDB reports : <<…

    Martin
    0
  31. TPage.Caption

    I have just this morning updated to the latest svn and now get the following dialog message when opening a form which contains a TNotebook with two TPage's ... Read…

    David Copeland, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    6
  32. package SynEdit and IDEIntf

    The packages SynEdit and IDEIntf now work like normal packages. That means, they compile now automatically when they are changed. Therefore they are no longer listed in…

    Mattias Gaertner, Martin
    2
  33. Commands with Linux and subversion to install Lazarus 0.9.30

    $ mkdir lazarus_0.9.30 $ svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/branches/fixes_0_9_30/ lazarus_0.9.30 $ cd lazarus_0_9_30 $ mv lazarus lazarus.old $ make clean all…

    Pew piffle.the.cat, Bo Berglund, Graeme Geldenhuys
    17
  34. What are "widgets" in lazarus?

    I am switching from Delphi7-BDS2006 on Windows to FPC-Lazarus on Windows with the aim of making cross-platform programs. I also want to make one program run on an…

    Bo Berglund, Andreas Schneider, Darius Blaszyk
    90
  35. Mac App bundle question

    Since I am not an expert, a quick question regarding app bundles: It is always mentioned that without, any app will behave less than pleasant... I understand (or I…

    Martin, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  36. Master-detail-subdetail

    I have a database (firebird) with master-data, detail-data and sub-detail-data. In lazarus 0.9.28.2, svn 22279, I defined a TIBConnection, a TSQLTransaction and three…

    Koenraad Lelong, Joost van der Sluis, patspiper
    7
  37. How to use TPrintDialog

    Hello all I am trying to implement printing in my app and want to use the printdialog included with lazarus. I have dropped the print dialog on the form and set it to…

    tim launchbury, Maxim Ganetsky
    2
  38. Mac OS X - registering login item - to start my application after user's login

    I am trying to execute this from my code to assure autostart of my application, but nothing happens and the item is not added. ExecuteProcess('/usr/bin/defaults', 'write…

    Fred Flinestone
    0
  39. Are there some preprocessor values that can be set in the IDE for debugging, ie DEBUG et al?

    Is there a preprocessor value that can be set in the IDE for debugging? eg. ifdef XXXXXX showmessage('yyyyy') I am interested in options that can be ticked in the IDE…

    Frank Church, Andreas Schneider
    1
  40. Forum under attack

    Last night we discovered that our forum is under attack of a password guessing botnet. Each bot tries to logon a few times a day, which resulted in 3000 failed logons…

    Marc Weustink, dmitry boyarintsev, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    27
  41. Installation of man-files

    Currently 'make install' does only install the man-files of the binaries which are placed in the search-path. (lazarus-ide, rpmbuild and startlazarus) Do we want to…

    Joost van der Sluis, Mattias Gaertner, Vincent Snijders
    2
  42. mysql connection problem

    I tried to connect to mysql 5.1 database installed on my computer but it did not work; I tried the 2 types of connections 40 and 41 but lazarus kept telling me that it…

    ziad dudin, Fabio Souza
    3
  43. Can't find unit contnrs used by Masks

    "Recompiling contnrs, checksum changed for System masks.pas(29,22) Fatal: Can't find unit contnrs used by Masks" Since many weeks I get this error when trying to…

    Michael Schnell, Andreas Schneider, Bernd Kreuss
    34
  44. Error building IDE using LazBuild

    I just tried to update my trunk-installation and got this: ./lazbuild -B --build-ide= An unhandled exception occurred at $00000000006C907B : Exception :…

    shoKwave, Andreas Schneider, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  45. Revision 28960 Compilation Error

    On Ubuntu 10.10 I've run the following command: root at SNECCII:/opt# svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus Checked out revision 28960. I've got…

    Dave Coventry, Alexsander Rosa, Andreas Schneider
    8
  46. Lazarus and SPARC Solaris

    I've now got a Solaris 10 SPARC system set up here, limited disc space etc. and not (yet) on a public IP address. I've got FPC installed and self-building subject to a…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Juha Manninen
    22
  47. LCL-fpGUI widgetset and COM interfaces

    While looking at the LCL-fpGUI code for a reply to a previous message, I noticed something... Is it really necessary for LCL-fpGUI to use COM-style interfaces? After…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, José Mejuto
    8
  48. Wats aan die gang?

    Weet nie wat nou aan die gang is nie, Ek weet jys besig ma jy kon nou nie vinnig genoeg van my ontslae raak nie en ek kon hoor daar was nog iemand in die kantoor. Wat…

    Alexander du Plessis
    0
  49. Purpose of MouseCapture?

    What's the purpose of setting the mouse capture in the LCL? It seems okay to let the user capture the mouse, and also the dragmanager, but any other attempt to capture…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Graeme Geldenhuys, Paul Ishenin
    9
  50. Mantis #18448. Changes to win32object.inc, +procedure TWin32WidgetSet.AppInit(var ScreenInfo: TScreenInfo);

    I am proposing some changes to?+procedure TWin32WidgetSet.AppInit(var ScreenInfo: TScreenInfo); in win32object.inc. These are changes to enable exception error handling…

    Peter Williams, Michael Van Canneyt
    1