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lazarus · 2011-07

  1. How would you organize build directories for different versions?

    If you are using different Lazarus versions but with same components and packages, how would you organize separate build directories for the different versions, but same…

    Frank Church, Bart, Graeme Geldenhuys
    23
  2. -WG compiler parameter issue in cross-platform projects

    Last night I switched to FPC 2.5.1 and tried to compile my project. I got a compiler error because I had the "Windows GUI application" (-WG compiler parameter) checked…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Flávio Etrusco
    12
  3. 0019723: Implement TControl.InvalidateRect?

    http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19723 --- There is the question of drawing a lie, to how much to put on TWinControl. There are more Handle related functions... So…

    Martin, Flávio Etrusco
    4
  4. Transparent (key color based) drawing questions

    I used the technique described here http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Developing_with_Graphics#Drawing_color_transparent_bitmaps for transparent drawing on windows. So…

    Max Vlasov, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Flávio Etrusco
    3
  5. Converting Icon from Windows handle to TBitmap with transparency

    Hello everyone. I want to convert an icon retrieved by Windows API to a TBitmap saving transparency. As I understand transparency can be achieved by: - using an…

    cobines, Maxim Ganetsky
    3
  6. Code templates engine

    Is this (Code Templates engine) part of Lazarus' version of SynEdit or something separate. In either case, can it be reused fairly easy for a custom editor project? Lee

    Lee Jenkins, Martin
    1
  7. Inserting many components on form

    I wrote a component editor that can insert some components on a form or data module. But when I insert many components, the performance of lazarus is terrible. Inserting…

    Unknown author, Alexander Klenin, Fabio Luis Girardi
    12
  8. Can't find unit LResources used by Component1

    try this: New Package with new component derived from TComponent, select an *.png as icon and compile I get this error message: component1.pas(8,22) Fatal: Can't find…

    John Landmesser, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  9. Latest Chanhes brakes the WinCE Notebook/Tab controls

    I just updated the latest SVN truck version (Revision : 31692) Compiling of the our winCE project will fail with message :…

    Tommi Prami, Bart, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    10
  10. Why is TCustomControl.Canvas public?

    Wouldn't it better to make Canvas protected and pass it on the OnPaint event? I'm almost sure is was also public in Delphi, and I don't even remember Delphi having…

    Flávio Etrusco, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    8
  11. Examples of TListView.OnCustomDrawItem

    I searched on web and lazarus examples, but I don't found any example of how use TListView.OnCustomDrawItem to color each row using latest lazarus version. Somebody did…

    Fabio Luis Girardi, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    1
  12. Frames and Events

    How can events be added to frames? I want to add an OnFileClick event, that reacts on an click into a listbox in the frame. The new event is typed as TOnFileClick =…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich
    0
  13. View form as .lfm crashes Lazarus

    Hi List. I was trying to check out my form with the .lfm view mode of lazarus, but there seems to be a bug. This is with the latest svn revision: Lazarus 0.9.31 r31694M…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  14. rxnew and rx

    The rxnew package in SVN, rx 2.2.1.5 has a dependency on the original LCL rx. Is that dependency necessary? The original rx contains a few components, can't they be…

    Frank Church
    0
  15. array[0..n] of class of TSomething

    I have the following (I don't yet know whether this is only pseudo-code to demonstrate what I mean (I have clearly done too much Python during the last year) or whether…

    Bernd, Flávio Etrusco, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    7
  16. Weird Edit events

    I came across some weird behaviour of TDirectoryEdit events, and traced these down into the behaviour of the more basic components. IMO the events, related to Edit…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich
    0
  17. How to bring application to from (top)

    I thought this would be very trivial, but I have tried very many different things and searched from the net, and tried several code snippets... Here is some kind of list…

    Tommi Prami, Graeme Geldenhuys, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    10
  18. Frames etc. problems

    ? ? Hans-Peter Diettrich hat am 11. Juli 2011 um 18:38 geschrieben: Can you provide an example?? ? ? Please create a bug report.? ? ? ? Can you give an example? ? ? ?…

    Mattias Gaertner, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    5
  19. TScrollBox.OnMouseUp does not fire correctly on Windows

    Hi List. As I'm not 100% sure how mouse events are handled in Lazarus, this may be a dumb question so please bear with me. It seems as if a TScrollBox does not fire a…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen
    2
  20. converted Delphi unit in a lazarus package

    attached Delphi unit containes TFindFile and a register procedure. I can add findfile1 to the uses clause of a project and then i can TFileFind.Create ...use it ... no…

    John Landmesser, Bart, Mattias Gaertner
    9
  21. Latest Lazarus 0.9.30 FPC 2.4.4 is corrupted

    The latest Lazarus 0.9.30 FPC 2.4.4 is corrupted - this is the link to it - http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/snapshots/Lazarus-0.9.30.1-31608-fpc-2.4.4-20110709-win32.exe.

    Frank Church, Vincent Snijders
    1
  22. Docking Support

    Is docking support production ready in Lazarus at this time? I need to create a mini-IDE sub-application with helper panels in the GUI which should be able to display in…

    Lee Jenkins, Alexander Klenin, Bernd
    30
  23. Silvio's script in Ubuntu 11,04 64 bits

    Hi everybody, someone had succeeded in install the fp and lazarus from silvio's script in ubuntu 11.04 64 bits? thank's -------------- next part -------------- An HTML…

    Roberto Borgues, silvioprog
    1
  24. autocomplete broken?

    Is there currently some unfinished work going on with the autocomplete / dropdown in the IDE? Its behaving very strange and buggy in recent versions from trunk. I could…

    Bernd, Alexander Klenin, Bart
    22
  25. instantfpc has moved

    The svn repository of instantfpc has moved from lazarus-ccr to fpc trunk (2.5.1). See here http://wiki.freepascal.org/InstantFPC FPC 2.5.1 installs it by default. Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner, Alexander Klenin, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  26. Creating patches

    Ask for an svn branch with write access. svn-apply can be used to apply patches to svn created by git format-patch:…

    Florian Klämpfl, Alexander Klenin, Graeme Geldenhuys
    10
  27. Once again about the size of the executable

    I decided to take a quick look at the lazarus executable size. Sure that was discussed several times, I just wanted to do quick tests with several units that are far…

    Max Vlasov, Alexander Klenin, Mattias Gaertner
    8
  28. gtk2 TCustomControl.Paint, InvalidateRect

    I have a problem with InvalidateRect with gtk2 on linux, Canvas.ClipRect always returns the full area and not the rect that needs to be updated. Under windows,…

    Armin Diehl, Ludo Brands, zeljko
    10
  29. Updating a field from an OnEditButtonClick event

    Hi list. I'm using a TDBGrid component, with an OnEditButtonClick event, and a visible button for the first (code) column. In the event handler I open a search dialog,…

    Julio César Gázquez, Luca Olivetti
    4
  30. htmlhelp_ipro "crash"??

    i think this is similar to another thread recently discussed... the similarity being that the system is popping up an error box stating Disk Full. Press OK to ignore and…

    waldo kitty, zeljko
    1
  31. Lazarus Digest, Vol 42, Issue 20

    I listened to your email using DriveCarefully and will respond as soon as I can. Download DriveCarefully for Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find…

    Unknown author, Dave Coventry, William Oliveira Ferreira
    2
  32. Is there an example how to use lNet HTTP-Server

    I have tried to use the HTTP Components of the lNet (Because it works in WinCE), but after Indy the interface it little bit weird to me. There is Client example and I…

    Tommi Prami
    0
  33. TListView review required

    ATN Vincenct Snijders, Dmitry Boyarintsev, chronos... Mantis #18820, #18898, #18961... The ListView component is in a bad state, and a review of the current item…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, dmitry boyarintsev, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    21
  34. lnet and http headers

    Hi I'm currently using synapse to connect to a website that will send a redirect instruction in one of the http headers. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work in 64bit.…

    ADTEC Pty Ltd, ik, Krzysztof
    4
  35. Still problems with Shift+Ctrl+Scpace

    Few latest SVN truck revisions my IDE has been acting up. This is checked the this not affect everyone. But I need some help here to fix this. Maybe it is my system,…

    Tommi Prami, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  36. barchart demo...

    win2k i386 Laz 0.9.31 SVN r31426 FPC 2.4.5 SVN runknown when i attempt to run laz/examples/barchart/chartdemo.lpi i'm told that it cannot find the chart unit specified…

    waldo kitty, Alexander Klenin, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    5
  37. Batch to build packages and add it to Lazarus?

    I like to build my packages and add it to Lazarus outside of IDE, In another way, i like to send my packages sources to my friends/coworker and run that batch to auto…

    Zaher Dirkey, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  38. GTK2 gboolean changed

    (related to mantis 17400) FYI In FPC/trunk the GTK2 gboolean type has been changed from "longbool" to a new type "boolean32". motivation: There have been some problems…

    Marco van de Voort, John Landmesser, Vincent Snijders
    5
  39. Suggest to move Build lazarus under Package menu

    I just suggest to move "Build Lazarus" and "Configure Build Lazarus" to under "Package" menu instead of "Tools" Becuase it is more related to this activty, i always use…

    Zaher Dirkey, Bart, Martin
    3
  40. TStringGrid - ColResize on FixedCols (or Freeze Pane on ordinary columns)

    TStringGrid - ColResize on FixedCols (or Freeze Pane on ordinary columns). Is it possible? I would like to resize a column that is one of the FixedCols -- but I need the…

    Alexsander Rosa, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jesus Reyes
    6
  41. How to create a chart in code?

    I am trying to use TAChart, so I dropped TChart in my form and I added some code to draw some lines: var LineSeries: TLineSeries; i, j: Integer; begin for i := 0 to…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Alexander Klenin, Florian Klämpfl
    4
  42. IDE flaws

    Currently I observe the following flaws (Win7): 1) An editor page in a secondary editor window *only* can be cloned into a new window. Why does the handling of secondary…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Martin
    13
  43. Compile and Build menu entries, Run- or Project-menu?

    I changed the Run menu item order based on issue: 19580: The run menu does not have run as first entry I would need your opinions about if Compile and Build menu entries…

    Juha Manninen, Bart, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    41
  44. Ctrl + Space Window Source lazarus

    Guys, excuse my English, really do not speak English, I'm using Google:) First thanks for this list! I do not know the name of that little window that opens when you…

    Marcelo Silva IG, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Martin
    4
  45. Does using GtkFrame in LCL make sense?

    I recently created report http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19658 This was about panels that behave a little differently to panels in Lazarus Windows and Delphi.…

    Max Vlasov, Henry Vermaak, zeljko
    9
  46. Codetools confused?

    I'm using Lazarus 0.9.31 r29641 (Win9x). My CodeTools seem confused. I have a TPageControl (name = NoteBook) on my form. When I type NoteBook. (in the source editor) and…

    Bart, Mattias Gaertner, patspiper
    8
  47. non-sensical window repositioning

    I just found a problem with lcl-gtk2 that I haven't ever seen before. Consider this code: begin Application.Initialize; Application.CreateForm(TForm1, Form1); Form1.Left…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Bart, David Copeland
    32