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lazarus · 2011-09

  1. Avoid automatic recompile of needed packages

    is there a way to turn off re-compilation of packages that the project depends on? It seems to be doing that when I don't need it or want it. Tobias

    Tobias Giesen, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  2. Lazarus 0.9.30.2RC1 available

    The first release candidate for Lazarus 0.9.30.2 is available for download from https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/ The lazarus-testing ubuntu repository at…

    Vincent Snijders, silvioprog, Sven Barth
    5
  3. Synchronize in Threads not working correctly on Gtk2 on Windows 32?

    I switched a program which I knew worked perfectly in Win32 to GTK2 and the Synchronize(@DispatchOutput) stopped working. Is it a known bug? I was working in the…

    Frank Church, Bernd, Michael Schnell
    6
  4. Get LCL revision or version via ifdef

    I'm trying: ... uses {$IF (LCL_MAJOR = 0) AND (LCL_MINOR = 9) AND (LCL_RELEASE <= 30)} {$ENDIF} ... But: "Error: Compile time expression: Wanted STRING but got BOOLEAN or

    silvioprog, Alexsander Rosa, cobines
    16
  5. Drawing memo text in DBGrid - tried but stuck

    I'm trying to draw text from DBF memo fields on a dbgrid instead of the standard "(Memo)". The memo fields contain text data that is probably not that long (about a…

    Reinier Olislagers
    1
  6. Thread finalization

    I'm having a rough time with Threads. When my app starts, it creates an instance of a TThread that loads a bunch of images. That TThread instance can be destroyed in two…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, cobines, Flávio Etrusco
    12
  7. rxnew package: LCLBase not exists

    The CCR components follows Lazarus trunk or a stable version? Revision: 1663 Author: alexs75 Date: 14:20:53, Wednesday, June 1, 2011 Message: new module - class for…

    Marcos Douglas, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mattias Gaertner
    12
  8. arm-linux crash(es)

    Hi Lazarus devs I'm getting a couple of crashes under arm-linux, which I think are mostly related to unaligned access. There's a lot of code related to typinfo that…

    Henry Vermaak, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Ludo Brands
    10
  9. TControl.GetAnchorSideIndex?

    This method looks like GetAnchorSide(ord(side)), but it behaves a bit different: Left and Top are swapped. Does there exist a reason for that reordering? DoDi

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  10. Another IDE strange behavior

    Hi all i found another strange behavior in Lazarus IDE. To reproduce follow this steps. 1 - Create a new application 2 - Insert a DataModule in project (File -> New…

    Rafael Tuim Elias, Flávio Etrusco, Juha Manninen
    4
  11. ARM, Cortex-A8 in Genesi Efika MX cloud computer

    Thanks for answering so quickly. The box is in fact a Cortext A8 actually. We are using FPC 2.7.1, Lazarus 0.9.31 and typhoon 2.1 The command and -va outpout we receive…

    Unknown author, Henry Vermaak, Philip Cockram
    5
  12. Source and Editor woes

    While editing the LCL docs I came across the following nasty things: After an commit the XML file(s) may be found different, so that the IDE asks to reload the file(s).…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Martin
    8
  13. New rpm snapshots

    The scripts that generate the rpm snapshots have been changed. Previously they were build on a ubuntu vm, now on a fedora vm within a fedora mock environment, which…

    Vincent Snijders, Dejan Boras
    2
  14. Localization of carbon application menu

    I want to localize the captions of the standard menuitems in my program created with lazarus, i.e. the items "Services", "Hide myApp", "Hide Others", "Show All" and…

    Karl-Michael Schindler
    0
  15. Problem to rename a form

    I found a strange behavior in Lazarus IDE. To reproduce follow that steps: 1 - Create a new project. 2 - Rename Form1 to fmAINmENU 3 - Save all 4 - Try to rename the…

    Rafael Tuim Elias, Howard Page-Clark, Mattias Gaertner
    7
  16. TControlSizing.Size is not symmetric!?

    Reading the TControlSizing.Size property does not return the written value, instead it increases it by Around. This will cause cs.Size[side] := cs.Size[side]; to…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  17. WinCE 3.0 support?

    I want to know if FPC and Lazarus (wince) has support for Windows CE 3.0? I am about to buy one device with this OS and need to know if it will work or not. Thanks!…

    Horacio Jamilis, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    2
  18. Thread debugging problem

    Hi, since updating my Lazarus version from svn (I was using a one month old version) I'm getting a SIGABRT exception in a thread. The exception apparently is raised…

    Leonardo M. Ramé
    1
  19. Lazarus project version information out of whack on 0.9.30?

    When I compile a project with the option of incrementing the build versions it doesn't work. That I believe to be a known bug. But when I open the .rc file and edit it…

    Frank Church, Flávio Etrusco, Vincent Snijders
    4
  20. WinCE project with sqlite3laz package will not compile

    Bugreport in here : http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20362 Any ideas, what is that .secrel32 thingy, and is there any workaround of this. Also Is this Lazarus or…

    Tommi Prami, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  21. Pascal's Compilers.

    Can anyone explains me why programs generated by Pascal compilers are less fast than programs generateds by C/C++ Compilers? Is this related with Compilation time?…

    Cristofer Martins, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Frank Church
    16
  22. html output

    You might like to check this out, Paul

    PaulANormanNZ
    0
  23. Lazarus Digest, Vol 44, Issue 106

    Thanks for answering. This is the ELF output running on the actual box... https://gist.github.com/1244760 There are 2 ELF outputs. The top one is the FreePascal one,…

    Unknown author, Henry Vermaak
    3
  24. Possible Postscriptcanvas/QT Bug

    I have submitted a Mantis report (number 20354). When I rebuilt an app for QT I started getting access violations after a call to TPostscriptcanvas.GettextWidth.…

    David Copeland, Unknown author, zeljko
    5
  25. I've tracked down to revision that causes the bug 19972 (Menu problem) (The Heads UP, link into the Forum)

    Please see the forum at the : http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,14786.0.html asyou can see I am new with the Lazarus, so bee gentle, If I've been braking…

    Tommi Prami
    0
  26. ARM, Cortex-A9 in Genesi Efika MX cloud computer...

    Hi everyone I am trying to get a simple ( default console app ) project to compile (in Windows XP), for a target of a Genesi Efika MX cloud computer (ARM, Cortex-A9)…

    Unknown author, waldo kitty
    1
  27. 68K

    Maybe you should have a look to MSEide too. MSEide has been designed not only for MSEgui / Free Pascal projects but also for development of Pascal- C- and mixed-language…

    Martin Schreiber, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marco van de Voort
    36
  28. Alternative to getTime() of JavaScript

    Is there any native function in FPC similar to getTime() of JavaScript? Thx. "... The getTime() method returns the number of milliseconds since midnight of January 1,…

    silvioprog, Alberto Narduzzi, cobines
    12
  29. [Long and partially OT] Database (OOP) programming: beginners manual?

    this may not be entirely on-topic to this list, apologies for that; (But since I am (currently) using Lazarus 0.9.28.2 r22279 FPC 2.2.4, (and planning to upgrade to…

    Lukasz Sokol, Frank Church, Graeme Geldenhuys
    12
  30. ComboBox bug?

    On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:26:25 +0200 What would be the right behavior? Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    9
  31. Application.QueueAsyncCall and checking if object still exists

    I have some object which create and execute thread. This thread do some http requests (synapse) and send progress to the object by…

    Krzysztof, Flávio Etrusco, Michael Schnell
    6
  32. Property grid keyboard behaviour problems

    Hi again :-) This time I have some problems with keyboard navigation in Object inspector's property grid. 1. The keyboard navigation is a bit difficult because if some…

    Lubos Pintes
    0
  33. Spurious package rebuild

    I'm in the habit of building Lazarus from clean using make bigide rather than rebuilding from inside the IDE. Part of the reason for that is that until recently a…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, cobines, Ing. Héctor F. Fiandor Rosario
    14
  34. (Still googling for it) GDB error 31 ?

    I have installed 0.9.30 (2011-03-08), FPC 2.4.2 rev. 29749 (i386-win32-win32/win64) on another machine with Windows XP Prof. SP3, from the installer download, then used…

    Lukasz Sokol, Flávio Etrusco, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    20
  35. Implementing COM interfaces

    Concerning accessibility, I heard that the best thing one can do is to implement IAccessible2 for application/controls. IAccessible2 is an extension of MSAA. It was…

    Lubos Pintes, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Sven Barth
    5
  36. Building the documentation

    My goal is to build docs in txt format. I quite don't understand fpdoc e.g. what the --input option needs. I am on windows xp. Can you help? Thank

    Lubos Pintes, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    1
  37. About Threads

    I need to unlock my program when I run a function (it simply loads a file and elaborates some data, I would do something of beauty like a progress bar). I read the wiki,…

    Kjow, Michael Schnell
    4
  38. lmessages.pp question

    What this means? TLMGetText = record Msg: Cardinal; {$ifdef cpu64} UnusedMsg: Cardinal; {$endif} ... What is that UnusedMsg? How messages are handled on 64-bit cpu? Thank

    Lubos Pintes, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    1
  39. SynEdit.Lines.LoadFromFile and non-ascii filenames

    After staring myself blind for several hours on why my program malfunctioned, I finally noticed a difference in behaviour between SynEdit.Lines.LoadFromFile and e.g.…

    Bart, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  40. Updated docs

    In the past days I've updated the LCL docs, in detail for Controls and ImgList. Please look for [...?] annotations, and fix what I couldn't determine myself. Patches can…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Schnell
    5
  41. [wiki] License information missing

    currently the http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ displays Content is available under . under each page. Lukasz

    Lukasz Sokol
    0
  42. object streams

    I am looking if in fpc/lazarus there are functions for object streaming (not components but objects) similar to…

    Andrea Mauri, leledumbo, Zaher Dirkey
    3
  43. typinfo routine gives memory leak

    The following (button and memo) program loses 276 bytes heap memory that are not recovered. unit Unit1; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} interface uses Forms, StdCtrls; type TForm1 =…

    Howard Page-Clark, Martin
    2
  44. Options>Linking>Target OS specific options>Win32 gui app (-WG)

    I updated my Lazarus today and I saw that missing the Linking>-WG (always checked, even if you create a app console... uncheck manually). To compile my console projects…

    Marcos Douglas, Bart
    2
  45. Bug reports question

    Because I don't want to risk that I made another badness, I am asking: are bug reports accepted here? I think I found one.

    Lubos Pintes, Bart
    3
  46. Lazarus forces HALFTONE StretchBldMode in StretchMaskBlt/for alpha-enabled DC (and doesn't for non-alpha)

    while looking into bug http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20226 I realized that Lazarus has the following call in TWin32WidgetSet.StretchMaskBlt:…

    Flávio Etrusco
    0
  47. Are there some reasons why TProcess commands do not terminate quickly?

    When I run some Windows commands on the Command Prompt they take a short time, but when I run them with TProcess they take much longer and sometimes they don't there…

    Frank Church
    1
  48. Removed use of UTF8String in Lazarus to work with cpstrnew

    Hello. Yesterday there was a commit: http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&root=lazarus&revision=32374 "don't use UTF8String type in the code. It will…

    cobines, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    28
  49. Lazarus and accessibility

    I am screen reader user. I tried lazarus to see how accessible it is. It is almost inaccessible, no surprise. :-) But I would like to try make it more accessible, if…

    Lubos Pintes, Lukasz Sokol, Sven Barth
    11
  50. Code Folding

    I'd like when open a project, that all functions and procedures get with "code-folding" option in closed mode. It's possible ? How i do ? Sorry my ugly english…

    Rafael Tuim Elias, Martin
    5