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lazarus · 2011-11

  1. How to find error from 'Error compiling resources'?

    While rebuilding Lazarus to install a converted package from Delphi, I get the following error: Compiling lazarus.pp Compiling resource ../units/i386-linux/lazarus.or…

    patspiper, cobines, Giulio Bernardi
    14
  2. Silly bugtracker question

    Here's a silly question. In the Lazarus bugtracker we have > 1600 issues marked as resolved. A little under half of them are > 1 year old. Shouldn't most of these issues…

    Bart, Alexander Shishkin, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    9
  3. unresolved issues

    Hi guys. I'd like to know if someone takes care of issues 12974 and 17280. Both concern WIN64 C and FPC exception handling. It is really boring to develop Firebird UDFs…

    Antonio Fortuny, Sergei Gorelkin
    2
  4. TDBLookupComboBox (dblookup.inc)

    The TDBLookupComboBox uses Field.AsString or Field.Value to access the data... but I have problems with it using Unicode. I use MSSQL and I have to convert the string…

    Marcos Douglas, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    4
  5. DrawFPVectorialToCanvas differs from SVG

    This is a simple test for fpVectorial, I want to compare the output quality of an fpVectorial page to TCanvas vs the same page exported as SVG. To view the SVG I use…

    Leonardo M. Ramé
    0
  6. How to get the package version from a LPK file?

    I'm trying, trying, trying, but without sucess. x( Find attached, my test example. It uses DOM and XML Reader. If someone can see where I'm missing in this project,…

    silvioprog, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    26
  7. Looking for a reporting solution

    Hi, I'm looking for a method to allow me do what I do on Windows using FastReport, but in a cross platform way. I need to let the user create a block of rich text with…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    7
  8. Codetools->Space is not saved.

    Hi List. The settings for Codetools->Space is not saved when closing the tools option form. Must be a regression bug since it used to work fine. My system: Free Pascal…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  9. Sending messages

    SendMessage and PostMessage are described to differ from the Windows specification. While the WinAPI sends window messages to the thread, that created (owns) the window,…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Bernd, Dave Coventry
    67
  10. Changing a TLabel.Caption

    I tried changing a TLabel.Caption property, and got a SIGSEGV. Here's the offending code: if (cmbProfileMeasures.Text = 'Inches') then begin labPDFWidth.Caption := 'in…

    Timothy Groves, Juha Manninen, Lukasz Sokol
    3
  11. [OT?] How to silently install Firebird ?

    I made an application using firebird. Not the first actually ;-) I wanted to create an installer for it using inno-setup. I also included the firebird installation, a…

    Koenraad Lelong, Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  12. How to check if a string is a valid floating-point number.

    I need to know if a string is a valid floating-point number, so I tried this function: function IsStrFloatNum(s: string): Boolean; begin try // try to convert the string…

    Kjow, Bart, Michael Fuchs
    8
  13. Right-aligned word wrap label doesn't seem to work

    Lazarus SVN. I've made a label with: caption Checkride executable alignmnet taRightJustify AutoSize false wordwrap true with a caption that needs to wrap. However, it…

    Reinier Olislagers, Ludo Brands, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    8
  14. Build project now rebuilds everithing

    With today's svn version of Lazarus "build project" rebuilds all required packages (and LCL, FCL etc). Is it by design? (Packages has option "rebuild as needed")

    Alexander Shishkin, cobines, Juha Manninen
    8
  15. TSQLite3Connection setting itself to active in the designer

    I have made a strange observation: I have a form with a TSQLite3Connection and all the other components needed to drive a TDBGrid and everything is working fine. There…

    Bernd, Martin Schreiber
    1
  16. Postgres and Lazarus

    Hi people, anyone uses the combination of Postgres with Lazarus? I've been gotting a lot of problems with it: To create or drop database. To create or drop schema. To…

    Everton Vieira, Alexsander Rosa, silvioprog
    8
  17. Documenting constant values

    Delphi introduces very many constants, corresponding to WinAPI defines. The user has no idea which constants can be used in which place, because the argument types are…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Sven Barth
    3
  18. TWidgetSet.GetTextExtentExPoint

    The loop in this method is a bit weird. When the best fit is found, the loop continues but does nothing. IMO it should break instead, or fill the remaining array…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  19. FontCanUTF8(Font: HFont)

    How is a *font* involved in UTF-8 encoding? IMO IsUnicodeFont would be a better name. DoDi

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  20. SetScrollInfo

    TWin32WidgetSet.SetScrollInfo modifies the content of the ScrollInfo ScrollInfo.nMax := Max(ScrollInfo.nMin, ScrollInfo.nMax - 1); i.e. nMax is typically decremented by…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich
    1
  21. SynEdit - SelStart/SelEnd - bug

    Please see in: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20750 Thx. Silvio Cl?cio =============================================== Blog - <silvioprog.com.br> Twitter -…

    silvioprog, Martin
    2
  22. Class TThread in linux;

    In the creation of a TThread in Linux, openSuse recently installed, causes an exception and close the application. Even without the debug same resul t.By what I've read…

    Everton Vieira, Henry Vermaak, Mattias Gaertner
    10
  23. FTP...2.4.4/bootstrap... is missing.

    Could please someone return the file i386-win32-ppc386.zip (or new version to compile FPC 2.5.1) to the FTP ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.4/bootstrap/ ? That…

    Marcos Douglas
    0
  24. How to get the version of .lpk?

    Is there any function to get the version of a LPK package? The tag with the version in LPK: <Version Minor="2" Release="2" Build="2"/> Thx. Silvio Cl?cio…

    silvioprog, Mattias Gaertner
    8
  25. IDE windows revert to default on each restart

    The Lazarus version that I'm using (Lazarus 0.9.31 r33611M FPC 2.6.0 (from the Fixes branch) x86_64-linux-gtk 2) does not save the places and sizes that I place to the…

    ik, Bernd, Juha Manninen
    2
  26. ComboBox Drop Down List and anchors

    I've created the following project (https://github.com/ik5/display-quotes). When I try to place the ComboBox to be DropDownList, the combobox is overrided by the Memo,…

    ik
    0
  27. Why you got to hate Visual Basic

    Yes, I know this is off-topic, but it was one of those "What the F*ck?" moments. I had to modify one of our older VB6 applications this morning. A simple task, just add…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, DSK, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    6
  28. Application.SmallIconHandle/BigIconHandle don't work in Qt

    Please see in: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20730 Thx. Silvio Cl?cio =============================================== Blog - <silvioprog.com.br> Twitter -…

    silvioprog, zeljko
    2
  29. Working with RTF

    I am new to LAzarus and work almost entirely in a Windows environment. I'm trying to create an application that edit's text in an RTF way and while I ve looked at…

    Unknown author, Antônio, Everton Vieira
    15
  30. Postgres Cannot connect

    I am using Postgres on OSX Snow Leopard. I have it installed and have used it with other languages and tools, etc but I cannot seem to figure out how to set the path to…

    Tom Russell, Joost van der Sluis, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    16
  31. Moderating the bugtracker

    I have a question on moderating the bugtracker, more specifically on when I should assign (and unassign) issues to myself. In the Lazarus bugtracker, I have the "status"…

    Bart, Alexander Klenin, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    9
  32. Android test, problem with crti.o

    trying to compile the Android lcl example as described in http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Android_Interface on an Kubuntu 11.10 x64 box using fpc out of svn fixes_2_6…

    Lukas Gradl, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Torsten Bonde Christiansen
    4
  33. fpWeb live example

    i just compiled and upload the fcl web compined example ( <fpc source>\source\packages\fcl-web\examples\combined ) at http://demo.artesoft.gr/combined . I wanted to see…

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Santiago A., Unknown author
    2
  34. GeckoPort - Qt and GTK2

    I'm trying to install GeckoPort on openSUSE 11.4 and Lazarus compiled with Qt. But: Hint: Start of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfg Hint: End of reading config file…

    silvioprog, Joost van der Sluis, Ludo Brands
    6
  35. Animation of TrayIcon does not work on Qt

    Please see in: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20717 Thx. Silvio Cl?cio =============================================== Blog - <silvioprog.com.br> Twitter -…

    silvioprog, zeljko
    2
  36. staticpackages.inc

    Ok, I resolved but I don't know if has a bug with lazarus.old.exe/lazarus.new.exe files or another thing. I do not have a lazarus.old.exe, just the lazarus.exe. Is the…

    Marcos Douglas
    0
  37. Remove transparency

    Is possible to remove transparency from loaded png? Setting Transparent property to false does not work. It sets only Masked to false. I found problem with printing…

    Petr Kristan
    0
  38. Delphi4Php Port

    I tested with php 5.3.1 in linux. I have not tested develop php extensions I am developing a small web code editor for linux and use it to validate php. For now it works…

    Reinier Napoles Martinez
    0
  39. Delphi4Php Port

    Tested in linux (Debian 5) and Windows Xp. A brief description from the project site: PHP4Delphi also allows executing the PHP scripts within the Delphi program directly…

    Reinier Napoles Martinez, Zaher Dirkey
    1
  40. IsAccel bug?

    In forms.IsAccel I suspect an bug, which manifests in very rare cases only: position := UTF8Pos(AmpersandChar, ACaption); This is the position of the & ...…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Bart, cobines
    7
  41. read single char from STDIN

    Not done any console apps in a long time. If I do: var c: char; read(c); It will read individual files, but only after I pressed enter on my terminal. What is needed to…

    Martin, Chris Kelling, Chris Kirkpatrick
    11
  42. Record names and alias

    Many records in LCLType have C typenames, e.g. tagLOGBRUSH while the LCL code uses the alias TLogBrush. This makes searching for help difficult, because the…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich
    0
  43. Documentation rev33561

    It seams that some items lost information: <element name="TCustomFrame.GetControlClassDefaultSize"> <short> <var>GetControlClassDefaultSize</var> - returns its own…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    8
  44. Web development and XML database (Mattias)

    Hi Mattias, you mentioned some time ago that you were busy with a new web server project that uses XML database which will become an open source project. Could you…

    Juha Manninen, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    22
  45. Is there an online tool for browsing library documentation and source code for FPC and Lazarus?

    Is there an online tool for browsing library documentation and source code for FPC and Lazarus? I am looking for something along these lines -…

    Frank Church, Curt Carpenter, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    36
  46. MDI implementation

    Why does the MDI implementation not use the DockManager interface? A DockManager has all functionality, required to implement MDI hosts and clients, so that only the…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    15
  47. -WR compiler option

    Hi I implemented this feature: 7154: Please add a check box for -WR compiler option http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=7154 The checkbox is now in Code Generation…

    Juha Manninen, Flávio Etrusco
    1
  48. CodeTools never uses Tab character settings from editor preferences

    I searched Manis but couldn't find any existing reports - though searching Mantis a normaly a shot in the dark too. Is it a known problem that CodeTools doesn't adhere…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin
    3
  49. Code Templates via Ctrl+J is broken in Trunk

    For a while now I have noticed that typing some text and then wanting Ctrl+J (Code Templates) to complete the code is broken. I could never figure out why, until now. I…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  50. no lazutils in 0.9.30.2

    I newly installed Lazarus on my PC (both Ubuntu and WinXP) and try to displat unicode strings (tibetan language) from Database in a Form. So I try to use the lazUtils…

    Hugues Moisy, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jesus Reyes
    3