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lazarus · 2012-02

  1. no driver and com printing [SOLVED]

    Yes, set it in cups properly, but DO NOT use Generic Text, use Raw printing driver and set proper ESC/POS. This is how I do that: 1.Prepare TStringList with commands and…

    fikri zainul, patspiper, zeljko
    5
  2. FPDocManager now handles selectable FCL packages

    Only few FCL units are documented right now. This is not a special limitation for Lazarus applications, which do not normally use FCL units. But when e.g. the PParser…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Marco van de Voort, Mattias Gaertner
    14
  3. Multiple views that are right.

    We should always remember that are multiple views that are right. So, the better would be to find means that they could coexist. Like in this:…

    Everton Vieira
    0
  4. I made a visualization of the Lazarus SVN repository

    ...using gource. Its quite interesting and funny to watch: http://vimeo.com/36868024 Its only a few months from last summer until yesterday but you can watch busy…

    Bernd, Everton Vieira, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    27
  5. Cross compiling LCL win32=>win64; update wiki?

    I'm trying to cross compile LCL to win64 so users of fpcup can generate both x86 and x64 binaries. The wiki [1] says to check your compiler, e.g. with fpc -Twin64…

    Reinier Olislagers, Sven Barth
    5
  6. Lazarus compiled with FPC2.4.4, -O2 optimized, crashes

    Interesting bug: Lazarus crashes when it is compiled with FPC2.4.4 and -O2, on Linux. Maybe it has happened for long, I have not built an optimized binary for a long…

    Juha Manninen, Martin, zeljko
    4
  7. Start/Stop recording editor macro

    Is there in Lazarus a "record editor macro", like Delphi (CTRL+SHIFT+R)? See http://delphi.about.com/od/adptips2005/qt/editorshortcuts.htm Marcos Douglas

    Marcos Douglas, Flávio Etrusco, Martin
    8
  8. Looking for a general text editor

    Has anybody implemented a synedit (or other edit component) based general text editor (something like Syn on SourceForge - but it doesn't need to have that much…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Bart, Bernd
    50
  9. Editor File Manager in Windows menu

    I implemented a new feature: an Editor File Manager. It can be found as the first item in Windows menu. It becomes very useful when you have lots of files open. Please…

    Juha Manninen, Martin, Mattias Gaertner
    13
  10. Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

    Busy with my fpcup svn installer/updater. 1. I've managed to let fpcup generate lcl.chm documentation using build_lcl_docs.lpr (going to get rtl.chm etc going later) 2.…

    Reinier Olislagers, Graeme Geldenhuys, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    23
  11. Thanks for the help!

    Amidst the discussion of the failings/possible improvement of help systems, I'd like to thank everybody involved in getting Lazarus and FPC help to the state it is now.…

    Reinier Olislagers
    0
  12. Lazbuild search path

    Hi, I'm trying to use Lazbuild from a cron job in a server to create nightly builds. Our projects are developed on machines with different paths for libraries, and I…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  13. Lookup Field dont display values

    I have several lookup fields shown in DBGrids and values ??do not appear when I select them, but they appear in the list. I can fix it?* *Tengo varios campos lookup…

    Maxi
    0
  14. TThread.WaitFor blocks the main event loop under Linux

    [Just as well the Lazarus IDE didn't get the thread update mentioned a few days ago... where a thread was doing work, and the main thread was waiting for that thread to…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Adem, José Mejuto
    68
  15. Feature Request: a new macro for a complete identifier name

    Based on the discussion about offline help viewers, and interesting point was raised. In the case of DocView (which is setup via the External Tools), I use the…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort, Michael Schnell
    7
  16. semaphore

    Hi all. On an OpenSuse 12.1, Lazarus 0.9.31, FPC 2.4.4 I can't create a semaphore Code: LockerS: Integer; SemKey: Integer; SemKey := strToIntDef(ESemaphoreKey.Text, -1);…

    Antonio Fortuny, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Lukasz Sokol
    11
  17. Documentation contribution

    Again I found almost all of my notes removed from the LCL documentation. If this is how my work is honored, I see no reason why I should spend any more time with…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Anders E. Andersen, Everton Vieira
    68
  18. Anchoring buttons (or other graphical elements)

    I am trying to understand the logic of the anchors of graphic elements like buttons etc., especially the meaning of the margin values. Assume two buttons A and B: ----- …

    Jürgen Hestermann, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Mattias Gaertner
    10
  19. Webcam access

    hi: how to access the web camera in the lazarus.., is there any component for access the webcamera.. pls reply Dhanasekaran M -------------- next part -------------- An…

    Dhanu M, Henry Vermaak, Reimar Grabowski
    6
  20. LHelp: open RTL+FCL+LCL by default?

    The recent discussion about help got me thinking. When getting context-sensitive help in Lazarus, the first time lhelp opens I see e.g. the FCL help. Then, as I press F1…

    Reinier Olislagers
    0
  21. Lazarus slow on large files

    I was doing some test programming for android. The android SDK unit contains 68000 lines (.pas and .inc together). Opening it in the IDE (by right-clicking an identifier…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Everton Vieira, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    36
  22. vtUnicodeString

    LCLProc has procedure DebuglnThreadLog which refers to vtUnicodeString which doesn't compile with FPC 2.4.4. It should be embedded in IFDEF. Is VER2_6 the right define?…

    Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner, zeljko
    3
  23. i'm looking for tips on debugging deep nested code with recursive functions

    I have a code with a lot of loops and recursive calls. Somewhere at the code, at some point, I think I have an Off By One or something similar that happens that break my…

    ik, Everton Vieira, Martin
    7
  24. CNPack lines

    I know of them for a long time, and yes I do have plans to add them. But I have still other things on top of my list. I don't have Delphi with CNPack, but out of…

    Martin, Everton Vieira
    1
  25. Should the "at" word be painted as reserved word ?

    The Following code: Raise Exception.Create('') at get_caller_frame(get_frame); Does not paint the "at" code as reserve word. It is not a reserved word according to the…

    ik, Bernd, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    24
  26. How about Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Space completes code with empty values.

    How about Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Space completes the code with empty values. Like this: Trim(); After Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Space inside that parentheses makes this: Trim(''); Just,…

    Everton Vieira, Graeme Geldenhuys, ik
    10
  27. SIGSEGV error on close.

    I'm getting this error on application close. Also with an empty project. Anyone have this? I just updated Lazarus/FPC via svn: Lazarus: 0.9.30.3 - 35369M FPC: 2.4.5 -…

    Kjow, zeljko
    1
  28. Lazarus frozen on F1

    I have a strange issue. I configured chm help and everything was fine and nice and then I restarted my IDE and suddenly on pressing F1 my IDE froze instead of bringing…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Andrew Haines, Everton Vieira
    15
  29. IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

    Just updated Lazarus to r35276 on Linux GTK2 / Fpc 2.6.0. The IDE's main window (the one with the component palette) now has lost some pixels in its height (appr. 15),…

    Bart, Alexsander Rosa, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    43
  30. Ao dar commit fecha todas as janelas

    Concordo, ? preciso evoluir o cross compile para que seja f?cil. Agree, is urge to evolve the cross compile to be easy. I been thinking, and if, some like this tech of…

    Everton Vieira
    0
  31. semaphores

    Hi all. I need to implement a system wide locking system in all WIn32, Win64, Linux32 and Linux64. Therefore I need some king of named locking objects. For Windows I can…

    Antonio Fortuny, Everton Vieira, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    46
  32. Matching gutter width on two synedits

    Continuing with my exercise of recompiling programs with (fairly) a recent version of Lazarus, I've got one here with two synedits: the bottom one is used to display and…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Martin
    8
  33. Adding Notes in FPDoc

    Seeing the discussions about annotating the documentation created by FPDoc, I added support for notes. (revision 20304) In short: At the level of the <module>, <topic>…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    46
  34. TDBLookupComboBox listing from TMemDataSet

    If a set the LookupCache to True they read, but generates error on insert: can`t convert null to string. If a set the LookupCache to False they don`t read, but is able…

    Everton Vieira, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    3
  35. Help on FCL?

    The Lazarus package FCL seems to hide the FPC/FCL, at least I cannot get any context sensitive help on FCL units or identifiers (using CHM) :-( FPDoc Editor doesn't show…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Andrew Haines, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    140
  36. ListView problems

    As mentioned in Mantis #18820 I tried to verify the OwnerData implementation, and get nothing displayed (Win7). Most probably because [Do]OnData is never called. Some…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, dmitry boyarintsev, zeljko
    7
  37. r35016, win32, 'find in files' command ends up with a crash

    I got the IDE crash with stack overflow when trying 'find in files' command, the failure occurs when it is about to show the 'search results' form. Shows up at least in…

    Sergei Gorelkin, Bart, Juha Manninen
    3
  38. svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error

    Is anybody else getting an error when updating Lazarus trunk? I get it on 3 different systems, using svn, TortoiseSVN and git-svn. svn: Can't find a temporary directory:…

    Juha Manninen, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Martin
    4
  39. OT: Is there a Lazarus/FPC community in Australia ?

    I'm interesting in knowing if there is an open source community in Australia for FPC/Lazarus. People who does lectures, meetings etc.. ? Ido -------------- next part…

    ik
    0
  40. no driver and com printing

    I have a printer (Epson TM U220D, plugged in COM1 port) and my OS Linux/Fedora10 I can't found the driver printer for this OS (only for SUSE and Ubuntu that Epson…

    fikri zainul, Zaher Dirkey, zeljko
    2
  41. Updating applications

    When I tried to run an old application, I ran into problems with TNotebook, whose interface was changed some time ago. How can I update forms which contain old TNotebook…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, zeljko
    3
  42. FPCUp FPC/Lazarus installer/updater: first Linux/Windows version released

    With the help of the people on the forums and the lists, I've completed the first version of FPCup, a tool that downloads FPC and Lazarus sources from SVN, compiles and…

    Reinier Olislagers
    0
  43. Just a test

    please ignore

    Reimar Grabowski
    0
  44. Extending FCL documentation

    In the meantime I added another feature to the FPDocManager, that shall allow to add description directories to documentation packages. The GUI is a bit rudimentary for…

    Hans-Peter Diettrich, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    79
  45. fpdoc + XML description file + indentation whitespace

    Here is the email I spoke of.. Note that the URL example I listed, is still affected by the problem as well. The first line with "naAdd" is correct. All the other…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Mattias Gaertner
    13
  46. lazarus for arm-linux

    Hi all. Does there exist a lazarus for "linux-arm"? If yes, I will be grateful if someone could point me to its links. I already have managed to procure fpc from…

    Ajay Garg, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Ludo Brands
    5
  47. Add notification to callstack change.

    Hi there. I know very little about notifications, and maybe what i know is wrong, so any help would be useful. I`m trying to add some kind of notication that triggers an…

    Everton Vieira, Martin, Sven Barth
    13
  48. compiling lazarus on arm-linux

    Thanks Ludo. It worked !! Felipe, I was right; I was stupid not to test with the latest "fpc" version (2.6.0) :-| ( Lazarus has been compiled and built successfully.…

    Ajay Garg, Ludo Brands
    6
  49. glscene error

    With the last svn and fpc 2.6.0 I cannot install glscene packages, I got this error: C:\lazarus_svn\components\glscene\Source\base\vectorgeometry.pas(3789,32) Error:…

    Andrea Mauri, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Patrick Chevalley
    4
  50. Adding items in a json object and then save to file

    Hellow guys, good afternoon. :) I'm tried to add items in a json object, and I tryied to save it in a file using stream. My doubt is: do I need to do everything manually?

    silvioprog, Unknown author
    2