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lazarus · 2012-04

  1. lazbuild --build-ide= --addpackage bla.lpk?

    At the moment, the fpcup tool can compile packages using lazbuild. It would be very nice if the compiled package could be added to the list of packages to be installed…

    Reinier Olislagers, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  2. Removing read-only files in FileUtil.DeleteDirectory ?

    Regarding issue #21855 http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21855 I am planning to reject the patch but I would like to have other opinions, too. Juha --------------…

    Juha Manninen, Bart, Howard Page-Clark
    12
  3. Form in DLL

    in http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=1866 is described, that forms in dlls are not working at this moment. I have coded a dll which opens a form and it works. But I…

    Michael Fuchs, Bernd, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    29
  4. Strip debug info

    What's the safest way of making the .exe smaller than default? Is it just to strip debug info? How would I do this? Thanks in advance Richard -------------- next part…

    Richard Mace, Alexander Klenin, Andreas Schneider
    29
  5. Overloading with generic type as parmeter causes compiler error.

    Hi All! I am working on a generic type library and ran into a problem at compile time. type generic TMyType<T> = class * * * function IndexOf( Item : T ) : Integer;…

    Donald R. Ziesig, Sven Barth
    2
  6. Return of Frame3D issue

    In upgrading to Lazarus 1.1 and issue I first came across in this thread has returned. I think I decided not to use the controls in 0.9.31 but I want to consider them…

    Frank Church, Juha Manninen, patspiper
    6
  7. build modes - I have an idea

    How about making a little change to the project options dialog so that on *every* page there is a dropdown (or a button at the bottom button panel) to change the…

    Bernd, Juha Manninen, patspiper
    5
  8. Object inspector hints ?

    The lazarus code editor shows tooltip hints about identifiers; It gets those from the sources or even fpdoc. Is there any reason why the object inspector would not be…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Howard Page-Clark
    7
  9. Inconsistent results from MessageDlg()

    MessageDlg eventually calls WidgetSet.PromptUser() This in return either calls and sets up a widgetset specific function (like TaskDialogIndirect on Windows Vista/Win7)…

    Bart, cobines, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    36
  10. making multithreading more user friendly

    Maybe I'm affected by bad luck, but almost all applications I happen to develop must run under Linux and must deal with data coming at unpredictable times from some…

    Giuliano Colla, Bart, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  11. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21874

    I can't update the bug report as it is marked as resolved but the fix is wrong. TBytes is a managed type and as soon as TBookmarkList.SetCurrentRowSelected exits, the…

    Ludo Brands
    0
  12. Editor Toolbar as default package

    How about promote the Editor Toolbar package to the group of installed by default? The jump back/forward buttons at the toolbar are reasons enough to me. Thanks.

    Daniel Gaspary, Graeme Geldenhuys, leledumbo
    15
  13. TSQLQuery limited to 255 characters in Unicode

    I'm using TSQLQuery on SQLite in order to manipulation very long unicode strings (in tibetan). On inserting there is no problem, everything in inserted correctly in the…

    Hugues Moisy, Ludo Brands
    3
  14. Another Master-detail problem

    I think I am doing something fundamentally wrong. Every time I try to do something with master-detail tables, I get stuck on errors I don't understand :-( . I want to…

    Koenraad Lelong
    0
  15. Test - Please Ignore

    Please Ignore.

    Daniel Gaspary
    0
  16. TMSSQLConnection - sqlDB component for accessing MS SQL Server

    As you can see here http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17303 the developer known to LacaK developed a new connector for MSSQLServer, descendant of TSQLConnection…

    Marcos Douglas, Reinier Olislagers, William Oliveira Ferreira
    5
  17. How do I debug wince LCL?

    I can step into LCL code when debugging a Win32 project, but a WINCE project shows me the exact line number and file name in the stack trace but always come up with…

    Paul van Helden, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    6
  18. Sorting with TDBGrid

    I would like to implement sorting of columns with a TDBGrid. I found how to detect a click of the title, so that's OK. However, in Delphi there are components where I…

    Koenraad Lelong, Alexander Klenin
    1
  19. ubuntu liboverlay

    One step further about the mouse capture bug with ubuntu's liboverlay: liboverlay does not only override the scrollbars it also overrides big parts of the grabbing code…

    Mattias Gaertner
    0
  20. File copy

    I would like to make an application to centrally store documents. I will put a reference to the location in a Firebird database, so I can retrieve (and show) the…

    Koenraad Lelong, Antonio Fortuny
    2
  21. IDE debug

    Hi folks. Here I come again with an old IDE error. When entering the debugger ont break point and I hit F98 to step one line, nothing happens. Hitting again F8 this…

    Antonio Fortuny, Martin
    3
  22. Unicode text difference between source editor and other Edit controls on Windows

    Partly related to issue 21817: "FileUtil.CopyFile" would failed to work with Unicode Characters filename. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21817 My tests failed…

    Juha Manninen, cobines, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    8
  23. Error Inconsistency Found

    1 - What is it mean this message when compiling my project, look at my attachment. 2 - And how canopy the messagebox message to past it. I am using last reversion…

    Zaher Dirkey, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  24. Copy variable value in Watch list

    How to copy variable value in Watch list when debuging I am using last revision of Lazarus, FPC 2.6 Best Regards Zaher Dirkey -------------- next part -------------- An…

    Zaher Dirkey, Martin
    3
  25. Has there been a known bug in GTK2 where TabVisible property affects the visibility of the tabsheet?

    I am running a program developed for Win32 on Linux and I notice that setting the TabVisible to false on a PageControl make the whole tabsheet invisible. Is that a known…

    Frank Church, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Howard Page-Clark
    4
  26. Projects recent files is case sensitive in Windows

    Some files and projects are duplicated in the recent menu. Is there any way to clean up it?. See the attachment. Best Regards Zaher Dirkey -------------- next part…

    Zaher Dirkey, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  27. RemoveDir: Error: Identifier not found

    If I hit Alt+Up on "RemoveDir" within my program I am moved to D:\Programme\lazarus\fpc\2.6.1\source\rtl\objpas\sysutils\diskh.inc(21,10) with the function header…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Mattias Gaertner, patspiper
    3
  28. Bugtracker error

    Sorry for misusing this list. If I try to add a note to a bugreport in the bugtracker I get the following errormessage; Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728…

    Bart
    0
  29. Keys on Save confirmation prompt not fully working

    When I close a modified unit file within the Lazarus IDE I am asked whether it should be saved or not with a message window which has the following 3 buttons: Save…

    Jürgen Hestermann
    0
  30. Autocomplete with procedure varibles

    I have something like this: var some_external_func: function(foo: bar): baz; cdecl; some_external_proc: procedure(bla: blub); cdecl; and later I will assign them with…

    Bernd, Alexander Klenin, Martin
    6
  31. Compiling Win 64 bit LCL only with 32 bit IDE+cross compiler

    Triggered by Mattias' improvements in the make environment, I tried to incorporate support in fpcup. Goal: on Windows compile 32bit LCL+IDE; also compile 64 bit LCL with…

    Reinier Olislagers, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  32. TBitBtn with Kid=bkClose and ModalResult

    A TBitBtn with Kind = bkClose will not set ModalResult of the ParentForm. As a result ShowModal on a form with such a TBitBtn will return mrCancel if this button is…

    Bart, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    7
  33. Where does Lazarus 0.9.31 differ from 1.1?

    Where does Lazarus 0.9.31 differ from 1.1? Is the next Lazarus version going to be 0.9.32 or 1.0.0? Are they the same or are there some major difference between them?…

    Frank Church, Sven Barth
    1
  34. Renaming an existing unit

    What's the best steps for renaming a unit, that is part of an existing project? Richard *Richard Mace* *Too much month at the end of the money?* Watch this…

    Richard Mace, Graeme Geldenhuys, Joost van der Sluis
    13
  35. What is the current release version of Lazarus?

    I thought that the even numbered releases it 0.9.xy where y is even are the release versions, or is that Free Pascal? When I view the snapshots I can see 0.9.31 and 1.1…

    Frank Church, Vincent Snijders
    2
  36. building lazarus from the command line...

    firstly i want to thank you very much for you work in enabling lazarus to be built and updated completely from the command line... there's been a lot of changes and…

    waldo kitty, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  37. Key-down event codes

    Is it to be expected that some key-down codes will vary depending on whether the widget set is GTK2 or Qt? If it's expected, I can live with it. If it's not expected…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, leledumbo, zeljko
    3
  38. Code completion and function modifiers & calling conventions

    Currently codetools do not work for procedure/function modifiers and calling conventions such as: override overload virtual forward external assembler inline nostackframe

    patspiper
    0
  39. Default font name

    Most of controls (or canvas) have font name "default". How to get exact name of this font? There is GetFontData(Button1.Font.Handle).Name function but it works on QT…

    Krzysztof, zeljko
    2
  40. Right click, paste as string?

    When working with e.g. multiline SQL statements, sometimes I want to copy them to a string in Lazarus, e.g from something like: const SQL = with this on the clipboard:…

    Reinier Olislagers, Graeme Geldenhuys, Ludo Brands
    10
  41. mingw64 - gdb

    Does anyone know, if there are proper releases for mingw 64 bits? http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/ Or does anyone has alternative download addresses for…

    Martin, cobines
    3
  42. Problems with painting controls on canvas

    I try to paint a widget with child-widgets on a canvas in an OnPaint handler. But I can not get it right. Below is my current code. It almost works, but when I resize…

    Joost van der Sluis, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  43. Ubuntu 12.04

    When running the Lazarus "Fixes 1_0" branch, I have to run Lazarus with the following command: LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 ./lazarus Is there a plan for Lazarus to "auto…

    Richard Mace, Mattias Gaertner, Vincent Snijders
    13
  44. Non-lcl-designer design question

    I'm playing around with a non-lcl-designer to design xib forms. This works quite nice, but there are a lot of issues. Basic problem is that the 'objects' which are…

    Joost van der Sluis, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort
    20
  45. LCL problems under Linux x64

    Lazarus from svn 36910 (today) For some reason I'm getting this error: Options changed, recompiling clean with -B /usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output…

    Andrew Brunner, Mattias Gaertner, zeljko
    6
  46. TImage - Getting image properties in 'canvas space'

    I load a TLazIntfImage from disk, manipulate it and show it on my form in a TImage. Center, Proportional and Stretch properties of the TImage are set to true. Now I want…

    Reimar Grabowski, Alberto Narduzzi, Graeme Geldenhuys
    45
  47. Minor typo in rttigrids.pas and objectinspector.pp

    I've noticed that the property PrefferedSplitterX is misspelled in three source files (should be PreferredSplitterX). The corresponding "F" data field that holds the…

    Howard Page-Clark, Maxim Ganetsky
    1
  48. Bug 15390 and Showmodal

    This is related to bug #15390: My understanding is that Showmodal blocks until the form is closed. Hiding the form should have no effect. try Self.Hide; Form2.ShowModal;…

    patspiper, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    22
  49. TBaseCompilerOptions.ExecuteAfter not available in IDEIntf

    (While I'm re-writing my package, I can better report some problems I'm having immediately) I want to set TBaseCompilerOptions.ExecuteAfter in a package, but to do that…

    Joost van der Sluis
    0
  50. Project widget set: is there still a default?

    I've been away from trunk for a few weeks due to problems. I notice that the old "LCL Widget Type" on the Compiler Options -> Paths page has been replaced by a build…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Schnell
    3