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lazarus · 2012-05

  1. Embarcadero vs Lazarus/FPC (Oracle vs Google)

    I'm following the trial between Oracle vs Google and wondered about the following... Judge Alsup told the jury to assume API's are copyrightable - something Alsup still…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Andrew Brunner, Dimitri Smits
    39
  2. TColor and alpha channel

    Does TColor has alpha channel? I am confused because wiki says that it doesn't but delphi TColor has (I always thought that he doesn't have too, maybe it is new Delphi…

    Krzysztof, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  3. lazbuild output

    Hi Is there a way to silence the debug output of lazbuild? It spits out text like this: TCompiler.Compile WorkingDir="/home/hcv/source/... ... ... [TCompiler.Compile]…

    Henry Vermaak, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  4. System unit / val-procedure

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    Engelbert Buxbaum, Bart, Michael Fuchs
    5
  5. Lazarus first contact

    Lazarus first contact Well, not really first contact. I messed around with Laz a year or 2 ago. Great system, but the web 'visibility' was poor, I thought. I am…

    Mike Parr, Henry Vermaak
    1
  6. StrToDateTime question

    How do I convert a string in the format yyyy-mm-dd to a DateTime variable? StrToDateTime('2012-05-26', ????); // what goes there?// -dae

    Doug Edmunds, ik, Ludo Brands
    7
  7. Erro: undefined symbol

    Hi All. Maybe I'm coming back with an old thing but I can't get rid of it. I've compiled and installed a new package (UIB): no problem anywhere. Then I begin to use the…

    Antonio Fortuny, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Sven Barth
    7
  8. The right way to handle variable heights of DBGrid rows

    Good evening! Sample project, covered this message theme is attached to the mail. Screenshot that illustrates problem is attached too. I went into task of displaying…

    Andrey Smyntyna
    1
  9. make useride is dumping some source code to the console (but then succeeds to build the IDE)

    Very strange: bernd at t40:~/lazsvn/lazarus/trunk\ $ make useride ./lazbuild --lazarusdir=. --build-ide= primary config path: /home/bernd/.lazarus…

    Bernd, waldo kitty
    3
  10. Improve message dialog

    One of my frustrations with the IDE have been when debugging record or class variables. The data is truncated to 255 characters and it's very difficult to find the…

    Darius Blaszyk, Benito van der Zander, Flávio Etrusco
    31
  11. D2007

    Hi all I know that this is not a Delphi forum but because I read some posts from guys I meet in this one in Embarcadero forum and because I don't have any answer from…

    Antonio Fortuny, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Vincent Snijders
    2
  12. Installing packages using lazbuild - am I on the right path?

    I'm trying to figure out how to set packages for installation/compilation in Lazbuild. Goal: add packages to user IDE from command line using lazbuild. I've looked…

    Reinier Olislagers, Mattias Gaertner, Zaher Dirkey
    4
  13. 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
  14. TCustomBufDataset and XML - SaveToFile works fine, but, LoadFromFile works fine too?

    Currently I export XML data by the method SaveToFile of the TBufDataSet class, it work fine. But I'm trying to do the same but to import using LoadFromFile, but does not…

    silvioprog
    2
  15. Listing wireless networks

    Does anyone have any code that will list available wireless networks on Win? Thanks in advance Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was…

    Richard Mace, Jürgen Hestermann
    2
  16. more questions about building lazarus...

    I reinstalled opensuse 12.1 32bits yesterday and downloaded a lazarus snapshot from revision 37326 (fpc 2.6.0 - everything from rpm packages...). When build lazarus, it…

    William Oliveira Ferreira, zeljko
    1
  17. Is it possible to Dock messages window into Source Editor

    Is it possible to Dock messages window into Source Editor And there is a problem when showing Messages, it bring to back, same in Search in files dialog. I am using last…

    Zaher Dirkey, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  18. memleaks, laz trunk r37392...

    just updated yesterday to FPC 2.6.0 release... lazarus trunk... made a few svn updates yesterday and today... laz runs with no problem that i can see... i always build a…

    waldo kitty, Mattias Gaertner, Reinier Olislagers
    2
  19. Cannot build 37377

    This is the output I'm getting after "make clean all" in 37377, fpc trunk was compiled a few minutes before: Free Pascal Compiler version 2.7.1 [2012/05/21] for x86_64…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    9
  20. Is TTabControl deprecated?

    I'm looking for component which have "pages" functionality, but I want draw it by my self. TPageControl and TNotebook has no events for that. Only TTabControl has…

    Krzysztof, Martin, zeljko
    2
  21. usability: please not focus the messages window, only bring to front

    Has it always behaved this way? Currently if I invoke Identifier completion with Ctrl+Space and the code tools encounter an error because of a typo they fail to parse…

    Bernd, Benito van der Zander, Juha Manninen
    32
  22. Frames and menus

    Running 1.1 r37373 GTK2 2.6.0. What I'm trying to do is put a main menu in a frame, which then only displays over part of the width of the containing form so that I can…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Mattias Gaertner, zeljko
    6
  23. Missing some database components

    I'm seeing that registersqldb.pas try to register all connectors (if it corresponding flag is active). So, i'm seeing too that TMSSQLConnection, TSyBaseConnection,…

    William Oliveira Ferreira, Reinier Olislagers
    3
  24. Problem with building lazarus/trunk with fpc/trunk on Darwin

    Mac OSX 10.7.4 FPC svn/trunk just updated Lazarus svn/trunk just updated Free Pascal Compiler version 2.7.1 [2012/05/20] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2012 by Florian…

    Andrew Brunner, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  25. Displaying text with colour and insertion point

    Does anybody have any suggestions for a component to display status or terminal text that will allow limited enhancement (colour, possibly underline etc.)? Over the last…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Bernd, Graeme Geldenhuys
    37
  26. Filter in Object Inspector component tree

    Hi I added a filter to Object Inspector's component tree in r37341. Comments about its usability are welcome. Juha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML…

    Juha Manninen, Martin, Maxim Ganetsky
    11
  27. (no subject)

    I updated my lazarus to 37350 right now and i got this error while building it: C:\lazarus\ide\sourceeditor.pp(1252,42) Error: Identifier not found…

    William Oliveira Ferreira, Martin, Maxim Ganetsky
    7
  28. Multiple hints for a TStatusBar

    Please don't put significant thought into this, but does anybody have a reliable code fragment that will pop up a different hint from a multi-panel status bar, depending…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Ludo Brands, zeljko
    3
  29. Linker error when building Lazarus r37322 on Linux GTK2

    I cannot build Lazarus r37322. It fails with a linker error. At first I thought I had left-over old .ppu's, but I did a make clean before building, and the object-file…

    Bart, zeljko
    1
  30. Metadata browser in TSQLQuery.SQL editor window

    A month ago I added to mantis a patch that adds a metadata browser to the SQL editor window of TSQLQuery. It facilitates creating queries considerably without the need…

    Ludo Brands, Juha Manninen
    2
  31. TRichMemo and current Lazarus

    Following on from my questions about simulating a terminal emulator with colour and insertion-point marker. I'm trying to work by creating the TRichMemo under…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Ludo Brands
    6
  32. Own component - problem with default published property

    I think this is a bug, but I want to be sure. Referring to this wiki: http://wiki.freepascal.org/How_To_Write_Lazarus_Component#Enhancing_mycom.pas I created own…

    Krzysztof, Alexander Klenin, cobines
    4
  33. How can I search the archives

    http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/ How can I search the archives? Is there a Nabble access to lazarus online?

    Doug Edmunds, Reinier Olislagers, Sven Barth
    2
  34. Information about package sqlite3laz0.4

    package sqlite3laz0.4 is included in lazarus 9.30.4 I am looking for some instructions on how to use that package.

    Doug Edmunds, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    1
  35. [PATCH] editbtn.pas: Do not save the default glyph in LFM (Delphi compatibility)

    Please see in: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22053 Thx. Silvio Cl?cio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog

    silvioprog
    0
  36. TWinControl.WMEraseBkgnd - should it always set Message.Result := 1

    Hello. The WMEraseBkgnd handler is implemented as: procedure TWinControl.WMEraseBkgnd(var Message: TLMEraseBkgnd); begin if (Message.DC 0) and (wcfEraseBackground in…

    cobines
    0
  37. Again, Wrong Initial value for Application.BidiMode

    Hi, Lazarus team Yes, I know, I will be importunate for it, sorry for that. In application.inc at line 128 {$ifndef wince}// remove ifdef when gettext is fixed…

    Zaher Dirkey
    1
  38. Cross compile problem with linklib and static libraries

    I am having a problem linking static libraries on for 32bit windows. I've got everything setup and working on Ubuntu 12.04 and have built one project which targets…

    Anthony Walter, Ludo Brands
    1
  39. make .NET and VBA people talk to a windows service

    I need to write a data broker as a Windows service. The problem is that .NET and VBA developers need to give me data, and be able to receive answer from it. What is the…

    ik, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  40. Patch to add multi-sampling (anti-aliasing) to T[Custom]OpenGLControl

    For those using TOpenGLControl component in Lazarus: I just submitted a patch that adds new property MultiSampling that allows to easily turn on anti-aliasing for OpenGL…

    Michalis Kamburelis
    0
  41. Generics type as parameter

    I'm trying to work in an abstract way with generics, I need to create a method receiving a un-specialized generic and do some work on it. Example: function…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Michalis Kamburelis, Sven Barth
    9
  42. Demonstration of developing iOS application using a non-lcl-designer

    As I wrote earlier I'm working on a non-lcl-designer to make it easier to develop for iOS. I have all the basics working now. It needs some changes to Lazarus, though. A…

    Joost van der Sluis
    0
  43. FPCDefines.xml: RealCompiler InPath

    Was looking at what changed in the post 1.0 configs to see if fpcup needs to be adjusted. Ran fpcup with empty primary config path dir to get and let fpcup setup Lazarus…

    Reinier Olislagers, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  44. Warning: The LazSolutions was moved to: https://github.com/silvioprog/lazsolutions

    Please do not reply to this email. Silvio Cl?cio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog

    silvioprog
    0
  45. Package directory at runtime

    I have own component editor which inherit from TComponentEditor. I have connected it to the control. Everything works fine, my form dialog pop up when I double click on…

    Krzysztof, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  46. Rev 37233 too slooow

    Hi, does anyone noted the latest revision is to slow, it brings down the whole machine until Lazarus is killed. I'm using Linux x86_64 - Ubuntu 12.04. Leonardo M. Ram?…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Mattias Gaertner
    10
  47. Function to get the mimetype from a file extension

    I need this now and after some Googling I couldn't find anything. So I was wondering, maybe we already have this somewhere in FPC or Lazarus? If not it might be…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Alberto Narduzzi, Graeme Geldenhuys
    22
  48. toolbar buttons (Windows vs GTK2)

    Why are the toolbar buttons so butt ugly under GTK2, but pretty and anti-aliased under Windows? Is applies to all toolbar buttons in Lazarus IDE. See attached screenshot…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, cobines, silvioprog
    8
  49. Disabled images not looking right in Win 7

    I am currently writing an app and testing on Win 7 and Win xp, and am using a various actions linked to menus and toolbar buttons. I have noticed a big difference in the…

    Richard Mace
    0
  50. exemple

    Bonjour Vincent Voici la fen?tre d'interface: des remarques ? Antonio. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:…

    Antonio Fortuny
    2