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lazarus · 2013-03

  1. TForm.OnKeyPress event missing some characters using usb barcode reader

    I'm using CodeTyphon 4.10 on ubuntu mint 14 desktop (x86-64) - CodeTyphon 4.10 = FPC 2.7.1, Lazarus 2013-03-25 SVN 40461CT x86_64-linux-gtk2 Barcode reader is MOTOROLA…

    byungho jeon, Bernd
    1
  2. XanaNews port to Lazarus

    I have a growing frustration with NNTP news clients. The ones I have tested, and the list is long, are quite appalling. Each one has somewhere a flaw I simply can't…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Leonardo M. Ramé, Lukasz Sokol
    14
  3. Debugging fixed strings in UTF8 encoding

    Hello! As we know, Lazarus is UTF8 friendly. When I want to see a value of a string var in cyrillic, I should convert it to UTF8, else I only get "?????????" in Watches…

    Ernest V Miller, Martin, Mattias Gaertner
    16
  4. Weird GTK TGroupBox bug

    I've stumbled against a rather weird bug in TGroupBox with GTK2 WS. If a TGroupBox gets partly covered by another window (as it may happen with the drop-down of a…

    Giuliano Colla, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  5. Compile project release with LCL custom optimization

    I like when release my project to compile all components and LCL with special options like change the optimization for example to make the best file execute. Is it…

    Zaher Dirkey, Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin
    41
  6. IUnknown and reference counting

    I am reading this: http://wiki.freepascal.org/How_To_Use_Interfaces And wondering what's the *purpose* of "reference counting"? While I use interface before in delphi…

    Xiangrong Fang, Benito van der Zander, Florian Klämpfl
    88
  7. Lazarus 1.0.8 Release

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.8. This is a bug fix release, built with the new fpc 2.6.2. The previous release 1.0.6 was built with…

    Mattias Gaertner, Giuliano Colla, Reinier Olislagers
    4
  8. embed git version info

    How can I embed git version info AUTOMATICALLY while I compile my program in lazarus, just like {$I %DATE%} ? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML…

    Xiangrong Fang, Alexander Klenin, Dimitri Smits
    28
  9. tiOPF: Repository migrated to Git

    In case there are anybody using tiOPF, please note the following. I'll also update the Free Pascal wiki in the next few minutes. -------- Original Message --------…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Frank Church, Zaher Dirkey
    5
  10. TWSProgressBar.SetPosition() - what is it for?

    I've just added TProgressBar support for LCL-fpGUI, but I find the widgetset design extremely confusing. For example, I implemented TFpGuiWSProgressBar.SetPosition() -…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  11. GTK2 threading

    Dear Lazarus developers! I'm examining the problem disturbing me for years. GTK2 applications provide thread-safety using internal mutexes passed through…

    Anton Kavalenka, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Schnell
    17
  12. data matrix with thousands of columns

    I am looking for the best option in order to store big datasets with thousands of columns. The dataset can contains from tens to hundred thousands lines and thousand of…

    Andrea Mauri, Alexander Klenin, Leonardo M. Ramé
    20
  13. Packages

    When you click on a package in the Installed list (in Install/Uninstall Packages) it should show which palette it's in.? It does in Delphi. ? A. G. -------------- next…

    Alejandro Gonzalo, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  14. Open position for web page admin

    Hi I posted this same message to forum: There has been discussion about improving the main page http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org over the years. It cannot be improved…

    Juha Manninen, Johannes W. Dietrich
    1
  15. Please reassign bug 24138 to FPC

    Could somebody reassign bug http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24138 to FPC/Database? I don't have the permissions to do so. Reinier

    Reinier Olislagers, Vincent Snijders
    1
  16. Unicode in the IDE

    Would it be possible for the IDE to pop-up an enlarged image of a character >$7f when the mouse hovered over it? I anticipate that most people probably won't embed too…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd
    0
  17. Suggest to remove UseUserSettings, EnumUserSettings

    UseUserSettings, EnumUserSettings only used in SynHighlighterPas and SynHighlighterCpp to import setting from Borland delphi. 1 - this behavior must be done in the…

    Zaher Dirkey
    0
  18. Fixes 2.6.2 cod breaks 2.6.0 code?

    Upgrading to Lazarus 1.0.7 with FPC 2.6.2 raised this error in a file I was compiling? What does it mean? procedure TRxDBGrid.CheckNewCachedSizes(var AGCache:…

    Frank Church, Flávio Etrusco, Graeme Geldenhuys
    17
  19. [SynEdit] do we still need LIST_CLEAR_NOT_VIRTUAL

    In SynHighlighterHashEntries at line 101 Clear method in FreePascal is virtual, do we need to check LIST_CLEAR_NOT_VIRTUAL? Best Regards Zaher Dirkey -------------- next…

    Zaher Dirkey, Martin
    4
  20. TTreeView question

    Am I correctly guessing that TTreeView is not based on platform native implementation? Thank

    Lubos Pintes, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Flávio Etrusco
    11
  21. Unit where package view is implemented

    Please, where is the package view implemented? I mean the window which appears when you open the .lpk file as a package. Thank

    Lubos Pintes, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  22. gtk 3 header

    Was browsing the GTK site a bit, and saw that for recent GTK3 versions there seem to be Pascal headers? http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php

    Marco van de Voort, Andrew Haines, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    6
  23. TAChart : not reading the OnMarkToText event handler from lfm ?

    on Lazarus 0.9.30 r29749 FPC 2.4.2 i386-win32-win32/win64 it seems the TAChart.AxisList[1] (Bottom) is forgetting to read the OnMarkToText assignment from lfm (excerpt…

    Lukasz Sokol, Alexander Klenin
    1
  24. Limit to the number of forms in a project?

    I needed a dialog box to allow users to select which database to access in my project. The project already has 6 forms. But when I added a form and click 'Run', the…

    Dave Coventry, Hans-Peter Diettrich, K. P.
    3
  25. How to send Email from Lazarus program under Linux x86-64

    Hi All! I am trying to implement a program that will send emails to (a subset of) an application-specific roster. I found numerous references to synapse so I downloaded…

    Donald Ziesig, Alejandro Gonzalo, Graeme Geldenhuys
    13
  26. How to use data from stringlist in another form.

    I have 2 forms, form 1 calls form 2 on a buttonclick process. Form 2 loads a string list, operations are carried out and the stringlist is saved. The application opens…

    appjaws, Antonio Fortuny, Avishai
    5
  27. Compile Project with options?

    I am getting errors with duplicate code :- Compiling resource /Lazarus/TestProj1/lib/x86_64-linux/TestProj1.or TestProj1.lpr(21,1) Error: Error while compiling…

    appjaws
    1
  28. Tracking down an intermittent termination exception

    I've got a program here with main and background thread, it doesn't do anything fancy like explicitly hooking the event loop. Intermittently it displays something like…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Luca Olivetti, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  29. Tdbf replacement (Windows and Linux only)

    Tdbf has been decremented because it is no longer maintained.? Advantage TDataSet Descendent is a more powerful and flexible dbase format alternative.? It accommodates…

    Alejandro Gonzalo, Graeme Geldenhuys
    2
  30. FBLib (firebird library for FPC, Delphi and Kylix) has moved

    For years the FBLib (Firebird database library for Free Pascal, Delphi and Kylix) has lived in the '3rdParty' directory tree of tiOPF. We are cleaning up the tiOPF…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  31. Invitación a conectarse en LinkedIn

    LinkedIn ------------ Lazarus: Me gustar?a a?adirte a mi red profesional en LinkedIn. -German Pablo German Pablo Gentile TeamRO Member en RemObjects Software Argentina…

    German Pablo Gentile
    0
  32. Lazarus: make buttons accessible on Windows

    Currently the buttons in Windows version of Lazarus are not accessible, more precisely, they are unnamed. This means that screen reader reads all buttons as "button",…

    Lubos Pintes, Bart
    2
  33. AdjustClientRect or GetLogicalClientRect: which one to override?

    For a component I'm building I need to let the subcomponents know that (for aligning) they cannot use the entire client space. (It is a panel descendant with…

    Bart, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  34. Main Form Visibility problems (Was Should TTrayIcon Work)

    This was not issue of the TTrayIcon at all,.. First I forgot the Release Compiling option so Brake points did not work, I mainly work with Delphi and not been using…

    Tommi Prami, Flávio Etrusco
    1
  35. Bug in TDBEdit with Maskedit can crash the application

    Good morning Please see this bug Report: 0024134: TDBedit maskedit verification on Exit, crashes the Application Thank you.. ? []s Daniel Conhe?a o Projeto ACBr -…

    Daniel Simoes de Ameida
    0
  36. One last ask for help

    I wrote an application for WinCE in Lazarus 0.9.30/FPC 2.4.2 some time ago. Finally appear a customer interested in the system. It was tested in an iPaq equipment during…

    Arí Ricardo Ody, Antonio Fortuny, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    16
  37. Copy buffer of PWord to TMemoryStream

    Hi, I'm copying a buffer of PWord to a TMemoryStream using this code: lTmpBuff := lBuffer; I := 0; while I < lBufSize do begin lStream.Write(lTmpBuff^, SizeOf(PWord));…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Joao Morais, Mattias Gaertner
    17
  38. New control TLvlGraphControl and new IDE package graph

    I added a new control TLvlGraphControl to package LazControls. It is a LCL control showing a graph as "level graph". Another name is "layered graph". See the screenshot…

    Mattias Gaertner, Hans-Peter Diettrich, Joao Morais
    9
  39. test if the list is down, since 21.3.13 no mails?!!

    John Landmesser
    0
  40. Exit Status of Lazarus App

    How can I set the exit status/return code of a Lazarus application? I have done some searching but haven't found it. Dave Copeland.

    David Copeland, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Reinier Olislagers
    12
  41. [SynEdit] Corrupted line text when undo

    Still not sure about it, but try this to confirm me Select a key word, press enter, (the second unit in uses for example), now press undo (ctrl+z), and see if it…

    Zaher Dirkey, Martin
    6
  42. Visual Form Inheritance from Package.

    Hi All! I have some base forms that I am using successfully in several projects. I decided to put the common code into a package, including the base forms.…

    Donald Ziesig, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  43. Should TTrayIcon work?

    I call TTrayIcon.Show at the Main Form OnCreate event. I shows OK, and as latest effort also the menu appears, but none of the Click events comes to the my program.…

    Tommi Prami, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    6
  44. Where to find qt/qt4 unit

    Please how can I get qt4 unit in lazarus? Kind Regards Eric Kom System Administrator & Programmer - Metropolitan College _________________________________________ / You…

    Eric Kom, Giuliano Colla
    1
  45. [TIP] Script for automatic installation of Lazarus 1.0.8 and Free Pascal 2.6.2 under Linux Mint 14 - 64bit

    Yesterday I created a script to install the Lazarus 1.0.8 and Free Pascal 2.6.2 on Mint 14 - 64 bit. The installation is done from DEBs downloaded via Source Forge. For…

    silvioprog
    0
  46. Brook and Free Pascal 2.6.2 / Lazarus 1.0.8

    Now, it's possible to compile Brook in current released Free Pascal and Lazarus, however, not yet released the new release of Brook, however you can download a snapshot…

    silvioprog
    0
  47. Linux service

    Hi Folks. I've a problem when launching a service in a Linuxbox (OpenSuse 12.1, VM under esxi). The service program has been first developped in Win32. It is installed…

    Antonio Fortuny, Michael Van Canneyt
    12
  48. Lazarus update

    Hi guys I am still running lazarus v.1.0 RC, basically because I installed a bunch of components (mostly 3D - GLScene, OpenGL, etc) and I can no longer remember which…

    Chavoux Luyt, Curt Carpenter, leledumbo
    8
  49. TEditButton alignment

    It is a well known issue that TEditButton aligns wrong. In the last note of issue http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12155 "The best solution is to redesign…

    Juha Manninen, Flávio Etrusco, Graeme Geldenhuys
    15
  50. Request to add help menu by committing patch

    Could any of you please commit the patch in http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23411 This will add a help menu item that will show the chm/offline help that is now…

    Reinier Olislagers
    1