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lazarus · 2013-03

  1. Labels and Font size

    I often have the problem that label text looks fine on one system but when starting the same program on another machine the font is suddenly huge and text is therefore…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Alexsander Rosa, Avishai
    13
  2. lazarus has awakened?

    please ignore...

    waldo kitty
    0
  3. Trouble with windows mobile scanner

    I developed an application to run in windows mobile. It remains forgotten for 2 years. A couple of weeks ago a firm call me asking for this application. I install it in…

    Arí Ricardo Ody
    0
  4. Caret is not blinking in Unix

    On TcustomControl canvas covering all of the form client area , the caret is NOT blinking in Unix ( FreeBSD , Fedora ( 17 , 18 ) ) , but it is blinking in Windows .…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
    0
  5. Row of the selected field in a dbgrid

    hi. How can I know a row position in an dbgrig (no the recno the position in the displayed rows. Thanks

    enric
    0
  6. Lazarus and Object Pascal training course

    I just found this information on Google+ and thought some might be interested. Every now and then I see somebody post about...where can I learn about Free Pascal or…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  7. Patch: problems with LineEndings

    Maybe an RTFM question, but I didn't find an answer. I receive patches and they are in Unix style end-of-line (Lf) (and this I cannot control). My local sources are in…

    Bart, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  8. Building from Lazarus IDE does not respect my build mode??

    I have two build modes defined for my project: Debug: Enable RangeCheck, IOCheck, StackCheck, OverflowCheck Use heaptrace Generate debugging info and display line numbers

    Bart
    0
  9. WinINet STDCALL callback crash

    Thank you very much for your most informative posting. I have spent the week trying to implement the msdn examples in pure Pascal and in Pascal-DLL hybrids. Success in…

    Unknown author, Benito van der Zander, Ludo Brands
    6
  10. Menu key brings up wrong menu in source code editor

    If I'm in the editor and want to do some [limited] refactoring via CodeTools, I right click in the editor, select "Refactoring -> ..." Now if I want to do the same via…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Bart, Frank Church
    17
  11. IDE autocomplete nuisance

    While I use auto complete of a property, the IDE inserts ":=" for me automatically, this is good, but how can I make it auto insert a SPACE before the colon so that I…

    Xiangrong Fang, Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin
    4
  12. OnAdvancedCustomDrawItem

    I try to change the checkbox of listview with my own image, and found this: http://delphi.about.com/od/delphitips2008/qt/lv_checkbox_bmp.htm But it does not work,…

    Xiangrong Fang
    0
  13. IDE: debug watch

    While single-stepping. I would like to check some data with the "Evaluate/Modify" tool, for example view the count of a stringlist, I get: Type TSTRINGLIST = class has…

    Xiangrong Fang, Martin
    1
  14. Doubts about target platform selection

    I've used Lazarus 0.9.30 for 2 years to compile e execute a WinCE arm application. I been used the Project|Project Options|Code generation to control the target platform…

    Arí Ricardo Ody, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  15. FPC / Lazarus ARM Embedded Debuging

    Sorry of this cross posts but i wasn't sure where to send this question to. I am currently using a LPC 1343 Microprocessor board and i have recently purchased a ULINK2…

    Justin Smyth, Curt Carpenter, Michael Ring
    3
  16. Change type of object in form

    In Lazarus I added objects of type "TFileNameEdit" to my form and placed it relativ to other elements with anchor docking. Now I wanted to replace these "TFileNameEdit"…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Juha Manninen, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    8
  17. Differences between snapshot file names and version info in 'Help About'

    I just installed a Lazarus snapshot with the file name - Lazarus-1.0.7-40531-fpc-2.6.2-20130312-win32.exe, dated 12 March, but when I check the version info in the Help…

    Frank Church
    0
  18. Error on first compilation of a legacy WinCe project

    I downloaded and ran: lazarus-1.0.6-fpc-2.6.0-win32.exe lazarus-1.0.6-fpc-2.6.0-cross-arm-wince-win32 Installed sqlite3laz 0.4 in line Downloaded sqlite3.dll and…

    Arí Ricardo Ody, Antonio Fortuny, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    9
  19. IDE Feature Request - Can Select All be added to the right-click menu in the editor?

    IDE Feature Request - Can Select All be added to the right-click menu in the editor Thanks Frank Church ======================= http://devblog.brahmancreations.com

    Frank Church, Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin
    6
  20. XML Support in Lazarus

    I am reading this: http://wiki.freepascal.org/XML_Tutorial It seems quite old (2005?) I wonder if the status quo is still same, especially that the FCL units still…

    Xiangrong Fang, Marco van de Voort, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  21. WebLaz GZipped response

    Hi, in order to created gzip'd streams Responses to requests, do I need to explicitly create the gzipped stream?, if yes, does the browser decompress it automaticall?.…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, silvioprog
    5
  22. Installing Lazarus

    I have an application developed for WinCe. I compile and run it with Lazarus 0.9.30. I'm planning to migrate to Lazarus 1.0.6. I downloaded and installed Lazarus 1.06…

    Arí Ricardo Ody, leledumbo, Reinier Olislagers
    3
  23. Help need with streaming components to disk on forum?

    I am trying to develop a component whose purpose is to enable me to stream some data to the disk and load it back runtime, and I posted a question on the forum -…

    Frank Church
    0
  24. [SynEdit] FR: Add hcCodeFolding to TSynHighlighterCapability

    Would please add hcCodeFolding to TSynHighlighterCapability in SynEditHighlighter and to Pascal Highlighter (at least) to check in my editor. ?Thanks in advance? Zaher…

    Zaher Dirkey, Martin
    4
  25. some number manipulation

    I have a series of results, for each day of the month I have 10 numbers ranging from 1 to 20. i.e. Day1 1,3,4,5,7,9,12,16,17,20 Day2 3,4,5,6,8,9,15,17,18,19 etc.…

    appjaws, Curt Carpenter, Howard Page-Clark
    4
  26. TextRect problem and TDisplayCode

    I try to do some customization in TListView.OnCustomDrawItem: r := Item.DisplayRect(drBounds); TextOut(r.Left, r.Top, 'Hello'); <-- this worked TextRect(r, 0, 0,…

    Xiangrong Fang
    0
  27. Memo.Lines.BeginUpdate

    Hi Shouldn't the BeginUpdate and EndUpdate in TMemo.Lines prevent the GUI from updating, thus allowing quickly adding many lines? I made a test app which generates a big…

    Juha Manninen, Antônio, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    9
  28. Ok I give up!

    How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a Memo? I have tried all sorts, I am using Lazarus 1.0.6 on linux. How this started was because I…

    appjaws, Flávio Etrusco, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    45
  29. Editor component

    I need an editor component with two features: Undo and word wrapping. SynEdit/SynMemo do not support word wrapping. Memo does not support undo. What is my best option?…

    Timothy Groves, Avishai, Flávio Etrusco
    5
  30. Android LCL example with 2.7.1

    Hello together! I've managed to run the Android LCL example compiled with the arm-android port of 2.7.1 on the Android emulator (API version 8) with default settings (no…

    Sven Barth, Dejan Boras, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    12
  31. Free-pascal question

    Hi all This might be slightly off-topic... I have some fpc -related questions: 1. How good is Lazarus/fpc for embedded programming (compared to C)? It will probably be…

    Chavoux Luyt, Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Schnell
    20
  32. SQLite - disk I/O error only on virtual machine

    I noticed strange behavior when running application on virtualbox linux mint 14 64bit machine. This occur only when I attach second database to sqlite3connection and…

    Krzysztof, Luca Olivetti, Ludo Brands
    4
  33. Ubuntu 12.10 install problem

    My Ubuntu version: 12.10, KDE. I have some problem about lazarus+fpc install/upgrade. 1) Setup via PPA: https://launchpad.net/~prof7bit/+archive/lazarus-1.0.0…

    Sipos András, appjaws, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  34. Error while compiling

    When i try to compile a a simple project, the linker complains: Linking demo /usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?…

    Ivo Carrajola, leledumbo
    1
  35. [FEATURE] Improves the project inspector

    Please see: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24010 Thank you! Silvio Cl?cio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog -------------- next part -------------- An…

    silvioprog
    0
  36. History Window?

    I accidentally pressed Ctrl+Alt+H and it brought up a History window. See attached image. Pressing F1 didn't bring up any help (using Lazarus 1.0.6). What is that window…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin
    2
  37. What's "External: SIGFPE"?

    I am making a charting program and encountered very weird error. The exception raised is: 'External: SIGFPE'. In file 'lcltype.pp' at line 3009. On that line is the…

    Xiangrong Fang, Kostas Michalopoulos, leledumbo
    3
  38. "nested" packed record?

    Is the "packed" keyword effective for nested records? i.e. TMyRecord = packed record Component: *packed* record Field: Integer; ... ... end; ... ... end; Does Component…

    Xiangrong Fang, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  39. Change font of a TPaintBox

    I am writing some text on a TPaintBox.Canvas. I found that if I set canvas.font on FormShow, it does NOT work, I have to set font inside the OnPaint procedure of the…

    Xiangrong Fang, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  40. fphttpapp and Android

    I never tried, but, fphttpapp runs on Android? Silvio Cl?cio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was…

    silvioprog
    0
  41. Opening a file with spaces in the filename (again)

    Using Laz 1.0.6, "included" fpc2.6.0 on win 7 - 32 bit: I want to open a tiff file using what ever viewer the PC knows about that can do it (it will be irfanview on the…

    John, Alejandro Gonzalo, Bart
    14
  42. How do Lazarus users handle exceptions in procedures which are running in data modules?

    How do Lazarus users handle exceptions in procedures which are running in data modules? A lot of the guides and examples demonstrate raising exceptions, which generally…

    Frank Church, Antonio Fortuny, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    4
  43. Help with... help!

    Anybody else interested in getting F1 to show the offline help if context-sensitive help is not appropriate? I've gotten partway there but need some help:…

    Reinier Olislagers, waldo kitty
    8
  44. Why Ln(0) and 1/0 does not trigger Exception?

    As title. My question is not just "it is a language construct", but "WHY". What's the benefit of doing so? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML…

    Xiangrong Fang, Marc Weustink, Sven Barth
    3
  45. LongString does not work?

    This does not work: TConfiguration = record DataFolder: string[MaxPathLen]; end Error: string length must be a value from 1 to 255 I already have this on the top of my…

    Xiangrong Fang, Bart, Jürgen Hestermann
    15
  46. Installing Lazarus 1.1 with fpc 2.6.2 on Ubuntu

    Here can I find information about installing lazarus 1.1 with fpc 2.6.2 on Ubuntu ? Regards jGoncalves -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was…

    Jorge Gonçalves, Bart
    1
  47. "buffer" and string

    I encountered unpredictable behavior with the following code: var fs: TFileStream; s: string; begin ... ... fs.Write(s, Length(s)); ... ... end; But if I do this, then…

    Xiangrong Fang, Flávio Etrusco, leledumbo
    4
  48. Maintainers: packages without description: please add them

    1. Going through my Lazarus install (trunk) I noticed these packages without description. I've added suggestions for descriptions (hope they're correct). Could package…

    Reinier Olislagers, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jesus Reyes
    6
  49. Using the clipboard in linux

    How do I save, copy to and paste from the clipboard using a kde environment on linux 64? I am using Lazarus 1.0.6 and fpc 2.6.0. Thanks for any help Paul ---This message…

    appjaws, Flávio Etrusco, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    4
  50. Small grammar fix Laz makefile.fpc

    Too small to raise a bug IMO. Reinier -------------- next part -------------- Index: Makefile.fpc =================================================================== ---…

    Reinier Olislagers, Mattias Gaertner
    1