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lazarus · 2014-04

  1. LazReport - access violation

    I am using Laz 1.2 for Win32, with Advantage (http://devzone.advantagedatabase.com) for the database, Foxpro CDX format. Everything seems to go ok designing a report…

    Alejandro Gonzalo, Péter Gábor
    2
  2. Retina Font Rendering not working anymore in Lazarus Trunk

    I realized a few weeks ago that fonts inside of lazarus started to look ugly again on my Macbook Pro Retina, it seems that even though the App has the retina flag set…

    Michael Ring, Joost van der Sluis, zeljko
    4
  3. TCoolBar improvements

    TCoolBar was improved a lot by Vojtech Cihak. See: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25026 I am moving the discussion from bug tracker to here. Maybe others have…

    Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner, Vojtěch Čihák
    9
  4. Any Free/Cheap Async Serial Port Component

    This newbie is familiar with COMPORT from WINSOFT from my olden Delphi days, but I can no longer afford it for one program. Does anybody know of a free/cheap component?…

    Bob Axtell, Koenraad Lelong, Marco van de Voort
    19
  5. Ann: TButtonEdit as replacement for TEditButton

    As per r44623 (trunk) the new TButtonEdit component replaces the TEditButton component. The new TButtonEdit is designed as "Grouped Control", so it should properly…

    Bart, FreeMan, leledumbo
    15
  6. Memory leak hunt request

    I'm often a bit dumb when it comes to memory management/memory leaks - probably because of my managed code experience (yes, excuses, excuses)... Recently, I've looked at…

    Reinier Olislagers, Graeme Geldenhuys, Luca Olivetti
    11
  7. FPC/Lazarus on non-x86 BSD

    I'm exploring alternatives to Debian on SPARC. One of the obvious ones is BSD which (I presume) will need some cross-builds to get FPC going. Can anybody comment on…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Allan E. Registos, Graeme Geldenhuys
    7
  8. how to debug from virtualbox

    I have kubuntu 13.10 x64, fpc & lazarus last svn. My application work without problem on linux but, crosscompiled to win and test in win8, one form has a bug,…

    FreeMan, Bart, Dave Coventry
    12
  9. WinCE dialog crash

    OpenDialog.execute under WInCE causes the app to crash: "Form resource TWinCEDialogForm (or something very close) not found. For resourceless forms CreateNew constructor…

    patspiper
    0
  10. Forcing TMemo to dislplay last entry

    I have some code that populates a TMemo via TMemo.Text := 'lots of lines of text..' and need a cross platform way of programatically forcing the TMemo to display the…

    Richard Mace, Howard Page-Clark, Michael Schnell
    5
  11. BSD Magazine featuring Free Pascal!

    Congrats /Michael Van Canneyt/ for your article in the BSD Magazine april issue!. Please download the latest edition from: http://bsdmag.org/ Leonardo M. Ram?…

    Leonardo M. Ramé
    0
  12. Codetools fails to compile under WinCE

    SQLDB package uses codetools, and thus whenever it is included in a WinCE project the following error pops up upon compilation:…

    patspiper, Martin Frb, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  13. [Ann] Visual components

    ? I would like to share my visual components which I finished recently. They are written from scratch for Lazarus, no Delphi port. Based on Themes. ? Before you install,…

    Vojtěch Čihák, Allan E. Registos, Giuliano Colla
    4
  14. TField.OnGetText Event (TDBLookupComboBox)

    I am fighting with this memo output text on TDBLookupComboBox control. I have this db query: SELECT (flute.flute || '-') || flute.description AS flute FROM flute; and…

    Allan E. Registos
    0
  15. OpenDocument and Linux Mint

    I'm trying to open a TXT file in my app, but it does not works. The test is very simple: uses LCLIntf; procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin…

    silvioprog, Junior, Lazarus Linux
    18
  16. Copy record contents to clipboard

    I have a very large record, and I see that I can see his contents using the nice dialog "Debug Inspector". But is it possible to copy that data to the clipboard or…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Martin Frb
    1
  17. Lazarus 1.2.2 Release

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.2. This release was built with fpc 2.6.4. The previous release 1.2 was built with 2.6.2. Here is the list…

    Mattias Gaertner, Chris Crori, Krzysztof
    4
  18. Wanted: OpenGL gui framework supporting Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, etc.

    It would be great to have an OpenGL gui framework for Lazarus. I see the TOpenGLControl, but would like something more ambitious. Specifically, it would be nice to have…

    J S, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    6
  19. startlazarus crash in Ubuntu 14:04

    Lazarus 1.3 r44782M FPC 2.6.2 i386-linux-gtk 2 Ubuntu 14.04 - 32 bits ----------------------------------------------------------- Every time I compile lazarus (make…

    Junior, Flávio Etrusco, FreeMan
    11
  20. "TGDBMIDebuggerInstruction: "-file-exec-and-symbols ", "

    I'm using FPC 2.6.5 (fixes_2_6) and Lazarus trunk on Windows. The GDB is updated too, here: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/binaries/i386-win32/gdb I run my…

    Marcos Douglas, Martin Frb
    7
  21. Now function - returning UTC?

    I have a version of the Now function which works in Windows and returns UTC. function NowUTC: TDateTime; var system_datetime: TSystemTime; begin GetSystemTime…

    David Taylor, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Luca Olivetti
    7
  22. use of graphics unit on command line

    I have a class which uses Graphics unit. Now I would like to do some test of this class on command line, which does NOT require graphics support. That is, suppose my…

    Xiangrong Fang, Mattias Gaertner
    1
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    Junior
    0
  24. Order in .lfm file

    As a silly perfectionist, I spend a lot of time changing the order the components are written in the .lfm file, making the groups I have in my mind, visible in the…

    Chris Crori
    0
  25. Exception error window when using Gecko component

    Hi All I'm using Gecko1 componrnt in my application for mini browser. It's works fine except when they is not network/internet connection, a window popup with no title…

    johan van der merwe
    0
  26. Additions to TAChart

    Recently I committed some changes to TAChart (by my alias "wp"), among them implementation of BiDiMode which may be important some users. The additions are in trunk, but…

    Werner Pamler, Martin Frb
    1
  27. OnBeforeSelection

    Hi Dear; Please I'm looking for the *OnBeforeSelection *Event on the TDBGrid? I can only see the OnSelectEditor. I'm using Lazarus revision 44626. Thanks --------------…

    Eric Kom, Howard Page-Clark
    2
  28. Remote debugger looses connection to target on Windows 7

    I am using Lazarus 1.2.0. On Windows 2000 I am able to debug an application via the remote debugger (gdbserver) on an ARM-LINUX target. Using the same setup does not…

    Bernd Mueller, Martin Frb, Michael Schnell
    27
  29. Porting GExperts

    I am attempting to port GExperts to Lazarus. For those that don't know GExperts is probably the most well known IDE extention for Delphi. So far I've spent most of my…

    Kenneth Cochran, Sven Barth
    1
  30. Almost... ;) working WIA scanning code

    Using the activex importer, I've imported the WIA wiaaut.dll on my Windows 7 system and mostly got WIA scanning (using a flatbed scanner in my case) to work. Thanks to…

    Reinier Olislagers, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  31. Ubuntu 14.04 x fpc 2.6.?

    Hi, all. Which version to use, 2.6.4? What ppa? Thanks

    Junior
    0
  32. How can I Backup and restore TCanvas class

    I need backup active canvas, and when drawing and other codes finished, restore Canvas back. For this code, assign pointer just so Canvas.Brush.Color := clRed; change…

    FreeMan, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  33. Friendly Error message

    Another noob db question, is there anything I can do make this error more friendly?: ? I have this code structure for updating/inserting data: try result := false; Try…

    Allan E. Registos
    1
  34. Handling exceptions with debugger

    I installed Lazarus 1.2.0 x64. A project ran fine under 1.0.4 i386 it ran fine. Under the new version the {$I-} and {$I+} ioresult coding causes the debugger to stop the…

    Chris Kelling, Martin Frb
    1
  35. GLUT vs windows 64 bits

    I made an application with GLUT. I did not have any problem to run under windows 32. Under windows 64 bits, the program does not recognize the glut32.dll properly and…

    Philippe, Anthony Tekatch, Reimar Grabowski
    8
  36. Fwd: SourceForge April 2014 Project of the Month: Free Pascal

    FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [fpc-pascal] SourceForge April 2014 Project of the Month: Free Pascal Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:43:11 -0300 From: Jo?o…

    Martin Frb
    0
  37. about raised exception class 'External: SIGSEGV'

    I get this errors some time, I can not handle this error so I don't know why raised. Project myproject raised exception class 'External: SIGSEGV'. -> Ok and continue to…

    FreeMan, Luca Olivetti, Martin Frb
    9
  38. Always On Top (Linux) ZVDatetimeCtrls doesn't show up(Bug?)

    A minor issue in Linux. In linux, we have this privileged to keep a certain application window on top of any window by right-clicking the top bar and click Always On Top…

    Allan E. Registos, Juha Manninen, Luca Olivetti
    8
  39. How to minimize application showing modal form(s)

    Hi! In an SDI application I open a modal form with .ShowModal and from there a dialog window with Dialogs.MessageDlg(). Now, when I call Application.Minimize with a…

    Frank Poretzky, Howard Page-Clark, zeljko
    4
  40. Reading and Writing to TProcess

    I have the following code working well with TProcess outputting to a TMemo, however, what I'd like to do it monitor the output and then when a certain string is…

    Richard Mace, leledumbo
    1
  41. Error compiling lazbuild

    initialsetupdlgs.pas(47,77) Fatal: Can not find GDBMIDebugger used by ppu=../components/lazdebuggergdbmi/lib/i386-linux/gdbmidebugger.ppu, package LazDebuggerGdbmi…

    Junior, Martin Frb
    2
  42. Scroll Wheel

    I have several TEdit objects in my form, and because they handle only integer data, I'd like to use my scroll wheel to edit their values. However, there is no…

    Timothy Groves, Chris Kelling, Howard Page-Clark
    5
  43. https support; call for testers

    I've just committed support for SSL in the ssockets unit of FPC. I also made the OpenSSL unit more thread-safe. One consequence of this is that the fphttpclient unit now…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  44. Funny bug

    Just encountered this rather nice bug: Debugging a project in Lazarus, linux. I have in "Run Parameters" Command-line parameters: "https://www.google.be/ out" I copy all…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Kostas Michalopoulos, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    6
  45. Better implementation of GetTickcount using clock_gettime

    I use GetTickCount a lot to keep track of timeouts. On windows, it is guaranteed to be monotonic, so my usual if GetTickCount-StartTime>Timeout then.. works fine (yes,…

    Luca Olivetti, Anton Kavalenka, Graeme Geldenhuys
    29
  46. doubling accented characters

    Hi all, i notice that when i put ? in any Object Inspector or in a TextEdit (run-time) field it double the character resulting in ?? it happens also with ?->??, ?->??,…

    Gugui, Bart
    2
  47. FreePascal 2.6.4

    are there any plans / ETA for a Lazarus biuld with FreePascal 2.6.4 ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:…

    Chris Crori
    0
  48. bug tracker

    Can someone help me step by step on how to upload a patch to the bugtracker? It?s a small patch with a bugfix and i like to start contributing but i m not familiar with…

    Chris Crori, Reinier Olislagers
    7
  49. Lazarus error

    I wanted to debug a project (testsuite project) in Lazarus, and got some errors at once when hitting run I then went to debug on the console with GDB Has anyone…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Martin Frb
    4
  50. lfm file format

    ist there a complete documentation of Lazarus' LFM xml file format? Maybe someone having good knowledge of the IDE source code can name the unit(s) where writing and…

    Marc Santhoff, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    12