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lazarus · 2014-10

  1. LCLMessageGlue Status

    Hello!! I'm doing a virtual keyboard for lazarus using the LCLMessageGlue unit, but methods LCLSendKeyUpEvent and LCLSendKeyDownEvent are not working. So, what's the…

    Fabio Luis Girardi, Andrew Haines
    1
  2. Getting the last modified date of a directory

    I can see that we have a "FileAge" function and also a "FileGetDate" however, I was wondering what the best way of getting the last modified date of a folder?…

    Richard Mace, Jürgen Hestermann, Marco van de Voort
    11
  3. Lazarus 1.2.6 Release

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.6. This release was built with fpc 2.6.4. Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:…

    Mattias Gaertner, Frederic Da Vitoria, Schindler Karl-Michael
    8
  4. CodeTools error when using 'section' keyword

    program hello; const devcfg3: longWord = DEVCFG3_DEFAULT; section '.devcfg3'; begin end. is a program that compiles fine but gives me an error in lazarus when I try to…

    Michael Ring, Mattias Gaertner, Sven Barth
    7
  5. PoHelper: a tool to assist translators

    Whoever is interested, may download from: http://www.bononiadocta.it/Lazarus/pohelper.zip the version 0.1 of PoHelper, a tool I've developed to help me in translation…

    Giuliano Colla, Bart, Maxim Ganetsky
    11
  6. Find dialog too tight for translations

    I've found a problem in the find dialogue, when used in a language different from English. In English it's already a bit crowded:…

    Giuliano Colla, Bart, Frederic Da Vitoria
    24
  7. Need help with LibIconv

    I need to convert one char (codepoint) in one encoding to another char (codepoint) in a different encoding. And, I need to do that one char (codepoint) at a time (IOW,…

    ListMember
    0
  8. Mysql

    Which version of mysql works best with Lazarus on windows 7? Sent from my iPhone

    Larry Dalton, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  9. Detecting if a remote web server is running

    What's the most reliable way of detecting whether a remote website is responding? Thanks Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was…

    Richard Mace, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Mattias Gaertner
    7
  10. TFMTBCDField problem

    Hi guys!? ? I am using SQLdb with Firebird 2. I have a DECIMAL(9,5) field that SQLdb makes it?TFMTBCDField automatically. Mt problem is that i cannot save any value to…

    Chris Rempas, Chris Crori, Joost van der Sluis
    9
  11. LazReport - "The paper ... has no defined rectangle!"

    Want to try LazReport on Linux but get many paper errors at application start for (every?) paper size. Just start a new project drop a TfrReport to the main form and…

    Gabor Boros, zeljko
    6
  12. TPQConnection.CreateDB: ENCODING, OWNER, TEMPLATE, LC_CTYPE, TABLESPACE

    I need to create a PostgreSQL database from my application. The TPQConnection.CreateDB works fine, but I need to configure some properties of my database in your…

    silvioprog, Joost van der Sluis, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  13. ANN: Visual Query tool for SQLDB/Zeos/IBX

    I did a quick, rough SQLDB/IBX port of Jepafi's Zeos-based adaptation of the Open QBuilder Tool from Fast Reports [1]. (Note: can't test IBX as I don't have the…

    Reinier Olislagers, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  14. Rather lost in help - TOCNode?

    Looking for where exactly CHM help gets the list of help nodes/identifiers that currently causes context-sensitivive help for LCL to pop up the help selector with 2…

    Reinier Olislagers
    1
  15. Message window not colouring output

    In the good old days (couple months back) the Messages window used to nicely output user defined Hints, Warnings etc. In the latest Trunk Lazarus it doesn't. It only has…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  16. MDI - working implementation !?

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    Herwig Niemeyer, Kostas Michalopoulos, zeljko
    6
  17. Unused units clarification

    This is related to the "Request feature" thread answer from Mattias at October 3. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Mattias Gaertner I did that in r46659, although I…

    Juha Manninen
    0
  18. Text position in controls

    I need to fine tune position of displayed text in TEdit, TComboBox, etc. How can resolve this task? Why AutoSize not working properly? See the attached images. Gabor…

    Gabor Boros
    0
  19. Lazarus saves source files implicitly

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    Unknown author, Frederic Da Vitoria, Juha Manninen
    4
  20. fpspreadsheet bug - and fix

    No idea who is the current maintainer of fpspreadsheet, but to those involved: I updated - after a long time - my version of fpspreadsheet. There is a bug (apart from…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Werner Pamler
    2
  21. How do I tell codetools to use implicitly loaded unit for code complesion?

    On embedded targets a unit with the definition of the target (Registers, Interrupts, etc..) is implicitly loaded when fpc compiles the code. Because of this Codetools…

    Michael Ring, Mattias Gaertner
    7
  22. bcd to variant

    Hi! ? ? I am trying to have some decimal fields in my database, causing BCD and FMTBCD field type to pop up to my program. I am not able to save any data of this kind to…

    Chris Rempas
    0
  23. web push?

    What would be the best (Lazarus/Freepascal) way to push data to a web page? I would like a cgi-bin application that sends updates to the client browser telling of things…

    Anthony Tekatch
    0
  24. TAChart cannot zoom

    Hi, I don't know what I did, but I no longer can zoom in / zoom out (by dragging the mouse pointer) my chart. If I draw 1000 data points, they all are drawn into the…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Werner Pamler
    2
  25. Error messages: cannot versus can't

    Dealing with error messages, I remember reading somewhere that contractions like cannot=>can't are discouraged, so e.g. Can't find file bla.txt. should become Cannot…

    Reinier Olislagers, Chris Kelling, Frederic Da Vitoria
    31
  26. lazarus.pp(142, 1) Error: Undefined symbol: DEBUGINFO_DBF_PRSCORE

    I got these errors below when the compiler is __linking__ the IDE. Lazarus 1.3 rev 46626 FPC 2.6.5 i386-win32-win32/win64 Build IDE: Exit code 2, Errors: 48…

    Marcos Douglas, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  27. Redundant text on project buttons

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    Unknown author, Frederic Da Vitoria, Graeme Geldenhuys
    28
  28. FPC options - cool!

    Just wanted to thank whoever wrote the project options/other tool to select fpc options... very nicely done, including the search functionality. Now I don't need to…

    Reinier Olislagers, Frederic Da Vitoria, Michael Thompson
    4
  29. TProcess.Input hangs

    Hi, I'm using this code to convert WAV files to MP3 on the fly, using lame. It was working great until today. It looks like this code has problems with large files sent…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Andrew Haines
    2
  30. Starting another program to run once original terminates

    Hi I need to start an external program that will execute once the program that starts it has terminated. The external program will update the starting program, so it…

    ADTEC Pty Ltd, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  31. Can't Find TAPrint after loading Lazarus v1.2.6

    Adding the Package TAChartPrint fixed the Problem. Thanks I should have remembered.... Dale Corning --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast!…

    Dale Corning
    0
  32. Just loaded lazarus v1.2.6 and can't find unit TAPrint

    I just replaced Lazarus 1.2.2 with Lazarus 1.2.6 svn 46529 win32/64 I get the following messages/error when compiling an application that previously worked.: Options…

    Dale Corning, Werner Pamler
    1
  33. Option hints popup truncated

    The popup with the hints for the arguments to a function is sometimes truncated: it is too short to display the contents, and the contents is cut off halfway the popup.…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Bart, John Landmesser
    14
  34. Charting Component for Organization Charts?

    Hi. Does anyone know of a charting component for creating organizational charts (organograms)? I've looked through all the charting components I can find, without…

    ADTEC Pty Ltd, Michael Thompson
    1
  35. QuestionDLG. Width of window

    I use QuestionDLG quite a lot and to avoid extreme window widths for long texts I split all text (mainly file and path names) into lines of max 80 characters. This works…

    Jürgen Hestermann
    0
  36. Fwd: New Lazarus pascal conference

    FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Detlef Overbeek Reply-To: We invite you for the international Pascal conference / workshop on saturday november the 15th…

    Marc Weustink, Frederic Da Vitoria, Giuliano Colla
    9
  37. Default button for QuestionDLG

    How can I specify the default button for QuestionDLG? First I thought that the first button is the default (that's how it worked for Windows XP and Windows 7). But now…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Bart, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    16
  38. NewEditButton define

    I was trying the NewEditButton define to fix some alignment problems I had with TDateEdit and came I have a strange problem with the new component. It seems that in some…

    Chris Crori, Bart
    1
  39. LCL: Shift+TAB does not work

    I'm using Lazarus 1.3 r46334M FPC 2.6.5 i386-win32-win32/win64 On GUI TAB works -- go to the next widget -- but Shift+TAG don't. Is there a issue posted for this problem?

    Marcos Douglas
    0
  40. Pochecker (was Fuzzy traslations ignored)

    Bad news! On Windows it looks fine, it would just require some ironing (next hints shows only if you click on an empty area before) but on Linux it doesn't work. Windows:

    Giuliano Colla, Bart, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    94
  41. Hiding Code Hints

    According to the wiki, code comments starting with $ or % will be hidden from the code hint. http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_IDE_Tools#Comments_shown_in_the_hint…

    Michael Thompson, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  42. TAChart CandleStick Chart

    Thank you for adding CandleStick Chart! I have 2 questions: In OHLC tails are in the same color like body but in CandleStick is not. When I change background to black…

    Kamen Ketev, Werner Pamler
    5
  43. New app written in Lazarus

    Is this list an appropriate place to announce a new NON open source application written in Lazarus? Or should it just be put on the wiki? Richard -------------- next…

    Richard Mace, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Schnell
    6
  44. Copy only visible lines from the editor

    I don't know if this feature exists on Lazarus, but is possible to copy to clipboard only visible lines? See the attached picture to see a example... Fabio Luis Girardi…

    Fabio Luis Girardi, Martin Frb
    1
  45. LazReport - How to subtotal or total a CALCULATED field?

    This doesn't work: [sum([dsbooks.."CTR"],MasterData11)] where CTR is the calculated field. Thanks. A. G. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was…

    Alejandro Gonzalo
    0
  46. External tools keyboard shortcuts mess

    I've noticed that changing the IDE language my keyboard shortcuts for external tools disappear. A little investigations has revealed that shortcuts for external tools…

    Giuliano Colla, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  47. New "summary" line in Messages window

    Is there any way to disable the new "summary" lines that appear in the Messages window when I compile a project. For a couple of reasons: - It looks butt ugly. The…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Bart, Mattias Gaertner
    9
  48. Request feature?

    Currently, Lazarus IDE set gray color in all units that will not be compiled (see picture in attached), but, it just works with DEFINEs. Seems nice apply gray color in…

    silvioprog, Juha Manninen, Martin Frb
    8
  49. Hang compiling invalid program laz fixes 1.2+solutionn

    ChrisF discovered this; workaround/fix included http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26814 Perhaps worth including for release; perhaps not. Reinier

    Reinier Olislagers
    0
  50. IDE key shortcut file

    Is there a file that stores the current IDE editor keyboard shortcuts so that I can migrate them from one machine to another?

    Jürgen Hestermann, Frederic Da Vitoria, Rik van Kekem
    8