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lazarus · 2015-10

  1. App requiring lots of different localisations

    From what I've seen so far, the Raspberry Pi (specifically, Raspbian with the default desktop environments etc.) doesn't have a graphical program to create a new…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd
    0
  2. What does make install do?

    Tried to figure this out but it was not so easy.. If I do this after getting the sources (trunk) from svn: make clean bigide then Lazarus builds OK and I can use it by…

    Bo Berglund, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Michael Van Canneyt
    12
  3. Type helper now work with CodeTools?

    I just noticed this improvement. Lazarus now correctly provides code insight on type helpers. See image:…

    Anthony Walter, Dmitry Boyarintsev, Mattias Gaertner
    21
  4. Hiding Warnings from a specific directory

    I would love to hide these (from */usr/share/lazarus* itself): "Compiling package lazreportpdfexport 0.8" completed "Compiling package ACBr_BoletoFC_LazReport 0.1"…

    Alexsander Rosa, Héctor Fiandor, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  5. SetFocus have no effect after TCustomForm.Show

    The attached example works on Windows properly. But not with Linux Qt (KDE4). I want to see the green form above Form2 while Form2.Edit1 focused. (Press btnForm2 on…

    Gabor Boros, Zeljko
    13
  6. Suggestion about environmentoptions.xml

    Why all settings in environmentoptions.xml ? for example, New desktop settings added, its good think, But why all value in environmentoptions.xml ? My suggestion is…

    FreeMan, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  7. EditorToolBarOptions nodes demaged

    r50058-50059 change "EditorToolBarOptions" node's values in environmentoptions.xml after: <EditorToolBarOptions Position="Left" Count="27"> <Button1 Name="Save"/>…

    FreeMan, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    21
  8. Are lazarus / fpc sensitive to line endings?

    I need to set up some version control on the files I work on in Lazarus on the Raspberry Pi. But I have been unable to make the Pi connect to the company VPN so it…

    Bo Berglund, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  9. Theoretical question about future of Lazarus

    Lazarus has had the number schemes 0.xxx to now of 1.4.xx Before falling asleep it passed through my mind about a lazarus 2.xx and... ...I thought what could it be?…

    JuuS, Anthony Walter, Bart
    68
  10. Building and starting Lazarus on Raspberry Pi2 with Raspbian Jessie

    I am creating this thread to move away my Lazarus build questions from the thread I was in recently, where it is really OT. I was able to build both FPC (3.1.1 trunk…

    Bo Berglund, Juha Manninen, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    11
  11. Lazarus Team: Do you use unit testing?

    Ondre remarked in a previous message that he had submitted a fix for new CodeTools functionality which might have been broken in a later patch. This morning I've found 3…

    Anthony Walter, Mattias Gaertner, Ondrej Pokorny
    2
  12. GB18030 support in Lazarus

    Does anyone know if the lazutf8 functions also work with GB18030 (Chinese character set)? Tony Whyman MWA

    Tony Whyman, Martin Frb, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  13. Request for review patch #27921

    I am not sure if this is proper maillist to write this kind of request. Can please somebody review patch in bug report http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27921 and…

    LacaK, Bart, Juha Manninen
    5
  14. Get TOpenGLControl as Bitmap

    This question is probably for Mattias. Is there any way to get what I draw on TOpenGLControl as a bitmap result like an screenshot from this component? I want it to make…

    Aradeonas, Andrea Mauri, Mattias Gaertner
    9
  15. what can be wrong in this code? (qrobjects.pas)

    fpc r32025 lazarus r50043 qtx64 /opt/lazarus/lcl/interfaces/qt/qtobjects.pas line 3088 //if vFont nil then if Assigned(vFont)then begin if vFont.FHandle nil then <--…

    FreeMan, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  16. Why is AsyncProcess still disabled under Linux I386?

    Today I have just faced a same problem in the following article: http://lazarus.lazarus.freepascal.narkive.com/dCiCiyW2/tasyncprocess-onterminate-doesn-t-fire {$IFNDEF…

    Kiên Nguyễn Tiến Trung
    0
  17. Disable auto identifier completion of 1 identifier

    Hello! Is there a simple way how to disable automatic identifier completion if there is only one item in the identifier completion window. I mean: var MyVerySpecialVar:…

    Ondrej Pokorny, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  18. Microsoft Security Essentials

    Did you have a problem with this when compiling and debugging? Microsoft Security Essentials cpu foes hi and debugging will take longer than usual. Regards, Ara…

    Aradeonas
    1
  19. Lazarus 1.5 IDE corrupted view at start up

    I have noted recently that if I close Lazarus and then later start it again sometimes (maybe 1 out of 3) the main window containing the menus and components list changes…

    Bo Berglund, FreeMan, Juha Manninen
    3
  20. Built Lazarus on RPi2, warning on every project build

    I have successfully compiled and installed fpc and lazarus from trunk sources retrieved by svn on a Raspberry Pi2 unit. Versions are 3.1.1 and 1.5 respectively I can run…

    Bo Berglund, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Unknown author
    6
  21. Editor loses focus on Compile

    When I compile a project in the IDE with Ctrl+F9 the editor window loses focus. Instead the message window is focused. When compiling is done, message window is still…

    Ondrej Pokorny, FreeMan, Howard Page-Clark
    5
  22. Play a sound/beep when compiling finished

    Is it possible to play a sound or beep when compiling was finished? Sometimes compiling takes some time and I am struggling to get to know that it finished. Ondrej

    Ondrej Pokorny, FreeMan, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    6
  23. Literature about REST

    I would like to know more about web-programming with REST. Can anyone recommend books or web-sites to read about it ? I virtually know nothing about it. Searching amazon…

    Koenraad Lelong, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    3
  24. Google Docs for help documentation

    I was wondering what people thought about using a Google Doc as a help file? It looks like you can have a contents, use anchors and obviously have pictures. Any thoughts?

    Richard Mace, DougC, Graeme Geldenhuys
    3
  25. Lazarus eats comment characters using Swedish keyboard

    A problem surfaced just a moment ago... I was writing code in Lazarus ver 1.5 running on a Raspberry Pi2 with Raspbian Jessie. I wanted to comment out a number of lines…

    Bo Berglund, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Martin Frb
    5
  26. Codetools question

    Mainly for Mattias, I suppose: The SetString routine in the system unit has become a compiler procedure in 3.0: {$ifdef FPC_HAS_CPSTRING} Procedure…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Mattias Gaertner, Ondrej Pokorny
    11
  27. lazcontrols filters

    I didn't find a way to change the grey text "(filter)" that appears in TListFilterEdit controls and similar. I think it could be useful to have a property storing that…

    Andrea Mauri, Bart, Juha Manninen
    24
  28. Accessing GPIO on RaspberryPi2 from Lazarus/FPC

    I have found a description of a unit implementing an interface to the gpio driver in the Free Pascal documentation. It is here:…

    Bo Berglund, Alfred, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    6
  29. Prevent from deadlock while writing something large to a pipe

    I want to send a big amount of data to a child process through pipe. However, it is stated in the documentation that writing too much into the pipe may cause a deadlock.…

    Kiên Nguyễn Tiến Trung, Sven Barth
    2
  30. TFPGList.Sort

    I am trying to sort a simple TIntegerList defined as: TIntegerList = specialize TFPGList<Integer>; In order to sort I introduced a compare function as: function…

    Andrea Mauri, Maciej Izak, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  31. Streaming my TODO list

    I've got a few programming TODOs related to Lazarus and am testing out streaming my desktop while I complete some of these tasks. The tasks in no particular include: *…

    Anthony Walter, Aradeonas, Graeme Geldenhuys
    5
  32. High-DPI aware LCL ?

    Out of curiosity: Are there any plans to make the LCL (and by extension the IDE itself) High-DPI aware? Working on a Macbook Pro with retina screen (running kubuntu) is…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Aradeonas, Graeme Geldenhuys
    37
  33. combobox can NOT select with mouse click

    fpc r32922 lazarus r49987 el capitan qt x64 combobox can NOT select with mouse click. in IDE as well

    FreeMan
    0
  34. debugger create SIGDEV and app terminate

    fpc r32922 lazarus r49987 el capitan qt x64 code is: ........ finally Screen.Cursor := crDefault; Background := False; try if Assigned(FRM_) then begin if…

    FreeMan
    0
  35. Tray icon not working on Ubunut

    What's the status of TTrayIcon and Ubuntu/Unity? Today I tried to create an application with a TTrayIcon on Ubuntu with the latest LCL sources and the TTrayIcon doesn't…

    Anthony Walter, Graeme Geldenhuys, Luca Olivetti
    10
  36. Lazarus Release 1.4.4

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.4.4. This release was built with FPC 2.6.4, same as the previous release Lazarus 1.4.2. Here is the list of…

    Mattias Gaertner, Martin Frb
    5
  37. Strange interaction between combox and IniPropStorage

    I just found a very strange bug: when I try to save the ItemIndex of a combobox through a TIniPropStorage, its value reverts to the value it had when the form was…

    Luca Olivetti, Flávio Etrusco, Juha Manninen
    6
  38. Desktops and IDECoolbar

    Desktops and IDECoolbar support are welcome additions to Lazarus. I suppose a package can now add a dropdown button to the IDECoolbar. Is there an example on how to add…

    patspiper, Juha Manninen
    1
  39. UTF-16 to hexadecimal string output

    Hi Does Lazarus have a function that can convert UnicodeString (UTF-16 encoding) to hexadecimal string output? some_utf16_text -->> 4E6F762073686D6F7A206B.... -…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  40. "Checkbox for Booleans" in Object Inspector now used as default

    r49914 makes the Checkbox in OI the default as a Boolean editor. If you still want the old Combobox, please change it in options dialog. The themed Checkbox which has…

    Juha Manninen, Anthony Walter, Mattias Gaertner
    8
  41. changing DPI values and Lazarus Forms Designer

    Why doesn't Lazarus write the TCustomForm.DesignedDPI value to the LFM files (like Delphi or Kylix does)? Currently that property is public, not published. The problem…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  42. Lazarus program files very big, why?

    I installed Lazarus on my Pi2B (see other therad) and am now using fpc 3.1.1 and Lazarus 1.5. I also installed tightvnc for GUI access via VNC from my Win7 PC. My first…

    Bo Berglund, leledumbo, Luca Olivetti
    4
  43. JCF bug

    Just saw this problem that if you miss character it will cause Lazarus crash : Please test it if you have this problem too. Regards, Ara http://www.fastmail.com - Same,…

    Aradeonas, Ondrej Pokorny
    4
  44. Installing Lazarus on Raspbian Jessie on a Pi2B?

    I have now returned home and got myself the hardware for starting the development in FPC of my controller software for the Raspberry Pi2B. When I installed RaspBian it…

    Bo Berglund, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    14
  45. suggestion about added help buttons

    I saw a few seconds ago r49911 & r49912 added help button and onclick event, and event has "OpenUrl('http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org.......');" this codes. I think…

    FreeMan, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  46. First fatal error on el capitan

    svn fpc r31922 lazarus r49919 qtx64 osx 10.11(el capitan) xcode 7.0.1 Copyright (c) 1993-2015 by Florian Klaempfl and others /opt/lazarus/ide/advancedipc.pp(227,49)…

    FreeMan, Mattias Gaertner, Ondrej Pokorny
    4
  47. LazSVNPkg is working?

    is LazSVNPkg working? Tried for the first time and got "Access violation". Steps installed subversion created a local a repository set up project active try to commit…

    Salvatore Coppola
    1
  48. some Info about El capitan

    today I upgrade my os yosemite to El capitan. I want to share some experience. First and important changed "filesystem protections"…

    FreeMan
    0
  49. Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

    I have a need to port a Delphi console program written for Windows to be used on Raspberry Pi2. Apparently it is possible to use Freepascal to get programs running on…

    Bo Berglund, David Taylor, Dennis
    111
  50. Build of Lazarus fails on Mac with STABS error (perhaps because of MacOSX 10.11??)

    Two or three weeks ago I switched my main computer to OSX 10.11, now I tried to re-compile Lazarus but compilation failed. I compile Lazarus quite regulary, so my guess…

    Michael Ring, Mattias Gaertner, Sven Barth
    5