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lazarus · 2016-09

  1. that's surprised me a lot

    I've read something interesting recently, so I decided to show it to you. It is something really surprising, please take a look …

    Sascha.Hestermann, Andreas Frieß, Mattias Gaertner
    10
  2. How to open the help for the selected identifier?

    Is there some IDE configuration to open the online help of a selected identifier instead of the "Code Brower" window? Thank you! Silvio Clécio -------------- next part…

    silvioprog, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  3. Code Observer suggestions and bugs

    I just discovered the "Code Observer" functionality. Amazing gems in Lazarus - well done guys! Some suggestions I immediately noticed though after enabling Code Observer.

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Aradeonas, Martin Frb
    9
  4. New methods code creation

    In Lazarus 1.6 when I used code creation for procedures and events they will be made in private part of class and I had an option in Codetool named "Insert new event…

    Aradeonas, Mattias Gaertner, Ondrej Pokorny
    18
  5. Option to deactivate always open Menu Editor

    I like the new Menu Editor in Lazarus 1.7 Trunk, it is much better than in Lazarus 1.6! There is one thing, which I liked more in 1.6 than in 1.7. In 1.6, I could create…

    Michael W. Vogel, Juha Manninen
    7
  6. Can't add new form to Lazarus App

    On an old Lazarus app (Linux) today I tried to add a form and got the following: http://www.haimann.us/Images/Test.png After selecting this option, the new form appears…

    Terry A. Haimann, Bad Sector, brian
    8
  7. lazarus 1.6+fpc 2.6.4, win32, crashes in iphtml.pas

    I'm playing with lazarus 1.6 (a bit late, I know) with fpc 2.6.4, win32, and I have a strange problem with the ide: the object inspector information box shows nothing…

    Luca Olivetti, Mattias Gaertner, Ondrej Pokorny
    8
  8. TImage shows loaded image rotated by 90?

    I have JPEG image with width=2448 and height=3264. All programs in Windows show image with respect to his dimensions, so shorter is X and higher is Y. But when I load…

    LacaK, Marc Weustink, Michael Van Canneyt
    8
  9. TLazIntfImage.Assign ?

    Please look at implementation : procedure TLazIntfImage.Assign(Source: TPersistent); var Src: TLazIntfImage; Desc: TRawImageDescription; begin if Source is TLazIntfImage…

    LacaK, Juha Manninen, Ondrej Pokorny
    4
  10. Run Parameters Dialog

    Hi in the Run Parameters dialog, it appears as though $macros such as $TargetFile() or the current project directory, etc., don't get expanded.... Is this by design?…

    Lars, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    6
  11. TColor($RRGGBB) -> TColor($BBGGRR)

    I can do the following myself with a simple function, but does LCL already contain a function that swaps the Red and Blue channel values? I have many color values…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  12. Launching External Tool Cmd.exe in Windows

    Hi, Lazarus has the nice feature of being able to launch an external tool. I'm trying to launch a console app... So I put C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe in the program file…

    Lars, Cyrax, Mattias Gaertner
    9
  13. TColor and Alpha channel support

    All LCL colors seem to be defined in the format TColor($BBGGRR) - all without the Alpha channel information. Does TColor support the Alpha channel, and if it does, will…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Kostas Michalopoulos, Martin Schreiber
    15
  14. Breaking change in fcl-pdf

    A small warning: There is a small breaking change in the fcl-pdf package: the color parameter in the AddFont() call has been removed. It was ignored anyway and didn't…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  15. warning on compile

    On a new project, and I keep getting this warning: tubes.lpr(20,1) Warning: "crtbeginS.o" not found, this will probably cause a linking failure Linking doesn't; actually…

    Chris Kelling, Mattias Gaertner, Thierry Andriamirado
    2
  16. Form resize reverted after click on component palette

    Hi! When I resize or move a form in the designer and click on a component in the palette afterwards (to place it on the form) the change is reverted - the form has the…

    Lukas Gradl, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  17. LCL-GTK2 warning about TScrollBox

    I'm using a TScrollBox in a LCL-GTK2 application. When I run the application from a console window, I see the following warning appear multiple times. WARNING:…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Alexey T, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  18. Windows 10 UAC blocking freepascal/Lazarus app (solved)

    Windows 10 was blocking a simple console application compiled with Lazarus There were two side effects: A UAC window appears when app is executed and gdb could not load…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, José Mejuto
    1
  19. Scrollbars on form ?

    How is one supposed to get the scrollbars on a form to work ? I have a form, with a custom control on it which is bigger than the form. I would expect the scrollbars to…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Dmitry Boyarintsev, Graeme Geldenhuys
    8
  20. Accesing components in FormCreate event

    I'm trying to remember if setting up some values of components is okay to do in the form create event. From what I remember in Delphi days of programming years ago, I…

    Lars, Bob B., Mattias Gaertner
    5
  21. Mailinglist issues

    As you might have noticed, there have been troubles with receiving mail from the lazarus list by gmail, yahoo and other subscribers. It is not a real change of policy,…

    Marc Weustink, Andrew Haines, DougC
    4
  22. Qt native event loop

    As of lazarus trunk revision r53021 Qt widgetset have ability to use it's own event loop. Reasons: Qt Cocoa does not work well with LCL loop due to cocoa implementation,…

    zeljko
    0
  23. Conditional code based on Lazarus/LCL version

    Is there something like FPC_VERSION define but for Lazarus or LCL, e.g. LAZARUS_VERSION? I need a way of programmatically determining which version of Lazarus or LCL…

    Denis Kozlov, Lars, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  24. Desktops - some features overengineered (?)

    I'd like to discuss the Desktops feature. In particular the fact that some settings are stored within the desktop and not IDE-wide. That means that changing desktops…

    Ondrej Pokorny, Balázs Székely, Graeme Geldenhuys
    3
  25. Accessing components in FormCreate event

    In OnShow I use a counter to only do the change on the first show. I've even made a FirstShow event years ago. I trust what you say since you are very experienced in…

    Lars, Luca Olivetti, Lukasz Sokol
    4
  26. IDE Docking windows and Editor Toolbar

    Is it a known issue, or by design, that the Editor Toolbar doesn't appear when the Anchor Docking packages is installed? Is it some docking window limitation? My…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Denis Kozlov, leledumbo
    14
  27. test

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    Salvatore Coppola, Bart, Denis Kozlov
    13
  28. When are Lazarus mailing list archived gzip'd?

    if i look at: http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/pipermail/lazarus/ column: " Downloadable version" stop at May 2016. When are the following months gzip'd? I use the great…

    John Landmesser
    0
  29. lazarus mailing list down?

    Il 19/09/2016 18:10, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: I can confirm that also from here I don't see any activity on the Lazarus list after Saturday. Last post is from Mehmet…

    Giuliano Colla
    0
  30. Bounces of Lazarus mailing list messages

    Some days ago , I have received a message from Lazarus mailing list about to renew my subscription due to bounces of mails sent from Lazarus mailing list . Previously ,…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, Marc Weustink
    1
  31. LCL and fpc 3.0.0 Code Pages

    Am I right in saying that the only AnsiString type that it is safe to use with the LCL is UTF8 (even under Windows)?

    Tony Whyman, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  32. Last mail from the Lazarus list is dated september 10 2016

    As checked in Lazarus mail archive the are thred after 09/10/2016. There are trouble or in unsubscribed? Even not much active I happy whit the list Salvatore

    Salvatore
    0
  33. TControl.InvalidatePreferredSize loop detected with TScrollBox

    With the attached example project got an "TControl.InvalidatePreferredSize loop detected" error. Just start it and click on Panel3. Tried with Windows and Linux-Qt,…

    Gabor Boros, zeljko
    3
  34. Lazarus section on StackOverflow

    I was wondering if people here are aware of this and / or interested: http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/lazarus/commit I would be happy to commit to it, except I'm…

    JuuS
    0
  35. Feature request: Project Groups

    Just updated my lazarus to the latest Trunk revision. I'm very glad to see Project Groups are available and working well thus far. A highly sought after feature for many…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Marcos Douglas, Mattias Gaertner
    17
  36. Does this mail actually arrive on the list? Can somebody respond please?

    I just got an email from saying that mail from me was bounced. Can anybody see this mail on the list? If so, can you reply (reply to the list please)? Bart

    Bart, Graeme Geldenhuys, hfiandor
    8
  37. Lazarus IDE compilation error due to "No memory left"

    When i try to recompile the IDE i'm getting the error below: Error: (1026) Compilation raised exception internally Fatal: (1009) No memory left Error:…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Martin Frb
    3
  38. bmp icons

    what is a good collection of free, useful BMP images for speedbuttons? Bob B. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:…

    Bob B., Bo Berglund, Denis Kozlov
    5
  39. JCF roblem with operators for records

    JCF will show error for this code: Should I add a bug report or Im missing something? Ara http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free…

    Aradeonas
    0
  40. Key Handling problem in Windows

    I have issue In windows if you hold the key down for more than 30-40 second it will not send new messages to the form and event will not run. This is my code and it…

    Aradeonas, Denis Kozlov
    3
  41. Tabbed view of IDE debug windows

    Is it possible to have a single window with a Tabbed interface of your selection (or all) IDE debug windows? Something like the attached screenshot. Or has anybody…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    5
  42. Debugger: on exception, debugger has no values to inspect

    I'm running my application via the IDE and get an Exception error. The dialog pops up showing me the exception with two options - Break or Continue. I select Break which…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Martin Frb
    5
  43. Editor doesn't scroll horizontally - no scrollbar

    I see this bug quite frequently in my Linux version of Lazarus. Lazarus 1.7 r52715 FPC 2.6.4 x86_64-linux-gtk 2 I can't remember ever seeing it under FreeBSD, where…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, denisgolovan, Martin Frb
    2
  44. editor: Horizontal scrollbar position after pressing ENTER

    Please see attached screenshot to help explain. When I have a long line of code that causes horizontal scrolling and I press ENTER to start a new line, the cursor moves…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin Frb
    2
  45. Object Inspector reuse ?

    Can the IDE's object inspector be used independent of the IDE ? I need to create a report designer, and it would save me a lot of work if I could re-use the IDE's object…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Giuliano Colla, Mattias Gaertner
    11
  46. Suppress compiler switches?

    As part of our automated build process, we have a .cfg file that we pass to fpc with all of the command line arguments necessary. Currently, all of those settings are…

    Zoë Peterson, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  47. UTF8 issue

    I'm unsure whether this is a Lazarus issue, an fpc issue, or if I'm doing something wrong. I'm in Linux environment, where everything is supposed to be UTF8. LANG…

    Giuliano Colla, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  48. VirtualTreeView: Expand/Collapse without OnNodeClick

    I already spend quite a lot of time to find a way around a certain behaviour in VirtualTreeView (5.5.3-R1) but with no luck: When I click on a plus/minus button left of…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Balázs Székely
    7
  49. DateDiff in Freepascal 3.0 now?

    see this thread: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-DateDif-function-needed-tt4034182.html#none Is a function similiar to Jedi's DateDiff part of…

    John Landmesser, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  50. TEdit on GTK2

    Hi all. Am i the only one who have notices that lazarus trunk on GTK has a malfunctioning TEdit component. All backspace and delete keys automatically moves the cursor…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen
    0