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lazarus · 2016-11

  1. TThread.Synchronize

    I have form on which is button. When user clicks button OnClick event handler is called (it is method of form). Processing of this method takes some time say 1 minute.…

    LacaK, Alexey, Mattias Gaertner
    29
  2. Teaching Pascal at College

    I am a professor of "introduction to programming". Currently we are working with matlab and c. Today I had a meeting about doing the module more interesting to the…

    Adrian De Armas, Chris Kelling, DougC
    128
  3. Lazarus Release 1.6.2

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.6.2. This is a bugfix release. This release was built with FPC 3.0.0. The previous release Lazarus 1.6 was…

    Mattias Gaertner, Kostas Michalopoulos, Luca Olivetti
    17
  4. Clarification about VirtualTreeView repositories (lazarus-ccr/virtualtreeview-new deprecation)

    Currently there are three repositories of VirtualTreeView LCL port. In Lazarus-CCR: virtualtreeview: first port, long unmaintained virtualtreeview-new: original…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, denisgolovan, Mattias Gaertner
    11
  5. FPC on Rpi3 executable module sizes

    I have a group of programs that compile using FPC on Windows 7. I have ported those programs over to my RPi3 and they all compile fine. On Windows 7, the executable…

    Ken Kashmarek, Bo Berglund, Florian Klämpfl
    8
  6. Form Width bigger than 4096 pixels?

    Hi! Currently I'm developing a application to control a process and the width of one form can't be increased to more than 4096 pixels. My environment is: Lazarus 1.7,…

    Fabio Luis Girardi, Alexey, Graeme Geldenhuys
    4
  7. TextHint rewrite

    Let me continue the "Memo.Lines.Add seems to be slow with Lazarus 1.6" - TextHint discussion: 1.) Unfortunately it's not possible to create the custom paint event…

    Ondrej Pokorny, Alexey, Bart
    4
  8. How to utilize goRowMoving with TDBGird?

    I need a record reordering feature with TDBGrid, worked out a half-solution with drag and drop and later found TStringGrid have a goRowMoving option. Just want the…

    Gabor Boros
    1
  9. High Res Screen, problems with IDE

    Hi Everyone! I have recently upgraded my linux machine to a laptop with high screen resolution (1920 x 1080) that for most programs is beautiful. Unfortunately, parts of…

    Donald Ziesig, Alexey, David Copeland
    15
  10. macOS Sierra save as dialog hangs

    Hi, Not sure if this has anything specifically to do with Sierra version of MacOS but that's the only Mac I have to test on.. When I run the latest Lazarus from source…

    Lars, C Western, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  11. IDE, indentation after inserting from clipboard

    In the editor of the IDE, when I put the cursor somewhere and paste multiple lines from the clipboard then only the first line is indented (starts where the cursor is)…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  12. Lazarus and MySQL 5.7

    What version of Lazarus can connect to MySQL 5.7 using TSqlConnector? My laptop has 1.6 and does not seem to be able to connect using that component. Thx, Terry

    Terry A. Haimann, Giuliano Colla, Graeme Geldenhuys
    10
  13. Non-visual component tray

    Finally somebody has implemented a non-visual component tray add-on (sitting next to your visual designed form). Something I've been saying for years - and that should…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Maciej Izak, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  14. ActiveX, TOLEControl

    I need help with OCX component (not visual I guess), which I need use in Lazarus application (to control another application, which supplies this OCX control). I have…

    LacaK, Dennis, Jesus Reyes A.
    5
  15. Is the TODO list working?

    I've tried to see some TODOs in my code, but it seems the TODO list windows isn't working, however I don't know if it is happening only with my Lazarus copy. Could…

    silvioprog, Bart, Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    13
  16. stale pipe workarounds

    Hi while researching help systems I came across the code which uses IPC to communicate and see that people are adding stale pipe work arounds. So this can't be resolved…

    Lars, Andrew Haines, Graeme Geldenhuys
    4
  17. Cannot cross build from Linux x86_64 to i386

    Hi, I've built FPC 3.1.1 (ppc386) from trunk then I'm trying to build a project from Lazarus and I'm getting this: /usr/lib32/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS): En la…

    Leonardo M. Ramé
    1
  18. Is the whole of Lazarus-CCR moving to Github?

    Two days ago I got an invite to join the Lazarus CCR organization on Github - probably because I'm the maintainer of DCPCrypt on Lazarus CCR on SourceForge. The…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Juha Manninen
    2
  19. Quad precision library for Free Pascal

    Does anyone know of or have implemented a quad precision (128-bit) library for Free Pascal. I see there are some available for C or GCC but not Free Pascal directly.…

    Ken Kashmarek, denisgolovan, Michael Schnell
    3
  20. TEdit initial display width

    I have a form Form1 with an TEdit component Edit1 on it. Edit1 is anchored to Form1 on the left and on the right. I create the Form and set its width on the fly with the…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Bart
    1
  21. LHelp or help systems that also work on..

    Since I use both Lazarus and Delphi and never just use one or the other, is there any help system that works in both delphi and Lazarus? i.e. anyone port LHelp to delphi…

    Lars, Andrew Haines, Graeme Geldenhuys
    8
  22. SynEdit - marking a line

    Hi List. I have just recently started playing with SynEdit and all it's features, but so far things have been going good. The examples in lazarus are fine and have…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Martin Frb
    1
  23. TPageControl OnChange calling issue

    we want to discuss a bug report http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25554 here, not in Mantis (hope, I understand Bart right). Today, the TPageControl.OnChange event…

    Michael W. Vogel, Bart, DougC
    29
  24. fpConnect

    Hi I need a method to tell whether a specific port is open on a remote host. Ihave written a function for it, but it seems that fpConnect always returns 0. What am I…

    Kaj Mikkelsen, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  25. WebAssembly

    (Creating a new thread instead of using "Help System with Chromium Embedded component") IMHO Silverlight is dying because Java is the winner over C#, due to Android…

    Michael Schnell, Lars, Mattias Gaertner
    10
  26. Modal windows on Cocoa

    I am not sure whether this is a bug of the cocoa widgetset, or whether this is a general limitation of the Mac. Imagine a main form, which shows a modal form. The modal…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Mattias Gaertner, Ondrej Pokorny
    6
  27. Open Office dbase

    I have an application that creates dbase files and writes information to them. I now need a procedure that will open the newly filled table so that it can be manually…

    Larry Dalton, LacaK
    1
  28. Help System with Chromium Embedded component

    Hi, I have been experimenting with chromium embedded and the power is endless. It's like being able to write CGI programs but on the desktop with no server needing to…

    Lars, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort
    55
  29. Listboxes disappear after form resize

    Hi. I have a strange problem with a sizeable form. The form has 2 listboxes that are anchored to the groupbox (leftlistbox and rightlistbox) and a speedbutton in between…

    Frans
    0
  30. persistent bookmarks in the IDE?

    Is it possible for Lazarus (trunk) to remember bookmark locations between restarts? Or save bookmarks per project? At the moment I loose all my bookmarks while doing a…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner, Ondrej Pokorny
    4
  31. Slow Graphics in Cocoa

    Hi Hope their is a fix for this. After doing some testing; with placing images from an timagelist on a panel, the Cocoa seems to be 10% as fast as carbon, or carbon is…

    Unknown author
    0
  32. missing "LCLWidgetType" drop down menu

    Version 1.6 on Windows: Project -> Project Options -> Additions and Overrides -> Set "LCLWidgetType" -> Drop Down selection Value "fpgui". Sadly in my compiled "trunk"…

    Michael Schnell, Ondrej Pokorny
    4
  33. Anchoring fails on Windows 10

    I have a simple form with 2 components, a TVirtualDrawTree and a TProgressBar. The TProgressBar is anchored to the bottom of the form and the bottom of the…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  34. Lazarus Version

    Is there a way to get Lazarus version from a package? I know about LazarusVersionStr constant from {$LazarusDir}/IDE/lazconfig.pp, but that's not accessible from a…

    Balázs Székely, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    13
  35. COCOA Graphics

    Not sure if this list is the place to post issues using COCOA I have tried laz 1.6 fpc 3.0.1 with fixes and laz 1.7 fpc 3.1.1 trunk I have a problem, I thought was with…

    Unknown author, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  36. ctrl-c code completion

    Why does the IDE insist on reformatting existing declarations ? I added 1 method to TStrings, press ctrl-c to do command-completion, and it changes the headers of all…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Bart, Graeme Geldenhuys
    13
  37. Exception in OnResize event handler

    In one of my Windows programs I use a splitter to separate two VirtualTreeView components on a Form. The relation of the heights of these two VirtualTreeView components…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Mattias Gaertner, Ondrej Pokorny
    11
  38. Memo.Lines.Add seems to be slow with Lazarus 1.6

    with Lazarus 1.6 (FPC 3.0.0 i386-linux-gtk 2) filling a Memo with 10000 lines takes about 18 seconds on my system. Doing the same with Lazarus 1.4.0 (FPC 2.6.4…

    Bernd Mueller, Bart, Gabor Boros
    30
  39. Where is TSynMemo?

    Hi. I'm using Lazarus 1.6 and FPC 3.0.0. on Windows 7. I've installed the SynEdit 1.0 and the SynEditDsgn 1.0 package. But strangely enough, I don't seem to have…

    Frans, zeljko
    1
  40. Does closing a form hide it or free it?

    I have a form I use as database dialog that looks up a list of databases to connect to and when I close the form I expect it to be closed via caHide so that I can reuse…

    vfclists ., Mattias Gaertner
    2
  41. Spedd buttons disappeared

    Hi I just rebuild the IDE in order to allow docking. Docking works fine, but the main speed buttons (open, run, ....) has disappeared. I have googlet for this issue, but…

    Kaj Mikkelsen, Howard Page-Clark
    3
  42. DBLookupComboBox vs Qt

    Created an issue in the past but got no answer. Now attached a better example project. Please try and comment. Is it a Qt bug or this is the expected behaviour?…

    Gabor Boros, zeljko
    8
  43. Question about TRichMemo

    First, thanks for this great component <https://sourceforge.net/p/lazarus-ccr/svn/HEAD/tree/components/richmemo/>! :-) So, what do you think about distributing it on…

    silvioprog, Dmitry Boyarintsev, Torsten Bonde Christiansen
    13
  44. fcl-pdf change

    For those using the fcl-pdf package: There has been a change in the API. Well, there were many additions, but this change may influence existing code. Till now, the…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Graeme Geldenhuys, Tony Whyman
    2
  45. VK_* problem.

    I have an application that requires MouseAndKeyInput.lpk. I am using lazarus_1.6-0_amd64.deb, fpc-src_3.0.0-151205_amd64.deb, on Linux Cinnamon. I also am using it on…

    Larry Dalton, Alexey, Balázs Székely
    6
  46. Suggestion for Object Inspector

    There are tabs for Properties and for Events, how about one for Methods?  Clicking on on one could put the prototype for the function or procedure at the current Editor…

    Bob B., Péter Gábor, Vojtěch Čihák
    3