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lazarus · 2017-10

  1. DeleteFile

    Hi! I have a CGI program that must delete files from a server and it's owned by www-data which allows me to read a file but not to delete it, even though the file has…

    Agustìn Gregorieu
    0
  2. "Ambiguous unit found" message

    Trying to update my VirtualTreeViews version 4 to version 5 I ran into the problem that the registration unit seems to be duplicate now. I hope to be able to fix this,…

    Werner Pamler, Alexey, Bart
    6
  3. Fpsreadsheet bug?

    I've run into a problem using fpsreadseet. I'm getting the following exception:- Project ezcel raised exception class 'EListError' with message: List index (0) out of…

    Malcolm Buckingham, Werner Pamler
    3
  4. Who is using Object Pascal in production?

    I would like to propose a discussion about "What is the relevance of Object Pascal nowadays". I don't want waste your time. I just want to know if we are growing and…

    Marcos Douglas B. Santos, Alexander Klenin, Alexey
    73
  5. Who is using Object Pascal in production? (fwd)

    It is equally good. For quick&dirty stuff I use plain old cgi. I use FastCGI for performance critical external apps. For some internal apps, I use standalone http server.

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  6. Annoyance with 1.8RC5

    Hi All! I have been using RC5 for a couple of days and am annoyed by one change. Maybe its a configuration item that I can't find, but I would really like to turn off…

    Donald Ziesig, C Western, kapibara
    6
  7. Pascalscript / testers please

    I updated the version of PascalScript shipped with Lazarus. As we still have a few patches applied, I wonder how well it works on each platform. If you like to test....…

    Martin Frb, kapibara
    3
  8. Deleting items in OI

      I got this code for design time editing (note the line+comment *** aHook.SelectOnlyThis(aECTC.Tabs);  { force the OI to refresh } ***). That line should refresh OI…

    Vojtěch Čihák, Juha Manninen
    3
  9. Weird object variables access - fpc issue?

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    Giuliano Colla, el es, Mattias Gaertner
    43
  10. Pascalscript on arm

    Is anyone using the version of PascalScript shipped with Lazarus on an arm device? Our version has the below patch applied to it, and I do not know if this is correct…

    Martin Frb
    0
  11. Request for merge to 1.8

    Could revisions 56094, 56095 be merged to 1.8 ? (Arrange ToolBarConfig categories in a natural way.) Report: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32557 FTurtle…

    FTurtle, Juha Manninen
    5
  12. Fatal IO error 11

    Hi All! How can I isolate the source of "Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. Xlib: request 67 length 20 would exceed buffer size." …

    Donald Ziesig, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  13. lazopenglcontext on Raspberry Pi?

    I cannot get the lazopenglcontext package to install on Raspbian stretch. The error is: lazarus.pp(1,1) Fatal: Cannot find lazopenglcontext used by Lazarus. Check if…

    Anthony Tekatch, Anthony Walter, leledumbo
    10
  14. Gtk2 error after update to Ubuntu 17.10

    LCL Gtk2 app [was ok] now shows in console msg about str-constant: user at PC:~$ cudatext -v /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-2.0/apps/mate-panel.rc:30: error: invalid…

    Alexey, zeljko
    1
  15. Code outline feature of the IDE

    The new outline feature of the IDE in Laz 1.8 and trunk is extremely helpful in locating code block inconsistencies. I cannot imagine how I could have lived without it…

    Werner Pamler, Alexey, Donald Ziesig
    15
  16. fcl-web capturing called URL

    Hi, I'm trying (without success) to capture the called URL using fcl-web o Brook. How can I get that info?. Leonardo M. Ramé Medical IT - Griensu S.A. Av. Colón 636 -…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, leledumbo, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  17. IPC: TSimpleIPC, ZeroMQ, nanomsg...

    I would like to know if someone has already worked with Messages between different programs, made in different languages, with binds to work in FPC and Delphi 7. My main…

    Marcos Douglas B. Santos, Denis Kozlov, R0b0t1
    7
  18. TCDListbox implemented?

    I see not implemented, CustomDrawn demo don't show it. ...Why you cannot take ATListbox and make CDListbox on its base? Alexey

    Alexey
    0
  19. Rendering Issue Emoji for HTML List Items

    when I checked what HTML2TextRenderer uses to translate list items, I found that since rev 55743 it uses U+26AB MEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE ⚫ and U+26AA MEDIUM WHITE CIRCLE…

    Martok, Juha Manninen, R0b0t1
    8
  20. FPVectorial

    I rather unsuccessfully tried to use the pdf decoder example provided here  -> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpvectorial . I needed to add the package fpvectorial…

    Michael Schnell
    0
  21. Packages and units with the same name

    Imagine that we have two packages and each one has a global.pas unit like this: BasePack /pkg basepack.lpk /src global.pas SmartPack /pkg smartpack.lpk /src global.pas…

    Marcos Douglas B. Santos, leledumbo, Mattias Gaertner
    11
  22. AppProps property for dimmed disabled controls

    Old issue about "patch for dimmed font color for Grid.Enabled=false" (patch wasnt applied). Maybe add TApplicationProperties.DimmedColorOfDisabledControls ? Then we can…

    Alexey
    0
  23. SimpleIPC

    I would like to see a example program forSimpleIPC Server and client. It would be most helpful if these were cli programs so that I could see what libraries were…

    Terry A. Haimann, Denis Kozlov, Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    3
  24. Installation of 1.8 RC4 fails.

    Hi All! I downloaded the three .deb files for 18 RC-4 and tried to install them (the checksums are valid). The two fpc 3.0.4 files said that they installed correctly,…

    Donald Ziesig, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    7
  25. Lazarus Release Candidate 5 of 1.8.0

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the fifth release candidate of Lazarus 1.8. The Windows release was built with FPC 3.0.4 final svn version, the Linux release was…

    Mattias Gaertner
    0
  26. Replacing accented letters

    Is there an easy way to replace accented letters (mostly the French one's) with their not-accented equivalents ? E.g. é -> e. I could do it with a lookup-table I think,…

    Koenraad Lelong, Denis Kozlov, Ondrej Pokorny
    6
  27. Forward procedure completion failure

    Just wanted to try the cool feature, adding a procedure body to implementation. So I wrote a procedure header, pressed Ctrl+Shift+C, and found this in a message window:…

    Lubos Pintes, Mattias Gaertner, Ondrej Pokorny
    3
  28. Pixels

    I need a function to get pixels per inch in a Linux application. Sent from my iPhone

    Larry Dalton, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  29. chm doc generation scripts deleted?

    I noticed the scripts that I used to generate the LCL chms are partially deleted. r55175 | mattias | 2017-06-02 23:01:01 +0200 (vr, 02 jun 2017) | 1 line Changed paths:…

    Marco van de Voort, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  30. Lazarus is unable to find OleVariant when pressing Alt+Up

    Nothing more to say, unit is compilable, but I cannot find the OleVariant. I am trying to figure out how to work with it in FPC, so I wanted to see the definitions etc.

    Lubos Pintes, Sven Barth
    1
  31. Lazarus code editor: what happened with the caret?

    After years, I just built a fresh Lazarus from SVN. I ran the IDE, and noticed immediately that a code editor is completely unusable to screen reader. I am running…

    Lubos Pintes, Martin Frb
    10
  32. Developing a WidgetSet

    If I want to add a functionality like accessibility to WidgetSet, which package could I use, lcl.lpk, or lclbase.lpk? Also, how can I rebuilt the package when I…

    Lubos Pintes, Graeme Geldenhuys, Juha Manninen
    13
  33. Cannot build Lazarus from source

    Hi, since many years ago I'm building Lazarus from source using the procedure detailed below, currently I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 64bit. My procedure is, first *svn up* fpc,…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  34. TBufDataset.Filename property in Object Inspector

    Following on from my previous TMemDataset.Filename issue. With TBufDataset, there is no property editor associated with the FileName property. Is this just an oversight…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  35. TMemDataset.Filename property in Lazarus

    Playing around with TMemDataset, I dropped it on a form, then clicked "..." button of the FileName property in the Object Inspector. The file dialog shows that I can…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  36. Adding a component to a form using keyboard

    I have a problem to add a button to a form using keyboard. Ctrl+Alt+P, write "tbut" to the edit field and press Enter. Nothing was added... why?

    Lubos Pintes, Ondrej Pokorny
    1
  37. Dropping files on TCustomEdit

    Hi List. In my application i have started testing dropping files onto the main form. Most of the components i am using on the form happily accepts the file drops, but…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Denis Kozlov, Juha Manninen
    3
  38. Accessibility enhacement request Lazarus version 1.7

    Sorry about the delay. I'm not sure I can help directly. You may want to ask on the forums. Now the problem has been expressed in terms that someone can use to create…

    R0b0t1, Lubos Pintes, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
    3
  39. Settings in the options dialog are not focusable via keyboard

    When I open the options dialog by pressing Ctrl+Shift+O, choose a category in the tree and try to navigate using Tab, I can tab through the category tree, three buttons…

    Lubos Pintes, Juha Manninen, Vojtěch Čihák
    3
  40. App don't appear on taskbar of 2nd monitor

    Is looks like LCL bug. who can confirm it? https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText/issues/1108 Alexey

    Alexey, Martok, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  41. Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

    I'm just curious. Kylix and Delphi (at least v7) comes with excellent documentation and quite a few example projects. But not a single DB example shows a multi-form…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, leledumbo, Martin Schreiber
    9
  42. [PATCH] Don't force ProductVersion to be equal to FileVersion if it's not set

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    Dmitry D. Chernov, Juha Manninen
    3
  43. [PATCH] Fix problems with writing ProductVersion in VersionInfo

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    Чернов Дмитрий, Dmitry D. Chernov, el es
    6
  44. IDE with ATtabs idea

    Hi. I thought it would be nice change, coz of features of ATtabs: + pseudo tab, v dropdown menu, scroll arrows. PAS icon on pas tabs, LFM icon on form tabs, etc. But…

    Alexey
    0
  45. Mousewheel events on TCustomControl

    I'm having some strange trouble with mouse interaction with a TCustomControl-derived component. I have only been able to test with the win32 widgetset, and it works on…

    Martok, Vojtěch Čihák
    3
  46. Hi-DPI for own components

    Hi, if I want hi-DPI for my own components, it is enough to draw two additional icons with suffix _150 and _200 and bundle it to package?   Thanks, V.

    Vojtěch Čihák, Ondrej Pokorny, R0b0t1
    2
  47. Documentation in Lazarus

    What is the smallest, most compact system for software documentation that can handle text, graphics, and preferably mathematical formulae as well? I am looking for…

    Wolf, Alexey, Graeme Geldenhuys
    6
  48. PasCon for Lazarus 2017 conference announcement

    I hope FPC 3.0.4 is released this week, so we can release Lazarus 1.8 next week and celebrate 18 years of PasCon for Lazarus conference is on 14th Oct:…

    Mattias Gaertner
    0
  49. fpReport - can not render pagefooter

    Done. The FAQ is started. ANdreas

    Andreas Frieß
    0