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lazarus · 2017-11

  1. External/out-of-tree LCL widgetset

    Is there a way to have an LCL widgetset outside of the Lazarus tree? I'm considering writing one for my Little Forms C toolkit at some point but i don't think it would…

    Kostas Michalopoulos, el es, Giuliano Colla
    52
  2. 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
    77
  3. Cross-compiling to win32 from debian stretch

    As a I am new to this list, FreePascal and Lazarus I need a little help by you to crosscompile our project to win32. Compiling to win64 however succeeds: $ lazbuild…

    kardan, Mattias Gaertner, Péter Gábor
    11
  4. FPC 3.0.4 released!

    Finally, the Free Pascal 3.0.4 release is available from our FTP servers. Changes that may break backwards compatibility will be documented at:…

    Marco van de Voort, Juha Manninen, Samuel Herzog
    2
  5. Mantis patch "Mouse-wheel-horz-scroll support"

    https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32753 1. It is tested on Gtk2 and Win32. Gtk1 is not tested [but code is copy pasted, 4..5 values for vert scroll - copied block…

    Alexey
    0
  6. Need to use this fix in 1.8

    https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32717 Otherwise, this dialog is not scaled. Alexey

    Alexey, kardan, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  7. Mouse horiz scroll support

    Does LCL support mouse wheel horz scrolling? how? Ie, i have a mouse which has wheel with horz scroll. On Linux it works in Firefox if i tilt the wheel left/rt. Alexey

    Alexey, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  8. Favourite stand-alone db file?

    I remember that years ago in Delphi I often used Paradox (less often dBase) to create a small stand-alone database with my Delphi desktop programs. It had tge advantage…

    Chavoux Luyt, DougC, Graeme Geldenhuys
    3
  9. 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, Mattias Gaertner
    8
  10. Fixes_1_8 branches fails to compile

    After last night's update from svn, my copy of the 1.8 fixes branch fails to compile with the following error:…

    Tony Whyman, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  11. Compiling/linking/debugging package with generics

    Hi All! I have been having a problem for a long, long time when developing/debugging code which is included in a *package* and which contains *generics*. It took me…

    Donald Ziesig, Marcos Douglas B. Santos, Mattias Gaertner
    16
  12. String Grid Component

    Hi List. I am looking for grid component that can display string. Simple enought and i know of a few already, but the ones i know of cannot do both of the following…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Ondrej Pokorny, Werner Pamler
    6
  13. 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
    17
  14. translation of oss' soundcard.h

    has soundcard.h from OSS API already been translated to Pascal? OSS is used for accessing soundcards and MIDI devices by Linux and FreeBSD. Marc

    Marc Santhoff, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  15. Todo lists.

    Hi Everyone! I used to (infrequently) use the Menu command or the hot key ctrl-shift-t to add properly formatted Todo comments in my code. I believe it was in the Source…

    Donald Ziesig, Bart
    1
  16. Mailserver outage

    As you might have noticed, this mailinglist had a hiccup. I couldn't find any trace why, but a simple reboot did the trick. Marc

    Marc Weustink
    0
  17. test - please ignore / don't reply

    does the server accept this

    Marc Weustink
    0
  18. Center text in multi-line hints?

    Hi All! This is just a minor annoyance fpr me (it grates on my sense of esthetics :-)), but is there any way to center the text in a multi-line hint?  In the current…

    Donald Ziesig, Alexey, Ondrej Pokorny
    2
  19. Not getting emails this week

    Was there something I was supposed to do? Sent from my iPhone

    Larry Dalton
    0
  20. Ping

    Just a test to see if server is still alive

    Giuliano Colla
    0
  21. Fonts for Lazarus

    I started thread about fonts on forum. There's info about new font from IBM (IBM Plex Mono) and list of ten fonts good-looking in Source Editor. See:…

    Vojtěch Čihák
    0
  22. Guessing the encoding of some text

    Hi List. I am reading some text of some .csv files, but the encoding of the files is not always the same. In fact it may vary greatly from a lot of european encodings,…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Alexey, José Mejuto
    7
  23. Apply diff in mantis, CF_text/CF_bitmap

    Pls see and apply it, posted long ago: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27194 Alexey

    Alexey
    0
  24. Control DBGrid row position

    Is there a way to control the position of the selected row in a TDBGrid? With a TStringGrid you can control it with TopRow, but TDBGrid has no such property and I…

    Luca Olivetti
    1
  25. BiDi mode support

    I have a family of application which must support the change of language on the fly. This we're doing since a lot of time, and everything works just fine. Now I face the…

    Giuliano Colla
    0
  26. IDE OI always-on-top: fix

    I see reports about OI is always on top; I see it too. Here's simple fix, found it becoz I made patch for these lines, window-type-hints. Alexey -------------- next part…

    Alexey, Balázs Székely, Ondrej Pokorny
    4
  27. Assembler window shows but without Debugger Exception popup

    What that means? An exception, access violation or what? It probably happens somewhere in my UI Automation implementation. The Call stack window doesn't show useful…

    Lubos Pintes, Martin Frb
    7
  28. Z-order changing using OI and designer menus seems to be broken in trunk

    $subj. Could anyone confirm and fix if possible? ___ Dmitry D. Chernov

    Dmitry D. Chernov
    0
  29. [PATCH] Menu item "Rename identifier" shows as inactive if caret is placed at the end of an identifier

    This is slightly related with recently fixed #32606: my patch fixes only wrong inactive state, patch for #32606 fixes determination of the identifier under the carriage,…

    Dmitry D. Chernov, Juha Manninen, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  30. type IntegerList

    Thanks for this new list. Diff like - Result:=integer(PtrUInt(FCols[aCol])) + Result:=FCols[aCol] shows it's useful. It supports Longint or PtrInt or PtrUInt? Or i need…

    Alexey, Juha Manninen, Kostas Michalopoulos
    5
  31. IntegerList

    I finally added a unit IntegerList and class TIntegerList into LazUtils package. It has a simple implementation using generics. TIntegerList = class(specialize…

    Juha Manninen
    0
  32. IDE SearchResult dlg - edit is clipped

    Here's screenshot, top border of edit is out of window. Linux gtk2. Alexey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name:…

    Alexey
    0
  33. Cody identifier search sometimes doesn't work?

    After reading one quite old thread here, I installed the Cody package, and almost immediately found that on windows, there is an identifier like this: _TV_DISPINFO in…

    Lubos Pintes, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  34. Win64 bit "Can not load SQLite client library "sqlite3.dll"

    I was upgrading my FPC/Lazarus program from Win32 to Win64 bit. It complied ok but when run, the debugger raised an exceptoin: "Can not load SQLite client library…

    Dennis, Michael Thompson
    1
  35. PackageLinks dialog

    I wish that in this dialog grid - disable option RangeSelect (select n lines) - enable option RowSelect - not sure about opt Editing, maybe disable it. Alexey

    Alexey, Martok, Mattias Gaertner
    5
  36. register 3rd party help with the IDE

    Years back I wrote a tiOPF class documentation help intergation package for Lazarus. It could use local help (on your hard drive) or online help for the tiOPF.lpk…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  37. WinHTTP Missing In Windows Installer

    Why unit WinHTTP from packages/winunits-base is not present in the Windows installer? Bug? Regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was…

    African Wild Dog
    0
  38. Why not to apply patch of TListView.CustomSort

    Patch is ready and tested- https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=8536 Alexey

    Alexey, Ondrej Pokorny, Zeljko
    2
  39. Quick Video: A Web Application

    This isn't a free pascal or lazarus project, but something I wrote using typescript quite a while ago. http://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/cloud-files.mp4 I thought you…

    Anthony Walter, Graeme Geldenhuys, Leonardo M. Ramé
    37
  40. Error in code explorer when using "dotted units"

    The code explorer does not display the name of the dotted units correctly. Only the first part of the unit name is displayed (portion before the first period). ​…

    African Wild Dog, Ondrej Pokorny
    2
  41. Error when copying to clipboard.

    When doing a copy to the clipboard from the IDE source editor, lazarus adds the terminating NULL. This is wrong and sometimes causes errors. Select text in IDE. Copy to…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Juha Manninen, Ondrej Pokorny
    2
  42. Howto disable Lazarus IDE using a XFCE dark theme

    New Linux Distro Manjaro-XFCE and i use a dark theme. But that dark theme is bad for Lazarus IDE. Can i change that as an option for compiling the IDE? With Debian KDE…

    Landmesser John, Donald Ziesig, Graeme Geldenhuys
    13
  43. PlotFunction patch declined?

    https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32653 wp wrote: >>Sorry I will not fix this one because it opens another Pandora to add features well-established in TAChart. Pls…

    Alexey, Balázs Székely, Michael Schnell
    15
  44. "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
    13
  45. PlotFunction: code style

    I don't understand why in PlotFunction code we have TextOut(ACanvas.Handle, 4, CY, PChar(L), Length(L)); Why not simple ACanvas.TextOut. Alexey -------------- next part…

    Alexey
    0
  46. Weird object variables access - fpc issue?

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    Giuliano Colla, el es, Mattias Gaertner
    44
  47. 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, leledumbo, Michael Van Canneyt
    3