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lazarus · 2018-07

  1. Convert record to JSON?

    I have an application that manages the configuration of an embedded device, which communicates over TCP/IP. Currently I have implmented a protocol with a command…

    Bo Berglund, AlexeyT, Luca Olivetti
    21
  2. Printer printable width&height

    The selectprinter demo prints a kind of test page. However, on linux the rectangle it draws on the page seems to be off. The left margin seems to be about right, but the…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jesus Reyes A.
    5
  3. Code tools anomaly

    On Linux, GTK 2, using fpc trunk, lazarus trunk: Open unit packages/fcl-net/src/ssockets.pp Code tools do not work. Reason can be detected as follows: Ctrl-Click sockets…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  4. Indy vs Synopse: POP3

    I need to read e-mails in a few accounts using POP3. I haven't use Indy for years, but I've installed the version 10 in Lazarus 1.9 (trunk) using FPC 3.1.1. It seems…

    Marcos Douglas B. Santos, Bo Berglund, Graeme Geldenhuys
    3
  5. Unix Select Printer dlg: tab-order fix

    this fixes weird tab-order. Alexey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: selpri.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 3886 bytes…

    AlexeyT, Juha Manninen, Maxim Ganetsky
    3
  6. Crosscompile to Android on arm?

    I have a GUI program developed in FPC/Lazarus x64 on Windows. It is an IoT device configuration application which would benefit from being portable, i.e. executable on…

    Bo Berglund, Paul Breneman, R0b0t1
    15
  7. Using a component OBJ file in Lazarus?

    When converting components to Lazarus (see separate thread) I have encountered a problem for a component that interfaces to a software protection dongle. My component…

    Bo Berglund, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Schnell
    21
  8. Unix Select Printer dlg: fix i18n

    some more work needed for i18n, seems, for captions of controls. maybe Maxim can help? this is for string consts in form. Alexey -------------- next part --------------…

    AlexeyT
    0
  9. Unix Printer Props dlg: empty Margins tab

    this tab is a mistake, it is not filled in this dialog. Tiny patch removes it. AFAIK- Unix CUPS don't support Alexey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text…

    AlexeyT, Juha Manninen
    1
  10. windows EStackOverflow if compiled with -WG

    I make a project according the sample in http://wiki.freepascal.org/Form_in_DLL Compile the programm with -WG activated and started in Commandline direct, i got a…

    Andreas Frieß
    1
  11. FileUtils.DeleteDirectory help

    Pls add a comment to FileUtil.DeleteDirectoty() about 2nd parameter OnlyChildren. my guesses were: - delete only subitems of dir, of one level, but don't delete dir -…

    AlexeyT, Unknown author
    1
  12. Collapsible try...finally...except...end blocks idea

    this idea may need further refining, but it may be easier to handle in Lazarus source editor, than in the compiler, where it was originally posted. In short, to have the…

    el_es, Martin Frb
    2
  13. IDE extension

    Hi! I'm writing an IDE extension (similar to an existing IDE tool that's used to rename component names when you press F2, but it will change the property tag with…

    Fabio Luis Girardi, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  14. fpdebug question

    when I write following code (to force SIGSEGV)   unit Unit1; {$mode objfpc}{$H+}   interface   uses   Classes, SysUtils, Forms, Controls, Graphics, Dialogs, StdCtrls;

    Vojtěch Čihák, Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin Frb
    3
  15. Brush Bitmap anomaly

    When I draw a rectangle with a brush that contains a bitmap, it's impossible to assign the bitmap directly from a glyph. The following works: (BImage is a TBitBtn), the…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  16. Character spacing doubled in R58529 on MacOSX/Cocoa

    I today build Lazarus MacOSX/Cocoa**from svn and realized that all characters in the editor seem to have an extra space between each character. I did a little compiling…

    Michael Ring, Dmitry Boyarintsev
    2
  17. Copy to clipboard from synedit

    If you copy text to the clipboard in synedit, an extra #0 character is copied at the end. It does not happen for other controls I tested. I tested on Linux, 64-bit GTK2,…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Juha Manninen, Martin Frb
    12
  18. Cosmetically fix HeaderSrc const

    IMO such const will be nicer to read in package files. so I fixed it. before it was like { ddddddddddddddd    ddddddddddddddd } Now it's like // dddddddddddddd //…

    AlexeyT, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  19. IDE option: Convert selection to string ?

    The IDE contains a 'make resource string' refactoring option. This requires the selection to be a pascal string. However, I quite often find myself in the need to create…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Anthony Walter, Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    6
  20. LCL_FULLVERSION is not recognized

    Hi. I use Lazarus 1.6.4 (temporarely) and lazarus 1.8.4 on Windows 10. I need to use the LCL version but I can't get it to work properly. I use the following code:  …

    frans, Rik van Kekem
    2
  21. synedit markdown highlighter ?

    Is there a markdown highlighter for synedit available ? Michael.

    Michael Van Canneyt, leledumbo, Martin Frb
    2
  22. Searchable docs online

    Given the questions of late, I have created a search page for the docs: https://www.freepascal.org/docsearch/docsearch.html This will search in the manuals, and in the…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Anthony Walter, Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    12
  23. Different paths, different computers, and one project

    Imagine a project that works only with set of unit paths (-Fu), not packages. The issue is that a computer could have a different path for a lib, comparing to another…

    Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    1
  24. Debugging Lazarus using Lazarus

    When multiple copies of the same version (e.g. trunk) Lazarus are being run, with a view to stepping through a problem in IDE-related code, is there any way to force an…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Martin Frb
    4
  25. Get an old version running

    I need to get an old version of Lazarus (like 1.4.2) running. I do have 1.8.2 working, so I though, I just checkout the old one and recompile. Then I ran into the…

    Martin Grajcar
    0
  26. Application Idea Request for Comments

    I am likely going to create a simple program that allows users to create real time effects on using one or more source video files, and am requesting comments before I…

    Anthony Walter, Marc Santhoff
    2