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lazarus · 2019-11

  1. RFC: Selection Editors to extend handling of object inspector selections

    Hello together! I've got a RFC for a feature that allows to extend the IDE. It's based on something that Delphi supports as well: Selection Editors. Unlike Component…

    Sven Barth, Juha Manninen
    3
  2. Lazarus code editor improvement?

    When I am working on a multi-unit application I very often want to check the implementation of a function which is called from somewhere. So I right click the function…

    Bo Berglund, Jean SUZINEAU, Joe
    23
  3. Find in files crashes Cinnamon

    Recently, I tried again to work with Linux Mint when developing FPC. For FPC development I use normally lazarus from trunk, typical updated very few weeks. For…

    Florian Klämpfl, C Western, Graeme Geldenhuys
    10
  4. macOS Catalina

    I uploaded a fixed version of the macOS 64bit fpc installer on sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20macOS%20x86-64/ Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner
    0
  5. Lazarus 2.0.6 IDE suddenly disappeared losing a lot of edits...

    I installed Lazarus 2.0.6 a few hours ago into a fully updated Raspbian Buster on an RPi4B 4GB system. Interfacing to it using RealVNC to my Windows7 laptop. I opened…

    Bo Berglund, Luca Olivetti, Martin Frb
    24
  6. The future of the Lazarus IDE

    I would like to announce a small poll. Context: Web (runtime) applications are abundant. At my company, desktop is only considered as a last resource (but use cases…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Andreas Berger, Andreas Schneider
    64
  7. Customizing Lazarus IDE, some items hard to find...

    I am used to a certain style of code formatting including coloring etc. Now I am strugglking again to find where one sets these items... It is not obvious to me but I…

    Bo Berglund, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  8. GTK3 widgets on macOS?

    Is it possible to build projects using the GTK3 widget set while on Mac? I know GTK3 is cross platform itself so it should be possible to use this instead of the Cocoa…

    Ryan Joseph, Sven Barth
    4
  9. Installer/uninstaller on Linux for fpc/lazarus programs?

    I am wondering how exactly I should package the program I am developing for Raspberry Pi so it can be uniformly installed and uninstalled on new RPi units... It is an…

    Bo Berglund, Andreas Schneider
    1
  10. Cross-compile for Linux strange behaviour with floating point constants

    I'm a long time Lazarus user (since Kylix failed) and a big fan. This is however my first post on any FPC/Lazarus forum. The problem I've run into is a simple program…

    R Smith, Florian Klämpfl, Giuliano Colla
    6
  11. Cross-compile on Windows for Linux Raspbian (Raspberry Pi) - what are the requirements?

    I have tried to develop my RPi4 application on the RPi4 itself but have problems with Lazarus IDE crashing suddenly and inexplicably when just using the IDE, losing all…

    Bo Berglund, Giuliano Colla
    1
  12. How to deploy fpc/lazarus programs on Linux?

    Posting again since I think that by selection of subject was not wise the fisrt time, using words that might trigger scanners... My post did not come through. Anyway: I…

    Bo Berglund
    0
  13. Why is setlength not allowed?

    I am trying to write a simple I2C interface program for Raspberry Pi but I am getting an error I don't understand... function TRaspiI2C.ReadI2CBytes(addr: integer;…

    Bo Berglund, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  14. ProjectGroups: fixed LPG XML structure

    I just fixed the XML structure of LPG project group files. Old files will be loaded correctly but the new LPG file cannot be opened in a legacy Lazarus installation.…

    Ondrej Pokorny, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  15. FPC trunk cannot compile Lazarus Qt5 lib

    Lazarus trunk, fpc 3.3.1-r43462 Linux x64 qt56.pas(12495,37) Error: Enumeration symbols can only have values in the range of -2^31 to 2^31-1     QStyleCE_CustomBase =…

    AlexeyT, zeljko
    2
  16. SynEdit - SQL highlighter with $ in keywords

    I try to extend TSynSQLSyn with keyword lists of Firebird 2.5, 3.0 and 4.0. Every keyword included in one list/version and used as tKey (e.g. sqlFirebird30:…

    Gabor Boros, Gerd Sager
    2
  17. FPC interface for reading I2C devices on Raspberry Pi?

    I would like to be able to communicate on the I2C bus from my FPC/Lazarus programs on Raspberry Pi. There are at least two cases: 1) Reading devices like RTC chips and…

    Bo Berglund, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  18. Wiki error on uploading new version of png picture

    Database error A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. [ac44310904ca4f16e1729b3f] /Special:Upload Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError from…

    AlexeyT
    0
  19. Why is there a define switch UseCThreads?

    I have ported a console application from Windows to Linux (Raspbian Buster) and I got to wonder about the check for a defined symbol appearing in the beginning of the…

    Bo Berglund, Sven Barth, zeljko
    6
  20. Reworked ReadFileToString to support Linux virtual files

    https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36145 Last attached demo contains my reworked function (after the fix it works pretty fast, i tested it). Can you apply at least…

    AlexeyT, Juha Manninen, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  21. Lazarus 2.0.6 macOS Catalina

    I uploaded macOS x86_64 packages for fpc 3.0.4, fpc-src and Lazarus. https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20macOS%20x86-64 They are built using…

    Mattias Gaertner, Anthony Tekatch, Ralf Quint
    13
  22. Annoying code completion failure

    TStrings has a property property Values[const Name: string]: string read GetValue write SetValue; The setter is defined as: procedure SetValue(const Name, Value: string);

    Michael Van Canneyt, Juha Manninen, Ondrej Pokorny
    7
  23. Size, bounds and style of a Form

    Regarding issue: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36127 "TForm's bounds and restored bounds are inconsistent" I have applied 2 patches by Joeny Ang already some…

    Juha Manninen
    0
  24. gdb problems on ubtuntu 19.10

    I know this problem is not entirely Lazarus related, but I'm hoping someone here might be able to provide some insight. On a fresh install of Ubuntu 19.10 when running…

    Anthony Walter, Martin Frb, Michael Van Canneyt
    5
  25. gtk2 font sizes

    I have just upgraded to Fedora 31, and noticed some odd effects with font sizes. With some investigation the cause seems to be that the underlying font sizes can be a…

    C Western
    0
  26. Separation of source code and compiled units

    Hi I am working on the package description for lazarus for MacPorts and are struggling with the following: $PREFIX/share/lazarus contains the source code as well as the…

    Karl-Michael Schindler, Giuliano Colla, Sven Barth
    3
  27. Lazarus 2.0.2 EditorMacroScript error on first startup RPi4B

    I have just installed fpc 3.0.4 + Lazarus 2.0.2 from svn sources on a pristine Raspberry Pi4B with 4GB RAM. All of the commands my script performs finished OK and the…

    Bo Berglund, Martin Frb
    29
  28. Lazarus Release 2.0.6

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.6. This release was built with FPC 3.0.4. The previous release Lazarus 2.0.4 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as…

    Mattias Gaertner, Bo Berglund, Michael Van Canneyt
    5
  29. Lazarus program runs fine in a Terminal but not in a PuTTY session, why?

    I am working on a program intended to be run by cron in unattended mode on a Raspberry Pi without GUI installed. I started it in Windows but have now moved the sources…

    Bo Berglund, Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  30. OSX 64 bit Cocoa + Catalina Installer

    Testers need. I created a new installer for OSX that includes a 64-bit only Cocoa version of FPC and Lazarus. I don't have Catalina installed, so I am looking for…

    Anthony Walter, Anthony Tekatch, Dan Star
    42