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Kiran Jonnalagadda

Hi,

I downloaded the Lazarus project sources cia CVS last night. After some initial confusion on how to use the files, I managed to compile them.

The ride wasn't smooth. There were a few missing functions in some modules that I had to fix by creating dummies. In another place, some TWindow descendent (TFHelpWindow I think) declared Show and Hide as virtual functions. They aren't virtual in TWindow itself.

I made the changes to TWindow but couldn't figure out how to compile the file (the P module under CVS).

Another issue was with TNotebook. One file -- I'm just back from a meeting that got somewhere, and don't remember what file it was -- was trying to use a protected function in TNotebook. I needed to comment out those two lines to get the file to compile.

The FreePascal text IDE works. I haven't used it extensively but it starts up fine (although fpviews.pas needed some editing to get there). The Lazarus IDE doesn't show the component notebook like the screenshot at the site does. I suppose this is related to the TNotebook problem I faced. The Notebook example under the examples directory works though except for Gtk warning messages at the terminal whenever I do something.

Opening an edit view starts displaying messages in the terminal window about calling the draw procedure (I think it's draw). The messages don't stop until I close the window -- which remains white throughout.

I suppose these problems are common to anyone jumping into a project via CVS. My copies of the file compile now, but I'm not sure if they will after the next update. I'm afraid to commit my changes in case they interfere in someone's work-in-progress.

The compiler/ tree doesn't compile either. It reports a missing CPUINFO unit. A closer look reveals that a cpuinfo.pas file exists in the alpha and powerpc directories, but not under i386. Copying over the file from powerpc/ fixes that problem, but breaks a little later with an invalid typecast. I haven't got past this yet.

Sorry about the uncertainities. It's been a few hours since I last played with the sources, and I don't remember the exact error messages or problem files. I will be regularly checking out CVS to see if I can get any better. I hope to start contributing code in a week's time.

Kiran Jonnalagadda

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Baeseman, Cliff

Most of what you are talking about here is just stuff in heavy development.

You will not see the notebook on the menu yet because I am waiting for a little bit more stability
before adding that stuff to the CVS.

Looking forward to your assistance.

Cliff

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-----Original Message----- From: Kiran Jonnalagadda Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 8:12 AM To: Subject: [lazarus] Newbie here Hi, I downloaded the Lazarus project sources cia CVS last night. After some initial confusion on how to use the files, I managed to compile them. The ride wasn't smooth. There were a few missing functions in some modules that I had to fix by creating dummies. In another place, some TWindow descendent (TFHelpWindow I think) declared Show and Hide as virtual functions. They aren't virtual in TWindow itself. I made the changes to TWindow but couldn't figure out how to compile the file (the P module under CVS). Another issue was with TNotebook. One file -- I'm just back from a meeting that got somewhere, and don't remember what file it was -- was trying to use a protected function in TNotebook. I needed to comment out those two lines to get the file to compile. The FreePascal text IDE works. I haven't used it extensively but it starts up fine (although fpviews.pas needed some editing to get there). The Lazarus IDE doesn't show the component notebook like the screenshot at the site does. I suppose this is related to the TNotebook problem I faced. The Notebook example under the examples directory works though except for Gtk warning messages at the terminal whenever I do something. Opening an edit view starts displaying messages in the terminal window about calling the draw procedure (I think it's draw). The messages don't stop until I close the window -- which remains white throughout. I suppose these problems are common to anyone jumping into a project via CVS. My copies of the file compile now, but I'm not sure if they will after the next update. I'm afraid to commit my changes in case they interfere in someone's work-in-progress. The compiler/ tree doesn't compile either. It reports a missing CPUINFO unit. A closer look reveals that a cpuinfo.pas file exists in the alpha and powerpc directories, but not under i386. Copying over the file from powerpc/ fixes that problem, but breaks a little later with an invalid typecast. I haven't got past this yet. Sorry about the uncertainities. It's been a few hours since I last played with the sources, and I don't remember the exact error messages or problem files. I will be regularly checking out CVS to see if I can get any better. I hope to start contributing code in a week's time. Kiran Jonnalagadda print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo ";[(pop,pop,unpack"H*", )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc` _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.miraclec.com/list_archives/lazarus

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