Re: [Lazarus] Updating an app on the fly

2010-06-19 Thread Thierry Coq
Hello, I was assuming that something like that would be needed for the dll/so, but the particular point I'm interested in is whether the main app /has/ to be restarted, or if there are hacks that can get around that. which suggests that there are limits as to what can go into a dll/so. In

Re: [Lazarus] Updating an app on the fly

2010-06-19 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Thierry Coq wrote: Hello, I was assuming that something like that would be needed for the dll/so, but the particular point I'm interested in is whether the main app /has/ to be restarted, or if there are hacks that can get around that. which suggests that there are

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-19 Thread Sven Barth
Hi! Am 18.06.2010 11:42, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: I also wanted to restore my bookmarks.html file the other day on a newly installed system, but now Firefox uses SQLite for such simple storage, so the solution wasn't immediately obvious. It was dead simple a few versions back - simply copy

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-19 Thread Sven Barth
Hi! Am 18.06.2010 19:42, schrieb waldo kitty: The Windows Registry is another (poor) attempt to provide structured data storage, with only structured acces methods, but no description of the structure itself. you found that, too, eh? :) What do you mean with description of the structure?

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-19 Thread Kjow
2010/6/19 Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com: I don't know what others do, but I simply copy/backup my complete profile directory of Firefox (that with the alpha-numeric name). That works perfectly well and I also have my complete history, open tabs and Add Ons with me on the new system.

Re: [Lazarus] Failed to initialize component: No streaming method available

2010-06-19 Thread Frank Church
I was in a rush and turned it into a regular form. I will check my backups to see if the original is still there. On 19 June 2010 05:51, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:40:42 +0100 Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com wrote: It was a Datamodule problem.

Re: [Lazarus] Updating an app on the fly

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: For example, Packages share the same memory space and class inheritance tree. Libraries do not. If you are using packages, then TComponent will be defined in the rtl package, and both the application and program will refer to the same definition in the rtl

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 19 June 2010 10:45, Sven Barth wrote: Nevertheless the Registry is not that bad if you think about it: it's an data storage system that is provided by the operating system itself and thus available to all applications running on it. Our mileage clearly varies a lot. The registry is a mess.

[Lazarus] creating Handle during loading

2010-06-19 Thread theo
Hello I'm trying to write a component. It's working fine so far, but I'm getting these hints on the console: [HINT] TWinControl.CreateWnd creating Handle during loading Form1:TForm1 csDesigning=False [HINT] TWinControl.CreateWnd creating Handle during loading ThumbControl1:TThumbControl

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-19 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 19:54, David W Noon wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:44:21 -0400, waldo kitty wrote about Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux: On 6/18/2010 17:07, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 18 June 2010 20:58, Henry Vermaak wrote: How did you come to the conclusion that databases

Re: [Lazarus] creating Handle during loading

2010-06-19 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:14:50 +0200 theo x...@theo.ch wrote: Hello I'm trying to write a component. It's working fine so far, but I'm getting these hints on the console: [HINT] TWinControl.CreateWnd creating Handle during loading Form1:TForm1 csDesigning=False [HINT]

Re: [Lazarus] creating Handle during loading

2010-06-19 Thread theo
It means that while the TThumbControl is loading properties it already tries to execute them. This creates unnecessary overhead. Improve ThumbControl to only access the Handle when needed. Thank you Matthias, I had to move some code to CreateWnd, now it's quiet. :-) Thanks Best regards Theo

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-19 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:20:46 -0400, Doug Chamberlin wrote about Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched: Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. I think it's actually a cheetah. I first saw that animated .GIF about 16 or 17 years ago

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-19 Thread José Mejuto
Hello Lazarus-List, Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:39:07 PM, you wrote: JH Of course, for huge data amounts of data you cannot avoid JH using a database but I would prefer if programmers think JH about performance a bit and not use databases for every JH small junk. Its funny to see how many people

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-19 Thread jjb
That's a good point, it does look a bit amateurish. I think if you can't afford professional design the the more minimalist the better 2010/6/19 Doug Chamberlin dougchamber...@earthlink.net Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. --

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-19 Thread Sven Barth
Hi! Am 19.06.2010 16:20, schrieb Doug Chamberlin: Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. Are you aware that this cheetah is also the Free Pascal logo which is displayed on http://www.freepascal.org/ since ages (at least for two or three years ^^)?

Re: [Lazarus] Updating an app on the fly

2010-06-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:34:34PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: For example, Packages share the same memory space and class inheritance tree. Libraries do not. Thanks both. So if I understand things correctly: * A package uses the same LCL as the rest of the app. Yes. Both code

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:20:46AM -0400, Doug Chamberlin wrote: Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. That (Cheetah) is the FPC logo, and IMHO should stay no matter what. But IMHO the animation could be done away with. --

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-19 Thread Sven Barth
Hi! Caution: I'm going very off topic here, so if anyone expects to read something about embedded databases for Lazarus/Linux, you might ignore this message ;) Am 19.06.2010 15:53, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: On 19 June 2010 10:45, Sven Barth wrote: Nevertheless the Registry is not that

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-19 Thread Sven Barth
Hi! Am 18.06.2010 13:06, schrieb Joost van der Sluis: Please take a look and tell what you think about it. Just a simple spelling mistake which is on lazarus/Home: In the section HOW CROSS PLATFORM ARE THEY you forgot a capital W in windows 7 ;) Regards, Sven --

Re: [Lazarus] new fortes report port

2010-06-19 Thread Bogusław Brandys
Mario R. Carro pisze: Hi, I ported the latest Fortes Report to Lazarus. This is not an update of the fortes4lazarus project, but a new port created starting from the upstream sources. The objectives are: - Based on the newest upstream code (3.69B from SF at this moment). - Full port, no

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and it's i18n usage

2010-06-19 Thread Žilvinas Ledas
On 2010-06-18 20:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Now you can disable the .po file creation for every lfm via the project inspector. See here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Project_Inspector#Disable_I18N_for_lfm I saw this on the SVN log - thanks! Žilvinas --

Re: [Lazarus] Component installs without icon on component toolbar - tarraybutton.lrs(1, 17) Error: Identifier not found LazarusResources (Mattias Gaertner)

2010-06-19 Thread Peter E Williams
Hi Mattias All, On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 00:17 +0200, Mattias wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:38:59 +1000 Peter E Williams foss.game.pascal.develo...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi dmitry All, On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 12:21 +0400, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:14 PM,

Re: [Lazarus] Component installs without icon on component toolbar - tarraybutton.lrs(1, 17) Error: Identifier not found LazarusResources (Mattias Gaertner)

2010-06-19 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:18:15 +1000 Peter E Williams foss.game.pascal.develo...@iinet.net.au wrote: [...] Surely it would not be hard to write a small program which loads a PNG/s and then calls the ~/lazarus/tools/lazres yourunit.lrs TMyComponent.png TMyOtherCom.png ... It is a little bit