Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 11 of February 2012 08:47:42 zeljko wrote: On Friday 10 of February 2012 18:48:44 Samuel Herzog wrote: Hi all, sorry, but this issue was brought up by me. I tried to solve http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=1020 which is almost 7 years old. (reported in 2005)

[Lazarus] Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
I'm in an uncomfortable situation where the last few weeks' worth of trunk won't display a project's main form (populated only with standard controls) and won't compile it to anything reliable (noting other discussion, it's got a background thread). I got here because of fixes to the SPARC

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Anders E. Andersen
Den 10-02-2012 22:08, Hans-Peter Diettrich skrev: It is useless, even irritating to the help seeking user But, any doc to the end user must not contain this. To me it's more irritating and confusing, when documentation has already been found wrong, without any according indication. Hi,

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: I only remember that you stated that you don't like such notes. It is not about liking, I think it is just plainly obvious that if someone downloads our software and builds our docs, presses F1 and reads [really?]

Re: [Lazarus] Fast drawing to canvas

2012-02-11 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Reimar Grabowski reimg...@web.de wrote: 2D projection functions have never been part of OpenGL AFAIK, mind telling me which functions you talk about? glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity; glOrtho(0, OpenGLControl1.Width, OpenGLControl1.Height, 0,

Re: [Lazarus] Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 11 of February 2012 09:10:49 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'm in an uncomfortable situation where the last few weeks' worth of trunk won't display a project's main form (populated only with standard controls) and won't compile it to anything reliable (noting other discussion, it's got

[Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hi, Seeing the discussions about annotating the documentation created by FPDoc, I added support for notes. (revision 20304) In short: At the level of the module, topic and element tags, you can now include a notes tag. Within the notes tag, you can include one or more note tags. They are

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: It is not about liking, I think it is just plainly obvious that if someone downloads our software and builds our docs, presses F1 and reads [really?] it makes us look ridiculous so it is not acceptable to have that in our documentation. Well, my opinion

Re: [Lazarus] Fast drawing to canvas

2012-02-11 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:56:21 +0100 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Reimar Grabowski reimg...@web.de wrote: 2D projection functions have never been part of OpenGL AFAIK, mind telling me which functions you talk about?

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Anders E. Andersen schrieb: Den 10-02-2012 22:08, Hans-Peter Diettrich skrev: It is useless, even irritating to the help seeking user But, any doc to the end user must not contain this. To me it's more irritating and confusing, when documentation has already been found wrong, without any

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: I only remember that you stated that you don't like such notes. It is not about liking, I think it is just plainly obvious that if someone downloads our software and builds

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
zeljko schrieb: Have you tried with LCLIntf.GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYMENUSIZE) ? I guess it'll return something under win32, but it's not implemented for others yet (I guess it shouldn't be too hard to implement it) Ah, that nasty difference between outer (form bounds) and inner (client area)

Re: [Lazarus] Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: I'm in an uncomfortable situation where the last few weeks' worth of trunk won't display a project's main form (populated only with standard controls) and won't compile it to anything reliable (noting other discussion, it's got a background thread). I got here

Re: [Lazarus] Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: I'm in an uncomfortable situation where the last few weeks' worth of trunk won't display a project's main form (populated only with standard controls) and won't compile it to anything reliable (noting other discussion, it's got a

[Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Ludo Brands
Sorry, I think I might have been ambiguous. It's the IDE which won't display the form when it tries to load the project, so it sounds suspiciously as though I might have to instrument IDE code- and quite frankly I don't know where to start. When starting lazarus from console, do you get

Re: [Lazarus] Fast drawing to canvas

2012-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.02.2012 12:12, Reimar Grabowski wrote: glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glLoadIdentity(); These are all deprecated but still available since OpenGL 3 (2008) and removed in 3.1 (if you create an OpenGL 3 and up only context - 2009), as they belong to the fixed function pipeline. They

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ludo Brands wrote: Sorry, I think I might have been ambiguous. It's the IDE which won't display the form when it tries to load the project, so it sounds suspiciously as though I might have to instrument IDE code- and quite frankly I don't know where to start. When starting lazarus from

[Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Ludo Brands
When starting lazarus from console, do you get any error messages in the console? Nothing unexpected :-( 0 1markMLl@pye-dev-07:/usr/local/share/lazarus-trunk$ ./*gtk2 Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display localhost:11.0. TMainIDE.ParseCmdLineOptions:

Re: [Lazarus] Fast drawing to canvas

2012-02-11 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:48:19 +0100 Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: How would one set matrices then? (= this is a question out of curiosity) Passing them as uniforms to the shader program for example. R. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 10:59, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: It is not about liking, I think it is just plainly obvious that if someone downloads our software and builds our docs, presses F1 and reads [really?] it makes us look ridiculous so it is not acceptable to have

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ludo Brands wrote: When starting lazarus from console, do you get any error messages in the console? Nothing unexpected :-( 0 1markMLl@pye-dev-07:/usr/local/share/lazarus-trunk$ ./*gtk2 Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display localhost:11.0. TMainIDE.ParseCmdLineOptions:

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Seeing the discussions about annotating the documentation created by FPDoc, I added support for notes. (revision 20304) Thanks :-) In short: At the level of the module, topic and element tags, you can now include a notes tag. Within the notes tag, you can

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 10:10, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Anders E. Andersen schrieb: I just want to say I tend to agree with Martin here. I'd much rather have something like a discussion page like on a wiki for comments like that. It doesn't look good as part of the main documentation in my opinion.

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 11 of February 2012 12:46:48 Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: zeljko schrieb: Have you tried with LCLIntf.GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYMENUSIZE) ? I guess it'll return something under win32, but it's not implemented for others yet (I guess it shouldn't be too hard to implement it) Ah,

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 11:26, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: Such an entry is absolutely useless without instructions *what* should be implemented at all. If you can't see that

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 11 of February 2012 15:00:35 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If I use the trunk IDE built for Qt rather than GTK2 then the form displays (some colours might be off), the project will compile but won't run reliably (thread issues?). To emphasise this, this is with all project files

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread zeljko
On Friday 10 of February 2012 18:48:44 Samuel Herzog wrote: Hi all, sorry, but this issue was brought up by me. I tried to solve http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=1020 which is almost 7 years old. (reported in 2005) And I must say, on windows plattform the Lazarus IDE MainBar

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 11:26, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: Such an entry is absolutely useless without instructions *what* should be implemented at all. If you can't see that yourself,

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Martin laza...@mfriebe.de hat am 11. Februar 2012 um 14:59 geschrieben: [...] We have 3 cases 1) correct and good documentation. No note was ever attached, or if it was, then it was in error and removal is appropriate 2) empty or meaningless. (can be seen of a kind of wrong, but not

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.02.2012 15:10, zeljko wrote: On Saturday 11 of February 2012 12:46:48 Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: zeljko schrieb: Have you tried with LCLIntf.GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYMENUSIZE) ? I guess it'll return something under win32, but it's not implemented for others yet (I guess it

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.02.2012 15:02, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: What about a less structured solution, e.g. notes XYZ deserves a clarification!/ for an alternative use of the just introduced tag? (exact syntax to be specified) That example would be a violation of the XML specification. The following would

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
zeljko wrote: On Saturday 11 of February 2012 15:00:35 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If I use the trunk IDE built for Qt rather than GTK2 then the form displays (some colours might be off), the project will compile but won't run reliably (thread issues?). To emphasise this, this is with all

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Seeing the discussions about annotating the documentation created by FPDoc, I added support for notes. (revision 20304) Thanks :-) In short: At the level of the module, topic and element tags, you can now

Re: [Lazarus] TDBLookupComboBox listing from TMemDataSet

2012-02-11 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
On 10/2/2012 17:03, Everton Vieira wrote: Sorry, they are not able to insert or modify, they make nothing when LookupCache is False. What Lazarus version are using? Versions from trunk have no difference when LookupCache is True or False Can you post a simple example? Luiz --

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Martin schrieb: We have 3 cases 1) correct and good documentation. No note was ever attached, or if it was, then it was in error and removal is appropriate 2) empty or meaningless. (can be seen of a kind of wrong, but not incorrect or untrue). We do not need a note to tell the end user

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Ludo Brands schrieb: Sorry, I think I might have been ambiguous. It's the IDE which won't display the form when it tries to load the project, so it sounds suspiciously as though I might have to instrument IDE code- and quite frankly I don't know where to start. When starting lazarus from

[Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Ludo Brands
When starting lazarus from console, do you get any error messages in the console? That was misleading, see the response :-( Of interest are eventual error messages occuring when the application is started in the IDE (F9). Put an non-existing component property into a lfm and

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread Samuel Herzog
Hi Luiz, you are right. Almost everything can be configured/customized in lazarus IDE. But this is really important, because first impressions count. Recently I convinced a colleage to install lazarus. On the first start, the Lazarus IDE really looks uggly and not so professional. (on windows

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Ludo Brands schrieb: Sorry, I think I might have been ambiguous. It's the IDE which won't display the form when it tries to load the project, so it sounds suspiciously as though I might have to instrument IDE code- and quite frankly I don't know where to start.

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 14:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Martin schrieb: We have 3 cases 1) correct and good documentation. No note was ever attached, or if it was, then it was in error and removal is appropriate 2) empty or meaningless. (can be seen of a kind of wrong, but not incorrect or

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Sven Barth schrieb: On 11.02.2012 15:02, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: What about a less structured solution, e.g. notes XYZ deserves a clarification!/ for an alternative use of the just introduced tag? (exact syntax to be specified) That example would be a violation of the XML specification.

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Why so complicated? Can you give a *reasonable* example of the intended usage of this feature? Yes. User notes on a website. This website has been in the pipeline for a long time. Sorry, I cannot establish any connection from a website to the notes syntax and

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Sven Barth schrieb: for non-Windows ? Are you saying that under lclwin32 Form.Width Form.ClientWidth ? Quick test on Win32 using 0.9.31 (around two weeks old) using event handlers for OnShow and OnResize: No, it's not the case. This is one of the biggest and most annoying differences

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Martin schrieb: They are *intended* to make it *so* worse, that the gurus (Lazarus team) finally decide to contribute the required documentation, instead of only inventing new features :-] That assumes the person who knows the answer is actually looking at that doc-entry. Not necessarily

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 11 of February 2012 17:14:40 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If I fill in the database login form execution appears to continue, despite the Execution stopped dialog(ue), with a form displayed which should display data derived from a database on a server. However nothing useful is

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ludo Brands wrote: When starting lazarus from console, do you get any error messages in the console? That was misleading, see the response :-( Of interest are eventual error messages occuring when the application is started in the IDE (F9). Put an non-existing component property into a

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 11 of February 2012 17:19:25 Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Sven Barth schrieb: for non-Windows ? Are you saying that under lclwin32 Form.Width Form.ClientWidth ? Quick test on Win32 using 0.9.31 (around two weeks old) using event handlers for OnShow and OnResize: No, it's

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 15:53, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Martin schrieb: They are *intended* to make it *so* worse, that the gurus (Lazarus team) finally decide to contribute the required documentation, instead of only inventing new features :-] That assumes the person who knows the answer is

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Martin schrieb: 4 ff) incomplete, misleading, inconsistent... This is the right place for notes, telling the *experts* to let their experience shine here. Notes that appear in the end user output are inappropriate. Why that? Better let the end user run into the open knife? I would prefer to

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Why so complicated? Can you give a *reasonable* example of the intended usage of this feature? Yes. User notes on a website. This website has been in the pipeline for a long time. Sorry, I cannot establish

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 16:49, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Martin schrieb: 4 ff) incomplete, misleading, inconsistent... This is the right place for notes, telling the *experts* to let their experience shine here. Notes that appear in the end user output are inappropriate. Why that? Better let the end

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 17:02, Martin wrote: On 11/02/2012 16:49, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Martin schrieb: 4 ff) incomplete, misleading, inconsistent... This is the right place for notes, telling the *experts* to let their experience shine here. Notes that appear in the end user output are

[Lazarus] RE : RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Ludo Brands
Reading between the lines, it sounds as though I'd be best going through all projects and making sure that they build and run properly with 0.9.30 before doing anything else. Thank heavens I set up svn here a few months ago. If that is the route to follow and knowing that 0.9.30

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Martin schrieb: However, if the person, who founds it has the ability to add a note, then he can also immediately correct it. Knowing it is misleading, does imply knowing what it was meant to say. So rewording the existing content should be possible. In general this is not correct. If I see

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 17:21, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Martin schrieb: However, if the person, who founds it has the ability to add a note, then he can also immediately correct it. Knowing it is misleading, does imply knowing what it was meant to say. So rewording the existing content should be

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ludo Brands wrote: Reading between the lines, it sounds as though I'd be best going through all projects and making sure that they build and run properly with 0.9.30 before doing anything else. Thank heavens I set up svn here a few months ago. If that is the route to follow and knowing

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Martin schrieb: I have no easy reachable list off topics that need attention[1]. So I can not check if I know the answer. As described in StyleGuide.txt, the marks haven been choosen for simple finding, without the need for additional tools. Simple do a search in directories

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Martin schrieb: It he person is not sure, about it being misleading or not, but believes it might be. Then better ask first before adding a note So I should add a note instead: who can clarify this, please contact me at ... for my questions? ;-) - incomplete (falls under 2, unless it

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: And now you have the incredible nerve to complain that ...your descriptions have not been very helpful so far, I'm still waiting for at least one practical example - XML, not usage :-( Well. Your reply shows you have not actually read the fpdoc docs (it contains

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
zeljko schrieb: This is one of the biggest and most annoying differences between Lazarus and Delphi: Delphi handles the difference between Width/Height and ClientWidth/ClientHeight properly, while Lazarus makes no such distinction :-( Such change is planned for post 1.0 because it

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 17:23, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Martin schrieb: I have no easy reachable list off topics that need attention[1]. So I can not check if I know the answer. As described in StyleGuide.txt, I did entirely miss that one, sorry the marks haven been choosen for simple finding,

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Martin schrieb: On 11/02/2012 17:21, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: In general this is not correct. If I see that variables mentioned in the documentation do not exist in the source I don't know automatically which variables to replace them with (if any). Or when I tested things and find that it

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
zeljko wrote: If I fill in the database login form execution appears to continue, despite the Execution stopped dialog(ue), with a form displayed which should display data derived from a database on a server. However nothing useful is displayed, and a diagnostic (coloured asterisk) suggests

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-11 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 11 of February 2012 18:27:53 Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: zeljko schrieb: This is one of the biggest and most annoying differences between Lazarus and Delphi: Delphi handles the difference between Width/Height and ClientWidth/ClientHeight properly, while

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 17:16, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Martin schrieb: It he person is not sure, about it being misleading or not, but believes it might be. Then better ask first before adding a note So I should add a note instead: who can clarify this, please contact me at ... for my questions?

[Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Ludo Brands
I hate to admit this, but could you remind me of how to get library and X versions? I think you probably do it rather more often than I do :-) 'dpkg --list'. Be prepared for a lot of output :) Ludo -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 11 of February 2012 18:49:15 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: zeljko wrote: If I fill in the database login form execution appears to continue, despite the Execution stopped dialog(ue), with a form displayed which should display data derived from a database on a server. However

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 17:47, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Martin schrieb: On 11/02/2012 17:21, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: In general this is not correct. If I see that variables mentioned in the documentation do not exist in the source I don't know automatically which variables to replace them with (if

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ludo Brands wrote: I hate to admit this, but could you remind me of how to get library and X versions? I think you probably do it rather more often than I do :-) 'dpkg --list'. Be prepared for a lot of output :) [Chuckle] although I'm sure that he'd have preferred the upstream version

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 11/2/12 3:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Within the notes tag, you can include one or more note tags. Why so complicated? Can you give a *reasonable* example of the intended usage of this feature? Yes. User notes on a website. This website has been in the pipeline for a long time. The

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 11-2-2012 19:27, Howard Page-Clark wrote: On 11/2/12 3:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Yes. User notes on a website. This website has been in the pipeline for a long time. The prospect of a website dedicated to discussion of documentation seems to me to be a helpful move forward. This

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.02.2012 15:48, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Ludo Brands schrieb: Sorry, I think I might have been ambiguous. It's the IDE which won't display the form when it tries to load the project, so it sounds suspiciously as though I might have to instrument IDE code- and quite frankly I don't know

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: And now you have the incredible nerve to complain that ...your descriptions have not been very helpful so far, I'm still waiting for at least one practical example - XML, not usage :-( Well. Your reply shows

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.02.2012 16:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Seeing the discussions about annotating the documentation created by FPDoc, I added support for notes. (revision 20304) Thanks :-) In short: At the level of

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Howard Page-Clark wrote: On 11/2/12 3:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Within the notes tag, you can include one or more note tags. Why so complicated? Can you give a *reasonable* example of the intended usage of this feature? Yes. User notes on a website. This

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Sven Barth wrote: On 11.02.2012 16:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Seeing the discussions about annotating the documentation created by FPDoc, I added support for notes. (revision 20304)

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.02.2012 20:35, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Howard Page-Clark wrote: On 11/2/12 3:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Within the notes tag, you can include one or more note tags. Why so complicated? Can you give a *reasonable* example of the intended usage of this

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: On 11.02.2012 15:48, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Ludo Brands schrieb: Sorry, I think I might have been ambiguous. It's the IDE which won't display the form when it tries to load the project, so it sounds suspiciously as though I might have to instrument IDE code- and quite

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Martin schrieb: It he person is not sure, about it being misleading or not, but believes it might be. Then better ask first before adding a note So I should add a note instead: who can clarify this, please contact me at ... for my questions? ;-) ask on the mailinglist or did your

[Lazarus] svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error

2012-02-11 Thread Juha Manninen
Is anybody else getting an error when updating Lazarus trunk? I get it on 3 different systems, using svn, TortoiseSVN and git-svn. svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error Juha -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error

2012-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.02.2012 22:11, Juha Manninen wrote: Is anybody else getting an error when updating Lazarus trunk? I get it on 3 different systems, using svn, TortoiseSVN and git-svn. svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error Yes, I get that error as well. Regards, Sven --

Re: [Lazarus] svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error

2012-02-11 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
On 11/2/2012 19:11, Juha Manninen wrote: Is anybody else getting an error when updating Lazarus trunk? I get it on 3 different systems, using svn, TortoiseSVN and git-svn. svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error Getting related error on viewvc

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Sven Barth wrote: On 11.02.2012 20:35, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: [snip] In fact, not so different from a WIKI, but more structured. And now: Since we now have notes, these can be displayed, and edited by all. Wow... this sounds nice O.O It's actually a very

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread felipemonteiro . carvalho
Em 11/02/2012, às 12:26, Hans-Peter Just another idea: Can't we delay a solution to the next release? Then we can have the annotated documentation in the trunk, and a finalized version in the release branch. Unfortunately no, because we are deploying Lazarus Svn for example with our

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.02.2012 23:03, felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: And a huge amount of people use our snapshots and svn Especially with 0.9.30 being rather old already and trunk having all those nice features (and let's not forget support for FPC 2.6 and newer) Ah, another idea: can we leave

[Lazarus] OT: Is there a Lazarus/FPC community in Australia ?

2012-02-11 Thread ik
Hello, I'm interesting in knowing if there is an open source community in Australia for FPC/Lazarus. People who does lectures, meetings etc.. ? Thanks, Ido -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 21:11, Juha Manninen wrote: Is anybody else getting an error when updating Lazarus trunk? I get it on 3 different systems, using svn, TortoiseSVN and git-svn. svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error yes I do.. I already thoucht, its my local copy btw I was

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 11/02/2012 21:10, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Martin schrieb: It he person is not sure, about it being misleading or not, but believes it might be. Then better ask first before adding a note So I should add a note instead: who can clarify this, please contact me at ... for my questions?

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com hat am 11. Februar 2012 um 22:10 geschrieben: [...] I've found all unmarked entries correct and complete (so far), so that the next contributor can concentrate on the marked items, and knows what exactly to research. Great. :) How to find these

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-11 Thread Martin
On 12/02/2012 02:20, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com hat am 11. Februar 2012 um 22:10 geschrieben: [...] I've found all unmarked entries correct and complete (so far), so that the next contributor can concentrate on the marked items, and knows what

Re: [Lazarus] ListView problems

2012-02-11 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
Zeljan, I'm reassigning the item to you. thanks, Dmitry On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: zeljko schrieb: Before any extending of example, open new issue and attach example which crashes (and explanation how to reproduce please). After a