Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-02-25 23:42, Bo Berglund wrote: > The images should be downloaded to the server so they won't go away I don't mean "go crazy with the images". As Michael mentions - it costs disk space. A lot more that text-only bug reports. Sometimes a screenshot is needed to explain a problem, but if

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Desktops redesign

2016-02-25 Thread Ondrej Pokorny
On 26.02.2016 8:04, Anthony Walter wrote: Ondrej, a couple of questions. Do you plan to tackle the incorrect layout restore problem with docked layouts? Issue #29200 I tried hard to fix it but failed. Do you plan to provide a better default layout, or management of default layouts?

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Desktops redesign

2016-02-25 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: On 26.02.2016 8:13, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: 1.) Removal of IDE Options -> Environment -> Windows -> Window Positons. I currently have all these set to 'Restore window geometry'. This basically means that I start with the same desktop as where I

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Desktops redesign

2016-02-25 Thread Ondrej Pokorny
On 26.02.2016 8:13, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: 1.) Removal of IDE Options -> Environment -> Windows -> Window Positons. I currently have all these set to 'Restore window geometry'. This basically means that I start with the same desktop as where I left off, which is what I want. I don't need

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Bo Berglund wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:50:56 +, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Regarding Mantis: Could we make it a Lazarus Mantis policy to NOT link to images/screenshots on an external websites. Not a single one of the 3 links in

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Desktops redesign

2016-02-25 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: According to some recent discussions and bug reports, I plan to rework the Desktops feature in the IDE. Before I again get a "Please stop the IDE regressions!" messages, I decided to announce and discuss the topic in the mailing list in advance.

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Desktops redesign

2016-02-25 Thread Anthony Walter
Ondrej, a couple of questions. Do you plan to tackle the incorrect layout restore problem with docked layouts? Issue #29200 Do you plan to provide a better default layout, or management of default layouts? Currently when you install anchor docking the first layout you are given is essentially

[Lazarus] IDE Desktops redesign

2016-02-25 Thread Ondrej Pokorny
According to some recent discussions and bug reports, I plan to rework the Desktops feature in the IDE. Before I again get a "Please stop the IDE regressions!" messages, I decided to announce and discuss the topic in the mailing list in advance. The redesign will include the following points:

Re: [Lazarus] Is there any alternative to PPL (Parallel Programming Library) on FPC?

2016-02-25 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
Check the MTProcs unit in the multithreadprocs package (part of Lazarus, but you need to manually install it from the Install/Uninstall Packages box). This wiki page describes how to use it: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Parallel_procedures On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:38 PM, silvioprog

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:50:56 +, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >Regarding Mantis: > Could we make it a Lazarus Mantis policy to NOT link to > images/screenshots on an external websites. Not a single one of the 3 > links in the comments work any more. :-/ I

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Anthony Walter
I've wanted this feature for a while. I think adding simple global property on TToolBar to show/hide captions would suffice. In the interim here is a workaround, editing the IDE while it's running: http://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/small-toolbars.mp4 Graeme: I often post video recordings of

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6 Object Inspector width, how to reduce?

2016-02-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 04:20:30 +0100, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: >On 24.02.2016 19:23, Bo Berglund wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:19:00 +0100, Bo Berglund >> wrote: >>> A quick test: >>> In 1.6RC2 the minimum width is about 233 pixels whereas in 1.6 it is

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-02-25 18:40, Juha Manninen wrote: > > Wow, the configurable button text/icon feature was discussed already a > long time ago. I know, I've even mentioned it before in the mailing list too. ;-) > There is also a Mantis issue : > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22278 > Somebody

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Juha Manninen
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > In fact, I have a 12 hour flight coming up where I need to kill some > time. Maybe implementing some of these ideas as a prototype/suggestion > is a nice way of making the time fly by. ;-) Wow, the

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-02-25 17:24, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > When programming I would not like to move away my hands from the keyboard to > reach for the mouse. > That's not ergonomical. From what you described, it sounds like over-engineering for what the actual problem is (reduce screen size and still have

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Am 2016-02-25 um 17:40 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: >> The best would be to avoid all these toolbars and >> use on demand popup (text) lists where I can select from. >> Such a text list can be filtered, sorted and searched for but pictograms

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Ondrej Pokorny
And my idea was to make these toolbars configurable just as EditorToolbar is. And of course remove the captions :) Ondrej -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-02-25 16:36, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > The best would be to avoid all these toolbars and > use on demand popup (text) lists where I can select from. As Michael mentioned... in other words, a Menu. ;-) I do actually agree that the images don't often mean much. My idea is to have both

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Am 2016-02-25 um 16:46 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: In the "IDE Options -> Environment -> General" you can disable images on buttons (in ide dialogs) and menus. Would it be possible to have another option to disable text in ide windows that have

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Am 2016-02-25 um 16:46 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > In the "IDE Options -> Environment -> General" you can disable images on > buttons (in ide dialogs) and menus. > > Would it be possible to have another option to disable text in ide > windows that have toolbars? Take a look at the attached

Re: [Lazarus] Project Groups error - "Invalid floating point operation"

2016-02-25 Thread Péter Gábor
There is already a similar bug report in mantis: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29198 2016-02-25 16:06 keltezéssel, Graeme Geldenhuys írta: > > Anybody else see this error yet? > > Regards, > - Graeme - > -- Péter Gábor p...@freemail.hu --

Re: [Lazarus] Project Groups error - "Invalid floating point operation"

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-02-25 15:39, Jesus Reyes A. wrote: > The combination of packages that triggers this problem is > lazdatadict+lazprojectgroups, Tested again. Same lazarus executable... all my custom packages installed, minus lazdatadict, plus lazprojectgroups. That executable with a new lazarus profile

Re: [Lazarus] Project Groups error - "Invalid floating point operation"

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-02-25 15:39, Jesus Reyes A. wrote: > > The combination of packages that triggers this problem is > lazdatadict+lazprojectgroups, I'll move my previous profile directory back and retest. > The issue has already a report: > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29675 Thanks for the

[Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, In the "IDE Options -> Environment -> General" you can disable images on buttons (in ide dialogs) and menus. Would it be possible to have another option to disable text in ide windows that have toolbars? Take a look at the attached screenshot. Many ide windows look like the red rectangle

Re: [Lazarus] Project Groups error - "Invalid floating point operation"

2016-02-25 Thread Jesus Reyes A.
En Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:28:47 -0600, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: On 2016-02-25 15:13, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Yes. There seems to be a bug in the IDE menu merging code. It happens only with some combinations of installed packages. Thanks. Reading old messages

[Lazarus] Is there any alternative to PPL (Parallel Programming Library) on FPC?

2016-02-25 Thread silvioprog
Hello, Just a quote from Embarcadero doc : The RTL provides the Parallel Programming Library (PPL), giving your > applications the ability to have tasks running in parallel taking advantage > of working

Re: [Lazarus] Project Groups error - "Invalid floating point operation"

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-02-25 15:13, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > Yes. There seems to be a bug in the IDE menu merging code. It happens > only with some combinations of installed packages. Thanks. Reading old messages from Michael van Canneyt I tried what he suggested, but uninstalling the DataDict packages, but

Re: [Lazarus] Project Groups error - "Invalid floating point operation"

2016-02-25 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:06:35 + Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >[...] > Anybody else see this error yet? Yes. There seems to be a bug in the IDE menu merging code. It happens only with some combinations of installed packages. Mattias --

[Lazarus] Project Groups error - "Invalid floating point operation"

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I've just upgrade my Lazarus to the latest trunk revision on my native FreeBSD system, and in a Linux VM. On FreeBSD the IDE seems to work, and I can use Project Groups. In the VM I get instant IDE crash with the error message "Invalid floating point operation". I know about previous "index

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:41:20 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ points to http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation both of which are giving me permanent 403

Re: [Lazarus] Keys not recognized by Lazarus 1.6 code editor [OT]

2016-02-25 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 25/02/16 10:45, Bo Berglund wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:11:57 +, Lukasz Sokol > wrote: > >> gmane.comp.compilers.free-pascal.social = fpc-other ... recently added (less >> than a week ago) >> > I saw the "social" one and thought that it is another than "other"

Re: [Lazarus] Problem with lazarus + fpc-3.0.0 under windows 10

2016-02-25 Thread Zeljko
On 02/24/2016 03:53 PM, Zeljko wrote: On 02/24/2016 03:20 PM, Zeljko wrote: 1.Fpc-3.0.0 2.Lazarus today trunk. 3.Windows 10 pro 64bit in vmware virtual machine Builds fine, works fine. Now I'm trying to install dozen of my own packages...last one is virtualtrees package, in message window

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

2016-02-25 Thread Gabor Boros
2016. 02. 25. 13:12 keltezéssel, Bo Berglund írta: All 3 links work OK from here (Sweden) +1 from Hungary. Gabor -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

2016-02-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:41:20 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ points to >http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and >http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation both of which are >giving me permanent 403 "Forbidden". All 3 links

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Shaun O'Connor wrote: On 25/02/2016 11:41, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ points to http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation both of which are giving me permanent 403 "Forbidden". Anybody know what's going on? no

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

2016-02-25 Thread Shaun O'Connor
On 25/02/2016 11:41, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ points to http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation both of which are giving me permanent 403 "Forbidden". Anybody know what's going on? no permanent "forbidden" here

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

2016-02-25 Thread Bart
On 2/25/16, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: No redirects here. No "forbidden" here. Bart -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Image Copy and Load Fail.

2016-02-25 Thread 최경식
-Original Message- From: "Mattias Gaertner"nc-gaert...@netcologne.de To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org; Cc: Sent: 2016-02-25 (목) 19:57:19 Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Image Copy and Load Fail. On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:28:57 +0900 (KST) 최경식 me357...@naver.com wrote: [...] procedure

[Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ points to http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation both of which are giving me permanent 403 "Forbidden". Anybody know what's going on? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the

Re: [Lazarus] Please stop the IDE regressions!

2016-02-25 Thread Ondrej Pokorny
On 25.02.2016 8:52, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: As for IDE commands vs Other commands. I don't know how they are organised They are organized basically the same as any other IDE command list, e.g. Key Mappings. The order can be different, though because the buttons are added in different order

Re: [Lazarus] Image Copy and Load Fail.

2016-02-25 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:28:57 +0900 (KST) 최경식 wrote: >[...] > procedure TForm1.Button3Click(Sender: TObject); > var > ImagetoSave : TImage; > begin > ImagetoSave := TImage.Create(Self); A TImage is a visual control that uses a graphic (e.g. a TBitmap) to paint. If you

Re: [Lazarus] Feature request: Project Groups

2016-02-25 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:19:15 + Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >[...] > One suggestion though. Can the "current project" be highlighted in Bold. > At the moment there is no way of seeing which project in the project > group window is the active project. It's already

Re: [Lazarus] Keys not recognized by Lazarus 1.6 code editor [OT]

2016-02-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:11:57 +, Lukasz Sokol wrote: >gmane.comp.compilers.free-pascal.social = fpc-other ... recently added (less >than a week ago) > I saw the "social" one and thought that it is another than "other" I'll have a look there. -- Bo Berglund Developer

[Lazarus] Image Copy and Load Fail.

2016-02-25 Thread 최경식
hello everyone. I Loaded successfully after saving that i drawn. But i load fail after saving that i copied. (please see below code) This situation occurs in accordance with copy size. Below it is my code and i written some comments. [My code] procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);

[Lazarus] Feature request: Project Groups

2016-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Just updated my lazarus to the latest Trunk revision. I'm very glad to see Project Groups are available and working well thus far. A highly sought after feature for many years. One suggestion though. Can the "current project" be highlighted in Bold. At the moment there is no way of seeing

Re: [Lazarus] Keys not recognized by Lazarus 1.6 code editor [OT]

2016-02-25 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 24/02/16 17:58, Bo Berglund wrote: [...] > However, Gmane does not carry the "-other" mail lists on its news > mirror and I do all of my talking here through Gmane > Can't stand the email interface because I lose totally the overview > and threading offered by a news service. > It does

Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-25 Thread Shaun O'Connor
On 25/02/2016 09:28, Michael Schnell wrote: On 02/24/2016 09:59 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft? Sarcasm: Delphi Language became C# -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Problem with lazarus 1.6?

2016-02-25 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:35:55 +0100 Frans wrote: > Hi. > > A few days ago I installed lazarus 1.6. After adding some packages I use it > works fine but for 2 > projects. > I can't close these two projects without a crash of Lazarus, showing the > message 'Access

Re: [Lazarus] Problem with lazarus 1.6?

2016-02-25 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:35:55 +0100 Frans wrote: > Hi. > > A few days ago I installed lazarus 1.6. After adding some packages I use it > works fine but for 2 > projects. > I can't close these two projects without a crash of Lazarus, showing the > message 'Access

Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-25 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/24/2016 09:59 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft? Sarcasm: Delphi Language became C# -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] SQLDb and TSQLQuery usage for MSSQL database...

2016-02-25 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Bo Berglund wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:57:40 +0100 (CET), Michael Van Canneyt wrote: It seems like in some examples one uses the transaction as follows: ATransaction.StartTransaction; .. do database stuff ... ATransaction.Commit; In

Re: [Lazarus] SQLDb and TSQLQuery usage for MSSQL database...

2016-02-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:57:40 +0100 (CET), Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> It seems like in some examples one uses the transaction as follows: >> ATransaction.StartTransaction; >> .. do database stuff ... >> ATransaction.Commit; >> > >In general it is better to explicitly