Re: [Lazarus] cross platform [Re: Lazarus Goal]

2009-11-13 Thread Hess, Philip J
From: Hans-Peter Diettrich [drdiettri...@aol.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 6:14 AM To: grae...@opensoft.homeip.net; Lazarus mailing list Subject: Re: [Lazarus] cross platform [Re: Lazarus Goal] This is an argument for a Web (Delphi IntraWeb?)

Re: [Lazarus] Mac OS X 6.2

2009-11-12 Thread Hess, Philip J
I.e., prior to any distribution of the bundle, be sure to do something like this: rm myapp.app/contents/macos/myappexec cp -p myappexec myapp.app/contents/macos The executable is created back in the main project folder with a symlink pointing to it from within the .app bundle to simplify

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Goal

2009-11-12 Thread Hess, Philip J
Brian, Is there some reason why you haven't set the font in that dialog? Try Arial10. Thanks. -Phil From: Brian Prentice [bprent...@webenet.net] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:48 PM To: Lazarus mailing list Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Goal My

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Goal

2009-11-12 Thread Hess, Philip J
Brian, There are two problems with this dialog, one small, one bigger. The small problem, easily corrected, is that it's too small and you didn't leave space for possible differences in fonts between platforms or translated text that takes up more horizontal space than English. Consideration

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Goal

2009-11-11 Thread Hess, Philip J
Looks cool, although I don't know what it's doing. I'll take a look at it tonight on my Macs. Since you're [thankfully] not using the Win API anywhere, this app really should work. If not, then that likely means something not right in the underlying Carbon-based widgetset used on OS X. Note

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Goal

2009-11-11 Thread Hess, Philip J
I did find a list of compatibility issues on OS X, but it's very, very sketchy. Better than nothing I suppose but only that. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Carbon_interface_internals#Compatibility_issues I don't mean to be critical of Brian's app, but having menu bar items that respond to

Re: [Lazarus] Gecko on lazarus

2009-11-11 Thread Hess, Philip J
By rights, on OS X the help should probably open in the OS X Help Viewer, not in lhelp or a browser. I believe Help Viewer can display most HTML. A quick and dirty way to use it is: {$IFDEF DARWIN} Shell('Open -a Help Viewer ' + HelpFile + ''); {$ENDIF} Thinking ahead, what it you wanted to

Re: [Lazarus] Gecko on lazarus

2009-11-11 Thread Hess, Philip J
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Gecko on lazarus Hess, Philip J schreef: By rights, on OS X the help should probably open in the OS X Help Viewer, not in lhelp or a browser. I believe Help Viewer can display most HTML. A quick and dirty way to use it is: {$IFDEF DARWIN} Shell('Open -a Help Viewer

Re: [Lazarus] DelphiForFun

2009-11-03 Thread Hess, Philip J
Here's a thread related to DFF: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,7240.0.html I had no problem converting one of the DFF projects to Lazarus on my Mac. He needs to file bug reports or at least indicate what problems he's having. Thanks. -Phil

Re: [Lazarus] Help needed for conference...

2009-10-13 Thread Hess, Philip J
Yes, there is: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/XDev_Toolkit Make any form design changes in Delphi, then convert the .dfm's to .lfm's. Thanks. -Phil From: Geoffray [jeff.levass...@free.fr] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:41 PM To: Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] FastCGI?

2009-10-12 Thread Hess, Philip J
Lee, Have you looked at ExtPascal's embedded Web server option? http://code.google.com/p/extpascal/wiki/WebServer_Embedded Thanks. -Phil From: Lee Jenkins [...@datatrakpos.com] Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 6:49 PM To: Lazarus mailing list Subject:

Re: [Lazarus] Can't connect to FPC site

2009-08-06 Thread Hess, Philip J
No difference by specifying the IP address. Just sits there. Thanks. -Phil -Original Message- From: Martin [mailto:laza...@mfriebe.de] Sent: Thu 8/6/2009 4:38 PM To: Lazarus mailing list Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Can't connect to FPC site Hess, Philip J wrote: I can't get to the Laz

Re: [Lazarus] Can't connect to FPC site

2009-08-06 Thread Hess, Philip J
, Philip J ?: I can't get to the Laz bugtracker or www.freepascal.org http://www.freepascal.org/. It's been that way for a month or so now and I've tried different computers, browsers and ISP's and nothing works. It just sits there saying Waiting for www.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Can't connect to FPC site

2009-08-06 Thread Hess, Philip J
To: Lazarus mailing list Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Can't connect to FPC site Hess, Philip J wrote: I can't get to the Laz bugtracker or www.freepascal.org http://www.freepascal.org/. It's been that way for a month or so now and I've tried different computers, browsers and ISP's and nothing works

Re: [Lazarus] New project defaults

2009-07-16 Thread Hess, Philip J
Graeme, If you want to control everything that's created for a new project, you will probably want to create a package that adds your own custom application type to File | New. For an example of a package that does that and illustrates how to change just about everything that's set in a new