Re: [Lazarus] Clipboard problem with Lazarus using VNC

2015-10-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
on a Linux desktop system operation should be seamless, but I'm not going into that unless you indicate that it's something you're specifically prepared to explore and even then the linux-other (or possibly fpc-other) list might be a better place. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.c

Re: [Lazarus] Clipboard problem with Lazarus using VNC

2015-10-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
seamless /but/ there can be performance problems and on occasion I've seen a debugger getting confused, however if you don't see one of these cases it's to be preferred over VNC. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of hi

Re: [Lazarus] Clipboard problem with Lazarus using VNC

2015-10-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
server). If that introduces a significant performance hit then report it as a bug, it's something that's crept into a small number of Lazarus versions and is usually fixable. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] annoying *SPAM* (attn: Michael Schnell)

2015-10-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
" in the first place, which was guaranteed to trip spam filters :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.la

Re: [Lazarus] How does one add an event to a blocking system?

2015-10-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
not a good choice IMO, because of unix-style signals and their handlers (e.g. sending a HUP signal to a process, to get it to re-read its configuration). "Triggered" can have problems if a database is being used. "Fired" seems like a fairly good choice, since it als

Re: [Lazarus] The GDB command: "-gdb-set confirm off" did not return any result

2015-10-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ng a samba share (so the files for Indy have Windows line endings) What could cause the GDB problem? Line endings or what? What version of gdb i.e. use the gdb --version command. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his

Re: [Lazarus] The GDB command: "-gdb-set confirm off" did not return any result

2015-10-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:07:33 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:29:26 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: using the green arrow run button I get a pop-up message box saying: The GDB comman

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus implementation of TListView etc?

2015-10-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
over the SSH link. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] How does one add an event to a blocking system?

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
g significant there, but it appears robust and activity triggered by around half a dozen background threads appears as expected. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] How does one add an event to a blocking system?

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/21/2015 04:19 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I don't know whether I've overlooked anything significant there, but it appears robust and activity triggered by around half a dozen background threads appears as expected. Of course it's robust. But my use

Re: [Lazarus] How does one add an event to a blocking system?

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/21/2015 02:39 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: TThread.Synchronize(), TThread.Queue() Please remind us what a non-LCL program has to call to make sure that stuff is dequeued. CheckSynchronize() Thanks, it's one of those things I can never remember. -- Mark

Re: [Lazarus] TInetSocket usage - any documentation available?

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/21/2015 10:35 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: So noting your concern with events, the real question is still which libraries etc. he should be running to implement a socket client reliably in a console program. Or alternatively, how best to implement a Windows

Re: [Lazarus] TInetSocket usage - any documentation available?

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/21/2015 11:28 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If that's something you're actively working on it would sound like an eminently sensible suggestion. I had been working on that on and off (and discussing it here) for a long time, but there had been no point

Re: [Lazarus] How does one add an event to a blocking system?

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
to make sure that stuff is dequeued. In an "Application" (other than in a "Program" you also can use "Application.QueueAsyncCall()". You supposedly want to transfer Data to the main thread. Here IMHO it's a nice idea to use Finalizers. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd mark

Re: [Lazarus] TInetSocket usage - any documentation available?

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: And it looks more complete, there is a chat example which implements a bidirectional system using a thread too. I will try to stuff this into the existing code if possible... As Mark Morgan Lloyd has pointed out I *really* need to create an encapsulated class for the TCPIP

Re: [Lazarus] TInetSocket usage - any documentation available?

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/21/2015 12:33 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: As Mark Morgan Lloyd has pointed out I *really* need to create an encapsulated class for the TCPIP communications so I can use this as an alternate component in the existing object and for this I need to implement an onReceive

Re: [Lazarus] Which program type to select for cron usage?

2015-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
it in a shell script), and you might need to redirect stdout and stderr since otherwise any output will probably be emailed to root. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

[Lazarus] App requiring lots of different localisations

2015-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
all of this in a single Lazarus app? If so it might be a useful showcase app. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] What does make install do?

2015-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:01:40 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: I've already pointed you at the relevant xdg utility, but quite frankly I wonder why I bother. I do not see how me changing the operating system way of displaying

Re: [Lazarus] What does make install do?

2015-10-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
f data to /usr/local/share/lazarus... Probably the entire chunk of files. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list L

Re: [Lazarus] What does make install do?

2015-10-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
red for their peculiarities. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.

Re: [Lazarus] Are lazarus / fpc sensitive to line endings?

2015-10-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: So is fpc and/or lazarus sensitive to line endings like shell scripts are? Shouldn't be, but I'd not go so far as to say that finding something that is should automatically be reported as a bug. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] Building and starting Lazarus on Raspberry Pi2 with Raspbian Jessie

2015-10-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:26:33 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: If you're compiling trunk and get something like this, the first thing to do is check whether somebody's just fixed it. It's very much a "movable feast" and it's d

Re: [Lazarus] Building and starting Lazarus on Raspberry Pi2 with Raspbian Jessie

2015-10-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 06:39:24 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: I simply used the standard 1.4 sources. And I'm pretty sure I've already told you that. Will Lazarus 1.4.x work with FPC 3.1.1? Or do I have to scrap all of what I hav

Re: [Lazarus] Building and starting Lazarus on Raspberry Pi2 with Raspbian Jessie

2015-10-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:57:45 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: There isn't one. Even considering "standard packages", different Linux distreaux and other unix implementations (Solaris etc.) have different conventions for wh

Re: [Lazarus] Are lazarus / fpc sensitive to line endings?

2015-10-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
roblem, even before I had local svn. However I agree that having a local svn (or whatever, if you really insist :-) is useful if you have more than one development machine. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or coll

Re: [Lazarus] Theoretical question about future of Lazarus

2015-10-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
thing like $ sudo chown -R markMLl:staff lazarus or whatever. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists

Re: [Lazarus] Building and starting Lazarus on Raspberry Pi2 with Raspbian Jessie

2015-10-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ow there's something I should be testing. $ svn ls http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags .. lazarus_1_4/ lazarus_1_4_2/ lazarus_1_4_4/ <--- Most recent lazarus_1_4_RC1/ lazarus_1_4_RC2/ lazarus_1_4_RC3/ -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author'

Re: [Lazarus] Theoretical question about future of Lazarus

2015-10-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:13:19 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: $ sudo mv old_directory_name new_directory_name I did: sudo mv /usr/local/share/lazarus /usr/local/share/lazarus_old $ sudo rm -r directory_name or even $ sudo

Re: [Lazarus] Theoretical question about future of Lazarus

2015-10-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ng you things like database and RTTI support. Did I get the latest version (at that time)? svn reported revision 50023 Notice that it was done as sudo su -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or coll

Re: [Lazarus] Play a sound/beep when compiling finished

2015-10-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ondrej Pokorny wrote: On 12.10.2015 00:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Ondrej Pokorny wrote: Is it possible to play a sound or beep when compiling was finished? Sometimes compiling takes some time and I am struggling to get to know that it finished. Put something in the "execute

Re: [Lazarus] Built Lazarus on RPi2, warning on every project build

2015-10-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: Warning: "crtbegin.o" not found, this will probably cause a linking failure Warning: "crtend.o" not found, this will probably cause a linking failure Why does this happen? And what can be done about it? I /think/ t

Re: [Lazarus] Built Lazarus on RPi2, warning on every project build

2015-10-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
.. I /think/ that somebody pointed out elsewhere that those were spurious, but I'd need to check. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mail

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus eats comment characters using Swedish keyboard

2015-10-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
? Is it only those, or are any of the other keys that require affected? This sounds unfortunate since some things only with with { } comment markers rather than (* *). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus eats comment characters using Swedish keyboard

2015-10-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ce version. If it is, then confer with the Debian (etc.) VNC maintainers. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.free

Re: [Lazarus] Play a sound/beep when compiling finished

2015-10-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
e there so that I can see I did actually run a build, if I've looked at something else meanwhile. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing li

Re: [Lazarus] Built Lazarus on RPi2, warning on every project build

2015-10-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:48:55 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: I /think/ that somebody pointed out elsewhere that those were spurious, but I'd need to check. If it causes issues then for Wheezy 2015 try adding -Fl/usr/lib/gcc/arm

Re: [Lazarus] Accessing GPIO on RaspberryPi2 from Lazarus/FPC

2015-10-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
this to be the same irrespective of model. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] High-DPI aware LCL ?

2015-10-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
been working on setting up a "cheap" TV as a 3K display for somebody. It's doable, but needs a fairly recent card and end-to-end HDMI. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus program files very big, why?

2015-10-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
machine. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman

Re: [Lazarus] Installing Lazarus on Raspbian Jessie on a Pi2B?

2015-10-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:45:50 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: If you have problems with gtk2, I suggest also trying with Qt which will require the libqt4pas-dev (Debian) package. Please keep us updated since you're the local expert: I

Re: [Lazarus] Installing Lazarus on Raspbian Jessie on a Pi2B?

2015-10-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:54:40 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: Go back to discussion in The Other Place and start off with the right FPC binary. Once you've got it you can recompile FPC if you like (I prefer to), then once you're

Re: [Lazarus] Installing Lazarus on Raspbian Jessie on a Pi2B?

2015-10-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 10:20:39 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: Have you sorted out your earlier problems understanding what can be done over SSH etc.? I did all of the installation of fpc-lazarus-vnc on the command line using PuTTY ov

Re: [Lazarus] Installing Lazarus on Raspbian Jessie on a Pi2B?

2015-10-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
n) package. Please keep us updated since you're the local expert: I didn't even know that Raspbian had progressed to Jessie, and am far too busy to play with it at the moment. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not th

Re: [Lazarus] Installing Lazarus on Raspbian Jessie on a Pi2B?

2015-10-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
azarus is a no-brainer /provided/ that you have enough RAM+swap set up. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list L

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling lazarus on arm-linux

2015-09-30 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Native_ARM_Systems -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Compiler message "lines compiled"

2015-09-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ompile the project when I last answered the 'phone or whatever. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.

Re: [Lazarus] Spam in the Wiki main page

2015-09-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
1.com site is /not/ clean, it's very prominently marked with "Buy this domain" so has obviously been "cybersquatted" and is unlikely to ever contain anything of use. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those

Re: [Lazarus] FPC on OpenIndiana...

2015-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
late FPC 2.7.1, but there might need to be some trivial tweaks in the database handling code since the conditionals for Firebird/Interbase were inconsistent. This was bug-reported and fixed, but you won't see those fixes if you start with 2.6.4. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

2015-09-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
difference is quantitative not qualitative. That might not be the case with other distreax. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing li

Re: [Lazarus] TInetSocket usage - any documentation available?

2015-09-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
/debugsvr/dbugintf.pp which might turn out to be useful. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:09:07 + Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: Marco van de Voort wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:35:13AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: of file should be put in a repository, and what is regenerated re

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:35:13AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: of file should be put in a repository, and what is regenerated reliably? Obviously .lpi, .lpr, .lfm and .pas or .pp should be saved, and any static .inc files. .rc Should that be stored in all cases

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
visions of Graeme typing feverishly before anybody noticed ;-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 08:49:14AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Looking at some projects filed away here, I find I've been inconsistent so would appreciate it if somebody could say authoritatively: what types of file should be put in a repository, and what

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 21/09/15 09:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 20/09/15 10:14, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: [...] There is a Github project which collects all such .gitignore settings for every language you can think of. Very useful. https://github.com/github/gitignore

[Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
.inc files. I presume that anything machine-generated and usually put into the lib directory shouldn't be stored even if it ends up elsewhere: .ppu, .o, .a, .res, .or. What about things like .lrs and .rst? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Looking at some projects filed away here, I find I've been inconsistent so would appreciate it if somebody could say authoritatively: what types of file should be put in a repository, and what is regenerated reliably

Re: [Lazarus] Equivalent of a Windows DLL on RPi?

2015-09-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
you have an exports list for entry points. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2015-09-20 09:49, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: What about things like .lrs and .rst? I have the following in my .gitignore file. *.[oa] *.ppu *.dcu *.lps *.compiled *.bak* *.rst *.lrs There is a Github project which collects all such .gitignore settings for every

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Looking at some projects filed away here, I find I've been inconsistent so would appreciate it if somebody could say authoritatively: what types

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
that sort of thing into a repository. I can't give an example off the top of my head, but I'm not just talking about TNotebook which was obviously a significant glitch. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:42:51 + Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: leledumbo wrote: For newer lazaruses, .lrs is no longer used, since Lazarus uses the .lfm files directly for new projects. and even in older lazarus, only .lfm i

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

2015-09-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
) but the important things are (a) you'll need at least 512Mb of RAM+swap available and (b) remember that you can run the IDE etc. over SSH- you don't need a local screen and keyboard. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] making lazarus from source failed (linux mint)

2015-09-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
you really have to older ones. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.free

Re: [Lazarus] PostgreSql: unexpected EOF on client connection with an open transaction

2015-09-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
e messages. I'm using FPC 3.1.1 - Lazarus 1.5 - Linux 64bits (Ubuntu 15.04). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing li

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion about message window

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
blank lines during compilation of a trivial program. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] multi step dialog

2015-08-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
of Lazarus and FPC where this became reliable. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] multi step dialog

2015-08-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
progressed through the sequence. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Stats

2015-08-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
what's got the Internet connection (3G or whatever) before transferring to a real computer. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] authoring user manuals

2015-08-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
too vocally to somebody who hasn't been active in the field for an extended period. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

2015-07-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Péter Gábor wrote: If you use the classname property you can: case Sender.classname of 'TCheckBox': ShowMessage('This is a TCheckBox'); end; Good point. I wonder if that's mode-specific (language manual simply says Free Pascal allows). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

2015-07-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Péter Gábor wrote: Sorry! I was misreading your mail... you want to know the type of them. You can compare the type of them: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; Can this be elegantly put into a case statement? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

2015-07-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
JuuS wrote: On 07/27/2015 09:31 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Péter Gábor wrote: Sorry! I was misreading your mail... you want to know the type of them. You can compare the type of them: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; Can this be elegantly put into a case statement? Hi, I just

Re: [Lazarus] File sync system approach

2015-07-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
of at least PostgreSQL and Firebird you can also get at a notification mechanism that allows a program instance to advise others that it's changed something, but doing this requires fiddling with handles directly and might not be portable across Lazarus/FPC versions. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] File sync system approach

2015-07-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
file. I'm doing this on Linux, Solaris and Windows using Postgres, and have done it on (only x86) Linux for Firebird. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] File sync system approach

2015-07-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
like a discussion group server, since there could be unexpected indexing problems. Another possibility would be to look at what a multiuser-aware program like Inkscape uses. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] fast mathematical matrix operations

2015-07-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
/compilerindex/x25.html The compiler itself is written in Java but the generated code is... interesting. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] OOP - where do you start?

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
as soon as it's decided to use a database, and possibly before the database implementation is even selected. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Newbie, porting class to FPC but get procedure assignment error

2015-06-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
, RB_SPRO_APIPACKET_SIZE); This is the first call into the drive via the converted obj file. Must be something in error in the conversion. Or in the declaration of the parameter types. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] Newbie, porting class to FPC but get procedure assignment error

2015-06-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
far can the same job be done by invoking the ld linker manually and tweaking its parameters to specify different file formats (-b or --format option)? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Newbie, porting class to FPC but get procedure assignment error

2015-06-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Lazarus] Newbie, porting class to FPC but get procedure assignment error

2015-06-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
} { LINK WITH THE SUPERPRO OBJECT FILE } I think that takes you back to Michael's suggestion If the obj file format is not GNU/FPC compatible and can't be used by the linker in fpc, Safenet might be able to provide a GNU C version of that file. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
a formal license for. Security by obscurity doesn't work, particularly on an open system like a PC. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ask for FreePascal support. Remember that in general FPC can link to C (but not necessarily C++) libraries. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
which is universally considered to be a Bad Thing. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] fast mathematical matrix operations

2015-06-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
haemorrhaged digits as soon as you started looking at 1000x1000 or so. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] TProcess not mirroring terminal

2015-06-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
in a directory, there are some cases where it will be behaving the same as the shell :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
convention of the day starting at Noon. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
was widely adopted. Now please let's not get bogged down in unequal hours. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
never heard anybody say five past zero. So I'd expect 12 Midnight to not give anybody major problems. But I still avoid setting equipment which reports time using a.m./p.m. around midnight or midday- who knows what ghouls lurk in the firmware. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Lazarus packages nor links between them at year 1899. I leave it as ?, I guess there is no convention for such situations. .. but people please pay a little more attention before answering ... Mea culpa. But this sort of thing bites me so often that it's something I'm touchy about. -- Mark Morgan

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/27/2015 11:05 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: No it can't. You have to be prepared to parse 12:00 a.m. by context but it's usually midnight. Of which day the one that also has 0:pm or of the previous ? Wp 12-hour clock shows 11:59 p.m. followed by 12:00 a.m

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
: Which is an entirely valid date, so should be displayed as such; it could entirely plausibly be a default starting point for e.g. astronomical calculations. If it were something like Anno Domini 0, which quite simply never existed, then it could be displayed as invalid. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd

Re: [Lazarus] How to get image from xray device?

2015-05-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
is viewer, I need to get image from device, after then need viewer. Thank you. What protocols does it support? In extremis, run nmap against it looking for open ports, or put Wireshark between their proprietary software and the instrument. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

Re: [Lazarus] How to get image from xray device?

2015-05-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: FreeMan wrote: Hello, we have veraview IC5 xray device. This device connected to LAN via rj45. It has a IP address. I need get image from this device (cross-platform). How to do this? has any one any idea? http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Application_Gallery

Re: [Lazarus] How to get image from xray device?

2015-05-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
FreeMan wrote: On 25.05.2015 15:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I want to withdraw those suggestions. Google shows that this is a medical device rather than for e.g. non-destructive testing, and any interference with it probably exposes its owner (i.e. the dental practice) to massive liability

Re: [Lazarus] uniqueinstance

2015-05-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
help gratefully received. I don't use UniqueInstance, but have put that sort of thing immediately after Application.Initialize terminating with halt if it finds it can pass params to an existing copy. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's

Re: [Lazarus] Windows CE

2015-05-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
using Lazarus ? I know Lazarus has support for Windows CE, but at the moment I don't find which versions are supported. Lazarus (LCL) supports WinCE. I use it for Windows Mobile 6.5. To what extent does the choice of CPU matter? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions

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