[Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Before I add this as a feature request in Mantis, I thought I would discuss the idea first. Maybe others (and not just me) could also see the benefit of this. Currently Lazarus supports various macros in path and filenames[1]. But to be able to use it, you need to first go look in the help

Re: [Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Mattias Gärtner het geskryf: Thought 1: Under Linux and Windows users are used to the right click popup menus of edit fields (for clipboard, input methods, special characters and accessibility). So maybe there it would be more appropriate to add a menu item. Under OS X a right click

Re: [Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys grae...@opensoft.homeip.net: Mattias Gärtner het geskryf: Thought 1: Under Linux and Windows users are used to the right click popup menus of edit fields (for clipboard, input methods, special characters and accessibility). So maybe there it would be more

Re: [Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Mattias Gärtner wrote: [...] It would be nice to have completion boxes Ctrl+Space for all edit fields. They could list all macros and/or all files The problem is that the gtk intf does not yet support non modal on

Re: [Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys grae...@opensoft.homeip.net: Mattias Gärtner het geskryf: We need a possibility to merge system popup menu items anyway. We could first add the button and change it later when the merging is implemented. +1 And keep in mind, that not all macros can be used

Re: [Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Thanks for the info... Mattias Gärtner het geskryf: But at the moment my todo list is quite long. Same here. I'll simply add it as a feature request - not to be forgotten. I am not sure that the bug tracker is the most suitable place for such a thing. Most of

Re: [Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Vincent Snijders het geskryf: IMHO a better place for such feature requests without a clear owner (with a limited todo list) is: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas OK, done that too, and added a reference to the Mantis report. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

[Lazarus] OT: Who ? [Re: Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find]

2009-09-11 Thread Martin
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Vincent Snijders het geskryf: IMHO a better place for such feature requests without a clear owner (with a limited todo list) is: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas OK, done that too, and added a reference to the Mantis report. From the mantis

Re: [Lazarus] OT: Who ? [Re: Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find]

2009-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Martin het geskryf: From the mantis report / Subject: Enhance Marco usage by making them easier to find Who is Marco? :) :-) Typo, and I don't have access to change/fix it. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal

Re: [Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Vincent Snijders het geskryf: What is the purpose of the Mantis report, except polluting the bug tracker, so that finding issues is harder? The feature request was added to Mantis first - BEFORE you mentioned the wiki. Instead of duplicating my bad typing skills (and wasting my time), I just

Re: [Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Vincent Snijders het geskryf: What is the purpose of the Mantis report, except polluting the bug tracker, so that finding issues is harder? The feature request was added to Mantis first - BEFORE you mentioned the wiki. Instead of duplicating my bad typing skills

Re: [Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

2009-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Vincent Snijders het geskryf: I only want feature requests that stand a reasonable chance to be implemented before version 3.0 (due after 2025). And who decides the fate of such feature requests? If you did not notice, I first posted the idea here in the mailing list to be discussed and get a

[Lazarus] Support for dynamic libararies/package ; Is this like bpl?

2009-09-11 Thread Osvaldo Filho
Support for dynamic libararies/package ; Is this like bpl? Freepascal future plan # Next major Version (2.4) * Language: o Support for DispInterface and dispid (OLE binding on Windows). o Support for dynamic libararies/package --

[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

2009-09-11 Thread Alexander Klenin
As some of you may already know, I teach programming in Far Eastern National University and encourage students to participate in open source projects for their course works. Among opensource projects I recommend are Free Pascal and Lazarus. Last year one of my students already participated in FPC

Re: [Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

2009-09-11 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 09:34, Alexander Klenin kle...@gmail.com wrote: As some of you may already know, I teach programming in Far Eastern National University and encourage students to participate in open source projects for their course works. Here are some relevant pages *IN RUSSIAN*:

Re: [Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

2009-09-11 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Alexander Klenin wrote: So I request community for a suitable ideas -- projects should be reasonably self-contained, not too hard, require actual coding and be interesting enough to motivate students. During the Embarcadero CodeRage sessions this week I took a look at the IOUtils unit

[Lazarus] May Music with Lazarus

2009-09-11 Thread jpnuage
Hi everybody Has anybody already played music with Lazarus. Under Delphi, it's quite easy Beep(450,150); gives a sound for a certain period But this is not allowed under Lazarus. Mozart is very sad about that ! -- ___ Lazarus mailing list