[lazarus] DPI setting with Lazarus and Lazarus applications

2006-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Does Lazarus take into account the DPI setting of the system to set the font sizes, etc...? From my initial observation I would guess not (see screenshot). The editor font and the Editor Window's Title is the correct font size, but the Main Menu, Component Palette Tabs, Editor Tabs and the

Re: [lazarus] DPI setting with Lazarus and Lazarus applications

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Does Lazarus take into account the DPI setting of the system to set the font sizes, etc...? From my initial observation I would guess not (see screenshot). The editor font and the Editor Window's Title is the correct font size, but the Main

Re: [lazarus] DPI setting with Lazarus and Lazarus applications

2006-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
It's a difficult topic. Delphi has a lot of issues with it, I've never seen a delphi app which worked correctly on all DPI settings, even after so many versions of Delphi :/ I have had that same experienc, though I have seem one or two Delphi written apps that work correctly, but no idea how

Re: [lazarus] DPI setting with Lazarus and Lazarus applications

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It's a difficult topic. Delphi has a lot of issues with it, I've never seen a delphi app which worked correctly on all DPI settings, even after so many versions of Delphi :/ I have had that same experienc, though I have seem one or two Delphi

[lazarus] Version Information: your comments please

2006-03-15 Thread Jouke Rensma
I've sent the mail below earlier but apparantly it did not make it. Maybe due to the attachements? I now zipped them into one (smaller) file. --- Hi all, After some strugling, re-doing and starting from scratch again, I managed to get the version information hooked into the compile

Re: [lazarus] Cannot start Lazarus any more...

2006-03-15 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:43:51 +0200 Markku Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:06:41 +0100, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can start the IDE, uninstall the package. Cannot start the IDE so... If not, build a clean IDE (make clean all). Tried

Re: [lazarus] Resizable forms

2006-03-15 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:36:30 +0100 Patrick Chevalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Even on my computer, that has a slightly bigger standard font on Windows, most forms from the IDE look bad. I also remark this problem with my application, only with Windows big font, all the

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus advocacy : Best App wrtitten in Lazarus

2006-03-15 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:46:28 +0200 A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like this idea, and it ties in with an idea I had, I would like to do a series of ¨people behind lazarus¨ interviews, similiar to the ¨people behind KDE¨ series from kde dot news, by itself though it wouldn´t work but

Re: [lazarus] Cannot start Lazarus any more...

2006-03-15 Thread Markku Niskanen
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:10:40 +0100, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you start it in gdb and send the backtrace? After two make cleans and one more make all almost did the trick. Now I get the message but marked for installation but the IDE starts finally. Well, after removing the

Re: [lazarus] before I go to far with this

2006-03-15 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 14:26 -0800, johnf wrote: Unfortunately the lack of blob support is a deal breaker for me. I need to have the use of TDBMemo. The app I need to write requires notes in many locations. I.e. I need notes on customers, notes on Vendors, Notes on inventory, etc..

Re: [lazarus] Cannot start Lazarus any more...

2006-03-15 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:38:06 +0200 Markku Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:10:40 +0100, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you start it in gdb and send the backtrace? After two make cleans and one more make all almost did the trick. Now I get the

Re: [lazarus] Cannot build Lazarus

2006-03-15 Thread Jouke Rensma
Vincent (and others ofcourse), You probably already noticed, but just for sure: I've added my findings to the wiki Getting Lazarus. Regards, Jouke Vincent Snijders writes: Jouke Rensma wrote: Vincent, thanks for your help! I decided to use 2.0.2 from now on. I did some fooling around

Re: [lazarus] Cannot start Lazarus any more...

2006-03-15 Thread Markku Niskanen
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:57:04 +0100, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last week I removed 5 package sources of installed packages and the IDE did work and only warned. There must be a special combination, why it didn't work for you. Well, it works now but I will do my best to create

[lazarus] TProcess and EProcess (probably offtopic)

2006-03-15 Thread Adrian Maier
Hello, My question is probably more suitable for another list. In fact I had asked it on fpc-pascal, but now I am no longer able to post on that list because my mails are rejected by the sorbs spam checker who blacklisted nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.207]. Very irritating ... Anyway, here is

Re: [lazarus] call stack and debugging problems

2006-03-15 Thread anteusz
Peter Vreman wrote: Hi! When I debug a file. That is , the debugger stops and I look at the call stack, I cannot see filename and linenumber In other words, the debugging is made harder. I heard it was related to the freepascal compiler was not able to cooperate with gdb as the generated

Re: [lazarus] call stack and debugging problems

2006-03-15 Thread anteusz
Marc Weustink wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! When I debug a file. That is , the debugger stops and I look at the call stack, I cannot see filename and linenumber In other words, the debugging is made harder. I heard it was related to the freepascal compiler was not able to

Re: [lazarus] TProcess and EProcess (probably offtopic)

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Adrian Maier wrote: Hello, My question is probably more suitable for another list. In fact I had asked it on fpc-pascal, but now I am no longer able to post on that list because my mails are rejected by the sorbs spam checker who blacklisted nproxy.gmail.com

[lazarus] Diminishing executable

2006-03-15 Thread Andreas Berger
This has probably already been discussed, but could someone give me a quick hint. I compile my lazarus projects from the command line - to me it seems faster. However, I can't get it to create a small executable. I have tried adding the -dRELEASE option when calling the compiler but it has

Re: [lazarus] TProcess and EProcess (probably offtopic)

2006-03-15 Thread Adrian Maier
On 3/15/06, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Adrian Maier wrote: Please enlighten me where could I find this EProcess exception . There is an error in the documentation. It should be Exception instead of EProcess. But the implementation needs to be changed

Re: [lazarus] Diminishing executable

2006-03-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
Andreas Berger schreef: This has probably already been discussed, but could someone give me a quick hint. I compile my lazarus projects from the command line - to me it seems faster. However, I can't get it to create a small executable. I have tried adding the -dRELEASE option when calling

Re: [lazarus] TProcess and EProcess (probably offtopic)

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Adrian Maier wrote: On 3/15/06, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Adrian Maier wrote: Please enlighten me where could I find this EProcess exception . There is an error in the documentation. It should be Exception instead of EProcess.

Re: [lazarus] before I go to far with this

2006-03-15 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
On 3/15/06, Joost van der Sluis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A varchar can hold 2000 characters in sqldb. Postgres supports up to 8192 characters in a varchar. If you really need 8192 characters, it's easy to update sqldb, just set this value on top of db.pp. I though that there were absolutely no

[lazarus] uninstalling a package

2006-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I created a Runtime Only package. No components, so no need to install it in the ide. Even so, it appears in the list of available packages in Lazarus (which in fine). Question is, how do I uninstall such a package. I renamed the original package, but the old name still appears in

Re: [lazarus] Diminishing executable

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Alexsander Rosa wrote: This issue is real. After you know what to do it's simple, but why not make things simpler for newbies? It would be nice to have an option to automatically run strip after the project is compiled AND have it enabled by default. It's fast; the strip

Re: [lazarus] before I go to far with this

2006-03-15 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 05:13, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: On 3/15/06, Joost van der Sluis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A varchar can hold 2000 characters in sqldb. Postgres supports up to 8192 characters in a varchar. If you really need 8192 characters, it's easy to update sqldb, just set this

Re: [lazarus] Resizable forms

2006-03-15 Thread Bogusław Brandys
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:36:30 +0100 Patrick Chevalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Even on my computer, that has a slightly bigger standard font on Windows, most forms from the IDE look bad. I also remark this problem with my application, only with Windows big

Re: [lazarus] uninstalling a package

2006-03-15 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:18:57 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I created a Runtime Only package. No components, so no need to install it in the ide. Even so, it appears in the list of available packages in Lazarus (which in fine). Question is, how do I uninstall such

Re: [lazarus] Wiki

2006-03-15 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Hello, About http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Road_To_1.0#Widgetset_dependent_components Is there a better way to implement that table?? I think that code will be hard to maintain. Can´t we use a variable or something like that, so if we change the color of the background it will

Re: [lazarus] Resizable forms

2006-03-15 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:35:32 +0100 Bogus__aw Brandys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:36:30 +0100 Patrick Chevalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Even on my computer, that has a slightly bigger standard font on Windows, most forms from the

Re: [lazarus] Wiki

2006-03-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
Darius Blaszijk wrote: About http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Road_To_1.0#Widgetset_dependent_components Is there a better way to implement that table?? I think that code will be hard to maintain. Can´t we use a variable or something like that, so if we change the color of the

Re: [lazarus] Wiki

2006-03-15 Thread Darius Blaszijk
- Original Message - From: Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Wiki Darius Blaszijk wrote: About http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Road_To_1.0#Widgetset_dependent_components Is there

[lazarus] SQL statement

2006-03-15 Thread Panagiotis Sidiropoulos
I use following code to update a table. Connection is succesfuly carried out also SQLQuery.Close; SQLQuery.SQL.Clear; SQLQuery.SQL.Add( 'update `ids-aa`' ); SQLQuery.SQL.Add( 'set `ids-licenses-left`=1' ); SQLQuery.SQL.Add( 'where `ids-internet-id`=aa-123456789012345678' ); showmessage(

[lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread Panagiotis Sidiropoulos
I use following code to update a table. Connection is succesfuly carried out and before this, Select statement executed succesfuly. Problem is that this statement is not accepted. I checked this same statement through an MySQL client and it was executed properly. Can anyone please advise?

Re: [lazarus] call stack and debugging problems

2006-03-15 Thread Uwe Grauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anteusz, Would you please stop requesting read notifications from all people reading this mailinglists. I don't think such requests are necessary for you. Uwe _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lazarus] uninstalling a package

2006-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3/15/06, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you give more details, how to reproduce the last paragraph? I think I managed to figure this out. Maybe my previous email was a bit vague. I was referring to the list of packages you see in the Installed Packages screen in the

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
SQLQuery.Close; SQLQuery.SQL.Clear; SQLQuery.SQL.Add( 'update `ids-aa`' ); SQLQuery.SQL.Add( 'set `ids-licenses-left`=1' ); SQLQuery.SQL.Add( 'where `ids-internet-id`=aa-123456789012345678' ); All I can think of, is to make sure you leave spaces between the different line, so when that get

[lazarus] Mantis

2006-03-15 Thread Marc Weustink
Hi Today we upgraded Mantis to version 1.0.1. Unfortunately there still is something wrong with the email notification. We patched the old version to solve this. I'm looking if we can fix this again. Marc _ To unsubscribe:

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread Joost van der Sluis
This is gettig irritating. 'statement is not accepted' Is that the error message? 'statement not accepted' You can't expect us to keep answering this kind of questions. An why all these quotes arount the field names? Does that even compile? And read this, before you sent another question:

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread Panagiotis Sidiropoulos
Additionaly to my original post, this query is executed under Linux using sqldb components TSQLQuery, TSQLtransaction and TMySQL41Connection. If any additional information is required please just task. Στις 15-03-2006, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 21:14 +, ο/η Panagiotis Sidiropoulos έγραψε: I use

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 13:36, Panagiotis Sidiropoulos wrote: Additionaly to my original post, this query is executed under Linux using sqldb components TSQLQuery, TSQLtransaction and TMySQL41Connection. If any additional information is required please just task. Στις 15-03-2006, ημέρα

[lazarus] Speedbuttons in groupbox don't work

2006-03-15 Thread Marien van Westen
I placed two speedbuttons in a groupbox, with the same groupindex and also two speedbuttons with another groupindex outside the groupbox. The buttons outside the groupbox behave normal. The speedbutons inside the groupbox only react once on a mouseclick, then they seem to be frozen. Clicking the

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread Panagiotis Sidiropoulos
It is not my intention being irritating, on the contrary. Composing this post I thought that subject was describing the problem, focusing on the SQL statement syntax and not to the code. I apologise. Your answer gives me the impression that you are tired reading this kind of not well described

Re: [lazarus] Speedbuttons in groupbox don't work

2006-03-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
Marien van Westen wrote: I placed two speedbuttons in a groupbox, with the same groupindex and also two speedbuttons with another groupindex outside the groupbox. The buttons outside the groupbox behave normal. The speedbutons inside the groupbox only react once on a mouseclick, then they seem

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread Panagiotis Sidiropoulos
SQLQuery.SQL.Add( 'update `ids-aa`' ); SQLQuery.SQL.Add( 'set `ids-licenses-left`=1' ); SQLQuery.SQL.Add( 'where `ids-internet-id`=aa-123456789012345678' ); ids-aa, ids-licenses-left, ids-internet-id are field names into ids-aa table. aa-123456789012345678 is content of record in

Re: [lazarus] Speedbuttons in groupbox don't work

2006-03-15 Thread Marien van Westen
I just found bugreport 1725 with the same report, but Mattias couldn't verify it. Bug 1809 is about DirectoryEdit and dialogs, so I don't think those two are related I think it has been reported, but I don't know the issue number.It causes also bug

[lazarus] About downloading the doc, etc.

2006-03-15 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
Hi all, I wanted to download the doc locally (I have dialup at home). But I can't find any place to get the latest version. On the other side, I see that the doc is always in it's original form in the svn tree. Is there any way, method or tool to use this doc, or compile myself an html version

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread Panagiotis Sidiropoulos
Yes, you are right, .Open method is not appropriate for UPDATE statement, .ExecSQL is the one that does what I expect to. Thank you for your help, I realy appreciate it. Panagiotis Στις 15-03-2006, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 21:29 +0200, ο/η Graeme Geldenhuys έγραψε: SQLQuery.Close;

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
On 3/15/06, Panagiotis Sidiropoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SQLQuery.Open; Well, in Delphi the error would be obivious. 'Open' is for select statement, all other statements must be 'Execute'. So try something like: SQLQuery.Execute; (This is from memory, the actual procedure/function

Re: [lazarus] Speedbuttons in groupbox don't work

2006-03-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
Marien van Westen wrote: I just found bugreport 1725 with the same report, but Mattias couldn't verify it. Bug 1809 is about DirectoryEdit and dialogs, so I don't think those two are related The buttons of TDirectoryEdit are speedbuttons. Vincent.

Re: [lazarus] Speedbuttons in groupbox don't work

2006-03-15 Thread Marien van Westen
I see. I was looking for a workaround and found that when you place a toolbar inside a groupbox, the speedbuttons in the toolbar behave OK Unfortunatly I have not enough knowledge of Lazarus to find a solution myself. Yet. So a bugreport is not neccesairy I think MarienOn 3/15/06, Vincent

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-15 Thread Panagiotis Sidiropoulos
Graeme also suggested similar approach, tested by me and confirmed. It is maybe elementary knowledge but not for unexperienced SQL users like me. Thank you for your time. Panagiotis Στις 15-03-2006, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 15:51 -0500, ο/η Alexandre Leclerc έγραψε: On 3/15/06, Panagiotis

[lazarus] compiling lazarus from the SVN

2006-03-15 Thread Alain Michaud
Hi, I an trying to compile lazarus from the souce downloaded from the SVN (linux). At the end of the make sequence (make ide), I get the error: Can't find unit glib I think that I need a link or something, but where? Help please Alain Michaud

Re: [lazarus] TPageControl

2006-03-15 Thread Lepidosteus
If you find no clean way of doing it, using OnChange to set back the page the user should watch should be okay.I know it's not a clean way, but it at least it's working.On 3/16/06, m2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,I am working on a Lazarus 0.9.12 version of my program Primo (it wasoriginally

Re: [lazarus] Wiki

2006-03-15 Thread Lepidosteus
On 3/16/06, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/15/06, Darius Blaszijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not shure, but I guess that the contents will not be changing so much anymore for the widgets. Only once in a while some components get done. So you need to change text and

Re: [lazarus] Wiki

2006-03-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 3/15/06, Darius Blaszijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not shure, but I guess that the contents will not be changing so much anymore for the widgets. Only once in a while some components get done. So you need to change text and style of the cell, hardly