Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Micha Nelissen
Christian Budde wrote: +function GetTopMostWindows(Handle: HWND; Info: LongInt): BOOL; stdcall; Shouldn't that be PtrInt for 64 bit compatibility ? +begin + Result := True; + if GetWindow(Handle, GW_OWNER) = PTopMostEnumInfo(Info)^.W32Widget.AppHandle then W32Widget does not need to be

[lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
Hi all, I am facing an interesting challenge - I don't know if lazarus CAN do what I want, if not I suppose I shall have to write an extra plugin using plain fpc+sdl - though I would VERY much prefer not to have to. What I need is a way to do a TRUE fullscreen mode form. Specifically this form

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, A.J. Venter wrote: Hi all, I am facing an interesting challenge - I don't know if lazarus CAN do what I want, if not I suppose I shall have to write an extra plugin using plain fpc+sdl - though I would VERY much prefer not to have to. What I need is a way to do a

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread Micha Nelissen
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: What I need is a way to do a TRUE fullscreen mode form. Specifically this form should make it IMPOSSIBLE to get to the desktop behind it until it's closed. It should capture the keyboard ENTIRELY so that Alt+Tab won't work - and cover up all icons, taskbars

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
Basically I don't know if lazarus CAN do what I need for this part... and before I can finalize design, I need to know if this will be a form inside the app or a sepperate program altogether acting as a plugin. I'm not sure that X/The Window manager can do what you want ? This is not a

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:07:42 -0400 Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As posted on another thread: http://www.lazarus-resource.com/resource-manager.shtml I see that this little application is doing exactly what is missing for an

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:07:42 -0400 Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As posted on another thread: http://www.lazarus-resource.com/resource-manager.shtml I see that this little application is doing exactly what

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even in the fixes branch. In fact, Lazarus could switch now to using this for including form files. This would drastically reduce the memory requirements of all Lazarus applications. Hang on a second... you're saying that

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Marc Weustink
Vincent Snijders wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:07:42 -0400 Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As posted on another thread: http://www.lazarus-resource.com/resource-manager.shtml I see that this little

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: In fact, Free Pascal suppprts including Windows resources in the binary on all ELF platforms (e.g. linux). The fpcres program does exactly that. {$R somefile.res} will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even in the fixes branch. In

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:02:39 +0200 A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even in the fixes branch. In fact, Lazarus could switch now to using this for including form files. This would drastically reduce the memory

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schreef: In fact, Free Pascal suppprts including Windows resources in the binary on all ELF platforms (e.g. linux). The fpcres program does exactly that. {$R somefile.res} will include the resource file in the

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, A.J. Venter wrote: will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even in the fixes branch. In fact, Lazarus could switch now to using this for including form files. This would drastically reduce the memory requirements of all Lazarus

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:02:39 +0200 A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even in the fixes branch. In fact, Lazarus could switch now to using this for including form

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Marc Weustink wrote: Vincent Snijders wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:07:42 -0400 Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As posted on another thread:

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schreef: In fact, Free Pascal suppprts including Windows resources in the binary on all ELF platforms (e.g. linux). The fpcres program does exactly that. {$R somefile.res} will include the resource

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
Thanks for the explanation, Marc, Mattias and Michael. So the executable size will be the same (maybe slightly (negligible) bigger, because string constants can be stored without lookup tables in the binary and a resources might need some lookup tables). But the memory use is smaller,

Re: RES: [lazarus] win32 program icon

2006-08-09 Thread Ewald Horn
Oh my hat! Thank you Henrique, I didn't know such a website exists. (Feels like an idiot, again) Regards Ewald _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:21:06 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:02:39 +0200 A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Christian Budde
Hello Micha, Today is day 3 of my LCL experience, so sorry about all the issues. Now that you are assigned to the bug I think it should be fixed quite fast. +function GetTopMostWindows(Handle: HWND; Info: LongInt): BOOL; stdcall; Shouldn't that be PtrInt for 64 bit

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Christian Budde schreef: Hello Micha, Today is day 3 of my LCL experience, so sorry about all the issues. Now that you are assigned to the bug I think it should be fixed quite fast. I assigned it to Micha, so he could review your patches. Vincent

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Nathan Samson
isn't looking to the VCL code illegal (copyright and stuff?)On 8/9/06, Christian Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Micha, Today is day 3 of my LCL experience, so sorry about all the issues. Now that you are assigned to the bug I think it should be fixed quite fast. +function

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Micha Nelissen
Christian Budde wrote: Hello Micha, + PTopMostEnumInfo(Info)^.TopWindow := Handle; + Result := False; Why these two lines ? A similar passage was there in the VCL code and I thought that it must make any sense, but in fact I don't know. Copying code from VCL directly

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:28:06 +0200 Nathan Samson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't looking to the VCL code illegal (copyright and stuff?) Looking not yet. Copying is. And copying without knowing what the code does is dangerous. Mattias On 8/9/06, Christian Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Christian Budde
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: isn't looking to the VCL code illegal (copyright and stuff?) Looking not yet. Copying is. And copying without knowing what the code does is dangerous. Sorry about that. I think I you should rewrite my code without the knowledge, now that there

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Al Boldi
Luis R. Hilario B. wrote: Hello, CUPERTINO, Calif. — August 8, 2006 — Today, the Developer Tools Group of Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) announced plans to release single language versions of Borland Developer Studio, the company's development environment for Microsoft(r)

RE: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Sergio Samayoa
Delphi going to OpenSource? NO. AFAIK they will offer an entry level version like MS's Express editions. Regards. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread m2
Lord_ZealoN a écrit : Delphi going to OpenSource? No. Al Boldi was saying that nothing can beat open source, i.e., Borland may do what they want, they won't beat FPC+Lazarus. Moreover, I find it strange that after having announced they wanted to sell all that concerns programming tools, they

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Arí Ricardo Ody
A good question, at least for me: How a company like Borland will survive if it turns its softwares Open Source? May someone say some words about this? Borland survive sailing licenses paid. Doesn't it? [ ] Ricardo At 11:24 9/8/2006, you wrote: Lord_ZealoN a écrit : Delphi going to

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Zlatko Matić
What about Kylix? Would they enable Turbo Kylix as well? - Original Message - From: m2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer Lord_ZealoN a écrit : Delphi going to OpenSource? No. Al Boldi was

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 07:38, Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: A good question, at least for me: How a company like Borland will survive if it turns its softwares Open Source? May someone say some words about this? Borland survive sailing licenses paid. Doesn't it? [ ] Ricardo I think they

[lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Darius Blaszijk
Hi, I was planning on doing a make clean bigide but the compiler complains it cannot find unit postgres3dyn. Do I need to install this first? Where can I find it? Darius _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Darius Blaszijk wrote: I was planning on doing a make clean bigide but the compiler complains it cannot find unit postgres3dyn. Do I need to install this first? Where can I find it? Simply part of FPC's postgress pkg. So fpc/packages/base/postgres.

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Alexsander Rosa
Kylix is dead. 2006/8/9, Zlatko Matić [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What about Kylix? Would they enable Turbo Kylix as well? - Original Message - From: m2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer Lord_ZealoN a

Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Marco van de Voort wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Darius Blaszijk wrote: I was planning on doing a make clean bigide but the compiler complains it cannot find unit postgres3dyn. Do I need to install this first? Where can I find it? Simply part of FPC's postgress pkg. So

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Mark Wrenn
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bit fishy? Something doesn't seem right about this. Why isn't this mentioned in a press release on the Borland site? Did I miss it? Why doesn't David I's blog mention it? (http://blogs.borland.com/davidi/). Even the turboexplorer web site doesn't

RE: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread John Meyer
You missed it: Did a search and it's there. http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2006/08_07_06_borlands _developer_tools_group_plans_to_rev_up_classic_turbo.html -Original Message- From: Mark Wrenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:27 PM To:

Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Alexsander Rosa
See this: http://port2laz.blogspot.com/2006/01/fpc-202-and-postgresql3dyn.html 2006/8/9, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marco van de Voort wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Darius Blaszijk wrote: I was planning on doing a make clean bigide but the compiler complains it

Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Darius Blaszijk
Marco, Vincent, Alexsander, Thanks for your help. Darius - Original Message - From: Alexsander Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide See this:

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/8/8, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A resource manager for the IDE is a good idea. Why not create a designtime package for it? If you need help, don't hesitate to ask. Please, any help on how to start would be appreciated. I'm not enought knowledgefull of

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/8/9, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/8/8, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A resource manager for the IDE is a good idea. Why not create a designtime package for it? If you need help, don't hesitate to ask. Please, any help on how to start would

[lazarus] Transparent glyphs

2006-08-09 Thread Andreas Berger
Can someone tell me how to load transparent glyphs for a TSpeedButton at run time? I have tried: glyph.LoadFromFile('x.bmp'); glyph.LoadFromFile('x.bmp'); glyph.Transparent := true; glyph.Transparent := true; glyph.LoadFromFile('x.bmp'); bmp := TBitmap.Create;

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:46:18 -0400 Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/8/9, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/8/8, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A resource manager for the IDE is a good idea. Why not create a designtime package for

Re: [lazarus] Transparent glyphs

2006-08-09 Thread Cesar Romero
I not sure how is the FPC/Lazarus behavior, in Delphi the transparent color is the last left bottom pixel color. []s Cesar Romero www.liws.com.br Brazil Andreas Berger escreveu: Can someone tell me how to load transparent glyphs for a TSpeedButton at run time? I have tried:

Re: [lazarus] Transparent glyphs

2006-08-09 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 8/9/06, Andreas Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me how to load transparent glyphs for a TSpeedButton at run time? You are forgetting that bitmaps contain no information about transparency at all. You must provide the transparency information yourself. In this case it will