[lazarus] Raize programmer font (and now for Linux too)

2007-07-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, In all the years I programmed with Delphi, I used a programmer font called Raize. It is simply brilliant. It makes a clear distinction between 0, O, o, i, I, l, etc.. and Monospace obviously. Above all, it looks good (much better than Courier). For Windows users, you can download it for

[lazarus] Lazarus on Windows + Qt or GTK

2007-07-23 Thread Tiziano_mk
What about using lazarus IDE along LCL compiled on windows with different widgets other than the default Win32? (ie. QT or GTK?) Is this possible? Could it be unwise? just asking an advice before trying... tiziano _ To

[lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, What are the pros and cons for letting the form designer add code inside the .pas unit instead of a separate .lfm file? For example: Lazarus and Delphi uses external files (.lfm and .dfm) to save information about forms designed using the form designer. Visual Studio and CodeGear's C#

[lazarus] Code Folding regions in Lazarus

2007-07-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Does Lazarus support some sort of code folding 'region' keyword like the Visual Studio IDE does? I know Lazarus automatically handle begin..end etc. But can the user add there own code folding regions around their code. Here is an example of regions used in the Visual Studio IDE for C#

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, What are the pros and cons for letting the form designer add code inside the .pas unit instead of a separate .lfm file? The .lfm file is not code. It's a resource, which you can replace at runtime. Michael.

Re: [lazarus] GTK2 for arm-linux

2007-07-23 Thread Christian Iversen
Koenraad Lelong wrote: Christian Iversen schreef: What is your arm-board? It doesn't sound like the machine that runs your X-server? If you use a unix machine as a workstation, then try this line: DISPLAY=:0 xhost + (that just runs xhost + with the additional environment of DISPLAY=:0

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23/07/07, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The .lfm file is not code. It's a resource, which you can replace at runtime. OK, I understand the resource part. It's components that have been streamed to a file. From this I also assume that it will recreate the form faster than via

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on Windows + Qt or GTK

2007-07-23 Thread Tiziano_mk
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 7/23/07, Tiziano_mk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this possible? Qt 4 - Afaik Paul is working on it. It should run, even if very unstable =P Gtk 1 - No, forget it Gtk 2 - Theoretically possible, althougth I think that noone worked on it recently Could it

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on Windows + Qt or GTK

2007-07-23 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 7/23/07, Tiziano_mk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's only an idea, since I see I have the gtk2 libraries installed by Gimp on my Win XP partition, if I use the same widget maybe I have less troubles when I port it on the Ubuntu side of my PC. In that case it's probably better to just compile

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 23/07/07, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The .lfm file is not code. It's a resource, which you can replace at runtime. OK, I understand the resource part. It's components that have been streamed to a file. From this I

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Al Boldi
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, What are the pros and cons for letting the form designer add code inside the .pas unit instead of a separate .lfm file? For example: Lazarus and Delphi uses external files (.lfm and .dfm) to save information about forms designed using the form designer. .dfm

[lazarus] mailing list feedback with to large attachments.

2007-07-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Can the mailing list give feedback if a attachment is to large? Currently it doesn't notify you about anything, so I have no idea of know if others received my post. This is quite annoying. For example: I attached a Linux Font and a Screenshot in a earlier post, but ain't sure if it was

Re: [lazarus] mailing list feedback with to large attachments.

2007-07-23 Thread hy-soft
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Can the mailing list give feedback if a attachment is to large? Currently it doesn't notify you about anything, so I have no idea of know if others received my post. This is quite annoying. For example: I attached a Linux Font and a Screenshot in a earlier post,

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, What are the pros and cons for letting the form designer add code inside the .pas unit instead of a separate .lfm file? For example: Lazarus and Delphi uses external files (.lfm and .dfm) to save information

Re: [lazarus] mailing list feedback with to large attachments.

2007-07-23 Thread Giuliano Colla
Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: Hi, Can the mailing list give feedback if a attachment is to large? Currently it doesn't notify you about anything, so I have no idea of know if others received my post. This is quite annoying. For example: I attached a Linux Font and a Screenshot in a earlier

Re: [lazarus] GTK2 for arm-linux

2007-07-23 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Sonntag, den 22.07.2007, 18:43 +0200 schrieb Koenraad Lelong: Marc Santhoff schreef: Am Sonntag, den 22.07.2007, 12:44 +0200 schrieb Koenraad Lelong: startx on the board (via ssh) gives me a nice xterm with an active mouse-cursor on the board's LCD. There I can run my old GTK2

[lazarus] Making Configure Build Lazarus more user friendly

2007-07-23 Thread Giuliano Colla
The configure build lazarus IDE provides a lot of options which the majority of us don't use, but we're however forced to check/uncheck. Therefore I've added a small Group Box, named Quick Configure Options with thre buttons: All, LCL, and Custom. The first two cover (in my opinion) the needs

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Al Boldi
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: So again, what is the pros and cons between the two design choices when using the Object Pascal language? .dfm is good for beginners, who get confused looking at code they didn't write. .pas

Re: [lazarus] Making Configure Build Lazarus more user friendly

2007-07-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Giuliano Colla ha escrit: The All Button checks all the Build (or Clean+Build, if Clean All is checked), You can do that now by clicking on the column header for clean+build (the rightmost one) the LCL button unchecks everything, except LCL (which is set to Build or Clean+Build as

Re: [lazarus] Making Configure Build Lazarus more user friendly

2007-07-23 Thread Al Boldi
Giuliano Colla wrote: The configure build lazarus IDE provides a lot of options which the majority of us don't use, but we're however forced to check/uncheck. Therefore I've added a small Group Box, named Quick Configure Options with thre buttons: All, LCL, and Custom. The first two cover (in

[lazarus] Component or library for HTTP and/or WebDAV protocol on Mac OS X

2007-07-23 Thread Tobias Giesen
Hello, I am looking for a component or library which will eventually enable me to access a WebDAV server from my client application, which I am making with Lazarus. Is there a recommended component or library for HTTP, or even WebDAV? I am ready to invest a lot of time into this, so if I have to

Re: [lazarus] Component or library for HTTP and/or WebDAV protocol on Mac OS X

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Tobias Giesen wrote: Hello, I am looking for a component or library which will eventually enable me to access a WebDAV server from my client application, which I am making with Lazarus. Is there a recommended component or library for HTTP, or even WebDAV? There is

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: So again, what is the pros and cons between the two design choices when using the Object Pascal language? .dfm is good for beginners, who get

Re: [lazarus] Component or library for HTTP and/or WebDAV protocol on Mac OS X

2007-07-23 Thread Tobias Giesen
Michael wrote: There is code for HTTP (synapse, Indy, ICS, lnet). I have code for Webdav, which I plucked from internet somewhere, and which I corrected and enhanced. Hi Michael, thanks for the quick reply! Are you using WebDAV on Windows? Do you think any of (synapse, Indy, ICS, lnet) might

RE: [lazarus] Component or library for HTTP and/or WebDAV protocol on Mac OS X

2007-07-23 Thread Hess, Philip J
Synapse compiles okay on OS X, but it crashes at startup. I'm still investigating why as it works fine on Windows. I'm using Synapse with the Web Service Toolkit. http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/ http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Web_Service_Toolkit Thanks. -Phil -Original Message-

Re: [lazarus] Component or library for HTTP and/or WebDAV protocol on Mac OS X

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Tobias Giesen wrote: Michael wrote: There is code for HTTP (synapse, Indy, ICS, lnet). I have code for Webdav, which I plucked from internet somewhere, and which I corrected and enhanced. Hi Michael, thanks for the quick reply! Are you using WebDAV on Windows?

Re: [lazarus] Making Configure Build Lazarus more user friendly

2007-07-23 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Giuliano Colla wrote: The configure build lazarus IDE provides a lot of options which the majority of us don't use, but we're however forced to check/uncheck. Therefore I've added a small Group Box, named Quick Configure Options with thre buttons:

Re: [lazarus] mailing list feedback with to large attachments.

2007-07-23 Thread Michael A. Hess
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 23/07/07, hy-soft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received both Thanks for confirming that. What is the attachment limit on the mailing list. I'm not sure if it is 20k or 40k? I believe it is set at 50K. I'll check and if it is different

Re: [lazarus] Making Configure Build Lazarus more user friendly

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Giuliano Colla wrote: The configure build lazarus IDE provides a lot of options which the majority of us don't use, but we're however forced to check/uncheck. Therefore I've added a small Group

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: This really has nothing to do with resources. Resources should still be saved in its own .res file. Forms are stored in resources. A dfm is changed to resource and then compiled

Re: [lazarus] mailing list feedback with to large attachments.

2007-07-23 Thread John vd Waeter
Michael A. Hess wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 23/07/07, hy-soft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received both Thanks for confirming that. What is the attachment limit on the mailing list. I'm not sure if it is 20k or 40k? I believe it is set at 50K. I'll check and

Re: [lazarus] mailing list feedback with to large attachments.

2007-07-23 Thread Michael A. Hess
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, John vd Waeter wrote: Michael, do you mind kicking the ass of the mailer at lazarus.freepascal.org as well? I can get it to send registration-password... I saw the emails about this. Sorry I was on vacation for the last week and planned to look into why you didn't get the

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: So again, what is the pros and cons between the two design choices when using the Object Pascal language? .dfm is good for beginners, who get confused

Re: [lazarus] Making Configure Build Lazarus more user friendly

2007-07-23 Thread Al Boldi
Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Giuliano Colla wrote: The configure build lazarus IDE provides a lot of options which the majority of us don't use, but we're however forced to check/uncheck. Therefore I've added a small Group Box, named Quick Configure

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 23/07/07, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The .lfm file is not code. It's a resource, which you can replace at runtime. OK, I understand

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Al Boldi
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: This really has nothing to do with resources. Resources should still be saved in its own .res file. Forms are stored in resources. A dfm is changed to resource and then compiled in the binary ? The .dfm is being used for two

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on Windows + Qt or GTK

2007-07-23 Thread zeljko
On Monday 23 July 2007 12:21, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 7/23/07, Tiziano_mk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this possible? Qt 4 - Afaik Paul is working on it. It should run, even if very unstable =P actually, it works on windows, but we have to fix painting issues with synedit, and

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Al Boldi
Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: So again, what is the pros and cons between the two design choices when using the Object Pascal language? .dfm is good

Re: [lazarus] Code Folding regions in Lazarus

2007-07-23 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does Lazarus support some sort of code folding 'region' keyword like the Visual Studio IDE does? I know Lazarus automatically handle begin..end etc. But can the user add there own code folding regions around their code. Here is an

Re: [lazarus] Code Folding regions in Lazarus

2007-07-23 Thread Raistware
Mattias Gärtner escribió: Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does Lazarus support some sort of code folding 'region' keyword like the Visual Studio IDE does? I know Lazarus automatically handle begin..end etc. But can the user add there own code folding regions around

Re: [lazarus] Making Configure Build Lazarus more user friendly

2007-07-23 Thread Giuliano Colla
Mattias Gärtner ha scritto: Zitat von Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Giuliano Colla wrote: The configure build lazarus IDE provides a lot of options which the majority of us don't use, but we're however forced to check/uncheck. Therefore I've added a small Group Box, named Quick Configure

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Sergei Gorelkin
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 23/07/07, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The .lfm file is not code. It's a resource, which you can replace at runtime. OK, I

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:49:47PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: directly instead of a external unit. They embed the form/component creation code inside a private method called from the constructor. The code in that private method is also wrapped in C# Region so that it is hidden by default with

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23/07/07, Mattias Gärtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The lfm reader/writer was at hand at the time. Nowadays we could use the xml reader/writer too, although that is less human readable. Using pascal source as file format would be possible and has some advantages but some disadvantages as well.

[lazarus] Problem with lazreport

2007-07-23 Thread German C. Basisty
Hi! I’m trying to install lazreport package. Under my Linux box, it Works OK but under my Windows box there is no way to make it work. After rebuilding lazarus (no errors) the tiger appears, and then nothing happens. Lazarus never starts. The only strange thing I noticed, is the size of the new

Re: [lazarus] Problem with lazreport

2007-07-23 Thread Swen Heinig
If a tiger appears you have a real problem. Then the Lazarus cheetah has run away. ;-) Currently it's not possible to use lazreport (and some other packages) with the win64 version of Lazarus. You can alternatively install the win32 version. Best regards, Swen German C. Basisty schrieb:

RE: [lazarus] Problem with lazreport

2007-07-23 Thread German C. Basisty
Be cool, i’ts a cheetah, don’t worry! I have the 32 bits version of lazarus running on Windows vista 64 bits. Perhaps it is a OS incompatibility issue, because on a virtual machine with xp 32 bits, the same lazarus works properly. Regards Germán C. Basisty Estudio Informático Patagónico

[lazarus] IDE dialog position question and the IDE

2007-07-23 Thread Tony Maro
I run dual monitors, with a desktop size of 2560x1024 Nearly every dialog used by Lazarus is set poDesktopCenter, which splits right down the middle of my two monitors, leaving half the dialog on each monitor. Is there anything that can be done to change this? Almost every piece of Linux

Re: [lazarus] Code Folding regions in Lazarus

2007-07-23 Thread Marc Weustink
Raistware wrote: Mattias Gärtner escribió: Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does Lazarus support some sort of code folding 'region' keyword like the Visual Studio IDE does? I know Lazarus automatically handle begin..end etc. But can the user add there own code folding

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Marc Weustink
Al Boldi wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: This really has nothing to do with resources. Resources should still be saved in its own .res file. Forms are stored in resources. A dfm is changed to resource and then compiled in the binary ? The .dfm is

Re: [lazarus] GTK2 for arm-linux

2007-07-23 Thread Marc Weustink
Koenraad Lelong wrote: Marc Weustink schreef: Sam Liddicott wrote: I may be asking obvious questions here, but you didn't reveal a lot about your setup. Do you event have a DISPLAY environment variable set? Instead of setting your env, you can also start your app like: your_app

Re: [lazarus] GTK2 for arm-linux

2007-07-23 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 23/07/07, Marc Weustink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Koenraad Lelong wrote: Marc Weustink schreef: Sam Liddicott wrote: I may be asking obvious questions here, but you didn't reveal a lot about your setup. Do you event have a DISPLAY environment variable set? Instead of setting your env,

Re: [lazarus] Problem with lazreport

2007-07-23 Thread Jesus Reyes
--- Swen Heinig [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: If a tiger appears you have a real problem. Then the Lazarus cheetah has run away. ;-) Currently it's not possible to use lazreport (and some other packages) with the win64 version of Lazarus. You can alternatively install the win32 version.

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on Windows + Qt or GTK

2007-07-23 Thread Marc Weustink
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 7/23/07, Tiziano_mk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's only an idea, since I see I have the gtk2 libraries installed by Gimp on my Win XP partition, if I use the same widget maybe I have less troubles when I port it on the Ubuntu side of my PC. In that case

[lazarus] Linux/Printing Question

2007-07-23 Thread Lee Jenkins
Hi all, This is quite a bit OT since the only thing related to Lazarus is that I will use to write the software. One of my company's main products does a lot of prep notifications to various printers on the network. For a single order (sale), prep instructions can be sent to up to 6