I believe a promotion will be easier when Lazarus gets 1.0.
Agree. But, without stable widgetset for (win)gdi (also with vista support),
gtk2 and qt (especially for linux), carbon and cocoa (for mac) on Lazarus v.1.0,
it is much less attractive. Perhaps I'm asking to much here, but I think
I'm afraid you are wrong here! TButton under Delphi and Kylix has a
Color property, which was introduced by TControl. And yes under
Delphi it does change the button's face color. We have used this in
some of our multimedia applications.
Here is my pitch: Object Pascal. Strong Like C. Easy like VB. ;)
I prefer: Modern Pascal, stronger than C, easier than VB. ;)
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This is very welcome news for me.
http://www.remobjects.com/product/page.asp?id={E1DB912D-BD45-4B74-9AC4-550E3CD3738F}
I just knew that someday there will be more and more Delphi component providers
support FPC/Lazarus due to active development of FPC/Lazarus and lack of
Borland/CG interest
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.22 release. This release
is based on fpc 2.0.4.
TComboBox's height still can't be changed, in any ways. :-(
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Was this bug closed in the bug tracker?
http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=1904
Reported since v.9.13. IMO, it isn't (win)api limitation since Delphi does allow
to set TComboBox's height to any values.
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I'm the person who reported the supposed bug. But after the explanation
of a peer, i agreed that was a bug/misbehavior of Delphi. So i'm
favorable as not considerating as a bug but as a difference that
should be considered when porting a Delphi app. I think that we should
follow Delphi as
The following code fails to print the values (NodeValue) to the console:
var
Doc: TXMLDocument;
Node1, Node2: TDOMNode;
i: Integer
Begin
Doc := TXMLDocument.create;
if (FileExists('sys_info.xml')) then
XMLREAD.ReadXMLFile(Doc, 'sys_info.xml');
Node1 := Doc.DocumentElement.FindNode('login');
fpGUI seems very promising to be the real independent UI library for Lazarus,
since it uses X11 (on Un*x) dan native API (on windows). No external widgetset
dependency-hell for Lazarus, e.g. GTK 1 or 2, Qt, etc. I recommend fpGUI becomes
the default widgetset used by Lazarus IDE itself, next
Ahh... I forgot the tab header, grid, and scrollbar. ;)
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Currently the styles I started working on first is the Win2000, Motif,
ClearLook/Plastique and OpenSoft. A Windows CE style is another
possible choice and will most probably be the easiest to implement.
Is there any URL to see the screenshot of every provided style?
For example, to create a
Hi...
I saw three icons of TmySQLConnection component on Lazarus component palette,
they are for mySQL v.4.0, v.4.1, and v.5.0. Can't they just be wrapped into a
single component and supply the corresponding version through connection
parameter? This way will make our code life easier to
It is, but:
1. It will take some additional work.
If we keep them separated, it will take some additional works to users
(programmers), especially if he wants to make an application which connects to
several mySQL databases with different version. ;)
2. It will make your application
From System 2006 wiki article, I found that Lazarus already has v.0.9.20. But
I couldn't find any links to download this new version. The sourceforge's
download site has v.0.9.18 (latest version I have now), and the snapshot site
has v.0.9.19. So, where is the download location of v.0.9.20?
I see. But, the next official release is gonna be v.0.9.18 or v.0.9.20?
I'm preparing a short description (article) of Lazarus and the
comparison with Delphi to attract Delphi developers in my country. So, I
need to make sure which version is the latest official release. Thank you.
Note:
After uploadind one noteworthy bug was spotted:
When creating an event for a new/unsaved unit, you get the error:
Error: unit not found : VirtualUnitFotJITClasses
As workaround save the unit, close it and open it again.
It is already fixed in svn.
Hi all...
I'm just asking... no further investigation has been done. :)
Is there any effort has been done to port JediVCS (both client and server) to
FPC/Lazarus by anybody? Is it possible to do it and make JediVCS multiplatform
(both client and server)? If possible, what about the difficulty
Kris Leech wrote:
It looks like the is an unoffical release, we will have to wait until
Mattias's computer is fixed before we get an offical release! Will be
good to use FPC 2.0.4. Looking forward to it, especially for Linux as Im
not great on linux desktop and have not been able to recompile
I fixed the painting of the marks and line numbers.
Where I can find the code folding algorithm within Lazarus source code? I'd
like to add {$REGION} feature. I found this folding directive help alot, also
for Delphi compatibility.
The code folding feature is great and nice, it cleans up
Not yet.
I have some hardware problems.
Is v.0.9.18 based on FPC 2.0.4?
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I have a little problem with TComboBox. I'd like to have some TComboBox(es)
with custom and various height. I don't know why Lazarus seems to lock
TComboBox's height, to 21pix using csDropDownXXX style or to 24pix using
csOwnerDrawXXX. I have tried to modify the Height and/or ItemHeight
Yes but most of the problems come from the fact that (besides Lazarus
and FPC peoples work for free during their free time) Lazarus/FPC is
multi-processors and multi-OS's whereas Delphi is only multi-Microsoft.
No matter what are the reasons behind the lack of features, it still lacks of
Can you please identify features that you are missing ?
Alternatively, the bugtracker can be used to demand features, I think.
Yes, Michael... I knew about this. :)
I'm not talking about the features itself. It's about the mentality regarding
what we like/dislike. Sometimes we're losing our
Ok, lets try to face the problem instead of wining about it: why not to
create a collaborative grid (wiki pages are ideal) to spot the good points
of fpc/lazarus and the bad points that needs to be
projected/developed/debugged? This could be a simple table with all the
features that a programmer
very interesting, does it works also with TurboDelphi?
Yes, it does work, at least for me. :)
I think you should also send this link in the borland newsgroup.
they are all crying about this issue... :-)
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What I understand is that most people expected a Win32 IDE to Build Win32
Applications, instead, TurboDelphi for Win32 is a .NET IDE to build Win32
Applications.
Yup. But, actually we can make Turbo Delphi run without any .Net dependencies.
Because the core IDE itself is actually a win32
I work with people using D7 and D2005. They all were amazed at the things
you can do with Lazarus and FPC on Win32. Hence the decision to start
learning Win32 development using FPC/Lazarus and not Delphi.
I work with both, so I got good things from both sides. :)
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Can you make this more concrete, in bug reports and/or notes ?
Yes, I know I have to do this. :) I already have some notes about this, I'll
report them as soon as I have time.
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Can you make this more concrete, in bug reports and/or notes ?
Some about it has been discussed in Lazarus forum, here's one of the examples:
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2file=viewtopict=2854
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This is funny: in this thread i become an advocate of firebird although
in fact i mostly use PostgreSQL . :-)
We don't always use something we're advocating. I myself in fact mostly use
DB2 and -of course- mySQL for my official projects. But for personal projects,
I prefer Firebird. For
I tested on 1.5.1 firebird, and it inserts 610.000 records in less than
1 minute in 1 transaction.
Wow... this is very impresive indeed! I tested on 1.5.3, inserting about
300.000 records in a single transaction, took about 9 minutes!
I think it's about the table design, my table has 12
I feel the project is too small to warrant using a stand alone database
such as Firebird and the like.
Firebird is so small so I think it fits on your need. I suggest you to use the
embedded one. :)
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Is there any target when the new stable version of Lazarus (0.9.18? 1.0?) will
be released?
I can't wait to try the new version since I saw lots of fixes, patches, and
some new features has been applied and implemented. I feel unlikely to use the
snapshot version to produce serious and stable
http://www.luisdigital.com/varios/Qt4.png
BTW... I like the Penguin image with Delphi's background color (orange to
yellow gradient). I think it'd be nice to an alternative logo for Lazarus, but
not for replacing current logo. :)
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You can embed the resource file as-is on linux.
So FPC can read .res file just like on Windows?
Yes.
Just to make sure... $R compiler directive will also work on Lazarus regarding
the platform it run upon? If it does, then I'll be very happy. :)
The loading will work. I don't think the
You can embed the resource file as-is on linux.
So FPC can read .res file just like on Windows?
To extract the images from the resource, you'll need the fpc
FindResource and LoadResource calls to load them.
The component use Delphi's LoadFromResource to read the image from the
resource
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Is it possible to compile these little game (and its related component) on
Lazarus and make it works on Unix platform? The component resource is the
problem, I know nothing about program resources on Unix. :(
Any helps and hints will
Hi all...
I'd like to see a simple option in Lazarus to make we code faster. Sometimes we
need to make sure everything is ok without need to have the executable binary.
In short word, I'd like to compile my code without linking it. I demanded this
option since the linking process took some
Why don't you use a single paintbox to draw all your data on ?
This will requires a huge method for object drawing, keyboard detection, and
mouse detection. I think it'll be harder to code and maintain.
Creating a separate GUI object for each object in your database is a
very bad idea;
It
When your relation control works nice, we could use it for an UML modeller
for the IDE.
That's one of my aim while doing this project. :)
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and the only workable one for large databases was one which painted the
objects all from scratch.
I'm working on this project alone (for now), and I'm doing it in my spare time
(mostly on the weekend). I think it'll be too much to code every single object
from scratch. The progress will be
I would consider 250 tables rather moderate.
Wow... if 250 tables still considered as moderate, I wonder how many tables will
you considered as huge? I've build some large scale database application but I
never use more than 200-300 tables. If the tables more than 300 (max 500, IMO)
then I
Let me add a final consideration: if you do the drawing yourself, then
printing or creating a bitmap from the model is just a switch of canvas.
I've been thinking about this too.
With your approach, printing is simply not an option: You'll have to do
as I say anyway to do the printing...
Hi all...
Currently I'm planning to develop an application for database modeling, in my
spare time. I plan it'd be similar to FabForce's DBDesigner 4
(http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner), though it has nothing to do with the
FabForce's. Yes, I'll reinvent the wheel, but I have good reasons
I wonder why these kind of questions (production use, license, compatibility)
still arise these days, while the answers are very obvious through the FAQ and
the wiki (both on FPC and Lazarus). Perhaps the informations are less visible to
the visitors? (deep beneath the menus? there's no direct
I don't known if allowing malformed CSV is a good idea. Where do you draw the
line with what is acceptable?
Yes, I knew it's a bad practice, but under some circumstances I have to assume
that the data is always correct. I think the first step is I have to grab all
the data first (and insert
Current Usage:
TCSVParser.ExtractFields(const S: string; pFieldList: TStrings);
Is it able to parse correct these kinds of problems?
DelimeterChar := ',';
QuoteChar := ;
(1)
field 1, field 2, field 3, field 4
into 4 values:
field 1
field 2
field 3
field 4
note: obviously!
(2)
field
My point was that the name must carry the idea. The name Delphi doesn't.
Agree! That's why I prefer to promote Lazarus rather than FPC itself. This way
I'll promote FPC automatically since Lazarus run upon FPC. Lazarus isn't implied
by the bad assumptions of Pascal. Even sometimes (in
Who starts these useless threads anyway?
I did. IMO this is not useless and I never intended this thread to be a language
flame discussion. I just wanted to show that there are still ignorant C/C++
programmers out there that think pascal is obsolete. But the discussion has
change along the
propaganda lying by a state,
marketing lying by a corporation
What about spreading the gospel ? ;-)
Gospel is lying by a God? ;-)
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Well, derived from the Pascal is obsolet mail thread, i'm thinking this
(yes, sometimes i think :D )
How can you think without a brain? LOL :D
I'm going to start a marketing campaign about Lazarus/Frepascal for our
webs, oficial web (if they want), shirts etc..
What about the funding? Is it
http://online-judge.uva.es/board/viewtopic.php?t=10919
These people need to get out of their boat to see the world! :D
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Yes. TP compatibility. The Text internal record contains the buffer.
Can we have 255 byte buffer works only on TP mode? While on other modes
(DELPHI/OBJFPC) is using 4 KB buffer as the default.
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At the moment, I don't see how we could do this.
I almost knew nothing about the compiler and the sources, but this problem
forces me to look at the FPC compiler source and I found TextRecBufSize constant
declaration within textrec.inc file on FPC's src/rtl/inc folder. Here is the
All you do is compare standard IO performance. You don't compare the
compiled code's speed.
I know. But I/O performance benchmarking is one of the basic language comparison
item. When you want to participate on ACM contest (http://acm.uva.es/problemset)
that would be one of biggest obstacle
Those are compilers, not languages you are comparing.
How would I do performance measurement of language without its compiler?
Taking this in account, to be honest, I think gcc should be ashamed for
those results.
Agree! Even Java 1.4.2 (according to benchmark result at
A few more people like you and lazarus-ccr sf site will be the one with
the most hits ;-).
I'm sorry... I just don't know how to get all the documentations. The first
solution came up in my mind is just grab them all from the site. :D
Seriously, if you want to use off line help, download
Help - Configure Help - Databases - StartPage - BaseURL should be
something like
file:///C:/Programme/lazarus/
This is not working, at least at winXP. The file:/// section will be replaced
by user's home directory. That's why it'll goes to something like C:\Documents
and
it seems the help system is not working while on the designer
form.
Secondly, Lazarus always opens a html file on a new window. It's very
uncomfortable to see the taskbar full with browsers, when using IE. Or seeing
lots of tab when using Firefox.
I suggest Lazarus using this logic:
- if
We can create our own set of docs as well correct? Using fpcDoc and
the latest SVN code Is there a wiki site explaining this process
by any chance? I would rather generate the HTML docs seeing that I
always have the latest SVN code, instead of downloading 100Mb.
We don't need to ALWAYS
Dear all...
I've successfully installed Lazarus v.0.9.16 on winXP and set up its offline
help system. It's wonderfull to have the F1 key working and displaying
appropriate help content. Thank you and congratulations to FPC and Lazarus
development team.
To making the Lazarus online help
Free Pascal - Unit contribution form
http://www.freepascal.org/contrib/db.php3?category=all
laz-*TjanSQL* v.1.2 is modified version of *TjanSQL* v.1.1 to make it
*...* *TjanSQL* itself is a text comma-separated-value database engine
with SQL ability. *...*
I checked arround to see if there was a function to parse a valid CSV
string and return the result in a array?
Try to look at TjanSQL component which has been ported to Lazarus on FPC
Contributed Units section. This component is a CSV database engine with SQL
support. It's also available
Sourceforge only shows the last three added releases. :(
But how FPC's SF download page is very well managed? The files are categorized
based on the platforms and release version on each platform. See...
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2174
And perhaps you can also
I asked on the devel list if we should change it - no response so far. It's
a difficult decision.
Though Lazarus officially is not intended to clone Delphi, but in fact most (or
all) of Lazarus users were come from Delphi world. I think it'd be better if
Lazarus can mimic Delphi as close as
I agree. It is a stupid idea to change the name. There is nothing wrong
with the name Lazarus. All it needs is a couple more bug fixes and a lot
of PR work from it's users!
1000% agree!
Instead of waisting your energy and time following and writing to this
thread, spend your time
I used to use this trick to get a panel as container for a form on Delphi (7).
This trick works very well on Delphi. The trick is about displaying a form
(TForm) inside a panel (TPanel) as the form container. It's like TFrame but we
can attach any regular forms instead of a frame and we can
Under linux/GTK it is not working. It is like if the docked form was
displayed as modal and I was not able to have to focus back on the
parent form. I did not investigate yet.
Actually, I'd like to do it on Linux (and other non-win32 platforms). Most of my
codes on Delphi using this trick
Hi all...
I used to use this trick to get a panel as container for a form on Delphi (7).
This trick works very well on Delphi. The trick is about displaying a form
(TForm) inside a panel (TPanel) as the form container. It's like TFrame but we
can attach any regular forms instead of a frame
Dear all...
I was able to install ZeosDBO (rework for lazarus) on Lazarus v.0.9.13. After I
install the latest Lazarus (0.9.14.1), I failed to get ZeosDBO working upon it. :(
I got runtime error 210, FPC_CHECK_OBJECT on line 468 of generic.inc,
ZVARIANT_ini on line 1468 of ZVariant.pas,
The snapshots are built with a fpc snapshot (version 2.1.1). The lazarus
release (0.9.14) has been built with fpc 2.0.2. Maybe this can explain
the difference.
Which FPC/Lazarus files I need to modify in order to get ZeosDBO working on
0.9.14? Or simply replace the FPC used by current Lazarus
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