Re: [lazarus] Wider use case for gamepack ?

2008-02-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Isn't GLScene good enough as an OpenGL wrapper ? Yes OpenGL ES exists for WinCE. Indeed OpenGL is powerful for both 2D and 3D and most cards support it to some level, however a native 2D engine independent of the other accelerated APIs could be used for many things not just games and with fast

Re: [lazarus] Cgi / PowUtils / FastCgi

2008-02-01 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Powtils is simple and efficient, good examples, good docs, friendly forum, with some work on can turn a desktop app into a web app the right way without an overly complicated widgetset you have no control over such as IntraWeb, using simple templates one can make a pretty dynamic templateing

[lazarus] Making GTK Thread Safe

2007-12-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I've read something interesting in the GTK FAQ, it should be possible to make GTK apps thread safe if they are setup properly, assuming there are many multithreaded apps out there, i think this is really useful, instead of relying on synchronize or simulating Messages Queue with StringList, one

Re: [lazarus] vote for bdd related component icon

2007-12-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On Dec 11, 2007 2:45 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with John's explanation, which is why I vote for tdatasource.png. Trusted and known icon. Yes, the cylinder (Drum like) icon is good for DB but for Dataset it should be different and since Delphi has the Arrows and

Re: [lazarus] Making GTK Thread Safe

2007-12-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On Dec 12, 2007 9:34 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what if the worker thread posts a custom message to say the windows message queue. Surely that wouldn't cause the thread to be suspended. The GUI control then simply needs to know about the custom message, to process it

Re: [lazarus] Making GTK Thread Safe

2007-12-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
The synchronize method is simple but inefficient, it pauses your thread until the main thread has time to execute your code and could take some time until it does, i personally also dislike the fact that one cannot call any procedure/function with any number of parameters with synchronize. I think

Re: [lazarus] Communication between main thread and worker thread

2007-12-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On Dec 7, 2007 9:57 PM, Antonio Sanguigni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, usually under windows my worker thread send a message to main thread with postmessage function to communicate simple data, such as integer to update progress percentage of worker thread status. With Lazarus and with

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.25 (r13078) crashes on demand using clipboard

2007-11-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Can't remember the last time clipboard worked ... :| Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] Non UTF-8 Encodings

2007-11-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On Nov 27, 2007 11:42 PM, Jesus Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other day I built a tool that takes the txt tables and convert them to pascal constant arrays attached is the resulting inc file if needed for something. If I knew something like this ucmaps/charset exists I probably wouldn't

Re: [lazarus] VCL for C++ based on FreePascal RTL

2007-11-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
This would promote the VCL/LCL way of doing things just like C++Builder but it might also become a competitor to FPC because FCL/LCL is not used as in the case of BCB so the 2 projects have nothing in common. Maybe wxWidgets could be of use to FPC as a platform target. Razvan

Re: [lazarus] Non UTF-8 Encodings

2007-11-27 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On Nov 27, 2007 11:04 AM, Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See charset unit? Or what else uses rtl/ucmaps ? I think i saw it before, but didn't see any use for it, i can't seem to find any conversion tables just a strange (ugly naming, case, types, logic) skeleton to something that

Re: [lazarus] LCL in Dll

2007-11-27 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On Nov 22, 2007 6:01 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That means Zeos uses LCL?, I still don't understand why the dll works correctly by compiling in FPC from command line and not by compiling from Lazarus. Maybe some compilation switch, probably stripping is the issue. Razvan

Re: [lazarus] Serial Comm Support Windows

2007-11-26 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I personally like the synaser project :) Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] Non UTF-8 Encodings

2007-11-26 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
What about the Synapse conversion units ? There is a unit, synachar if i remember correctly that dragged a lot of charsets and codepages internally and converts wtthout iconv support for most of them and uses iconv if the encoding is not supported internally, we could write our own such unit using

Re: [lazarus]

2007-11-24 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On Nov 24, 2007 8:47 AM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vasily I. Volchenko schreef: And lazarus team is trying to force UTF8 introduction with a revolution without supporting neither old project nor saving files (and only saving) in compartible with other projects format.

Re: [lazarus]

2007-11-24 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
What's the problem with WideStrings in Delphi: http://tobias.feedian.com/2007/05/24/whats-wrong-with-delphis-widestring/ http://delphi.about.com/od/beginners/l/aa071800a.htm Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[lazarus] Ideas about Delphi's Roadmap

2007-11-24 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I just noticed the CodeGear roadmap and thought it would be nice to see what they are planning to do so we keep somewhat close to Delphi's improvements, they don't plan 64 bit support and CrossPlatform compilation until 2009 at least but they do plan to switch to Unicode, how will this be

Re: [lazarus]

2007-11-23 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
BTW: Synapse has a unit with quite powerful conversion routines and handles most of the encodings without any support from iconv, i tested it and it's wonderful :) At first i was against UTF8 but now i understand it's power, UTF8 is small since most text is in ASCII 7bit there is no increase

[lazarus] Google's Android OS :)

2007-11-22 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Google is creating a revolution in the mobile equipment market, their new OS (Android) is based on Linux and is OpenSource, they are planning to support a wide range of devices and are willing to pay lot's of money to people making apps for the new OS. I wonder if Lazarus and FPC could have an

Re: [lazarus]

2007-11-22 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Vasily I. Volchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll change it (but it is a bad idea to save text files only in utf-8 in linux, but in ansi in windows, besides, utf8 is very rarely used in final Russian files, when for internal functions it is well). Lazarus-ccr may be a good place (it is in

Re: [lazarus] Sockets and Lazarus + WinCE

2007-11-22 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On Nov 22, 2007 12:32 AM, Daniel Rincón García [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use the sockets components to make an application for WinCE? LNet, Indy, Synapse, i think all of them work on WinCE and most platforms, use the one which is best for you :) Razvan

Re: [lazarus] Google's Android OS :)

2007-11-22 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On Nov 22, 2007 11:36 AM, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering that application for android have to be written in java I somewhat doubt it. There must be a way to run apps natively or it's just another java OS ... Razvan

Re: [lazarus] WinCE, howto open a networkpath?

2007-11-21 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
With the INet components, I managed to use a UDP-component to frequently ask an internetserver for some data. I guess you can try synapse and indy too, they might provide better system for getting the info you need. Razvan _

[lazarus] What do you thing of this ?

2007-11-06 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Do you think this is a good initiative ? Would it be in the community interest to standardize Office formats as ISO ? http://www.noooxml.org/petition Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] UTF-8 vs UTF-16 support

2007-10-08 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 10/8/07, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit: You have to go through the string for UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings so the advantages are at least questionable... Yes, but my (wrong) premise is that you could assume all characters are 2 bytes wide, so the

Re: [lazarus] App Localization

2007-10-08 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
The delphi gnu gettext project has a tool that does a lot of things, allows translating forms, strings, etc, it could be used a a model for something similar in Lazarus and why not integrate something like POEdit directly http://dybdahl.dk/dxgettext/ Razvan

Re: [lazarus] App Localization

2007-10-08 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 10/8/07, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See here for the Lazarus port of dxgettext: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/DxGetText Unfortunately it doesn't have all the tools from the original project such as form property exporters and i don't think it allows translating forms

Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
From what i understand this type of interface is called TDI and very popular nowdays, the old Laz/D7/Gimp was SDI and things like child windows in a bigger main window is MDI (like Photoshop). Newer versions of Delphi are wonderful because you can configure almost anything, i personally like the

Re: [lazarus] Editor plugins (filters)

2007-09-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/12/07, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: If anybody is interested in extending the design of the Lazarus Editor... Do yourself a favor and look at the gEdit [1] application (included with Gnome Desktop) for ideas. It seems to be a very flexible and extensible editor.

Re: [lazarus] Contribute Contactless Measurement Tool

2007-09-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/3/07, 12 12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I almost finished work on part (tool) of project for contactless measurement of distance via webcam. It can: - capture image from webcam; - measure distance between lights according to calibration table. Despite of SysRec it will be true

Re: [lazarus] Contribute Contactless Measurement Tool

2007-09-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/4/07, Alex Kovacic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TELL ME MORE - I have a ethernet camera running a linux server and want to capture line scan images at 3000f/s.. Operating systems have their own way of capturing, windows used VFW and DirectX, Linux has V4L and V4L2, network capturing should be

Re: [lazarus] cross platform non rectangular form

2007-09-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Well the easiest (not easy on non win32) way would be to use regions on win32, similar thing for X11 after obtaining the handle and whatever OSX has. Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Ubuntu repository with Lazarus and FPC debs

2007-09-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Nice to know this, will there be a repository for snapshots too ? :) Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] Please help me with DLL’s!

2007-09-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Linux doesn't have resources in binary libs or apps, Kylix had a hack, FPC has a hack, loading resources from dynamic libraries shouldn't be done for most platforms, you can use lazarus resources on all platforms but only in the main executable unless the dll can transfer the image exporting it's

Re: [lazarus] Web Model for future FPC/Lazarus

2007-08-31 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
But many browsers can be enhanced to do almost anything, IE (on Windows) has ActiveX and all other browsers support netscape plugins on all platforms which are similar to activex. Some people on this list already made their own netscape plugins if i remember correcly and they work everywhere.

[lazarus] A nice template for Lazarus and FPC

2007-08-09 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I stumbled upon a nice template which might be useful for Lazarus and FPC Website/Wiki featuring a nice cheetah and nice colours :) http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/discovery Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Re: [lazarus] going legal, time for a name change....

2007-08-08 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Did you notice gaim was forced to change it's name to pidgin recently ? The foundation being named FreePascal Foundation is a very good idea so no conflicts about Lazarus here, i'm not sure if Lazarus has to be registered as a product or trademark or whatever but seeing other people's experience

Re: [lazarus] Having an OnUniKeyPress instead of OnUTF8KeyPress

2007-08-06 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Quote from http://www.unicode.org/faq/programming.html Many libraries, such as ICU or Java 5, use a hybrid approach. For strings, they use UTF-16 to reduce storage, but for single-character APIs they use code points (UTF-32 values) for API simplicity. It makes sense, instead of doing operations

Re: [lazarus] Problems with TListView (Win32)

2007-08-03 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I feel ListView isn't completed (other controls have issues too but not that much), at least under gtk i get warnings about things, i was wondering if VirtualTreeView might do the job, last time i checked it had painting issues, like header not being painted. Many people probably need a list with

Re: [lazarus] new Thread Manager Demo

2007-07-27 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
For some reason on linux at least the suspended property is no always set correctly, one can suspend a thread by creating a method like TrySuspend and set a variable FSuspend when the execute is run check for FSuspend then set it to false and call Suspend. I tried overriding the Suspend method and

Re: [lazarus] Unicode (UTF-8) and OnKeyPress event

2007-07-27 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
http://www.unicode.org/faq/programming.html How about converting to UTF-32? A: If your platform or i18n library supports UTF-32 (4-byte) characters, then, for similar reasons, you might want to use them instead of UTF-16. Generally, the simplest approach is to match your basic character and

Re: [lazarus] Unicode support and fonts

2007-07-27 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Windows has more fonts installable from the Control Panel, i think Unicode Arial is also there but there are OpenSource fonts like Bitstream Vera and FreeSans and DejaVu that are distributed with open licenses, also at some point i downloaded a ton of fonts for Graphics usage on windows and many

[lazarus] Convert text from one codepage to another or UTF

2007-07-27 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Is there any crossplatform way to convert text from different codepages ? From my knowledge only ANSI CP1250 or ISO 8859 1 or maybe a subset of them like the first 127 chars can be converted to UTF8 with AnsiToUTF8 and back. I have searched the web for alternative solutions, one option would be

Re: [lazarus] Unicode (UTF-8) and OnKeyPress event

2007-07-27 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Maybe there should be events like OnUniKeyPress that return a 32 bit UTF32 char, from what i've read some programming languages do this, Java is supposed to be one of them even if it uses UTF16 strings for storage reasons. Razvan _

Re: [lazarus] form embedded in another form

2007-07-27 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Reparenting forms is nice indeed, however if the widgetset does not allow this we really have to extend frames to have more form like behaviour, OnShow event does trigger in Delphi embedded forms, some events do not, but it is useful, reparenting Forms is useful in other cases too but i'm not sure

Re: [lazarus] Working with XML: crosscompatibility

2007-07-16 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I just found that the FPC XML Reader has a nasty bug at least in FPC 2.0.4 this XML will cause av ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? DCPlusPlus /DCPlusPlus This is because of this code in XMLRead line 671 in Function ExpectProlog // Check for (doctypedecl Misc*)?[28] if CheckForChar('D')

Re: [lazarus] Subrows in grids...

2007-07-05 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
The TMS Components for Delphi have a Merge Cells Feature similar to the subrow one but which is more Excel-ish, one can choose to merge a range of cells making them behave like a singe one or split them, those Grids are wonderful but they are commercial, useful as a source of ideas at some point,

Re: [lazarus] TCP server/client comunication

2007-05-14 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 5/14/07, Alvise Nicoletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... Looking into the components of Lazarus, the component nearer to the Delphi TcpClient-TcpServer (internet section) is TSimpleIpClient and TSimpleIpServer. Am I right? Are there anything else to do tcp/ip textual comunication with

Re: [lazarus] video capture with lazarus

2007-05-14 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I wrote a small program for windows using VFW some time ago, it's called sysrec, check out this page http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Components_and_Code_examples, might not compile if too much changed but you can get the idea easily :) On 5/12/07, Carlos Avogaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Re: [lazarus] Bluecurve theme looks really good in GTK1 and GTK2

2007-05-09 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I liked RH9 when it appeared, then Mandrake 10 which felt smooth and fast but Debian with it's smart packaging was better and when Ubuntu came it felt like the best distro at least for Desktop, minimal instalation with lots of options and smart packaging plus the wonderful synaptic :) What i like

Re: [lazarus] ZeosMySQL - Requesting an .AsString from a VARCHAR field in a table results in an external SIGSEGV error

2007-05-09 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
ZAbstractRODataSet is a ReadOnly dataset, but you are using TZTable ... no ideea if it's a descendant of the ReadOnly dataset, are you sure i isn't out of range ? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Serial unit for Windows

2007-05-04 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Is it suppose to work accessing the port directly and reading pin states or normal synchronous/asynchronous access ? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] Serial unit for Windows

2007-05-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
What are the functional differences between this and synaser ? On 5/1/07, Luis R. Hilario B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, New unit serial.pp for Windows. http://www.luisdigital.com/programacion/fpc/serial.pp Please, to verify any error, since I am not an expert. Some differences: Linux:

Re: [lazarus] [patch] - TSpeedbutton (new events)

2007-04-23 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 4/23/07, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is a patch that adds two new events to a TSpeedButton. OnEnter and OnExit (like TBitBtn has). I thought OnEnter is focus related and since TGraphicControl can't have focus in VCL/LCL i don't see how it will be triggered,

Re: [lazarus] [patch] - proposed patch for TDirectoryEdit (please comment)

2007-04-23 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 4/23/07, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is a proposed patch for TDirectoryEdit - please evaluate. Due to the fact that Gtk1 doesn't have a native Directory Treeview selection dialog like Windows, Gtk1 uses a normal File Open dialog. The problem is that TDirectoryEdit

Re: [lazarus] Document editing (doc, rtf) and/or interfacing with external editors

2007-04-20 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I've found some very interesting links: Delphi port of UNO API wich should work with CrossKylix, they want to port it to FPC/Lazarus too so we could help them and us :) http://sourceforge.net/projects/uno-pas-bridge/ French Tutorial: http://delphi.developpez.com/faq/?page=openoffice Other

Re: [lazarus] SysInfo for Linux first light

2007-04-20 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 4/19/07, Alex Smirnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry... It seems that this is a problem from my Home Page web-hoster. It is free of charge so I can do nothing to solve such problems. All links are accessible from Russia... It probably only works for you or just Russian IPs ? Some free

Re: [lazarus] devel: Imaging, Mask vs. Alpha

2007-04-19 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
If this clears anything some image formats support both Mask and Alpha, the first wich comes in mind is .ico wich does support alpha, mask and multiple sized icons, and i think .cur and .ani also ... Razvan _ To unsubscribe:

Re: [lazarus] Doing the Delphi 6 Text Editor Tutorial in Lazarus?

2007-04-19 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Isn't RichView supposed to be better than RichEdit ? http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/RichView Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] Doing the Delphi 6 Text Editor Tutorial in Lazarus?

2007-04-19 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
BTW: Skype uses RichView too :) _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] AllocateHWnd

2007-04-03 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
By the way, I would love if the IFDEF for Win32 Messages greater then WM_USER was removed =) Any reason to keep it ? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] ActiveX Data Object

2007-04-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Maybe SQLDB's ODBC Connector might just work :) Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] ActiveX Data Object

2007-04-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I remember Zeos had ADO support but dunno if it's for lazarus too ... _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] History of the widget set design?

2007-04-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Get the best of all worlds, having a custom widgetset means one can change it's behavior and even use native themes if required or maybe even linking to existing engines like GTK-QT engine does providing QT look for GTK apps using the QT engine, probably windows widgets have the behavior most

Re: [lazarus] Document editing (doc, rtf) and/or interfacing with external editors

2007-03-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 3/29/07, Adrian Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1)It is possible to run any of those editors from within a Lazarus application, as separate processes. That wouldn't be a problem, yes. 2)OpenOffice can be run as a server that waits for connections and can communicate with other programs. I

Re: [lazarus] Document editing (doc, rtf) and/or interfacing with external editors

2007-03-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 3/29/07, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One alternative is to simply call Abiword as a external app. http://www.abisource.com/ It´s a very capable rtf editor, cross-platform and free (in all meanings). Plus, it´s so small (the windows installer has 5 mb) that you can

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 3/29/07, Howard Lee Harkness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus? I'm looking for general information on this, and I ran into a dead end while trying to find the ODBC drivers, so I'm hoping somebody here has found a better way -- or knows where to

Re: [lazarus] objcom

2007-03-19 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Maybe synaser from Synapse project will be useful to you http://synapse.ararat.cz/ From what i know you can access hardware directly as root but dunno the calls, you might want to read this though http://wiki.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access Razvan

Re: [lazarus] How to create or modify a .res file

2007-03-19 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
XN Resource Editor http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm and it includes sources. Last time i checked res files were only supported on windows but lrs were supported internally by lazarus. If you want to edit .lrs files use tool included with lazarus to generate lrs ... Razvan

Re: [lazarus] Very stupid question

2007-03-19 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
You have to create a rc or res file and add it to the application with {$R resfile.res or resfile.rc} Look at lazarus itself for an example, if i remember correctly Lazarus icons were not real windows icons just bitmaps that read ico format with bitmap handle and was extremely tricky to get the

Re: [lazarus] Very stupid question

2007-03-19 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I was surprised when i discovered Laz/FPC automatically compiles rc files if using $R directive but you must specify the extension, dunno about Delphi ... Windows automatically assigns the lowest id icon to the executable and it's forms but one can specify any other icon, problem is Lazarus

Re: [lazarus] import ActiveX under lazarus

2007-03-12 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 2/21/07, George Birbilis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it need one to have FF installed though? Theoretically no if it's the one based on Netscape plugins interface wich is similar to ActiveX this is quite a CrossBrowser solution and CrossPlatform, it's as simple to load as a dll/so you

Re: [lazarus] Component to force one instance by application

2006-12-20 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Listing processes might be one way to check for instances, maybe try to communicate with that instance to make sure it's not blocked. There was also a simple way to check using instance handle in C wich could be adapted to FPC but i don't know how it works in Unix world. Razvan On 12/17/06,

Re: [lazarus] WinCE Patch

2006-11-10 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Is it possible to autodetect the platform ? On 11/10/06, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/06, Christian Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the best solution for this is an seperate interface. I don't agree. There aren't that many differences between different

Re: [lazarus] Possible to 'embed' a java applet in application?

2006-11-09 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Is MPP using the netscape plugin system (wich mozilla and other browsers still use) ? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] transparent forms

2006-03-01 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Regions are great and work in all Win Versions but Alpha Blending is only implemented in Win2K+, if you have good drivers even alpha doesn't consume much cpu, on Linux both Alpha and Regions should be supported already, i have noticed TCanvas has TRegion ? Was it meant to be a matrix with the

Re: [lazarus] VitrualTreeView

2006-02-21 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I have an older version of this component from one month ago, then it was unusable, i managed to install it but it had serious painting bugs, i will try again hopefully with more luck this time, TreeView also has some bugs but the what makes this component so useful is probably it's speed and

Re: [lazarus] PR advancement

2005-11-24 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 11/23/05, Ales Katona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the simplest and perhaps most important change to get better PR for both Lazarus and FPC is the web page. It needs to be more wow style. News have to be a bit propagandistic. A FAQ is IMHO required with first questions like: 1. Is

Re: [lazarus] Netscape plugin component

2005-11-22 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 11/22/05, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anybody tried to make a component that can host a Netscape/Mozilla plugins inside an application. I don't want to duplicate efforts. eg: I want to use the npswf32.dll npswf32.so files (Macromedia Flash plugin) to play Flash

Re: [lazarus] Re: Adding icon to Win API program

2005-11-05 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 11/6/05, Razvan Adrian Bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/05, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dannym wrote: you need more available RAM, most probably. At least that's why it does that at my machine. I usually close some resource hogging programs (i.e. web

Re: [lazarus] Adding icon to Win API program

2005-11-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
Lazarus resources and windows resources are quite different, the application icon is automatically loaded by windows if you use a resource file, you may look at lazarus's source and rc file or at this project

Re: [lazarus] lazarus site is hacked

2005-10-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 10/29/05, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote: On 10/29/05, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another case for writing a good web system in FPC/Lazarus. I have one nearly set up. Michael. What is it based

Re: [lazarus] lazarus site is hacked

2005-10-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 10/29/05, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another case for writing a good web system in FPC/Lazarus. I have one nearly set up. Michael. What is it based on (PSP) ? :) Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Re: [lazarus] Re: OT: Any info about LGPL ZeosLib licencing?

2005-10-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 10/21/05, Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/20/05, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: This is not the good place to ask, but I try in case someone knows... Zeollib is released under LGPL. But does that mean I can use the

Re: [lazarus] OpenGL 2D documentation/demo

2005-10-13 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 10/13/05, Andreas Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, these are a great help. Also thanks to the others that posted links. I am studying them all. A few more if you need'em from the Lazarus Wiki :)

Re: [lazarus] Re: Graphics basics on gtk

2005-10-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 10/2/05, Andrew Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: I tryed to create a TCustomControl descendent, but I can't seam to see it on the screen no matter what I do ... My tests were done in Win32, some time ago i had to display frames from a Camera wich i

Re: [lazarus] Single instance

2005-09-23 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/23/03, Bogusław Brandys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How to prevent my application to be run twice ? I know a method of creating unique Mutex under Windows but I want something platform independent. Any special multiplatform class or function for this ? Regards Boguslaw Brandys

Re: [lazarus] open file with associated application

2005-09-19 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/18/05, Melchiorre Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, could anybody explain to me how to open a files with associated application? With Delphi I use ShellExecute function: ShellExecute (0, 'open', PChar (FileName), nil, PChar (PathName), SW_SHOW); but I search a

[lazarus] A new marketing strategy

2005-09-19 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
If you were wondering what marketing strategies Borland was planning lately, search no more, Delphiman is here, hope he will beat all those (C/C++) compilers out there :) http://www.borland.com/superhero http://www.delphisuperhero.com/ Razvan

Re: [lazarus] Using translations in projects

2005-09-18 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/16/05, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:03:26 -0400 Tony Maro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote: I was wondering what is the best way of doing translations in user projects, wich units do the loading and how do they work, noticed

[lazarus] Using translations in projects

2005-09-15 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I was wondering what is the best way of doing translations in user projects, wich units do the loading and how do they work, noticed Lazarus has an interesting method for working with .po files directly but it is licensed GPL wich means it can be used with GPL only projects, should one write it's

Re: [lazarus] captions in runtime and designtime

2005-09-08 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/7/05, barko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have look: http://www.opinfos.com/tempo/laz/design_time.png http://www.opinfos.com/tempo/laz/run_time.png Latest SVN lazarus and latest SVN fpc 2.1.1... something is wrong. -- bye, ...s]-[it happens... What controls seem to be affected ?

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-08 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/7/05, L505 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I myself dont use desktop icons but I can relate why they might me nice... (like immediately being visible after logging in, freely positionable) if I had a larger screen, they might be actually useful, but as-is, they are _always_ covered by

Re: [lazarus] Used mac laptop

2005-09-07 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
There should be all kinds of adapters out there from USB to PS2, they might work for you :) Razvan On 9/7/05, Chris Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 4 port KVM switch which only has USB ports, so works out rather well for me. Chris On Sep 7, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Marco van de Voort

Re: [lazarus] OT: Did any onw saw Delphi 2005?

2005-09-04 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
I know the linker is verry slow but the compiler isn't verry fast either, this can be clearly seen on slower machines, Delphi somehow manages to compile and link everything verry fast, about 10x faster wich is impressive with all the bloat it has, while using Lazarus i can see when linker gets

Re: [lazarus] Console GUI / Web Applications Support for Lazarus RAD

2005-09-04 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/4/05, L505 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intraweb gives you visual HTML development. It's very powerful. Michael. Wow! I didn't know this, have to check into it. I thought it was just components that you drop on a form or something, similar to indy components, which aren't

Re: [lazarus] Console GUI / Web Applications Support for Lazarus RAD

2005-09-04 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/4/05, Dean Zobec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto: I am investigating this currently. I'm working on some base HTTP/HTML components which will be incorporated in the FCL. My plan is to use this as the basis for 2 kinds of web-applications: 1. A more

Re: [lazarus] OT: Did any onw saw Delphi 2005?

2005-09-04 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/4/05, Peter Vreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can create an internal linker. But i don't have time for fpc for the rest of 2005. The most challenging and time consuming part of creating a linker is the debugging/analysing of problems with faulty generated applications. How hard do you

Re: [lazarus] OT: Did any onw saw Delphi 2005?

2005-09-03 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/3/05, L505 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some things are simply too big to do yourself. For example, a stable RPC mechanism. Yeah, I like the fact that some stuff like synapse, KOL, etc. were already written by someone else. Hey at least those two support Delphi5 ;) And FPC, too bad

Re: [lazarus] OT: Did any onw saw Delphi 2005?

2005-09-03 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/3/05, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote: On 9/3/05, L505 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some things are simply too big to do yourself. For example, a stable RPC mechanism. Yeah, I like the fact that some stuff like synapse, KOL, etc. were already

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