Re: [lazarus] arm-linux

2007-08-08 Thread Tony Maro
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 09:55 +0100, Henry Vermaak wrote: which version of fpc are you using? my lcl compiles fine for gtk2 and arm with 2.3.1. whether it works or not is another story... FPC 2.0.4 - the standard stable packages for installing posted on the Lazarus site March 27th along with

Re: [lazarus] arm-linux

2007-08-03 Thread Tony Maro
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:45 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: If you're cross-compiling, you need the target libraries at hand and specify the path with -Fl, then add -Xr with the path of the libraries on the target, e.g.: ppcarm -Fl/directory/with/target/libraries

Re: [lazarus] arm-linux

2007-08-03 Thread Tony Maro
Now I'm stuck on: Compiling project1.lpr Assembling project1 Linking project1 /usr/local/bin/arm-linux-ld: cannot find -lpthread project1.lpr(19) Error: Error while linking AFAIK the linker isn't able to link your program against libpthread.so because it is not found. You

Re: [lazarus] arm-linux

2007-08-03 Thread Tony Maro
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:29 -0400, Tony Maro wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:45 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: If you're cross-compiling, you need the target libraries at hand and specify the path with -Fl, then add -Xr with the path of the libraries on the target, e.g.: ppcarm -Fl

Re: [lazarus] arm-linux

2007-08-03 Thread Tony Maro
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 17:52 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: On that note, it still won't find libglib. On the device is only libglib-2.0.so so I assume ppcarm is trying to link to libglib-1.2 or some such... Try compiling for gtk2 instead of gtk1. Or find gtk1 libraries for the

[lazarus] arm-linux

2007-08-02 Thread Tony Maro
I've compiled my first console program for arm-linux and ran it on my Nokai n800 tablet. I downloaded arm-linux-fpc-2.0.4.i386-linux.tar from ftp.freepascal.org and installed it. I created a simple console app and ran the following at a command line: ppcarm -Xd -Sd -XParm-linux- project1.lpr

Re: [lazarus] arm-linux

2007-08-02 Thread Tony Maro
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 18:51 -0400, Tony Maro wrote: I created a simple console app and ran the following at a command line: ppcarm -Xd -Sd -XParm-linux- project1.lpr Worked like a charm. Placing those options in the additional options for the compiler options in Lazarus also works

Re: [lazarus] What about a Lazarus church to raise money?

2007-07-30 Thread Tony Maro
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:23 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tony Maro wrote: I second it. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Now, on the the board of director's elections... Congratulations. You are appointed CEO. We expect a website, paypal account

[lazarus] Nokay N800

2007-07-30 Thread Tony Maro
Anyone tried building a Laz app for the Nokia N800 yet? Is this possible? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800 It uses the OMAP2420 processor. Apparently it's possible to get FPC running on the predecessor, the 770: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1846 Thanks,

Re: [lazarus] Nokia N800

2007-07-30 Thread Tony Maro
Geez, Can I not spel? Dunno where Nokay came from in the subject line... On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 07:40 -0400, Tony Maro wrote: Anyone tried building a Laz app for the Nokia N800 yet? Is this possible? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800 It uses the OMAP2420 processor. Apparently

Re: [lazarus] Nokia N800

2007-07-30 Thread Tony Maro
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:35 +0200, Marc Weustink wrote: Tony Maro wrote: Anyone tried building a Laz app for the Nokia N800 yet? Is this possible? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800 It uses the OMAP2420 processor. Apparently it's possible to get FPC running

Re: [lazarus] What about a Lazarus church to raise money?

2007-07-29 Thread Tony Maro
I second it. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Now, on the the board of director's elections... On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 10:41 +1000, SteveG wrote: fully support this idea Giuliano Colla wrote: My company badly needs Lazarus. Therefore it could pay some money in order to support it,

[lazarus] Odd text file problem

2007-07-24 Thread Tony Maro
I'm updating CBT to compile with the latest Lazarus and I'm having problems with my file generation routine from inside a component. It calls: procedure TChkPrinter.PrintChecks; var MyFile: TextFile; FileName: String; // extraneous info removed begin // more extraneous info

Re: [lazarus] Odd text file problem

2007-07-24 Thread Tony Maro
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 17:33 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Try a strace of your program: strace -o log.txt ./myprogram After execution, you can open the log.txt file, and you should see somewhere a line: open(/tmp/cbtrack.ps,SOME OPTIONS) = (grep for the filename) if this line is

Re: [lazarus] Shift+Tab doesn't work as expected?

2007-07-24 Thread Tony Maro
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:27 -0400, Tony Maro wrote: Tab through components on a form works fine. Shouldn't shift-tab go backwards through the same list? Mine jumps around just the buttons on the form with shift+tab and skips most of the text boxes. Yes, I've set my taborder correctly

[lazarus] Wow, Kudos to the GTK2 team whoever you are!

2007-07-24 Thread Tony Maro
I've finally got The ORIGINAL Lazarus built application (TM) (hehe) -- originally started in June of 2002 -- built and running in the latest stable Lazarus. It hasn't been compiled on a recent Lazarus in something like three years. It's amazing how many changes there have been to the unit

[lazarus] Shift+Tab doesn't work as expected?

2007-07-24 Thread Tony Maro
Tab through components on a form works fine. Shouldn't shift-tab go backwards through the same list? Mine jumps around just the buttons on the form with shift+tab and skips most of the text boxes. Yes, I've set my taborder correctly. Tested and got the same results with both GTK+ and GTK 2.

Re: [lazarus] Wow, Kudos to the GTK2 team whoever you are! (one caveat)

2007-07-24 Thread Tony Maro
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:48 -0400, Tony Maro wrote: I did however have one form that if I showed it modal, closed it, and showed it modal again would crash the app. I changed it to dynamically create the form just prior to showing it to fix the problem. Something else, I seem to get left

[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

[lazarus] Working on my components again

2007-07-21 Thread Tony Maro
. I'll also plan to make CBT more cross platform with this next release so it will compile in Windows (and maybe OSX) without major hassle. -Tony Maro

[lazarus] New component: TMMobileBar

2007-07-21 Thread Tony Maro
So I got a wild hair today and did something I've been wanting to do for a while. I was inspired by this screenshot of possible MID's (Mobile Internet Devices) that run Linux: http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/intel_redflag_MIDinux_UI.jpg I liked the nav bar on the middle screenshot, and

[lazarus] Contract Lazarus work - USA based

2007-05-29 Thread Tony Maro
version without some significant changes. Experience with Micha's TDbf and the synaptic TCP toolkit a plus. Send resume's and/or portfolio to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Tony Maro

Re: [lazarus] Database programming

2006-09-07 Thread Tony Maro
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 23:55 -0700, Adrian Maier wrote: If you start a new application, I see no reason not to use something better - that supports goodies like transactions and SQL . For a new stand-alone application I'd choose embedded-firebird with no hesitations. If later it is

Re: [lazarus] Database programming

2006-09-07 Thread Tony Maro
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 09:23 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I will invite you to pay some visits to schools where they use a administration system, based on DBAse files on a network share. The first rule is: only 1 user can edit a given table at a certain time. Failure to comply with

Re: [lazarus] Database programming

2006-09-07 Thread Tony Maro
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 17:16 -0400, Adrian Maier wrote: For example, joining manually 4 tables with sums and 'group by' is not fun at all, compared to executing a simple sql query . It would have been a huge pain to generate the reports in my applications without a SQL engine !

Re: [lazarus] Database programming

2006-09-05 Thread Tony Maro
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 22:32 +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Nevertheless, it would be better to use an engine such as Firebird, because it is scalable. Projects using DBase files or so are not scalable. Not scalable ? In what way ? TDbf rulezzz ;-) Says the

Re: [lazarus] Trying to make TScrollingWinControl more useful...

2006-09-01 Thread Tony Maro
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 12:49 -0300, Flvio Etrusco wrote: Again, I can't see any use for overriding/inheriting from TControlScrollbar... One would have to inherit the control from TScrollingWinControl and use quite some hacks to be able to change the instance of the scrollbars to new one...

Re: [lazarus] VersionInfo - How to set SomethingHasChanged? (fwd)

2006-09-01 Thread Tony Maro
Yes, you must make sure you send them from the address you signed up with. Your From address was different on the first one from the looks of it. On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:21 +0200, Jouke Rensma wrote: Somehow I cannot get this mail through. Maybe this one??? -- Forwarded message

Re: [lazarus] Trying to make TScrollingWinControl more useful...

2006-09-01 Thread Tony Maro
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 19:19 +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: I've done that... inherit from TScrollingWinControl that is. The check register component in CheckBook Tracker used that method. I needed a scrolling win control, but needed the scrollbar to handle many thousands of entries,

[lazarus] Windows 2003 Server

2006-08-30 Thread Tony Maro
I just installed a snapshot of the Windows Lazarus with FPC on a Windows 2003 Server. Everything installed fine and Lazarus started with a blank project, but when I try to open an existing project it will invariably crash. It's always Access violation and happened to me on both TGroupbox and

Re: [lazarus] Function to parse valid CSV string?

2006-06-05 Thread Tony Maro
Alexandre Leclerc wrote: I checked arround to see if there was a function to parse a valid CSV string and return the result in a array? procedure DecodeCSV(s: string; var a: array of string); So a string like: 123, my name, name, my, just more text would return in an array: [ '123' , 'my

Re: [lazarus] Little Startup help under Linux

2006-05-26 Thread Tony Maro
Alexander Peters wrote: Hello Mailinglist! I?am a Windows Developer and want to check Linux (Kubuntu) and coding under Linux (Lazarus) know i want to download it and find serval RPMs. Now i dont know which RPM i need to install. Is it right that i need the lazarus-0.9.14-1.i386.rpm and the

Re: [lazarus] Little Startup help under Linux

2006-05-26 Thread Tony Maro
Alexander Peters wrote: Thanks a lot Tony, i will try it and hope i can solve it. Its weekend so i have many time to test it. One more caution for you. Ubuntu / Kubuntu doesn't install many devel libraries by default. When you go to compile Lazarus the first time you are likely to get many

Re: [lazarus] Focus problem -- where is it handled in the lcl?

2006-05-19 Thread Tony Maro
Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/5/18, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 18 May 2006 14:08:19 -0400 Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, can someone point me where the focus events / mouse click events and all that low level stuff for visual components (including forms)

Re: [lazarus] Re: Lazarus File bigger then Delphi File?

2006-05-17 Thread Tony Maro
Mattias Gaertner wrote: Won't help. For example at the moment the gtk callbacks use case statements with all kind of controls. This must be improved. LCL adds some things, like being able to load a form from XML. This requires a parser, and parsers are big, so this adds size to

Re: [lazarus] GTK/Linux vs QT/Linux Lazarus Support

2006-05-16 Thread Tony Maro
Alain Michaud wrote: - Mandriva works very very well with Lazrus. On other platforms you get the ugly motif like theme. It seems that the gnome-control-center is not connected to the theme that lazarus uses. This has to do with GTK-1 GTK-2 difference, I think. Those who are skilled, can

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-15 Thread Tony Maro
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2006, Ido Kanner wrote: Nicholas Wirth once said that a language requires good name (I don't recall the exact quote), without a good name the language will fail. In that case he did a poor PR job, obviously. Obviously the name C++ is why

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-13 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 5/13/06, johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They printed an article on Gambas. In Spanish it means shrimp. On portuguese, Gambas is a black and white animal that stinks a lot when scared =) Skunk in English. I used to own one. Darn things bite hard too.

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-13 Thread Tony Maro
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Well: I don't think that after so many years, Lazarus should change it's name. People taking offense at this name only make themselves ridiculous. I refuse to take that (or them) serious. ( Yes, and I will take the risk that I will burn eternally in hell for this

Re: [lazarus] Weird GTK error - ah found it

2006-05-08 Thread Tony Maro
Marc Santhoff wrote: Am Montag, den 08.05.2006, 10:46 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: That one got me as well!! It is a bug and has already been reported on Mantis. What makes it worse, is that it only occurs on certain widget sets. I believe Gtk2 works correctly, but Win32 and Gtk1

[lazarus] Interfaces ready for prime-time

2006-05-05 Thread Tony Maro
I just want to confirm my findings and those from the IRC room. From the looks of it, the only interfaces that are really working right now are Win32 and GTK1. I played with the QT interface but it constantly crashed with anything more intense than a label and a button. The GTK2 interface has

Re: [lazarus] Interfaces ready for prime-time

2006-05-05 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 5/5/06, Tony Maro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I played with the QT interface but it constantly crashed with anything more intense than a label and a button. Can you send me a project you were trying to work with on Qt interface? I can try to make

Re: [lazarus] Interfaces ready for prime-time

2006-05-05 Thread Tony Maro
Giuliano Colla wrote: Giuliano Colla ha scritto: Tony Maro ha scritto: In QT it seems to run, but when you X to close the app, a huge empty window appears on top of everything and the console shows crash information: With the patch I've just submitted to the mailing list, it doesn't

[lazarus] How to debug?

2006-05-03 Thread Tony Maro
Okay I've never had this problem before. I just built a new machine and installed yesterday's snapshot of Lazarus and the stable FPC (2.0.2? Linux.) When I run either Lazarus or an app I build with Lazarus under gdb, and there's a crash, gdb does not immediately pause things and let me look at

Re: [lazarus] How to debug?

2006-05-03 Thread Tony Maro
Marc Weustink wrote: Tony Maro wrote: Okay I've never had this problem before. I just built a new machine and installed yesterday's snapshot of Lazarus and the stable FPC (2.0.2? Linux.) When I run either Lazarus or an app I build with Lazarus under gdb, and there's a crash, gdb does

Re: [lazarus] How to debug?

2006-05-03 Thread Tony Maro
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 03 May 2006 13:01:48 -0400 Tony Maro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set it in the compiler options to add content for gdb debugging - and I'm not doing the debugging inside the IDE but by running gdb at the command prompt. It's like something in FPC or Laz

Re: [lazarus] GTK2 builds, but wont run

2006-05-03 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: If you only needs your programs to be in Gtk2 you can recompile only LCL for Gtk2 and keep using the IDE on Gtk1. I forgot about that - will have to try that. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

[lazarus] Is there a WinCE tutorial for Lazarus?

2006-04-26 Thread Tony Maro
Has anyone done a tutorial yet on how to set up FPC + Laz to do WinCE development? Thanks, Tony _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] Is there a WinCE tutorial for Lazarus?

2006-04-26 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 4/26/06, Tony Maro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done a tutorial yet on how to set up FPC + Laz to do WinCE development? Yes. They are on the Wiki: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Windows_CE_Interface There are step

Re: [lazarus] FPC question

2006-04-20 Thread Tony Maro
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I was just looking at those pages. I don't know how to create/start a new wiki page, only edit current ones. Do you need special permissions to create new pages, if so could you create a blank/template page, and I will fill in the rest. (or I'll start reading the

Re: [lazarus] Making an installer

2006-03-16 Thread Tony Maro
bobby wrote: I want to include an exe, a html file, and two pictures into my exe-file done in Lazarus. The question is: if I include those 4 files into resources, and link them into my exe-file, how can I save them back to HDD from already linked executable? To make the clear picture, all of

Re: [lazarus] turboCASH on Lazarus proof of concept

2006-03-04 Thread Tony Maro
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:57:32 -0300 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If you Linux guys (Even the Lazarus on Windows guys) - Could do the following : i) Download the TurboCASH/Delphi project. Steal whatever you need ii) Open a set of

[lazarus] Updated daemon instructions?

2006-03-03 Thread Tony Maro
I'm trying to implement a deamon using and example I found at: ftp://ftp.cncware.com/pub/fpc/daemon.pp I've of course had to make several changes to support a more recent compiler. Everything compiles fine, and the process forks and dumps directly to the console as expected. However, it's not

Re: [lazarus] Is GTK needed?

2006-02-17 Thread Tony Maro
written with Lazarus from people who don't have GTK+ installed. I also get a lot of questions because several GTK+ installs don't install all the required pixbuf libraries. -Tony Maro _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [lazarus] Snapshots not working?

2006-02-15 Thread Tony Maro
Vincent Snijders wrote: Tony Maro wrote: I just downloaded the snapshot from last night - my first attempt at a recent lazarus in months. Last night is 20060214? I've tried 20060214 and 20060215 and both die with the error. I just downloaded 20060207 from sourceforge and it works fine

[lazarus] Snapshots not working?

2006-02-14 Thread Tony Maro
. -Tony Maro _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] Changes to file on disk warning annoying

2006-01-24 Thread Tony Maro
Dale Welch wrote: Is the windows client using a fat,fat32,vfat? if it is it's time is only stored to the nearest even second. so this does cause a problem between the machines On mine, it's NTFS. _ To unsubscribe: mail

Re: [lazarus] Changes to file on disk warning annoying

2006-01-24 Thread Tony Maro
L505 wrote: Ahh, that is the reason my keyboard teacher in grade 6 or so kept telling me to LOOK at the screen not the keyboard! But real programmers look at the keyboard, because there are so many odd key combinations that you can't possibly hold them all in your head. Actually, I

[lazarus] Changes to file on disk warning annoying

2006-01-23 Thread Tony Maro
I just changed from using SMB to get to my source files to using NFS to a Windows box. Now Lazarus complains around once a minute that the file has changed on disk, and offers to reload the changes - looking at the DIFF provided, there _are_ no changes. I'm assuming it's an NFS or timeclock

Re: [lazarus] Changes to file on disk warning annoying

2006-01-23 Thread Tony Maro
Mattias Gaertner wrote: The files didn't changed on disk, so an automatic refresh would undo your current changes. At the moment the IDE does this: On saving/opening a file it retrieves the FileAge of the file. At several occassions it compares these file dates with the current file dates.

Re: [lazarus] Changes to file on disk warning annoying

2006-01-23 Thread Tony Maro
Micha Nelissen wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:11:24 +0100 Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could extend the check to load the file and compare its content. Maybe introducing a margin of error would be enough ? 2 seconds or so ? So if changed only 2 seconds later, the

Re: [lazarus] Document (virus!!)

2006-01-09 Thread Tony Maro
Adilson Oliveira wrote: L505 escreveu: And I couldn't resist knocking you off your unix high horse. This should have been posted to pascal-other, both your message and mine. Oh, but there is no lazarus-other so it had to be said right here and now. This was just a joke, don't need

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread Tony Maro
Marco van de Voort wrote: I have prepared some screenshots of a concept look and feel for Lazarus. Please check it out at: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/GUI_design#Look_and_Feel Feel free to comment, but please accept that this is just a concept. So It has no use to discuss the

[lazarus] AMD 64

2005-12-01 Thread Tony Maro
Meh... I just installed Ubuntu for AMD 64. So far, the few small apps I've tried to compile from source have failed (C, not Pascal.) Can I safely make the assumption that trying to develop for I386 machines is going to be a pain in the butt, at least short-term? -Tony

Re: [lazarus] Send commands to shell

2005-11-16 Thread Tony Maro
barko wrote: I use this on linux and windows: function Run(fexec,args:string; wait:boolean):boolean; var ffexec:string; begin result:=true; try if fileexists(fexec) then ffexec:=fexec else snip Dne sreda 16. novembra 2005 15:37 je Kleiton Luiz napisal(a): Hi, i'm try to send a commad

Re: [lazarus] LNet Package ERROR

2005-11-14 Thread Tony Maro
Ales Katona wrote: Kleiton Luiz wrote: Hi, i'm try to install lnetpackage-0.1.zip in lazarus for linux, but i dont can compile, on press install the lazarus show me this message: /root/Desktop/lnetpackage-0.1/lnet/tomwinsock.pas(1,1) Fatal: Can't find unit Windows My Free Pascal

Re: [lazarus] A new marketing strategy

2005-11-10 Thread Tony Maro
Luis R. Hilario B. wrote: My (2) Delphisuperhero: http://luisdigital.com/varios/ xD But to send Delphi Personal would be better promotion. 2005/9/19, Razvan Adrian Bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you were wondering what marketing strategies Borland was planning lately, search no more,

Re: [lazarus] Code completion

2005-09-29 Thread Tony Maro
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:10:31 +0200 Matthijs Willemstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, When I have the following code: type TFoo = class procedure FooProc; end; After invoking code completion the skeleton of procedure TFoo.FooProc is created. Then I change

Re: [lazarus] Code completion

2005-09-29 Thread Tony Maro
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:35:59 -0400 Tony Maro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't automatic adapting make overloading harder? Why? The result as happens now is it basically gets created like it's overloaded... Yes. But in the case, that the class

Re: [lazarus] TXMLConfig from FPC and Lazarus

2005-09-14 Thread Tony Maro
Cristiano Magro wrote: Hi, I see that there is two TXMLConfig, from FPC and from Lazarus, but constructor aren't the same. My problem is that: compliler link with TXMLConfig from FPC and parameters for constructor aren't valid. I use in some package MyConfig :=

Re: [lazarus] Re: Compiling GTK2 application

2005-09-14 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: I recompiled everything including the IDE and there seam to be many alignment problems on the IDE. The fonts do look much better, but all buttons are too small, so text and glyphs became only partially visible. Is this why you recomended not to recompile

Re: [lazarus] Application.OnIdle

2005-09-12 Thread Tony Maro
Lord Satan wrote: I am using Ubuntu myself but I installed GTK1 and never tried to build Lazarus with GTK2 support so I cannot help you there. AHA! I always knew there was something evil about Ubuntu! If Lord Satan uses it, that just confirms my suspicions ;-) As far as I can see

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

2005-09-09 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 9/9/05, *dannym* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, sysconfdir is a automake/autoconf variable that is f.e. set by ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc Default is /etc for some packages and ${prefix}/etc for others.

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

2005-09-08 Thread Tony Maro
dannym 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 about = 5 full screen windows, so I

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

2005-09-08 Thread Tony Maro
Tony Pelton wrote: On 9/8/05, Tony Maro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm still no closer to writing an install utility that will install menu icons. -Tony and as per my earlier post ... you've seen this ? http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fdesktop_2dentry_2dspec Yes

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

2005-09-08 Thread Tony Maro
Tony Pelton wrote: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apc.html those specs look like they cover at least the KDE and Gnome case fairly well. Oh, I did miss this little documentation tidbit: If $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to /etc/xdg should

Re: [lazarus] Error example - Execute external program WIKI

2005-09-07 Thread Tony Maro
Adriano Frare wrote: Daer TONY, When I compiled and I have received follow ERROR IDENTIFIER NOT FOUND DebugLn Sorry, I forgot to mention you will need to include LclProc in your uses clause. Thanks Adriano Tony Maro wrote: Adriano Frare wrote: Dear Friends I am testing example

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus binaries size

2005-09-06 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 9/5/05, *Tony Maro* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did some rough tests the other day and the smallest I could get an executable that included the forms unit was just under 2MB with everything stripped and smartlinking

Re: [lazarus] Error example - Execute external program WIKI

2005-09-06 Thread Tony Maro
and it won't happen. There's no console to output your writeln to, so it crashes. I believe the better way to do it is DebugLn('-- executing --'); This will work (or at least not crash) regardless of an existing console. -Tony Maro

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

2005-09-06 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 9/6/05, *dannym* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: errr? no. Just for the one user that installed or uses the program, of course. Or still better, none. Put it in the application menu. I usually deploy on RedHat

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus binaries size

2005-09-05 Thread Tony Maro
Florian Köberle wrote: Alexander Todorov schrieb: Hi all, I've noticed that Lazarus produces very big binary files (.exe). I was thinking that it was linking all the gui stuff into the executable but maybe thing are not so simple as I think. In one of the previous threads someone mentioned

[lazarus] Website refusing connections?

2005-08-31 Thread Tony Maro
The website www.lazarus.freepascal.org seems to be refusing connections. -Tony _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] EXE packer for Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Tony Maro
Ales Katona wrote: Tony Maro wrote: Being frustrated with the results of UPX in Linux (can't access param(0) if it's packed) I did some hunting and found: http://exepak.sourceforge.net/ For the TruckBites installer, I wrote my own installation utility that tags all the individual files

Re: [lazarus] Case study Marketing

2005-08-31 Thread Tony Maro
Vincent Snijders wrote: Tony Maro wrote: With all the recent talk of marketing Lazarus, I got the bright idea of posting a case study on the Lazarus site of how we use Lazarus in our daily business. Feel free to take any sound bites out of it and use them for marketing efforts. Can you

Re: [lazarus] forcing a component to repaint itself

2005-08-23 Thread Tony Maro
A.J. Venter wrote: Okay, I have a small problem with my tfunkymemo component, it doesn't repaint after loading a new file into it. This is a bit of an issue if you look at what I use it for (what I CREATED it for) which is live help in the app that changes as you navigate. The help files

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on Linux and TDBF

2005-08-20 Thread Tony Maro
Παναγιώτης Σιδηρόπουλος wrote: I have a foxpro .dbf file with memo field (fpt file is accompanied) used on Windows Delphi 6 through Apollo, Borland's BDE alternative. I'm trying to convert the application and dbf to Lazarus under linux. What I did is to delete cdx index file (as tdbf manual

Re: [lazarus] OT: Kylix developement?

2005-08-17 Thread Tony Maro
Bogusław Brandys wrote: Thomas Zastrow wrote: Am I right that Borland will not delevope Kylix any more? Version 3 is the last one? Borland choose .NET platform as I know.It would be wast of time to futher develop Kylix. I think waste of time amply describes Kylix to begin with...

Re: Eclipse lazarus and marketing

2005-08-15 Thread Tony Maro
-up e-mail. -Tony Maro _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] Marketing efforts.

2005-08-15 Thread Tony Maro
Micha Nelissen wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:26:09 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following the talk about Lazarus' visibility, and marketing. Me too, of course. There is a VERY important fact you must be aware of: The number of Free Pascal

Re: [lazarus] Marketing efforts.

2005-08-15 Thread Tony Maro
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: There is a VERY important fact you must be aware of: The number of Free Pascal and Lazarus developers is VERY SMALL. What is more, this is a HOBBY, not their source of income. (Although probably some of us would like it to be so.) Speak for yourself!

[lazarus] Best way to draw fonts on canvas

2005-08-15 Thread Tony Maro
I'm just using the default settings on a TListBox that I'm custom drawing the text into... On most computers it looks wonderful. I find that on some computers (on Win32) the font is 3x normal size and doesn't fit quite right. So how does a TListBox (or any other control for that matter)

Re: [lazarus] Best way to draw fonts on canvas

2005-08-15 Thread Tony Maro
Tony Maro wrote: I'm just using the default settings on a TListBox that I'm custom drawing the text into... On most computers it looks wonderful. I find that on some computers (on Win32) the font is 3x normal size and doesn't fit quite right. So how does a TListBox (or any other control

Re: [lazarus] Allways font size under Linux

2005-08-01 Thread Tony Maro
Ger Remmers wrote: On Tuesday 02 August 2005 00:10, Tony Maro wrote: Also, you need to make it so your pc can't overwrite this file. Each reboot GTK tries to overwrite it... but I forget what the chmod or attrib or whatever command was he had me do. A simple chmod -w .gtkrc didn't do