[lazarus] diff between FPC 2.11 and 2.04

2006-11-08 Thread johnf
Hi, I know that FPC 2.04 is the stable release. But if I recall SQLDB was not as advanced in 2.0x and it is in 2.1.x. Is this correct? Or has all the SQLDB stuff been back ported to 2.04. Thanks John _ To

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus and DOT Net

2006-11-01 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 00:43, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:41:50PM -0800, johnf wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:12, Marco van de Voort wrote: I think full time python programmers are more rare than full time pascal/delphi programmers. First let me

Re: [lazarus] a bounty

2006-11-01 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 04:57, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 11/1/06, zeljko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:19, johnf wrote: I will offer $200.00 US to anyone that delivers Lazarus running either QT or GTK2 at the current level Lazarus runs

[lazarus] a bounty

2006-10-31 Thread johnf
I will offer $200.00 US to anyone that delivers Lazarus running either QT or GTK2 at the current level Lazarus runs today with GTK1. So what I'm saying is the IDE should be able to run using either QT or GTK2 and programs compiled as either QT or GTK2 must run. It does not have to be both -

Re: [lazarus] a bounty

2006-10-31 Thread johnf
. On Tuesday 31 October 2006 19:19, johnf wrote: I will offer $200.00 US to anyone that delivers Lazarus running either QT or GTK2 at the current level Lazarus runs today with GTK1. So what I'm saying is the IDE should be able to run using either QT or GTK2 and programs

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus and DOT Net

2006-10-31 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 03:35, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:02:13PM -0800, johnf wrote: If writting a wrapper was easy why haven't we got a completed QT interface? The same reason as why GTK exists at all. QT had license problems for a long while. There simply

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus and DOT Net

2006-10-31 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:12, Marco van de Voort wrote: I think full time python programmers are more rare than full time pascal/delphi programmers. First let me say I'm not disagreeing or agreeing. But I hope it's true. I just wonder what evidence you have. I could use the evidence to

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus and DOT Net

2006-10-30 Thread johnf
Python is nice OOP language Can you name apps? Afaik it is mostly used for a bit of in application scripting and some webapps. But is it really a Delphi replacement? I doubt it. What does it use for GUI btw? I assume you are not kidding about the apps. IMHO smart (a package updater written in

Re: [lazarus] Database programming

2006-09-07 Thread johnf
On Thursday 07 September 2006 00:23, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Micha Nelissen wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Not scalable ? In what way ? It's not multi-user and network-capable. This is also simply not true. It is multi-user capable, and can use files from a

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

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

Re: [lazarus] problems with SQLdb components and Postgres

2006-08-01 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 10:05, Alexsander Rosa wrote: So the best thing for PostgreSQL users is to bury sqldb for good and use Zeos instead? Is this correct? Not to be rude - but that's bull. SQLdb works. It may have a few issues but so does Zeos. John

Re: [lazarus] Using sqldb from FPC 2.0.2 with PostgreSQL: no LIMIT clause?

2006-07-31 Thread johnf
On Monday 31 July 2006 14:21, Alexsander Rosa wrote: With Lazarus from SVN, FPC 2.0.2, Ubuntu 6.06 and PostgreSQL 8.1.4 (and some 8.1.3 in the network), the LIMIT clause is triggering a prepare error. Is this a lack of features of sqldb or maybe some misconfiguration from my part? Without

Re: [lazarus] Sqldb ,MySql and Transactions

2006-07-25 Thread johnf
I haven't used ODBC but have used SQLDB to connect, update, delete,select etc Why use ODBC - just wondering? John On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:26, Zlatko Matic wrote: Has anybody successfully connected to PostgreSQL using ODBC? Zlatko - Original Message - From: Bram

Re: [lazarus] Sqldb ,MySql and Transactions

2006-07-25 Thread johnf
would lke to try it:) - Original Message - From: johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Sqldb ,MySql and Transactions I haven't used ODBC but have used SQLDB to connect, update, delete,select etc Why use

Re: [lazarus] SQLDb,Mysql and TTable component

2006-07-22 Thread johnf
I have not seen your code but in general the idea of a temporary table to update a permanent table is not the normal way to use SQL.  When you start adding data to a table from the program it will not be written until you 'commit'.  Therefore, appending or any changes to a table can be

Re: saving TdbGrid data to PostgreSQL

2006-07-19 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 22:56, Adrian Maier wrote: On 19/07/06, Joost van der Sluis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. i think i found something : TSQLQuery's ApplyUpdate method seems to send 'update' commands to pgsql. I have to keep looking, though, because deleting rows generates an ugly

Re: saving TdbGrid data to PostgreSQL

2006-07-18 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 13:55, Adrian Maier wrote: On 18/07/06, Adrian Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This is probably a newbie question. I have a small form that contains a TPQConnection, a TSQLTransaction, a TSQLQuery, a TDatasource, a TdbGrid and a TDBNavigator. The

Re: [lazarus] problems with SQLdb components and Postgres

2006-07-02 Thread johnf
enable in order to see detailed log information. Thanks, Zlatko P.S. Have you seen screenshots that I sent you directly on your e-mail? - Original Message - From: johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] problems

Re: [lazarus] problems with SQLdb components and Postgres

2006-07-01 Thread johnf
On Saturday 01 July 2006 11:05, Zlatko Matić wrote: ((results_microbs join batches_microbs on'       '    (((results_microbs.batch) ='       '    (batches_microbs.batch join'       '    (departments join plants on'       '    ((departments.department ='       '    plants.department)))

Re: [lazarus] problems with SQLdb components and Postgres

2006-06-30 Thread johnf
On Friday 30 June 2006 09:25, Zlatko Matić wrote: I have big problem with displaying results from a query, by using Postgres 8.1.X, TPQConnection, TSQLQuery and TSQLTransaction. I think that something is very wrong with SqlDB components...Values in some columns are not displayed at all, or are

[lazarus] How about an update on GTK2

2006-06-21 Thread johnf
Hi, I'd to know where the LCL (lazarus ide too) is with respect to GTK2? Can the IDE use GTK2? Thanks John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus propaganda scheme

2006-06-19 Thread johnf
On Monday 19 June 2006 11:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KDE RSS. They would be talking about the use of QT and the pascal language at the same time. The KDE programmers are mostly c++ guys but all use QT. Of course there must be a similar RSS for Gnome programmers. John After all,

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus propaganda scheme

2006-06-18 Thread johnf
On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:18, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 6/17/06, johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read it because it's fun sometimes. I wonder if we could get someone (not me I don't even know how to get listed on the RSS) to start writting about using FPC with KDE

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus propaganda scheme

2006-06-17 Thread johnf
On Saturday 17 June 2006 00:09, Bisma Jayadi wrote: External developer There are a few blogs of the KDE programmers that come as a default RSS feed for the SUSE version of kontact. I read it because it's fun sometimes. I wonder if we could get someone (not me I don't even know how to get

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus propaganda scheme

2006-06-17 Thread johnf
On Saturday 17 June 2006 07:37, johnf wrote: On Saturday 17 June 2006 00:09, Bisma Jayadi wrote: External developer There are a few blogs of the KDE programmers that come as a default RSS feed for the SUSE version of kontact. I read it because it's fun sometimes. I wonder if we could get

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus/Freepascal Propaganda

2006-06-16 Thread johnf
How about changing the word propaganda to Marketing. For me that word has a negative conation. To me propaganda implies lying and Marketing implies spreading the word or message. John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Re: [lazarus] Running only one instance of the program

2006-06-14 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 11:13, Burkhard Carstens wrote: Am Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006 18:39 schrieb Vincent Snijders: Bogusław Brandys wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Andreas Berger wrote: Does Lazarus have a cross-platform way of guaranteeing that only one

Re: [lazarus] Running only one instance of the program

2006-06-14 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:39, Vincent Snijders wrote: A.J. Venter wrote: What does that string do. On SUSE 10.0 it reports very little. root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317 selinux=0resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent Did you type it LITERALLY ? I think you were meant to expand $PID with

Re: [lazarus] Running only one instance of the program

2006-06-14 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:55, A.J. Venter wrote: Neither command works for me. I realize that we are only attempting to get the ps# for bash but it's not working SUSE 10.0 John Okay I see the typos in my version, but Vincent's corrections should work... Tell me - do you get any

Re: [lazarus] MySQL Date Fields

2006-06-07 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:43, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 6/7/06, Joost van der Sluis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: International ISO 8601 date time format and use a string field to store the value.

Re: [lazarus] Laarus 0.9.16 e Suse

2006-06-04 Thread johnf
On Sunday 04 June 2006 04:34, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:48:41 +0200 franzato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all, in the road map page (http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Road_To_1.0)I read that Mattias will prepare a Suse version of Lazarus 0.9.16.

[lazarus] Anyone using SUSE

2006-05-21 Thread johnf
Hi, I have now installed OpenSUSE 10.1 three times. I have discovered that even after installing all available development libraries the links required by Lazarus are not setup. In fact I think OpenSUSE 10.1 is attempting to drop GTK1. I'm new to Linux (at least at this level) so I am

Re: [lazarus] contemplating future of Lazarus in context of Mono and dotGNU

2006-05-20 Thread johnf
On Saturday 20 May 2006 05:46, Zlatko Matić wrote: Activities around making free open-source alternative to MS .NET (Mono, dotGNU) and Visual Studio .NET (MonoDevelop,SharpDevelop) are very intensive and rapidly aproaches to the final goal. With recent incuding of Stetic, It is easy to forseen

Re: [lazarus] New SUSE 10.1 can't link gdk

2006-05-18 Thread johnf
On Thursday 18 May 2006 00:38, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 13:26:47 -0700 johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 12:53, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:55:48 -0700 johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 11:31

[lazarus] New SUSE 10.1 can't link gdk

2006-05-17 Thread johnf
Hi, All the development lib's are installed. Using the latest snapshot I can't compile a simple project. SUSE has always complained about GTK+ and GDK but it still compiled. Now with the SUSE 10.1 it really complains when using the RPM and will not compile a simple project. Anybody, have

Re: [lazarus] New SUSE 10.1 can't link gdk

2006-05-17 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 23:31, Vincent Snijders wrote: johnf schreef: Hi, All the development lib's are installed. Using the latest snapshot I can't compile a simple project. SUSE has always complained about GTK+ and GDK but it still compiled. Now with the SUSE 10.1 it really

Re: [lazarus] New SUSE 10.1 can't link gdk

2006-05-17 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 10:32, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:15:14 -0700 johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 09:29, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 08:25:43 -0700 johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 23:31

Re: [lazarus] New SUSE 10.1 can't link gdk

2006-05-17 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 10:56, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:49:13 -0700 johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 10:32, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:15:14 -0700 johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 09:29

Re: [lazarus] New SUSE 10.1 can't link gdk

2006-05-17 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 11:20, Den Jean wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 20:08, johnf wrote: What is next? I had the same error due to a fpc.cfg containing -Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.0/units/$fpctarget -Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.0/units/$fpctarget/* -Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.0/units/$fpctarget/rtl instead

Re: [lazarus] New SUSE 10.1 can't link gdk

2006-05-17 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 11:31, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:20:56 +0200 Den Jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 20:08, johnf wrote: What is next? I had the same error due to a fpc.cfg containing -Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.0/units/$fpctarget -Fu/usr

Re: [lazarus] New SUSE 10.1 can't link gdk

2006-05-17 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 12:53, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:55:48 -0700 johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 11:31, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:20:56 +0200 Den Jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 20:08

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-14 Thread johnf
On Sunday 14 May 2006 08:57, 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.

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-13 Thread johnf
On Saturday 13 May 2006 09:55, Al Boldi wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Hello, I am a long-time reader of Linux Journal. Once, a long time ago, an offer of mine to write about Free Pascal in Linux Journal was turned down (actually, shunted to Linux gazette). I was therefore quite

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-13 Thread johnf
On Saturday 13 May 2006 10:24, L505 wrote: A name change would probably do a lot of good to this project. It does sound like some sort of disease - I used to be made fun of in school for my short and precise name (Lars) since it is a European name and it is rarer to find where I live. Mean

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Foundation pros

2006-04-29 Thread johnf
On Saturday 29 April 2006 14:13, Joost van der Sluis wrote: And for JohnF and Marco Ramirez. They would like to see that they pay some money, so that the developers can solve their problems I will assume that I'm Johnf. I don't want to pay money to solve MY problems. Currently, I'm

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus/FPC Foundation

2006-04-28 Thread johnf
At first I did not care if there was a Free Pascal foundation or not. But with recent events I have changed my mind. I think if there were people being paid to be involved there would be more response to this Mail List and other issues. If my rent money depended on making sure Free Pascal

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus vs Patents

2006-04-28 Thread johnf
On Friday 28 April 2006 17:43, George Lober wrote: This fact baffles me. Why isn't there more participation in development from North America ? What a loaded question. I think I know why. It has nothing to do with Pascal. John

[lazarus] SQLDB and latest snapshot

2006-04-27 Thread johnf
Hi, 1. Is anyone using a recent snapshot of FPC and has the SQLdb working? I mean can you access, update, and insert into either MySQL, Postgres from a Lazarus program? 2. If you can - which database are you using? 3. If you can - would please describe the steps ie: connection transaction

Re: [lazarus] new error from sqlDB?

2006-04-26 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 16:35, johnf wrote: Hi, I am using lazarus 0.9.15 04/25/06 no SVN revision number and FPC 04/25/06 2.1.1. I'm getting the following error: Project rasied exception class 'EvariantTypeCastError' with message could not convert variant type of (Empty) into type (OleStr

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Foundation pros

2006-04-26 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 13:48, Michael A. Hess wrote: By organization, I mean administration, leadership, control, resources. I see a foundation as a natural evolution of a open source community, examples: Statements like this always seem to amaze me. Where did you get the idea that

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Foundation pros

2006-04-26 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 14:24, Michael A. Hess wrote: Why? I guess I don't understand the concern or interest. I got the impression that you had information I did not. That is the interest. I doubt if you asked any of the founders they would accept the label of administrators. John

Re: [lazarus] find the username

2006-04-25 Thread johnf
:= GetEnvironmentVariable('USER'); end; {$ENDIF LINUX} -- Regards, - Graeme - On 25/04/06, johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I find the username? Getusername does not exist. On Linux. John -- There's no place like 127.0.0.1

[lazarus] new error from sqlDB?

2006-04-25 Thread johnf
Hi, I am using lazarus 0.9.15 04/25/06 no SVN revision number and FPC 04/25/06 2.1.1. I'm getting the following error: Project rasied exception class 'EvariantTypeCastError' with message could not convert variant type of (Empty) into type (OleStr) When I attempt to save data. This is a new

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus in Google summer of code 2006 ?

2006-04-24 Thread johnf
On Monday 24 April 2006 11:29, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Lepidosteus wrote: Hello, I'm actually a student, and I'm interested in joining gsoc2006. As I'm also a lazarus' fan, i would like to know if you would be interested in becoming a mentor organization.

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus in Google summer of code 2006 ?

2006-04-24 Thread johnf
On Monday 24 April 2006 13:45, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 4/24/06, johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although, a resource editor would be nice. I'd like to see QT and GTK2 completed first. Free software evolves when people stand up and help implement things. All contributions

[lazarus] find the username

2006-04-24 Thread johnf
Hi, How do I find the username? Getusername does not exist. On Linux. John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] SQL error that shouldn't be.

2006-04-22 Thread johnf
On Saturday 22 April 2006 11:01, Jon Foster wrote: Using TMySQL40Connection I tried to use the following query: SQLQuery1.sql.text:='SELECT organizations.name as org, tests.name as test '+ 'FROM tests INNER JOIN organizations '+ 'ON

Re: [lazarus] SQL error that shouldn't be.

2006-04-22 Thread johnf
On Saturday 22 April 2006 11:38, johnf wrote: On Saturday 22 April 2006 11:01, Jon Foster wrote: Using TMySQL40Connection I tried to use the following query: SQLQuery1.sql.text:='SELECT organizations.name as org, tests.name as test '+ 'FROM tests INNER JOIN

Re: [lazarus] FPC question

2006-04-19 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 04:57, Adrian Maier wrote: On 4/19/06, Joost van der Sluis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, pseudo-code, see Michaels mail for the real commands. Yep, I've seen them. Interesting. It's good to know about them . Indeed, it's not visible. Therefore: the same user

Re: [lazarus] SQL DB access functional?

2006-04-19 Thread johnf
transaction.commit John On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:23, Jon Foster wrote: Joost van der Sluis wrote: [...] With PostgreSQL it blows when I try to go up records in a grid instead of going down. Probably has more to do with I was going up from a newly inserted record. Yes, it was probably a

Re: [lazarus] FPC question

2006-04-18 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 08:25, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/4/17, johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or is it better (what a word): sqlunit If you have a 'sqlunit' that handles all the sql stuff of you application, be object oriented in your concepts. Iwould have only one function

Re: [lazarus] FPC question

2006-04-18 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 11:31, Joost van der Sluis wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 10:21 -0700, johnf wrote: In the Visual FoxPro world I normally would have an object (class) that is placed on the form to handle all interaction with the data as required. But so far I don't understand how

Re: [lazarus] FPC question

2006-04-18 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 13:42, Marc Santhoff wrote: Am Dienstag, den 18.04.2006, 21:29 +0200 schrieb Joost van der Sluis: On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:43 -0400, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/4/18, Joost van der Sluis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But you can have one connection, whith several

[lazarus] FPC question

2006-04-17 Thread johnf
Hi, I have code like: procedure CloseDataAccess; begin self.sqltransaction1.active:=False; end; in each form (might have 20 forms). Or is it better (what a word): sqlunit procedute CloseDataAccess(sender:tsqltransaction); begin sender.active:=False; end; And call the CloseDataAccess for

Re: [lazarus] SQL DB access functional?

2006-04-15 Thread johnf
On Friday 14 April 2006 23:08, Jon Foster wrote: Are the SQL DB components supposed to be functional? I've tried using TMySQLConnection and TPQConnection with the associated TSQLTransaction and TSQLQuery attached through a datasource to a data grid. The TMySQLConnection always says, Server

Re: [lazarus] Problem with QuotedStr()

2006-04-13 Thread johnf
On Thursday 13 April 2006 11:42, Paulo wrote: d := a + ' ' + b + ' ' + c; I think you want d := a + b + c; You added the quotes in the quotedstr(). John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Problem with QuotedStr()

2006-04-13 Thread johnf
On Thursday 13 April 2006 13:13, Marc Weustink wrote: Paulo wrote: Please, help me: In following Lazarus code (Lazarus 0.9.15 - Mandriva2006): var a, b, c, d: string; begin a := 'who'; b := 'quote'; c := 'this'; d := a + ' ' + b + ' ' + c; Result: d = 'who

Re: [lazarus] Dependencies under Linux

2006-04-12 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 09:51, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 4/12/06, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If GTK1 is scheduled for removal, then this should be an incentive to continue to work on the GTK2 LCL interface. Or switch to Qt... We cannot just switch to Qt

Re: [lazarus] Because I can't get SQLDB working

2006-04-11 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:14, Matthijs Willemstein wrote: Matthijs does this mean you have the RxLib working under FPC? John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject

Re: [lazarus] Because I can't get SQLDB working

2006-04-11 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 12:04, Matthijs Willemstein wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 11:42 -0700, johnf wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:14, Matthijs Willemstein wrote: Matthijs does this mean you have the RxLib working under FPC? John No. Not complete just the part published on http

[lazarus] trying to add reportlivre0.1

2006-04-11 Thread johnf
Hi, As root I can add reportlivre0.1 but when I attempt to open Lazarus as a user I get: no valid package file reportlivre0.1.lpk So how do get it to work as a normal users? I placed the reportlivre0.1 in '/usr/lib/lazarus/components' and changed all of Lazarus permissions to allow users to

Re: [lazarus] trying to add reportlivre0.1

2006-04-11 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:59, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:39:36 -0700 johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As root I can add reportlivre0.1 but when I attempt to open Lazarus as a user I get: no valid package file reportlivre0.1.lpk So how do get it to work

Re: [lazarus] ODBC connectors?

2006-04-08 Thread johnf
On Friday 07 April 2006 10:01, johnf wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 09:38, johnf wrote: Hi, It appears that the ODBC connector does not have any code for: GetSchemaInfoSQL. The other connectors Postgres, MySQL, and Firebird have code to retrieve the schema information - like getting

[lazarus] ODBC connectors?

2006-04-07 Thread johnf
Hi, It appears that the ODBC connector does not have any code for: GetSchemaInfoSQL. The other connectors Postgres, MySQL, and Firebird have code to retrieve the schema information - like getting the primary key information. So when using the ODBC connector where and how does one set the

Re: [lazarus] ODBC connectors?

2006-04-07 Thread johnf
On Friday 07 April 2006 09:38, johnf wrote: Hi, It appears that the ODBC connector does not have any code for: GetSchemaInfoSQL. The other connectors Postgres, MySQL, and Firebird have code to retrieve the schema information - like getting the primary key information. So when using the ODBC

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus installation on SuSE

2006-04-06 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 23:24, Eric Chapman wrote: All you have to do is run the lazarus executable from the directory where you compiled it thanks I'll try it. I assume that lazarus will find the FPC stuff? John _ To

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus installation on SuSE

2006-04-05 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 23:00, Eric Chapman wrote: p.s. I am assuming that you are installing a compiled version. If you are trying to compile then it is more difficult. I disagree with that. This is (in my opinion) a rare case where building from source is much easier than installing

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus installation on SuSE

2006-04-04 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 15:29, Roland Turcan - RoTurSoft wrote: Hello all! It seems, that I am so stupid, because I am not able to install Lazarus to SuSE linux and I always get some error messages. Errors in SuSE 9.2

[lazarus] Master detail using SQLdb

2006-03-30 Thread johnf
Hi, Could someone explain how to setup a Master Detail using the SQLdb or a link to something explaining what to do. John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives

Re: [lazarus] Master detail using SQLdb

2006-03-30 Thread johnf
, johnf wrote: Hi, Could someone explain how to setup a Master Detail using the SQLdb or a link to something explaining what to do. John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: [lazarus] Master detail using SQLdb

2006-03-30 Thread johnf
On Thursday 30 March 2006 09:10, johnf wrote: 1. Does the relation of the parent and child have to be based on numbers?  I ask this because of the fact that a primary key must be a number currently. I was not able to determine the data type from your example. I am wrong the data type

[lazarus] Unreleased GDIObjects

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
Using a terminal I start my app. After opening and closing a form (not the main form) and then closing the main form I get the following: [TGtkWidgetSet.Destroy] WARNING: There are 4 unreleased GDIObjects, a detailed dump follows: I guess somehow I'm not closing the form correctly. Can

Re: [lazarus] Comments about DB2

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 07:08, Bram Kuijvenhoven wrote: Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: After install the snapshot version I had success in doing a browse in DB2 tables. There was new errors that I report below in the way people can try to fix them: 1. Any update in table(via INSERT, UPDATE

Re: [lazarus] Unreleased GDIObjects

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 08:23, Marc Weustink wrote: johnf wrote: Using a terminal I start my app. After opening and closing a form (not the main form) and then closing the main form I get the following: [TGtkWidgetSet.Destroy] WARNING: There are 4 unreleased GDIObjects, a detailed

Re: [lazarus] Unreleased GDIObjects

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 08:41, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:23:48 +0200 Marc Weustink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: johnf wrote: Using a terminal I start my app. After opening and closing a form (not the main form) and then closing the main form I get the following

Re: [lazarus] Unreleased GDIObjects

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 08:53, johnf wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 08:41, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:23:48 +0200 Marc Weustink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: johnf wrote: Using a terminal I start my app. After opening and closing a form (not the main form

Re: [lazarus] Comments about DB2

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 09:03, Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: At 12:26 29/3/2006, you wrote: Bram, I think Arí is using the same ODBC connection with other programming langs. So the ODBC can report the -MM-DD HH.MM.SS.UU. I just didn't want you spending to much time questioning the ODBC

Re: [lazarus] Unreleased GDIObjects

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 09:14, Marc Weustink wrote: johnf wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 08:41, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:23:48 +0200 Marc Weustink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: johnf wrote: Using a terminal I start my app. After opening and closing a form

Re: [lazarus] Comments about DB2

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 09:43, Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: At 14:19 29/3/2006, you wrote: OK I think I understand at least one of your issues. For you to be able to 'update' the SQL select statement must have a PK. The PK is used when making an update statement (I have not tried using delete

Re: [lazarus] Unreleased GDIObjects

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
I created the imagelist using the IDE (imagelist editor). But in doing so the IDE reported an error when saving from the imagelist editor. I don't recall what the error said but it offered to continue or cancel. I decided to continue. I then saved the project and closed. When I

Re: [lazarus] Comments about DB2

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 10:37, Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: The center of my solution is to use select * from tablename That statement should work as long as there exist a PK for the table. Is there a way you can turn on the DB2 log and see what the program is passing to the database engine?

Re: [lazarus] Unreleased GDIObjects

2006-03-29 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 11:23, Marc Weustink wrote: johnf wrote: I created the imagelist using the IDE (imagelist editor). But in doing so the IDE reported an error when saving from the imagelist editor. I don't recall what the error said but it offered to continue or cancel. I decided

[lazarus] Is this right -SQLdb question.

2006-03-27 Thread johnf
Hi, My testing has shown me that for each select statement (i.e. Select * from customer) I need to have a connection, transaction, and query opened and active. What this implies is for each select statement a transaction must be opened (active:=true) and (the most important) the connection

Re: [lazarus] Is this right -SQLdb question.

2006-03-27 Thread johnf
On Monday 27 March 2006 09:52, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, johnf wrote: Hi, My testing has shown me that for each select statement (i.e. Select * from customer) I need to have a connection, transaction, and query opened and active. What this implies is for each select

[lazarus] does it really work?

2006-03-27 Thread johnf
This may sound rude but does anyone actually use SQLdb with Postgres. I ask because I think it does not work either from code or a datamodule. Below is a sample of my code and the only difference between the code will be '*' vs 'custno,company' in the select statement. I get the following

Re: [lazarus] does it really work?

2006-03-27 Thread johnf
On Monday 27 March 2006 16:58, johnf wrote: This may sound rude but does anyone actually use SQLdb with Postgres. I ask because I think it does not work either from code or a datamodule. Below is a sample of my code and the only difference between the code will be '*' vs 'custno,company

[lazarus] Understanding SQLdb

2006-03-23 Thread johnf
I have few questions. I have the 'SQLdb' working as far as accessing data and I can update and commit. But I don't really understand how to use the 'SQLdb' within a program. Let me explain as best I understand the way 'SQLdb' works. First let me say I understand that a datamodule does not

[lazarus] More info on fedora 5

2006-03-22 Thread johnf
Hi, OK I decided to start fresh. I re-installed Fedora 5. Then I installed FPC snapshots of 2.1.1 and Lazarus 0.9.13. After installing (as root) I discovered that 'fpc.cfg' is missing. I checked the RPM's (the best I could) and did not find the file 'fpc.cfg' in the list to install. I

[lazarus] fedora 5 missing glib

2006-03-21 Thread johnf
I got Lazarus installed and it appears to run but when I attempt to compile a project it errors immediately with unable to find glib. When I check the installed packages it shows glib as installed. How do I tell Lazarus where glib is located? John

Re: [lazarus] fedora 5 missing glib

2006-03-21 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:57, Vincent Snijders wrote: johnf wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 03:59, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, johnf wrote: I got Lazarus installed and it appears to run but when I attempt to compile a project it errors immediately with unable to find

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