Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Luiz Americo wrote: Michael Van Canneyt escreveu: sqlite is good candidate too (multiplatform,single file,fast, only one dll/so required) Sorry, but no: - No external dependencies, please. - Specifically: sqlite is a horrible database for use in

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 12/05/06, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On 5/11/06, Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, odt files al. are open format. And as of 1 may 2006 it is now an official ISO 26300 approved format (as other format like PDF and HTML who are also ISO

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Micha Nelissen
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: they use inside the *.jar files (html, straight xml or odt ...) and what viewer they use for the help. They do use the Berkeley Database for indexes, keywork search and extended tooltips. Berkeley DB ? Sorry, but that rings alarm bells over here ... all projects I've

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Bogusław Brandys
Micha Nelissen wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: they use inside the *.jar files (html, straight xml or odt ...) and what viewer they use for the help. They do use the Berkeley Database for indexes, keywork search and extended tooltips. Berkeley DB ? Sorry, but that rings alarm bells over here

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 12/05/06, Micha Nelissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: they use inside the *.jar files (html, straight xml or odt ...) and what viewer they use for the help. They do use the Berkeley Database for indexes, keywork search and extended tooltips. Berkeley DB ? Sorry, but

Re: [lazarus] Help Framework proposal

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I don't like the Help Component idea. I think adding methods to the TApplication is better. I am not sure if you are familiar with the Kylix Help system (more correctly a CLX help system as it works under Windows too). It uses a bunch of Interfaces (IHelpSystem, ICustomHelpViewer,

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Bogusaw Brandys wrote: Micha Nelissen wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: they use inside the *.jar files (html, straight xml or odt ...) and what viewer they use for the help. They do use the Berkeley Database for indexes, keywork search and extended tooltips. Berkeley

Re: [lazarus] Where is code completion function?

2006-05-12 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 11 May 2006 20:35:19 -0400 Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/5/11, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right. It works only with code macros enabled. If you want to fix it: ide/codemacroprompt.pas ExecuteCodeTemplate Yep, I see in the code that the problem is not

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:33:02PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I think the po2xml is just used to translate the program strings which appear in the docs (used to refer to button captions etc), not for the actual documentation text. Wrong. It is used for documentation writing too as you

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:33:02PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I think the po2xml is just used to translate the program strings which appear in the docs (used to refer to button captions etc), not for the actual documentation text. Wrong. It is

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread A.J. Venter
Indeed, I think the idea would be a by-product just as a pdf in that case. A viewer would not be simple to do, but the format is simple. The file is actually a zip file with xml stuff files in it. Indeed, OOo's file are quite easy to hack. It's zipped up xml - the reason it was chosen by the

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 12/05/06, Micha Nelissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I think this is quite a elegant solution for application help and can even be applied to the LCL and FCL documentation which is currently stored in XML. Sure there are a lot of elegant solutions, but who is going

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Micha Nelissen
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: to write all this, nothing is stopping you, but CHM seems like a faster more productive route ATM, if the coder doesn't care anyway. Brings me back to the same old question everybody seems to avoid answering. May we use the CHM format - is it proprietary/patented by

[lazarus] SSE bug

2006-05-12 Thread S0vNarK0m
Hi all, somebody can say something about http://www.freepascal.org/bugs/showrec.php3?ID=5073 BR. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:33:02PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I think the po2xml is just used to translate the program strings which appear in the docs (used to refer to button

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:33:02PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I think the po2xml is just used to translate the program strings which

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:01:39PM +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: to write all this, nothing is stopping you, but CHM seems like a faster more productive route ATM, if the coder doesn't care anyway. Brings me back to the same old question everybody seems to avoid

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Haines
George Lober wrote: The code in /components/chmhelp looks like it's either GPL or LGPL. For code that would need to be used in target application, could these be changed to the Modified LGPL? Also the license headers refer to COPYING.LCL which I can't find anywhere ?? The chm viewer

[lazarus] Postgres connection question

2006-05-12 Thread Alex du Plessis
How does one access the error messages from a postgres database when using the sqldb components (i.e. TPQConnection, TSQLTransaction and TSQLQuery)? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Luiz Americo
Michael Van Canneyt escreveu: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Luiz Americo wrote: Michael Van Canneyt escreveu: sqlite is good candidate too (multiplatform,single file,fast, only one dll/so required) Sorry, but no: - No external dependencies, please. - Specifically: sqlite is a

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Luiz Americo wrote: I did more tests, all give comparable results: sqlite is very fast for simple stuff. Your results are comparable from one made without index published in sqlite wiki, but when using index, according to the test, sqlite compares to the other.

Re: [lazarus] Where is code completion function?

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/5/12, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 11 May 2006 20:35:19 -0400 Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/5/11, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right. It works only with code macros enabled. If you want to fix it: ide/codemacroprompt.pas ExecuteCodeTemplate

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Haines
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 5/11/06, Andrew Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigh. :) Have a look in the components/chmhelp directory. In that directory is a program written entirely in pascal that uses the LCL to view chm files using the TurboPowerIpro HTML component and a package

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/5/12, A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Indeed, I think the idea would be a by-product just as a pdf in that case. A viewer would not be simple to do, but the format is simple. The file is actually a zip file with xml stuff files in it. Indeed, OOo's file are quite easy to hack. It's zipped

Re: [lazarus] Help Framework proposal

2006-05-12 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 5/12/06, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if you are familiar with the Kylix Help system (more correctly a CLX help system as it works under Windows too). It uses a bunch of Interfaces (IHelpSystem, ICustomHelpViewer, IExtendedHelpViewer, etc...) to implement the help

Re: [lazarus] Where is code completion function?

2006-05-12 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 5/12/06, Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :) I was talking about the 'find in files' of microsoft file explorer. This is why I was not so polite with it. I didn't know the feature was in fpc. There is a Find in Files dialog on Lazarus IDE. You will find it very usefull =) --

Re: patch: encloseselectiondlg

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
Who is maintaining the dialog? 2006/5/11, Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Patch generated in source directory: /lazarus/ide/ Description: Small patch for better keyboard working: - correct tab order - correct default/cancel buttons -- Alexandre Leclerc

[lazarus] Code Explorer Improvements

2006-05-12 Thread Al Boldi
The Object Inspector currently syncs with the form editor as one traverses the tree, but the Code Explorer needs some help with this one liner: procedure TCodeExplorerView.CodeTreeviewSelectionChanged(Sender: TObject); begin JumpToSelection; end; This makes it sync with the source editor,

Re: [lazarus] Help Framework proposal

2006-05-12 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
One more thing: Delphi uses a THelpType to choose which help system to use, a number or a string to choose the topic. Is this useful to us? A string could be transformed in a number and then we remove 2 properties. This looks like just backwords compatibility. But then we could want to be

[lazarus] filefind patch

2006-05-12 Thread barko
some changes in lpk for filefind (lazarus/examples/codepageconverter/filefind) -- BARKO bye, ...s]-[it happens... filefind.diff.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: [lazarus] Help Framework proposal

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 12/05/06, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, should we be compatible with CLX system? If so, how do we procede without breaking copyright? That .pas file is probably in a unsuitable license for us, so it´s better not look in it too long. We could use the principle of

Re: [lazarus] Help Framework proposal

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
One more thing: Delphi uses a THelpType to choose which help system to use, a number or a string to choose the topic. Is this useful to us? A That's what I referred to in my previous post. Just couldn't remember what they called it! :-) Graeme. -- There's no place like 127.0.0.1

[lazarus] Lazarus Help System Parts

2006-05-12 Thread Mattias Gaertner
It seems the thread about 'help' can go on forever and probably many had stopped reading all of it. This mail should define some tasks on the road to a help for LCL applications: 1. the LCL must be extended to recognize help queries (e.g. pressing F1) 1.1 The VCL handles winapi WM_HELP

Re: [lazarus] patch: encloseselectiondlg

2006-05-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
Alexandre Leclerc wrote: Patch generated in source directory: /lazarus/ide/ Description: Small patch for better keyboard working: - correct tab order - correct default/cancel buttons Thanks. Applied. I added your name to the contributors. Vincent.

Re: patch: encloseselectiondlg

2006-05-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
Alexandre Leclerc wrote: Who is maintaining the dialog? No one in particular, so the Lazarus team. Do you have any question? Vincent _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject

Re: patch: encloseselectiondlg

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/5/12, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: Who is maintaining the dialog? No one in particular, so the Lazarus team. Do you have any question? Well, yes; I tought that maybe the patch had something wrong because I made the changes in the ide... But I see that I

Re: patch: encloseselectiondlg

2006-05-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/5/12, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: Who is maintaining the dialog? No one in particular, so the Lazarus team. Do you have any question? Well, yes; I tought that maybe the patch had something wrong because I made the changes in

Re: patch: encloseselectiondlg

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/5/12, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/5/12, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: Who is maintaining the dialog? No one in particular, so the Lazarus team. Do you have any question? Well, yes; I tought that maybe the

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Parts

2006-05-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
Mattias Gaertner wrote: It seems the thread about 'help' can go on forever and probably many had stopped reading all of it. This mail should define some tasks on the road to a help for LCL applications: 1. the LCL must be extended to recognize help queries (e.g. pressing F1) 1.1 The VCL

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Jeff Wormsley
Micha Nelissen wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: they use inside the *.jar files (html, straight xml or odt ...) and what viewer they use for the help. They do use the Berkeley Database for indexes, keywork search and extended tooltips. Berkeley DB ? Sorry, but that rings alarm bells over here

Re: [lazarus] Postgres connection question

2006-05-12 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 12:38 +0200, Alex du Plessis wrote: How does one access the error messages from a postgres database when using the sqldb components (i.e. TPQConnection, TSQLTransaction and TSQLQuery)? You know, the irritating thing with error messages, is that they pop-up. You just get

Re: [lazarus] Fpcunit question

2006-05-12 Thread Dean Zobec
Joost van der Sluis wrote: If I have several tests defined for a component. The component is created and destroyed in the setup and teardown procedures. And then one test is done. But now, when all tests are performed. I want to run those tests again, but then with one different value for a

[lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
I'm trying to install the VTV component compiling with fpc 2.0.2 and I get an error: C:\lazarus\components\virtualtreeview\Src\VirtualTrees.pas(1440,77) Error: Illegal symbol for property access The line is: property TreeOptions: TVirtualTreeOptions read FOptions write SetOptions; Set

[lazarus] TImageList.Add does not seem to work

2006-05-12 Thread Andreas Berger
I am porting an application from Delphi that depends heavily on images added at runtime to a TImageList. However, the Add method does not seem to work in Lazarus. Here is an example: normalImages := TImageList.Create(AOwner); normalImages.Height := 33; normalImages.Width := 33;

Re: [lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2

2006-05-12 Thread Micha Nelissen
Alexandre Leclerc wrote: I'm trying to install the VTV component compiling with fpc 2.0.2 and I get an error: C:\lazarus\components\virtualtreeview\Src\VirtualTrees.pas(1440,77) Error: Illegal symbol for property access The line is: property TreeOptions: TVirtualTreeOptions read FOptions

Re: [lazarus] Fpcunit question

2006-05-12 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 15:57 +0200, Dean Zobec wrote: Joost van der Sluis wrote: If I have several tests defined for a component. The component is created and destroyed in the setup and teardown procedures. And then one test is done. But now, when all tests are performed. I want to run

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:23:57PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:33:02PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I

Re: [lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/5/12, Micha Nelissen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: I'm trying to install the VTV component compiling with fpc 2.0.2 and I get an error: C:\lazarus\components\virtualtreeview\Src\VirtualTrees.pas(1440,77) Error: Illegal symbol for property access The line is:

Re: [lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/5/12, Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2006/5/12, Micha Nelissen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: I'm trying to install the VTV component compiling with fpc 2.0.2 and I get an error: C:\lazarus\components\virtualtreeview\Src\VirtualTrees.pas(1440,77) Error: Illegal

Re: [lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/5/12, Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Should I send a patch here? Else, to whom? Ok, it's already correction in svn tree. -- Alexandre Leclerc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2

2006-05-12 Thread Christian U.
is fixed in cvs since 2 month regards Christian - Original Message - From: Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2 2006/5/12, Alexandre Leclerc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

[lazarus] Compiling laz from svn + statistically linked components

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
I installed vtv and worked nice. Laz recompiled itself. I use an independent tree for svn version that I compile and use and if all works well I move to my usual working lazarus tree. Now I see that the vtv component is not included in the compilation of laz from svn. I did: - copied vtv folder

Re: [lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/5/12, Christian U. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: is fixed in cvs since 2 month Do you have svn access? -- Alexandre Leclerc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Luiz Americo
Michael Van Canneyt escreveu: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Luiz Americo wrote: I did more tests, all give comparable results: sqlite is very fast for simple stuff. Your results are comparable from one made without index published in sqlite wiki, but when using index, according to the test, sqlite

Re: [lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2

2006-05-12 Thread Christian U.
Do you have svn access? Thers no svn for Virtualtreeview Thers cvs. and its on my server so i have access :) -- Alexandre Leclerc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the

Re: [lazarus] TImageList.Add does not seem to work

2006-05-12 Thread Andreas Berger
Andreas Berger wrote: I am porting an application from Delphi that depends heavily on images added at runtime to a TImageList. However, the Add method does not seem to work in Lazarus. Here is an example: normalImages := TImageList.Create(AOwner); normalImages.Height := 33;

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread lazarus . mramirez
1 - We cannot just get dependent on Open Office. It´s a huge dependency, and won´t work on wince for example. Open Office format it's too complicated for a help file. a lot of stuff ready. - Marco Aurelio Ramirez Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [.mx]

[lazarus] Pixels

2006-05-12 Thread Andreas Berger
Reading and writing pixels to a bitmap under windows 98 does not work. I have looked at the Lazarus LCL code and it seem correct since it ends up calling Windows.GetPixel and Windows.SetPixel. The only thing I can assume is that the handle is corrupt. Can someone who knows the internals better

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread lazarus . mramirez
more productive route ATM, if the coder doesn't care anyway. Micha It seems that the one that implements it's proposal wins... - Marco Aurelio Ramirez Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [.mx] _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread L505
Micha Nelissen wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: they use inside the *.jar files (html, straight xml or odt ...) and what viewer they use for the help. They do use the Berkeley Database for indexes, keywork search and extended tooltips. Berkeley DB ? Sorry, but that rings alarm bells

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 12/05/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open Office format it's too complicated for a help file. I can't see why? If you are referring to the tags while authoring help, when last have you seen all the tags for Windows Help. Also the Help Authoring Plugin of OOo makes

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread lazarus . mramirez
Conclusion: The .po format is not designed/meant for large pieces of continuous text. The cool thing about *.po files are One text file for a set of messages, each message with a string ID. What about a BINARY replacement of text files such as: - Binary Help Index table

Re: [lazarus] VirtualTreeView compile error - FPC 2.0.2

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/5/12, Christian U. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you have svn access? Thers no svn for Virtualtreeview Thers cvs. and its on my server so i have access :) Well, I meant access in a broader term (svn based access). I do not use csv... but I think there is something like tortoisecsv for the

[lazarus] Who needs Unicode controls.

2006-05-12 Thread lazarus . mramirez
Hi, I have a question. Who of you need Unicode support in visula controls. What non Latin languages (such as Arabic, Chinese) do you need to be supported ? Just curious. - Marco Aurelio Ramirez Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [.mx]

Re: [lazarus] SSE bug

2006-05-12 Thread zeljko
On Friday 12 May 2006 12:02, S0vNarK0m wrote: Hi all, somebody can say something about http://www.freepascal.org/bugs/showrec.php3?ID=5073 yes, $ASMMODE intel is broken in 2.1.1, with 2.0.2 it compiles. http://www.freepascal.org/bugs/showrec.php3?ID=5015 and

Re: [lazarus] Who needs Unicode controls.

2006-05-12 Thread ik
בFriday 12 May 2006 19:22, נכתב על ידי [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have a question. Who of you need Unicode support in visula controls. It will be great for me, my native language is Hebrew and BiDi (I have a binding code for freebidi btw) with unicode can be great. What non Latin languages

Re: [lazarus] Pixels

2006-05-12 Thread Micha Nelissen
On Fri, 12 May 2006 13:50:22 -0300 Andreas Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading and writing pixels to a bitmap under windows 98 does not work. I have looked at the Lazarus LCL code and it seem correct since it ends up Please send an example project that reproduces the error. Micha

Re: [lazarus] Who needs Unicode controls.

2006-05-12 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 5/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a question. Who of you need Unicode support in visula controls. I already use Unicode support in visual controls, on Gtk 2 interface. What is missing is adding support for utf-8 on the win32 interface. It would probably have

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread L505
In your lazarus directory /components/chmhelp/packages/chm/ there is a unit called chmreader. It is simple to get a list of any of the files in the chm and extracting them: That's how easy it is to get all the files out of a chm :) Okay so its easy to get the HTML out of CHM (legally.. not

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 5/12/06, L505 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW Felipe, if you are listening - CHM was not available on Windows CE either - someone has done some work to get it working on Windows CE though.. just as someone got SQLite working on Windows CE. My point is that databases are no worse than CHM for

[lazarus] Can't make it work (my own laz distro)

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
Hi all, I did compile the latest of fpc and lazarus (with the latest fpc). But I'm not able to compile anything in Lazarus. There is something I'm missing. Any pointers would be helpful. (Under windows). With FPC 2.0.2 I compiled latest svn fpc. set path=C:\FPC\2.0.2\bin\i386-win32;c:\fpcsvn

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Parts

2006-05-12 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 5/12/06, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. The LCL must delegate Help queries to the HelpSystem. The HelpSystem of the VCL is defined in HelpIntfs and may be sufficient for small things. But for the Open Source (e.g. Lazarus IDE itself) it is not flexible/comfortable enough. That's

[lazarus] MacOS X - Lazarus installation

2006-05-12 Thread Panagiotis Sidiropoulos
Working on a iBook G4, I got fpc and lazarus on the system through svn. Both are located in a subfolder in my personal folder. Decide to go though this way because prefer updating system (just svn update). Running make install into fpc folder I get a series of command not found messages as

[lazarus] Turbopower ipro HTML Viewer

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I saw the ipro components in the Lazarus directory and noticed that there is a HTML Viewer component. Anybody know how good that component is? Does it support basic CSS? Regards, - Graeme - -- There's no place like 127.0.0.1

Re: [lazarus] MacOS X - Lazarus installation

2006-05-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
Panagiotis Sidiropoulos wrote: Working on a iBook G4, I got fpc and lazarus on the system through svn. Both are located in a subfolder in my personal folder. Decide to go though this way because prefer updating system (just svn update). Running make install into fpc folder I get a series of

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Parts

2006-05-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 5/12/06, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. The LCL must delegate Help queries to the HelpSystem. The HelpSystem of the VCL is defined in HelpIntfs and may be sufficient for small things. But for the Open Source (e.g. Lazarus IDE itself) it is

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Parts

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 12/05/06, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't it extensible? Some code may need to be moved, maybe the HelpManager needs to be added. Multiple databases: See procedure THelpManager.RegisterIDEHelpDatabases Multiple viewers is also possible: Extend procedure

Re: [lazarus] Turbopower ipro HTML Viewer

2006-05-12 Thread A.J. Venter
On Friday 12 May 2006 23:14, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I saw the ipro components in the Lazarus directory and noticed that there is a HTML Viewer component. Anybody know how good that component is? Does it support basic CSS? It's not great but it's pretty decent, I use it in some

Re: [lazarus] Turbopower ipro HTML Viewer

2006-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 12/05/06, A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not great but it's pretty decent, I use it in some projects. It does handle at least some CSS enough anyway to open html docs created in OOo. Thanks AJ. I will give it a try in the coming week. I am hunting for a HTML viewer I can use in

Re: [lazarus] Turbopower ipro HTML Viewer

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Haines
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 12/05/06, A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not great but it's pretty decent, I use it in some projects. It does handle at least some CSS enough anyway to open html docs created in OOo. Thanks AJ. I will give it a try in the coming week. I am hunting

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:07:28PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Not for the initial format either: You have to insert the tag: element name=TMyClass.MyMethod descr lang=en rdate=200613050135 pblah-blah/p pblah2-blah2/p /descr descr lang=de rdate=20061305 pblah-blah/p

Re: [lazarus] Who needs Unicode controls.

2006-05-12 Thread Borut Maricic
It would also be great for me to have Unicode controls under win32. On 2006-05-12 at 19:58, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What is missing is adding support for utf-8 on the win32 interface. It would probably have to be something like this: If Windows 9x, then convert

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Parts

2006-05-12 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 5/12/06, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't it extensible? Multiple databases: See procedure THelpManager.RegisterIDEHelpDatabases Multiple viewers is also possible: Extend procedure THelpManager.RegisterDefaultIDEHelpViewers; But this procedures have no parameters! It

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Haines
George Lober wrote: Looking at it , it looks like it is all dependent on LHelp, which is GPL. So if I can't compile that into my application or distribute it under my license, you are left with situation where the end user somehow has to get LHelp themselves. Are they supposed to