Re: [lazarus] deploy an application

2006-09-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 21/09/06, Bogusław Brandys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why this pixbuf is needed ? It's not a common package as I see.Any way to build Lazarus application for Linux which do not depend on pixbuf ? It is used to load images in gtk1 - if I remember correctly. To answer your second question,

[lazarus] How Can Lazarus Generate Excel ?

2006-09-22 Thread Jonathan Chiu
Want to prepare some reports(with font styles / formatting) in excel format from Lazarus? Is it possible?

[lazarus] TImage and jpg

2006-09-22 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi I am able to view a .xpm file in a TImage component. But not able to view a jpg file. The Components-Open Loaded Packages , ImageForLazarus and JpegForLazarus are listed. Could it be any conflict b/w these? I prefer to use .jpg as the file size of a .xpm is manyfold than a .jpg. Plz

Re: [lazarus] How Can Lazarus Generate Excel ?

2006-09-22 Thread ik
Newer Excel (I don't remember from what exact version), have their own *XML* syntax: http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/default.mspx And it seems that Microsoft try to make it even a standard format :) Ido On 9/22/06, Jonathan Chiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Want to prepare some reports(with

[lazarus] Screenshot tool under Linux

2006-09-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Does anybody know if there is a similar tool to MWSnap but for Linux? Or how I could write such a tool using Free Pascal/Lazarus? The feature I am really looking for is the Any area snap mode. When you select that snapping mode, you can then draw a rectangle anywhere on the screen/desktop and

Re: [lazarus] Screenshot tool under Linux

2006-09-22 Thread Flávio Etrusco
On 9/22/06, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if there is a similar tool to MWSnap but for Linux? Or how I could write such a tool using Free Pascal/Lazarus? The feature I am really looking for is the Any area snap mode. When you select that snapping mode, you can

[lazarus] Re: Screenshot tool under Linux

2006-09-22 Thread Funky Beast
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Does anybody know if there is a similar tool to MWSnap but for Linux? Or how I could write such a tool using Free Pascal/Lazarus? The feature I am really looking for is the Any area snap mode. When you select that snapping mode, you can then draw a rectangle anywhere

Re: [lazarus] Screenshot tool under Linux

2006-09-22 Thread Albert Zeyer
Am Freitag, den 22.09.2006, 14:01 + schrieb Albert Zeyer: If you hit Alt+Print (I think it was Alt, perhaps it could also be Shift or Ctrl) will make a screenshot of the selected window in the foreground under Gnome. This is this very usefull and make a screenshot of a special region

Re: [lazarus] How Can Lazarus Generate Excel ?

2006-09-22 Thread dhkblaszyk
There are two ways to do this. 1. Create an OLE object and automate Excell from the application 2. Create a reader/writer to the MS Excell file format Obviously #1is more simple and faster to implement, although it will only work on the Windows platform. Darius Want to prepare some

Re: [lazarus] How Can Lazarus Generate Excel ?

2006-09-22 Thread dhkblaszyk
I forgot to mention a third possibility. You can also output the data into some commonly known format like CSV from lazarus. As a second step you should make a maco in excell that reads this datafile and puts the corresponding items into the proper cells. This method is cross platform compatible

Re: [lazarus] How Can Lazarus Generate Excel ?

2006-09-22 Thread Gustavo Enrique Jimenez
I create an html file, tables and embedded css, and save it with the xls extension. Even with formulas.Office 2000+, OpenOffice and Gnumericcanopen thisfilesvery well.Gustavo 2006/9/22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are two ways to do this.1. Create an OLE object and automate Excell

Re: [lazarus] How Can Lazarus Generate Excel ?

2006-09-22 Thread Gustavo Enrique Jimenez
Excuse my english. I create an html file, tables and embedded css, and save it with the xls extension. Even with formulas.Office 2000+, OpenOffice and Gnumericcanopen thisfilesvery well.You can go further connecting your xls file with a cgi app in a web server. I do this to dinamically fill cells

[lazarus] Translations to Afrikaans

2006-09-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I have submitted the first .po file for the Lazarus IDE translations to Afrikaans. I am about 50% complete, but am sure I made some mistakes along the way. So for all those Afrikaans speaking people - which you Lazarus language and see if you spot some mistakes or improvements to the

Re: [lazarus] TFileStream - File Type?

2006-09-22 Thread lazarus . mramirez
Quoting Kris Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to convert a memory byte stream (eg. TFileStream) in to a File pointer for use with normal file routines? Quick-Easy Answer: No. Any class (like TFileStream) is stored different in memory that a File type. Long-Difficult-Boring Answer:

Re: [lazarus] How Can Lazarus Generate Excel ?

2006-09-22 Thread zeljko
On Friday 22 September 2006 14:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two ways to do this. 1. Create an OLE object and automate Excell from the application 2. Create a reader/writer to the MS Excell file format Obviously #1is more simple and faster to implement, although it will only work

RE: [lazarus] Help!!

2006-09-22 Thread frogeye
I have the keywords and flags set properly, I think. I foiled a bug with gentoo, aahd was politely informed that I needed to emerge a current version of findutils. After doing that, I was able to emerge fpc 2.0.4., but now I am not able to0 compile any of the sample programs since it

Re: [lazarus] TFileStream - File Type?

2006-09-22 Thread Burkhard Carstens
Am Freitag, 22. September 2006 12:49 schrieb Kris Leech: Is it possible to convert a memory byte stream (eg. TFileStream) in to a File pointer for use with normal file routines? Not sure if that is what you mean, but you might wanna look for THandleStream class (for using stream functions on

Re: [lazarus] TDesignWindow - in Lazarus?

2006-09-22 Thread Al Boldi
Mattias Gaertner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is which class in Lazarus coresponding to the TDesignWindow/TClxDesignWindow in Delphi/Kylix? No one. And the Lazarus IDE is here too different, so I guess, there will never be a compatible one. What

Re: [lazarus] LCL Message

2006-09-22 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
I will send this patch to be applied. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

Re: [lazarus] TFileStream - File Type?

2006-09-22 Thread Flávio Etrusco
I don't know about FreePascal (unfortunately), but Delphi is surely in need of some powerful classes for streaming text and other data. If only TFiler were a bit less coupled to component streaming... -Flávio On 9/22/06, Burkhard Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 22. September 2006

[lazarus] Code Explorer

2006-09-22 Thread Flávio Etrusco
Talking of CodeExplorer, I've always wondered whether there's a very-well-hidden setting to group type/variables/functions globally instead of grouping sequential declarations only or is this a candidate for a feature patch? ;-) Shockingly I didn't find a Mantis entry for this, am I alone on this

Re: [lazarus] LCL Message

2006-09-22 Thread Luis R. Hilario B.
That same I suggest, so that it is not lost. 2006/9/22, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I will send this patch to be applied. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with