Re: [lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC

2008-02-11 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:50:40AM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 9:36 AM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we should add IFDEF's for fpc 2.2.0 to keep the current code. That's even better =) Moreover it only affects win32/64 in the first place.

Re: [lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC

2008-02-11 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:16:16AM +0700, Paul Ishenin wrote: since 2.2.0. (the shell* units are mostly post 2.2.0 though). Most no There are some issues that must be still resolved: - TNMLVCustomDraw win32extra definition doesn't match commctrl one. I will fix this in lazarus. If we look at

[lazarus] win32extra merged into FPC

2008-02-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
I merged the few remaining symbols into FPC units. Note that most of the symbols that win32extra provides are already in commctrl, and thus in FPC since 2.2.0. (the shell* units are mostly post 2.2.0 though). Most no There are some issues that must be still resolved: - TNMLVCustomDraw

Re: [lazarus] FPC compiler for virtual machines?

2008-02-07 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:37:41PM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 10:45 PM, Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There already is FPC on mobile devices. For the rest, the FAQ mostly applies: http://www.hu.freepascal.org/faq.var#dotnet I think

Re: [lazarus] FPC compiler for virtual machines?

2008-02-06 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:26:48PM -0600, Marco Alvarado wrote: Is there a Pascal compiler for these virtual machines? Java Flash 8 (actionscript 2) Flash 9 (actionscript 3) Is the answer is no, can I build one? :-D I think it's a cool project I'd love to work on, just to have Pascal

Re: [lazarus] FPC compiler for virtual machines?

2008-02-06 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:49:23PM -0600, Marco Alvarado wrote: But that would be .NET... what about Java and Flash? Read the last paragraph. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the

Re: [lazarus] FPC compiler for virtual machines?

2008-02-06 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:08:51PM -0600, Marco Alvarado wrote: These problems are pretty much similar for the Java (bytecode) too. One has to mutilate the language, and rewrite the libraries from scratch on the base libraries of the target (Java/.NET). Such an attempt would have little

Re: [lazarus] I still have an ifdef request

2008-01-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:56:40PM +0100, Giuliano Colla wrote: with a program which compiles properly, but has a number of inconsistencies sometimes hard to detect. Is there a way to overcome this problem? Always do a build. Am I the only one to see it as a problem? Yes. A Compile is a

Re: [lazarus] I still have an ifdef request

2008-01-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:22:05PM +0100, Giuliano Colla wrote: Yes. A Compile is a shortcut for a build. If you don't want the downsides, do a build. Out of sheer curiosity. Are you developing alone, or are you in charge of a team, with a number of developers with various degree of

Re: [lazarus] I have a dream

2008-01-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Giuliano Colla wrote: OK, I understand your issue now. Simple solution is: Always do a Build All. :-) By what means do you suggest to obtain that from everybody: moral suasion, menaces, salary cut, spanking or other corporal punishment? :-) Much

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:35:56PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It's more than look and basic behaviour: - keyboard handling - disability support - internationalisation support - behaviour when scaling - following future extensions a bit. (See e.g. the site how to update Delphi

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:04:11PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It would be nice if what you said was documented on the Lazarus wiki though (if it's not already there). It might be handy for other users. Agree. It was a nice post. One thing keeps coming up in usability studies - every

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:50:11AM -0300, Alexsander Rosa wrote: OpenOffice needs to blend in the user's interface. SAP R/3 does not. Why not? They might get a way with it, but is it a hard requirement that SAP does not blend in? Different users, different needs. _IS_ it a need? Or something

Re: [lazarus] Delphi 2006 and Lazarus

2008-01-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:28:05AM -0500, Andrew Brunner wrote: The strangest thing just happened this morning. I had Lazarus open and tried to open D2006. Delphi threw a License file could not be found error and forced me into their registration screen. No matter what I did I couldn't get

[lazarus] lazarus build broken (2.3.1/win32)

2008-01-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.3.1 [2008/01/29] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2007 by Florian Klaempfl Target OS: Win32 for i386 Compiling lazarus.pp Compiling main.pp Compiling projectinspector.pas Compiling addtoprojectdlg.pas Compiling D:\repo\lazarus\packager\packagesystem.pas Compiling

Re: [lazarus] why do delphi users hate lazarus so much?

2008-01-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:48:56PM -0500, Warren Postma wrote: My reason for complaining about Lazarus, and calling it unusable, is that it suffers from worse usability defects (for what I want to use it for) than even the worst-ever versions of Delphi such as Delphi 2005. One assumes here

Re: [lazarus] Making the IDE work with C/C++

2008-01-21 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 07:00:46PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Joost van der Sluis wrote: Op maandag 21-01-2008 om 16:57 uur [tijdzone +0300], schreef Al Boldi: Exactly right! The best feature is find declaration/implementation, but this only works for pascal code. What is needed to make

Re: [lazarus] BerkeleyDB in Lazarus

2008-01-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:16:24AM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:12:23PM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: BerkeleyDB is supported in Lazarus? Not unless you translate the C headers... http

Re: [lazarus] BerkeleyDB in Lazarus

2008-01-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:12:23PM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: BerkeleyDB is supported in Lazarus? Not unless you translate the C headers... http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/bdb.zip _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Re: [lazarus] Delphi/Lazarus comparison by Codegear

2008-01-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:40:11PM +0100, Giuliano Colla wrote: I stumbled, by chance, into a rather fair comparison of Delphi and Lazarus in the Delphi Wiki: http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/The_Business_Case_For_Delphi#FreePascal.2FLazarus_.28FP.2FLZ.29 (cough)

Re: [lazarus] IntraWeb

2008-01-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:50:42AM +1000, SteveG wrote: Just wondering if there has been any advance on an 'IntraWeb' interface at all ? and secondly - is it at all possible to use a (licenced) copy of Intraweb itself within Lazarus ? I'm not aware of any attempts. Indy works though (9

Re: [lazarus] Solution to the BIG compiled file issue!

2008-01-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
Yes I understand but why loose so many new users? All the programmers come from Delphi reports this issue and only a little subset of them check for a solution on Google. Others are lost! One doesn't loose much users that way. People that are so easily turned off, will always find something

Re: [lazarus] Solution to the BIG compiled file issue!

2008-01-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:44:15PM +0200, Albert Zeyer wrote: Andrew Brunner schreef: Vincent: IOW: I expect Lazarus users to be knowledgeable, Lazarus is not for fools. I offer you all this. The #1 reason why Microsoft Windows (3 and up) took off and became so popular was Visual Basic

Re: [lazarus] Solution to the BIG compiled file issue!

2008-01-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:02:28AM -0500, Andrew Brunner wrote: I offer you all this. The #1 reason why Microsoft Windows (3 and up) took off and became so popular was Visual Basic for idiots and Turbo Pascal / Delphi for the coders between C++ and VB. Or because the people poured in a

Re: [lazarus] Solution to the BIG compiled file issue!

2008-01-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:15:46PM +0100, Marius wrote: Fabio Dell'Aria wrote: Hi to all, all we know how many new users do not uses lazarus because it create too BIG compiled files. I cannot find the original thread, but i believe i have read something about a Debug/Release

Re: [lazarus] Solution to the BIG compiled file issue!

2008-01-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Albert Zeyer wrote: I've no idea what you mean by that remark. Linux became popular because it was/is easy to install. (OK, not gained by the Linux kernel developers itself but by the community around.) Linux got a lot of funding due to hype. And

Re: [lazarus] Solution to the BIG compiled file issue!

2008-01-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
Anyway, if I were a new user to Lazarus, I would be surprised by the big compiled file. As an old Delphian, indeed it would be a bit strange. - Lazarus is not Delphi. Consequently some changes sould appears. - Why so big ? May be there is some related documentation. - May be Google

Re: [lazarus] Sockets programming

2008-01-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:42:30AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sorry but this is another where do I find question. I'm doing various stuff which is best done at the level of the sockets library, I might wrap it as a component later. What is the correct way to get TFDSET, FD_ZERO,

Re: [lazarus] Sockets programming

2008-01-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:42:30AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The old 1.0.x symbols have been deprecated in 2.2.0+, new variants exist that have proper typing and (standarized) errorhandling. These new variants are called prefix with fp, so fprecvfrom. These are all documented in

Re: [lazarus] regex-dna benchmark

2008-01-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:37:08PM +0100, willem wrote: I have a wiki site about google android. It covers also the topic of lazarus and free pascal. My visitors are interested in benchmark as my ranking. A partical interesting benchmark is the free pas rex-dna benchmark. Does one of the

Re: [lazarus] acs for lazarus

2008-01-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 12:16:23AM +0800, Antonio Sanguigni wrote: MemCheck {$endif} {$ifdef Linux} ,cthreads {$endif} (In addition to Vincent's comments), don't use linux, but Unix. See http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/porting.pdf

Re: [lazarus] Making GTK Thread Safe

2007-12-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:35:24PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 13/12/2007, Martin Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there web gateway for this? No, use a news client, Mozilla Thunderbird for win32/Linux or KNode for Linux for example. You will probably

Re: [lazarus] Working with different versions of lazarus

2007-12-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 09:11:17PM +0200, ik wrote: You are right. It seems under windows TProcess does not handle and ', but simply passes the entire commandline to CreateProcess, so it is up to program to handle and ' correct. According to msdn this is normal under windows. The

Re: [lazarus] REQ: include LazReport and VirtualTV in bigide

2007-12-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:33:53PM +0700, Paul Ishenin wrote: Lukas Gradl wrote: For Zeos and Indy I disagree - there are working DB-Components in the standard-set and socket programming is nothing for a beginner. iirc, both zeos and indy are non-visual components, so I think you can ask

Re: [lazarus] To all technical writers...

2007-12-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Marco van de Voort wrote: I use Lyx here, exporting to PDF with thumbnails, automatic TOC etc. Same here. I use OO for work for technical documentation, and that experience convinced me to stay with LyX/LateX privately

Re: [lazarus] To all technical writers...

2007-12-09 Thread Marco van de Voort
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: OpenOffice seeing that it runs on a lot of platforms and is freely available. I use Lyx here, exporting to PDF with thumbnails, automatic TOC etc. Same here. I use OO for work for technical documentation, and that experience convinced me to stay with LyX/LateX

Re: [lazarus] Non UTF-8 Encodings

2007-11-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +0200, Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote: What about the Synapse conversion units ? There is a unit, synachar if i remember correctly that dragged a lot of charsets and codepages internally and converts wtthout iconv support for most of them and uses iconv if the

Re: [lazarus] Primitive classes in fpc/lazarus

2007-11-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:42:28PM +0100, Vincent Snijders wrote: It would be nice if the fpcdoc xml files could be easily installed via packages. What do you mean? What is missing? For example: I don't see any of the xml files in the debian packages. I see. I thought you were talking about

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

2007-11-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:56:21AM +0100, willem wrote: Marco van de Voort wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:52:59PM +0100, willem wrote: I know that the lazarus grammar is based on yacc I did some google search on the fpc I do know that google searches results are not always

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

2007-11-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:52:34PM +0700, Paul Ishenin wrote: 2007/11/22, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Considering that application for android have to be written in java I somewhat doubt it. Even worse, Google uses its own virtual machine. Lets teach fpc to generate java byte code

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

2007-11-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:53:52AM +0200, Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote: On Nov 22, 2007 11:36 AM, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering that application for android have to be written in java I somewhat doubt it. There must be a way to run apps natively or it's just another java

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

2007-11-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:41:44AM +0100, willem wrote: Well object pascal lies between java and c++. It lies at C++ level. android uses the eclipse ide. but antlr has also an eclipse plugin. object pascal and java grammars are available for antlr. so we can bridge the gap between java

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

2007-11-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:42:58PM +0100, willem wrote: Marco van de Voort wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:41:44AM +0100, willem wrote: Well object pascal lies between java and c++. It lies at C++ level. android uses the eclipse ide. but antlr has also an eclipse plugin

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

2007-11-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:52:59PM +0100, willem wrote: I know that the lazarus grammar is based on yacc The FPC is recursive descent and is not based on yacc. Syntax highlighter parsers don't have to be 100% correct. Before you start you might also learn your target better, and at least

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

2007-11-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 08:22:50PM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: I think it would be a lot more productive to instead write wrapper C++ classes around the Free Pascal ones. That would give someone full access to the Free Pascal libraries in a much more efficient way then

Re: [lazarus] The use of Variants?

2007-11-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:47:31AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this in another NG and would like some outside opinion. Use for what? My personal opinion on Variants: * I don't like them. [if that's a reason] :-) *

Re: XML and UTF-8

2007-11-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Mattias Gaertner wrote: The source code is UTF-8. Are you sure, that cwstrings works under linux with an ISO charset as default? And what about windows, if the codepage is 1251 (or whatever non UTF-8)? This, I don't know. cwstrings is for Linux only. Afaik it

Re: KOL-CE release

2007-10-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
The odd ball license choice (wxwindows license) is not my favorite either btw. Why? wxwindows license is a LGPL with exceptions allowing binary distribution of code which use library. This licese is like RTL/FCL/LCL license. SourceForge accepts OSI-approved licenses and I pick

Re: [lazarus] Usability issues

2007-10-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:21:04AM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: If the compiler options dialog is to be redesigned I think it would be an oportunity to get customized build modes, like: Release, Debug, AnythingElse Yes, and additional should be definable by the user.

Re: KOL-CE release

2007-10-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:16:09 +0300 Yury Sidorov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I forgot to specify link to KOL-CE wiki: http://wiki.freepascal.org/KOL-CE There is a bug in kol-ce. The package inherits source paths (MCK Package Editor / Options / Usage / Unit/Include: ../kol/). This

Re: [lazarus] Building Lazarus for linux-sparc

2007-10-21 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 08:23:54PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've got Lazarus 0.9.23 building and generally running for Linux on a SPARC system, nothing special needed to be done although there's a few e.g. debugger issues that I need to investigate. Underlying FPC is 2.2.0 built from

Re: [lazarus] Building Lazarus for linux-sparc

2007-10-21 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 08:23:54PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: few related and had to change a makefile to get dbf.o etc. to build. dbf will probably not function on Sparc because it is not endianness clean. _ To

Re: [lazarus] Building Lazarus for linux-sparc

2007-10-21 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: few related and had to change a makefile to get dbf.o etc. to build. dbf will probably not function on Sparc because it is not endianness clean. Thanks, noted. I'd better keep my hands off bigide on SPARC at

Re: [lazarus] ListView Crashes on Mac OS X...

2007-10-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
Tom is right. Almost everything is implemented and working with the Carbon widgetset. I tried on Saturday on PPC with 2.2, and it I got the fpc dir not found [ignore] dialog. Pressing the button yielded a reaction on the console, but the program hung. It would be *very* nice if we could show

Re: [lazarus] IDE cannot find unit oldlinux

2007-09-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:30:18PM +0400, 12 12 wrote: * A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:23:18 +0200]: I would not suggest using oldlinux just for shell. There is a replacement shell implementation in the Unix unit which works. I know. We already discussed it. The

Re: [lazarus] Contribute Contactless Measurement Tool

2007-09-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:12:48PM +0300, Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote: On 9/4/07, Alex Kovacic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TELL ME MORE - I have a ethernet camera running a linux server and want to capture line scan images at 3000f/s.. (frames or lines?) Operating systems have their own way of

Re: [lazarus] mantis report status?

2007-09-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, This one has always puzzled me. What is the difference between a report being marked as Resolved or Closed? I understand them so: Resolved is flag usually setted by developer. This flag means that bug is fixed or will not be fixed. Closed is flag

Re: [lazarus] DLL trouble

2007-09-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:03:00PM +0200, Christian U. wrote: result:='test'; end; exports GetString; end. strings are no standart types and cannto exported from an library without special memmanager, use pchar Shortstrings can. He of course could have put it in Delphi mode, in

Re: [lazarus] Contribute Contactless Measurement Tool

2007-09-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:21:49PM +0400, 12 12 wrote: I almost finished work on part (tool) of project for contactless measurement of distance via webcam. It can: - capture image from webcam; - measure distance between lights according to calibration table. Despite of SysRec it will be

Re: [lazarus] Latest Lazarus revisions not compileable

2007-09-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:37:30AM +0200, Christian U. wrote: Since an view Days i get these Linker Messages when i compile Lazarus . Tested on 2 Mashines, also with clean. fpc is 2.1.5 on one Mashine and 2.3.1 on another. D:\lazarus\ide\lazarus.pp(118,1) Error: Undefined symbol:

Re: [lazarus] utf8toansi and others seem don't work

2007-08-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:08:39AM +0200, Sebastian Kraft wrote: around begin/mid of august... For me all sp?cial french chars like etc ... are correctly displayed in menus, and others. Do you load your ressourcestrings from a translation file with

Re: [lazarus] Why IOCtl constricted?

2007-08-25 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 04:21:58PM +0400, 12 12 wrote: sr: SysCallRegs; begin sr.reg2:=Handle; sr.reg3:=Ndx; sr.reg4:=Longint(Data); IOCtl:=(SysCall(Syscall_nr_ioctl,sr)=0); LinuxError:=Errno; end; In this implementation all positive results of SysCall will be interpretted as

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

2007-08-23 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:18:07PM +1000, David Lyon wrote: It's stateless. I'm also not sure that we can do what they do: python is interpreted, after all. They do have states, within objects. But it is all managed. It is very sophisticated. With my big picture hat on, I suggest we

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

2007-08-23 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:57:17PM +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: David Lyon schreef: Hi everybody, As we are discussing porting delphi/fpc/lazarus apps to the web I propose we start discussing the available web models. You can also consider something like the a form interpeter like Martin

Re: [lazarus] Web Service Toolkit??? release 0.5

2007-08-20 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:42:26PM +1000, David Lyon wrote: The model is that you download the source you need and compile it into your own system. That's no problem, and already the case. Define load. Also keep in mind that Perl installs interpreter sourcecode, what exactly do you imagine

Re: [lazarus] Web Service Toolkit??? release 0.5

2007-08-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:08:57AM +1000, David Lyon wrote: When the ToDos are solved the IDE can be extended. I added a few links to FPC wiki sites there. Well, I have had a think about this library issue a bit further. What I think we should devise or adapt is something a bit

Re: [lazarus] lazxml #text nodes

2007-08-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:15:30PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: For example GetValue('connectivity/answer_timeout/tag',2) will return 1000 instead of 2. Only if there is a nodevalue. But yes, that could be a problem. It is, because there is no function to change this value in

Re: [lazarus] Web Service Toolkit??? release 0.5

2007-08-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:10:46AM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:46:46 +1000 David Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Darius, Darius Blaszijk wrote: [...] 2) Lazarus only supports static packages. So installing a package would always require to recompile

Re: [lazarus] Systems 2007

2007-08-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 11:58:13AM +0200, Sebastian G?nther wrote: David Lyon schrieb: Oh, and maybe the address of the Greek restaurant we were in 2005 (Mattias maybe remembers it :-) I could only find this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~patto1ro/munipubs.htm There are so many pubs, bars,

Re: [lazarus] Systems 2007

2007-08-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 08:31:29PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: do we have brochures ? CDs ? Artwork ? Signage ? Furniture ? Manning ? Ideas for a brochure, artwork, CD cover, CD help, whatever are very welcome. Loggings also, since I'm now definitely not allowed in youth hostels anymore

Re: Testers for the unicode support on windows

2007-08-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
News: http://trolltech.com/products/qt/gplexception But: B) You must, on request, make a complete package including the complete source code of Your Software... ... to TROLLTECH. Not the general public. And you can charge Trolltech the same amount of money for it as your normal customers.

Re: [lazarus] lazxml #text nodes

2007-08-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 06:52:15PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +end; //CheckHeapWrtMemCnt('TXMLConfig.GetValue H'); //writeln('TXMLConfig.GetValue END Result=',Result,''); end; This would mean '1000' becomes the default value

[lazarus] lazxml #text nodes

2007-08-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
At work I also use laz_xmlcfg from Delphi, and I noticed that while it can parse the following format, there is no way to retrieve the value 1000. !--- cutout, imagine std XML header here connectivity answer_timeout id=21000/answer_timeout /connectivity The value is read into a #text child,

Re: [lazarus] Multiprocessing compiler

2007-08-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Lv wrote: Did anyone attempt a multiprocessing compiler version of fpk yet in order to compile for clusters and run together with a load balancing unit. I believe some brainstorming was done to see how it could be implemented with some compiler hints, but nothing was

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus promotion opportunities..

2007-08-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 01:04:33PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: There are a number of Linux Trade shows around the world that we could put stands at for less cost than say cebit. The idea there is to give a cd and handout with a version of Lazarus for all the major platforms so people

Re: [lazarus] button glyphs in IDE dialogs

2007-08-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:16:34AM +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: Today a couple of bug reports have been made about missing button glyphs in IDE dialogs. Should they be added? Or does it make the dialogs too busy? I don't like glyphed buttons, but don't like iconic references in general.

Re: [lazarus] Component or library for HTTP and/or WebDAV protocol on Mac OS X

2007-07-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Tobias Giesen wrote: I am ready to invest a lot of time into this, so if I have to create something new or port a library that currently works on Windows or Linux, how should I proceed? Is there a library that I should port over to Macintosh? Probably

Re: [lazarus] Form designer code inside .pas unit

2007-07-23 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:49:47PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: directly instead of a external unit. They embed the form/component creation code inside a private method called from the constructor. The code in that private method is also wrapped in C# Region so that it is hidden by default with

Re: [lazarus] *.xml config files under Windows

2007-07-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:06:36AM +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: This is likely to change before 1.0 to the some applictiondata directory, as given by the sysutils.GetAppConfigDir (or what is that function name?). Keep it versioned, or you might loose the ability of having multiple

Re: [lazarus] *.xml config files under Windows

2007-07-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:00:55PM +0200, Mattias G?rtner wrote: Zitat von Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:06:36AM +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: This is likely to change before 1.0 to the some applictiondata directory, as given

Re: [lazarus] *.xml config files under Windows

2007-07-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:03:16PM +0200, Mattias G?rtner wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:00:55PM +0200, Mattias G?rtner wrote: Zitat von Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:06:36AM +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: This is likely to change before 1.0

Re: [lazarus] *.xml config files under Windows

2007-07-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:04:19AM +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Hi, Where does Lazarus under Windows store the *.xml config files? For example under Linux it is or the Lazarus directory or the ~/.lazarus directory. What is the equivalent under Windows? It is

Re: [lazarus] A counting proxy in lazarus ?

2007-07-07 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:55:01PM +0200, A.J. Venter wrote: Put an http proxy inside the outkafe counter window, send the browser through it. This proxy need not cache ANYTHING. It ONLY needs to relay the http traffic back and forth - and count the bytes coming in (Each instance can run

Re: [lazarus] Working with XML: crosscompatibility

2007-06-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:23:09PM -0300, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: Alvise Nicoletti wrote: I have to parse xml both with Lazarus on linux (server) and Delphi on Windows (client). Actually, with Lazarus, I'm using the DOM, ReadXML, WriteXML units. Is there something that I

Re: [lazarus] FindFirst/FindNext or FPReadDir

2007-06-21 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:48:56PM +0400, Alex Smirnov wrote: Peter Vreman ?: If need performance and only need to have the filename you can use fpgetdents or the deprecated fpreaddir. If you need all file information like size and modified timestamp then better use the portable

Re: [lazarus] TProcess or Shell ?

2007-06-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 12:12:40AM +0200, A.J. Venter wrote: I think I will post this question to the list and get the general feel from those who know the internals well. What is the consensus please ? That's pretty easy. In 2.1/2.2+, shell() is deprecated. (though fpsystem is there as

Re: [lazarus] FreeBSD support

2007-06-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
I want to test fpGUI under FreeBSD. My IDE of choice is obviously Lazarus! :) Does FPC and Lazarus work fine under FreeBSD? I'm completely new to FreeBSD. Is there any specific things to look out for while setting up my development environment? Not really. Afaik using FPC/Lazarus on it

Re: [lazarus] New features since Delphi 7...

2007-05-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: I'm curious: Was there any feature, that FPC implemented first and was reimplemented by Borland in the same way? Perhaps operator overloading and inline ? But I think those have a .net origin, not

Re: [lazarus] New features since Delphi 7...

2007-05-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:39:03PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Here is some interesting Delphi features I found title: New since Delphi 7... Anybody interested in implementing a few. At least FPC and Lazarus beat them to a few of those!! :-) New IDE features since Delphi 7

Re: [lazarus] New features since Delphi 7...

2007-05-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:27:32PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote: I had so much trouble in the Delphi 1 days because so many VCL methods were needlessly declared private instead of protected. I found hacks round it, of course, but the priorities of the component-set developer often don't

Re: [lazarus] RTF backend for FPDoc.

2007-05-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:22:16AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: The generated RTF is linear, i.e. it is suitable for printing. In order to create a .hlp file or a .chm file, some changes will be necessary. (.hlp requires insertion of well-formed

Re: [lazarus] detecting the Linux window manager used

2007-04-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:53:14AM -0400, Lee Jenkins wrote: That is pretty cool, though it is Perl not C. :-) Oops ;) I guess we've established that I am not familiar with Perl either... Hmm, call me an cynic, but I'd say that is a good thing.

Re: [lazarus] Bitmap troubles on Win9x

2007-04-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:44:03PM +0100, Steven Graham wrote: I have a program that I've made with lazaus which in the main form is a Toolbar and a some menus, the menu items and toolbar buttons are all setup with actions in an action list. The trouble I'm finding is that if they have

Re: [lazarus] License clarification for lazarus plug-ins

2007-04-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:03:01PM +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: non-GPL-compatible plugins included statically; however, we do not see this as a severe limitation, since recompiling Lazarus is easy. /quote So, will you go after violations like the GLScene integrated lazarus? In what way

Re: [lazarus] After compiling and debugging my app, sometimes (randomly) a failure pops up.

2007-04-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:07:05PM +0200, Pelle ten Cate wrote: I am trying to write quite a nice application in Lazarus. Now sometimes when I compile my project and run it (debug via Lazarus) i get the following error: (slightly different probably, translated from Dutch) Running is

Re: [lazarus] Delphi for PHP

2007-04-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:51:20PM +0200, Pieter Valentijn wrote: Remember this topic? Well the source is now there on sourceforge :-) I have seen the demo and I like it. All do my knowledge of php syntax is not big I hope the code inside will change that :-)

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

2007-04-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:07:21PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: And non native widget differ much in little things. tab order, key bindings, resize behaviour, speed These are all things that can be addressed in the painting backend and event handling code of the supported platforms.

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

2007-04-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:00:16PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Having native controls is simply something people request. Just try to convince somebody to use a Qt or GTK application on Windows or MacOS. They will tell you always it looks and behaves strange. Consistent Getting a

Re: [lazarus] Managing Cross Platform Projects

2007-03-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:14:42PM -0700, George Lober wrote: while back I thought about setting up SVN because of the drawbacks, but since I am not familiar with it, the setting-up and running of it looked quite complicated. The other major concern that held me back was about how much disk

Re: [lazarus] Crossplatform Windows-Linux

2007-03-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:42:25PM -0300, Andreas Berger wrote: I'm sorry to bring up something like this, but I really need help. I need to port an app from windows to linux. However, since all my development is under windows I would like to compile under windows and run it on a (or

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