Re: [Lazarus] MDI - working implementation !?
On 10/26/2014 02:57 AM, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: Very interesting, i was actually looking into implementing MDI (for Windows... AFAIK the Qt backend already has MDI support). Although from a quick look at the code, it doesn't seem to do that, does it? It looks like it only checks the form type, but still the forms are top level, not under an MDI client window inside the main/MDI form. That's why I said to Herwig to provide patch. Let we see what it does. But IMO, win32 need ws implementation, part where mdiarea must be created and also mdichild handle. zeljko On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:25 AM, zeljko zel...@holobit.net mailto:zel...@holobit.net wrote: On 10/24/2014 02:03 PM, Herwig Niemeyer wrote: On transcribing an old Delphi-Program to a Lazarus-program i was in need do have working MDI-functions. I tried to implement them in customform.inc and they work fine with my program and in my environment. There are still some problematic spots in the code and i would appreciate comments/solutions for them. regards Please, learn howto make patch, open an issue about it at lazarus bug tracker and attach patch. I'll commit it after review. btw. what is your environment ? widgetset ? OS ? zeljko -- _ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.__freepascal.org mailto:Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.__freepascal.org/mailman/__listinfo/lazarus http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Getting the last modified date of a directory
Am 2014-10-25 um 19:19 schrieb Richard Mace: Hi All, I can see that we have a FileAge function and also a FileGetDate however, I was wondering what the best way of getting the last modified date of a folder? Effectively, the last time that a file was created/changed within a folder? I think that FileAge should work for directory names too. Have not tested though. The question is: What does a directory date tell you? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Getting the last modified date of a directory
On 26/10/2014 10:09, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: I think that FileAge should work for directory names too. Why do you think that? The docs say it doesn't: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/fileage.html -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Getting the last modified date of a directory
I want to know the last time any file was created or modified within a given folder which I believe is represented in windows via the last modified date next to the folder? Richard On 26 Oct 2014 09:11, Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote: Am 2014-10-25 um 19:19 schrieb Richard Mace: Hi All, I can see that we have a FileAge function and also a FileGetDate however, I was wondering what the best way of getting the last modified date of a folder? Effectively, the last time that a file was created/changed within a folder? I think that FileAge should work for directory names too. Have not tested though. The question is: What does a directory date tell you? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Getting the last modified date of a directory
Am 2014-10-26 um 10:29 schrieb Reinier Olislagers: On 26/10/2014 10:09, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: I think that FileAge should work for directory names too. Why do you think that? The docs say it doesn't: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/fileage.html At least on Windows there is no difference to retrieve the date of a file or a directory: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724320%28v=vs.85%29.aspx says: Retrieves the date and time that a file *or directory* was created, last accessed, and last modified. Nevertheless, I don't know whether this is true for other OS's too. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Getting the last modified date of a directory
Am 2014-10-26 um 10:42 schrieb Richard Mace: I want to know the last time any file was created or modified within a given folder which I believe is represented in windows via the last modified date next to the folder? I am not sure when exactly directory dates are changed and whether this behaviour is identical for all OS's (supported by Free Pascal). When metadata of a directory is modified it can also change the last modified date. This may not always be as expected. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Getting the last modified date of a directory
On 26/10/2014 11:45, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Am 2014-10-26 um 10:29 schrieb Reinier Olislagers: On 26/10/2014 10:09, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: I think that FileAge should work for directory names too. Why do you think that? The docs say it doesn't: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/fileage.html At least on Windows there is no difference to retrieve the date of a file or a directory: Why are you quoting MSDN WinAPI help instead of FreePascal keyword help? The FPC docs clearly state the return value is -1 in case of directories. Have you tested it? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] MDI - working implementation !?
I provided a patch now. Hope all is ok because this is my first time to work in the community. Now that I have built a testing-program (depending on built-in MDI methods or using a patched customform.inc) to check all the possibilities i can think of, it shows that inside the main/MDI form there are problems to get the correct zOrder. Therefore the function activeMDIChild does not work correctly. ( In my old Delphi-program i used MDIForm outside the main Form) Link to my testprogram: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24228536/projectMDITest.zip Herwig Gesendet:Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2014 um 08:18 Uhr Von:zeljko zel...@holobit.net An:Lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Betreff:Re: [Lazarus] MDI - working implementation !? On 10/26/2014 02:57 AM, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: Very interesting, i was actually looking into implementing MDI (for Windows... AFAIK the Qt backend already has MDI support). Although from a quick look at the code, it doesnt seem to do that, does it? It looks like it only checks the form type, but still the forms are top level, not under an MDI client window inside the main/MDI form. Thats why I said to Herwig to provide patch. Let we see what it does. But IMO, win32 need ws implementation, part where mdiarea must be created and also mdichild handle. zeljko On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:25 AM, zeljko zel...@holobit.net mailto:zel...@holobit.net wrote: On 10/24/2014 02:03 PM, Herwig Niemeyer wrote: On transcribing an old Delphi-Program to a Lazarus-program i was in need do have working MDI-functions. I tried to implement them in customform.inc and they work fine with my program and in my environment. There are still some problematic spots in the code and i would appreciate comments/solutions for them. regards Please, learn howto make patch, open an issue about it at lazarus bug tracker and attach patch. Ill commit it after review. btw. what is your environment ? widgetset ? OS ? zeljko -- _ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.__freepascal.org mailto:Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.__freepascal.org/mailman/__listinfo/lazarus http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] MDI - working implementation !?
I hope, i found a workaround to the problems with MDIChildren in a MainForm/MDIForm. In my testprogram it looks all okay to me. But before i load up another patch perhaps someone does his/her own tests to make sure all is working fine. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24228536/projectMDIText.zip Herwig -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] MDI - working implementation !?
On 10/26/2014 05:22 PM, Herwig Niemeyer wrote: I hope, i found a workaround to the problems with MDIChildren in a MainForm/MDIForm. In my testprogram it looks all okay to me. But before i load up another patch perhaps someone does his/her own tests to make sure all is working fine. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24228536/projectMDIText.zip Herwig I've seen what are you doing in your project. It's not real mdi implementation (you're using ParentWindow, and that won't work as expected even on windows), and that differs from normal mdi usage in Delphi and Lazarus with qt widgetset. Win32 widgetset must implement basic stuff. How it works under linux gtk2 ? zeljko -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Find dialog too tight for translations
Il 25/10/2014 18:49, waldo kitty ha scritto: On 10/24/2014 5:34 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote: Taking into account all suggestions, I came out with two possible layouts: Option 1 = Buttons at the bottom of the form (like in my previous version) Option 2 = Buttons at the right of the form (like in the original version) i like them both... option 2 is like a lot of stuff that i work with... i have no preference between them at this time... maybe provide both so that implementers can choose which they prefer in their project? It would appear that the majority is for Option 2. However, before submitting a patch, I'd like to see if the proposal of a user selectable layout is viable. Not only to satisfy also the minority, but also to clean up the situation, which currently IMO isn't too much satisfactory. The idea of a selectable configuration has triggered the following considerations. What happens now is that in lcl/forms you have two units, one for the Find dialog and one for the Replace dialog, each one with its form. You must use them to design your forms. Once you're happy with them, you must copy the code into one of the files included by the Dialogs unit which loads also the lfm files generated when compiling the other units. IOW quite a complicate situation, not too clean. I gather that this is made necessary to avoid a circular dependency: you cannot include a unit which uses LCLBase into the package LCLBase itself. A cleaner solution would be to build those dialogs in code, like the other ones in the Dialogs unit, without loading an lfm file from stream. Besides the advantage of providing a configurable layout, this solution could be implemented with an ancestor class of a generic Find/replace dialog, from which those two dialogs could be derived. This would provide the extra bonus to give to users the option of building their own custom dialogs, deriving them from the ancestor class, for special usage. A find/replace dialog used in an editor of po files may need the options of selecting MsgId/MsgStr, an application may need to enable/disable a search based on regular expressions, etc. I'd like to investigate if this path can be followed without too many difficulties. Any observations? Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] TFMTBCDField problem
2014-10-24 13:28 GMT+02:00 Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl: And I received a warning from Vincent that building the snapshot failed. So I know for sure that these snapshots are still being build. Maybe you have just bad luck that it is not available today, due to a mistake from me. So maybe wait one day, or that someone else can point out where the snapshot (from a day earlier) can be found. That was not from a snapshot installer build, but from a build server which just tests compilation. It does make all, does not package and does not upload, delete old snapshots etc. Vincent -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
