Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Digest, Vol 99, Issue 32

[Salvatore Coppola]

2016-04-09 12:20 GMT+02:00 Giuliano Colla :

> Il 08/04/2016 21:13, Juha Manninen ha scritto:
>
>> Welcome to open source.
>> Instead of complaining here and wasting everybody's time, you could
>> have improved the documentation yourself and provide a patch.
>>
>
> In principle you're right. However you should take into account some other
> factors.
>
> Frequently users do complain when a problem arises which they are unable
> to solve by themselves.
>
> Asking them to provide a patch doesn't help too much.


Sorry to reply so late but here you have hit the core of the question. Many
times I've tried to do something that failed in a miserable way (i.e.
miserable/hobbist/old programmer). BTW, contribute to an open source
project can be done as programmer, tester, artist, disigner, marketter etc.
So if someone has a good idea to improve the project but is not able to
implement it, I think there is nothing wrong with proposing it here without
this being interpreted as a request that the core developers must do. If
anyone knows how to do it, and overall want to do it, well, otherwise it
goes on and nothing changes. Anyway I want to say thanks to all of you, old
and new developers
Salvatore


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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

[Salvatore Coppola]

Create the
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin

end;
Instead of the error message

2015-12-28 9:16 GMT+01:00 Ondrej Pokorny <laza...@kluug.net>:

> On 28.12.2015 09:11, Salvatore Coppola wrote:
>
> What do you want to change?
>> - do you want to remove the "Button1Click" reference in OI on undo?
>> or
>> - do you want to create Button1Click even if there is reference in OI but
>> the method cannot be found?
>>
>
> Yes, this can be a good option
>
>
> Which one?
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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

[Salvatore Coppola]

Done

2015-12-28 9:50 GMT+01:00 Ondrej Pokorny <laza...@kluug.net>:

> On 28.12.2015 09:35, Salvatore Coppola wrote:
>
> Create the
> procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
> begin
>
> end;
> Instead of the error message
>
> Please fill an issue report in the BT.
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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

[Salvatore Coppola]

2015-12-27 22:29 GMT+01:00 Ondrej Pokorny <laza...@kluug.net>:

> On 26.12.2015 10:00, Salvatore Coppola wrote:
>
> the IDE is give a error msg that didnt help to find the problem (unit
> section enlighted)
>
>
> I find the error message clear enough:
>
>
>
> and in the messages window you find
>
> unit1.pas(1,11) Error: identifier not found: Button1Click
>
> So there is no bug at all.
>
> What do you want to change?
> - do you want to remove the "Button1Click" reference in OI on undo?
> or
> - do you want to create Button1Click even if there is reference in OI but
> the method cannot be found?
>

Yes, this can be a good option because  in the other case (compiling) the
IDE suggest to self remove "Button1Click" in the OI.
Salvatore

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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

[Salvatore Coppola]

Ok "although" instead of "Thought"!
Ok wrong tread!
Should be opened an issou in the BT?
thanks for the huge amount of replies!

2015-12-26 10:00 GMT+01:00 Salvatore Coppola <coppolastu...@gmail.com>:

> Thought not 1.6 specific ther'is an annoying bug with the IDE undo. If you
> create an  event for instance
> procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
> begin
>
> end;
>
> do ctrl+z
>
> and only Button1Click from source is removed and not its reference in the
> OI. So if you try to recreate the Button1Click event via OI or dbclick on
> button1 the IDE is give a error msg that didnt help to find the problem
> (unit section enlighted)
>
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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

[Salvatore Coppola]

Thought not 1.6 specific ther'is an annoying bug with the IDE undo. If you
create an  event for instance
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin

end;

do ctrl+z

and only Button1Click from source is removed and not its reference in the
OI. So if you try to recreate the Button1Click event via OI or dbclick on
button1 the IDE is give a error msg that didnt help to find the problem
(unit section enlighted)

Salvatore

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Re: [Lazarus] Theoretical question about future of Lazarus

[Salvatore Coppola]

An easy way to got apk for Android as Sam Herzog said "able to generate a
valid android package (.apk) by just pressing F9"

2015-10-13 19:50 GMT+02:00 Travis Ayres :

> I hope we see more books detailing Lazarus and Freepascal, rather than
> more advanced features. New features are great but really getting the word
> out is necessary - I've had people laugh when I say I program in object
> Pascal because I like it better than C++, and others say it's a dead
> language. It's really a shame because Lazarus\fpc are so good!
> On Oct 13, 2015 10:47 AM,  wrote:
>
>> On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Juha Manninen wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:43 PM,   wrote:
>>>
 what do you call "really fast"??

>>>
>>> The fastest PC available today.
>>>
>>> i might be able to try this on my 8-core 4Ghz box...

>>>
>>> Yes please!
>>>
>>
>> let me see what i can do...
>>
>> [time passes]
>>
>> i get as far as this...
>>
>> /bin/rm -f fpcmade.x86_64-linux Package.fpc ./ppas.sh script.res link.res
>> /bin/rm -f *.s *_ppas.sh
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/wkitty42/development/lazarus/components/chmhelp/lhelp'
>> make -C packager/registration
>> make[1]: Entering directory
>> `/home/wkitty42/development/lazarus/packager/registration'
>> /bin/rm -f ../units/x86_64-linux/fcllaz.ppu
>> /home/wkitty42/development/fpc/bin/x86_64-linux/ppcx64 -MObjFPC -Scghi
>> -O1 -g -gl -l -vewnhibq -Fu. -FE. -FU../units/x86_64-linux -Cg -dx86_64
>> fcllaz.pas
>> Free Pascal Compiler version 3.1.1 [2015/06/13] for x86_64
>> Copyright (c) 1993-2015 by Florian Klaempfl and others
>> (1002) Target OS: Linux for x86-64
>> (3104) Compiling fcllaz.pas
>> Fatal: (10022) Can't find unit system used by fcllaz
>> Fatal: (1018) Compilation aborted
>> make[1]: *** [fcllaz.ppu] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/wkitty42/development/lazarus/packager/registration'
>> make: *** [registration] Error 2
>>
>> real0m4.228s
>> user0m0.819s
>> sys 0m1.352s
>>
>>
>> i don't know why... everything is in a tree under ~/development where
>> fpcup placed it... i've never installed fpc or lazarus using anything other
>> than fpcup and bootstrapping it from the raw... there is
>> ~/development/fcpbootstrap/x86_64-linux-ppcx64 which turns out to be fpc
>> 2.6.2 but i don't know how to tell your "time make clean bigide" to use it
>> :(
>>
>> the only other thing is that i don't use bigide at this time...
 it was too confusing for me while trying to learn the interface...

>>>
>>> Bigide is used for Lazarus release versions. Why is it confusing?
>>>
>>
>> way too many options to drag and drop on a form... i do not come from
>> delphi or any other gui coding environment so i don't know anything about
>> them... trying to find one being looked for was like hunting a needle in a
>> haystack...
>>
>> the last time i used any sort of RAD it was for relatively small programs
>> in Foxbase or dBase III and IV... there was a RAD template system thing
>> that we used... once we got the forms laid out the way we wanted and
>> generated the basic code to access, edit and delete the data, we then
>> rewrote the majority of the code so much adding to and refining the
>> existing code that we could not use the template thing any more to adjust
>> the forms... from then on, it was like we had never used a RAD at all...
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Re: [Lazarus] LazSVNPkg is working?

[Salvatore Coppola]

2015-10-02 21:14 GMT+02:00 Salvatore Coppola <coppolastu...@gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
> is LazSVNPkg working?
> Tried for the first time and got "Access violation".
> Steps
> installed subversion
> created a local a repository
> set up project active
> try to commit
> Salvatore
>
OK I set the repository name and working in a local copy got only log
working. commit, update no.
is this a bug or I'm wrong in something?
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[Lazarus] LazSVNPkg is working?

[Salvatore Coppola]

Hi all,
is LazSVNPkg working?
Tried for the first time and got "Access violation".
Steps
installed subversion
created a local a repository
set up project active
try to commit
Salvatore
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[Lazarus] fpc (trunk) 3.1.1 debian .deb

[Salvatore Coppola]

Hi,
time ago the .deb packages of fpc in trunk were availlable on daily
snapshot pages. The same with other fpc distribtions (for instance packaged
in the lazarus setup exe).
It was great for who like me that wasn't able to get fpc working from
source (I know, I.ll die dummy)
Why daily snapshot are been removed?
Is there a way to get the the fpc debs?
Regards,
Salvatore
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Re: [Lazarus] LaztoApk troubles

[Salvatore Coppola]

Sam, thanks for the reply, got it!
Salvatore

2015-09-19 20:16 GMT+02:00 sam_herzog <sam_her...@yahoo.com>:

>
> Hello Salvatore,  first I would like to explain a little about laztoapk.
> It just helps you install the whole tool chain, jdk,sdk,ndk and
> laz4android. And to create the batch-file (.bat) to compile,sign and
> package a valid .apk file. The problem you are talking about can be solved
> by either using the batch-files directly or you can use the tabsheet
> "manual". Regards, DelphiFreak  btw I bought delphi xe 10 last week and was
> able to generate a valid android package (.apk) by just pressing F9. Nice
> but will cost you around 1000 euros.
>
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> Von Samsung-Tablet gesendet
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>  Ursprüngliche Nachricht 
> Von: Salvatore Coppola <coppolastu...@gmail.com>
> Datum: 19.09.2015 09:44 (GMT+01:00)
> An: Lazarus mailing list <lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org>
> Betreff: [Lazarus] LaztoApk troubles
>
> Hi,
> this should be direct to delphifreak but i preferred to ask here, maybe
> someone  already experimented and solved.
> After configured laz4android jdk sdk ndk, the program execute and make the
> apk but the problem is that althought the project is changed (another
> project) always the template is build and packaged as apk. Tried the svn
> code but nothing changed.
> I want to take a look at the code.
> Delphifreak can you list here in a shortlist the logical steps laztoapk do
> TIA
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[Lazarus] LaztoApk troubles

[Salvatore Coppola]

Hi,
this should be direct to delphifreak but i preferred to ask here, maybe
someone has already experimented and solved.
After configured laz4android jdk sdk ndk, the program execute and make the
apk but the problem is that althought the project is changed (another
project) always the template is build and packaged as apk. Tried the svn
code but nothing changed.
I want to take a look at the code.
Delphifreak can you list here in a shortlist the logical steps laztoapk do
TIA
Salvatore
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Re: [Lazarus] TAChart

[Salvatore Coppola]

Maybe

TChart.ZoomFull

can help you

2015-06-04 21:35 GMT+02:00 Richard Mace richard.m...@gmail.com:

 Hi,
 Another quick question. How can you, via code, zoom out of a chart,
 effectively back to what it was by default? If that makes sense?

 Thanks

 Richard

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Re: [Lazarus] Moving items between actionlist

[Salvatore Coppola]

Maybe can be better for you to use Sender instead to duplicate actions

2015-04-20 14:44 GMT+02:00 Torsten Bonde Christiansen t...@epidata.info:

  I am in for some tidious work, copying a large amount of actions between
 two actionlist.

 So I started wondering - is there not a simple cutpaste functionality to
 cut/move an action
 from one list to another?
 Both actionlists are on the same form, so all associated OnExecute methods
 are unchanged, so
 basically it is a simply move operation.

 I have tried dragging actions between the two actionlist editors, but that
 is not implemented. Also
 dragging in the Object Inspector does not work, it show a do not drop
 icon with the mouse.

 Regards,
 Torsten Bonde Christiansen.



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Re: [Lazarus] Bug? Form (in design mode) shrinks every time i click on a component in the palette

[Salvatore Coppola]

about 30 pixel recall me scrollbar width

2015-04-17 13:12 GMT+02:00 Kostas Michalopoulos badsectorac...@gmail.com:

 So i have this weird problem under Linux with the GTK2 backend (it doesn't
 happen in the Qt backend): every time i click on a component button in the
 palette, the designed form shrinks a bit (about 30 pixels or so). This
 happens in the stable 1.2 version, 1.4RC and trunk. Deleting ~/.lazarus etc
 doesn't fix it so it isn't a settings issue.

 I tried to debug it a bit by adding breakpoints in SetBounds, DoOnResize,
 etc but couldn't find where the resize request comes from (OnResize stuff
 comes from a WM message). What is even more weird, commenting out the
 OnClick code in the component palette so that it isn't handled at all,
 still causes it - i suspect some weird combination of GTK+ events might
 cause it since the buttons are still pressed. Although TBH this was mostly
 shooting blind trying to find some clue.

 The only thing i suspect is the window manager i'm using, Window Maker,
 might not support some of the more recent window hint/style/etc stuff
 (although i'm using the latest version and is in active development since a
 few years now). Steam also seems to have trouble with interacting with
 wmaker, but that one implements its own widgets and it might be a bug they
 didn't bother to fix. Every other program i've tried seems to work fine
 with wmaker so i'm not sure if it is that (and besides it works fine with
 the Qt backend).

 Does anyone have any idea what might cause this and how to fix it (no,
 replacing wmaker isn't an option :-P besides if it is a bug there i'll just
 fix wmaker)?


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Re: [Lazarus] Auto Update Request

[Salvatore Coppola]

2015-04-13 16:28 GMT+02:00 Martin Frb laza...@mfriebe.de:

 On 13/04/2015 14:58, Lukasz Sokol wrote:

 On 13/04/15 14:28, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

 Do you need additional features: a diff kind of update,

 My bet's primarily on this one.


 Well then the question is, is the request for
 - an AUTO update (same download, just the IDE checks for it)
 - an UPDATE installer, that reduces the download size.

 Of course ideally both.

 IMHO the rebuild with your packages should not be part of the installer,
 but be done when you run the IDE. Same as we have the setup screen,the IDE
 could probably detect that the configured packages are no longer installed,
 and ask.

 As for the installer size, their are many options. The problem is
 manpower. Such installers have to be build in order to be provided, and
 someone has to do this on every release.

 Speaking of the windows installer (I do not know the others)
 It be possible to build an Lazarus only, no fpc, if you already have fpc
 in the correct version from the last install. But it needs to be build each
 time. And it will add work on support, if people try to use it with an
 older fpc,
 It would also be possible to just install tho Lazarus sources, no ppu
 included, and then build them locally (more time to install, less download).


IMHO this features are only a needless complexity. Both for Lazarus and
FPC, SVN or Git do the work in a excellent way for a good programmer (i
suppose Lazarus and FPC users are programmers). I'm an hobbist programmer
(very poor for the truth) but I've no problems to update via SVN


 There are many possible variations. But they all will take time for
 building and testing on every release.


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[Lazarus] StringGrid content LoadFromFile SaveToFile and accented char

[Salvatore Coppola]

Ciao,
I'm playing with StringGrid and LoadFromFile SaveToFile. I noticed that if
you save content in Windows 8 or Mint LMDE 64 and load it under winXp,
accented chars are replaced with strange chars. Sure are utf related but is
there a way to avoid this?
It is a bag?
Thanks for the replies
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Re: [Lazarus] font.name=default

[Salvatore Coppola]

You can choose the controls you want this way

var i: integer;
begin
  for i:=0 to ControlCount-1 do
if Controls[i] is TButton then
  ShowMessage(Controls[i].Name);
end;
Ciao


2014-08-21 13:09 GMT+02:00 Philippe phili...@quarta.com.br:

  I wrote about a suggestion ... a Lazarus default font ...

 may be, as far as I understand, using Parent Font property is the way
 ... I´ll try it!

 Philippe

 Em 20.08.2014 19:54, Philippe escreveu:

 thank for your answer.

 I found the default font on my machine/windows 8 is Segoe UI. I´ll check
 if it is avalaible under other version of Windows ...

 your suggestion (looping controls) is interesting, I didn´t know it, but
 will change all the controls of the form ... and that is not what I need
 ... I just want to change the Lazarus default. So it will change the font
 of controls using font.name='Default' in the configuration/object
 inspector.

 Philippe



 Em 20.08.2014 12:58, Salvatore Coppola escreveu:




 2014-08-16 12:40 GMT+02:00 Philippe phili...@quarta.com.br:

  I wrote a program, used font.name=default for allmost everything ... it
 was looking as Arial font. Fine.

 It was on a Windows 8 machine.

 Then I copied the program to a Windows XP machine to check.

 Where static text and others are written with something looking as a New
 Times Roman ...
  and sometimes not fitting in the field width ... and be splitted!

 I undestood there is something about windows default font. Googled ...
 ... ...

 On the my W8 machine default font (from registers) are Microsoft Sans
 Serif and Tahoma ... diferent.

 I made a test. In the attached image, the first text is with default, the
 second with Arial, both with bold mode. Arial was the closest font from
 default I found ... but still a bit diferent.

 Question 1): which default font is used with Lazarus ?

 the theme fonts

  Question 2): is there a way I can set the default font in Lazarus?

 I don't know if is possible in RAD way, but you can set the font you want
 in on create event for each controls you want.

 procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
 var i: integer;
 begin
 for i:=0 to ControlCount-1 do
   Controls[i].Font:=YOURFONT;
 end;


  Thank for your help

 Philippe

 PS. F1 in font.name ... error 404.

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Re: [Lazarus] font.name=default

[Salvatore Coppola]

2014-08-16 12:40 GMT+02:00 Philippe phili...@quarta.com.br:

  I wrote a program, used font.name=default for allmost everything ... it
 was looking as Arial font. Fine.

 It was on a Windows 8 machine.

 Then I copied the program to a Windows XP machine to check.

 Where static text and others are written with something looking as a New
 Times Roman ...
  and sometimes not fitting in the field width ... and be splitted!

 I undestood there is something about windows default font. Googled ... ...
 ...

 On the my W8 machine default font (from registers) are Microsoft Sans
 Serif and Tahoma ... diferent.

 I made a test. In the attached image, the first text is with default, the
 second with Arial, both with bold mode. Arial was the closest font from
 default I found ... but still a bit diferent.

 Question 1): which default font is used with Lazarus ?

the theme fonts

 Question 2): is there a way I can set the default font in Lazarus?

I don't know if is possible in RAD way, but you can set the font you want
in on create event for each controls you want.

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var i: integer;
begin
for i:=0 to ControlCount-1 do
  Controls[i].Font:=YOURFONT;
end;


 Thank for your help

 Philippe

 PS. F1 in font.name ... error 404.

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Re: [Lazarus] TAChart - Logarithmic Transform fails for X Axis

[Salvatore Coppola]

Have you checked data (0)?
Salvatore


2013/12/7 Peter Thurner pm.thur...@gmx.at

 Hello *,

 This is the first time that I post something, so please be patient with me
 :-)

 I have been using Plotpanel now for a while to plot Bode diagrams within
 Lazarus GUIs.
 Now I would like to switch to TAChart which seems very powerfull too.
 I tried it out with linear graphs and it works very well.

 But If I try to plot a bode diagram with a logarithmic x Axis then it
 crashes.
 I followed the tutorial about logarithmic transform:
 http://wiki.freepascal.org/TAChart_Tutorial:_ListChartSource,_Logarithmic_
 Axis,_Fitting
 and I did all the steps successfully.

 BUT If I try to apply a logarithmic transform to the bottom axis (x-axis)
 then it crashes.
 It displays the graph but the grid lines are gone.
 Has anybody tried already to apply log transform to bottom axis? It works
 for left axis.

 Thanks
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Re: [Lazarus] Help with databases

[Salvatore Coppola]

OK realised that I must study SQL language
Salvatore

2013/1/27 Salvatore Coppola coppolastu...@gmail.com:
 Hello everyone, I'm newbie with databases, I'm trying sqlite and now I
 need to know if an element is present in a particular field.
 Another thing is how to assign an entire field (ftString) to a StringList.
 Any help will be appreciate
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[Lazarus] Help with databases

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Hello everyone, I'm newbie with databases, I'm trying sqlite and now I
need to know if an element is present in a particular field.
Another thing is how to assign an entire field (ftString) to a StringList.
Any help will be appreciate
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Re: [Lazarus] New Lazarus User

[Salvatore Coppola]

2013/1/4 George R Smith geo...@grsmith.arcoxmail.com:
 All,

 I just ordered my first all Ubuntu laptop and since I like Delphi I noticed
 Lazarus.

 Can Lazarus run and are people using Lazarus on Ubuntu 12.10 and does it use
 Wine.

 Thanks

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Welcome George!
I installed only fpc via software manager (.deb) and lazarus happily
via source (.snv) in home. You do not need wine, just write your code,
compile and run.

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Re: [Lazarus] Stringgrid ?

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2012/11/17 Terry A. Haimann te...@haimannonline.com:
 I am wanting to change the color based on a value.  The cell already exists

TSemaphorGrid enlight a cell based on the value (red yellow and green
labels for StringRed, StringYellow and StringGreen values).
If you need more values you can easily extend this component.  You can
find it in /examples/gridexamples/grid_semaphor and then share the
source with comments to make Lazarus IDE a little bit more easy and
popular
Regards,
Salvatore

 and I am not sure how I am going to fire either OnDrawCell or
 OnPrepareCanvas.  But I am probably totally misunderstanding it.



 On 11/17/2012 05:33 AM, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote:

 Juha, why not use onDrawCell ? Is there any performance issue?

 2012/11/17 Juha Manninen juha.mannine...@gmail.com

 On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Terry A. Haimann
 te...@haimannonline.com wrote:
  How do you change the Font Color for a TStringGrid Cell?

 Use the OnPrepareCanvas event.

 Juha

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Re: [Lazarus] Where is the System Unit source?

[Salvatore Coppola]

Maybe the follow can help
Byte 0 .. 2551
Shortint -128 .. 127 1
Smallint -32768 .. 32767 2
Word 0 .. 65535  2
Integer  either smallint or longint  size 2 or 4
Cardinal longword4
Longint  -2147483648 .. 2147483647   4
Longword 0 .. 4294967295 4
Int64   -9223372036854775808 .. 9223372036854775807  8
QWord0 .. 18446744073709551615   8

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu5.html


2012/11/14 Curt Carpenter 1cjcarpen...@att.net:
 Hello Sven.

 Thank you for the help.

 I tried this code:

 procedure test;
 var c: integer;
   loc,hic: byte;
 begin
 c := 1000;
 hic := hi(c);
 loc := lo(c);
 end;

 The result is always hic = 0 and loc = 0 for me.

 I have looked in ninl.pas as you suggested, and found the in_lo_xx
 items around line 2780 in that file.  I note that in_lo_integer  and
 in_hi_integer do not appear among the items listed.

 In fpc/rtl/inc/system.inc,   I find Hi(b:byte): byte declared.
 in fpc/rtl/inc/systemh.inc, I find only declarations for hi and lo.

 I'm guessing that somehow hi(i:integer): byte  and lo(i:integer): byte got
 dropped from the code base somehow (but remained in the fpc documentation).

 Perhaps it's located somewhere that I have not looked yet?

 Anyway -- thanks to all who gave me some pointers!   I don't have the skill
 to try to suggest a fix, if in fact one is required. The work-around for me
 is to simply use word rather than integer types.

 Regards,
 Curt Carpenter


 On 11/14/2012 4:50 AM, Sven Barth wrote:

 Am 14.11.2012 05:19, schrieb Curt Carpenter:

 Hello.

 I am using Lazarus 0.9.30.4 with FPC 2.6.0 under Windows XP.

 In my system, the two functions hi(x) and lo(x) don't seem to work if
 the argument x is an integer variable (although both functions work fine if
 x is a WORD variable).

 Why do you come to the conclusion that they work incorrectly? Do you have
 an example where you can state what you expect and what you get?

 To see if I could figure out why this is, I started trying to find the
 System unit that contains these two functions.  I haven't been able to
 locate it though.


 The hi and lo functions are compiler intrinsics and are not visible in
 code (the compiler generates specific code for them). If you still want to
 explore: they are implemented in compiler/ninl.pas (look for in_XX_YYY
 where XX is either hi or lo and YYY is word, long or qword).


 Could anyone tell me where I'll find the system unit source?  I have the
 source for FPC, but can's seem to find system.pas anywhere.

 The system units are called system.pp (not .pas) and are located for
 each target in rtl/TARGET/system.pp (these usually include files from
 rtl/inc or rtl/TARGET or rtl/PLATFORM) (example for TARGET is win32 or
 linux, example for PLATFORM is i386 or arm)

 Regards,
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Re: [Lazarus] Cannot post a reply in the lazarus forum

[Salvatore Coppola]

Grazie Paul!

2012/9/9 Paul Ishenin webpi...@mail.ru:
 09.09.12, 14:42, Salvatore Coppola пишет:

 As the object say, (see the attached screenshot) cannot post a reply
 in the lazarus forum.
 What am I doing wrong?


 Look at one of the text fields: Lazarus spelled backward = surazaL but you
 put the captcha there.

 Best regards,
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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 Release

[Salvatore Coppola]

Congratulations to all of you!

Salvatore

2012/8/29 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de:
 The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of:

 Lazarus 1.0

 At this important stage the current team would like to thank all the past and 
 current people who were involved in getting us here.
 * Thanks also go to the FPC team for providing the compiler that makes it all 
 possible.
 * Special thanks go to the founders of the project who started Lazarus more 
 than a decade ago in 1999: Cliff Baeseman, Shane Miller and Michael A. Hess.
 * A history of developers involved can be found at 
 http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/History. And a list of the many 
 contributors comes with the distribution.

 The release is available for download at the SourceForge download page:
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

 Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the Lazarus 1.0 directory.

 Minimum requirements:
 Windows:   98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
 FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
 Mac OS X:  10.4, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit

 This release has been built with fpc 2.6.0 (the former release 0.9.30.4 was 
 built with that too).

 The svn tag is
 http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_0

 The list of changes:
 http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.0_release_notes

 For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from sourceforge are 
 mirrored at:
 ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/releases/
 and later at (after some time for synchronization)
 http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/releases/
 and
 http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/


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Re: [Lazarus] StringGrid.LoadFromFile not loading col and row sizes

[Salvatore Coppola]

2012/8/13 Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de:
 When I store a StringGrid with

 StringGrid1.SaveOptions := [soDesign,soPosition,soAttributes,soContent];
 StringGrid1.SaveToFile(filename);

 and reload it later with LoadFromFile() it does not reload the column widths
 and row heigths.
 I can see that they are stored in the XML file but are ignored on loading.
 Am I doing something wrong?


Are you setting
StringGrid1.SaveOptions := [soDesign,soPosition,soAttributes,soContent];
before
LoadFromFile() ?
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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Free Pascal downloads plummeting on SourceForge

[Salvatore Coppola]

2012/8/3 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
 Hi Everybody,

 Lets just face the facts Such download statics are just eye
 candy for SourceForge. There is no way you can take those as a

Ahahah, i was thinking this graphs were some ad-picture!

 reliable source of information. It's like Microsoft trying to compare
 Windows installs (actually copies shipped to OEM's) to Linux Install.
 Nobody counts torrent downloads of Linux, nobody counts the multiple
 of CD's I created and shared with my friends, nobody counted the
 multiple times I installed a CD even though I only downloaded it once,
 etc...

 The same applies to FPC and Lazarus projects. You can install from
 multiple locations: application repositories of Linux distros,
 official downloaded archives, unofficial daily build archive, direct
 checkouts from the repository, the fact that linux downloads tend to
 be lots of little archives and the Windows version one big archive etc
 etc.

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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

[Salvatore Coppola]

LinuxMint LMDE 201204 with MATE and mintMenu 64bit
FPC 2.6.0. from debian repository
lazarus_1_0_RC1 from svn
built without problem
customizing IDE color work only with the combobox
i.e.
not all the items are selectable from the sourcebox
for instance
Text block, Folded code marker, Assembler, Execution point, and other YES
Reserver word, String, Symbol, Number, Default text and other NO

Salvatore


2012/8/1 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de:
 The Lazarus team is glad to announce that Lazarus 1.0RC is available for 
 download at the SourceForge download page:
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

 Choose your CPU / OS / distro and then the 1.0RC1 directory.

 Minimum requirements:
 Windows:   98, 2k, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
 FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
 Mac OS X:  10.4, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit

 This release has been built with fpc 2.6.0 (the former release 0.9.30.4 was
 built with that too).

 The svn tag is
 http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_0_RC1

 Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates.

 Also let me know if you installed it without any problem.

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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

[Salvatore Coppola]

With
Setting
Tools--Options ...--Desktop--Language--English [en] it work fine
but with Automatic or Italian the problem is there

Salvatore

2012/8/3 Salvatore Coppola coppolastu...@gmail.com:
 LinuxMint LMDE 201204 with MATE and mintMenu 64bit
 FPC 2.6.0. from debian repository
 lazarus_1_0_RC1 from svn
 built without problem
 customizing IDE color work only with the combobox
 i.e.
 not all the items are selectable from the sourcebox
 for instance
 Text block, Folded code marker, Assembler, Execution point, and other YES
 Reserver word, String, Symbol, Number, Default text and other NO

Setting

 Salvatore


 2012/8/1 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de:
 The Lazarus team is glad to announce that Lazarus 1.0RC is available for 
 download at the SourceForge download page:
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

 Choose your CPU / OS / distro and then the 1.0RC1 directory.

 Minimum requirements:
 Windows:   98, 2k, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
 FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
 Mac OS X:  10.4, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit

 This release has been built with fpc 2.6.0 (the former release 0.9.30.4 was
 built with that too).

 The svn tag is
 http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_0_RC1

 Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates.

 Also let me know if you installed it without any problem.

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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

[Salvatore Coppola]

2012/8/3 Martin laza...@mfriebe.de:
 On 03/08/2012 18:54, Salvatore Coppola wrote:

 LinuxMint LMDE 201204 with MATE and mintMenu 64bit
 FPC 2.6.0. from debian repository
 lazarus_1_0_RC1 from svn
 built without problem
 customizing IDE color work only with the combobox
 i.e.
 not all the items are selectable from the sourcebox
 for instance
 Text block, Folded code marker, Assembler, Execution point, and other YES
 Reserver word, String, Symbol, Number, Default text and other NO


 Actually, fixed in rev 38127

Thanks, should still reported in Mantis BT?
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Re: [Lazarus] Statistics about Lazarus and FPC

[Salvatore Coppola]

Maybe this can help you.

http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/logs

Regards,
Salvatore


2012/6/2 Geoffray Levasseur jeff.levass...@free.fr:
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 I'm actually preparing a conference in my LUG about FPC and Lazarus.

 Regarding that conference, I'd like to incorporate some stats in the
 conference. I'm so looking for the actual number of active and
 occasional developers, number of lines of code, etc...

 Can someone give me that informations?

 In the hope my conference will help to get interest in what you are
 doing ;)

 For people interested and French speaking, I can send the presentation
 once it's done.

 Thanks in advance.
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Re: [Lazarus] Grouping radio buttons

[Salvatore Coppola]

Off topic (maybe)
I often use for the matter TComboBox with Style:=csDropDownList ==
only one choise per list (drastic reduction of space consumption)
Salvatore

2012/3/21 Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de:
 Salvatore Coppola schrieb:

 Put them in varius GroupBoxes so you can use the groupbox caption to
 logically(visual) differenziate each group of radiobuttons

 As already discussed, this also means to abandon individual placing of the
 buttons.

 I have now used one TRadioGroup and TRadioButton elements for the second
 group . But only the latter can be arranged free. If I need multiple groups
 of radio buttons only one can be put as I want. The other ones are pressed
 into the TRadioGroup arrangement (which is not bad, but sometimes you need
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Re: [Lazarus] Grouping radio buttons

[Salvatore Coppola]

Put them in varius GroupBoxes so you can use the groupbox caption to
logically(visual) differenziate each group of radiobuttons

Salvatore

2012/3/19 Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de:
 I already searched for hours but cannot find anything useful.

 My question:
 Is it possible (and if yes, how) to group some radio buttons
 so that only one of each group can be selected?

 I put some radio buttons on my form which select different things
 but they are all connected with each other so that only one can be selected
 at a time.

 I expected some property defining a goup but I cannot find anything like
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Re: [Lazarus] Xubuntu, Lazarus and project stored and built on a pendrive with ntfs

[Salvatore Coppola]

2012/3/18 Gustavo Enrique Jimenez gejime...@gmail.com:
 hi all:
 Not executing programs from external file systems is a kernel option
 adopted by many linux distros, I think. You should copy the program to
 the local filesystem and change permissions to execute it.

I see what you say.
thx
Salvatore

 2012/3/17 Bernd Kreuss prof7...@googlemail.com:
 On 17.03.2012 23:08, Salvatore Coppola wrote:

 I'm low level user so can you take a look, is how you supposed?

 Somehow somewhere the default mount options can be changed in xubuntu. I
 assume you want it to have it mounted with exec bits set every time you
 plug it in, maybe you should consult the ubuntu forums where these
 default options for xubuntu's automounting daemon are hidden and where
 the correct place is to make these changes (its probably some gnome
 thingy running in the background and xubuntu with its minimal interface
 probably does not have an UI to configure it). The people on the ubuntu
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Re: [Lazarus] Xubuntu, Lazarus and project stored and built on a pendrive with ntfs

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2012/3/18 Bernd Kreuss prof7...@googlemail.com:
 On 17.03.2012 23:08, Salvatore Coppola wrote:

 I'm low level user so can you take a look, is how you supposed?

 Somehow somewhere the default mount options can be changed in xubuntu. I
 assume you want it to have it mounted with exec bits set every time you
 plug it in, maybe you should consult the ubuntu forums where these
 default options for xubuntu's automounting daemon are hidden and where
 the correct place is to make these changes (its probably some gnome
 thingy running in the background and xubuntu with its minimal interface
 probably does not have an UI to configure it). The people on the ubuntu
 forums should be able to help, they know this system inside out.

Thx for the reply, i'll follow your hint. If I get a solution i'ill
post here in this thread, otherwise I'll change distro

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[Lazarus] Xubuntu, Lazarus and project stored and built on a pendrive with ntfs

[Salvatore Coppola]

Hi, after updating Ubuntu at 11.10 because of Unity I swiched to
Xubuntu 11.10 (fresh installation), but saving and building a simple
project (application) on a pendrive with ntfs the executable cannot be
run. The same project stored in HOME is OK.
Xubuntu is missing something or what?
As I remeber such things were OK in Ubuntu 11.04


Any help will be apreciate!
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Attached a screenshot of Lazarus after try to run

This has been reported in the terminal:

TMainIDE.DoNewProject A

(lazarus:4242): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to retrieve the file info for
`file:///media/PENDRIVE/project1.lpi': Errore nell'eseguire lo stat
del file /media/PENDRIVE/project1.lpi: File o directory non
esistente

  (lazarus:4242): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to retrieve the file info for
`file:///media/PENDRIVE/Unit1.pas': Errore nell'eseguire lo stat del
file /media/PENDRIVE/Unit1.pas: File o directory non esistente

  TMainIDE.DoRenameUnit unit1.pas
NewUnitName=Unit1 OldUnitName=Unit1 ResourceCode=False
NewFilename=/me
dia/PENDRIVE/unit1.pas
TCodeToolManager.RenameIdentifier File /media/PENDRIVE/project1.lpr
Line=10 Col=10 Identifier=Unit1
TCodeToolManager.RenameIdentifier KEPT Unit1
TCodeToolManager.RenameIdentifier Apply
[TMainIDE.DoRunProject] A
TMainIDE.DoInitProjectRun A True 0
TMainIDE.DoInitProjectRun B
TBaseCompilerOptions.MakeOptionsString
UnitOutputDirectory=lib/$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS) CurOutputDir=
/media/PENDRIVE/lib/i386-linux/
TMainIDE.CheckIfProjectNeedsCompilation  Src has changed Project
/media/PENDRIVE/unit1.pas
TCompiler.Compile WorkingDir=/media/PENDRIVE/
CompilerFilename=/usr/bin/fpc CompilerParams= -MObjF
PC -Scghi -O1 -gl -vewnhi -l -Fi/media/PENDRIVE/lib/i386-linux
-Fu/home/salvatore/lazarusARPA/lcl/units
/i386-linux -Fu/home/salvatore/lazarusARPA/lcl/units/i386-linux/gtk2
-Fu/home/salvatore/lazarusARPA/pac
kager/units/i386-linux -Fu/media/PENDRIVE/ -Fu.
-FU/media/PENDRIVE/lib/i386-linux/ -oproject1 -dLCL -dL
CLgtk2 project1.lpr
[TCompiler.Compile] CmdLine=/usr/bin/fpc  -MObjFPC -Scghi -O1 -gl
-vewnhi -l -Fi/media/PENDRIVE/lib/i3
86-linux -Fu/home/salvatore/lazarusARPA/lcl/units/i386-linux
-Fu/home/salvatore/lazarusARPA/lcl/units/i
386-linux/gtk2 -Fu/home/salvatore/lazarusARPA/packager/units/i386-linux
-Fu/media/PENDRIVE/ -Fu. -FU/me
dia/PENDRIVE/lib/i386-linux/ -oproject1 -dLCL -dLCLgtk2 project1.lpr
Hint: Start of reading config file /home/salvatore/.fpc.cfg
Hint: End of reading config file /home/salvatore/.fpc.cfg
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.0-1 [2012/01/13] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2011 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling project1.lpr
Compiling unit1.pas
Compiling resource /media/PENDRIVE/lib/i386-linux/project1.or
Linking project1
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?
46 lines compiled, 28.5 sec
2 hint(s) issued
[TCompiler.Compile] end
TMainIDE.DoInitProjectRun ProgramFilename=/media/PENDRIVE/project1


Best Regards
Salvatore
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Re: [Lazarus] Xubuntu, Lazarus and project stored and built on a pendrive with ntfs

[Salvatore Coppola]

2012/3/17 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de:
 On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:58:16 +0100
 Salvatore Coppola coppolastu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi, after updating Ubuntu at 11.10 because of Unity I swiched to
 Xubuntu 11.10 (fresh installation), but saving and building a simple
 project (application) on a pendrive with ntfs the executable cannot be
 run. The same project stored in HOME is OK.
 Xubuntu is missing something or what?
 As I remeber such things were OK in Ubuntu 11.04
[...]

 TMainIDE.DoInitProjectRun ProgramFilename=/media/PENDRIVE/project1

 Is the file there?

Yes

 Can you run it manually?

on doubleclick nothing appens!
after copied on the desktop (ext4) nothing appens!
 in the terminal permesso negato permission denied
with sudo
sudo: /home/salvatore/Scrivania/project1: command not found but is there

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Re: [Lazarus] Xubuntu, Lazarus and project stored and built on a pendrive with ntfs

[Salvatore Coppola]

2012/3/17 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de:
 On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:09:48 +0100
 Salvatore Coppola coppolastu...@gmail.com wrote:

 2012/3/17 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de:
  On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:58:16 +0100
  Salvatore Coppola coppolastu...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi, after updating Ubuntu at 11.10 because of Unity I swiched to
  Xubuntu 11.10 (fresh installation), but saving and building a simple
  project (application) on a pendrive with ntfs the executable cannot be
  run. The same project stored in HOME is OK.
  Xubuntu is missing something or what?
  As I remeber such things were OK in Ubuntu 11.04
 [...]
 
  TMainIDE.DoInitProjectRun ProgramFilename=/media/PENDRIVE/project1
 
  Is the file there?

 Yes

  Can you run it manually?
 
 on doubleclick nothing appens!
 after copied on the desktop (ext4) nothing appens!
  in the terminal permesso negato permission denied
 with sudo
 sudo: /home/salvatore/Scrivania/project1: command not found but is there

 It needs executable flags to run.

 Check your mount flags of your pendrive. Probably for security reasons
 it was mounted with noexec or something similar.

mount give me this rows

/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/salvatore/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=salvatore)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/PENDRIVE type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)

the last one is the pendrive in question
while

cat /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# file system mount point   type  options   dump  pass
proc/proc   procnodev,noexec,nosuid 0   0
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=a5f13cd0-5793-4fff-ab07-15882b06dd01 /   ext4
errors=remount-ro 0   1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=ca697dbf-9c11-496b-84ec-89a427267a30 noneswapsw
   0   0

I'm low level user so can you take a look, is how you supposed?

THX
Salvatore



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Re: [Lazarus] Setting ModalResult

[Salvatore Coppola]

Set in the Object Inspector Borderstyle to bsDialog and the form
behavior should be what you need
Regards,
Salvatore

2012/3/13 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com:
 Do you set the ModalResult in the button or in the form? If the
 former, is there any specific reason for it?

 Best regards,
 Flávio

 2012/3/13 Richard Mace rich...@shrinkyourbills.co.uk:
 Installed the latest RC4 binaries and still the same problem

 On 13 Mar 2012 07:07, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 On 13-3-2012 7:50, Richard Mace wrote:
  On 12 March 2012 23:51, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de
       Lazarus 0.9.30 fpc 2.4 Windows XP
 
      2.4?
      Please check these versions. They look pretty old.
 
 
  Thanks Mattias.
  Yes, I had just installed the latest released binaries for both
  Lazarus and FPC.
  I'm now attempting to install from SVN trunk.

 FYI, 2.6 is the latest released version for FPC...

 Regards,
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Re: [Lazarus] Setting ModalResult

[Salvatore Coppola]

2012/3/14 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de:



 Salvatore Coppola coppolastu...@gmail.com hat am 14. März 2012 um 11:57
 geschrieben:

 Set in the Object Inspector Borderstyle to bsDialog and the form
 behavior should be what you need

My apologie for misleading!






 BorderStyle has nothing to do with ModalResult.



 This is enough to close a modal dialog:



 procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);

 begin

   ModalResult:=mrOk;

 end;

 Note:

 When a button's Modalresult is set, it will do the above when clicked.

 Setting the Button1.ModalResult alone will not close the form.

Clear, thx

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Re: [Lazarus] [OFF-TOPIC] Merry Christmas

[Salvatore Coppola]

2011/12/26 Bart bartjun...@gmail.com:
 On 12/26/11, William Oliveira Ferreira bdexterholl...@gmail.com wrote:
 rent a toilet!

 [Trying to get back on-topic ;-) ]
 Currrently my toilet behaves like any decent C-written M$ program.
 You know it will fail horribly at some point, but it you cannot predict when.
 All you know is, it's probably going to happen at the worst possible moment.

 ATM the floor is dry...

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Maybe Christmas deserves a little more respect, so you can continue in private!
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Re: [Lazarus] [OFF-TOPIC] Merry Christmas

[Salvatore Coppola]

2011/12/26 Bart bartjun...@gmail.com:
 On 12/26/11, Salvatore Coppola coppolastu...@gmail.com wrote:

 ... so you can continue in
 private!

 Pun intended?

OK, I see. no offence, just thinking was not appropriate with the mail object
I apologize

Salvatore


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Re: [Lazarus] [OFF-TOPIC] Merry Christmas

[Salvatore Coppola]

2011/12/24 silvioprog silviop...@gmail.com:
 Hello listers,

 My Christmas message to all.

 const
  CMerryChristmasMsg = '*** Merry Christmas! :) ***';

 {$IFDEF APPCONSOLE}
  WriteLn(CMerryChristmasMsg );
 {$ELSE}
  ShowMessage(CMerryChristmasMsg);
 {$ENDIF}

Very funny! Merry Christmas!


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Re: [Lazarus] Problem compiling lazarus

[Salvatore Coppola]

Try this before to update with SNV
delete all the file in the lazarus directory except the fpc and
debugger directories and the lazarus executable (keep startlazarus.exe
lazarus.exe and lazbuilld.exe), update with SNV and try rebuild the
ide itself, so you gave a fresh Lazarus without interference of old
.ppu files.
Ciao


2011/11/25 Guadagnini David sw.d...@biotecnica.it:
 Dear,

 i can't compile lazarus ide or any projects.

 Preliminary operation

 1) Download and istall Lazarus 0.9.3 (lazarus-0.9.30.2-fpc-2.4.4-win32.exe)
 2) with TortoiseSVN i have updated the files

 Now the problems:

 1) If I start Lazarus receive this errors:

 Package: FCL 1.0.1
 Unit: XMLCfg
 Unit not founded: XMLCfg

 Package: FCL 1.0.1
 Unit: Menus
 Unit not founded: Menus

 Package: FCL 1.0.1
 Unit: Buttons
 Unit not founded: Buttons

 ... and many others


 2) If I execute make or make clean all I receive more than 1887 errors
 similar to Error makefile 3656: Command syntax error
 3) If I try to compile Lazarus into IDE the build stop on unit
 lclbasedowngrade with the message Your project depends on LCLBase. Replace
 the dependency with LCL in the project inspector.
 4) If I try to compile a new blank project I receive the same error of point
 3

 Note: Into Project inspector i do not use LCLBase but only LCL

 Some ideas? ...and sorry for my very bad English

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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.2RC2 available

[Salvatore Coppola]

2011/10/27 Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com:
 2011/10/27 Salvatore Coppola coppolastu...@gmail.com:
 Bug 0020486: Missing package files in the Testing Repository
 is still there!!!

 Yes, as can been seen at http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20486
 this issue has not been fixed.

 Just curious, this files are missing in the repository that generate
 the deb installation files or is a problem of the deb packager

 This is an omission in the scrript / rules that create the deb
 packages. Currently the deb package maintainer has no time to fix
 them. All other issues with the deb packages in RC1 have not been
 fixed yet either and won't be fixed before the release, most likely.

Clear, as usual you are!
Thanks

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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.2RC2 available

[Salvatore Coppola]

Bug 0020486: Missing package files in the Testing Repository
is still there!!!

Just curious, this files are missing in the repository that generate
the deb installation files or is a problem of the deb packager

Regads,
Salvatore

2011/10/26 Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com:
 The second (and probably final) release candidate for Lazarus 0.9.30.2
 is available for
 download from https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

 The lazarus-testing ubuntu repository at
 http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/dists/lazarus-testing/ has been
 updated with this release candidate too.

 This release candidate has been made from the fixes_0_9_30 branch and
 uses fpc 2.4.4 (0.9.30 used fpc 2.4.4).

 Main differences from 0.9.30.2RC1:
 * Fixed environment options for Lazarus directory and FPC directory
 with a clean rpm or deb installation.
 * Several fixes in TAChart package

 Please, report regression compared with Lazarus 0.9.30.2RC1 in the bug
 tracker and on this list.

 With kind regards,
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[Lazarus] Need help about lhelp

[Salvatore Coppola]

Hi
i need to show a particular hcontext
helpfile: filechm.chm
hcontext: 25

tried with
lhelp filechm.chm --context 25
but doesn't work (always the same page was showed)
TIA
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[Lazarus] Lazarus website doesn't recognize my account

[Salvatore Coppola]

Hi
after a long time I tried to login as Salvatore user in the website but got
a reply that this user doesn't exist.
why?
should'I reregister again?
Regards
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Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

[Salvatore Coppola]

2011/1/6 Birger Jansen bir...@cnoc.nl

  If l interpreted the screenshots correctly, it is plaxis:
  http://www.plaxis.nl/page/home/



You are correct, it is Plaxis. I did not do any work on the application
 itself, just did a pilot conversion to see how portable the code is to FPC.

 I believe this application, like many in its genre, works as 3 separate
 programs: input, processing, output. Processing is done in (I think) Fortran
 and the rest is Delphi. For this pilot I worked on the output only.


thanks now I can see. Thanks to Vincent to


 Kind regards,
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Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

[Salvatore Coppola]

2011/1/3 Birger Jansen bir...@cnoc.nl

 Hi all,

Last month I converted a 500.000 lines Delphi project to FreePascal, and I
 wanted to thank those who replied to my questions over the mailing list and
 the whole FPC / Lazarus team for delivering a great product. Also all
 contributors to wiki pages, newsgroups and forums: thanks! Even the smallest
 pages or postings contained useful information and are a valuable source of
 information.

 The converted application is an output viewer for calculations based on the
 finite element method. It is intended for 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional
 geotechnical analysis of deformation and stability of soil structures, as
 well as groundwater and heat flow, in geo-engineering applications such as
 excavation, foundations, embankments and tunnels. (so this is a result
 viewer, the actual calculations are performed with another application).

Hi Jansen
although it is no longer my main job I am geotechnical engineer and I'm
curious on the finite elements application: did you do it? is it in pascal?
what is his name?
As for the viewer it look very professional so BRAVO!
Regard
Salvatore


 The conversion was a pilot with the main reason for trying FPC the need for
 64 bit. During conversion I encountered lots of small issues (Unicode,
 OpenGL, images with scanline manipulation, generics, anonymous methods,
 class constants and functions, MDI forms, treeview with custom drawing,
 Steema TChart, custom controls and more). For most of the encountered issues
 I created a list with their solution, I'll try to clean it up and see if I
 can post it somewhere because it might also be helpful for others.

 Attached you will find some screenshots of the result, these give you an
 idea of what the program does.

 With kind regards,
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Re: [Lazarus] Some information please

[Salvatore Coppola]

2010/7/3 jjb real...@gmail.com

 I am an interested observer of Lazarus but I know very little about it.
 I am interested partly because Pascal was the first language I ever used
 (it formed a very small part of a non-CS degree.)
 I understand that this is an open source project so I guess that those who
 develop it do so because they love it.
 Are these people users of Lazarus in their day jobs or is Lazarus just a
 hobby that they don't ever expect to use professionally?
 I only found Lazarus by accident it seems to have a much lower profile than
 other open source stuff (eg python, php, java etc).
 Is there a reason for this?
 Where in the world is Lazarus popular/not so popular. I see that there is a
 german language textbook that may be translated to english sometime.

 The level of skill in this mail group seems quite high. Do people come to
 Lazarus as already skilled programmers in other
 languages as I don't see many newbies asking simple questions.
 Or is it the case that people here are older on average and cut their teeth
 when Pascal was more popular?
 I guess I'm asking in a roundabout way if this community is growing.

 I have read in Delphi discussions many times people talking about how to
 make the language more popular.
 One of the issues always brought up is price. Lazarus doesn't have this
 problem so I wonder
 if price is a factor in Delphi's relative unpopularity.


simply inheritance of peaples who changed from dos TP to some visual
environment missing Dephi

My thinking is that languages need to get the kids interested and the way to
 do this is game development.
 I believe that C++ is the language of the serious game developers. I also
 believe that object pascal provides
 almost the same power as C++ but without a lot of the pain. Correct me if I
 am wrong as I don't know any of this from experience
 only from reading.
 I recently bought my 9 year old son this book The Game Maker's 
 Apprenticehttp://www.amazon.com/Game-Makers-Apprentice-Development-Beginners/dp/1590596153/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1278161293sr=8-1
  and
 he is working his way through it at the moment.
 It comes with software enabling users to easily create 2D games with all
 the bells and whistles (lives, health, levels, explosions) and supplies
 lots of resources (images and sounds) for sprites etc. For most of the book
 users learn to create games by instancing built-in objects
 and altering their attributes and behaviour. Only later in the book is
 coding introduced to enable users to extend beyond what's provided.
 I think it's a wonderful but imagine if the language that was introduced
 was object pascal!

 I would be grateful for any information.

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Re: [Lazarus] This project needs help

[Salvatore Coppola]

IMO all of us are need for the project. In the frictions we rise, so stay
with us, you will find your space
Salvatore

2010/3/9 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com

 Hi Everybody,

 After enduring more sh*t than I can handle, the rude comments from core
 team in the public mailing list, the rude private emails from core team,
 the seriously bad attitude, the inability to handle criticism etc... I
 think it is time I call it a day and move one. It wasn't fun, and I have
 better things to do with my time than try and help a project that doesn't
 want help.

 All the best with your Lazarus project. I sure hope you guys (core team)
 can get your act together and drop your god complex by the door. You guys
 might end up being the only people that use Lazarus!

 Graeme signing out for good!





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