Re: [fpc-devel] CHM compiler
Nice work Andrew! :) Is this building up to the point where we can incorporate Help files in applications developed with Lazarus. So we can actually use the HelpContext, HelpFile and HelpKeyword in the Object Inspector. Another point not related to CHM help. Can those fields be used with HTML files? Has anybody created a LCL based application with context help? Regards, - Graeme - On 06/07/07, Andrew Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been working on a compiler for creating CHM files. It's pretty much done. :) I've written a GUI to create and compile project files also a simple command line program that compiles project files. And a Sitemap editor (part the GUI) needed to make the Table of Contents and the Index. So here are a couple screenshots: http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chmwriter.png http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chmwriter2.png and here is a link to a chm with the rtl fcl and lcl in it. The TOC and Index are small to the point of being almost useless, they are just to test that my sitemap editor works. 6.2 mb http://hainesservice.com/andrew/rtl_fcl_lcl.chm Please let me know if this works for you. In Linux you can use GnoCHM, kchmviewer or xchm(wxWidgets based) to open use the file. The file is not searchable. Regards, Andrew ___ fpc-devel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Databases on the Wiki
Why not create FPDoc/LazDoc (xml) documentation instead of a wiki page. Code examples can also be included in fpdoc help as RTL docs show. That way HTML, PDF or whatever else format FPDoc supports can be generated. The same as what was done with the RTL, FCL and LCL docs. We can then link from the Wiki to those files. Just my 0.02c worth. Regards, Graeme. On 06/07/07, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I promised Joost that I would do some documentation of the database components, but I am uncertain where to put it. There is a page at wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Databases that seems to be a very good overall guide and starting point, and seems to have been started as just that. However, it doesn't seem to be linked from anywhere very obvious - only from from Lazarus_Database_Tutorial. Is there somewhere more central where it could have a link ? I can than hang my stuff from it . cheers, John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Subrows in grids...
Oh yeah. Just to complete the list of features TMS's Advanced StringGrid supports. Here is the link to all it's features and code examples. http://www.tmssoftware.com/advgrid2.htm Graeme. On 06/07/07, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/07/07, Jesus Reyes A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you describe how this feature works with some source code sample? I don't know the TMS components, but found the following on their website. Example code plus screenshots. http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg38.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg39.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg42.htm Regards, - Graeme - _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Subrows in grids...
On 06/07/07, Jesus Reyes A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you describe how this feature works with some source code sample? I don't know the TMS components, but found the following on their website. Example code plus screenshots. http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg38.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg39.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg42.htm Regards, - Graeme - _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Lazarus wiki and translated pages
Hi, Does the users that translated a English wiki page get (auto) notified of updates made so that the other language pages can be amended? Sorry, I'm not sure how this works in Wiki's. :) Regards, - Graeme - _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [Fwd: [lazarus] Lazarus wiki and translated pages]
Thanks Swen! For those interested. I updated the tiOPF (english) wiki page. If the other languages are not updated in a few days, I'll try and use Google's language tools. :) Regards, - Graeme - On 06/07/07, Swen Heinig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Graeme, unfortunately there is no automatic notification in a wiki. You can check the recent changes or you must activate monitoring of each page you translated. Regards, Swen Original-Nachricht Betreff:[lazarus] Lazarus wiki and translated pages Weitersenden-Datum: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 03:16:27 -0400 Weitersenden-Von: lazarus@miraclec.com Datum:Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:24:40 +0200 Von:Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] Antwort an:lazarus@miraclec.com An:lazarus@miraclec.com Hi, Does the users that translated a English wiki page get (auto) notified of updates made so that the other language pages can be amended? Sorry, I'm not sure how this works in Wiki's. :) Regards, - Graeme - _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Databases on the Wiki
I found this page which is directy linked from the main Documentation page: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_DB_Faq It looks quite a weak page. Maybe it's content could be merged into your Databases page, and then Databases would substitute it on the main Documentation page, and we can delete the old FAQ page. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-devel] CHM compiler
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Another point not related to CHM help. Can those fields be used with HTML files? Sorry I misread this. No, not without some other non html file that can be used by a program to lookup the correct url from a context id. Andrew _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [Fwd: [lazarus] Lazarus wiki and translated pages]
For those interested. I updated the tiOPF (english) wiki page. If the other languages are not updated in a few days, I'll try and use Google's language tools. :) Hi Graeme, I don't know if it's useful but I can translate it in italian. I didn't see italian link on the wiki page, tough. ;-) Antonio aka Slapshot -- GioveLUG (Linux User Group) - http://www.giovelug.org Edupup (Educational distro) - http://www.edupup.org
[lazarus] A counting proxy in lazarus ?
Hi all, I have an interesting challenge before me. A user has requested the ability to keep track of http traffic used by OutKafe users. These should count against the user's available usage units the same way time does now (so a big downloader will run out of access quicker basically) After some thought and discussion, I came to the conclusion that in their environment the approach should be this (keep in mind we're only concerned about http): 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 on it's own port - no problems there) So my question is - can I do this with the INet components ? If I hook up INet's http server and http client components into my app - can I then let the browser connect to the httpserver component as a proxy client, and have the httpclient component relay the same connection ? How hard would this be ? Does the INet components have the tools I would need to count the bytes ? If none of this is an option - is there another (easy) way I can do this ? Perhaps a plugin for squid that can report on bandwith used by each user ? Or perhaps just a proxy interface that can report this to stdout ? Or would you guys suggest some entirely different approach ? (I am open to possibility here) Of course, a way to just track 'traffic per user' and respond each time one meg is transferred could be ideal - again I'm open to suggestion. TIA A.J. -- A.J. Venter CEO - OutKast Solutions C.C. http://www.outkastsolutions.co.za Cell: +27 83 455 9978 Fax: +27 21 413 2800 Office: +27 21 591 6766 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-devel] CHM compiler
On 7/6/07, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we can actually use the HelpContext, HelpFile and HelpKeyword in the Object Inspector. U, I'm not sure if we should re-use the deprecated winhelp properties to implement our new chm help system. It could bring confusion. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-devel] CHM compiler
It's been a while since I authored help in Delphi application (yes I did use CHM files). But doesn't CHM help also support Help Context ID's? How else would you associate a edit field in you application with a help article in the CHM file? Graeme. On 06/07/07, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/07, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we can actually use the HelpContext, HelpFile and HelpKeyword in the Object Inspector. U, I'm not sure if we should re-use the deprecated winhelp properties to implement our new chm help system. It could bring confusion. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-devel] CHM compiler
On 06/07/07, Andrew Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently afaik those fields don't really do anything other than exist. I would like for this to work. Thought so... :-( Has anybody created a LCL based application with context help? Not that I know of. This could be quite tedious for the lcl and fcl/rtl and I think to make it easier it would be nice if fpdoc had some support for it. Something like a xml file that could be converted into whatever format was needed for the target media the help used would make it a snap to add(other than the fact all those values need to be set in order to be used :). I wasn't referring to help files for LCL, RTL, FCL or Lazarus. I'm talking about help files for application I write. I'm not sure how fpdoc would help for such applications. Aren't fpdoc designed for API help and not for general applications. I'm looking to author help files so that if the user is in our Accounts - Debtors screen, they can press F1 and get some nice friendly help + screenshot about that window. So far I have been looking (though not much) at the TZipProject component written by Darius, so I can create my own help file format for applications (not API docs, etc). Something like CHM or OpenOffice help format. A single archive file containing HTML pages with a Table Of Content and some sort of keyword search (index). [...runs and hides...] Seems Open Source developers don't like application help. :-) In the commercial world it's a *must*! Regards, - Graeme - _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Databases on the Wiki
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: I found this page which is directy linked from the main Documentation page: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_DB_Faq It looks quite a weak page. Maybe it's content could be merged into your Databases page, and then Databases would substitute it on the main Documentation page, and we can delete the old FAQ page. It isn't *my* database page, I just found it! The DB Faq page is already linked from the Databases page, so if the Database page just replaced the DB FAQ on the front documentation page then the FAQ would still be accessible. Though I agree the FAQ does not have much in it that is not covered on the Databases page or in the DB Tutorial. Graeme wrote: Why not create FPDoc/LazDoc (xml) documentation instead of a wiki page. I might do some work in LazDoc later, but I think the level of documentation I can write straight away would be more suitable to wiki, and also I need others be able to easily check that I am writing is not a lot of nonsense! cheers, John _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-devel] CHM compiler
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 06/07/07, Andrew Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently afaik those fields don't really do anything other than exist. I would like for this to work. Thought so... :-( Has anybody created a LCL based application with context help? Not that I know of. This could be quite tedious for the lcl and fcl/rtl and I think to make it easier it would be nice if fpdoc had some support for it. Something like a xml file that could be converted into whatever format was needed for the target media the help used would make it a snap to add(other than the fact all those values need to be set in order to be used :). I wasn't referring to help files for LCL, RTL, FCL or Lazarus. I'm talking about help files for application I write. I'm not sure how fpdoc would help for such applications. Aren't fpdoc designed for API help and not for general applications. I'm looking to author help files so that if the user is in our Accounts - Debtors screen, they can press F1 and get some nice friendly help + screenshot about that window. fpdoc contains 'topics' which are exactly designed for this. Michael. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [fpc-devel] CHM compiler
On 06/07/07, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fpdoc contains 'topics' which are exactly designed for this. Nice one! :) Thanks Michael. I'll go do some reading to see how it must be used. Regards, - Graeme - _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Subrows in grids...
- Original Message - From: Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Subrows in grids... On 06/07/07, Jesus Reyes A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you describe how this feature works with some source code sample? I don't know the TMS components, but found the following on their website. Example code plus screenshots. http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg38.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg39.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg42.htm Regards, - Graeme - Ah thanks that's what I meant, I think it's a nice feature that we should have it. I will try to implement it at the first opportunity. Jesus Reyes A. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Subrows in grids...
On Friday 06 July 2007 17:32, Jesus Reyes A. wrote: - Original Message - From: Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Subrows in grids... On 06/07/07, Jesus Reyes A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you describe how this feature works with some source code sample? I don't know the TMS components, but found the following on their website. Example code plus screenshots. http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg38.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg39.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg42.htm Regards, - Graeme - Ah thanks that's what I meant, I think it's a nice feature that we should have it. I will try to implement it at the first opportunity. Is it necessary to extend TStringGrid over it's counterpart in delphi ? Such featured grid (like TAdvStringGrid) should inherit TStringGrid (or not ) ? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Subrows in grids...
--- zeljko [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Friday 06 July 2007 17:32, Jesus Reyes A. wrote: - Original Message - From: Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Subrows in grids... On 06/07/07, Jesus Reyes A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you describe how this feature works with some source code sample? I don't know the TMS components, but found the following on their website. Example code plus screenshots. http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg38.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg39.htm http://www.tmssoftware.com/asg42.htm Regards, - Graeme - Ah thanks that's what I meant, I think it's a nice feature that we should have it. I will try to implement it at the first opportunity. Is it necessary to extend TStringGrid over it's counterpart in delphi ? Such featured grid (like TAdvStringGrid) should inherit TStringGrid (or not ) ? I don't know exactly how far it needs to be extended, it's already big in size and features, but what I know is that merged cells feature is planned since day 0 (there is even some code over there), appart of this feature I have no plans to add any mayor feature, except for the features users themselves want to add and others agreed to have, and keep improving compatibility when it can be achieved of course. In fact this is the same question I raised some time ago, no conclusive answers that I remember but there was some useful feeback for example the idea of plugins, I think that will be the future: a standard grid that can be extended by plugins (not before 1.0 though). Jesus Reyes A. Llama gratis a cualquier PC del mundo. Con una excelente calidad de sonido. http://mx.messenger.yahoo.com/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Floating point random numbers generator
Hi. maybe someone has a (good) pascal procedure for generating some floating point random numbers ? Thank you Alain _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
