Re: [Lazarus] A new competitor to Lazarus and Free Pascal

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Here is a nice summary of language features and framework features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REALbasic and it has full Unicode support! ;-) Graeme. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never thought I would say this about the Basic language

Re: [Lazarus] How to unset bookmarks in the editor?

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Mattias Gärtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the best solution for you Graeme is if the IDE automatically removes bookmarks if they are older than x hours. That's not needed, just a toggle option would be nice... ;-) BTW, bookmarks are deleted, if you set

Re: [Lazarus] A new competitor to Lazarus and Free Pascal

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just use valgrind/kcachegrind: http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/pics/KcgShot3Large.gif ? That looks a lot more complicated and difficult to understand than the REALBasic image. The bottom left rectangle looks

Re: [Lazarus] A new competitor to Lazarus and Free Pascal

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/11/25 Marc Geldon (SCALA IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Missing Firebird support! :-( Just a quick search revealed a *huge* about of extra plugins written by the RB communite. One site contained over 950 add-ons. I'm pretty sure somebody covered Firebird support already. :-) Note: Please don't get

Re: [Lazarus] A new competitor to Lazarus and Free Pascal

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Brad Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seconded! I discovered valgrind/kcachegrind only 3 weeks ago and it's fabulous! If you are interested at all in profiling your application then valgrind --tool=callgrind Can you point me to a wiki page or document

[Lazarus] A new competitor to Lazarus and Free Pascal

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I never thought I would say this about the Basic language :-) But Real Software has made a pretty impressive product called REALBasic. When I read about this back in 2005, I didn't think they would be around for long. But to my surprise, they have been hammering away and improving REALBasic

Re: [Lazarus] How to unset bookmarks in the editor?

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Marc Weustink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then press ctrl+H and you are back where you came from :) I already use that extensively, but bookmarks are more flexible. Bookmarks allow for precise jumping to specific locations. Ctrl+H is limited. Regards, - Graeme

Re: [Lazarus] How to unset bookmarks in the editor?

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Martin Friebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can put a feature request in the bugtracker ( I will pick it up) However it will be a while before I get to work on it... Thanks. Report as... http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12708 Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] How to unset bookmarks in the editor?

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Martin Friebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just trying to understand, but the description above doesn't match what I had in mind, or what I thought Graeme wanted? - jumping around using ctrl-1, ctrl-2,... as much forward and backward as you want, will not delete

Re: [Lazarus] A new competitor to Lazarus and Free Pascal

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:36 PM, David Pethes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can try OProfile http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/about/ too; no extra support in fpc needed, just compile your app with debug info enabled. Thanks. It's amazing. A year ago, when I wanted to do profiling of my FPC

Re: [Lazarus] A new competitor to Lazarus and Free Pascal

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you should have asked :) gprof works on linux for 10 years (on windows it is hairy) and valgrind support is also since 2.0 in FPC. I did at the time, and nobody could help me with gprof. I then tried to use

Re: [Lazarus] How to unset bookmarks in the editor?

2008-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that I'm using (on Delphi) the old style ctrl-K-# (set) and ctrl-Q-# (goto) commands. I dunno remember whether there is or was a corresponding ctrl-H-# or similar (hide/remove) command in some key

[Lazarus] Running Lazarus GTK1 (32bit) via a remote X11 from 64bit Linux

2008-11-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Seeing that GTK2 via remote X11 connection is totally unworkable (every screen has about 15-20 seconds delay). I thought I would use GTK1 instead. I want to use the remote Linux server (64bit system) for 64bit application testing. I don't want to develop remotely using GTK1 - I simply want

Re: [Lazarus] Running Lazarus GTK1 (32bit) via a remote X11 from 64bit Linux

2008-11-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lazarus IDE with GTK1 on my local 32bit system. Copied the executable over to the remote 64bit server. But I am unable to run Lazarus on the remote server. I get the following error

[Lazarus] Insert Text - Changelog entry

2008-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Under Edit | Insert Text | Genera l ChangeLog entry in inserts the following text into the editor. 2008-11-20 graemeg graemeg@ Where do I specify the correct username and email address portions used, in the Lazarus IDE? Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] Insert Text - Changelog entry

2008-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Gerard N/A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, it's not stored anywhere in the IDE, but comes from the environment variables USER, and HOSTNAME. In that case, there is a bug, because it doesn't detect my HOSTNAME at all - hence the email address section is

[Lazarus] Unicode support in RTL - Roadmap

2008-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I have added a Roadmap section in the following wiki page. If you find anything missing or not 100% implemented, please add it to the wiki page. http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support#Roadmap_of_RTL_Unicode_support This applies to FPC 2.3.x Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] Build number in my application

2008-11-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Henry Vermaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: before each compile, you can execute a program (see lazarus/tools/svn2revisioninc.pas) that puts the revision number in a revision.inc, or something. see the compilation tab of compiler options. you can obviously use

Re: [Lazarus] Version information under Linux

2008-11-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Does the Project Options | Version Information have any affect under Linux? I noticed it created a projectname.rc file, but does it actually include something in the Elf executable or anywhere else

Re: [Lazarus] Build number in my application

2008-11-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I compile, Lazarus IDE crashed and closed without showing any error message. Running Lazarus from the command line, I get the following output as soon as I press Ctrl+F9. ---[ begin

Re: [Lazarus] Build number in my application

2008-11-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Henry Vermaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---[ getrevision.sh ]--- #!/bin/sh svnversion -n revision.inc [ end ] I can run getrevision.sh from the console without problems... that's because the your shell

Re: [Lazarus] WebLaz - Every other request fails

2008-11-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. I'll give it a try though I think at this point, I'll probably stick with powtils since I've not had any problems with it in the past even though it seems to be un-maintained at this point. I'll keep a copy

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might be missing something, but I've just noticed that gtk flatly refuses to allow Lazarus programs to be run setuid. Now I see that http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html gives adequate reasons why this is deprecated but

Re: [Lazarus] Turbopower's OnGuard or some licensing package

2008-11-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a port of Turbopower's OnGuard component to Lazarus or Free Pascal? Ah, a Google search found the following... :-) http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/OnGuard Regards, - Graeme

Re: [Lazarus] Turbopower's OnGuard or some licensing package

2008-11-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think for Lazarus 0.9.26 you need the SVN version from: https://lazarus-ccr.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lazarus-ccr/components/onguard/ Thanks Vincent, I'll give that a try. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Working from memory, -Fu../lib becomes -Fu../lib/sparc-linux Thanks. In recent revisions of fpGUI repository I changed the output directory to use CPU-Target instead of hard-coding the output. This is very handy for

Re: [Lazarus] Trying to get Lazarus into Dubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Reenen Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a team that wants to create a Dubuntu (Developers Ubuntu), and I have joined with the sole agenda (I've told them that too), of getting Lazarus included in the distribution. Also have a look at the following

[Lazarus] Newsreader written with FPC/Lazarus?

2008-11-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Anybody know of such a project? I'm looking for a Linux newsreader client. I am getting sick of Thunderbird not being able to search offline downloaded newsgroups!! It just returns rubbish results NOT related to what I searched for. I also tried PAN, but it has no 'search in message bode'

Re: [Lazarus] Newsreader written with FPC/Lazarus?

2008-11-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a Linux newsreader client. I am getting sick of Thunderbird not being able to search offline downloaded newsgroups!! And before anybody suggests KNode, well... I think that interface was design

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd Apropos cross-compiling and noting that I was using a big-endian processor, I did notice that the uidesigner icons were blank but didn't want to mention it until I'd got x86 and SPARC working in parallel so knew what was expected. Images

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho Gmail won't take .exe or .zip with an exe inside, so change the extensions to close similars, like winzip and winexe. Yeah, that is damn irritating!!! Plus they don't even do a good job of it. I attached a .tar.gz with only source

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Runs both locally and remotely. I had to tinker with the -Fu in extrafpc.cfg to compile, so far I've only used 0.9.24 and haven't tried x86. Excellent. :-) Could you pass on those changes to extrafpc.cfg, so I can

Re: [Lazarus] Quick Compile command question

2008-11-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Fabio Dell'Aria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference from the normal Build (Ctrl+F9) command and the Quick Compile command? Build = Compile + Linking Quick Compile = only does compiling, no linking (so you don't get a new executable). The latter

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:27 PM, zeljko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same code without ProcessMessages (qt/gtk2) QT (can you imagine this ;) ) Duration: 00:00.025 Duration: 00:00.025 Yes I get the same under GTK1, but it doesn't actually redraw (update the screen) on every iteration, so that

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Martin Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fpGUI, current trunk, button with caption, compiled with -B -O3 Duration: 00:00.305 Duration: 00:00.302 Umm, so there is some space for improvement in fpGUI. I'll try and find that stray 100ms. :)

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/11/08, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also suggest that saying that the machines Graeme or myself are running must be badly set up is not a valid defence. I can't speak for Graeme but in my case they're pretty much off-the-shelf Debian or I don't fiddle with graphics

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I don't fiddle with graphics much. As long as I get the correct resolution for my LCD or Laptop screen and my flurry screensaver runs smoothly, I'm a happy man. :-) My OS is a stock standard

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Martin Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tbutton1.Color := cl_Red else tbutton1.Color := cl_Blue; That's cheating. A button is smaller than a panel (w:200 h:100). ;-) Just joking. MSEgui and fpGUI are double buffered (Graeme, please correct me

Re: [Lazarus] Ho do I display playing cards with Lazarus?

2008-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/11/12 Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I display playing cards with Lazarus? (e.g. for card games). Paint it directly to the canvas or load and display the card image with a TPicture component? Links to any example card games written in Lazarus would be greatly appreciated.

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: x86 800MHz laptop Debian Lenny 0.9.26/2.2.2 local gtk 3.7 gtk2 13.7 remote gtk 10.0 gtk2 60.4 Wow, even local GTK2 is

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/11/11 Ales Katona [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please run gtkperf program on your end and give results (run it locally). If you don't have it in packages, just get libgtk2-dev and compile from sources (./configure make make install [as root]). If you get more than ~10 seconds, something is

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---[ Work PC ] I did so now on my PC. P4 2.2GHz with 1GB ram and integrated ATI video card running Ubuntu 7.10 (32bit). I couldn't believe the difference it makes when you switch

Re: [Lazarus] malformed ifdef in gtkdefines.inc

2008-11-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are missing the point (And 2.6 is very old version of GTK. GTK 2.14 is the latest). Even debian stable is having 2.8, as far as I can see, so maybe things are changing slowly. And Ubuntu 7.10 (2 releases old)

[Lazarus] SVN integration into Lazarus IDE (suggestions)

2008-11-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Before I flood Mantis with feature requests wink, I thought it might be worth to discuss some ideal here first and then only put the worth while features in Mantis. This will help guide Darius or whoever is working on the SVN integration. Please note, I know the SVN integration is in it's

[Lazarus] Changing the tab position in Lazarus editor?

2008-11-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Is it possible to set the tab position of the Lazarus editor tabs? For example, I would like to move the tabs to the right, instead of the top. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit

Re: [Lazarus] SVN integration into Lazarus IDE (suggestions)

2008-11-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Another option: * SVN Diff screen should not wrap the diff text. That makes it near impossible to see what changed. There is a horizontal scrollbar, but for some reason the text still wraps. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free

Re: [Lazarus] Changing the tab position in Lazarus editor?

2008-11-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/7/08, Paul Ishenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you need to fix winxp version of lcl at first. LCL for win32 under XP cannot handle tabs on right or on left. Ah, ok. Or we need another control for tabs as delphi or visual studio have. A custom written component. This sounds best,

Re: [Lazarus] SVN integration into Lazarus IDE (suggestions)

2008-11-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Paul Ishenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dont complicate already complicated task at the begining. Let's Darius implement svn plugin at first and then you will push him to make it more generic. This is my sentiment as well. Get one out there first—then generalise

Re: [Lazarus] SVN integration into Lazarus IDE (suggestions)

2008-11-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/7/08, dmitry boyarintsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imho, it's better to make Generic Version Control integration plugin, rather than SVN plugin. I'm not the one implementing the SVN plugin, I'm simply testing it and commenting. But you might have a point - though it will be a lot more

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus repository in Git (summary)

2008-11-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/6/08, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: SVN doesn't have an option to checkout the full history to the client side, It does and is called svnsync. It creates a mirror. I was referring to the client tools like the svn client. As far as I

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus repository in Git (summary)

2008-11-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/6/08, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I considered Git for use in my company, (subversion is quite bad for handling lots of banches) and frankly: I decided against it because people here couldn't understand it. They have a hard time understanding Subversion (or CVS or

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus repository in Git (summary)

2008-11-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/6/08, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you understand it correctly. What is a the git equivalent of a svn server containing the history? If you want to compare only the svn client, you must remove that part from git, that is the equivalent of svn server containing

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus repository in Git (summary)

2008-11-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/6/08, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A git repository of full fpc takes 1,2 GB (checkout of trunk+history). Yes, but you probably forgot the last few steps. Lazarus was 1.5GB after the initial checkout from SubVersion to Git. Missing steps: --- * After

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus repository in Git (summary)

2008-11-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/6/08, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For you git is probably better, I suggest you start using it. IIRC, you can use git as a front to an existing svn server. That's what I am doing now. :-) I've never used Git before yesterday. So I'll use my Git wrapped Lazarus repository

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/6/08, Aleš Katona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently moved to freeBSD 64bit and was forced to use the OSS radeon driver, and my gtkperf result went from ~55s to ~5s. Try gtkperf on your machine and see what you get. If any test takes more than few seconds, there's something

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus repository in Git (summary)

2008-11-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/6/08, Marc Santhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know TC and it's GUI, but for cvs and svn there is always TkCVS. Thanks, I'll take a look - though I love my CLI interface and it's consistent across platforms. Maybe the next new developer in our company can start of with a GUI if

Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

2008-11-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Marc Weustink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running remote by using a VNC server on your sparc end that using a vncviewer to access it remotely, or are you running X remote (sparc connecting to a remote X server) The latter I can confirm as dog slow. Over a

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Git repositories are MUCH smaller. SubVersion has duplicates of each file which actually more than doubles the size of a repository. This is impressive. Mozilla has 10 years of history in their SubVersion repository totalling 12Gig

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Reenen Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Git has - like several other linux applications - a crappy name. I dunno if it is a dirty word, but it sounds like one. :-) I do not want a whole history of edits if I only want to check-out (svn terminology) the latest version. Git does

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Alexander Klenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are usually of about equal size, for example, svn checkout of Pidgin (IM tool) is 122 MB while complete history in Git repository is 148 MB. I don't think that is incorrect. The svn checkout will only contain the last revision (no

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Reenen Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Git has - like several other linux applications - a crappy name. I dunno if it is a dirty word, but it sounds like one. The text below is quoted from: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq - Why the 'git' name? Quoting

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is impressive. Mozilla has 10 years of history in their SubVersion repository totalling 12Gig of information. SubVersion also requires over 240,000 files in a single directory to handle the +240,000 commits. And who cares?

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Git is a hype. Git might be nice for projects with 100 developers and which has (like linux) dedicated branch maintainers. Git allows to support complicated project structures with several layers of maintainers and project managers. But

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope you are using svn2.freepascal.org for these test, as not to disturb the production use on svn.freepascal.org. It is now, thanks... Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. The point is that a dvcs has drawbacks. The distributed nature requires a very strict management of repository structure and for the changeset flow. You have the exact same issues with SubVersion! Which repository is used the create

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the more complex use of a dvcs. Here at work I'am happy if people use svn up/svn co correctly and not do svn rm/svn add to commit a changed file. With subversion is this self regulated and the structure subversion offers is enough for

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: For the record, the whole lazarus svn repository on idefix is 392 MB, i.e. including all history. What is idefix? Like I mentioned before... I did a fresh Lazarus Trunk (head) revision checkout with svn

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The better way is imo to create a branch at the main repository where you can work, so as I said in my other mail, it is backed up, everybody can review it early and easily, My last point on the subject... You last

Re: [Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/5/08, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Git for our company repositories. In SubVersion, branching is like an afterthought. Manually having to track merges to a branch (though apparently there was been some work towards this), etc... This is not true. svnmerge works very

[Lazarus] Lazarus repository in Git (summary)

2008-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, As promised, here is the final details of comparing SubVersion and Git using the *full* Lazarus history. Lazarus repository statistics: * repository age is 8 years and 3 months * 23 unique users have committed to the repository in that time * 17246 revisions have been recorded.

Re: [Lazarus] Grid question

2008-11-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/4/08, Jesus Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I force the grid to invalidate (or draw if visible) a single cell ? grid.InvalidateCell(ColIndx,RowIndex); Jesus Reyes A. Just curiousbut why would you need that? Isn't the grid painting double buffered? Regards,

Re: [Lazarus] Mailing list

2008-11-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/11/4 Henrique Faria [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know if the mailing list have problem with hotmail/msn ? Henrique. It seems not, since I received your message... :-) Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus crashes on ctrl+c on ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/4/08, Reenen Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of questions, (maybe ppl in the list can confirm/deny). * Does it crash on GTK1 * Does it crash on KDE * Does it crash on Qt widgets? I can confirm that Ctrl+C works fine for fpGUI based applications on Ubuntu 7.04–8.10. Regards,

Re: [Lazarus] How to use new leakview package?

2008-11-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just saw the new leakview package added to Lazarus trunk. How am I supposed to use it? This is what I have done. OK, I made some progress By enabling the heaptrc log via the environment variable

Re: [Lazarus] Impossible to debug with Lazarus IDE

2008-11-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Marc Weustink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it can become tricky. Suppose you try to debug something in the form creating and initial showing. If you inspect the MyForm.Handle, the handle gets created. Now, the handle is created at another point in the

[Lazarus] How to use new leakview package?

2008-11-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I just saw the new leakview package added to Lazarus trunk. How am I supposed to use it? This is what I have done. * I saw the new leakview menu item under the Tools menu. * The leakview dialog seems to require some file as input. * I then recompiled my project with the heaptrc unit

Re: [Lazarus] setting defines in makefile

2008-11-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Sebastian Kraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, just trying to create a makefile for a project... How can I pass a define to compiler only for a special target? I don't know, but why don't you rather try the new 'fpmake' build system. From what I have seen,

Re: [Lazarus] setting defines in makefile

2008-11-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Sebastian Kraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did not know this exists. Looks interesting... But as far as I can see only predefined targets are usable(clean, build, ..) and there is no possibility to create a own .deb package target/command. Or did I miss

Re: [Lazarus] [OT] New free IDE from Trolltech

2008-11-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/11/2 Mac Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Linux, hence the need for Lazarus. What it tells me is that Lazarus and Free Pascal are still seen as useful, but primarily for use with legacy Delphi projects, not necessarily with new projects. This is definitely not the case with our company. We

[Lazarus] [OT] New free IDE from Trolltech

2008-11-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Has anybody seen this one...? http://trolltech.com/developer/qt-creator It seems CodeGear is getting stiff competition from all sides now! RemObjects took over the .NET side. Eclipse from the Java side. Free Pascal/Lazarus taking over the Delphi native side (my personal opinion). And now

Re: [Lazarus] [OT] New free IDE from Trolltech

2008-11-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/11/1 Hess, Philip J [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guess you didn't get the news about RemObjects and Codegear joining forces: Yes I did, but from the accouncements, it was pretty clear to me that RemObjects are going to do most of the work. CodeGear will simply comment here and there. All CodeGear is

Re: [Lazarus] [OT] New free IDE from Trolltech

2008-11-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's very interresting how things turned out. Trolltech started as a very small company, like 2 guys in a garage, and they started developing their UNIX GUI library, a very small niche market. Yeah, I

Re: [Lazarus] Impossible to debug with Lazarus IDE

2008-10-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Martin Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct. MSEide can not access property values. Fortunately prepending the property name with 'F' usual works because of the naming convention. That was a handy trick. I managed to debug my program in Lazarus IDE

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus crashes on ctrl+c on ubuntu 8.10

2008-10-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as the topic says copying does not work as pressing ctrl+c immediately crashes lazarus. There are already two bug reports about this issue. Does is only crash due to the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+C], or does it crash

[Lazarus] Impossible to debug with Lazarus IDE

2008-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Has anybody actually noticed that it's impossible to debug an application with Lazarus IDE. I normally use tiOPF's Log() methods to debug code or writeln() statements, but today I had a tough problem and wanted to step through a procedure. So I used breakpoints and the Watch List window. Only

Re: [Lazarus] Impossible to debug with Lazarus IDE

2008-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Martin Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you add -O- to compiler options? FPC optimizations disturb gdb. The first thing I thought of. All optimization was disabled in the Lazarus Packages I used and the Project itself. It made no difference. Regards,

Re: [Lazarus] Impossible to debug with Lazarus IDE

2008-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Martin Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Properties can not be showed by gdb. For FView.RowCount try FView.FRowCount to show the field if it exists. There is no workaround for array properties because a call to the read function would be necessary to get the

Re: [Lazarus] Impossible to debug with Lazarus IDE

2008-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Bogusław Brandys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When we could test native Lazarus debugger ? ;-) Is there one in the works? Anybody know is the text based FP ide included with Free Pascal does any better than Lazarus? Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] Impossible to debug with Lazarus IDE

2008-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Martin Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It used its own debugger. And it was one of the first things which stopped working with newer distros and debugging of fork and threads did not work without patching the RTL IIRC. Yes, but debuging was easy to fix in

Re: [Lazarus] Impossible to debug with Lazarus IDE

2008-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/30/08, Martin Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It used its own debugger. As a temporary fix, is there any way one can use the Kylix 3 debugger with FPC or Lazarus? Or is the debugger built (compiled) into the Kylix IDE? I know the compiler is stand-alone (called dcc), but I can't see

Re: [Lazarus] Impossible to debug with Lazarus IDE

2008-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/30/08, Martin Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you think the Kylix debugger could access FPC properties by getter function calls which gdb can't? I don't know how debuggers work. My thinking is that maybe GDB is specific to C/C++ language and Object Pascal support is simply a

Re: [Lazarus] Hint at statusbar.

2008-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/10/30 Henrique Faria [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have this piece of code that shows the hint at statusbar on Delphi: I take it you are using compiler mode objfpc which is the default compiler mode Lazarus specifies in units? Second line from the top in a new unit. procedure

Re: [Lazarus] Commercial components for Lazarus

2008-10-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh no. :) Simply: What is the attitude of the developers, who are using Lazarus as their development tool? Would they buy commercial 3rd party components to improve thier applications? Is the Lazarus community a financially

Re: [Lazarus] Commercial components for Lazarus

2008-10-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would buy such components, no problem. As long as they come with source included. This is a prerequisite, even when I buy delphi components. Definitely with source, otherwise there is no way I can port it to fpGUI.

[Lazarus] Lazarus Custom Tools issue under Windows

2008-10-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
For my fpGUI development with Lazarus IDE, I launch the fpGUI UI Designer by pressing Ctrl+Shift+F12. That shortcut is a custom tools setup and passes the current editor file to fpGUI UI Designer. The UI Designer consists out of three forms. The main form containing the component palette, the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Custom Tools issue under Windows

2008-10-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under Linux everything works fine - the UI Designer loads the current editor file and displays the form to be edited. Under Windows there is a problem. The main form of the UI Designer doesn't display for some reason

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Custom Tools issue under Windows

2008-10-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if you do: p := TProcessUTF8.Create(self); Yup, replaced TProcess with TProcessUTF8 and everything still worked. Lazarus does set process options like pipes etc, but I have no idea how pipes and stuff work. Though

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Custom Tools issue under Windows

2008-10-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [--- ExtToolDialog.pas line 335-} TheProcess.ShowWindow := swoHide; I found the culprit!!! Even when using TProcess, the above line causes the main form of fpGUI UI Designer not to display. Why

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Custom Tools issue under Windows

2008-10-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Mattias Gärtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK swoHide is needed to run tools hidden. For example compile scripts. I guess some further checkboxes are needed to control TProcess flags. That should solve the issue. I'll see if I can create a patch over the

Re: [Lazarus] Initializing my App

2008-10-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Dave Coventry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the moment I place all of the initialization routines in the FormCreate but quite often I get an 'external SIGSEHV' exception as the mouse generates a false onSelection event on a StringGrid, presumably because the

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