Re: [Lazarus] Drawing text in WinCE

2009-01-29 Thread John vd Waeter
Paul van Helden wrote: Hi All, I'm new to Lazarus having decided to switch from Delphi for a WinCE project. I'm stumped though. Labels on forms display garbage characters. Having spent a whole two days learning about Lazarus internals, Unicode, Widestrings, etc., I'm now pulling out my

Re: [Lazarus] fsStayOnTop under windows

2009-01-28 Thread John vd Waeter
Quote How do I create a window that is never covered by any other windows, not even other topmost windows? Imagine if this were possible and imagine if two programs did this. Program A creates a window that is super-topmost and so does Program B. Now the user drags the two windows so that

Re: [Lazarus] Where does Lazarus store/look for global settings/options?

2008-11-24 Thread John vd Waeter
://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- John vd Waeter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jvdw.nl http://www.shotinthedark.nl ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Lazarus] KOL socketclient object

2008-11-12 Thread John vd Waeter
Aleš Katona wrote: lNetComponents is the visual lNet package and it tries to make a LCLEventer which tries to integrate into LCL/widgetset main loop (see my callaction note from before). Obviously this will fail without LCL, although I'd expect a compile-time error, not a runtime error.

Re: [Lazarus] About {$R *.res}...

2008-10-08 Thread John vd Waeter
Hi Felipe, Bart, Weird... This isn't a good idea. The .res format used by borland ist not the same one used by Free Pascal (which is the GNU format). They are not compatible and linking would fail. Linking worked, I guess, no erros and I saw my icon... And Barts suggestion also worked...

Re: [Lazarus] Is this a new microsoft approach?

2008-08-14 Thread John vd Waeter
Jon Bertrand wrote: I'm being told by our install team that on Vista Documents and Settings is problematic. AFAIK documents and settings\all users\application data\... is the XP-way. The Vista-way is to use /Programdata/Progname... well, afaik... John They are telling me all

[Lazarus] Google says this site may harm your computer

2008-06-16 Thread John vd Waeter
When clicking a link on a Google search result that points to lazarus.freepascal.org... Site is listed as suspiciuous... ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Dual screen, weird hints behaviour?

2008-03-06 Thread John vd Waeter
Hi, On my dev machine (winxp sp2, dual screen), when I drag the form (Form1) to the other screen, something weird happens with the hints that use to appear when the mouse is over a component. The hint-pane appears on the mainscreen as a bar from left to right, left and right edges seem to be