Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/5/17 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * What is your feeling about the library? It was found that cairo is the reason why lcl-gtk2 is so slow, and therefore, I don't like it very much =) That is

Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/5/17 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That is strange. The first complaint I here that it is slow. I ran OK, I did some more Google'ing. It seems Cairo does have some performance issues, but I can't remember to which version of Cairo they used. What I did notice from all my searching

Re: [Lazarus] I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

2008-05-17 Thread A.J. Venter
Diese Komponenten sind Public Domain, das Urheberrecht liegt aber beim Autor. [...] In Germany, public domain does not exist. One *can not* give up the copyright. But one can allow unrestricted use. So what would you think reading that license? While I think it is crazy that Germany

Re: [Lazarus] I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Klaempfl
A.J. Venter schrieb: Diese Komponenten sind Public Domain, das Urheberrecht liegt aber beim Autor. [...] In Germany, public domain does not exist. One *can not* give up the copyright. But one can allow unrestricted use. So what would you think reading that license? Either way, Germany

Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/5/17 Micha Nelissen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://chaos.troll.no/~zrusin/vectorframeworks.png http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2006/10/benchmarks.html Is that number of seconds to complete the test? :P Nope, frame per second if I remember correctly. What I do remember of that graph is the higher

Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Lord Satan
On Sat, 17 May 2008 11:17:51 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I did notice from all my searching is that it is really unfair to compare Qt vector graphics to anything else! Qt is simply miles ahead of anybody else in performance. As it is the only graphics framework

Re: [Lazarus] I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

2008-05-17 Thread Lord Satan
On Sat, 17 May 2008 11:22:18 +0200 Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must ask the author to public it under a license that fits better. Did you read that the author did not respond to mail? ___ Lazarus mailing list

[Lazarus] embedding fomrs into forms

2008-05-17 Thread Marc Santhoff
Hi, is it possible to use a TForm inside a TForm? Imagine a program consisting of a frame and some plug-ins. The plug-ins should get designed using lazarus, each having it own form. When loaded those forms would be embedded into the main applications form as a frame, e.g. each on a tab of a

Re: [Lazarus] I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

2008-05-17 Thread Luca Olivetti
On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:05:48 +0200 Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:15:20 +0200, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luca Olivetti schrieb: [...] Diese Komponenten sind Public Domain, das Urheberrecht liegt aber beim Autor. [...] In Germany,

Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: 2008/5/17 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That is strange. The first complaint I here that it is slow. I ran OK, I did some more Google'ing. It seems Cairo does have some performance issues, but I can't remember to which version of Cairo they used.

Re: [Lazarus] embedding fomrs into forms

2008-05-17 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
It is possible. Check the Lazarus Forum for a procedure i posted a while back that embeds a form inside a TWinControl by reparenting the form controls and keeping the form itself in memory so local (in form class) variables will still work. However currently it is not possible to use LCL with

Re: [Lazarus] I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

2008-05-17 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
I think it's pretty clear that you can publish the modifications. There is no such requirement that in order for you to publish a modifyed work the author must give up his copyright. Take any GPL software for example. It is copyrighted and licensed, but you are allowed to redistribute modifyed

Re: [Lazarus] embedding fomrs into forms

2008-05-17 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Samstag, den 17.05.2008, 14:15 +0200 schrieb Marc Santhoff: Hi, is it possible to use a TForm inside a TForm? Imagine a program consisting of a frame and some plug-ins. The plug-ins should get designed using lazarus, each having it own form. When loaded those forms would be embedded

Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 17 May 2008 08:45:39 -0300 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * What is your feeling about the library? It was found that cairo is the

Re: [Lazarus] I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

2008-05-17 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 17 May 2008 14:30:16 +0200 (CEST) Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:05:48 +0200 Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:15:20 +0200, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luca Olivetti schrieb: [...] Diese

Re: [Lazarus] embedding fomrs into forms

2008-05-17 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Samstag, den 17.05.2008, 16:34 +0300 schrieb Kostafile:home/marc/.evolution/cache/tmp/drag-n-drop-CzHRMD/Nachrichten_von_Lazaruss Michalopoulos: It is possible. Check the Lazarus Forum for a procedure i posted a while back that embeds a form inside a TWinControl by reparenting the form

Re: [Lazarus] embedding fomrs into forms

2008-05-17 Thread Bogusław Brandys
Marc Santhoff wrote: Am Samstag, den 17.05.2008, 14:15 +0200 schrieb Marc Santhoff: Hi, is it possible to use a TForm inside a TForm? Imagine a program consisting of a frame and some plug-ins. The plug-ins should get designed using lazarus, each having it own form. When loaded those forms

Re: [Lazarus] I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

2008-05-17 Thread A.J. Venter
Florian et. all. I understand better now - and I think you have it wrong. You are confusing copyright with creator right. They are not the same thing in fact though often implemented via some of the same laws. Creator right cannot be waived in any country - all it requires however is that the

Re: [Lazarus] I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

2008-05-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: In Germany, public domain does not exist. One *can not* give up the copyright. But one can allow unrestricted use. So what would you think reading that license? You must ask the author to public it under a license

Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2008 08:45:39 -0300 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some facts: - LCL-gtk2 applications are slower than gtk2 pure applications What did you measure? See below. How much? There's no synthetic benchmark, just the

Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For text, is still necessary to use pango (unlike LCL writes your own wrapper around FreeType/FontConfig, Win32 fonts, CGFont systems). Gdk text functions are

Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 17 May 2008 12:45:47 -0300 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For text, is still necessary to use pango (unlike LCL writes your own wrapper around FreeType/FontConfig, Win32

[Lazarus] Generics

2008-05-17 Thread Lee Jenkins
I've read some bit on Generics in the docs and a few other places, but I'm yet to understand what it does and what benefit it provides. Can anyone comment? Is anyone using Generics? -- Warm Regards, Lee ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] ARM-WinCE test - DBF

2008-05-17 Thread cc_
I probably do not see the depth of the problem, and this seems to be just too easy, but for me this should be done on the compiler level: how about a compiler switch which forces the compiler to think as if the unaligned keyword was there at the potentially problematic assignments. FPC and

[Lazarus] How to send bug reports?

2008-05-17 Thread cc_
Selecting Bug Tracking at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ never returns. Is there any other way to send bug reports? Regards - Leslie - ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] National characters

2008-05-17 Thread cc_
Since I am not yet able to reach bug trucking, I'll try my luck here: I noticed that characters with codes over 128 or so are not displayed in the debug windows, only their code. I have an object a with a very similar problem. It has a variant record property: T_Data = record case

Re: [Lazarus] How to send bug reports?

2008-05-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 09:59:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selecting Bug Tracking at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ never returns. Is there any other way to send bug reports? Try http://bugs.freepascal.org ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] How to send bug reports?

2008-05-17 Thread Lee Jenkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selecting Bug Tracking http://bugs.freepascal.org/set_project.php?project_id=1 at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ never returns. Is there any other way to send bug reports? Here is a direct link: http://bugs.freepascal.org/main_page.php -- Warm

Re: [Lazarus] How to send bug reports?

2008-05-17 Thread cc_
Thanks Lee, but this is the page which never loads. :) - Leslie - - Original Message - From: Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: General mailing list lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [Lazarus] How to send bug reports? [EMAIL

Re: [Lazarus] How to send bug reports?

2008-05-17 Thread cc_
Thanks, but this link is basically the same. Some of the freepascal.org pages never load for me, not just bug trucking. :( - Leslie - - Original Message - From: Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: General mailing list lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008

Re: [Lazarus] How to send bug reports?

2008-05-17 Thread JoshyFun
Hello cc, Saturday, May 17, 2008, 10:48:43 PM, you wrote: cfh Thanks, but this link is basically the same. Some of the freepascal.org cfh pages never load for me, not just bug trucking. :( You can access to the page using one of the free web proxies (it's the only way I can access). -- Best

Re: [Lazarus] Cairo library usage

2008-05-17 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sun, 18 May 2008 01:34:43 +0200 Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2008 14:09:13 -0400 Andrew Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Attached is the test project I did. The text is assigned to the PangoLayout one time only; after *_layout_render is used. Hope

Re: [Lazarus] ARM-WinCE - db engine, printing

2008-05-17 Thread Zaher Dirkey
I have project on WinCE-ARM using SQLite and Printing over COM ports using ESC/POS printer. 2008/5/13 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, A question for those who have working ARM-WinCE applications with db and/or printing: would you recommend the DB engine, or printing solution you are using?

[Lazarus] Linux Installation Advise

2008-05-17 Thread Lee Jenkins
Hi all, I've loaded a new VirtualBox image with CentOS 5 and as usual, I've having a little bit of trouble installing from sources, no doubt because of my limited linux knowledge to date. The biggest challenge that I have is ensuring that all required libraries are installed. Would you

Re: [Lazarus] ARM-WinCE - db engine, printing

2008-05-17 Thread Lee Jenkins
Zaher Dirkey wrote: I have project on WinCE-ARM using SQLite and Printing over COM ports using ESC/POS printer. Zaher, I'm very interested in this. Are you using the Epson ESC commands and printing directly to the printer? -- Warm Regards, Lee When my company started out, we were