Re: [Lazarus] Initializing my App

2008-10-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Dave Coventry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the 'Loaded' thing work? As far as I know the form streaming code sets the internal ComponentState as it does it's job. Read the help on Loaded, Loading and ComponentState. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] Rotating a bitmap

2008-10-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/10/27 Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, How can I rotate a bitmap 90° counterclockwise ? To save you the trouble... :-) http://www.efg2.com/Lab/ImageProcessing/RotateScanline.htm http://www.delphi-central.com/tutorials/RotateBitmapBitBlt.aspx

Re: [Lazarus] Rotating a bitmap

2008-10-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/10/27 Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, How can I rotate a bitmap 90° counterclockwise ? Wouldn't a rotation matrix do the trick? I remember the old fpGUI code (gfxbase.pas) unit used a 3x3 matrix to do translations and scalations calculations. I would imagine the same could be

Re: [Lazarus] How to mimic MWSnap's Window Information feature on X11

2008-10-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * *This* is the real feature I'm trying to duplicate. As you move the mouse, it draws a rectangle around the window area it's giving information about. eg: The button in a ComboBox or a Button or Edit on a Form etc

Re: [Lazarus] How to mimic MWSnap's Window Information feature on X11

2008-10-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Michael Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ksnapshot? Taking a snapshot is part of the problem, but actually for me the easiest part. The second part that I'm actually after is drawing a rectangle as the mouse moves over different window areas/components and

Re: [Lazarus] How to mimic MWSnap's Window Information feature on X11

2008-10-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Funky Beast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try wininfo, its included in most distros. To find out how they do it, you can get the source from: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/wininfo Ah, I knew about xwininfo (the command line app) which gives all the

Re: [Lazarus] How to mimic MWSnap's Window Information feature on X11

2008-10-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho Lazarus supports screenshot taking, so this part is easy. If you are using pure X11 then take a look at the gtk2 implementation for screenshots, it uses x11. Thanks Felipe, I'll take a look at that code. Next you take the mouse

Re: [Lazarus] MacOSAll.pas has invalid UTF-8 characters

2008-10-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK the original c header files are UTF-8 encoded. Maybe the translation utility did some conversion. That's probably what happened then. Lazarus opens it as ISO-8859-1, which allows even some basic editing

Re: [Lazarus] MacOSAll.pas has invalid UTF-8 characters

2008-10-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, From what I can gather the following unit seems to have invalid UTF-8 characters fpc/packages/univint/src/MacOSAll.pas I only noticed now... I posted this in the wrong mailing list. It was meant for the FPC

Re: [Lazarus] MacOSAll.pas has invalid UTF-8 characters

2008-10-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That character ($C5) seens to be some kind of mask character in MacOS, and it is being used in the comments as just a mask, replacing it by '*' will clarify the meaning (something like) API_CALL_*_*

[Lazarus] How to mimic MWSnap's Window Information feature on X11

2008-10-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, MWSnap is an excellent screenshot capture program for the Windows platform. It includes a few other nice features as well. One of them is a Window Information feature. Awesome feature to spy on other software to get an idea how how the created the GUI layout. :-) I would like to try and write

Re: [Lazarus] New about dialog in 0.9.27 (svn trunk)

2008-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Darius Blaszyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been fixed in r17088. Graeme, can you send me the URL of the bugreport? I recall you mentioning this issue on the ML, but I cannot find the bugreport in the tracker. If it exists then I want to close it. My

[Lazarus] Mantis statistics

2008-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Does Mantis have a statistics page we can view? Things like new reports per month or week. Resolved reports per week or month. Bug reports per release etc, etc... I'm just curious - are the bug reports becoming more or less for every release? Yes I know statistics can be skewed depending on

Re: [Lazarus] [OT] Archiving a web page

2008-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:35 AM, tiziano de togni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest considering using the unMHT extension which can write and open .mht files with firefox: http://www.unmht.org/unmht/en_index.html Thanks. I do know about unMHT, but my issue with it is that it doesn't come

Re: [Lazarus] Mantis statistics

2008-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Marc Weustink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: View issues - on the first row of the issues - [ Graph ] I get a Access Denied page when I click the link? Any reason why reporters cannot view that page? I'm administrator for the fpGUI section in Mantis, and I can't see

Re: [Lazarus] Mantis statistics

2008-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is such a page, but I don't think it is available for 'normal' users. Only devels/mantis managers can view this page. Why? There is no secret information about a graph showing project summary information?

[Lazarus] WebService API for Mantis?

2008-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Is there some external or webservice API for Mantis? For example: Can I write a Lazarus GUI program to view and submit bug reports, without using a Web Browser? Similar to what CodeGear has with there bug reporting system. If there is a WebService API, I guess a GUI bug reporting program

[Lazarus] MacOSAll.pas has invalid UTF-8 characters

2008-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, From what I can gather the following unit seems to have invalid UTF-8 characters fpc/packages/univint/src/MacOSAll.pas It's easily noticeable using an editor like KWrite or gEdit. KWrite make them easier to spot, by showing a black circle with white '?' inside. Lazarus and gEdit shows

Re: [Lazarus] MacOSAll.pas has invalid UTF-8 characters

2008-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I can gather the following unit seems to have invalid UTF-8 characters fpc/packages/univint/src/MacOSAll.pas What makes you think the file is utf-8 encoded? Because Martin Schreiber said so. ;-) I

Re: [Lazarus] New about dialog in 0.9.27 (svn trunk)

2008-10-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Benito van der Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in the current trunk the doublebuffer bitmap (?), is not always resized with the form, so sometimes the text scrolls only in a part of the window. I've already submitted a bug report for this. Regards, -

[Lazarus] [OT] Archiving a web page

2008-10-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, If you guys are like me, you often save a web page for off-line viewing or archiving purposes. I also often print out a web page for leisure reading, but more often than I wish, the printout is clipped (firefox is a big culprit here) or the output is not as good as it could be. I knew I

Re: [Lazarus] Main menu hiding

2008-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/20/08, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I have time I'll try a different distro on the test machine which hopefully will allow me to get gtk 2 working. However I'd be very reluctant to move from Debian since It's probably the best choice when working on multiple

Re: [Lazarus] New about dialog in 0.9.27 (svn trunk)

2008-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Bee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got rev.17054 i386-mac-carbon. Should I file a bug report? ;) I guess so. Do you have the contributors.txt file in your /lazarus/docs/ directory? Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a

[Lazarus] Save form as XML?

2008-10-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, What's the function or goal of Save form as XML? It's the last option in the popup menu when you right click on a form in the form designer. What would you use that function for? Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal

[Lazarus] New about dialog in 0.9.27 (svn trunk)

2008-10-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I love the new about dialog and the animated information. :-) The pride and joy of a programmer - creating the about screen. ;-) One not so great feature is when you resize the dialog (Lazarus IDE compiled with GTK2). The mini logo, Close button and page control tabs flicker like crazy!!

[Lazarus] [patch] - about dialog

2008-10-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I submitted a minor optimization patch for the about dialog. The timer doesn't need to fire all the time. I on purposely didn't reset the scrolling text when switching between the two tabs that have scrolling text. So there is a better chance for those contributes far down the list to also get

Re: [Lazarus] New about dialog in 0.9.27 (svn trunk)

2008-10-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I suggest disable resizing and thus fix both problems at once ;-) No, that would be a workaround. The controls should not flicker. It's a bug somewhere. Correct. BTW, fixed dialogs are against our design guide

Re: [Lazarus] New about dialog in 0.9.27 (svn trunk)

2008-10-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Darius Blaszyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot confirm it on Ubuntu 8.04 and GTK2 Darius Hi Darius. I created a mantis bug report for this. I also uploaded a small 10sec video (600kb) to show the problem. You can see all the labels for version information,

Re: [Lazarus] New about dialog in 0.9.27 (svn trunk)

2008-10-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Alexander Klenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 22:50, Darius Blaszyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to increase the amount of visible credits, but the the animated area does not grow with the dialog, which looks rather amateurish, if you pardon the

Re: [Lazarus] external tools

2008-10-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Benito van der Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which shortcut? I didn't find one. When you setup external tools, you can set a keyboard shortcut to launch that tool. I do the same for my external tools. The only problem is, I can't seem to launch the fpGUI UI

Re: [Lazarus] external tools

2008-10-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not simply parse all .rst files? Or enable i18n and read the .po files? Because I use the program to create the rst files in the first place. Normally you have to declare a variable for every string to

Re: [Lazarus] external tools

2008-10-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem is, I can't seem to launch the fpGUI UI Designer when I press F12. It seems the IDE's F12 (built-in form designer) takes preference. :-( Have you checked your keymapping for consistency? Yes, it

[Lazarus] Changing the font used in the IDE

2008-10-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
How can I change the font used in the IDE. Fonts for Menus, Dialogs, OI, Messages window etc...? Is this possible? So far, the only font I can changes is the editor window font. I'm using Lazarus v0.9.27 r16999M i386-linux-gtk 2 (beta) Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] Ubuntu dependences 0.9.26

2008-10-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:15 AM, svaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed lazaurs 0.9.26 on a ubuntu 7-10 (gutsy), but I get a problem of dependencies: Lazarus-ide-0.9.26-0. needs libglib1.2ldbl and libgtk1.2.; libglib1.2ldbl conflicts libglib1.2, but libgtk1.2 needs libglib1.2 so it

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki dead

2008-10-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/10/17 Reenen Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also get it when I go to the ZipFile wiki page. A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) Strange... I just connected to the ZipFile

[Lazarus] fpmake build system in latest FPC

2008-10-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Is Lazarus going to switch to the fpmake build system? Henry Vermaak created an example for use with fpGUI - I could never get it working before. It seems quite impressive and is very customizable and all done in something I know - Object Pascal. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] 0.9.27 seems to have fixed a bug under KDE

2008-10-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems the latest version of Lazarus has finally fixed the following bug (somehow)... I can't reproduce this bug on my system anymore. Using GTK1 or GTK2. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11331

[Lazarus] Procedure List search is broken in GTK2 only

2008-10-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Using Procedure List (Alt+G) and typing a procedure name to search for, Lazarus crashes, but only for GTK2 widgetset. With the Lazarus compiled with GTK1 or Win32 it works fine. -- TApplication.HandleException Access violation Stack trace: $0811E932

[Lazarus] v0.9.27 keeps inserting references to LCL for non-LCL projects

2008-10-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, This worked before in a late revision 0.9.25, but since I updated to 0.9.27 two days ago I noticed the following. I select File | New... | fpGUI Project and Lazarus now creates the following program unit shown below. fpGUI Application doesn't rely on anything LCL. Yet the uses clause now

Re: [Lazarus] v0.9.27 keeps inserting references to LCL for non-LCL projects

2008-10-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This worked before in a late revision 0.9.25, but since I updated to 0.9.27 two days ago I noticed the following. I select File | New... | fpGUI Project and Lazarus now creates the following program unit shown

Re: [Lazarus] v0.9.27 keeps inserting references to LCL for non-LCL projects

2008-10-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Paul Ishenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it relates to the new project icon and other resource rework. Please add a bug report though I know about this bug. Already done! :-) Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a

Re: [Lazarus] Font inconsistencies

2008-10-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Benito van der Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you enable very large font on Windows XP, the font size of a TLabel is a lot larger, but TStaticText or TCheckBox don't change their appearance. Is this expected, or should I file a bug report? That's not

Re: [Lazarus] Where is form instance being NIL'ed

2008-10-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When a new form is created using Application.CreateForm(), the form's global instance variable is passed in as well. Now if that form's CloseAction = caFree, where is that instance variable assigned nil after it was

[Lazarus] infinite loop due no OnChange event firing

2008-10-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, In tiOPF with LCL widgetset we hit a little snag. We react to the OnChange event of a TEdit. In GTK1 we have no issues. In GTK2 we get a core dump as soon as the text has changed (first key being pressed). Here is a discussion about the issue between Michael and myself. Michael thinks it's

Re: [Lazarus] Saving coordinates TComponentListForm

2008-10-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Marius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to find this out myself, but haven't had any replies to this. :-( I thought this was a resonably active list.. It is, but when I posted my question, the thread strayed off-topic and the actual question of lost

Re: [Lazarus] Saving coordinates TComponentListForm

2008-10-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Marius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i save and restore the coordinates + height/width for a IDE plugin. I already tried IDEDialogLayoutList.ApplyLayout and SaveLayout(Self) in the close. But this function only save and restore the width and height. Is

Re: [Lazarus] TMS FlexCel Studio for VCL/LCL

2008-10-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/10/08, Reenen Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know if the component can do what I need before I buy... I spoke to them about this as well. They can't create a trial version for Lazarus like they have done for delphi (because they would have to release the source code). I

Re: [Lazarus] Problem with editor

2008-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Button1.caption := 'Press again'; Button1.caption := ´Press again´; Ubuntu Hardy Gnome Keyboard: us_intl locale: af_ZA Lets try and eliminate the keyboard layout first... Run the following. You can use Copy

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 is now the default widgetset

2008-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Mattias Gärtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The speed of gtk1 and 2 differ widely. On some platforms the gtk2 is even faster than gtk1. It depends on your window manager, video driver and the gtk2 version. AFAIR gtk 2.12 fixed some issues. Luckily my Ubuntu

Re: [Lazarus] Xml

2008-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the only problem is that the formating is not good :/ here the result: ?xml version=1.0? configfilelocale lang=EN//configfile what i missed to have an xml file like that ? ?xml version=1.0? configfile locale lang=EN/

Re: [Lazarus] Xml

2008-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot control the formatting. This is part of the XML specs, and is normal. Whitespace is irrelevant in XML, except for some special cases. I know whitespace is irrelevant in XML, but I always thought there was

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 is now the default widgetset

2008-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Henry Vermaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try the terminus font, i use it for everything source related (and terminal) since it's very clean and easy on the eyes. you'll have to `apt-get install console-terminus xfonts-terminus`. I'll give it a try, but I really

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 is now the default widgetset

2008-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Mattias Gärtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The default widgetset was changed from gtk1 to gtk2 on Linux, BSD, Sparc. I just got a svn update and couldn't compile Lazarus with FPC 2.2.0. I got an error which indicates i need a newer FPC version. class procedure

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 is now the default widgetset

2008-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Henry Vermaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks good. heh, when i'm bored in my lunch break i head to the pub :) You're from Stellenbosch right? ;-) Anyway, I have no pubs near our office. :-( Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] Xml

2008-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know whitespace is irrelevant in XML, but I always thought there was a pretty format option somewhere. FPCUnit's xml output is formatted pretty. So is Lazarus's .xml config files. What do they use then? No idea,

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 is now the default widgetset

2008-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is the minimum required FPC version? 2.2.1 (is that still around) or 2.2.2 (I believe the latest stable release) or 2.2.3

Re: [Lazarus] Xml

2008-10-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:50 PM, eak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to use xml with lazarus , i don't find document or i found it complex document and i don't understand. The question is rather: What do you want to do with XML? Save application settings, export/import data etc... Regards, -

[Lazarus] A todo list application

2008-10-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Lazarus is awesome. Ok, now that I made this message relevant to Lazarus, I can continue asking my question. ;-) I'm primarily working on Linux - 99% of the time. I'm looking for a small and simple ToDo List program. Something that saves the tasks in a text file so it can be transportable

Re: [Lazarus] A todo list application

2008-10-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/10/3 Reenen Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have no idea if it'll work for you... but Wiki on a stick could work for you? Or tiddly wiki? I recently found it, and put my todo list there too (Amongst other things)... Interesting idea. I actual just found a similar program called Zim. It's

Re: [Lazarus] A todo list application

2008-10-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/10/3 Reenen Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have no idea if it'll work for you... but Wiki on a stick could work for you? Or tiddly wiki? Wow!! I took a look at TidlyFolio, a variant of Tiddly Wiki. It is unbelievable what they have done. All that functionality in a single HTML file. That

[Lazarus] A solution to online AND offline IDE help

2008-10-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, After some replies in other thread about TiddlyWiki, I realized something. That could be a perfect solution to Lazarus IDE help! The following two files are wiki website, but they are contained in a single file! This means the wiki can be maintained only, but also download via File | Save

Re: [Lazarus] A solution to online AND offline IDE help

2008-10-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ehm. The FPC help alone is about 32000 HTML pages. How will your browser react if you cram all that in 1 page and load it in the browser ? I can't even imagine what would happen if you add the LCL help... Such

Re: [Lazarus] CodeTools restore editor window

2008-10-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:47 PM, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using revision 16830 on Linux with GTK2, and when I either use CTRL+Shift+C or alt+space, code tools takes my editor window out of maximized into a normal size. Is that something I can tweak, or should I report it as a bug ?

[Lazarus] When is the next release?

2008-10-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I know you guys are getting ready for the next release. Do you have an estimated date? I've got some changes for the LCL-fpGUI widget set, but I can hold off on those changes if needed. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free

Re: [Lazarus] When is the next release?

2008-10-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next release has already been tagged, which means that changes don't go directly to 0.9.26 unless merged, so you can freely work in the trunk, and this is specially true for lcl-fpgui, because it is in

[Lazarus] Bug in keyboard shortcut in Search Replace dialog

2008-10-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Can anybody else confirm this before I submit a bug report. When you open the Search Replace dialog. Pressing Alt+A for replace all doesn't work. I'm using Lazarus v0.9.25 r16644M i386-linux-gtk Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a

Re: [Lazarus] [Lazarus 0012254]: Code tools bug: with Code completition

2008-09-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En/na Mantis Bug Tracker ha escrit: The following issue has been RESOLVED. I hate it when you cannot add a note to a closed bug :-( I second that!! Many times, due to email lag, the bug report is marked as resolved,

Re: [Lazarus] [patch] File Browser add-on

2008-09-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12178 Applied in r16792. Thanks. Some remarks (tested on windows 2000): * I would use {$IFDEF WINDOWS} instead of {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS}. The latter is not defined for wince.

Re: [Lazarus] [patch] File Browser add-on

2008-09-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you look at the code, you'll see that it uses the standard lazarus interface for settings, so that is very strange ? I haven't debugged it. But I think the directory is stored, but not correctly applied. It doesn't

Re: [Lazarus] [patch] File Browser add-on

2008-09-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On windows it doesn't seem to remember the last selected dir or the the project dir. If you look at the code, you'll see that it uses the standard lazarus interface for settings, so that is very strange ? I

Re: [Lazarus] [patch] Editor Toolbar now conforms to IDE image theme

2008-09-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Paul Ishenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice. Can you also take a look at your options dialog resizing. Menu tree and toolbar listbox doesnot have bottom/right anchors. As result they doesnot resize with form. Will do and send a patch tomorrow. Regards, -

[Lazarus] Printing the keyboard mappings setup

2008-09-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Is it possible to somehow print the keyboard mappings setup? I often forget certain keyboard shortcuts, and it would be nice to stick a printout certain shortcut groups against my pinboard next to my monitor. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a

Re: [Lazarus] Printing the keyboard mappings setup

2008-09-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just writing an article on printing in Lazarus. I'll send it so you can program it yourself in no time ;-) Thanks Michael. A printout would look so much better than my ugly handwriting on post-it notes. :-)

Re: [Lazarus] Printing the keyboard mappings setup

2008-09-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The upcoming Lazarus book will also contain a sub-chapter about printing. Who are the authors of the Lazarus book? I read somewhere it's only available in German, correct? Regards, - Graeme -

[Lazarus] [patch] Editor Toolbar now conforms to IDE image theme

2008-09-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I uploaded a patch for the Editor Toolbar package. It now loads images from the Lazarus resources and conforms with the IDE theme. Also a minor bug fix in the treeview. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12182 Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI

[Lazarus] Questions about missing options in DBGrid

2008-09-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Why are these two options not available in DBGrid.Options property? DBGrid inherits from TCustomGrid, which doesn't have that options! goSmoothScroll, // Switch scrolling mode (pixel scroll is by default) goScrollKeepVisible, // keeps focused cell visible while scrolling I

Re: [Lazarus] Powered by lazarus

2008-09-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/9/19 wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Juste small changes and svg in next mail. Thanks Laurent. BTW: I have never used svg format. What program do you use to edit such a format? I tend to use GIMP for everything (due to my photography days). Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] Powered by lazarus

2008-09-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/9/17 wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I have created this bitmap for me, I redistributes if someone needs ! Nice one! A while back I worked on a fpGUI logo but never completed it. I quickly adapted that idea to Lazarus. See attached image. I'm still not 100% happy with the font choice

Re: [Lazarus] wrong icon choice in Project Inspector

2008-09-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/9/17 wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In this case, I prefer just the sign + and - like this And they are blue! :-) I think your example is more appropriate than the circle with a + or - sign. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform

[Lazarus] [patch] File Browser add-on

2008-09-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I hope others find this useful. :) http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12178 Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Powered by lazarus

2008-09-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/9/18 Martin Friebe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hope you don't mind me playing with the image ( just mentioning, I am not normally into graphical design = so if my result isn;t any good, feel free to say) I'm not a graphical designer either... :-) But the first thing that came to mind was, that

Re: [Lazarus] Powered by lazarus

2008-09-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2008/9/18 wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hehe for web site, it shines ! :-) That's going on the fpGUI website! Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

[Lazarus] Lazarus addon - File Browser

2008-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I created a File Browser addon for Lazarus (thanks MvC for IDE integration). See attached screenshot. The last feature I need to add before I contribute the code, is drive letter support under Windows. I know how to find those, as I have done it before in fpGUI's File-Open Dialog. My

Re: [Lazarus] TMS component for lazarus released

2008-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/17/08, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have released their first component for FPC/Lazarus: Flexcel. http://www.tmssoftware.com/go/?flexcel Depending on the feedback they get on this (I assume direct inquiries, purchases or requests to port other components), they

[Lazarus] wrong icon choice in Project Inspector

2008-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, With my last svn update, I noticed a few more icons have been added to screens. I personally think the icon used in the Remove button in the Project Inspector is wrong. The red icon normally associated with ERROR. For Add/Remove more applications use icons of the same colour. Blue or Green

Re: [Lazarus] wrong icon choice in Project Inspector

2008-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I forgot to attach the screenshot... On 9/17/08, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, With my last svn update, I noticed a few more icons have been added to screens. I personally think the icon used in the Remove button in the Project Inspector is wrong. The red icon

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus addon - File Browser

2008-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/17/08, Mattias Gärtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is, how am I supposed to implement platform specific code in a Lazarus addon? Am I allowed to use IFDEFs? Yes. OK, done! * Dialog position persistence via IDE (Environment Options | Windows tab) This is for

Re: [Lazarus] wrong icon choice in Project Inspector

2008-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/17/08, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Definitely not green. Remove is negative, and negative is red. If you absolutely must take the same color, red or green are bad colors, since they have too much connotations. Then use a neutral colour - Blue? Blue would be my

Re: [Lazarus] Showmodal trouble

2008-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/17/08, Sebastian Kraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But sometimes when I click on the Mainform behind Form1 Mainform comes to front and Form1 is hidden behind it I am using GTK2 widgetset from svn. Under Linux, Modal forms and stay on top are simply requests to the window manager. Not

Re: [Lazarus] TMS component for lazarus released

2008-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/17/08, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will not work, and never will for Lazarus as long as it works with recompiling the IDE. I told the TMS people so: there is currently no workable solution. As soon as someone recompiles the LCL, it's broken. Even if the trial is

Re: [Lazarus] TMS component for lazarus released

2008-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/17/08, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt it, since you must recompile lazarus, and chances that it recompiles an LCL file are very close to 1... This makes it very hard for commercial component writers then. I guess all that remains for them, is to produce a binary

Re: [Lazarus] How to install local copy of RTL/FCL/LCL documentation (from CCR)?

2008-09-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/16/08, Tom Verhoeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can one install a local copy of the documentation for RTL/FCL/LCL in a form that is now on-line available at http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/ How up to date is that documentation? You can get the latest RTL and FCL

[Lazarus] Lazarus IDE - Configure Help

2008-09-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, After I replied to a message regarding RTL and LCL docs, I thought I would update my docs for off-line use as well. In the Configure Help window, there are three tabs. What is the difference between General and Databases tab? In the Databases tab, RTL, FCL and LCL had URL's defined. In

Re: [Lazarus] How to install local copy of RTL/FCL/LCL documentation (from CCR)?

2008-09-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Reenen Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lazarus can be setup to read the LCL and RTL docs directly from the XML files as tooltip help. Please tell us more! I'd love to know how we can do this. Any wiki page that exists on how to do this? :-) This has been

[Lazarus] TDirectoryListBox component

2008-09-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Does Lazarus have a TDirectoryListBox component? I found the TFileListBox and I'm not sure if it's directory friend is in some extra package maybe? Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit

Re: [Lazarus] TDirectoryListBox component

2008-09-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/12/08, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A TDirectoryListBox is too limited, because in Windows you also need a combobox to choose the drive, which doesn't exist in other operating system. That's true... A more cross-platform solution is implementing

Re: [Lazarus] TToolButton hints

2008-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most problems are specific to a widgetset, so it's always indispensable to say what operating system, widgetset, free pascal version and lazarus version you are using. And an easy why to get that

Re: [Lazarus] Dear developers, we need your help before releasing 0.9.26

2008-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/11/08, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another gripe I have with svn, is that if I do an svn diff right after an update, all Makefile and Makefile.fpc, as well as many po files, are different, so I have to delete them and svn update again. a simple: svn revert -R should

[Lazarus] [OT] How to delete a record/object being used

2008-09-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, [...this is probably off-topic as it's related to database applications, not Lazarus specifically...] How do you guys handle such a case in database applications. Say you have an TAddressType object/record. Now you have a lot of Contacts with address information stored in a database (and

Re: [Lazarus] [OT] How to delete a record/object being used

2008-09-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/9/08, Joao Morais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Always use referential integrity. After transaction, this is the most nice RDBMS feature. A 'lovely error message' is far better than ghosts in the database, That's true, and I do have referential integrity enabled. A nice safe guard. I

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