Re: [Lazarus] TBitmap.Canvas.Pixel
Hello, Did you have time to check this? thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] LCL online docs
Hello, There is something wrong with the online LCL docs: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/graphics/index.html -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] DisableWindowsUnicodeSupport
If I were you, I would give it a go at converting the applications to Unicode. Only places which connect with the LCL, such as putting text in a TMemo need change, and even those don't need change if you only use ASCII characters. All non-textual and non-LCL code remains unaffected. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] TBitmap.Canvas.Pixel
Hello, In the past it was said that setting each pixel individually with TBitmap.Canvas.Pixel (for an offscreen bitmap) is slow, because the image data is stored by the windowing library, and you need a lot of calls to this library to set the pixels. After the TBitmap remodeling where is the image data stored? It seams to me that it is stored locally now, althought the code is quite complex, so I may be wrong. In this case, there would be no reason it being so much slower then TLazIntfImage, but it still is in my tests with Carbon! Any ideas what is the cause of slowness now? Also remembering that Carbon doesn't have the problems of X11 like Gtk. thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Specification for TWinControl.SetShape
Hello, What is the exact specification for TWinControl.SetShape (bitmap version) ? (for custom shaped windows) I certified that black pixels are opaque and white pixels are fully transparent, but what about other colors? What is defined for them? Simply a recomendation not to use, as each platform may behave differently? Also, I assume that only full transparency or fully opaque is supported, and the bitmap cannot be used to make an Alpha transparent window, is that correct? thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] TFont.Orientation
Hello, I added this property. I verifyed that it works in Carbon and I implemented it for Qt. It should obviously work for win32/wince and also for gtk2. From the major platforms, only gtk1 should not support it. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] TFont.size
Hello, Does anyone the difference between TFont.Height and TFont.Size? It seams to me that Height is measured in pixels and Size is some other unit which I don't know. Even worse, it doesn't seam to be an international system unit, but rather an american unit (some fraction of inches). The Delphi docs say: Use Size to specify the point size of the font. If the value is negative, the internal leading that appears at the top of each line of text is included. If the value is positive, Size represents the height of the characters but not the internal leading. To determine the size of the font in pixels, use the Height property instead. The value of Size can be obtained from the height in pixels using this formula: Copy Code Font.Size = -Font.Height * 72 / Font.PixelsPerInch When the Size property has a positive value, the Height property has a negative value. When the Height property has a positive value, the Size property has a negative value. A rather exoteric property IMHO. Or yet another Windowsism in Delphi -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] TFont.Name best practices
Hello, Which guidelines do you use to choose TFont.Name? Specially because you either distribute the font with the application or you have no guarantee it will exists in the system in the chaotic universte of cross-platform development. Different libraries have different policies about choosing the correct font if the desired one isn't present. Qt docs say that it will try to choose the best font using some kind of the logic on the name. Windows docs say nothing, so I guess it just falls to default, unless TFont.Pitch was assigned, when it tryes to find some characteristics. Any ideas about Carbon? Gtk2 should also try some logic I think ... The problem is that with this differences it gets very hard to get guidelines about how to use this property. Maybe suppose the worse case, if unavailable it will follow to default? thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] New Lazarus IDE/LCL features since ...?
2009/4/21 ik ido...@gmail.com Actually I made some, but after the story of GTK 2.8 I stopped working on it (you - the core team made me very angry about how it was reacted), so now someone needs to work on it again, and it will not be me. I found nothing in the list archives about this, just some patches which may have been forgotten, as there was no answer. A simple reminder should be enought if they were really forgotten. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] New Lazarus IDE/LCL features since ...?
2009/4/21 ik ido...@gmail.com: I was talking about this: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12591 With many implications on IRC of it. Very simple to solve this: Just add the gtk 2.8 code around IFDEFs. I think this is already done for other features Absolutely unecessary to have hurt fealings and personal disputes about something so simple. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Dragging documented
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: [ ] You have read section 3: LCL Implementation I had just assumed you would never write the critics to the wiki. The Wiki is the wrong place for criticism. It is a documentation and not a discussion forum or a blog. Could you modify the page to make it more professional looking? thanks Please post criticism in the mailling list instead. thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Dragging documented
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: So I couldn't resist to add some criticism about the current LCL implementation. Any comments are welcome :-) I think you should be more specific if you want to do a criticism. In the way you put it one can have no idea what exactly you are taking about. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] anouncements about commerical application
Yes, it is. They are interresting to show that big projects can be developed with Lazarus. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead
And here is the best comment about it: Capt. Kirk: As a customer your choices are: 1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library functions, knows how to write properly structured code with appropriate variable scope and data types, or 2. Hire someone who will produce what appears to be exactly the same output. As a customer who doesn't happen to be a developer himself, the above two options translate as: 1. Hire an expensive expensive expensive who expensive the expensive expensive, knows how to write expensive expensive code with expensive expensive expensive and expensive expensive, or 2. Save a bunch of money and get exactly the same thing. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Large program size - 1.8 MB for empty GUI project
The application is not empty. If you check the symbols inside the application you will see that almost all LCL components are added, and PNG support, XML library, etc, etc, etc, even if not used. The smartlinking is simply not yet good enought to remove those parts. This isn't such a big deal because hello world applications are useless, in real world applications you will need to use multiple components, have graphics support, use xml, etc, and those are already there, so your EXE size won't grow when you need them. And this has been debated 1 million times before, please search in the mailling list archives. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Where to place LCL-qt setup information on wiki?
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. Clearly the wiki search is flawed, because that page never appeared in the search results. :-( Maybe you searched for Qt ? I think that the search only works for 3 or more letters -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Mac OS X or iPhone applications created with Lazarus
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Bee bee.ogra...@gmail.com wrote: I can provide better screenshot of Lazarus (9.27) running on Mac (10.5.6), if you want. Please do it. The wiki is exactly to provide an easy way for people to contribute. I believe there wouldn't many people like to write code that way. People want Cocoa binding to be as good as GDI or GTK, and can be used directly by and from the IDE/LCL. It's just a matter of time, I suppose. :) It isn't much different from how objective-c users make their apps. I think that a good Cocoa interface for Lazarus would actually offer much more then objective-c users have with Xcode. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Mac OS X or iPhone applications created with Lazarus
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: I am hearing constant battering that you cannot create native looking Mac or iPhone applications with Lazarus. By the way, these comments come from the CodeGear non-technical newsgroup. Is there any truth to this? No, Lazarus now has an excelent support for Carbon, which uses the native Aqua look from Macs. Here a screenshot of Lazarus running in Mac OS X: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Image:Lazarusmac0.9.25.jpg You can note that the menu is integrated in the top bar, it shows properly in the Dock and I think that even dropping files in it should work (althought I didn't test). No X11 is required and copy+paste and all other normal desktop integration works normally. Of course Lazarus has the same general look in all platforms, but users are free to tune their applications for Macs if they want. The native controls from Apple are used, so not much difference to Objective-C apps should be expected. And to kill any counter argument, if you want to create applications by using Cocoa directly you can also do that using PasCocoa, which has no difference from other applications created with Xcode: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/PasCocoa So there is absolutely no truth in that statement. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] About try blocks
Here: http://www.freepascal.org/maillist.var -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] About try blocks
This thread would be better located at one of the Free Pascal mailling lists. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Where are the manuals?
We are writting a book about it, but it's not yet ready ... -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] TFloatSpinEdit and DecimalSeparator (GTK)
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Bart bartjun...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I should ask on the pfc mailinglist? Indeed. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] TFloatSpinEdit and DecimalSeparator (GTK)
Here are the docs for the gtk2 control: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkSpinButton.html I cant find anything about the separator. They probably use something from libc for the separator ... one would need to check the gtk source code and see what they are doing there. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Line Ending FPC/Delphi
In my projects I usually have a file with only general constants,
which is added by all others. In this file I add the following
declaration:
{$IFNDEF FPC}
const
LineEnding = #10#13;
{#endif}
The Virtual Magnifying Glass is a medium sized project which is
compilable with Lazarus and Delphi. It may be useful for you to take a
look at it's source code:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/magnifier
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[Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.26, 0.9.26.1, 0.9.26.2, 0.9.27 ou 0.9.28? (Si lvio Clécio)
2009/2/16 Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com: I have a feeling something got lost in the translation from Portuguese to English or from English to Dutch in the next paragraph, because I don't understand your point. Basically he said he was very disappointed by the Linux Lazarus 0.9.26 He probably installed the Gtk 1. Yes, gtk 1 does look like crap. But it's very near it's grave now. Gtk 2 is already the standard, so 0.9.28 should have a much better default look. And the possibility of using Lazarus in Linux with LGPL-Qt 4.5 will give a huge jump in quality. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.26, 0.9.26.1, 0.9.26.2, 0.9.27 ou 0.9.28? (Si lvio Clécio)
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: Why jump in quality? Isn't the current LCL-Qt based on Qt 4.x The Qt 4.5 release will only make it more usable in a open-source / closed-source (licensing) term - that has nothing to do with quality. I meant that today you cannot use it for closed-source projects, so for many people it simply does not exist as an option. When it comes as an option, comes the fact that the qt interface has a high quality IMHO, so people who could only use gtk1 or gtk2 can suddenly use the qt interface, which has a high quality. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.26, 0.9.26.1, 0.9.26.2, 0.9.27 ou 0.9.28? (Si lvio Clécio)
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Paul Ishenin webpi...@mail.ru wrote: What are you comparing? LCL interfaces to qt and gtk or qt and gtk themself? I suppose the first. I am comparing qt and gtk themselves. The example goes around lazarus, but only because the only qt or gtk software that I develop is the LCL. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Voting for the new Lazarus icon
Hello, I just started a voting for the new Lazarus icon: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,6301.0.html If you have any comments, please do so in the respective forum post, to keep discussion in 1 place. thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Zipfiles using Paszlib...
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Lee Jenkins l...@datatrakpos.com wrote: I'm confused. Does TZipper produce pkZIP compatible files or is it zlib based and only called TZipper? I don't understand your question. The files produced work correctly if given the .zip extension. They are recognized by the internal unzipper of OpenOffice.org -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Zipfiles using Paszlib...
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: I'm confused. Does TZipper produce pkZIP compatible files or is it zlib based and only called TZipper? What is pkZIP? You assume that OO only looks at the file extension, not at the actual file contents? I assume it can only uncompress 1 format, unless zip files can be compressed in multiple ways and I don't know it. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Zipfiles using Paszlib...
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Felipe. I'll take a closer look at both and try to merge any feature between the two. I would prefer something that is standard in FPC as well. I added step-by-step instructions on how to get the latest TZipper and use it to the wiki: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/paszlib -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] repaint method on Darwin/Carbon
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Brad Campbell b...@wasp.net.au wrote: I was trying not to call Application.ProcessMessages as that is *very* expensive (I'm seeing delays of up to 100msec on a G4 400) but it looks like I have no choice. You can use a high resolution timer like EpikTimer ( http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/EpikTimer ) to check if the delay caused by calling Application.ProcessMessages will disturb your communication. Like this: Fetch current time; Application.ProcessMessages if TimeDelay x ms then do something; -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Zipfiles using Paszlib...
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: You could also try TZipFile located in the following SVN repository. It doesn't contain compression yet, but does place files and folders inside a .zip archive. It has file handling routines, so it feels like you are working with normal files in a directory, but they are actually inside a zip archive. The TZipper from FPC subversion can add files to a zip archive in any directory structure desired and also compress them. It worked very well for me to generate OOXML and OpenDocument files. But you have to use the latest subversion zipper.pp files, the current one doesn't have the needed fixes USage: FZipper.FileName:=ParamStr(1); For I:=2 to ParamCount do begin F:=TFileStream.Create(ParamStr(i),fmOpenRead); FZipper.Entries.AddFileEntry(F,ParamStr(i)); end; FZipper.ZipAllFiles; For I:=0 to FZipper.Entries.Count-1 do FZipper.Entries[I].Stream.Free; -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Zipfiles using Paszlib...
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: I have never looked at TZipper. Do you have any idea how that differs from TZipFile? Is it worth picking one over the other? I've never used TZipFile, but well, you wrote that TZipFile doesn't compress. TZipper does compress, and TZipper is a standard component of Free Pascal. Althougth at the moment you need a local copy of the latest svn zipper.pp to use it. Another nice feature of TZipper is adding files with a stream as source, so you can load data from any where you want, doesn't need to be existing files. Don't know if TZipFiles also allows that. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Mac OS X : 10.3 undefined references
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:38 PM, domini...@savagesoftware.com.au wrote: Will linking directly to the 10.3 SDK get around this problem, or will that break other LCL references? No, won't work. LCL-Carbon uses routines available only in 10.4 I am aware that 10.4 is the preferred OS version but is there a way around this issue? You can provide a patch for LCL-Carbon which ifdefs out the use of all routines which require Mac OS X 10.4 if a define is active, and then rebuild your LCL with the define. Something like CarbonSupportMacOSX_10_3 It will work much better if you provide adequate substitutes for those calls that work in Mac OS X 10.3 You can see which calls cause trouble and use Find in Files in the IDE in the directory lcl/interfaces/carbon to find them. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Loading icon from Application.Icon
Can you post a very simple, but complete, example which fails? The code you showed on the first e-mail was too short to check if your code is wrong or if it's a bug in TIcon. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Loading icon from Application.Icon
Which operating system, fpc and lazarus versions? Does the example application work for you? It's in examples/trayicon and it loads the icon from the LFM (inside the executable) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Interact with M$ Word
If your only contents in the word document is the table you can create an excel document using FPSpreadsheet: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPSpreadsheet If the format needs to be Word then you would need to paste it to word. Ideally I imagined a full library to generate office documents could be created. But right now I only have spreadsheet support working =) And that needs polishing. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Drawing text in WinCE
It works for me ... it's a rather wierd problem ... TLabel not working? What Lazarus version are you using? How did you install support for wince? Do you have a screenshot of the problem? Also, are your source files UTF-8 encoded? If you start a new project, put only a label in the form and run that does it work? Are you using a device or the emulator? Can you test with the emulator? (instructions to install it in the wiki) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] FYI: qt is going to be LGPL
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Den Jean den.j...@telenet.be wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit I see. I for one think it would be an excelent addition! One problem, however, is that all apps would require WebKit, even those that don't use it... -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] FYI: qt is going to be LGPL
This is just fantastic. It really adds a lot of value to the lazarus-qt interface. And even more, it becomes a viable substitute for the gtk2 interface in UNIXes. The only problem being that Qt 4.5 would be required, which means that at the moment no distribution supports it out of the box. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] FYI: qt is going to be LGPL
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Den Jean den.j...@telenet.be wrote: Is someone interested in webkit ? What does it do? Shows html pages? -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] ARM-WinCE does not complie from the IDE (+ a few question)
1. Am I supposed to build the ARM-WinCE units from the IDE? (This did not work before) This always worked. 2. If yes, I guess not everything needs to compiled or WinCE. Which options should be included? It's documented in the wiki: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_CE_Interface#Using_the_snapshot_add-on_installer If you want to rebuild LCL yourself then you need to add the operating system wince and architecture arm in the Build Lazarus dialog. You need to use the advanced tab for that. 3. Currently I am using FPC 2.2.2. Is this the currently recommended FPC version for WinCE. If not, I would a appreciate a link to the proper SVN FPC repository. Yes, 2.2.2 is the recommend version. 4. Are the suggestions for preparing Lazarus for WinCE manually still valid on the Lazarus website? I remember there was some confusion between two senior developers of Lazarus (or maybe FPC ) about where the compiled units should be placed. Has this been settled by now? That was only for manually setting up the interface. Use should use the add-on installer, unless there is a very good reasion to avoid it. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Does Lazarus have sizer or layout objects?
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: What's the base class for an layout manager? There is none specific. I would suggest trying TCustomControl if you also want to draw borders or TControl if you just want to position childs. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Does Lazarus have sizer or layout objects?
My suggestion would be to create a layout class yourself. It should be easy. If it is good enougth it may be added to Lazarus later. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] reading a little endian long.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Dave Coventry dgcoven...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any documentation on this? http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/index-5.html would the following: longv:=LEtoN(@buffer[5]); be the same as: No, it's better. It only performs a conversion from Little Endian to current encoding. So it will just copy the contents if your software is running in a little endian processor or do the adequate conversion if your software is running in a big endian processor. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus forum
I for one am very happy with the change! -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Systray application is started from Session in Gnome but it is invisible
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Roland Turcan k...@rotursoft.sk wrote: - The latest one Lazarus - fpc from end of november I think. What does latest mean? 0.9.26? If you are using 0.9.26 try updating to subversion. If you are using subversion, try 0.9.26 There was a recent change that could either fix your problem or cause it -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Systray application is started from Session in Gnome but it is invisible
What is session in gnome? it is started together with gnome? I think that what happens is that when it starts the tray area isn't working yet but I think, for this problem is TTrayIcon, because it could show me any window which is shown using by timer. I will try to get up-to-date fpc too from SVN and I will inform you. No, this will be useless. Please try an older lazarus revision, for example 17600 svn up -r 17600 -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Dynamic Library in Linux
To start with, you should ask this in the free pascal mailling list, as this is more related to free pascal then to Lazarus. The classes unit is part of Free Pascal. Second, using the subversion compiler could be the problem. I would try using FPC 2.2.2 instead. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Using Win32 Lazarus to cross-compile to arm-linux?
In the environment options dialog, change the path to the compiler. Then in the Compiler Options dialog, change the Target operating system and target architecture. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Terminal window, workaround
The IDE shows the values. Set a breakpoint and then move the mouse over the variable names in the code. It will show you their value at that point as a tooltip. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] What is current status of fpGUI?
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct. I can supply a quick patch to resolve this, but fpGUI via LCL is still totally unusable. That's until my clone gets into gear and starts working on it. Do you have commit rights in Lazarus? I think it would be nice if this is commited. I have a patch waiting to be applyed which was to improve things for fpgui (tstrings are freed by the interface so we can pass the tstrings from fpgui directly) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] TProcess oddity?
I think you should ask in one of the Free Pascal mailling lists, because this is a problem with the Free Pascal RTL which only FPC developers could fix. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] TBitmapCanvas public
I don't know anything about that class, but if you describe better what you are trying to do I may suggest an alternative. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Stretching Antialiasing in win32
Hello, When I execute the StretchBlt windows API in the magnifier I get different results in Delphi and in Lazarus: Windows.StretchBlt(DestCanvas.Handle, drawGlassRect.Left, drawGlassRect.Top, drawGlassWidth, drawGlassHeight, bmpDisplay.Canvas.Handle, viewRect.Left, viewRect.Top, viewRectWidth, viewRectHeight, dwROP); In Lazarus there is notice some anti-aliasing. When magnifying the same synedit text in delphi and lazarus, after 14x or so I start to see grey dots near the text and in Delphi I don't. Actually the grey dots are also square, so they actually look like as if they were part of the text, but they cannot be, because I saw the same text with delphi. Setting the canvas Antialiasingmode property has no effect. Any ideas why this happens? It's not necessarely bad, but I would like to control this via the antialiasing property. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Stretching Antialiasing in win32
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Martin Friebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is synedit, check either the font antialiasing/quality property in object inspector (if you use synedit as component). Or Environment=options=Editor=Display there is a checkbox Disable anti aliasing Anti aliasing is disabled. And also, this wouldn't explain the difference to delphi -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] WinCE 2.2.3 Snapshot Problem
Go to the environment options dialog and check if the compiler is the right one. I think that Lazarus comes preconfigured to use ppcx86.exe but it should actually use fpc.exe which will choose the correct compiler. Don't change anything in your fpc.cfg file. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Cross platform development (not compiling)
I think the solution would be having build modes, as already discussed and planned for 0.9.28. I also need this feature. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Cross platform development (not compiling)
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Mattias Gärtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: build modes are only for compilation. Not for debugging. Maybe you want debug modes? Ummm, now I see ... but they could be the same thing. Some kind of mode where certain compiler options or debugger options are overriden. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Trayicon troubles
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Sebastian Kraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. is it possible to have a trayicon with transparent background? I created the icon from a png where the background was transparent but the icon in the panel shows a grey back. Which fpc, laz and os version? 2. How can I show this balloon thing? Use the following properties: ShowBalloonHint, GetPosition, BalloonFlags, BalloonHint, BalloonTimeout, BalloonTitle I think that GetPosition isn't implemented in all platforms. Test it. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Trayicon troubles
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho I think that GetPosition isn't implemented in all platforms. Test it. Actually it is implemented for gtk2 and win32, so it should work. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Terminal window
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Tom Verhoeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And for Mac OS, in my experience. (Hence, I find the option name misleading.) What does it do in Mac OS? AFAIK you are wrong. This option sets a flag in the Windows executable to indicate that a standard I/O terminal should be created. It is something about the internal working of a windows executable and does nothing in other platforms. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Trayicon troubles
Well, your implementation doesn't work in my system (KDE 3.5), while the previous one does. Unless there is a compeling argument to use the new implementation I propose to revert to the previous one. I appreciate your effort to quick implement the feature, but it was somewhat missguided. To improve things I propose improving GetPosition for gtk2, I don't use strange bar positions, so testing is always welcome, and also improving the looks of the notifier component. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Trayicon troubles
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Andrew Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any objections to my improving the current balloon a bit? I see some issues with text that is too long. Also an indicator of the time left before it closes might be nice. Not at all, fell free to improve it =) I beliave it is in the unit lcl/popupnotifier.pas -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] unusable/endlessly reloading mainIDE
Try again with: sudo make clean all LCL_PLATFORM=gtk2 OPT=-va This should say exactly why compilation fails PS: Don't answer only to me, but to the whole list ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] TShellTreeView and TTreeView
Hello, I am trying to implement TShellTreeView. It is a treeview which shows the directory structure in the prefered way of the operating system. In Windows that would start with My Computer, etc... One problem now is with the design. Should it read all existing directories (which will cause a delay) or only those visible, or one or two levels at once... what do you think? Reading everything may be problematic with removable media. Another problem is using TTreeView. I searched by I can't find how I would implement this behavior, for example, having the root and 1 level visible and then when the user clicks the + symbol the subitems for this item are loaded. Should I use the OnExpanding event? In the event handler I would create the subitems? A tutorial would be great... thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] TShellTreeView and TTreeView
Another problem is that this control is only dependent on the operating system, not the widgetset. And I need it in the LCL to implement standard dialogs for Windows CE. My first solution is having one include file per platform. Good enougth? Where to put those include files? My initial idea is simply naming then differently: treeviewwin32.inc treeviewunix.inc etc -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on Mac OS 10.5, 10.4
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Geoffrey Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I had installed Lazarus (0.9.26) on a machine running OS 10.4, presumably it would compile and run programs ok? Lazarus works normally in Mac OS X 10.4 -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] unusable/endlessly reloading mainIDE
Try rebuilding your IDE with Gtk 2. Navigate the where Lazarus was installed and type: sudo make clean all LCL_PLATFORM=gtk2 The directory should be called /usr/share/lazarus or something similar -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Cocoa bindings
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:23 AM, dmitry boyarintsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felipe have you updated the objcparser to support ObjC 2.0? No, but this is very easy to do. Only a couple of routines changed from the ones I use. I didn't do it because I only have a 10.4 system which uses Objective-C 1.0 -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] KOL-CE How was overlapping menu fixed?
Thanks, I managed to get it working. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on Mac OS 10.5, 10.4
Oh, there is a lot more to it then that! To start with you need to link to the 10.4 framework and you need to have it installed in your computer (I think you probably have if you did a full XCode install). I would ask in Mac-Pascal mailling list if I were you (google). -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] KOL-CE How was overlapping menu fixed?
Hello Yuri, How did you implement maximizing a form in KOL-CE? Take a look here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_CE_Development_Notes#Overlapping_menu_bottom I have looked a lot, but it seams impossible to maximize a form perfectly in Windows CE, because sometimes the menu will not be considered part of the work area so you need an extra factor, but I have found no way to find when the factor is needed. thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on Mac OS 10.5, 10.4
wow! astonishing the last time I read there were all kinds of complicated linking problems to be taken care of. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Mattias Gärtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe some special controls need some special libs? No, as I understood, this should be a general problem of any software linking to Carbon or Cocoa -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Cocoa bindings
2008/12/4 Mac Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It appears as though Felipe has provided a complete set of bindings for doing Cocoa development. Yes, that is correct, althougth I would call it complete at the moment. It has the potential to be complete. If you need any specific classes added to the bindings just ask. Is it possible to cross-compile against these to create an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch? No, because the compiler doesn't support this target. Support for a target includes knowing how to operate the (cross)assembler, linker, having a RTL, etc. I beliave that Jonas was working on it, you can contact him in the mac-pascal or free pascal mailling lists. I don't believe the version of OS X on those devices includes the Carbon framework, so it'll have to be Cocoa. Indeed it doesn't it. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Resources and Version info
Make the entire .rc file yourself. Possibly disable the version info
taken care by the IDE or create a file with a different name from the
one the IDE maintains. Link it to your project with {$R myrcfile.rc}
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Re: [Lazarus] Disabling scrollbars
I think I found a bug report about this: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11991 Anyone has hints about the cause? I will investigate this today -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Disabling scrollbars
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe AutoScroll := false; ? That was the first thing I tryed. It doesn't work for wince and doesn't work for carbon. But it works in Delphi 7, so I have found a bug. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Disabling scrollbars
I think I have found a fix. In TScrollingWinControl.AlignControls Index: lcl/include/scrollingwincontrol.inc === --- lcl/include/scrollingwincontrol.inc (revision 17661) +++ lcl/include/scrollingwincontrol.inc (working copy) @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ inherited AlignControls(AControl, ARect); HorzScrollBar.AutoCalcRange; VertScrollBar.AutoCalcRange; - if not AutoScroll then + if AutoScroll then UpdateScrollBars; end; What do you think about the solution? It seams to work in carbon. From my point of view the older code is wrong because updating the scrollbars upon control realignment is a behavior of autoscroll. It would be great if someone with greater knowledge about scrolling could take a look at this. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Where does Lazarus store/look for global settings/options?
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - When I want to have multiple Lazarus installations on the same machine Read this: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus - Why is a Lazarus installation so different from the installation of Windows applications, conforming to the Windows guidelines? Why do you think that Lazarus doesn't conform to Windows guidelines? Can you show a concrete guideline it is breaking? The only thing I see is that multiple versions share the same configuration file, but I don't know if this is against any guideline. Maybe the default configuration directory should contain the lazarus version in it. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Lazarus-wince screenshots
Hello, I think it would be nice to build a small gallery with applications written with lazarus-wince. Does anyone have screenshots? thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Disabling scrollbars
Hello, How can I disable scrollbars in a form? I have found no property to do that. Just checking the size of the form and that it doesn't have them at design time doesn't help, because the form has it's size altered to fit the Windows CE device. And it also places them in Windows CE even if the things fit the area thanks. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Where does Lazarus store/look for global settings/options?
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux, BSD, Solaris: $HOME/.lazarus Windows: depends on the installation. I'm not sure if GetAppConfigDir depends on windows version. Maybe Vincent can tell. It depends on the Windows version and also on the Free Pascal version =) Some time ago I published my tests here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiplatform_Programming_Guide#Configuration_files -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] How to unset bookmarks in the editor?
I have also noticed this years ago and and untoggling bookmarks a good idea, but my priority to it is as close to zero as it gets, so I never did anything about it. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] LCL with DirectFB possible ?
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of using qt4 I wanted to ask if the LCL can use DirectFB directly ( LCL bindings for directfb ? ). No, there is currently no way to use LCL directly for directfb. You need to use it with either Gtk or Qt in their versions for framebuffer. If you really need directfb support without any external libs, you could implement either directly a DirectFB interface in Lazarus, or add support for DirectFB in fpGUI and then work in the fpGUI interface for Lazarus. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] TrayIcon programs
2008/11/14 User [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It is necessary to use a form to create a program of this type? I do not need a form. No, you don't need a form. Just create your TTrayIcon descendent from code: MyTrayIcon := TTrayIcon.Create(nil); -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, even local GTK2 is *way* slower than GTK1. So I really wasn't imagining it when I switch Lazarus IDE to GTK2. We are aware of that. But gtk1 has a lot of other problems too, so it isn't exactly a good choice. Just comparing speed may give a false impression that gtk1 is a good choice. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] malformed ifdef in gtkdefines.inc
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I change the location of the define statements ? I assume that by activating the ifdef our minimum Gtk version will go up, and in that case no, don't change the ifdef. On Linux you will usually have the gtk library which comes with the system, and installing a newer pre-compiled one will usually be impossible because that would also require updating glibc, which would require a complex update of the entire system (to the point of being less work formatting the / partition and installing a newer version of your distro). So, it's a very big hassle for linux users requiring newer versions of anything. The constant upgrade in Qt versions is already a big problem for me, and I wouldn't like gtk to join in. On Windows you just distribute the .dll with your program, so it's easy to guarantee that the correct gtk will be in place. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] malformed ifdef in gtkdefines.inc
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:55 PM, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess, but I can't find it. So what can we do in order to make it work with GTK_2_8 symbol other then adding the -dGTK_2_8 ? Isn't that enougth? The default is 2.6+ If you wish to use 2.8 specific features then compile LCL with the define -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] malformed ifdef in gtkdefines.inc
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:05 PM, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are missing the point (And 2.6 is very old version of GTK. GTK 2.14 is the latest). So you want to increase the minimum default requirement? I agree with 2.8 (let's wait to see if Mattias and Marc also agree), but certainly not with the latest 2.14. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most development was using the emulator, but when I copied it over to the PDA for the first time I was shocked by the performance. So the performance was good using the emulator? All it is doing is drawing some standard edit boxes and buttons on the screen. The PDA I tried it on is an XDA Stellar. Well, I can't think of why this kinds of things would be slow. They shouldn't, just simple as that. Maybe your device has very little memory, and the executable fills it. Did you strip before moving the executable to the PDA? The typical executable size without debug information is 1.5 MB Is it possible I have just got some settings wrong somewhere, or is this speed to be expected? No, it's not expected for such simple applications. Also considering this is the first report of such kind. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Henry Vermaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: compile with -Xs or manually run arm-wince-strip --strip-unneeded on the exe. I don't know if it's any different, but I usually do: arm-wince-strip --strip-all myfile.exe -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] [OT] New free IDE from Trolltech
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Kostas Michalopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Qt's dual license says that you have to give copyrights to Trolltech if you want your modifications to be merged back to the Qt codebase. So basically anyone who worked on Qt to improve KDE or his own application also helped Trolltech. Yes, otherwise they wouldn't be able to sell it. They pay most KDE developers, so it's not really like they are improving Qt for free. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Getting started with WinCE/Windows Mobile
Hello, Just follow carefully the step-by-step the instructions in the wiki: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_CE_Interface#Using_the_stable_add-on_installer Since 0.9.26 we have a stable wince release with good quality, so I recommend that you use the stable add on installer. And here are the instructions to install the emulator: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_CE_Interface#Installing_and_Using_the_Pocket_PC_Emulator What link didn't work from those instructions? -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] [OT] New free IDE from Trolltech
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. At this time, Borland was huge, with their Windows GUI library + IDE + Toolchain, and hat a large market, was one of the most important player in the software development area. A lot of people said in the borland newsgroups: support Mac OS X, support Linux, go Unicode, go 64-bits, etc. But they never listened, instead they went .NET, feeding the competition and stoping in time. After a huge delay they finally went unicode. Trolltech on the other hand went cross-platform, and walked their way up with a very good quality product. So now, the way I see it, things are inverted. Delphi is a small niche player with little future ahead of it, while Trolltech seams much more important, and is even active in the smartphone and PDA areas, with their own frame buffer library and also support for Windows CE coming soon. I don't have their profits and market value, but I wouldn't be surprised if Trolltech is much ahead of CodeGear nowadaws. It seams that the crowd saying that cross-platform is important was correct. Luckly there is Free Pascal and Lazarus, so people with Object Pascal code bases don't need to sink with the Delphi boat. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Unit InterfaceBase
Anyone has any ideas about this one? I think it should just work. Which project are you compiling? If it's a new project you need to save it before running. Test with a simple project. What is your architecture? Maybe you are running a computer with 64-bits, and you installed the 32-bits Lazarus, but the compiler tryes to build for 64-bits a wild guess, but could be it =) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Initializing my App
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Valdas Jankūnas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: // when form appears procedure TfrMain.FormShow(Sender: TObject); const SHOWED_FIRST_TIME: Boolean=False; Does this work? If this was a variable this surely wouldn't work, because it's scope would be local to the procedure. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] How to mimic MWSnap's Window Information feature on X11
try also: ret_children[n]^ I'm sure something like that should work in mode objfpc -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Rotated text ?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what I meant: There is no property in the LCL that can be checked ? But you asked in a binary Did you mean at run-time? The usual way is with ifdefs, but that would be compile time. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
