Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Schnell via Lazarus
Generally speaking: Getting confronted with the limits, imposed by lack of knowledge to your work to get a task done is a great motivation for learning. Being forced by the tutor to learn stuff you don't immediately need to get the task at hand done is a great motivation to give up.

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-10-17 09:52, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > - do I need know how/why the GUI builder creates the code that makes a > Button visible on a Form and my Event handler be called when a button > is pressed ? Yes (I.e. do I need to be able to write the code myself > without the

Re: [Lazarus] TPageControl cannot change parent

2016-10-17 Thread Torsten Bonde Christiansen via Lazarus
On 2016-10-14 18:30, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:16:25 +0200 Torsten Bonde Christiansen via Lazarus wrote: [...] In the designer it is not posible to use the builtin feature of "Change Parent" (from the context menu) with a

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Schnell via Lazarus
On 14.10.2016 16:10, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote: In most cases they never get to the step "find out how it works". If it works, nobody wants to invest time anymore to look under the hood. So they always operate on the surface and repeat the same subobtimal programming over and over

Re: [Lazarus] Windows 10 force any non-white background color to White

2016-10-17 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
Werner Pamler via Lazarus wrote: Am 15.10.2016 um 12:04 schrieb Dennis via Lazarus: Attached is a simple test project. Within the zip are 2 screen capture of the same program running in win 7 64 bit and Win 10 64 bit. The project was created with Lazarus 1.7; fpc 3.1.1 SVN 52643. For me,