Re: [Lazarus] It is a beautiful day...

2019-07-11 Thread Dennis via lazarus
thank you. Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: Hello, For those of you that don't follow the SVN logs closely: The IDE now has proper support for Project groups. Project groups already existed for some time, but were crippled. With 2 additions they are now actually very useful: - You

Re: [Lazarus] is there a free Grid component better than the default TStringGrid?

2019-05-27 Thread Dennis via lazarus
John Landmesser via lazarus wrote: See attached demo that works without installing TSortGrid.  I opened your zip and Lazarus complained that Laz_SortGrid is missing. After I used Online Package Manager ot install SortGrid, it complained the Sortgrid.pas file is missing Dennis --

[Lazarus] is there a free Grid component better than the default TStringGrid?

2019-05-26 Thread Dennis via lazarus
I am hoping one that supports different column types editing without much coding on my side. thanks in advance. Dennis -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release 2.0.2

2019-04-16 Thread Dennis via lazarus
Mattias Gaertner via lazarus wrote: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.2. This release was built with FPC 3.0.4. The previous release Lazarus 2.0.0 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as well. Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:

Re: [Lazarus] How to increase the font size of the content of Project Inspector

2019-03-09 Thread Dennis via lazarus
Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: Try doing this: https://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/font-size.mp4 It is strange that on my Lazarus 2.0 Win64, the search on "project" does not show Project Inspector like your video in Ubuntu Maybe the App.Explore works differently in win 64 Lazarus.

[Lazarus] Lazarus 2.0 for win 64, on update packages->rebuild failed

2019-02-20 Thread Dennis via lazarus
I got the many of following errors. In the end, I had to restart Lazarus and ran it as Administrator to solve it. Maybe the lazarus installer can be modified to avoid these in the future. Dennis -- ___ lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] using TFPHTTPClient

2019-02-18 Thread Dennis via lazarus
Maybe first of all, you use the dll "dependancy walker" find out which ssl dll your exe is using and then right click at the dll file to find out the version number of that dll. Dennis -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org

Re: [Lazarus] Windows startup infinite loop

2019-02-15 Thread Dennis via lazarus
Henry Vermaak via lazarus wrote: We're having a strange problem here, an infinite loop happens on a customer's machine just after the main form is created. It doesn't happen when the program is run inside a debugger and it only happens on the customer's machine(s), so it's probably related to

Re: [Lazarus] How to increase the font size of the content of Project Inspector

2019-01-15 Thread Dennis via lazarus
Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: Try doing this: https://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/font-size.mp4 great! But is "Application Explorer" only available in Lazarus 2.1? Or is it an package I can install on my current Lazarus 1.9.  Where can I get it? Dennis --

Re: [Lazarus] Trying FPDebug

2019-01-09 Thread Dennis via lazarus
Joost van der Sluis via lazarus wrote: Op 22-11-18 om 11:00 schreef Santiago A. via lazarus: I would like to fiddle a little with FPdebug, but I'm a little confused. I have lazarus 1.8.4 on window 7 32 bits I have installed the next packages FpDebug 0.0 lazdebuggerfp - Once you have

[Lazarus] How to increase the font size of the content of Project Inspector

2019-01-08 Thread Dennis via lazarus
I am getting old and my eyes need to use bigger fonts. I cannot find the font size option of Project Inspector anywhere in Lazarus. Please help. Dennis -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org

Re: [Lazarus] Trying FPDebug

2019-01-01 Thread Dennis via lazarus
Martin Frb via lazarus wrote: On 01/01/2019 11:08, Dennis via lazarus wrote: I am using Lazarus 1.9.0, FPC 3.1.1 You need either 2.1 or fixes 2.0 It works for me. I do not remember that it did not add it... but I know it did not ignore the ones that had been added. revision 59655 Anyway

[Lazarus] In windows 10 (64bit) Assigning TFrame.parent to a TForm took 10 more seconds than Windows 7 (64 bit)

2018-12-18 Thread Dennis via lazarus
I am using FPC 3.1.1  + Lazarus 1.9.0 running on windows 10 (64 bit) to generate windows exe of 64 bit. I logged the timestamps before and after parent assignment in my constructor TMyFrame.CreateWith(aForm : TForm); MyFrame.Parent := aForm (where aForm is the main application

Re: [Lazarus] what can we do to get a better debugger

2018-11-20 Thread Dennis via lazarus
Martok via lazarus wrote: Am 20.11.2018 um 11:37 schrieb Dennis via lazarus: FPC and Lazarus are great but the GDB is inadequate. Many times in my development, GDB failed or crashed, especially when I am debugging multi thread programs. Shall we start a fund raising event to raise fund

[Lazarus] what can we do to get a better debugger

2018-11-20 Thread Dennis via lazarus
FPC and Lazarus are great but the GDB is inadequate. Many times in my development, GDB failed or crashed, especially when I am debugging multi thread programs. Shall we start a fund raising event to raise fund for a new and better debugger for FPC + Lazarus? (provided there are talents out

Re: [Lazarus] derived forms and frames

2018-09-22 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
Franz Müller via Lazarus wrote: Hello everybody! I have been developing programs in Delphi for many years (and even before in turbo Pascal). I would like to switch all my programming from Delphi to Lazarus / Free Pascal. Now I have encountered a serious issue that I don't know how to deal

[Lazarus] How do I export Lazarus IDE Options to a file to be used by another Lazarus

2018-08-07 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
I have an old Lazarus with some changed settings in the Lazarus IDE options (e.g. keyboard shortcut and editor coloring). I have installed a new a Lazarus and would like to copy all those settings from the old Lazarus. How can I do that? Thanks in advance. Dennis --

Re: [Lazarus] when a form is shown modal, it blocked the timer from firing

2018-06-08 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:37:27 +0800 Dennis via Lazarus wrote: I noticed when I aForm.showModal, the timer event seem to stop firing. Here it fires. What platform? Can you create a small example? Mattias My platform is Windows 7 64 bit. I will create

[Lazarus] when a form is shown modal, it blocked the timer from firing

2018-06-04 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
I noticed when I aForm.showModal, the timer event seem to stop firing. Is there anyway I can keep the timer event firing even when I show modal a form? I noticed that if I Application.MessgeBox, it does not block the timer event but that message box behaves just like a showmodal form. Why is

[Lazarus] What is the hot key to jump to the unit's implementation uses clause

2018-04-26 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
From time to time, I need to add an unit to the uses clause of the implement section of the unit. Dennis -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release 1.8.2

2018-02-28 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.8.2. This is a bugfix release. Thanks so much. I have been waiting for this upgrade. Dennis -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Redundant assigned(X) and (X is Txxx) in Laz. sources

2018-01-12 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:44:47 +0200 Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Vojtěch Čihák via Lazarus wrote: I wrote a small routine to search Lazarus sources and it

[Lazarus] Any tips to speed up Lazarus->GDB debugger?

2018-01-11 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
I am using Lazarus 1.8 Win64 , FPC 3.0.4. As with older versions, debugger is very slow (compared to Delphi). Is there any tricks I can use to speed up the debugger e.g. turn off debug info of all lazarus units/object files? I remember in Delphi 5, they had an option of whether to use Debug

[Lazarus] Win64 bit "Can not load SQLite client library "sqlite3.dll"

2017-11-12 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
I was upgrading my FPC/Lazarus program from Win32 to Win64 bit. It complied ok but when run, the debugger raised an exceptoin: "Can not load SQLite client library "sqlite3.dll" At first, I though it is because the existing sqlite3.dll is win32 format so I went to

Re: [Lazarus] Who is using Object Pascal in production?

2017-10-29 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: I would like to propose a discussion about "What is the relevance of Object Pascal nowadays". I don't want waste your time. I just want to know if we are growing and being more relevant or not. I use FPC/Lazarus to write a program trading software

[Lazarus] GUI multithreaded Win32 program sometimes freeze when quitting

2017-04-18 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
I have an win32 multithreaded program written in lazarus 1.7, FPC 3.1.1 From time to time, when it quits, it will freezes and from the task manager, the program will occupies the entire CPU core. I noticed that it will happen more often if: 1) constructor TMyComponent.Create(TheOwner :

Re: [Lazarus] ActiveX, TOLEControl

2016-10-19 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
LacaK via Lazarus wrote: Hi *, I need help with OCX component (not visual I guess), which I need use in Lazarus application (to control another application, which supplies this OCX control). I have imported type library using importtl.exe (new unit was created successfully) Then in

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

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

2016-10-14 Thread Dennis via Lazarus
I have a program written in lazarus running normally in windows 7. When run in windows 10, the green color of the Frame/Form is changed by Windows 10 to white. Now my customer is complaining the bright white is hurting his eyes. Can anyone help? I googled and the only articles is about