Re: [Lazarus] SynEdit highlighter for Markdown

2023-01-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 06/01/2023 8:26 am, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > Given the many dialects in markdown (specially for multiline/continuation > things), > it'll be interesting to see how it reacts on them  Hence I always recommend AsciiDoc over Markdown. ;-) There are many basic documentation

Re: [Lazarus] DCPcrypt: a package looking for a new maintainer

2022-01-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 2022-01-15 15:51, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: Well, I asked for permission to include DPCrypt into the FPC. It was granted, and the usual FPC license can be added. That's excellent to hear. Nothing beats the open source software model. :-D G. --

Re: [Lazarus] Asteroids in Pascal

2021-11-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 2021-11-09 6:32 p.m., Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: I've included a copy of the entire game logic code. Check it out here: Such a cool game. :-D Thank you for sharing. Regards, Graeme -- ___ lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] FPC move to mantis completed

2021-08-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 08/08/2021 10:13 am, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > After several technical issues (8 tries were needed to convert the FPC > sources to git), the move from svn/mantis to gitlab has been completed. I feel your pain. lol > The FPC sources are now available at > >

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus for writing 3D Desktop Environment/Window manager for Linux?

2021-06-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 24/06/2021 1:52 pm, Chavoux Luyt via lazarus wrote: > The idea is a "game-like" first-person shooter interface where > instead of a desktop with various virtual desktops or a start menu, you > have a house (or a castle or whatever) in which you move, open different > doors with different rooms,

Re: [Lazarus] FPDoc chms and code examples

2021-01-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 15/01/2021 7:53 am, Соболь Андрей Евгеньевич via lazarus wrote: > I see that nobody used to a tag for creating documentation lcl, > lazutil. That tag is used only the fpc team. It seem to be a decision made by the Lazarus team. I've used the EXAMPLE tag for years with the tiOPF project as

Re: [Lazarus] UDP server

2021-01-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 11/01/2021 7:32 pm, duilio foschi via lazarus wrote: > I miss old ICS (Internet Component Suite) :) Have you tried looking at Indy components? I've used them for years with great success. Regards, Graeme -- ___ lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] FPDoc now with Markdown support

2021-01-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 07/01/2021 9:49 am, Santiago A. via lazarus wrote: > https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/wiki/Markdown-Flavors Wow, I knew about a few variations, but I didn't know there was that many. It's worse than I thought. Regards, Graeme --

Re: [Lazarus] FPDoc now with Markdown support

2021-01-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 06/01/2021 5:48 pm, Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus wrote: > Hi Sergey, > > [I've replied off the mailing list] Apologies, my stupid email client replaced the TO name, but still went and sent it to the mailing list. :-( Regards,

Re: [Lazarus] FPDoc now with Markdown support

2021-01-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
Hi Sergey, [I've replied off the mailing list] On 06/01/2021 2:16 am, Sergey Bodrov via lazarus wrote: > Wikipedia and hundreds of wiki sites (includes freepascal wiki). De-facto > standard for updateable documentation. Markdown doesn't have any official (single) standard. Many versions exist

Re: [Lazarus] FPDoc now with Markdown support

2021-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 02/01/2021 2:31 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > Compare the official page for TObject.Dispatch: Looking at another class with more detail... Did you explicitly enable the functionality to generate Private, Protected fields and methods? Or does the Markdown writer possibly not

Re: [Lazarus] FPDoc now with Markdown support

2021-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 02/01/2021 2:31 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > material theme: > https://www.freepascal.org/~michael/docs-demo/material/system/tobject.dispatch/ There seems to be an issue generating constants and values with a underscore in the name. You can see that here:

Re: [Lazarus] FPDoc now with Markdown support

2021-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 05/01/2021 9:47 am, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > Because people are naturally lazy and prefer easy & simple over strict & rich. Once again the simplest answer is always the one closest to the truth. :) > Basically the same reasons why my cat prefers the awful can food I give her

Re: [Lazarus] FPDoc now with Markdown support

2021-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 03/01/2021 7:48 pm, Don Siders via lazarus wrote: >> I've been looking at allowing markdown for the description files (they would >> be less verbose then), but there seems to be no decent markdown parser >> available >> for pascal. If somone cares to contribute one... > Oh boy. I guess it is

Re: [Lazarus] *** SPAM *** Open Source IDE Written Using Delphi

2020-12-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 26/12/2020 9:56 am, Jean SUZINEAU via lazarus wrote: > It's seems this IDE is compiled with Delphi 7, with .bat and .exe files, > I imagine it's windows only ? > > May be it would have been nice that they sponsor Lazarus ;-) ? In my honest opinion, I don't think there is anything WE can

Re: [Lazarus] Issues getting sources from the repository

2020-12-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 26/12/2020 9:37 am, Лев Бронштейн via lazarus wrote: > I wanted to find out the reason why the server is constantly connecting. > This has been happening regularly lately. Feel free to try out the unofficial Lazarus Git mirror. It tracks the "master" branch only, fetches the latest commit

Re: [Lazarus] What to replace Application.Processmessages with?

2020-10-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 13/10/2020 9:15 am, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: > The TTimer objects have been replaced by TFpTimer objects in the > ported code and this seems to work fine, whereas TTimer does not. That is the key part, using TFPTimer is thread based, so calling CheckSynchronized() would be the solution

[Lazarus] Feature Request: Override/Implement methods

2020-10-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
Hi, I've pulled the latest Lazarus code and went through all the menu items I could find but could see what I was looking for. Does Lazarus have a feature eg: (Editor -> Source [popup menu] -> Override/Implement Methods) so the IDE could stub out say missing methods from a Interface I listed in

Re: [Lazarus] How to start Lazarus on Mac ?

2020-10-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 04/10/2020 2:52 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > Should not the system installed version detect the 'local' version and start > that ? From my experience with MacOS, it only looks inside the *.app directory for what to use. Local (installed in user home folder) doesn't affect it

Re: [Lazarus] Cannot compile console application, why?

2020-07-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 06/07/2020 6:20 am, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > I suggest to remove indylaz from the uses clause. > It pulls in some GUI related code, probably some design-time stuff. Yeah, from memory, the non-gui related package is called "indy.lpk" Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

Re: [Lazarus] Proposal: Allow Umlaute and Accented Characters in Identifiers

2020-07-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 04/07/2020 9:48 pm, Sven Barth via lazarus wrote: > I've just tested: Delphi does not support Emojis. I've just tested with Java. They allow Unicode, but only what is considered "spoken language" characters. So things like Emojis, Math Symbols, Arrows etc are not allowed as part of the text

Re: [Lazarus] Proposal: Allow Umlaute and Accented Characters in Identifiers

2020-07-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 04/07/2020 7:11 pm, Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus wrote: > var >: Integer; > begin >for  := 0 to 10 do > writeln(); > end. And exception variables could be 濫 (nauseated face). Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit usin

Re: [Lazarus] Proposal: Allow Umlaute and Accented Characters in Identifiers

2020-07-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 03/07/2020 3:37 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > I did a quick test in Delphi: If Unicode is indeed supported in the language itself, it would be hilarious to start seeing coding using emojis as identifiers! :-D https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html var :

Re: [Lazarus] Switching Lazarus between fpc 3.2.0 and 3.0.4 - how to?

2020-06-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 21/06/2020 6:18 am, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: > Is it possible to switch Lazarus between using fpc 3.0.4 and 3.2.0 so > as to compare the two easily? Yes. There is no need for duplicate Lazarus installs. Simply have 2 or more FPC versions installed. I believe the build modes would help

Re: [Lazarus] Keyboard mapping probelm

2020-05-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 30/05/2020 9:04 pm, Brian via lazarus wrote: > Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others > (1002) Target OS: Linux for x86-64 > (3104) Compiling fcllaz.pas > /home/brian/subversion/lazarus/packager/registration/fcllaz.pas(11,3) Fatal: > (10022) Can't find unit db used by fcllaz >

Re: [Lazarus] Tool to make icons ?

2020-05-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 21/05/2020 3:13 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > What is the tool used to make icons for standard Lazarus components ? Aseprite is brilliant. Included in Linux package repositories too. I use it for pixel art - playing around with game development. There are loads of fantastic

Re: [Lazarus] Keyboard mapping probelm

2020-05-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 06/05/2020 1:19 am, Brian via lazarus wrote: > I forgot to add - I totally erased fpcup's entire tree and rebuilt > from scratch. No change. It's not about recompiling Lazarus. Probably more related to your customised settings in your $HOME/.lazarus/ directory. Start your lazarus from the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazreport variables

2020-05-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 03/05/2020 5:03 pm, Santiago A. via lazarus wrote: > I want to write a report where even lines are written with no background > and odd lines with a light gray background. Have you considered using the newer FPReport (aka fcl-report) included with FPC? There is a report designer for Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager question

2020-04-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 13/04/2020 10:11 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > I have not used the OPM extensively, but I think that once a package has > been registered/accepted, I think the original author must be able to upload > his > own changes. Just curious - does the OPM support multiple versions of a

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi is 25 years old today

2020-02-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 14/02/2020 10:25 am, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > As the title says, Delphi turns 25 years old today. Yeah, just read that a few minutes ago. Amazing, and such a pity it never got the fame/popularity it deserved. The language is amazing! Though these days it has seriously stagnated

Re: [Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

2019-11-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 26/11/2019 8:38 pm, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: > one can get maybe 20/5 Mbit/s but during summer vacations when the > population multiplies many times over it drops to sub-Mbit/s very > often. > Too much on-line video usage, I think. LOL - 7 years ago when I still lived in South Africa...

Re: [Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

2019-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 25/11/2019 7:40 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > I know this. We have the same for pas2js, there is a demo for it. > > But this is still not RAD. Developing a GUI with RAD is simply faster. I need to watch some FPC videos and try some more demos. I'm clearly lagging behind on what

Re: [Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

2019-11-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 25/11/2019 8:11 am, Luca Olivetti via lazarus wrote: > I meant an internal network with an > application specific server used by many clients. And that is exactly how the other day we had 500+ IntelliJ IDEA developers in our company that couldn't run IntelliJ. The licensing server died for a

Re: [Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

2019-11-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 24/11/2019 8:45 pm, Ralf Quint via lazarus wrote: > be for a good part that I am used to the Borland (WS) keyboard mappings > and the general editor behavior, after almost 40 years, those have > become second nature (and are thoroughly missed whenever I have to use > some other environment).

Re: [Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

2019-11-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 24/11/2019 11:23 am, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > If the external tool implements it, you get it for free. And if they don't decide to implement it, you don't get it at all. I have filed quite a few Feature Request and Bug Reports for IntelliJ IDEA. Many bugs were prompts fixed,

Re: [Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

2019-11-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 23/11/2019 10:26 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > I must say I am shocked to read you consider Lazarus "buggy and cumbersome". > In my experience it's way better than Delphi as an object pascal IDE. I'm > generally more productive in Lazarus than in Delphi, due to the superior >

Re: [Lazarus] Find in files crashes Cinnamon

2019-11-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 15/11/2019 8:58 pm, Florian Klämpfl via lazarus wrote: > Feels like a discussion from 1998 :) :-) True. JWM is still being maintained though, so it's not abandon-ware. Nothing wrong with good old X11 Window Managers. As somebody pointed out to me recently Of everything mankind has created,

Re: [Lazarus] Find in files crashes Cinnamon

2019-11-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 15/11/2019 10:42 am, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > The crash and switch to 'fallback mode' ("restart fallback mode" would be > better named) > happens easily once a day. > > I'd try using linux mint "mate", but I'm not particularly looking forward to > reconfiguring my machine. It

Re: [Lazarus] Multi-platform console application, how to handle file paths?

2019-10-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 29/10/2019 9:16 pm, Michael Thompson wrote: > Been doing this for 10 years now, no conflict on any client PC > anywhere :-) I like those holes in A: and B: :-D Very clever indeed! Make full use of those relics. I wonder why Microsoft didn't think of that for USB drives. Regards, Graeme --

Re: [Lazarus] Multi-platform console application, how to handle file paths?

2019-10-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 29/10/2019 12:07 pm, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: > I have been around too long so I > remember the old days... Same. Windows should get with the times and switch to Unix. ;-) On a side note: After all, Windows still start the drive letters with C: and considering that no PC is the last

Re: [Lazarus] Install Lazarus on Mac OSX Catalina

2019-10-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 13/10/2019 12:42 am, Anthony Tekatch via lazarus wrote: > report: error: undefined symbols for architecture i386 As Catalina doesn't have 32-bit support, I would imagine you need to compile 64-bit FPC first, then build Lazarus with the 64-bit fpc compiler. I would also imagine you can't use

Re: [Lazarus] How to connect to MariaDB/mySql database from fpc/Lazarus?

2019-09-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 27/08/2019 3:22 pm, AB via lazarus wrote: > There is nothing wrong with using mysql or mariadb for websites, it > is not an accident that they are popular. I beg to differ - it is terrible! https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,20826.0.html Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI

Re: [Lazarus] How to connect to MariaDB/mySql database from fpc/Lazarus?

2019-09-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 26/08/2019 10:39 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > MariaDB/MySQLDB are the probably the worst choices you can make. > Postgres, Firebird, SQLIte: all better choices, depending on your use case. +1000 Regards, Graeme -- ___ lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] How to connect to MariaDB/mySql database from fpc/Lazarus?

2019-09-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 26/08/2019 8:53 pm, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: > I am confused about the SQLDB component tab in the IDE since it lists > many connection components for MySql (7 in fact). Which one do I use? If you want to hide all complexity of database components, maybe take a look at tiOPF. It abstracts

Re: [Lazarus] Best examples of cross platform visual file or folder search application?

2019-09-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 22/08/2019 3:20 am, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there are any popular minimal programs which allow > users to search for files or folders on their computer using wildcard I can think of a few, though the SearchRec is not hard to use at all, so is very easy to

Re: [Lazarus] Canvas.Rectangle question

2019-08-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 16/08/2019 8:01 pm, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: > Seems like if one does not draw the border at all (pen.width = 0) the > resulting rectangle will be painted within a pixel correctly placed > and sized. If I recall correctly, both Win32 and XLib will render a line with the thinnest

Re: [Lazarus] Canvas.Rectangle question

2019-08-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 16/08/2019 4:20 pm, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: > Say the rectangle is (10,4, 30,14) and the Pen.Wdth is set to 2, is > the resulting shape 20 x 10 or 24 x 14 in size? This is why fpGUI uses (x, y, width, height) instead of (x1, y1, x2, y2), because the latter is just too confusing.

Re: [Lazarus] getlazarus.org search request

2019-08-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 12/08/2019 9:33 am, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > public IEnumerable SearchItems { get; set; } I don't know C# at all, but am curious regarding this. What does that "get" and "set" do? It that a shorthand syntax for implementing getters and setters of a field variable?

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

2019-08-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 11/08/2019 10:56 am, Ondrej Pokorny via lazarus wrote: > I found out that the XML format is unusual (wrong). Fully agree. That is so INI-ish, and really not needed in XML or JSON formats. > I ask because I wanted to update the file format to the new Lazarus XML > format (without the indexes

Re: [Lazarus] Nice Lazarus ScrabbleControl, also a Gtk2 Bug

2019-08-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 09/08/2019 8:40 am, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > Here is a brief video demonstration: I know nothing about Scrabble, but as a seasoned visual component developer I can see a lot of effort went into that. Well done! Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit

Re: [Lazarus] Nice Lazarus ScrabbleControl, also a Gtk2 Bug

2019-08-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 09/08/2019 1:50 pm, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > but perhaps someday someone > might want to remake a new non Delphi compatible library from scratch for > FPC and carry forward with this idea. Such libraries already exist. eg: fpGUI Toolkit and MSEide+MSEgui. Feel free to experiment

Re: [Lazarus] A SQL Explorer Program. Suggestions?

2019-07-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
Hi Anthony, On 24/07/2019 12:22 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > The Lazarus data desktop comes standard with lazarus, has all these features > and more. > (see lazarus/tools/lazdatadesktop/ 'lazdesktop' is a good choice. To have a more complete list, there are a few others too. ;-)

Re: [Lazarus] Now Available Raspberry Pi 4

2019-06-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 24/06/2019 10:58 pm, Ralf Quint via lazarus wrote: > The 4GB version ("wenn schon, denn schon"... ;-) ) is $55, add to that > that you need also a 5V/3A power supply, a SD card and now new (mini) > HDMI cables or adapters. Add a screen/monitor to it, and/or a camera, > keyboard, mouse and

Re: [Lazarus] Now Available Raspberry Pi 4

2019-06-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 24/06/2019 8:17 am, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > With these changes I can see the Pi now as a complete desktop replacement > computer. And only starting at $35 - mind blowing stuff! :-) ps: Thanks for the announcement. Regards, Graeme --

Re: [Lazarus] Get the number of pages in a pdf file

2019-06-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 14/06/2019 6:19 pm, Rogério Martins via lazarus wrote: > Is there a function for read info about a pdf file ? I need to know the > number of pages in a given pdf file. I don't know of a Object Pascal library you can you, but there is an alternative. The PDF fromat is a mixture of text and

[Lazarus] tiOPF is looking for a new project maintainer

2019-05-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
Hello everybody, I have really enjoyed working with tiOPF for 15+ years and have written tons of database and non-database applications that used tiOPF. It was also the project that introduced me to Design Patterns and Test Driven Development, and I'll forever be grateful for that. However, due

Re: [Lazarus] Dark theme suggestion

2019-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 10/05/2019 12:53 pm, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > I submitted a request to add a new dark theme for the Pascal > Editor. I do love dark themes and have been using them for years. I especially like the Solarized (light and dark) themes - very useful for someone moving around with a

Re: [Lazarus] Info on the big-O notation

2019-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 10/05/2019 12:01 pm, Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus wrote: > Has anybody got a good URL or document or summary email that explains > the big-O notation? Seems all I needed was just one extra search on the Internet. :-) I found the following URL which gives an excellent explanation.

[Lazarus] Info on the big-O notation

2019-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
Hi, [not Lazarus specific, but more a general programming question] Has anybody got a good URL or document or summary email that explains the big-O notation? It is often used to describe a task/method/algorithm to say how quick or efficient it runs, or how well coded your method might be. I

Re: [Lazarus] LCL customdraw and LCL fpGUI bug

2019-05-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 02/05/2019 03:13, Fabio Luis Girardi via lazarus wrote: > LCL-fpGUI needs some fixes I've just submitted a set of 11 patches for LCL-fpGUI: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35478 TLabel finally works. :-) Unfortunately the TMonitor.GetPixelsPerInch() issue is still not fixed. I

[Lazarus] FHandle causes AV in TMonitor.GetPixelsPerInch()

2019-05-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
I'm debugging the issue reported about LCL-CustomDraw and lcl-fpgui causing an AV at application start up. I traced the issue back to TMonitor.GetPixelsPerInch() which is called in TCustomForm.AfterConstruction(). As soon as GetPixelsPerInch() tries to reference FHandle in any way, it throws an

Re: [Lazarus] LCL customdraw and LCL fpGUI bug

2019-05-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 02/05/2019 03:13, Fabio Luis Girardi via lazarus wrote: > function TMonitor.GetPixelsPerInch: Integer; > > Tried with Lazarus fixes 2.0.3 with FPC 3.2.0 > > Did I forget anything? Should I report a bug? fpGUI already has that information. I'll take a look at LCL-fpGUI and supply a patch if

Re: [Lazarus] Website/Mantis back online (colors)

2019-04-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 24/04/2019 11:23, Bart via lazarus wrote: > I would vote for large contrast, especially for those who may have > some degree of visual impediment. In that case I would recommend a separate stylesheet. Take Firefox web browser for example In the menu "View -> Page Style -> " If a website

Re: [Lazarus] css Re: Website/Mantis back online

2019-04-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 24/04/2019 10:54, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote: > When copying text from webpages, dev IDE's and emails to paste > somewhere I always first paste in Notepad++ Some background info: That's because the original content is considered "rich text". But any program worth using should have an

[Lazarus] Lazarus IDE compiled with lcl-gtk1 issues

2019-04-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
Hi, On 14/04/2019 17:40, Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus wrote: > Perfect, that worked. OK, I spoke too soon. :-) I'm using Lazarus r60773 dated 26 March 2019. The build worked, but the IDE doesn't. I can't resize the main IDE dialog to see the tool palette. Also when I try and open any dia

Re: [Lazarus] Building lazarus from cli - how to specify target widgetset

2019-04-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 14/04/2019 17:23, zeljko wrote: > make LCL_PLATFORM=gtk Perfect, that worked. Thanks! Regards, Graeme -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Building lazarus from cli - how to specify target widgetset

2019-04-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
As the subject lines says, how do I build lazarus IDE and LCL from the Linux command line and specify a specific widgetset target. eg: lcl-gtk1 instead of the default lcl-gtk2. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My

Re: [Lazarus] Is LCL-GTK still possible?

2019-03-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 26/03/2019 13:22, Mattias Gaertner via lazarus wrote: > It shows "incompatible ppu...". Have you compiled clean? > For example Run / Clean up and build? I've never used that before Doesn't Lazarus keep compiled units in separate output directories? I had a quick look in the LCL package and

Re: [Lazarus] Is LCL-GTK still possible?

2019-03-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 26/03/2019 10:06, Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus wrote: > Correct. I want to see if LCL-GTK1 is still possible using Lazarus 2.1.0 > or later. And just to add, I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and have the gtk1 libraries installed. I can compile and run from the command line, all the FP

Re: [Lazarus] Is LCL-GTK still possible?

2019-03-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 26/03/2019 09:57, zeljko via lazarus wrote: > Seem that Graeme is talking about Gtk1, not Gtk2. Correct. I want to see if LCL-GTK1 is still possible using Lazarus 2.1.0 or later. Regards, Graeme -- ___ lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Is LCL-GTK still possible?

2019-03-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 26/03/2019 09:50, leledumbo via lazarus wrote: > Maybe activate clean before build? Where do I do this? Like I said, I created a brand new test project, designed the main form, set the LCL WidgetType to GTK. Saved the project and then tried to do a "compile". So the project doesn't contain

[Lazarus] Is LCL-GTK still possible?

2019-03-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
Hi, I was just curious, so created a new application and dropped a few standard widgets on the main form. Set the LCL target to GTK1 and tried to compile the project. It failed with the "Cannot find LCLIntf used by GtkDef" See attached screenshot. Am I correct, that the LCL widgetset should

Re: [Lazarus] VirtualTreeView rendering on Cocoa

2019-03-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 13/03/2019 11:23, Alexey via lazarus wrote: > by setting DblBuffered to false, no? I honestly don't know the current code of VTV. I haven't used VTV since around 2008. :) Your best bet, and quickest answer would be simply to try what you suggested and see what the output looks like. Regards,

Re: [Lazarus] VirtualTreeView rendering on Cocoa

2019-03-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 13/03/2019 10:14, Andrea Mauri via lazarus wrote: > Where should I look? I suggest you simply browse through the source code. First check to see if there is not maybe an existing property that must be set to manually enable Hi-DPI support. If not, search the internet about other users using

Re: [Lazarus] VirtualTreeView rendering on Cocoa

2019-03-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 12/03/2019 07:36, Andrea Mauri via lazarus wrote: > well defined, quite blurry with respect to the other component (labels > fonts, images...). > Why? It looks like VirtualTreeView is not Hi-DPI aware. Just a guess, but it seems that it is generating the treeview rendering on a internal image

Re: [Lazarus] Run External Console on Linux?

2019-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 08/03/2019 14:05, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > external terminal program like Lazarus does on Windows. (Please don't > respond with why they are different. I understand the reasons) Not an immediate solution for you, but maybe useful to someone... The MSEide+MSEgui has a cross-platform

Re: [Lazarus] Universal FontDialog for LCL

2019-03-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 07/03/2019 13:12, AlexeyT via lazarus wrote: > Default must be native OS dialog. I suggest to use my dialog when > boolean option in LCL (will be added) true. The replies so far are not surprising at all. LCL prides itself staying with "native components". Granted I find that has many

Re: [Lazarus] SourceForge Project of the Month

2019-03-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 01/03/2019 12:54, Bart via lazarus wrote: > A more recent screenshot would have been nice (0.9.30.4 !!). LOL - that is so true. :) Regards, Graeme -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org

Re: [Lazarus] SourceForge Project of the Month

2019-03-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
Well done to you all! Excellent work. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- ___ lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] GIT sha1 vs svn numbers

2019-02-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 13/02/2019 22:24, Martin Frb via lazarus wrote: > I looked at a few ideas, if something like the svn numbers could be > retained. Why would you want to shoehorn Git (a distributed version control system) into the way SubVersion (a client/server based version control system) works? They are

Re: [Lazarus] how to show hourglass on windows 10 with touch screen?

2019-01-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 23/01/2019 14:49, Luca Olivetti via lazarus wrote: > is there an alternative way to show that the application is busy? A small borderless dialog with a short message? Think in the lines of a splashscreen-like dialog. I use this often in my applications to convey updates to long running tasks.

Re: [Lazarus] Auto session store etc.

2019-01-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 04/01/2019 11:43, Henry Vermaak via lazarus wrote: > At the very least do an emergency save on SIGTERM and provide the option > to restore the session. That's a very good idea. Regards, Graeme -- ___ lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Auto session store etc.

2019-01-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 04/01/2019 11:59, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > Well, to my big relief, I discovered that Atom does this. EditPad Pro and jEdit also does that. Seems it is a more popular feature than first expected. ;-) From the book "About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design" (not a

Re: [Lazarus] Crowdfunding to speed up the development of pas2js in Lazarus Widgetset and fpDebug to FPC

2019-01-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 29/12/2018 16:35, Joost van der Sluis via lazarus wrote: > Then, when that person wants to withdraw the money, he/she has to pay > transaction costs. (Again, when you do this less often, there are less > transaction costs) Isn't that how PayPal works too? You pay a transaction cost when

Re: [Lazarus] Crowdfunding to speed up the development of pas2js in Lazarus Widgetset and fpDebug to FPC

2018-12-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 21/12/2018 23:59, Dmitry Boyarintsev via lazarus wrote: > It's 4 USD a month! > https://www.patreon.com/skalogryz Patreon is amazing and so simple to use (from a supporter point of view). I've supported many diverse projects on there already. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

Re: [Lazarus] Extending the IDE auto-coding functionality

2018-12-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 17/12/2018 18:16, Mattias Gaertner via lazarus wrote: > I guess you mean a Quickfix. OK, now I have the terminology. :) > It adds a menu item/icon depending on a compiler message. In this > case: identifier not found. Should not be too hard to extend the > existing one. Thanks, I'll start

Re: [Lazarus] Extending the IDE auto-coding functionality

2018-12-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 17/12/2018 18:06, Martin Frb via lazarus wrote: > Cody, Ah, I forgot about Cody. I remember somebody mention it once to me about a year or so ago. Not sure what everything it does, but I'll take a look. Is Cody something included with Lazarus as standard, or a manually installed package? I'll

Re: [Lazarus] Extending the IDE auto-coding functionality

2018-12-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 17/12/2018 17:56, Werner Pamler via lazarus wrote: > I'd turn these features off in the same way I turn off most of the > features when the IDE pretends to be able to guess what I am thinking. No, the difference between what I'm suggesting (how Eclipse works) is that I have to manually

[Lazarus] Extending the IDE auto-coding functionality

2018-12-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
Hi, [this is not a rant or talking any product down] Having spent some recent months with Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA developing in Java, and now coming back to Lazarus and Delphi, I've come to the realisation how far behind Lazarus and Delphi IDE's are with assisting the developer. [I know

Re: [Lazarus] Proud to announce..

2018-12-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 2018-12-04 11:33 p.m., leledumbo via lazarus wrote: > Good work! A little bug, though: Ah yes, that's the same error I got. Following your steps and a web page refresh I eventually got the default sample program to compile and run. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI

Re: [Lazarus] Proud to announce..

2018-12-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 2018-12-04 10:01 p.m., Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: > See it in action for yourself: > > https://idefix.freepascal.org/~michael/webcompiler/webcompiler.html Sounds very interesting, so I followed the link and get the following error when I click compile. See attached image. I'm

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

2018-11-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 2018-11-20 10:37 a.m., Dennis via lazarus wrote: > Shall we start a fund raising event to raise fund for a new and better > debugger for FPC + Lazarus? Indeed, the debugger is the weakest part of FPC/Lazarus development tools. The problem is not so much funding the idea of implementing a

Re: [Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty

2018-09-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 18/08/18 18:10, Marco van de Voort via Lazarus wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >^^^ > > Well, that happens, when you try to be modern, and read your mail with mutt > instead of elm :-) hahaha... I was about to comment on

Re: [Lazarus] Indy vs Synopse: POP3

2018-07-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 29/07/18 13:27, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: > As Indy looks like has a "new mechanism" to authentication, I'm thinking if > Synopse still work for that job. If Indy has no dependencies, I would like > to use it. I believe Synopse has SSL dependencies... I don't know. > > Have

Re: [Lazarus] Printer printable width

2018-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 28/07/18 14:05, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > How to obtain the origin of the printable area ? > Is the PageWidth/Pageheight relative to this origin ? As far as I know (or how I always understood print drivers), the PageWidth and PageHeight is the full page size (eg: A4 =

Re: [Lazarus] fpdebug question

2018-07-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 07/13/18 16:20, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: > It was not. > It has been, since your mail. > It no longer is. (That is, it should be fixed in svn now) That is awesome! Only possible in open source. :-) Keep up the good work. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI

Re: [Lazarus] IDE multi-caret options wishes

2018-05-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2018-05-22 10:03, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > I thought it was the keyboard cursor and mouse pointer ? My point exactly - you simply worded it much better than I did (no surprise). I've never regarded the mouse pointer as a "cursor", but I was concerned it might be my age

Re: [Lazarus] IDE multi-caret options wishes

2018-05-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2018-05-21 10:07, AlexeyT via Lazarus wrote: > 1c) better name for "Multi caret move with cursor" is "Move multi-caret > by arrow keys". coz CURSOR is mouse cursor. The "text cursor" has been around for much longer than the mouse device existed. Think by how many years the terminal interface

Re: [Lazarus] new lcl CHMs.

2018-05-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2018-05-20 21:49, Marco van de Voort via Lazarus wrote: > rem drink coffee for 10 minutes or so. Building the INF docs has a similar experience. Glad its not just me. :-) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My

Re: [Lazarus] Sending e-mail from within Lazarus

2018-05-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2018-05-12 06:33, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: > Note that the old atozed forum was taken down on technical reasons a > while ago and the old posts there are not yet available for browsing. > Apparently they are working on a way to restore the old database. I've always connected to their

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