Re: [Lazarus] IDE option: Convert selection to string ?

2018-07-12 Thread Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:19 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > > I cannot imagine I am the only one with this need :) +1 Of course you're not alone! Marcos Douglas -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org

Re: [Lazarus] LCL_FULLVERSION is not recognized

2018-07-12 Thread Rik van Kekem via Lazarus
On 12-07-2018 12:51, frans via Lazarus wrote: I use Lazarus 1.6.4 (temporarely) and lazarus 1.8.4 on Windows 10. I need to use the LCL version but I can't get it to work properly. I use the following code:   {$IFDEF LCL_FULLVERSION > 108}   {$ELSE}   {$ENDIF} Compiling the program give me

[Lazarus] LCL_FULLVERSION is not recognized

2018-07-12 Thread frans via Lazarus
Hi. I use Lazarus 1.6.4 (temporarely) and lazarus 1.8.4 on Windows 10. I need to use the LCL version but I can't get it to work properly. I use the following code:   {$IFDEF LCL_FULLVERSION > 108}   {$ELSE}   {$ENDIF} Compiling the program give me the message Warning include environment

[Lazarus] IDE option: Convert selection to string ?

2018-07-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus
Hello, The IDE contains a 'make resource string' refactoring option. This requires the selection to be a pascal string. However, I quite often find myself in the need to create a string constant from arbitrary text: I test an SQL statement in an SQL tool, and then I copy it to the pascal

Re: [Lazarus] IDE option: Convert selection to string ?

2018-07-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: On 12/07/2018 14:36, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: How about something that takes the current caret position in the source editor, the clipboard context, and inserts as a Pascal quoted string that wraps with + at the end of line, and

Re: [Lazarus] IDE option: Convert selection to string ?

2018-07-12 Thread Martin Frb via Lazarus
On 12/07/2018 14:19, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: It would be nice if the IDE could do this: select a block of text, and choose 'Refactoring -> convert to pascal string' Currently I have a separate tool that does this (both ways: quote and unquote, in case I need to re-rest an SQL

Re: [Lazarus] IDE option: Convert selection to string ?

2018-07-12 Thread Martin Frb via Lazarus
On 12/07/2018 14:36, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: How about something that takes the current caret position in the source editor, the clipboard context, and inserts as a Pascal quoted string that wraps with + at the end of line, and appropriate system defined line break characters? The