Hi SynEdit Experts,
Doing a special kind of text editor (that in fact needs to feature an
invisible signature for each word in the text):
Is it possible to do a highlighter that results in hiding the character
sequences found by the highlighting criterion (in fact on screen
replaces it by a
I tried to open an old project I once started to test using SynEdit. It
does compile and work, but when trying to see the form I get an messages
of not installed components. In fact the "sysEdit" tab that is described
in the Wiki is not seen in the Lazarus IDE. How to activate it ?
Thanks,
On 06.02.2017 11:30, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:
Check if you installed syneditdsgn package.
In the "Install/Uninstall Packages" menu in the "Installed" Window there
is "SynEditDsgn". But other than "SynEdit 1.0" same features a small
green "+". No Idea if this is an error indication.
On 06.02.2017 13:55, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
The dialog is simple: left side will be installed.
Yep. But if there are some that have a green cross (meaning "known" but
not used/intstalled, as said SynEditDsgn claims: "Current state:
selected for installation, not installed,
On 25.01.2017 11:40, Ed Murashie via Lazarus wrote:
No matter what I try I get “ Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: “.
This also happen on a Beaglebone
What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?
Do you *want* a GUI ?
-Michael
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On 15.01.2017 15:30, Martin Vahi via Lazarus wrote:
have came to a conclusion
that GUI-s are inherently something that require
"dynamic programming" or the code gets really bloated.
The nice thing about Lazarus "RAD" paradigm is that this is completely
hidden (in the library) from application
On 14.01.2017 15:34, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote:
I'm feeling we've started to go ahead writing complex Web systems
Does fpweb / weblaz already support status messages from the server to
the client (or will it some day) to allow for "Rich Web Applications") ?
Thanks Michael and
On 16.01.2017 21:24, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
Except when you find a bug in the lcl, and have to dig in to it..
I don't suppose Lazrus is so bad that it can't be used for the simple
programs the students will start with when learning programming :-):-):-).
-Michael
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On 16.01.2017 20:19, Daniel Gaspary wrote:
Can you give examples of these messages? And who (nginx, apache..?)
and how they are implemented?
In fact I can't, either, that is why I ask.
I do know that there are several frameworks that support this by running
rather complex Java script on
On 16.01.2017 21:59, Leonardo M. Ramé via Lazarus wrote:
The only framework I'm aware of implementing it is m0rm0t.
What do you mean by "The only" ? The only at all (I suppose that there
are several of those) or the only that explicitly supports pascal / fpc
/ Lazarus. (I don't know any at
On 17.01.2017 10:27, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
There is. Look for bauglirwebsocket. It implements the websocket
protocol.
That is good to know !
Thanks,
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On 16.01.2017 22:21, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
What is the exact name of it... couldn't find it:
http://blog.synopse.info/category/Open-Source-Projects/mORMot-Framework
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On 17.01.2017 10:22, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
Yes, Delphi's VCL is a wrapper around the common Win32 widgets. LCL is a
wrapper around Win32, Qt, Cocoa, Carbon and even fpGUI.
And for ease of use as well Delphi as Lazarus come with an IDE that is a
combination of source code
On 05.10.2016 12:40, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:
I am against. LCL is designed to be Delphi-compatible so the default
events are what they are and they behave how they behave.
This of course is granted by a property that is not existing in Delphi
and defaults to the Delphi behavior.
On 01.10.2016 14:01, DougC via Lazarus wrote:
The FROM field is always the list, itself, now.
Seems like a good idea.
While Thunderbird has a dedicated "Reply to list" button (which I
sometimes failed to hit :-( ), some other mail clients might only allow
for "Reply" (unless you want
(Creating a new thread instead of using "Help System with Chromium
Embedded component")
On 09.11.2016 05:38, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
On Tue, November 8, 2016 3:49 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote:
On 08.11.2016 11:42, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
I seriously doubt
-> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/10/webassembly-browser-preview/ :
However, assuming no issues are found that require substantial time to
address, the WebAssembly Community Group would like to mark an initial
version of the standard as “done” in Q1 2017 which would then enable
browsers to
On 11.11.2016 02:26, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
So it is not yet clear when it will be ready and
how the end product will work on the various browsers.
Mozilla promises "March 2017". Any information on other brands ?
I only found "Microsoft says it is close to shipping the browser
On 17.10.2016 21:05, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
The big issue with teaching using a RAD tool, is welding the program logic
into the onclick events, instead of decoupling the logic in separate
procedures that can be reused elsewhere.
As you point out in the text this is as well a pro (easy fast
Seemingly "make bigide" on a 64 Bit Mint does not work this simply with
the 32 bit fpc:
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbegin.o when searching for
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbegin.o
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find
So I fetched the current fpc from svn.
Trying to make same I get a similar error:
Linking fpmake
fpmake.pp(47,1) Warning: "crti.o" not found, this will probably cause a
linking failure
fpmake.pp(47,1) Warning: "crtn.o" not found, this will probably cause a
linking failure
/usr/bin/ld:
On 13.10.2016 10:20, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
+1
That would be the best solution. GUI programming is based on
fundamentals than need to be understood first.
-1 !!
The OP explained that his main purpose is to introduce more fun in the
education. That can be done by plunging into
On 14.10.2016 00:13, Erwin van den Bosch via Lazarus wrote:
I'm not a big fan of the RAD development way any more. (I was years
ago). The problem is that you should separate your business logic and
the GUI.
This is absolutely true especially when doing large systems or
(embedded) systems
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.
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
On 24.10.2016 18:11, Travis Ayres via Lazarus wrote:
With over 100 replies, we could have already written a course outline,
introduction, ...
It seems we have lost (or silenced) the OP long since :-(
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On 25.10.2016 13:21, LacaK via Lazarus wrote:
My understanding is that, Synchronize schedules execution of
MyForm.MyMethod to main thread, so method is not executed until
control is returned from event handler in MyForm. Right?
TThread.Synchronze pushes the procedure that is given as a
If you don't call CheckSynchronize within MyForm.MyMethod then yes.
IMHO the (hardly documented) CheckSynchronize should not be called
directly by an application that uses a Widget Type that features an
Event Queue. Here the user should do "Application.ProcessMessages", that
is decently
On 18.10.2016 17:16, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote:
Yes, therefore start with simple procedural (console)
programs that let them have immediate success with
all the elementary things that a program consists of
(variables/types, loops, commands, etc.).
Yep. Satisfying for a Nerd, but it
On 23.10.2016 11:31, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote:
But Unicode should have cared.
It was made for its use on computers.
I don't think so.
I suppose it was defined top allow for printing out digital documents in
mind, but not with working with them.
At least this i what the outcome
On 21.10.2016 11:09, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote:
What is the use of a program? Entertainment?
Nowadays in 90% of the usage exactly this.
Maybe other usage cases are more "important", but still the money is
made with Entertainment.
-Michael
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On 24.10.2016 13:34, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
That depends on what you mean with "identical".
You are absolutely right. Very sorry for being critical while being
vague myself (again typing faster than thinking) ;) .
I meant to point out exactly this ambiguity:
identically coded
On 24.10.2016 15:09, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
These functions exist.
This of course is great (while the lack of documentation supposedly
makes them hard to use).
In fact I am not asking, but the question is part of the OP's problem.
And here I wanted to point out the ambiguity of
On 21.10.2016 10:12, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
Today's bloatware applications are so large no one can understand them
IMHO, you did a good job to scare everybody away from even thinking
about starting to try programming. So we should just stop "Teaching
Pascal at College".
-Michael
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On 21.10.2016 09:51, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
The concept of callbacks is very similar to events.
The difference is that with a callback you usually know both sides and
hence how exactly it is called, while with an event (especially when
fired by the LCL on behalf of something that happens in
On 21.10.2016 14:05, Martin Schreiber via Lazarus wrote:
Win32 API works with message queues.
Happily, the application programmer does not need to know about that, as
the LCL completely hides the underlying complexity. He sees the same
type of "GUI"-events, independent of running on Winx
On 21.10.2016 12:05, Gabor Boros via Lazarus wrote:
2016. 10. 21. 10:25 keltezéssel, Juha Manninen via Lazarus írta:
* Please read the wiki page ...
I read, I read but if contains buggy example... ;-)
I need a quick and a rock solid solution.
AFAIK, the only decent advice is never to use
On 13.11.2016 21:37, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:
On 05.10.2016 14:07, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote:
If not set it will be the old OnChange behavior. Or they other way
round: nboOldOnChange?
Or do you have any other name suggestions?
I suppose it will not be a Boolean but the user
On 15.11.2016 07:41, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:
Then there's the problem with what behavior should be default.
That supposedly can easily be defined by the general "mode" setting.
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On 16.11.2016 10:33, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:
The mode settings have unit-scope. TPageControl/TCustomTabControl are
in unit ComCtrls that is always built with objfpc mode.
I see.
Thanks,
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On 15.11.2016 18:28, Bart via Lazarus wrote:
Mode switches are about coding (how the compiler should behave), not
about how components should behave once compiled.
Of course I do know that they are used in that way. I just wanted to say
that the Delphi compatibility modes *could* be used to
On 19.11.2016 00:01, Ken Kashmarek via Lazarus wrote:
Does anyone know of or have implemented a quad precision (128-bit) library
for Free Pascal. I see there are some available for C or GCC but not Free
Pascal directly.
Your feedback is appreciated
I read many threads about arbitrary precision
On 12.10.2016 20:10, Adrian De Armas via Lazarus wrote:
teach how to create rich GUI Applications and to my surprise the idea
was well recieved. Now I have to make suggestions about how to prepar
The GUI development in Lazarus is not "modern" at all (but IMHO a *very*
decent way to do a GUI).
On 11.01.2017 15:58, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
You need to check common cases, not uncommon
IMHO it's very prone to error to deliberately define something as "common".
Even if you do a decent statistic of usage cases, this can vary after
some time.
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On 05.01.2017 18:10, Bart via Lazarus wrote:
Just implemented sorting.
Nice !
(Even if I don't see a straight forward understanding of two dimensional
sorting).
BTW.:
Looking at the code I could imagine that auto-growing when using the
Cell property to write an element might be
On 06.01.2017 16:20, Bart via Lazarus wrote:
That makes no sense to me,
Instead of a two dimensional array of strings you could have use a
single dimensional array of StringLists (a less symmetrical way, of
course).
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On 09.01.2017 23:28, Werner Pamler via Lazarus wrote:
I would be tempted to implement such a table in fpspreadsheet, but its
problem is that it occupies memory for empty cells while the AVLTree
stores only existing cells (at the expense of the cell record which
contains row and column
I'd like to check out working with Zeos and SQLite.
I have an "SVN" installation of Lazarus on Linux. So i used same for
testing.
I found a demo program and when trying this I found it includes the line
sLibraryLocation := sAppPath + 'sqlite3_library.dll';
So it obviously is doe for Windows
On 20.04.2017 11:11, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
Yes, many times.
There obviously are lots of alternate GUI design tools (e.g. mse,
FireMonkey, WXPython (Poenix), ...) . But for Lazarus users, it of
course would be beneficial to be able to use the GUI designer already
perfectly
On 19.04.2017 17:21, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
I believe that is what Michael van Canneyt is working on.
It seems like, which to me is great news !
Of course we would need first a Pascal->WebAssembly compiler and then a
new WidgetType in Lazarus. Same maybe could be derived from
On 20.04.2017 09:54, Santiago A. via Lazarus wrote:
That is what RAD and GUI designers were created for ;-)
Obviously it's not easy to do a (compatible) GUI designer for a
Browser-(remote)-GUI. Otherwise I suppose Lazarus would have it.
With WebAssembly, maybe there is a new chance...
+1 !!!
The dream:
Write and test a program using in a (partly) RAD way, of course in an
Event-programming way, using the Lazarus IDE - say - in Windows.
Now just by changing some settings, compile it for
- Win32
- Win42
- Win 32 or 64 as a service (hence also running on WIN IOT Core)
-
On 15.08.2017 21:40, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:
Too bad that Eugene didn't decide to improve Lazarus Cocoa bindings :)
Does he use fpc as a compiler ?
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On 16.08.2017 11:55, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
1,114,112 possible code points need at most 21 bits. Due to encoding
at most 32bit.
Sorry. Typo.
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On 15.08.2017 21:38, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:
Furthermore, if you use(d) strings for binary data, just replace old
string for AnsiString/RawByteString (and Char for AnsiChar, PChar for
PAnsiChar) and you are good to go. Annoying but no big deal.
This only works if all tools that you
On 16.08.2017 11:32, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
Anyone who wants to discuss the grand picture of strings in FPC for the
millionth time should start a new topic.
Right you are. And it will be by far too late and futile, anyway,
because of the reasons discussed a million times.
On 15.08.2017 22:45, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
How is that not "abuse"???
IMHO it's a major shortcoming to define "string" as "printable text". In
fact the name "String" does not suggest this at all. A "string" in my
understanding just is a sequence of similar "things".
A
On 16.08.2017 10:58, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
This thread is going out of topic.
Please start a new thread if you want to discuss Delphi strings.
You can't discuss fpc's string problems without mentioning Delphi, as
they are a direct consequence as well of Delphi-compatibility as of
On 16.08.2017 11:08, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
So it makes sense that TStrings should use UnicodeString internally to
store its data. The Unicode standard is also the only standard that
can support any language.
But in fact "Unicode" is just a universal standard defining 64 bit
On 16.08.2017 11:51, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
Every Delphi/FPC type has a bunch of operators. Strings support :=, =,
<>, >=, <= and [] for read and write.
When you propose a new string type "dynamicstring" you have to define these
operators.
That is easily doable.
The definition of
On 15.08.2017 19:18, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
Why can't that be changed to a UnicodeString or UTF8String
IMHO, any implementation of TStrings that forces a conversion (just
because the class uses TStrings and not due to a logical demand), is a
contradiction to providing code
On 16.08.2017 11:08, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
Are you suggesting that internally TStrings should have different
storage for all possible languages,
Not at all. In the said paper I point out that a new fully dynamical
string encoding brand would be introduced and same is used for
On 16.08.2017 12:22, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
You should stop writing in this thread now. I agree with Mattias.
I perfectly agree with you. But you can't blame me for answering when
asked.
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On 16.08.2017 14:30, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote:
And that would still not be "char", but "codepoint"
A char can be composed of several combining code points (each of them
afaik, in the 32 bit range).
So a char can have 96 or more bits. (And not all of them have a
combined form).
On 16.08.2017 14:22, Alexey via Lazarus wrote:
BTW, it will be good to have "Cstring" (or another name, not
"dynamicstring") : ...
You are missing the point the paper is supposed to be about: enhancing
the versatility of the library functions such as those using TStrings.
Not just creating
On 16.08.2017 13:17, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
You are confusing people if you name your encodings like this.
There also is no "official" Code pages named "Default" or "None", the
naming "CP_DEFAULT" and "CP_NONE" has just been invented by Emparcadero.
So I did the same and just
On 15.08.2017 14:53, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
Do you mean a 'char' is a string in your proposal?
Nope. In my proposal there would be Chars for any statically encoded
String Type, hence 1, 2, 4, and 8 byte wide. (As regarding statically
encoded string (and char) brands, it's just an
On 16.08.2017 14:43, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
For some unknown
reason you want to store different encodings in a TStrings and fear
the "time-consuming" and loss-prone auto conversions.
It's obvious that a user using a different encoding brand in a string
var than that suggested by
On 16.08.2017 14:43, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
Not if complicated things get more complicated.
Please leave out the additional encoding brands suggested just as an
afterthought in the paper. These are not the purpose at all but ()if the
other stuff would be in place) just com as a
On 16.08.2017 15:33, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
Why don't you implement such a system. This is all FOSS, free and open
source.
I would never dare to try to edit the compiler :-[
You are writing about encodings etc. which are part of codepoints, but
you call them "characters". Why?
On 16.08.2017 17:20, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
Unicode is the standard now. We cannot ignore it, and we don't want to
ignore it because it solves so many problems of the earlier solutions.
If you create a new string type, you certainly must take Unicode into account.
It is not "ignored",
On 16.08.2017 17:55, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
although Pos(), Copy() and Length() deal with CodeUnit resolution.
I wonder how the new fancy string types would handle it without a
performance penalty.
This again is not in the scope of the paper, and supposed to stay as it
is. S[x],
On 14.08.2017 18:47, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote:
The main problem of such a dynamic type would be the inability to do
fast indexing as the compiler would need to insert runtime checks for
the size of a character.
What "indexing" do you think of ?
Could you give an example where such a
On 15.08.2017 11:25, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
WideString/UnicodeString for those that want 2-byte characters.
A codepage-aware single-byte string for those that want 1-byte
characters.
The shortstring is even still available.
IM (often stated) O, this does not help as long as
On 15.08.2017 11:15, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote:
In this case, I would argue that both are true.
And the culprit obviously is Embarcadeo and not the fpc or the Lazarus
team, who did their best to try to do a compatible and implementation
that is really workable on the multiple supported
On 14.08.2017 18:49, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote:
Because the crowd demanding Delphi compatibility is larger than the
crowd demanding exact terminology.
... or even a revised concept avoiding the junk presented by Embarcadero :(
But obviously the fpc team has no choice.
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On 15.08.2017 11:52, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
This cannot be solved properly except by duplicating the classes unit.
Sorry to disagree, but IMHO this can only be solved properly by defining
an additional fully dynamically encoded string type and use same for
TStrings (see ->
On 15.08.2017 12:15, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
What does S[2] mean in your proposal ? Is it 1, 2, 4 or even 8 bytes ?
Regarding the users' appreciation, the S[x] notation is decently
incompatible between the different string types and compiler versions.
There were hundreds of
On 15.08.2017 13:19, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
Just wanted to show you guys something.
Great.
CrossVCL seems to allow to easily port Delphi VCL applications to Mac
and Linux.
How to compare it against Lazarus ?
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On 15.08.2017 11:15, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote:
3. The problem with string handling today is that it is not based on a
consistent approach to the character type.
If you clean up character handling then the model for string
handling should become obvious. A string is after all no
On 15.08.2017 12:11, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
It does not explain what the characters of DynamicString are, does it?
I don't understand what you are asking.
The element size and encoding of a Dynamic String ("CP_ANY" in the
document) are not predefined, but depend on the content:
On 15.08.2017 11:15, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote:
Why shouldn't there be a single char type that intuitively represents
a single character regardless of how many bytes are used to represent it.
I suppose by "char" you mean "single printable thingy" with Unicode it's
rather debatable what
On 13.08.2017 22:41, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
You have misused "String" or "AnsiString" from the beginning for binary data.
There have always been warnings against it.
While this might be true, it's decently silly, IMHO.
The name "String" can easily be interpreted as "String of things"
On 14.08.2017 14:50, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote:
"The right solution is to use Unicode everywhere."
Embarcadero though that this would not b the "right" solution. Otherwise
they would not have invented the encoding aware strings.
IMHO that was a good idea. They only
On 16.08.2017 20:26, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote:
Call me lazy but I don't want to reinvent the wheel and re-implement
from scratch the functionality that a plain ansistring provides and
TBytes to this day doesn't.
So please continue in the thread "dynamic string proposal".
Exactly this
Maybe, Sven could answer to this mail in the other thread...
On 14.08.2017 18:47, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote:
The main problem of such a dynamic type would be the inability to do
fast indexing as the compiler would need to insert runtime checks for
the size of a character.
What
On 16.08.2017 22:40, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote:
Trunk supports Insert() and Delete() on dynamic arrays, Concat() and +
are on the near term ToDo list.
Supposedly "pos", as well. But that does not really help if we don't
have a TStringList workalike, and supposedly several more library
On 17.08.2017 12:09, Bart via Lazarus wrote:
Variables of the ordinal type Char are used to store ASCII characters."
According to this wording, using Windows with ANSI character set would
be a no-go.
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On 17.08.2017 12:41, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote:
UCS-2 differs from UTF-16 by being a constant length encoding and only
capable of encoding characters of BMP, it is supported by many programs."
Rather obviously Embarcadero primarily had UCS-2 in mind as they created
the "Unicode aware"
On 17.08.2017 12:41, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote:
Finally: "In UTF-16, code points greater or equal to 2^16 are encoded
using /two/ 16-bit code units.
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They claim Delphi VCL compatibility and hence it should be compatible to
LCL, as well.
-> http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/whatsnew.aspx
(I did not test any of their products.)
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On 17.08.2017 11:27, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote:
Why do you want to stuff everything and the kitchen sink into TStrings?
To make use of the benefits the string type offers such as reference
counting and lazy copy.
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On 17.06.2017 22:25, el es via Lazarus wrote:
Where does the call queued from a thread, return to ?
From the POV of the application programmer: "nowhere". it's just
another (main-Thread-) "Event" that (like "OnClick") gets "fired" by the
Lazarus/fpc infrastructure and is done.
The object's
On 05.05.2017 12:16, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
In the end it’s about supporting Unicode. Does it really matter
what internal encoding it is to achieve the “Unicode support”
goal?
Yep it does.
There are ways around that issue (i.e. code aware strings) but in fact
these trigger a
On 04.05.2017 16:56, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
I believe everybody is happy to get rid of the horrendous Windows
If if this is true, there is a decent need for backwards compatibility.
That is why, theoretically, code aware strings is a good idea.
Unfortunately the implementation of
I rather unsuccessfully tried to use the pdf decoder example provided
here -> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpvectorial .
I needed to add the package fpvectorial to my project. Now I can do "use
fpvectorial".
The project needs "use pdfvectorialreader". To allow for this I needed
to
On 24.10.2017 11:29, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
Are you kidding?
If this is not appropriate, I suppose the general design of that
functionality should be reconsidered, doing anything that needs a fast
reaction in the worker thread.
-Michael
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On 24.10.2017 10:48, el es via Lazarus wrote:
[...]
begin
repeat
until not ThreadNowInUse; //
try
ThreadNowInUse :=true;
Busy wait actions are usually a very bad idea
Better use a TTimer for such.
-Michael
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On 26.11.2017 17:13, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote:
Lazarus already contains a custom drawn widgetset that supports X11. I
don't know its current state, but maybe it would be best to bring that
up to speed and form instead of starting a new one.
Some time ago I did play with the custom drawn
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