Re: [Lazarus] storing big dynamic matrices in file ?

2023-08-27 Thread DougC via lazarus
Look at procedures BlockWrite and BlockRead for faster way to write/read large quantities of data. Doug C.-- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] [fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

2023-07-28 Thread DougC via lazarus
I like WideChar RTL over Unicode RTL!!-- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] TMask revisited

2021-10-15 Thread DougC via lazarus
Shouldn't the mask "*.pas*" be used to match file.pas.bak ? If so, the old code and new code are ok. Doug C. On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 17:09:03 -0400 Bart via lazarus wrote On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 2:38 PM Maxim Ganetsky via lazarus wrote: >

Re: [Lazarus] libgphoto2 camera capture and control

2020-03-03 Thread DougC via lazarus
Sounds like a configuration change in the camera settings is called for so it will stop shutting down after apparent inactivity. On Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:57:28 -0500 Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote The library seems to have some application idle timeout functions, but they

Re: [Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

2019-11-26 Thread DougC via lazarus
On coastal islands here in Maine, USA, some islands have chosen to simply lay the fiber cables on the ground rather than bury them or place them on poles as long as the run does not cross roads or other potentially damaging obstacles. Seems to be working well. Good luck getting faster

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

2019-10-29 Thread DougC via lazarus
For me A: is  always my archives and B: is my regular backup. Easy to remember! On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:16:56 -0400 Michael Thompson via lazarus wrote > maybe they could start from A: N :-) I work offshore for a variety of

Re: [Lazarus] Website/Mantis back online

2019-04-20 Thread DougC via lazarus
No, you are not alone. Mantis and SVN: Yuch! On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:35:22 -0400 Vojtěch Čihák via lazarus wrote So I am not alone (I chose more diplomatic words).   Vojtěch __ > Od: "Bart via lazarus"

Re: [Lazarus] Cross compile for Linux x64 on Windows 7 x64?

2019-04-02 Thread DougC via lazarus
I am VERY interested in how this question is answered and resolved. It seems to be a weak point in how the Lazarus/FPC effort has developed. This type of question has prevented me from diving into the Lazarus/FPC ecosystem because there seem to be regular requests for help in resolving this

Re: [Lazarus] Tell me, does this application exist?

2019-01-06 Thread DougC via lazarus
Anthony- Never heard of such an app. However, I'd like to ask: What is the problem this app is designed to solve? Doug C.-- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] 2 small designer improvements ?

2018-12-14 Thread DougC via lazarus
I like and support both ideas, allowing drop on component to replace it with another and allowing typed text to be entered into a component property of the selected widget!-- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org

[Lazarus] Google geocoding API help

2018-06-05 Thread DougC via Lazarus
I'm working through how to obtain LAT/LONG for street addresses in the USA and just found GMLib at http://www.cadetill.com/gmlib/ This library is more than I need but I'm working my way through the source to find what I need. In the meantime I'm asking if anyone knows of a simple how-to or

Re: [Lazarus] Package and project file format

2018-03-03 Thread DougC via Lazarus
+1 for switch to JSON! On Sat, 03 Mar 2018 06:11:19 -0500 Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org wrote Well, I originally wanted to propose switching to JSON, but I thought that might be stretching the goodwill a bit too much... --

Re: [Lazarus] Form events firing order and count

2018-02-19 Thread DougC via Lazarus
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:47:14 -0500 Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org wrote And documented behaviour is what the language guide of Delphi states. Is there such a language guide for the language features introduced in the last 10 years? AFAIK

Re: [Lazarus] Favourite stand-alone db file?

2017-11-26 Thread DougC via Lazarus
It would be hard to beat SQLite for a small stand-alone single-user RDBMS. On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:07:02 -0500 Chavoux Luyt via Lazarus lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org wrote Hi, I remember that years ago in Delphi I often used Paradox (less often dBase) to create a small

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager

2017-03-31 Thread DougC via Lazarus
Seems to me you should have at minimum 3 status for packages: New - Not yet installed but available in repository Updated - Already installed but a new version is in repository Up-To-Date - Already installed and installed version is same as in repository Using "new" for both "not yet

Re: [Lazarus] Old Lazarus code fail at runtime

2016-12-27 Thread DougC via Lazarus
Has OpenDialog been created at this point? Better to double check by changing to if Assigned(OpenDialog) then OpenDialog.Execute else raise Exception.Create('OpenDialog not yet created'); On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:00:19 -0500 Giuliano Colla via Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] TPageControl OnChange calling issue

2016-10-25 Thread DougC via Lazarus
Delphi's developers faced exactly the same dilemma with respect to Windows' behavior. Some of the standard behavior triggering events did not make much sense and they had to decide to keep it as it was or define an improvement. For the most part they kept it as it was. These are not easy

Re: [Lazarus] Helper for arrays

2016-10-02 Thread DougC via Lazarus
I don't know the answer about helper function but I also dislike Length() for arrays. I solve this dislike by using for i := Low(IntegerArray) to High(IntegerArray) do which covers more possibilities because it handles lower index limit that is non-zero. Low() and High() also work with

Re: [Lazarus] Messages from who?

2016-10-01 Thread DougC via Lazarus
-0400wkitty42--- via Lazarus lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org wrote On 10/01/2016 08:44 AM, DougC via Lazarus wrote: Yes, DougC is me but I see lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org mailto:lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org; in FROM: so I guess it's my email client doing this. Sigh. Sorry about the noise

[Lazarus] Messages from who?

2016-10-01 Thread DougC via Lazarus
Recent changes to the Lazarus mailing list make it more difficult to identify who has posted a message. The FROM field is always the list, itself, now. I've noticed that a specific address is CC: to each message. Is this the person who actually posted the message? Are there any plans to

Re: [Lazarus] Mailinglist issues

2016-09-24 Thread DougC via Lazarus
If you are sending from a gmail account do not expect to see your emails sent back to you. Gmail actively works to suppress this regardless of how the mailing list server works. On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:06:28 -0400Andrew Haines via Lazarus lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org wrote