Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:15:19PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Juha Manninen wrote: That's what I do also. A separate branch is good for new experimental features which would break the main project somehow. However, my patches clearly fix issues of an existing The workflow we

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:56:06PM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: There is 1 case where this can occur, namely when you do svn+ssh:// - http:// even though it is the same repository, if you change protocol it will download the whole repository again. In all the years that I use

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Bee Jay
I took minimalist approach because most new visitors will be overwhelmed by things they have to read just to download the damned thing. There are many reason why open source projects nowadays put a big button on their front page just so anyone who visit the page for the first time (either by word

[Lazarus] Fixing title of Mantis bug report

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Could somebody with access please fix the title of the following bug report. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15673 HTML toolkits should read HTML tooltips Many thanks. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Bee Jay
I don't like the gradient fill blue (old fashioned) and even less the idea of rotating banners in that position (annoying) Please note that it's a work in progress, nothing is final. Please read my other emails regarding this. -- -Bee- ...making buzzes at http://twitter.com/beezing

Re: [Lazarus] ADO connections

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Héctor Fiandor Rosario wrote: Dear friends: I have received a Delphi7 Project to interact with an Access Database using ADO I need to know if FP and Lazarus have this possibilities as in Delphi. I need to tackle the same problem in a few

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 20:16 +0700, Klenongan wrote: And here's mine, with more 'elegant' touch to it. I use large fonts and white overall to make a neutral appearance --as I don't know Lazarus' color--. The page uses less text as possible on the front page, inspired by Mercurial, VLC,

[Lazarus] Name Free Pascal Compiler Lazarus

2010-02-04 Thread Juha Manninen
This mail was buried in another thread so I lifted it here. In a marketing sense the name Free Pascal Compiler Lazarus is really poor. There could be a new name covering both these projects. Free Pascal Compiler and Lazarus would be its sub-projects. That would be in marketing sense only, it

Re: [Lazarus] how to send keyboard (or mouse) message with lazarus?

2010-02-04 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2010/2/2 Creatxr crea...@gmail.com: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXtst project1.lpr(20,1) Error: Error while linking project1.lpr(20,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping This is on the FAQ:

Re: [Lazarus] Fixing title of Mantis bug report

2010-02-04 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Could somebody with access please fix the title of the following bug report. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15673 HTML toolkits should read HTML tooltips Done. Marc -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Name Free Pascal Compiler Lazarus

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Juha Manninen wrote: Even Delphi changed the language name from Object Pascal to Delphi, for marketing reasons and to avoid confusion. I personally hated this change and it was very confusing in Kylix documentation. Everybody knew delphi as the IDE, then in Kylix there was references to

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Martin
On 04/02/2010 07:29, Paul van Helden wrote: On 2010/02/04 07:56 AM, Martin wrote: A related topic that's been bothering me: can we please discuss a name change for Lazarus as well? It's not like a name change will hurt the project at this stage, methinks... -1 I don't see why changing the

[Lazarus] Run-time configuration of File Open filters

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15679 In the Mantis report above, I have included a patch which adds a new File Filters screen in the Environment Options dialog. You can now setup an unlimited number of file masks/filter at runtime. The IDE's File Open menu and toolbar button uses

Re: [Lazarus] Run-time configuration of File Open filters

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15679 In the Mantis report above, I have included a patch which adds a new File Filters screen in the Environment Options dialog. You can now setup an unlimited number of file masks/filter at runtime.

Re: [Lazarus] Run-time configuration of File Open filters

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Definitely useful. A good example of user needs driving development. :-) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- ___ Lazarus

[Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
See the sceenshot posted in the following Mantis report. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15679 I would like to get rid of the 0 in the top left corner. It's very nice of TSringGrid to have the automatic option of adding row numbers, but I really don't think it should add the 0 in the

Re: [Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: See the sceenshot posted in the following Mantis report. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15679 I would like to get rid of the 0 in the top left corner. It's very nice of TSringGrid to have the automatic option of adding row numbers, but I

Re: [Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: 0,0 normally is the top left cell, even with fixed row/column. That's what I thought too, but it didn't work like that when I created the File Filters screen. Below is the code I used... Note I set RowCount = 1, which to me meant that the fixed row is now visible.

Re: [Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Flávio Etrusco
Maybe the row-numbers option changes that. Try doing the row-numbering yourself. Jesus knows the StringGrid pretty well, so I'll wait a bit to see what he says. Otherwise I'll simply paint the fixed column (row numbers) myself - as you suggested. Regards,  - Graeme - Maybe the

Re: [Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Flávio Etrusco
2010/2/4 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: Maybe the row-numbers option changes that. Try doing the row-numbering yourself. Jesus knows the StringGrid pretty well, so I'll wait a bit to see what he says. Otherwise I'll simply paint the fixed column (row numbers) myself - as you

Re: [Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Flávio Etrusco wrote: Maybe the StringGrid should be patched to stop populating/painting the FixedRows columns? That's what it thought too, and just created a patch for it. :-) So when Options includes goFixedRowNumbering, it skips the fixed row. Now my next question is If FixedRows 1,

Re: [Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I would opt for starting the first non-fixed row always at 1 (human readable and understandable). What do others think? Attached is my patch. This produces the results of the two grids on the right hand side (see previous email). Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Paul van Helden schrieb: Is it just me or are there others that would agree that using real life animal pictures are just plain cheezy? +1 I vote for simply using the paw (/images/splash_source/paw.png). It is a beautiful piece of artwork. This image may conflict with Jack Wolfskin, who

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Martin schrieb: I had the National Geographic impression too... I did like the proposal from Bee Jay ( http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/676/lazwebnewsubpage030210.png ) Just another thing: I'd prefer the term multi-platform, in favor of cross-platform, which latter is frequently used for

Re: [Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Flávio Etrusco wrote: My suggested fix is replace in Grids.pas, line 8504: :-) Great minds think alike. I just did one extra check for FixedRows = 0 and changed the value that gets painted as the row number. See my other email for my patch. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

[Lazarus] How to avoid of closing my application when unhandled exception in shared library appers

2010-02-04 Thread Roland Turcan
Hello friends, We have often (usually on linux) a situation, that an exception occurs in shared library which is loaded to our application, then linux kills our application without giving error message with reason. That shared library is a device driver which is develop by device producer and

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Klenongan
I don't like this design at all. Bee's design is much better. ... What you expect on a home-page is links, links, links and a few lines explaining things. Because every new-comer has a different reason to come to that page. Some like screenshots, and decide what this product is on those.

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread JoshyFun
Hello Lazarus-List, Thursday, February 4, 2010, 5:15:25 PM, you wrote: K Strange, I can see the images just fine. Maybe something wrong with K your proxy, or network settings? The xs.to is one of my bookmarked K image host, I choose it because i can call it out of my head, being K just 'xs.to'.

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 23:15 +0700, Klenongan wrote: I don't like this design at all. Bee's design is much better. ... What you expect on a home-page is links, links, links and a few lines explaining things. Because every new-comer has a different reason to come to that page. Some like

Re: [Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Bee Jay
On Feb 4, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Klenongan wrote: Well that's interesting, you don't know what Lazarus because you do not want to read the text, which right next to a big picture. A text below the name 'Lazarus' made bigger than the rest of the page, well placed to be seen first, not only that I

[Lazarus] fpspreadsheet and build errors

2010-02-04 Thread Roberto Padovani
Is anyone using fpspreadsheet with the newest lazarus 0.9.28.2 under win32? First of all I cannot find it anymore on sourceforge lazarus CCR (and I cannot access a svn server), so i am using a version I already had. Where can I get the package now? Since I started trying to install it, everything

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-04 Thread Juha Manninen
Paul Nicholls wrote: Is there anyway I could try out your Lazarus delphi converter improvements? What is the procedure for this? Any comments from Lazarus developers? Juha -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] Part II of Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Bee Jay
Hi all, While the discussion about the page layout is still hot, let's discuss the true problem of all: THE REAL CONTENT! :) As you may already know, my proposal already have a content structure as shown in the footer bar. Now, I ask for your help to fill the content for them. First, let

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-04 Thread Vincent Snijders
Juha Manninen schreef: Paul Nicholls wrote: Is there anyway I could try out your Lazarus delphi converter improvements? What is the procedure for this? Any comments from Lazarus developers? How to try out a patch from others is explained here:

Re: [Lazarus] fpspreadsheet and build errors

2010-02-04 Thread JoshyFun
Hello Lazarus-List, Thursday, February 4, 2010, 6:13:36 PM, you wrote: RP Is anyone using fpspreadsheet with the newest lazarus 0.9.28.2 under win32? RP First of all I cannot find it anymore on sourceforge lazarus CCR (and RP I cannot access a svn server), so i am using a version I already had.

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-04 Thread Vincent Snijders
Juha Manninen schreef: Vincent Snijders wrote: How to try out a patch from others is explained here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Creating_A_Patch#Applying_a_patch Yes I know. I was just hoping for comments on the original problem. Oh, but that was not the question from Paul Nicholls.

Re: [Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 February 2010 22:24, Jesus Reyes jesus...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: Thanks, fixed in r23632 as a mix of your patch and Flavio's one. The additional FixedRows=0 didn't have any effect (I hope I didn't missed something). Flavio was right, FixedRows=0 wasn't needed. Now that

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-04 Thread Jesus Reyes
--- El jue 4-feb-10, Juha Manninen juha.manni...@phnet.fi escribió: De:: Juha Manninen juha.manni...@phnet.fi Asunto: Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements A: Lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Fecha: jueves 4 de febrero de 2010, 11:45 Paul Nicholls wrote: Is

Re: [Lazarus] How to get rid of text in (0,0) in StringGrid?

2010-02-04 Thread Jesus Reyes
--- El jue 4-feb-10, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com escribió: Now that goFixedRowNumbering is fixed, what about the other problem? So it seems Cell() and Columns() are inconsistent in meaning (column 0 not being the same thing) I haven't double checked this after the

Re: [Lazarus] Name Free Pascal Compiler Lazarus

2010-02-04 Thread Reenen Laurie
Cheetah? Rhino? Both: I use Rhino IDE and Cheetah compiler - Though the compiler should stay FPC... (just FPC?) Years from now ppl will know that the F is for Friendly. :-D I don't think that changing the name is likely, but just a couple of things to take into consideration: 1) Currently

Re: [Lazarus] Name Free Pascal Compiler Lazarus

2010-02-04 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Hello, I don't think we will be changing the name. There are already at least 3 books using the name Free Pascal and shortly there will also be one using the name Lazarus. Google also gives me first hit for Lazarus to www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho --

Re: [Lazarus] Part II of Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Paul Ishenin
05.02.2010 0:46, Bee Jay wrote: - Roadmap: list of plan for the next release(s). This will be very hard to get. After every release I ask other developers of what they plan and I get no much info. For example for 0.9.30 we have only the next items:

[Lazarus] Roadmap [Re: Part II of Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content]

2010-02-04 Thread Martin
On 05/02/2010 01:19, Paul Ishenin wrote: 05.02.2010 0:46, Bee Jay wrote: - Roadmap: list of plan for the next release(s). This will be very hard to get. After every release I ask other developers of what they plan and I get no much info. For example for 0.9.30 we have only the next items:

Re: [Lazarus] Part II of Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
I usually just put what I did directly here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_0.9.30_release_notes Development can often be very expontaneous. It's not like you plan to fix something, but while developing something or fixing a bug report you need to fix it and then it gets done ... --

Re: [Lazarus] Part II of Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Paul Ishenin
05.02.2010 8:30, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: I usually just put what I did directly here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_0.9.30_release_notes Development can often be very expontaneous. It's not like you plan to fix something, but while developing something or fixing a bug

Re: [Lazarus] Roadmap [Re: Part II of Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content]

2010-02-04 Thread Paul Ishenin
05.02.2010 8:28, Martin wrote: Maybe we should decouple the Roadmap from Versions? Just have a list of features that are planed or requested (or rejected, if so). This could reduce duplicate feature requests. Each feature could have a status like: - in progress - assigned - contributor needed

Re: [Lazarus] Part II of Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

2010-02-04 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Paul Ishenin i...@kmiac.ru wrote: I think roadmap is not about fixing bugs but about feature planing. What I ment is that you may need to implement a new feature, or restructure something to fix a bug. Often in newer interfaces bugs are X doesn't work, so you