Re: [Lazarus] Dircleaner example application bug

2010-06-08 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:54:22 +0100 Howard Page-Clark h...@talktalk.net wrote: There is a minor bug in the very useful example application dircleaner. The unit dircleaner.pp around line 441 has FileNameFits:=Pos(Ext,FWorkExt)0; to check if the current file under consideration fits the

Re: [Lazarus] Installing FPC/Lazarus on Windows using SVN, no binaries

2010-06-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:02:48PM -0400, waldo kitty wrote: Always try clean: make clean all OPT=-glw2 i've been noticing that it seems that locating that Contnrs unit is a real buggar... the bad ppu was that one and now that the ppus are gone, this one unit's sources are not found?

Re: [Lazarus] Vortex unit for Turbo Pascal -- looking for volunteers to convert this excellent unit and others to Free Pascal and Lazarus.

2010-06-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:31:02PM +1000, Peter E Williams wrote: This unit contains various routines that I use regularly in the software I write. This includes routines to UpperCase, LowerCase, and Capitalise strings; reading / writing disk sectors; searching a drive for a particular

[Lazarus] Basic chm help creator (LHelpCreator)

2010-06-08 Thread Žilvinas Ledas
Hello all, as official MS chm compiler does not support Unicode, I decided that it would be easier to create my own simple app based on FPC chm package and use it with LHelp to display multilanguage and multiplatform help. As a result in last two days I have made simple GUI program to create

Re: [Lazarus] Run builds with different FPC versions

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: I find that the FPC source directory setting appears to accept a macro $FPCVer(), but the Compiler path does not. Irrespective of whether what I'm trying to do is crazy, am I missing anything obvious? Yes. The FPCVer macro gets the fpc version from the compiler. Is

Re: [Lazarus] Run builds with different FPC versions

2010-06-08 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:11:06 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: I find that the FPC source directory setting appears to accept a macro $FPCVer(), but the Compiler path does not. Irrespective of whether what I'm trying to do is crazy,

[Lazarus] FPDoc Editor fails to update fields as cursor moves

2010-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16670 I'm not sure if this is a regression bug or not. I haven't worked with the integrated FPDoc Editor window in many months. -- Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit

[Lazarus] Warning: FPDOC Editor can cause data loss

2010-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I was typing a long detailed description. When I switch to the next property in the source code editor to edit its description. FPDOC Editor popped up telling me I have a syntax error in my description and tried to be too clever and fix it itself. In the process it deleted most of my long

Re: [Lazarus] Run builds with different FPC versions

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: Normally you use the latest and greatest fpc version to compile lazarus Except that 0.9.26.2 from SVN won't compile with 2.4.0, I had to revert to 2.2.4. -8- Compiling graphics.pp .. custombitmap.inc(293,49) Error: absolute can only be associated with a var

Re: [Lazarus] Run builds with different FPC versions

2010-06-08 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:15:36 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: Normally you use the latest and greatest fpc version to compile lazarus Except that 0.9.26.2 from SVN won't compile with 2.4.0, I had to revert to 2.2.4. Correct. I can

Re: [Lazarus] SQLite3Connection / db framework problem

2010-06-08 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 23:14 +, K. P. wrote: via SQLite3Connect SQLQuery components. In the dbgrid that I have attached, all text fields display as '(MEMO)' instead of the content strings. Just for the record, the strings are definitely short enough to fit in the grid columns... Please,

[Lazarus] Lazarus SVN2 is broken

2010-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Could somebody please kick the SVN2 server into gear, it is stuck on 3 Jun 2010. http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk -- Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ --

Re: [Lazarus] Run builds with different FPC versions

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: Except that 0.9.26.2 from SVN won't compile with 2.4.0, I had to revert to 2.2.4. Correct. I can understand why you might use the 0.9.26 LCL, but why use the 0.9.26 IDE? Partly familiarity, but mostly because I'm trying to debug some bitmap bashing that appears to

Re: [Lazarus] Run builds with different FPC versions

2010-06-08 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:24:36 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: Except that 0.9.26.2 from SVN won't compile with 2.4.0, I had to revert to 2.2.4. Correct. I can understand why you might use the 0.9.26 LCL, but why use the 0.9.26

Re: [Lazarus] Installing FPC/Lazarus on Windows using SVN, no binaries

2010-06-08 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:02:48PM -0400, waldo kitty wrote: Always try clean: make clean all OPT=-glw2 i've been noticing that it seems that locating that Contnrs unit is a real buggar... the bad ppu was that one

Re: [Lazarus] Run builds with different FPC versions

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: A 0.9.29 IDE can handle a 0.9.26 LCL. In fact the IDE is just one single executable that can lie anywhere. All paths and settings are fetched from the config directory. Use a separate config directory for the 0.9.26 setup (e.g. C:\laz0.9.26\config). Start the 0.9.29

[Lazarus] Popup menu on a TStringGrid row

2010-06-08 Thread Juha Manninen
Hi A popup menu has an item to delete a row from a StringGrid. This actually works, deleting the selected row: Grid.DeleteColRow(False, Grid.Row); The problem is that mouse right-click didn't select the row (or cell actually) under the mouse pointer. The selected row can be somewhere far from

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus SVN2 is broken

2010-06-08 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/6/8 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Hi, Could somebody please kick the SVN2 server into gear, it is stuck on 3 Jun 2010.  http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk Done. Vincent -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus SVN2 is broken

2010-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Thank you very much. -- Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Popup menu on a TStringGrid row

2010-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 08/06/2010, Juha Manninen wrote: The problem is that mouse right-click didn't select the row (or cell actually) under the mouse pointer. The selected row can be somewhere far from the mouse pointer and thus deleting it is not what user expects. I vaguely remember seeing some follow focus

Re: [Lazarus] Popup menu on a TStringGrid row

2010-06-08 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 8 June 2010 14:49, Juha Manninen juha.manni...@phnet.fi wrote: Hi A popup menu has an item to delete a row from a StringGrid. This actually works, deleting the selected row:  Grid.DeleteColRow(False, Grid.Row); I've done it like this (inside the popup item click): procedure

[Lazarus] Lazarus and Freepascal meeting, june 26, The Netherlands

2010-06-08 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Hi all, On the 26th of june there is a meeting for the Lazarus and Freepascal developers in the Netherlands. The developers who have time and the possibility to come to the Netherlands will be there, to see each other in the 'real world'. And to discuss ideas and new developments around

Re: [Lazarus] Popup menu on a TStringGrid row

2010-06-08 Thread Juha Manninen
Thanks Graeme and Henry! Based on your hints and code I finally created these: - procedure TReplaceNamesForm.PopupMenu1Popup(Sender: TObject); var ControlCoord, NewCell: TPoint; begin ControlCoord := Grid.ScreenToControl(PopupMenu1.PopupPoint);

Re: [Lazarus] The default local HTML Help path is blank -- what should it be?

2010-06-08 Thread Peter E Williams
Hi Mattias and all, Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:10:07 +1000 From: Peter E Williams foss.game.pascal.develo...@iinet.net.au Subject: Re: [Lazarus] The default local HTML Help path is blank -- what should it be? Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de Sun May 23 09:49:42 CEST