Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-25 17:57, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: suggestion of looking at the VLC sources I see they use it which has to be a recommendation. Interesting... I was wondering what they did. :) I'll see what I can work

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-28 Thread zeljko
Health warning: http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2008-August/037407.ht ml suggests following a handle in TForm to arrive at a window ID, but that appears to depend on the combination of widget set and window manager: as a particular example, it's unreliable with gtk2 on

Re: [Lazarus] We need testers for one issue

2012-09-28 Thread John Landmesser
Am 27.09.2012 17:59, schrieb zeljko: Hi all, http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21792 We need testing of this issue with *second* patch (minimizeddesignform_2.patch) from that issue included on win32 and carbon widgetsets. Pls. apply patch and rebuild lazarus ide to see if something strange

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-28 Thread Paul Breneman
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-25 17:57, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: suggestion of looking at the VLC sources I see they use it which has to be a recommendation. Interesting... I was wondering what they did. :)

[Lazarus] win 32: GDB downgraded to 7.2

2012-09-28 Thread Martin
On win 32 there is currently a choice between: - gdb 7.2 (or older) does not have http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14018 which means the debug session can be lost at any time. all later versions have this issue. - gdb 7.3 (which has both known issues...) - gdb 7.4 / 7.5

Re: [Lazarus] win 32: GDB downgraded to 7.2

2012-09-28 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 28-9-2012 15:02, Martin wrote: On win 32 there is currently a choice between: - gdb 7.2 (or older) does not have http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14018 which means the debug session can be lost at any time. all later versions have this issue. - gdb 7.3 (which has both

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
zeljko wrote: Health warning: http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2008-August/037407.ht ml suggests following a handle in TForm to arrive at a window ID, but that appears to depend on the combination of widget set and window manager: as a particular example, it's unreliable

Re: [Lazarus] win 32: GDB downgraded to 7.2

2012-09-28 Thread Martin
On 28/09/2012 14:23, Reinier Olislagers wrote: I noticed the files in http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/binaries/i386-win32/gdb/bin/ contains 7.2, but http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/binaries/x86_64-win64/gdb/bin/ for 64 bit has GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.50.20110510-cvs Yes. It is not yet

[Lazarus] Running external process from within Lazarus design package

2012-09-28 Thread Bernd
I need to run an external program from within my lazarus package. Unfortunately it will need significant time to run, so I cannot just wait for it in the main thread and also it will produce some important diagnostic console output that I would like to print into the messages window. Is there any

[Lazarus] getting version info of active project from within a design time package

2012-09-28 Thread Bernd
I need to read the version number of the currently active project in my design time package. For this I have written the following code: function TSettings.GetVersion: String; var Res: TAbstractProjectResources; ResVer: TProjectVersionInfo; begin Res := LazarusIDE.ActiveProject.Resources as