Re: [Lazarus] Web vs desktop development

2016-01-15 Thread Curt Carpenter
Sounds right to me. Good assessment. On 1/15/2016 11:29 AM, Anthony Walter wrote: On a programming web forum someone said regarding Lazarus: On just cursory review, looks compelling. However, I get so little call these days for native/desktop applications. Seems everyone wants web now. I

Re: [Lazarus] Unicode branch

2013-06-24 Thread Curt Carpenter
For the very little that it's worth, I abandoned Delphi (10) because I was sick of Embarcadero's approach to strings at that time, which forced a rework of *a lot* of my old code and components. Adopted Lazarus and never looked back. On 6/24/2013 10:14 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Michael

Re: [Lazarus] [OT] New Lazarus website

2013-06-22 Thread Curt Carpenter
On 6/22/2013 1:03 PM, silvioprog wrote: Lazarus website with a new look: http://github.com/silvioprog looks great! -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] libSANE.dll for winfows

2013-05-28 Thread Curt Carpenter
For older versions of windows, you might want to google TWAIN SDK. As I recall, it supports scanners. On 5/28/2013 3:22 PM, Howard Page-Clark wrote: On 28/05/2013 12:51, amin ibrahime wrote: Hi I try to uses scanner by lazarus application to multiplateform i found SANE demomain i compiled

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Install on Raspberry Pi

2013-04-29 Thread Curt Carpenter
Just a note to say thanks for the great 4-step installation of Lazarus on the Raspberry Pi. With one minor problem (due to my using a very slow SD card I think), the download and install went without a hitch. If only _all_ of my software installations went this flawlessly :-) Thanks again.

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus update

2013-03-19 Thread Curt Carpenter
? Thanks again for all the hard work! Curt Carpenter On 3/19/2013 5:54 AM, Chavoux Luyt wrote: Hi guys I am still running lazarus v.1.0 RC, basically because I installed a bunch of components (mostly 3D - GLScene, OpenGL, etc) and I can no longer remember which ones came as part of Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] FPC / Lazarus ARM Embedded Debuging

2013-03-14 Thread Curt Carpenter
I second that. On 3/14/2013 1:11 PM, Michael Ring wrote: Totally disagree (when there is no need to meet a deadline) ;-) ;-) The implementation is still a little rough but growing knowledge by working low level has it's own appeal. And microcontrollers (at least when they are a hobby)

Re: [Lazarus] some number manipulation

2013-03-09 Thread Curt Carpenter
I would create a matrix A[i,j] with i = 1,2,3,...31 (31 rows) and j=1,2,3,...20 (20 columns). Initialize the matrix to all zeroes. Then for each day of the month, if the number k occurs in day j, then set A[j,k] := 1. At the end of the month, the sum of the elements in row k will tell you how

Re: [Lazarus] IDE

2013-01-21 Thread Curt Carpenter
On 1/21/2013 12:15 PM, Martin wrote: On 21/01/2013 17:51, Timothy Groves wrote: On 13-01-21 12:49 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Timothy Groves the.tail.kin...@gmail.com wrote: The IDE just seems to get buggier and buggier the longer I use it. Can't click on the

Re: [Lazarus] IDE

2013-01-21 Thread Curt Carpenter
On 1/21/2013 12:53 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: I see nothing like that with 0.9.30- or with newer versions- on Debian+KDE4 on x86. Can't speak for x86-64, which in my case I have not got. I have x86-64,

Re: [Lazarus] New Lazarus User

2013-01-04 Thread Curt Carpenter
/index.php?topic=15432.0) Once you get it installed, it works great, and I had no problems moving my old Lazarus programs from windows to Linux. Curt Carpenter On 01/04/2013 01:20 PM, ik wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:05 PM, George R Smith geo...@grsmith.arcoxmail.com mailto:geo

Re: [Lazarus] Installing Lazarus on Ubuntu 12.04LTS

2012-12-02 Thread Curt Carpenter
Does anyone know a knowledgeable Ubuntu/Linux person in the Dallas, Texas area that could help me install Lazarus on that OS? I could afford to pay modestly for the help. I have Ubuntu 12.04 working on a PC and have read everything I can find on the net about this install -- but I'm new to

Re: [Lazarus] Where is the System Unit source?

2012-11-14 Thread Curt Carpenter
. The work-around for me is to simply use word rather than integer types. Regards, Curt Carpenter On 11/14/2012 4:50 AM, Sven Barth wrote: Am 14.11.2012 05:19, schrieb Curt Carpenter: Hello. I am using Lazarus 0.9.30.4 with FPC 2.6.0 under Windows XP. In my system, the two functions hi(x

Re: [Lazarus] Where is the System Unit source?

2012-11-14 Thread Curt Carpenter
Hello Sven. I understand now. I am using lazarus, which uses 4-byte integers. It seems that you haven't read the declarations in systemh.inc correctly: Yes. I'm new to this, and that is quite possible. But now I will know where to look next time.:-) Thanks again. --

Re: [Lazarus] Where is the System Unit source?

2012-11-13 Thread Curt Carpenter
trying to find the System unit that contains these two functions. I haven't been able to locate it though. Could anyone tell me where I'll find the system unit source? I have the source for FPC, but can's seem to find system.pas anywhere. Thanks for any help. Regards, Curt Carpenter

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Free Pascal downloads plummeting on SourceForge

2012-08-02 Thread Curt Carpenter
Could it also have had something to do with the release of DelphiXE? On 8/2/2012 5:50 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:19:02PM +0200, Florian Kl?mpfl wrote: Free Pascal on SourceForge, but for some reason the download rates of both suddenly seem to be in free-fall! See

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Curt Carpenter
This is a good question, I think. No idea what the answer is -- just familiar with the TIOBE data. My guess is that JAVA has more corporate sponsorship -- but I will be interested in hearing what others have to say. I often wonder if there would be any possibility of a creative,

Re: [Lazarus] Hello World program generates a File Not Open runtime error

2012-01-29 Thread Curt Carpenter
://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus Mattias: Could you tell us where we find this in the documentation? I'm sure it's there -- I'd just like to add it to my notes since I'll probably encounter the same problem at some point :-) Thanks, Curt Carpenter

[Lazarus] MFC42D.DLL Used by Lazarus or FPC?

2011-12-30 Thread Curt Carpenter
I have been working on a Lazarus program that as of today reports that it can't find MFC42D.DLL. Can anyone tell me if Lazarus uses this dll? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Compiled file size (again)

2011-12-14 Thread Curt Carpenter
No idea personally -- but I will watch for the response from the hard-working and knowledgeable people that contribute here (who all deserve our vote of thanks and gratitude!) Maybe some corrected elements still have their debug information enabled? On 12/14/2011 11:34 AM, Jürgen Hestermann

Re: [Lazarus] [fpc-pascal] Is there an online tool for browsing library documentation and source code for FPC and Lazarus?

2011-11-12 Thread Curt Carpenter
that such a group might already exist. But how to join it/contribute? Need a knowledgeable leader(s) that can do the basic organization task (a pretty big job!) Regards, Curt Carpenter -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] [fpc-pascal] Is there an online tool for browsing library documentation and source code for FPC and Lazarus?

2011-11-12 Thread Curt Carpenter
On 11/12/2011 10:01 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Right, organizing all material is a very big job :-( I'm not happy at all with the wiki, I cannot find anything there, unless somebody gives me a direct link. Do you have an idea how this could be improved? DoDi I think you need someone

[Lazarus] Help with AllocateHwnd in Lazarus 0.9.30 on WindowsXP

2011-08-22 Thread Curt Carpenter
I have a non-visual component that uses AllocateHwnd and DeAllocateHwnd. My component compiles, but gives me a 'RunError(217)' when I try to use it in a test program . The error is occurs at the AllocateHwnd instruction in my component's constructor, where the exact usage is:

Re: [Lazarus] Finding the Right List

2011-08-14 Thread Curt Carpenter
On 8/14/2011 1:46 AM, Juha Manninen wrote: 2011/8/13 Curt Carpenter 1cjcarpen...@att.net mailto:1cjcarpen...@att.net Can you point me to an answer to What is the General widget set restrictions tab in the object inspector window? They are features that don't work on every platform

Re: [Lazarus] Why I can't see my own messages in this list?

2011-08-14 Thread Curt Carpenter
On 8/14/2011 1:46 PM, Rich Saunders wrote: Gmail actively suppresses the messages you send to a mailing list when they are echoed back to the sending Gmail account. Apparently the Gmail implementers thought it would be adequate for you to have the sent message in your Sent folder. AFAIK, this

[Lazarus] Finding the Right List

2011-08-13 Thread Curt Carpenter
-- but I'm not having any luck finding the right list and the forums link on the Lazarus home page seems to be broken. A pointer would be much appreciated. Thanks Curt Carpenter -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Finding the Right List

2011-08-13 Thread Curt Carpenter
On 8/13/2011 3:11 PM, Vincent Snijders wrote: 2011/8/13 Curt Carpenter1cjcarpen...@att.net: Forgive me for the intrusion, but I'm brand new to Lazarus and trying to find the correct list to address with my questions. Example: What is the General widget set restrictions tab in the object

Re: [Lazarus] Finding the Right List

2011-08-13 Thread Curt Carpenter
Vincent: Yes, that link ( http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=forum ) is great, Thanks again. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus