Re: [Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

2016-04-01 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 09:12:10AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Henry Vermaak wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:39:15AM -0400, Anthony Walter wrote: > >>My question is can someone look into this issue so that building Lazarus in > >>environments where fre

Re: [Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

2016-04-01 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:39:15AM -0400, Anthony Walter wrote: > My question is can someone look into this issue so that building Lazarus in > environments where free memory is than 700MB does not result in Lazarus > build failures? I've come across ld running out of memory when linking the

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 Now Available

2016-02-29 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:53:28PM -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > Does anyone know if this version includes a Gigabit nic? or allows USB > 3 (to let ethernet-usb conversion) ?. I've read version 2 had slow > network transfer because of only allowing USB2. Specs here says no gigabit and no USB3:

Re: [Lazarus] How to set defines for a project? Lazarus crashes...

2016-02-09 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:10:05AM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote: > 'man kill' indicates that I need a value but 'man pid' returns > nothing. `killall` takes the name of the process, and tab completion works on most systems I've tried. Henry -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Safe temp file name

2015-11-25 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 05:51:41AM -0800, Aradeonas wrote: > Hi, > > I used GetTempFileName in a multi thread system and it causes problems > as you guess already. So the best way in my mind is using GUID and maybe > use it in a loop for checking not existing for extra safety. But I want > to

Re: [Lazarus] Fast file reading using file cache

2015-11-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Michael Schnell wrote: > On 11/19/2015 05:05 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >Indeed, it is terrible. ;-) > No problem here. (with Thunderbird) The mails are decently threaded. This is not about threading but about context, as Michael vC said. I.e. which

Re: [Lazarus] annoying *SPAM* (attn: Michael Schnell)

2015-10-23 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:19:53AM -0400, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: > Hello Michael > > It seems like your email client is adding "*SPAM*" to the subject of emails > coming from lazarus mailing list. > Could you please add Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org to the white list? > > Otherwise

Re: [Lazarus] fast mathematical matrix operations

2015-06-08 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 10:57:11AM +0200, Andrea Mauri wrote: Dear all, I am looking for units/packages to deal with numerical matrix manipulation (typical double type numerical matrices). I need code able to perform typical matrix operations (e.g. matrix multiplication, inversion,

Re: [Lazarus] [TIP] LazSqlX!

2015-06-03 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 05:22:06PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2015, silvioprog wrote: Hello, Do you know LazSqlX?: https://lazsqlx.wordpress.com/ I found it yesterday on Google, and now it will be one of my working tools, because its quality is very high. See

Re: [Lazarus] ShellExecute and german umlauts

2015-05-21 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:06:28AM +0200, John Landmesser wrote: i want to send a mail on windows using shellexecute with german Umlauts ( ö,å,ü .. ) in the body of the mail. This Code doesn't work: var s: string; s := 'öö' shellexecute(Application.Mainform.handle,

Re: [Lazarus] Release of Lazarus 1.4

2015-04-23 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:28:24AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:40:02 +0200 Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 04/22/2015 02:07 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Why downgrade? You can install both and switch any time in the IDE. Thanks

Re: [Lazarus] BreakIf

2015-03-27 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 01:45:31PM +0100, JuuS wrote: Good morning, all... From my Delphi days we had the following procedure: procedure BreakIf( b : Boolean ); begin if b then asm INT 3==debugger would then stop here and one could then F8 step to the offending

Re: [Lazarus] Align/Anchor to widest label

2015-03-25 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:52:01AM +0100, Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote: Is it possible by using align, anchor, or some third option, to always make the two edits and the drop-down box align with the widest of the three labels. Since these labels will be translated to many languages I

Re: [Lazarus] GroupBox AutoSize issues

2015-03-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 06:20:32PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:05:30 + Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: [...] The LCL gtk2 interface computed the preferred size of a groupbox including the child controls, which lead to a loop. We need another

Re: [Lazarus] GroupBox AutoSize issues

2015-03-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:57:47PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:31:07 + Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: [...] The gtk2 interface only knows the current size of the child control(s). It does not know the preferred size of the child control(s

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:53:12PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: in osx yosemite ./lazbuild --quiet - hints still showing billion sender not used massage. Not counting line but with --quit parameter or without this parameter not change output lines What did you add to your compiler options inside

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:28:42PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: Thank you Henry, but nothing change on command line result, after add -vh -vn in options: It adds it only to the IDE build command line. For instance, I use -O2 -g- -Xs -vn-h-i- -l- to build an optimised IDE and this is what I see after

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:45:49PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: lcl widget type= qtTarget OS : Darwin Target CPU: x86_64 no options Well, what do you expect then? Try to add -vh- -vn- if you don't want to see hints or notes. Henry -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:44:02PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:29:15 + Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: [...] It freezes for me, too. It freezes only with --quiet? Without --quiet: hcv@technical09:~/source/lazarus$ ./lazbuild --verbose

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:00:11PM +, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:45:49PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: lcl widget type= qtTarget OS : Darwin Target CPU: x86_64 no options Well, what do you expect then? Try to add -vh- -vn- if you don't want to see hints or notes

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:49:49PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:16:07 + Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:00:11PM +, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:45:49PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: lcl widget type= qt

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-18 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 18 March 2015 at 21:18, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:39:59 + Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: [...] What annoys me is the TLazPackageGraph.CheckIfCurPkgOutDirNeedsCompile messages, despite the --quiet option passed. Fixed

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild parameter --max-process-count

2015-03-18 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 18 March 2015 at 22:14, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de wrote: Hi, I added a new parameter to lazbuild. --max-process-count=count Maximum number of threads for compiling in parallel. Default is 0, which guesses the number of

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 05:38:03PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: On 17.03.2015 16:39, Henry Vermaak wrote: Hide these hints by setting the options in the Verbosity section of the compiler options. You can make a quiet build mode and use --build-mode to select it from the command line. I have a noisy

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 04:28:06PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: Is it possible add parameter for hide verbose not used hint I don't need see every build, a lot off sender not used info on terminal. --quiet parameter not hide this hints. Hide these hints by setting the options in the Verbosity

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:39:59PM +, Henry Vermaak wrote: What annoys me is the TLazPackageGraph.CheckIfCurPkgOutDirNeedsCompile messages, despite the --quiet option passed. And TFPCTargetConfigCache... and RunTool... and TProject.DoLoadStateFile You can't see the wood from the trees

[Lazarus] GroupBox AutoSize issues

2015-03-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
Hi A while ago we managed to fix the GroupBox auto sizing not taking the length of the caption into account. I've been using the fixes_1_2 branch and that's working OK. I switched to fixes_1_4 and started seeing some strange behaviour. Initially it appears that the auto sizing works correctly

Re: [Lazarus] suggestion for lazbuild

2015-03-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 06:03:15PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: make -s clean ... this my compiler make command line. Eh? You're using lazbuild, why are you talking about make? If you are building lazarus with lazbuild, you can add compiler options, under Tools-Configure Build Lazarus, see

Re: [Lazarus] GroupBox AutoSize issues

2015-03-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 05:46:01PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:12:30 + Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi A while ago we managed to fix the GroupBox auto sizing not taking the length of the caption into account. I've been using the fixes_1_2

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded/small database

2015-02-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:54:00AM -0700, leledumbo wrote: Tested, it can't even manage 50,000 rows efficiently. Searching a string takes minutes, while it takes a fraction of second in real dbms. Interesting. I've seen benchmarks where sqlite query times for a full-text search on 12+

Re: [Lazarus] Examples of CairoCanvas usage

2015-02-10 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:19:23PM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Juha Manninen wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: It is a completely reworked version of the one in fpGUI, without external dependencies but with

Re: [Lazarus] Alt + tab IDE Windows

2014-09-26 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 05:11:58PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: El 26/09/14 a las 10:52, William Ferreira escibió: On IDE Options, try to enable 'Show single button in TaskBar'. Maybe could help... Yes, I tried that before asking,

Re: [Lazarus] StrToDate and DefaultFormatSettings

2014-09-12 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 08:18:36AM -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi, I need to convert strings with format d-mmm-y to TDateTime. For example: '12-Sep-14' Here's my code: DefaultFormatSettings.DateSeparator:='-'; DefaultFormatSettings.ShortDateFormat:='D-MMM-Y';

Re: [Lazarus] Cannot find -lpthread

2014-08-22 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 03:52:10PM -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: El 21/08/14 a las 14:44, Péter Gábor escibió: Hello! If you try static linking with a library you need the development package of it which contains the required binary statements/codes/records for the static linking. For

Re: [Lazarus] Cannot find -lpthread

2014-08-21 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:22:45PM -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build fpc and lazarus from sources in XUbuntu 14.04. While trying to link fpc I get this: /usr/bin/ld: aviso: link.res contiene secciones de salida. ¿Olvidó -T? /usr/bin/ld: no se puede encontrar -lpthread

Re: [Lazarus] Cannot find -lpthread

2014-08-21 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 04:34:03PM +0100, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:22:45PM -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build fpc and lazarus from sources in XUbuntu 14.04. While trying to link fpc I get this: /usr/bin/ld: aviso: link.res contiene secciones de

Re: [Lazarus] Cannot find -lpthread

2014-08-21 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:38:02PM -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Here's the result, apparently it is already installed: libc6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 libc6-arm64-cross: /usr/aarch64-linux-gnu/lib/libpthread.so.0 libc6-armel-armhf-cross:

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 GroupBox auto size

2014-07-06 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 01:03:19PM +0100, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 02:05:10PM +0300, Juha Manninen wrote: I applied the patch from Henry. I hope we get LCL-Win fixed, too. Thanks. I'll look into lcl-win, it'll need a GetPreferredSize with MeasureText and some more magic

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 GroupBox auto size

2014-07-05 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 02:05:10PM +0300, Juha Manninen wrote: I applied the patch from Henry. I hope we get LCL-Win fixed, too. Thanks. I'll look into lcl-win, it'll need a GetPreferredSize with MeasureText and some more magic to take the borders into account. Henry --

[Lazarus] GTK2 GroupBox auto size

2014-07-04 Thread Henry Vermaak
Hi The GroupBox auto size doesn't work very well, because it doesn't take the label width into account. If the label is wider than all of the children, it will get clipped. Any reason why GetGTKDefaultWidgetSize wasn't used, like virtually everywhere else in gtk2wsstdctrls.pp? I attach a patch

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 GroupBox auto size

2014-07-04 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 12:39:12PM +0100, Henry Vermaak wrote: Hi The GroupBox auto size doesn't work very well, because it doesn't take the label width into account. If the label is wider than all of the children, it will get clipped. Any reason why GetGTKDefaultWidgetSize wasn't used

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 GroupBox auto size

2014-07-04 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 01:03:56PM +0100, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 12:39:12PM +0100, Henry Vermaak wrote: Hi The GroupBox auto size doesn't work very well, because it doesn't take the label width into account. If the label is wider than all of the children

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 GroupBox auto size

2014-07-04 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 03:13:19PM +0200, Vojtěch Čihák wrote: Hi,   Delphi has no TGroupBox.Autosize but it has TPanel.AutoSize. I really don't care about Delphi. If I did I would be using it. When I put children on Panel, set very long Panel.Caption and Panel.AutoSize:=True then panel

Re: [Lazarus] GTK2 GroupBox auto size

2014-07-04 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 03:19:33PM +0200, zeljko wrote: On 07/04/2014 03:13 PM, Vojtěch Čihák wrote: Hi, Delphi has no TGroupBox.Autosize but it has TPanel.AutoSize. When I put children on Panel, set very long Panel.Caption and Panel.AutoSize:=True then panel shrinks to the smallest

Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-06-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:38:22PM +0100, Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 20/06/14 11:53, Michael Schnell wrote: On 06/18/2014 04:03 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: I think this vdso time thing is so fresh, it'll be great if you contact the maintainer (Andy Lutomirski) or the guy that wrote it (Stefani

Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-06-18 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:27:03PM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: On 06/06/2014 12:25 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: if you do a vDSO implementation, please do not limit the implementation to the clock_gettime, but implement all calls that support it. First testing results: On

Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-06-18 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:53:21PM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: Checking with a 64 Bit program (after overcoming the shock that with 64 fpc Integer is 32 bit =-O ): On Kernel 3.2.0 64 bit, using a 64 Bit testing program: - I do find the vDSO ELF structure at (e.g. at 7FFF5D2C9000,

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 09:40:44AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: At best, fpgettimeofday itself should be improved (maybe using Performance counter register if the Arch allows for or vDSO if the OS allows for). Only the speed can be improved by calling into the vDSO, not the precision. You

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:12:06PM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/15/2014 11:43 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: Only the speed can be improved by calling into the vDSO, not the precision. You need to use clock_gettime() for nanosecond precision I see. Is clock_gettime not available via

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:41:32AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/15/2014 11:18 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: fpGetTimeOfDay is used to implement Now(). This should not be changed. Why not, If there are better ways ? Better needs to be defined here. If you mean faster, then you

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-13 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:51:39AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/12/2014 10:37 PM, Henry Vermaak wrote: On linux, glibc (and others) will route gettimeofday() (and clock_gettime() for certain clock IDs) via vDSO and no syscall will be called, so it's very fast. I don't think the fpc rtl

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-12 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 08:12:45PM +0200, Sven Barth wrote: On 12.05.2014 15:33, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/12/2014 02:47 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Do you mean direct access to the hardware bypassing the OS? I thought that wasn't possible in Windows? I don't know how the dynamic

Re: [Lazarus] Better implementation of GetTickcount using clock_gettime

2014-04-01 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 12:45:54PM +0200, zeljko wrote: On 04/01/2014 12:20 PM, Luca Olivetti wrote: For linux a more accurate implementation could be function GetTickCount64: QWord; var tp: timespec; begin clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, @tp); Result := (Int64(tp.tv_sec) *

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling on OpenBSD

2014-02-27 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:16:01PM -0300, Leonardo Rame wrote: Hi, I'm playing with OpenBsd 5.4 amd64 (with XFCE4) and found it has an fpc 2.6.2 package, so I tried compiling Lazarus trunk. -- 8 -- 4) When I've tried to run ./lazarus, I got this: (lazarus:14292): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Second Release Candidate, 1.2RC2

2014-01-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:16:56PM +, Martin wrote: On 15/01/2014 17:09, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:45:46PM +, Henry Vermaak wrote: That has already been fixed in r43703 in trunk and merged to 1.2. I can't see it in fixes_1_2? Am I the only one missing this? I've

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Second Release Candidate, 1.2RC2

2014-01-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:26:24PM +, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 06:34:19PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: The Lazarus team would like to announce the second Release Candidate for the upcoming Version 1.2. Well done! I'd love to stick to this branch. lazbuild

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Second Release Candidate, 1.2RC2

2014-01-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:34:58PM +0100, Bart wrote: On 1/15/14, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: lazbuild crashes for me, though: That has already been fixed in r43703 in trunk and merged to 1.2. I can't see it in fixes_1_2

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Second Release Candidate, 1.2RC2

2014-01-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:45:46PM +, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:34:58PM +0100, Bart wrote: On 1/15/14, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: lazbuild crashes for me, though: That has already been fixed in r43703 in trunk and merged to 1.2. I can't

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.2RC1 Ctrl-F9 not working

2013-11-14 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:17:59PM +0100, Bart wrote: On 11/13/13, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de wrote: Check your short cuts in your system settings. They take precedence over any normal application like the IDE. On my Fedora 18 / KDE Ctrl+F9 does something weird to the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.2RC1 Ctrl-F9 not working

2013-11-13 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 04:38:28PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:05:20 + Richard Mace richard.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Running the latest RC in stock Xubutu 12.04 and Ctrl-F9 doesn't work, but if you select compile from the menu, it works fine. Any

Re: [Lazarus] Shell notifications

2013-08-22 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:49:28PM +0200, Sven Barth wrote: Am 22.08.2013 13:33, schrieb Antonio Fortuny: See the code in attachment I changed the code a little bit adding the OVERLAP parameter and events to use the async method. Now the same function returns error code 6 Error code 6 is

Re: [Lazarus] Proposal for changing fpc version on the fly in the IDE

2013-08-22 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 05:12:04PM +0300, patspiper wrote: On 22/08/13 16:23, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I usually add a couple of symlinks in /usr/local/bin e.g. ppcsparc - ppcsparc-2.6.2 and ppcsparc-2.6.2 - /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.2/ppcsparc. The fpc binary will be the one installed by the

Re: [Lazarus] Shell notifications

2013-08-21 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:36:56PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Michael Schnell wrote: On 08/20/2013 02:56 PM, Henry Vermaak wrote: ... together with select().. In Object Pascal I think this should be encapsulated in a thread and same fires a main Thread event (via TThread.Queue

Re: [Lazarus] Shell notifications

2013-08-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:22:02PM +0200, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Hi Folks. Do you know any component / tool to allow an application to be notified by the host OS when something changes in a disk directory ? Both Windows Linux. inotify on linux (together with select()). I'm told

Re: [Lazarus] Shell notifications

2013-08-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:21:01PM +0200, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Le 20/08/2013 14:56, Henry Vermaak a écrit : On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:22:02PM +0200, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Hi Folks. Do you know any component / tool to allow an application to be notified by the host OS when something

Re: [Lazarus] Path that .exe file is running from

2013-08-02 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:58:02AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: On 08/02/2013 10:32 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Michael Schnell wrote: On 08/01/2013 08:56 PM, Richard Mace wrote: Application is only available when using appropriate WidgetTypes. Not when doing simple

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:49:48AM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16/07/2013 18:18, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: Ranting from a position of ignorance seriously dilutes your credibility

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:33:45AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Reinier Olislagers wrote: It's not a bug, it's a feature: MySQL accepts data other DBs wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole ;) (Don't ask about it proceeding and mangling that data - that's beside the point ;) ) If it

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:22:44AM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:17, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:33:45AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly web developers- clasped it to their bosom

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:28:38AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: On 07/16/2013 11:17 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: Probably not, no, given that it's used by ... I seem to find out that this discussion is about experts making fun on each other, just wasting some bandwidth :-) . They're just

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: Ranting from a position of ignorance seriously dilutes your credibility in my book. I'm just saying the rants may be justified if mysql cannot be configured to follow the RDBMS

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 16 Jul 2013 20:39, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: Ranting from a position of ignorance seriously dilutes your credibility in my

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-07-15 13:43, leledumbo wrote: Or if they insist on using MySQL (compatible alternative): MariaDB Nope, still not! I'll not touch MySQL, MariaDB or anything based on those with a 10 foot pole! If you value your

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:53:25PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: The case sensitivity in the table names is also crazy, especially if the database gets moved. I had to modify quite a lot of SQL statements because of that. For MySQL support I had to look up the table name (as MySQL has it),

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:44:42PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-07-15 15:06, Henry Vermaak wrote: Could you explain why the above is bad for those of us that aren't DB experts? To my untrained eye it looks fairly plausible, so I'm obviously missing something. I never inserted

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:37:35PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Henry Vermaak wrote: Could you explain why the above is bad for those of us that aren't DB experts? To my untrained eye it looks fairly plausible, so I'm obviously missing something. Simple

Re: [Lazarus] FPC source index

2013-06-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 07:49:27PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:16:33 +0100 Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list Is there a way to force the Rescan FPC Source Directory to not run in OnIdle? I've got an ARM computer with slow storage and I

Re: [Lazarus] FPC source index

2013-06-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:17:51AM +0100, Henry Vermaak wrote: It's gtk2, on some recent flavour of Ubuntu. Without the source index, it seems like I can't even double click on events in the object inspector to create handlers, since it tells me that Classes can't be found. It's happy

[Lazarus] FPC source index

2013-06-19 Thread Henry Vermaak
Hi list Is there a way to force the Rescan FPC Source Directory to not run in OnIdle? I've got an ARM computer with slow storage and I thought I'd leave the IDE for a while to wait for this operation to finish, only to realise that nothing happens when I'm not moving the mouse around/typing.

Re: [Lazarus] New competition for Lazarus

2013-05-30 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:58:29AM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I just saw this thread. The PilotLogic guys (creators of the CodeTyphoon project) has finally decided to fork Lazarus IDE and go their own route. Here are some early days screenshots.

Re: [Lazarus] New competition for Lazarus

2013-05-30 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:40:14AM -0300, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote: Seems to be in a good path. They're fork Will be open source? No choice, the Lazarus IDE is GPL, so all derivative work needs to be supplied. Henry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Is Mantis bad as i thought

2013-04-05 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 5 April 2013 10:12, Zaher Dirkey parm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Bart bartjun...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want mail from Mantis, but it insists on sending it to me anyway. You can stop it from your account options, because it is sending mails for all bugs not

Re: [Lazarus] Menu key brings up wrong menu in source code editor

2013-03-14 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:03:22PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote: On 13.03.2013 19:08, Frank Church wrote: https://forums.embarcadero.com/message.jspa?messageID=535727 Graeme was rather mild in that discussion, not the usual Graeme :). The Embarcadero guys were just laughable, not confidence

Re: [Lazarus] Signal handling

2013-02-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Feb 20, 2013 9:16 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If I want to poll a variable set by an asynchronous unix-style signal, i.e. that doesn't have an OS-level handle and where the latency should probably be of the order of 100mSec, what's

Re: [Lazarus] Finding out how a program's being terminated

2013-02-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:43:51PM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, waldo kitty wrote: On 2/16/2013 08:30, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Procedures even may be different for Linux and Windows, depending on the signal/message types. Even if a program can ignore SIGTERM, can

Re: [Lazarus] Converting pence into pounds and then to string

2012-12-12 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:23:46AM +, Richard Mace wrote: Hi All, Got a simple question that has stumped me, which tends to happen if I don't do development for a couple of months. How's the best way of converting an integer number 208 (that is pence) into a string value that is in

Re: [Lazarus] 2nd call (PPC needed for MAc) [Re: Beta testers needed / Lazarus with Editor-Macro-Script]

2012-12-07 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 07/12/12 09:23, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin wrote: - intel/amd : Looks like they should work now. - ARM is known NOT to work - PPC is known only to compile for Mac (but not tested) So I need someone to test on a PPC Mac, please. Hosted on what OS? I can do Linux but wasn't aware of

Re: [Lazarus] 2nd call (PPC needed for MAc) [Re: Beta testers needed / Lazarus with Editor-Macro-Script]

2012-12-07 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 7 December 2012 15:15, Martin laza...@mfriebe.de wrote: On 07/12/2012 09:43, Henry Vermaak wrote: The code only worked for darwin, unless someone added support for linux procedure call. There isn't much difference between the two (iirc). Lets see if it works for darwin. Do you have

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild changes

2012-12-06 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 6 December 2012 16:29, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de wrote: Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de hat am 6. Dezember 2012 um 17:26 geschrieben: Hi, Two changes to lazbuild: 1. When compiling a project it does the same check as the IDE. If the project is uptodate

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-22 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 22/10/12 09:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: SkyDiablo wrote: hiho! i search a solution to build my hello world source from my windows x64 system to a openWRT (linux) with a MIPS CPU system - cross-compiling? i do not find a working solution :( now i'm trying to build with a debian system,

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-22 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 22/10/12 10:02, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Henry Vermaak wrote: I built lazarus with fpc 2.7.1 for armhf this weekend. Why do you say 2.6.0 is needed? Because of the feeling with which most developers insist that 2.6.0 is the one true way :-) Yes, I tend to use 2.6.0, too, but armhf port

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-25 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 25/09/12 11:01, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I appreciate that there might be no guaranteed portable answer to this one, and FWIW I'm primarily interested in the Linux+X+KDE combination. If a program knows that something's going on that it might later need to tell the user about, e.g. that

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Ubuntu 12.10

2012-09-25 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 25/09/12 00:38, Andrew Brunner wrote: Is anyone running Lazarus 1.1 on Ubuntu 12.10x64? I'm having problems getting lazarus to startup. Is anyone else having success or confirmed problems? Do you have more information? Back traces? Maybe unity is causing more problems (remember

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-19 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 16/09/12 14:26, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've developed a useful convention which allows me to either load a library on demand (via Dynlibs) or to link it statically. This combination allows me to use standard Lazarus debugging techniques to sort out most problems. However, yesterday's

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 13/09/12 17:04, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:08:19AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: So be fair, I don't think I have ever come across a Linux distro that doesn't include the ps binary as standard. And I have used Linux since 1996. Even *BSD and *Solaris include

Re: [Lazarus] PascalScript on Win x64

2012-09-04 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 04/09/12 14:45, Martin wrote: The point I meant to made is: you still need to get the value into that register, or set up the stack. That can only be done in asm No, you don't need to do anything. Invoke calls the function with the supplied Args, which is exactly what the assembler code

Re: [Lazarus] fpWeb long process progress

2012-08-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 15 August 2012 09:28, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 08/15/2012 12:14 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: in my case, I know in advance the process wouldn't take more than one minute, I feel that (without some special configuration) a normal web server will kill a standard CGI

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 03/08/12 09:43, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: HI, On 2 August 2012 18:38, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: Ehmm.. I'm trying to contain myself, but WHY does Lazarus 1 and 1+ even support Win9x/ME anymore? Because not everybody feels the need to fix what isn't broken.

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 03/08/12 10:46, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, On 3 August 2012 10:08, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: Lol, you owe me a new keyboard. No updates for 6 years from MS, no journalling filesystem (no ntfs). Stop talking out of your backside. And how often did updates break

Re: [Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

2012-08-03 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 03/08/12 15:26, Sven Barth wrote: On 03.08.2012 11:08, Henry Vermaak wrote: I personally think it's immoral to support these operating systems. People should be forced away from them for their own good (security wise), since they obviously know no better. By supporting them, you just drag

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