Re: [Lazarus] New user interface for future major releases of Lazarus

2012-12-04 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 04/12/2012 06:59, Felipe Ferreira da Silva ha scritto: My propose is ask if you guys would mind if I work on some projects with a different interface and made in Lazarus(of course) to you evaluate. I'm good at create components and customize to give them a stylish appearance like in

Re: [Lazarus] New user interface for future major releases of Lazarus

2012-12-04 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 04/12/2012 13:55, Felipe Ferreira da Silva ha scritto: 2) I agree that the interface of VS and Eclipise(which is very ugly) is for big displays... but look at your display! It is big, mine is only 1024x768. Don't you think that the title-bar of each windows on Lazarus is a unused space?

Re: [Lazarus] State of ReactOS

2012-10-11 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 11/10/2012 07:52, Reinier Olislagers ha scritto: Perhaps it's about time though to get Lazarus into their application downloader program in the development section if possible... that might help increase interest for Lazarus ;) Or for ReactOS :-) however I think it would definitely be a good

Re: [Lazarus] State of ReactOS

2012-10-10 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 10/10/2012 14:45, Reinier Olislagers ha scritto: Has anybody had any good experiences with FPC and/or Lazarus on recent ReactOS releases? Me. Installed lazarus 32 bit and it worked: if your lazarus/pascal programs does not touch API or system structures, they will probably work. But I just

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 01/06/2012 12:05, Marco Ciampa ha scritto: 1) it uses windows, graph; where can I find reference info, examples and other doc about these libs? Hello Marco, your questions hit the really, really painful issue about Lazarus and every other medium-large sized open source project:

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

2012-02-28 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 28/02/2012 16:01, Hans-Peter Diettrich ha scritto: Yes, much time is spent on the *code*, on mass instead of quality. No, the *documentation* is in an horrible state. Every possible user will need some documentation, before he starts to write code. As he doesn't find such documentation,

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus slow on large files

2012-02-16 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 16/02/2012 03:21, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: TStringGrid in messages? Funny idea. What editor uses a grid to show lines of text? [ ... ] Who needs 8 million rows in a string grid? I tried 1 million and it took 4 secs. 8 million created an endless loop and out of memory. Maybe the grid

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus slow on large files

2012-02-15 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 15/02/2012 09:14, Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto: I was doing some test programming for android. The android SDK unit contains 68000 lines (.pas and .inc together). Opening it in the IDE (by right-clicking an identifier in my sources) virtually stops the IDE. Don't know if this is

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus slow on large files

2012-02-15 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 15/02/2012 23:14, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: Yes, it is a known problem, and why Lazarus IDE uses TTreeview in many places like the Messages dialog, instead of TStringGrid. Well, at least there is a workaround for the problem :-) -- ___

[Lazarus] Escape key in a TActionList?

2012-02-01 Thread Massimo Soricetti
I would like to bind the escape key as a shortcut for an action in a TActionList, but seems I can't do it. The esc key is not on the list of the allowed shortcuts and the grab a key function terminates when I press the Esc, obviously not getting the Esc key... :-( Is there any way to bind Esc

[Lazarus] Are private data not allowed? Why?

2011-11-12 Thread Massimo Soricetti
I would like an explanation on this code (noob question, maybe): private sDati: array[0..3] of string; procedure Verifica(var: sDati array of string); This code returns an error because sDati is already declared. If I move the declaration in public space is OK: private procedure

Re: [Lazarus] Are private data not allowed? Why?

2011-11-12 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Thank you :-) You probably need to switch Delphi Sytanx mode. Otherwise you've two different entities in the same scope with the same name, And that causes the conflict. But it's a good practice to name parameters different from the fields' names. thanks, Dmitry --

Re: [Lazarus] Using Visual C++ .libs?

2011-06-01 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 31/05/2011 16:27, Prado, Renato (R.P.) ha scritto: Quick question: is it possible to use a .lib to be used with Visual C++? I only have the .h and the .lib (commercial library). C++ does not have a binary standard, so I guess your library is a simple C library. Is it clearly possible to

Re: [Lazarus] OPC-DA support

2011-05-26 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 26/05/2011 20:00, fluisgira...@gmail.com ha scritto: I'm requesting help to support OPC-DA (that uses DCOM) on PascalSCADA. As the target of PascalSCADA is keep the support to multiples platforms (using Lazarus and FPC), I'm thinking to convert the libraries JInterop and Utgard (that works

Re: [Lazarus] OT : Wanted demo to generate and walk through a 2D in 3D simple graphics.

2011-05-07 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 07/05/2011 02:33, Peter Williams ha scritto: I am looking for a demo in Pascal / Delphi / Lazarus (* preferred) of generating a 2D maze and letting the user walk through the maze in simple 3D graphics with lines (e.g. not ASCII) but using graphics. For example, looking down a corridor it

[Lazarus] Lazarus, FPC, message files and errors (?)

2011-04-16 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Hello, I'm translating the FPC messages file in italian. I'm done, but when testing my new file I discovered that Lazarus reports more or less errors in a source file according to the FPC message file used! O___O Wtf? Explanation I was going to test my new messages file on my Lazarus. So

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, FPC, message files and errors (?)

2011-04-16 Thread Massimo Soricetti
On 16/04/2011 18:39, Massimo Soricetti wrote: Hello, I'm translating the FPC messages file in italian. I'm done, but when testing my new file I discovered that Lazarus reports more or less errors in a source file according to the FPC message file used! O___O I posted too soon. A short