Re: [Lazarus] SIGSEGV with Debug only

2012-03-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/30/2012 04:28, Martin Schreiber wrote: Am 30.03.2012 02:06, schrieb Daniel Simoes de Ameida: I'm using Debug Info as Auto (-g) and Display Line numbers (-gl), Heaptrace Unit is also active (-gh)in Debug mode ... Any hints ? Heaptrace fills freed memory with garbage. CurAnchorSide

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/30/2012 06:16, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:31:05 -0400 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: attached is my idemake.cfg and miscellaneousoptions.xml... i also see why i'm seeing two -dDEBUG and -dVERBOSE... they are listed twice in the idemake.cfg but not in the

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?

2012-03-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/30/2012 10:05, Frank Church wrote: When I get the time via the DateTime function result is adapted for the timezone, making it an hour ahead now? Is there a function that returns the UTC time, either as a UnixTime or TDateTime irregardless of timezone? where are you reading from? the RTC

Re: [Lazarus] Can't find lazreport when building lazarus ...

2012-03-29 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/29/2012 13:25, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote: i run lazarus with/# startlazarus log.txt/ and anexed the output... http://www.wolivieraferreira.com.br/downloads/log.zip i'm unable to find an IP for that host... 03/29/12 14:00:21 dns http://www.wolivieraferreira.com.br No data of

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-29 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/29/2012 17:13, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:48:08 -0400 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: On 3/29/2012 02:49, Mattias Gaertner wrote: [...] The ppu is missing. Not the source. right... ok... i'm still learning and thought that it would build the missing ppu

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/21/2012 06:28, Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 21/03/2012 03:40, waldo kitty wrote: On 3/20/2012 22:31, waldo kitty wrote: i have 590 hits on the term interfaces in my log... that's all hits... multiples per line are counted individually... i know it is too big to attach... so now what

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/21/2012 20:12, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:13:04 -0400 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: here is an example of what i was talking about before with things being added and one of them missing a space... the last line below... it shows -dDEBUG and -dVERBOSE twice

Re: [Lazarus] Size of binaries etc.

2012-03-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/21/2012 21:38, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: But the bottom line is that the target audience is IBM mainframe hackers, used to handcrafting assembler and punching EBCDIC with their teeth. I don't want them to say Binaries bigger than 1Mb? NBG. I wonder how

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/20/2012 04:45, Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 16 maart 2012 09:31 heeft Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de het volgende geschreven: The compiler does not provide this information. Depends on how you build it: vincent@fpclin32:~$ cd ~/src/fpc/trunk/compiler

Re: [Lazarus] bug in debug-log code...

2012-03-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/20/2012 12:04, Martin wrote: On 20/03/2012 15:53, waldo kitty wrote: anyway, my point is that something is eating the first part of the second line... i suspect a string index counter error or translation string problem?? either way, it... ummm... bugs me... please forgive the pun

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/19/2012 23:50, waldo kitty wrote: echo compiling lazarus... cd %myLAZpath% echo * Debug IDE make clean lazbuild lazbuild.exe --build-ide=-gw -gl -godwarfsets -gh -gt -Co -Cr -Ci -Sa build-mode=debug ide copy /q lazarus.exe lazarus-debug.exe echo * Normal IDE make clean lazbuild lazbuild.exe

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/20/2012 18:26, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:18:20 -0400 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: [...] yeah, this still needs work on my part because 1) it is recompiling lazbuild every time which should not be necessary You only need to build lazbuild once.

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/20/2012 21:41, waldo kitty wrote: On 3/20/2012 18:26, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Maybe some installed package. Compile with -vut to find out. that would be added to the --build-ide= parameter? that's what i'm going to try right now... it takes a while to complete... will post back what

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/20/2012 22:13, waldo kitty wrote: something is ganked... will try another run with the command line of lazbuild.exe --build-ide= -vut --build-mode=debug ide note the space in the --build-ide portion... report in next post... this space in the command line seems to have gotten around

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/20/2012 22:31, waldo kitty wrote: i have 590 hits on the term interfaces in my log... that's all hits... multiples per line are counted individually... i know it is too big to attach... so now what?? :( and interfac, an 8 character fallback(??) turns up 17183 hits including all

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/16/2012 04:31, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:25:48 -0400 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: On 3/14/2012 19:14, Mattias Gaertner wrote: lazbuild can now compile an IDE with its build profiles. YAY! i think ;) if i'm understanding the correctly, it stems from

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-19 Thread waldo kitty
, the following quote... On 3/8/2012 12:36, waldo kitty wrote: alright... having read over this numerous times, like this then??? echo compiling lazarus... cd %myLAZpath% echo Debug IDE make clean lazbuild --build-ide=-gw -gl -godwarfsets -gh -gt -Co -Cr -Ci -Sa copy lazarus.exe lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild build IDE profiles

2012-03-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/14/2012 19:14, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Hi, lazbuild can now compile an IDE with its build profiles. YAY! i think ;) if i'm understanding the correctly, it stems from our conversation(s) recently about compiling laz from the command line and being able to use the same settings as those

Re: [Lazarus] Adding packages at build time

2012-03-13 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/9/2012 01:53, Mattias Gaertner wrote: The current build profiles are the build modes of the IDE. Eventually the IDE should be compiled as a project. Then they will be called build modes. That's why it should use the same parameter as a project --build-mode. ok... so if i am understanding

Re: [Lazarus] Adding packages at build time

2012-03-13 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/8/2012 15:14, Mattias Gaertner wrote: cd %myLAZpath% make clean lazbuild lazbuild.exe --build-ide=-gw -gl -godwarfsets -gh -gt -Co -Cr -Ci -Sa ik, so i have fixed up my script to follow the above... there is a make clean beforehand... i see this in the output but compilation seems to

Re: [Lazarus] Adding packages at build time

2012-03-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/7/2012 18:20, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:54:37 -0500 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: echo compiling lazarus... cd %myLAZpath% make clean lazbuild OPT=-glw2 lazbuild --build-ide= echo lazarus compilation complete... ok... still trying to fully

Re: [Lazarus] Adding packages at build time

2012-03-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/8/2012 15:14, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Keep in mind that if the options are different in the IDE settings the IDE will rebuild the packages again. Maybe the --build-mode parameter can be extended to set the mode for the IDE building. that would be a great step forward because right now it

Re: [Lazarus] Adding packages at build time

2012-03-07 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/5/2012 05:42, Mattias Gaertner wrote: No. There is currently no command line tool to change the list of install packages. lazbuild takes the list from the same place as the IDE - your config directory. The parameter --build-ide takes additional compiler options. Like debugger settings,

[Lazarus] ttgload broken

2012-03-03 Thread waldo kitty
cannot compile lazarus from trunk :? Compiling ttgload.pas ttgload.pas(126,73) Hint: Local variable advance does not seem to be initialized ttgload.pas(126,63) Hint: Local variable left_bearing does not seem to be initialized ttgload.pas(256,40) Error: Identifier not found i

Re: [Lazarus] ttgload broken

2012-03-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/3/2012 15:51, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: It was caused because you added the define DEBUG to your IDE and it activated freetype debug info which seams to be wrong. yes, from what i saw when i looked, it seems that certain vars are really missing Do svn up and try again, I

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/27/2012 05:11, Sven Barth wrote: I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that you do since there is one specific kernel call (in effect, telling the kernel to release an unrecognised device to an unprivileged program) that won't work otherwise. I already managed the

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/27/2012 10:09, Sven Barth wrote: Am 27.02.2012 16:06, schrieb waldo kitty: why not just add your user(s) to that group the device was in? this would/should give the same access capabilities... or am i missing something else? The USB device files are by default created with root:root. I

Re: [Lazarus] Message error when closing IDE

2012-02-23 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/23/2012 02:02, Rigel Rigel wrote: Hello, After I install component (for example bgrabitmap5.6 for lazpaint4.7 but not only this component) and after closing IDE error message appears (see attachment). How can I fix a problem? Thanks! you've built a debug or have the use heaptrc turned

Re: [Lazarus] Message error when closing IDE

2012-02-23 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/23/2012 02:38, zeljko wrote: On Thursday 23 of February 2012 08:02:08 Rigel Rigel wrote: After I install component (for example bgrabitmap5.6 for lazpaint4.7 but not only this component) and after closing IDE error message appears (see attachment). How can I fix a problem? Thanks!

Re: [Lazarus] [lazarus-br] Re: Como passar uma procedure local como callback?

2012-02-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/21/2012 18:01, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: waldo kitty schrieb: eg: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/datetostr.html there should be sample output and definitely something for the formatsettings... http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/tformatsettings.html

Re: [Lazarus] [lazarus-br] Re: Como passar uma procedure local como callback?

2012-02-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/20/2012 10:59, Everton Vieira wrote: Has been felt need for examples in the documentation. i haven't yet gotten to this stage of my stack of round to its (joke getting around to it) and this seems ok time... not only are examples needed but also sample output... i have been digging in

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/16/2012 06:49, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:30:44 +0100 Michael Schnellmschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 02/15/2012 06:38 PM, Andrew Haines wrote: When you press F1 in lazarus it performs it's own search of what it is looking for. If it finds something it presents a list of

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/16/2012 10:48, Sven Barth wrote: Am 16.02.2012 16:23, schrieb waldo kitty: On 2/16/2012 06:49, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:30:44 +0100 Michael Schnellmschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 02/15/2012 06:38 PM, Andrew Haines wrote: When you press F1 in lazarus it performs it's

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/16/2012 10:34, Michael Schnell wrote: On 02/16/2012 04:23 PM, waldo kitty wrote: 1. the information simply is not in the chm (not good) or wherever file(s) the attached help viewer uses. (not good either). right... i was thinking only of chm since that's what is expected

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/16/2012 11:27, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: waldo kitty schrieb: From that I understood that you placed the cursor in the implementation reserved word and pressed F1 and called it a keyword. yes, i did place the cursor on the word implementation... yes, i called it a keyword because

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 03:33, Michael Schnell wrote: On 02/14/2012 07:33 PM, waldo kitty wrote: placed the cursor on a pascal keyword (ie: implementation in the currently opened file from when i opened the lhelp.lpi), pressed F1 and... no help :( To get context help for pascal language keywords, you

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 04:58, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: waldo kitty schrieb: Download all the CHM, and keyword help works (here, Win7). I got ref, prog, user and toc CHMs, too. hunh? there are only 3 in the ~16Meg fpc-lazarus-doc-chm-0.9.30.2.tar.bz2 file i pulled off of sourceforge as directed

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 05:30, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: waldo kitty schrieb: also basic things like 'writeln', 'write', and similar do not give any help... but then some stuff, like 'integer' popup with a Help selector window as mentioned above and one of the two RTL (ahh! found a RTL[] hit) options

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 05:47, Sven Barth wrote: Am 15.02.2012 03:48, schrieb waldo kitty: but then some stuff, like 'integer' popup with a Help selector window as mentioned above and one of the two RTL (ahh! found a RTL[] hit) options (objpas.pp) talks about redefinition of integer as 32-bit type whereas

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 05:56, Sven Barth wrote: Am 15.02.2012 07:52, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: On 15 February 2012 04:58, waldo kitty wrote: i used the term 'keyword' to cover basic pascal verbs or whatever the proper verbiage is for them... i also see/use this term to cover all library items and am

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 05:58, Sven Barth wrote: Am 15.02.2012 11:18, schrieb Marco van de Voort: Putting ref.chm in the same directory. The keywords are in there for nearly two years. But iirc only .31 supports it, not .30. (and it is one of the things that would be nice to backport to a future stable

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 06:08, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 15 February 2012 12:30, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: I found no time yet to create an overview of all the basic (built-in) types, which would allow to update all these types in one single place, whenever the declarations are changed in the

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 07:10, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Sven Barth schrieb: Please validate first by either checking the documentation by hand (using lHelp's search) or using IDENTIFER site:freepascal.org on Google. I trust a user when he says that something doesn't work, e.g. he doesn't get help

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 07:17, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, waldo kitty wrote: why does basic stuff, eg: 'write' and 'writeln' not have any help at all? Where do you get that from ? It is documented. See http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/index-5.html but that's

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 11:39, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Sending again on-list now: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: uhh... reserved words are not keywords... at least not in my 30+ year old coding book of terms... and definitely not in my ~50 years of

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/15/2012 17:50, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 15 February 2012 19:58, waldo kitty wrote: @graeme: does docview work with chm files? i haven't looked at it, yet, if if does, i'm curious if it will find things that lhelp doesn't in the same chm files when invoked by placing the cursor

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-14 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/14/2012 05:48, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Lukasz Sokol schrieb: System-wide solutions for Linux is the *Unix-way*, is to create a lock-file; If you create one on a tmpfs mounted directory, it will all happen in memory, hence no hard-drive storage access will happen (unless moved to swap,

[Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-14 Thread waldo kitty
ok, i decided to go back and retry this all over again... i'm following the instructions in the wiki as linked to by the default Help-Online Help page... http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Help_in_the_IDE#Installing_CHM_Help_for_The_RTL.2C_FCL_and_LCL_in_the_Lazarus_IDE [quote]

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-14 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/14/2012 14:40, Sven Barth wrote: On 14.02.2012 19:33, waldo kitty wrote: so why isn't this working??? what is the key step that has been left out of the instructions?? What about trying not a keyword? What about things like FileExists, TProcess, TForm (if the correct units are included

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-14 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/14/2012 16:29, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com schrieb: Em 14/02/2012, às 19:33, waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net escreveu: so why isn't this working??? what is the key step that has been left out of the instructions?? Read the wiki section title

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-14 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/14/2012 16:21, felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: Em 14/02/2012, às 19:33, waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net escreveu: so why isn't this working??? what is the key step that has been left out of the instructions?? Read the wiki section title. Documentation for RTL, fcl, lcl.

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-14 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/14/2012 17:40, Martin wrote: On 14/02/2012 18:33, waldo kitty wrote: so why isn't this working??? what is the key step that has been left out of the instructions?? I added to the wiki 6) Go to the Environment Options, i see this as IDE Options dialog tab Help Options' i do not have

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-13 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/13/2012 10:40, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Le 09/02/2012 19:10, waldo kitty a écrit : On 2/9/2012 03:16, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Le 08/02/2012 19:58, waldo kitty a écrit : On 2/8/2012 08:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 08/02/12 13:26, Michael Schnell wrote: Why not just use a file

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-13 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/13/2012 19:24, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Now the lazarus team needs to decide how it intends to use the new feature. When a decision has been reached, I'll see how I can help (if any help is still needed). This reminds me on: Here's the solution, where's

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-12 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/10/2012 16:08, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Here I think you're underrating the Lazarus users :-) So we face the question what to do until such a todo-note feature exists. Why not leave the notes as they are? If everybody would fix such a note, instead of discussing how to proceed, we

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-12 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/11/2012 03:38, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: I only remember that you stated that you don't like such notes. It is not about liking, I think it is just plainly obvious that if someone downloads our

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-12 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/11/2012 05:59, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: It is not about liking, I think it is just plainly obvious that if someone downloads our software and builds our docs, presses F1 and reads [really?] it makes us look ridiculous so it is not acceptable to

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-12 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/11/2012 06:26, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: My viewpoint is different, I would never start using a product where I found the documenation incomplete or wrong. That's why I started to fill the gaps in the existing documentation, and to point to all those places where I could not find out the

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-12 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/11/2012 06:37, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Juha Manninen schrieb: 2012/2/10, Bart bartjun...@gmail.com: There is a screenshot aatached to my original post here. Right, somehow I missed it. Now the problem is clear. You have a bigger font and its effect is doubled because both main menu

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation contribution

2012-02-12 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/11/2012 09:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Martin schrieb: We have 3 cases 1) correct and good documentation. No note was ever attached, or if it was, then it was in error and removal is appropriate 2) empty or meaningless. (can be seen of a kind of wrong, but not incorrect or untrue).

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-12 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/11/2012 11:14, Samuel Herzog wrote: Hi Luiz, you are right. Almost everything can be configured/customized in lazarus IDE. But this is really important, because first impressions count. Recently I convinced a colleage to install lazarus. On the first start, the Lazarus IDE really looks

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-09 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/9/2012 03:16, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Le 08/02/2012 19:58, waldo kitty a écrit : On 2/8/2012 08:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 08/02/12 13:26, Michael Schnell wrote: Why not just use a file ? Is there a cross platform file locking solution in fpc? why would that be necessary

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-09 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/9/2012 03:17, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Le 08/02/2012 19:56, waldo kitty a écrit : On 2/8/2012 07:52, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Hi all. I need to implement a system wide locking system in all WIn32, Win64, Linux32 and Linux64. Therefore I need some king of named locking objects. For Windows

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-09 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/9/2012 04:45, Michael Schnell wrote: On 02/09/2012 10:41 AM, ik wrote: Disk IO is one of the slowest memory usage that exists (even SSD drives). RAM is the fastest memory exists today. That is why the OS uses a RAM cache and does Disk I/O only when viable. +1 and i indicated as such in

Re: [Lazarus] Extending FCL documentation

2012-02-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/8/2012 03:01, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: * Wiki sites are NOT a solution for Context Sensitive Help. +1~ i have /YET/ to find or use a wiki that makes any sense, is easily searchable, or has a decent index like a book... to me a wiki is nothing more than a pile of

Re: [Lazarus] Extending FCL documentation

2012-02-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/8/2012 04:55, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: I just wanted to test your theory that the IDE help system is in shambles and I did a little google and found this link: fail :( pretend that uncle google simple doesn't exist... better yet, perform the same feat on a machine that is

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/8/2012 07:52, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Hi all. I need to implement a system wide locking system in all WIn32, Win64, Linux32 and Linux64. Therefore I need some king of named locking objects. For Windows I can use mutexes. For Linex I can only use sem_t structures managed by a series of

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/8/2012 08:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 08/02/12 13:26, Michael Schnell wrote: Why not just use a file ? Is there a cross platform file locking solution in fpc? why would that be necessary is the simple existence of the file indicates locked or not?? --

Re: [Lazarus] Extending FCL documentation

2012-02-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/8/2012 15:28, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Sven Barth schrieb: That might be, but Felipe is talking about the default for Lazarus. That is what everyone is complaining about: there is no default offline help available after installation. Q: offline Help, or offline Documentation? i,

Re: [Lazarus] Extending FCL documentation

2012-02-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/8/2012 15:36, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Sven Barth schrieb: Not every feature is about source code. In this thread we're also talking about IDE help (e.g. about its windows and its features) and not the features of the underlying code. See my note on the difference between context

Re: [Lazarus] Extending FCL documentation

2012-02-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/8/2012 13:46, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:42 PM, waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: fail :( What failed? ok... let's start again... while we're in town or over at a friend's place, we download the archive and save it to a disk... now we go to

Re: [Lazarus] Extending FCL documentation

2012-02-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/8/2012 15:46, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: waldo kitty schrieb: to me a wiki is nothing more than a pile of postit notes arranged in some random order... Even worse: you don't have access to all those notes, instead there sits a dumb secretary in between, that will or will not find what

Re: [Lazarus] Fast drawing to canvas

2012-02-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/8/2012 19:52, Darius Blaszyk wrote: Despite all the advices, none of the suggestions of drawing on a TPaintBox or creating a TCustomControl actually speed up the painting significantly. Therefore I did some profiling. It appears that loading a 40kb png file (50% HD) from a stream takes

Re: [Lazarus] Filtering on date with TDbf

2012-01-31 Thread waldo kitty
On 1/31/2012 07:59, Michael Joyner wrote: to be able to compare dates as strings, you should always set the format as year-month-day +100 i tend to use mmddhhkkssj where kk is minutes and jj us hundreths of seconds where available... at least this for _simple_ before/equal/after

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

2012-01-29 Thread waldo kitty
On 1/29/2012 10:42, Antônio wrote: But you can fill in a bug report and request to add the the templates and IFDEF for windows that add console mode, or something like that I think this is a good idea. {$IFDEF Windows}{$apptype console}{$ENDIF} manually or automatic? i don't know that i can

Re: [Lazarus] freeaddrinfo not found in dll WS2_32.dll on w2k??

2011-12-26 Thread waldo kitty
for it if that might be incorporated... i dunno... it is deeper than i have gone in a GUI environment before so for now, i'm dropping it in this area... On 12/25/2011 15:25, waldo kitty wrote: On 12/25/2011 14:40, waldo kitty wrote: i have a project that i've been playing with to learn from... i

[Lazarus] freeaddrinfo not found in dll WS2_32.dll on w2k??

2011-12-25 Thread waldo kitty
i have a project that i've been playing with to learn from... i use this project as a double check that things have gone right when i update lazarus from svn... i have two machines, w2k and vista, that i maintain the same code on for testing and supporting at least back to w2k... now,

Re: [Lazarus] freeaddrinfo not found in dll WS2_32.dll on w2k??

2011-12-25 Thread waldo kitty
On 12/25/2011 14:40, waldo kitty wrote: i have a project that i've been playing with to learn from... i use this project as a double check that things have gone right when i update lazarus from svn... i have two machines, w2k and vista, that i maintain the same code on for testing

Re: [Lazarus] [patch] lhelp scrolling slowness - I might have found it

2011-12-24 Thread waldo kitty
On 12/24/2011 22:39, Andrew Haines wrote: On 12/24/11 20:22, Bernd wrote: I removed an unneeded LowerCase(), the css and html parsers will already deliver only lowercase element names anyways. Bernd This patch makes a noticeable difference on my computer as well. I applied it in r34400. a

Re: [Lazarus] Extracting a resource from an exe file adding it back in

2011-10-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/15/2011 10:48, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: I want to give users an editor to edit a text file inside helped.zip save the changes back to the executable. You'll run into a couple of problems: - An executable cannot update itself (at runtime). why not? i

Re: [Lazarus] Extracting a resource from an exe file adding it back in

2011-10-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/17/2011 10:58, Sven Barth wrote: Am 17.10.2011 16:28, schrieb waldo kitty: On 10/15/2011 10:48, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: I want to give users an editor to edit a text file inside helped.zip save the changes back to the executable. You'll run

Re: [Lazarus] Initial value of BidiMode in RightToLeft system

2011-10-10 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/10/2011 02:31, ik wrote: Hi Zaher, 2011/10/10 Zaher Dirkey parm...@gmail.com mailto:parm...@gmail.com In short to understand what happened -- Imagine that you made an English tools worked fine for you (not multi language tools), and you send it to me, that tools

Re: [Lazarus] Initial value of BidiMode in RightToLeft system

2011-10-10 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/10/2011 13:03, Zaher Dirkey wrote: Hi, Ido 2011/10/10 ik ido...@gmail.com mailto:ido...@gmail.com set new ground rules New rules best here, because even in Delphi it is wrong way to choose default BidiMode. The Idea, for example it is easy to understand it, most programers used

Re: [Lazarus] Problem to rename a form

2011-09-28 Thread waldo kitty
On 9/28/2011 08:43, Howard Page-Clark wrote: On 28/9/11 1:24, Rafael Tuim Elias wrote: I found a strange behavior in Lazarus IDE. To reproduce follow that steps: 1 - Create a new project. 2 - Rename Form1 to fmAINmENU 3 - Save all 4 - Try to rename the form to FMainMenu IDE doesn't permit.

Re: [Lazarus] where's the 'X'?

2011-08-31 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/31/2011 02:06, zeljko wrote: On Monday 29 of August 2011 21:03:15 Vincent Snijders wrote: This feature is not implemented in the windows page control, it is in gtk2. Qt have close buttons on tabs too. FWIW: i don't really care if it is on the tab or the frame... i rather prefer the

Re: [Lazarus] where's the 'X'?

2011-08-31 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/31/2011 03:47, Flávio Etrusco wrote: 2011/8/31 zeljkozel...@holobit.net: On Monday 29 of August 2011 21:03:15 Vincent Snijders wrote: This feature is not implemented in the windows page control, it is in gtk2. Qt have close buttons on tabs too. I think the easiest implementation

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus doesn't set IDE language correctly

2011-08-31 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/31/2011 04:23, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I have changed my System and Gnome language settings to Afrikaans. I logged out and then back it to ensure the language change is correct. My whole Gnome desktop and GTK2 applications (gEdit, Firefox, OpenOffice etc) are now all in Afrikaans.

[Lazarus] where's the 'X'?

2011-08-29 Thread waldo kitty
for many years, i've used editors that allow for more than one file to be open at once... in those editors, there's generally been an 'X' to close that (sub)window containing each additional file... some editors have an 'X' for all files and closing the last one results in a new blank page...

Re: [Lazarus] where's the 'X'?

2011-08-29 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/29/2011 15:03, Vincent Snijders wrote: 2011/8/29 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net: [TRIM] so anyway, the other day i'm working in laz and had a need to have more than one file open at the same time... when i was finished with the other file, i went to close it... i couldn't find the

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling only LCL to 64-bit, on Windows

2011-08-25 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/25/2011 03:40, Sven Barth wrote: Am 25.08.2011 09:08, schrieb Andreas Schneider: Done. Now you set the compiler (in Lazarus) to C:\FPC\2.5.1\bin\i386-win32\fpc.exe and switch the target architecture/OS in the project options depending on your needs - the 32bit fpc.exe will then either

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling only LCL to 64-bit, on Windows

2011-08-25 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/25/2011 10:49, Flávio Etrusco wrote: (...) meanwhile I'm downloading clean FPC sources to test again. downloading clean? I hope you mean TortoiseSVN's Revert... command... i've had to do this a few times and i always do it by removing or renaming the directory and then starting fully

Re: [Lazarus] Console App Development

2011-08-14 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/12/2011 23:14, Michael Thompson wrote: OMG. Then we really need to discover what the gtk2 glue is doing so wrong. It's not just LCL-GTK2, the same thing happens with Lazarus IDE compiled for LCL-Qt4 too. Just tested. Opening a blank project, Lazarus IDE (using LCL-Qt4) uses 69MB

[Lazarus] minor debug log problem?

2011-08-11 Thread waldo kitty
FPC 2.4.5 r17984 Lazarus 0.9.31 r31925 i386-win32-win32/win64 in actuality, there are several lazarus revisions involved because much of my debug log is only about compiling lazarus after svn updates... leaving only the first two and the last lines of the debug log... the second line of the

Re: [Lazarus] Console App Development

2011-08-11 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/11/2011 16:13, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 11 August 2011 21:38, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: I find the choice of going for a console app quite curious. +1 And this is not the first message (in recent days) where the developer is considering

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi XE2 uses FPC, plus VCL just not portable

2011-08-09 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/8/2011 17:08, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 8 August 2011 22:20, waldo kitty wrote: numerous of your posts seem to be being duplicated into the list... i don't I think it's a mailing list issue or something. Because I'm also seeing lots of duplicate mails, but they seem to be from Michael

Re: [Lazarus] SQLdb not detect automatically Required field

2011-08-09 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/9/2011 12:52, silvioprog wrote: Hi, Someone is experiencing this problem?: http://62.166.198.202/view.php?id=19872 I'm trying to create an OPF, but with this bug still isn't possible to continue implementing my framework. off the top of my head, without reading the bug report, is this

Re: [Lazarus] Build command menu on WinXP is broken(?)

2011-08-09 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/9/2011 13:22, Marcos Douglas wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Marcos Douglasm...@delfire.net wrote: It was to be the same code, isn't? As far as I know they don't use the same

Re: [Lazarus] OT: Delphi XE2 uses FPC, plus VCL just not portable

2011-08-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/8/2011 06:33, Alexander Klenin wrote: I strongly suspect that the center of the world directly depends on the country which produced the map. It least I know that Russian maps put Russia in the center (which is relatively easy since it is very large anyway), while U.S. maps are centered on

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi XE2 uses FPC, plus VCL just not portable

2011-08-08 Thread waldo kitty
i'm just using this thread as a start for this private notation since it is one that seems to be affected... numerous of your posts seem to be being duplicated into the list... i don't know why or if other's posts are also being duplicated... i've noticed numerous ones while i've been

Re: [Lazarus] FPDoc tracker

2011-07-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/17/2011 07:26, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17 July 2011 03:33, Hans-Peter Diettrichdrdiettri...@aol.com wrote: Have a look into the docs/html directory? That is the Lazarus docs directory which uses a very different build system to the FPC docs (which is what we talked about). For

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