Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-support site, question about FPC version for Lazarus

2010-09-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 9/16/2010 04:08, Joost van der Sluis wrote: It's really difficult to find an intuitive way for newcomers to help them install Lazarus. I've planned to think something out for this next weekend for the lazarus-support website. (As you can see now it's splitted up into two portions, one with

Re: [Lazarus] Threads in Lazarus code base

2010-09-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 9/15/2010 08:27, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Try and use the TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer instead. At least you will not block threads that only want to do reading (which seem to be most of the IDE task you mentioned with the OnIdle comment). the first think i'd probably end up doing

Re: [Lazarus] How to produce a tone at Tone frequency for duration MSecs (milliseconds)

2010-09-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 9/3/2010 15:29, Sven Barth wrote: On 03.09.2010 17:50, waldo kitty wrote: @PEW: how does your game install? does it have to install as root? if so, since it is root, why not set up a new group that has access to the /dev device for the speaker and add the user(s) to it? that way everyone can

Re: [Lazarus] Errors installing ACS 2.2 Sound component (ACS_Classes.pas)

2010-09-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 9/3/2010 16:36, Peter E Williams wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 13:16 -0700, Bihar Anwar wrote: Try ACS v2.4 svn version. I'd done it before with a success. Yes, it cannot be compiled before my trivial fixes to the ACS source, but I forgot what fixes I'd done at the time. Just to tell you

Re: [Lazarus] How to produce a tone at Tone frequency for duration MSecs (milliseconds)

2010-09-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 9/3/2010 12:25, Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:50:17 -0400 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: come one, folks... PEW is a game writer... games beep... No, they do not. Only shitty games beep. Decent ones use the sound hardware. you have such a pleasant attitude...

Re: [Lazarus] Error: overloaded identifier MyButtonsClickHandler isn't a function

2010-09-01 Thread waldo kitty
On 9/1/2010 04:39, Peter E Williams wrote: Hi Ido, On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 10:38 +0300, ik wrote: Please see fixes inline. http://ik.homelinux.org/ I went to the above URL and I cannot find any fixes inline. Please provide an exact URL for the new version. the fixes are not at a URL... the

Re: [Lazarus] Error: overloaded identifier MyButtonsClickHandler isn't a function

2010-09-01 Thread waldo kitty
On 9/1/2010 07:34, ik wrote: I've highlighted them in Blue (in HTML version), but I do not know how it looks like in text based email. like regular quoted text in TB3... at least they have the leading '' quote symbol... but i think there's a blank line around them, too... --

Re: [Lazarus] TDBF File is NOT created!!! FieldDefs.add( field, param, param ) does NOT create fields.

2010-09-01 Thread waldo kitty
On 9/1/2010 08:45, Peter E Williams wrote: Hi all, This one is really puzzling. I thought that I was doing everything okay to generate a new TDBF file... but I cannot create the file. The following is tracetestUnit1.pas which is a test unit to create a dBase format TDbf database file.

Re: [Lazarus] user information of failure during initialization phase

2010-08-31 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/31/2010 02:49, Maik Wojcieszak wrote: Hi, I am working with Lazarus IDE v0.9.28.2 Beta MS Windows XP Prof DE sp3 FPC Version 2.2.4 I try do dynmaically load a dll during initialization phase. This can cause exceptions if the dll is not available or the interface is not matching. Raising

Re: [Lazarus] DefaultTranslator

2010-08-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/20/2010 15:28, Maxim Ganetsky wrote: 20.08.2010 12:34, Bogusław Brandys пишет: Maxim Ganetsky pisze: 20.08.2010 2:46, patspiper пишет: I vote for having the default translator handle resource strings the same way. Added in r27154. Please test. Btw. does it still use .po files or I

Re: [Lazarus] TSplitter

2010-08-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/20/2010 22:00, Paul Ishenin wrote: 21.08.2010 9:17, Bernd Kreuss wrote: How is the splitter supposed to be used? Can It be configured in the form editor at all? And if so, what steps are needed to configure a vertical splitter between two controls in the form editor? 1. set Align :=

Re: [Lazarus] TSplitter

2010-08-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/21/2010 04:28, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, waldo kitty wrote: On 8/20/2010 22:00, Paul Ishenin wrote: 21.08.2010 9:17, Bernd Kreuss wrote: How is the splitter supposed to be used? Can It be configured in the form editor at all? And if so, what steps are needed

Re: [Lazarus] TSplitter

2010-08-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/21/2010 06:03, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: waldo kitty schrieb: 1. set Align := alLeft for the first control, 2. set Align := alLeft for the splitter and move it after the first control 3. set Align := alClient for the second control wow... that doesn't seem intuitive at all :? That's

Re: [Lazarus] TSplitter

2010-08-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/21/2010 07:29, Bernd Kreuss wrote: __ [1] I am writing this from the perspective of somebody who's intuition is not contaminated by decades of Delphi usage. that's also where i was coming from... i think you've stated it much better than i ;) As long as I have not become too used

Re: [Lazarus] DefaultTranslator

2010-08-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/18/2010 17:53, Maxim Ganetsky wrote: 19.08.2010 1:46, patspiper пишет: What's the logic behind this behavior? Shouldn't the translator translate the whole form/application? It translates the whole form, but resourcestrings you should translate manually. i assume that this means that

Re: [Lazarus] How can I increment/decrement a alphanumeric value?

2010-08-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/19/2010 15:54, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:36 PM, silvioprogsilviop...@gmail.com wrote: E.g: 001 002 .. 00A 00B .. 0A0 0A1 .. ZZZ Is there a native routine in Free Pascal to do that? Feels like a college task. or maybe even freshman high school... There's

Re: [Lazarus] Solved(Re: Lazarus won t start under user account in MacOS X 1.5.8 for PPC)

2010-08-06 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/6/2010 05:38, Haruo Toda wrote: Colin, I read your patch. That seems to solve really what I encountered. It may be a rather rare case, running Lazarus first on a newly settled Mac -- before any printing works ;-) while it may be an unusual case, it has been found and can now be

Re: [Lazarus] Fix for broken scrollbar in lhelp (fix in turbopower_ipro)

2010-08-01 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/1/2010 11:50, Bernd Kreuss wrote: On 01.08.2010 17:40, Bernd Kreuss wrote: [3 times the same] sorry for posting it 3 times, thunderbird gave me a fatal SMTP error and left the window open so i didn't expect that it had gone through. FWIW: i only got it once over here ;) --

Re: [Lazarus] Build Number

2010-07-23 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/23/2010 04:12, Kjow wrote: 2010/7/23 Paul Ishenini...@kmiac.ru: This constanst is stored as a resource of your application. You can read it by accessing this resource. I attached a small utility unit which helps with the version info extraction. Here is a small example of how to use it

Re: [Lazarus] Build Number

2010-07-23 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/23/2010 04:17, Sven Barth wrote: Hi! Am 23.07.2010 00:58, schrieb waldo kitty: on the surface, this would seem to be similar to the C style preprocessor stuff that takes macros like __DATE__ and __TIME__ and converts them to the current date and time and writes them into the object code

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

2010-07-23 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/23/2010 10:34, Juha Manninen wrote: As a result the page became very long and the relevant information was very difficult to find. Other wiki pages have the same problem. now you know one of my main reasons for not liking wiki pages at all... here's another... if a wiki is supposed to

Re: [Lazarus] does anyone remember polyglot?

2010-07-23 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/23/2010 14:35, Marc Weustink wrote: waldo kitty wrote: wonder what the differences are that -Mtp must be used? Comment nesting: Compiling polyglot.txt polyglot.txt(47,8) Warning: Comment level 2 found polyglot.txt(49,75) Warning: Comment level 2 found polyglot.txt(76,1) Warning: Comment

Re: [Lazarus] show declaration hints has more power in it than is really used

2010-07-23 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/23/2010 13:53, Bernd wrote: Comments are for *other* people who might later read your code and don't yet know how it works. +1 plus they are also very helpful to you when you come back some time later and don't remember what's going on or why ;) comments are *always* helpful! There

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/22/2010 10:33, Marcos Douglas wrote: So, what do you want? Delete all information about wince and x86_64 or somebody will complete these informations? i wouldn't delete them... i'm rather interested because i want/need to figure out how to cross compile for OS2 and linux... --

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/22/2010 14:21, Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:55:56 -0300 Marcos Douglasm...@delfire.net wrote: So, where is the ppc386.exe in SVN, exists? Of course not. No binaries in SVN, only source, as it should be. Best is to install stable FPC and then compile the SVN version

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/22/2010 14:27, Marcos Douglas wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Reimar Grabowskireimg...@web.de wrote: Best is to install stable FPC and then compile the SVN version with it. After that replace the stable with your newly created version. So, is it mandatory to install one version

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/22/2010 14:42, Reimar Grabowski wrote: Disclaimer: I am not a Windows guy and don't know what a exe is, means or does. :) in the DOS/Win world, the extension traditionally denotes what the file can do... .exe and .com are executables... .com files are basically memory snaps and

[Lazarus] does anyone remember polyglot?

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
does anyone remember polyglot? here's the sources to the 10th anniversary edition that i've had stashed away for quite some time ;) somehow i don't think it can be fitted into a lazarus GUI format too easily... not without some breakage... but i may be wrong about that... FPC should be able

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/22/2010 14:55, Marcos Douglas wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Reimar Grabowskireimg...@web.de wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:27:14 -0300 Marcos Douglasm...@delfire.net wrote: Not so fast... here there are some binaries:

Re: [Lazarus] Build Number

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/22/2010 18:12, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:42:41 +0200 Kjowantispamm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to use inside the application the build number? Since Lazarus has an auto-increment of the build number, I would to include a label with the revision in the

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/22/2010 18:55, Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:49:59 -0400 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: in other words, from a w2k box, if i grab the sources for i386-win and the sources for i386-linux and the sources for i386-OS2 and run the full compilation process, will i

Re: [Lazarus] does anyone remember polyglot?

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/22/2010 19:21, Marc Weustink wrote: waldo kitty wrote: does anyone remember polyglot? here's the sources to the 10th anniversary edition that i've had stashed away for quite some time ;) somehow i don't think it can be fitted into a lazarus GUI format too easily... not without some

Re: [Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

2010-07-22 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/22/2010 22:01, Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:02:13 -0400 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: Then you know what you are doing is that a requirement? especially when one simply wants to write a program (hello world for instance) and compile it for each of the

Re: [Lazarus] Fonts

2010-07-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/20/2010 08:50, Kjow wrote: Hi all, I'm developing a multiplatform app and I need to have the same look on all OS. Is it possible to include a my personal font in the Lazarus compiled binary to have the same graphic/size/etc on all OS? i was going to reply to this and got lost in other

Re: [Lazarus] GDB crash when I try to debug

2010-07-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/20/2010 02:52, Tobias Giesen wrote: i would be adding them back in, one at the time, and only one each time while removing the previous, to see if it breaks again... it could be that a combination breaks the debugger... Yes I will do something like that, maybe I can even create a minimal

Re: [Lazarus] GDB crash when I try to debug

2010-07-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/19/2010 17:32, Tobias Giesen wrote: Hi, now I removed a few dozen units from the application and the debugging works. If only I could find out what exactly the debugger does not like in these units. i would be adding them back in, one at the time, and only one each time while removing

Re: [Lazarus] Disabling DoAllAutoSize in wincontrol.inc?

2010-07-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/19/2010 17:54, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Keep in mind, that the old autosize code had to work with buggy widgetsets and therefore had to silently ignore some errors. Since these bugs were fixed the new autosize can now raise an exception when it spots an inconsistency or an endless loop.

Re: [Lazarus] QueueAsyncCall() scheduling

2010-07-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/17/2010 08:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I note (now :-) that QueueAsyncCall() works on a strictly LIFO basis, i.e. it's really a stack rather than a queue. hunh? i thought a queue was an orderly format already... just like a stack... like getting in the queue to get on the metro or to

Re: [Lazarus] tail on windows

2010-07-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/17/2010 10:33, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: + fm:=Filemode; + FileMode:=fmShareDenyNone; this is what i was fixing to suggest to check and then i saw your followup... -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] QueueAsyncCall() scheduling

2010-07-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/18/2010 10:09, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: waldo kitty wrote: hunh? i thought a queue was an orderly format already... just like a stack... like getting in the queue to get on the metro or to enter the stadium to see your favorite band or to even buy lunch ;) i must admit that i don't see

Re: [Lazarus] LazIntfImage and OSX

2010-07-06 Thread waldo kitty
On 7/6/2010 01:35, Wolfram Söns wrote: comparison in Windows vs Mac format... since it is hard to create a decent chart, this will be done in two lines for each one that is different with Windows first and then Mac... ByteOrder=riboLSBFirst ByteOrder=riboMSBFirst

Re: [Lazarus] LazIntfImage and OSX

2010-07-06 Thread waldo kitty
) to understand Am 06.07.2010 um 17:49 schrieb waldo kitty: On 7/6/2010 01:35, Wolfram Söns wrote: comparison in Windows vs Mac format... since it is hard to create a decent chart, this will be done in two lines for each one that is different with Windows first and then Mac... ByteOrder=riboLSBFirst

Re: [Lazarus] New component arraybutton Fatal: Can t find unit Graphics used by arraybutton AND Multiple lazarus installations

2010-06-29 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/29/2010 02:27, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:02:16 -0400 waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: On 6/28/2010 16:44, Peter E Williams wrote: uses Classes, SysUtils, Controls, graphics, LCLType, LResources, LCLIntf , Buttons, urotatebitmap, types; ummm...

Re: [Lazarus] New component arraybutton Fatal: Can t find unit Graphics used by arraybutton AND Multiple lazarus installations

2010-06-28 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/28/2010 16:44, Peter E Williams wrote: uses Classes, SysUtils, Controls, graphics, LCLType, LResources, LCLIntf , Buttons, urotatebitmap, types; ummm... you're on linux... there's a huge difference between Graphics and graphics... the one you likely want is Graphics ;) --

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/27/2010 16:22, Juha Manninen wrote: Mattias Gärtner wrote : Then it says it is recommended to build a fpc package for your distribution (.deb or .rpm file). Why would it be recommended? I tried to build such RPM package when installing FPC trunk for the first time, but I failed. ...

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-25 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/25/2010 17:06, Andreas Berger wrote: waldo kitty wrote: one extremely hilarious aspect of working with newer coders is the expressions on their faces when you show them 20 year old code running rings around their code with the same test data and in the same environment... the best part

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/19/2010 14:37, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:20:46AM -0400, Doug Chamberlin wrote: Please remove the animated leopard! IMHO, it is truly distracting and juvenile. That (Cheetah) is the FPC logo, and IMHO should stay no matter what. +1 But IMHO the animation

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/19/2010 16:24, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 19 June 2010 20:37, Marco van de Voortmar...@stack.nl wrote: But IMHO the animation could be done away with. I think that's the point everybody is trying to make. ;-) yeah but there is a difference between remove the animated gif and

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/20/2010 13:46, Doug Chamberlin wrote: On 6/20/2010 1:32 PM, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: www.lazarussupport.com - is the first professional support for Lazarus users, that's the point, not cats animations, right? Correct. And that is why the suggestion to remove the animation is being made.

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 19:54, David W Noon wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:44:21 -0400, waldo kitty wrote about Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux: On 6/18/2010 17:07, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 18 June 2010 20:58, Henry Vermaak wrote: How did you come to the conclusion that databases

Re: [Lazarus] Why was XML format chosen for storing settings in Lazarus IDE?

2010-06-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 06:27, Henry Vermaak wrote to Graeme Geldenhuys : Sure it is harder to read, but luckily you won't have to read it often. Why are you even complaining about this? Another storm in a teacup? why is it that folk think that someone is complaining about stuff when they ask a simple

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 04:32, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 18 June 2010 03:36, waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: ok, ok, ok... so i understand using databases... i've been using them for You obviously don't if you think you can implement a similar system on a rainy friday afternoon after you've

Re: [Lazarus] Why was XML format chosen for storing settings in Lazarus IDE?

2010-06-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 06:47, Alexander Klenin wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 20:15, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: * FCL, LCL and Lazarus IDE have XML read/write code. They don't all work the same, and I doubt they all have the same functionality. * Not all code in Lazarus IDE uses

Re: [Lazarus] New website www.lazarussupport.com launched

2010-06-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 07:53, Alexander Klenin wrote: I think that at least Get Lazarus and Download pages should be unified, +1 i agree with this assessment... the two phrases are synonymous with each other... especially since you have to download laz to get laz ;) --

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 03:36, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: waldo kitty schrieb: i'm (still) trying to figure out why one would have an embedded database with multiple embedded apps attempting to talk to it... concurrently or otherwise... i would think that any kind of concurrent multiple access needs

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 17:07, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 18 June 2010 20:58, Henry Vermaak wrote: How did you come to the conclusion that databases == slow? I guess with databases it depends on how well managed the database is, how well the database tables are designed, and how skilled the developer

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 17:41, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 18 June 2010 22:33, Graeme Geldenhuysgraemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2010 18:56, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: That's because TB does *not* use a database, at least not standard DB that is designed for fast transaction processing. Instead TB

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/17/2010 04:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17/06/2010, Luca Olivetti wrote: SQLite allows multiple programs to be connected to the same database simultaneously. The embedded version of Firebird does not. If you run Well, that sounds like a rather silly argument. I thought the whole idea

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/17/2010 05:18, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 17 June 2010 10:02, Graeme Geldenhuysgraemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: The full fledged Firebird RDBMS is a whopping 12MB install - smaller than most desktop applications. So I would hardly say it's an effort to install - and Firebird is known for its

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/17/2010 11:51, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 17 June 2010 16:43, waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: i still find it amazing, though, that in today's world, so many opt to use a sql database of some kind even for smallish projects where a nice simple self-designed binary data file would

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/17/2010 11:59, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 17 June 2010 16:48, waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: i tend to agree with you and in your case, i would be wondering why each has its own database server or why they even need one if it is as useless as you say... why can't they query to

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/17/2010 15:07, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17/06/2010, Henry Vermaak wrote: re-invent the wheel. Why would you design your own buggy binary data file that only your program can read, Last time I checked, writing a record to a binary file was pretty damn easy. I think I learned that in

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/17/2010 15:16, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: You lost me on the kitchen appliances though. ;-) as examples of embedded systems... some of which i know do have databases for various reasons... in numerous cases, there ends up being repetition in filling each database (consider recipes on the

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/17/2010 15:40, Reimar Grabowski wrote: NOM, just my 2 cents and now I am getting off your lawn. ;) we thank you for your support! :) seriously... it brings good discourse to the table :) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/17/2010 18:03, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 17 June 2010 22:22, waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: On 6/17/2010 15:26, Henry Vermaak wrote: What happens if your structures change? since you've both the old and the new, you simply process the existing data file with the old

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/16/2010 07:53, brian wrote: I suspect I already know the answer to this, but is anyone aware of an *embedded* database for Lazarus and Linux, similar to NexusDB for Delphi and Windows for example (http://www.nexusdb.com)? The need is to be able to distribute a database application as a

Re: [Lazarus] Clean Up and Build / Fatal Error: Can t Create object file: units/i386-linux/hello.o

2010-06-07 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/7/2010 09:47, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 07/06/2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: environment. Then if you want to compile and run a demo, you first have to copy the demo source directory to a location you have read/write access, then compile and run it from that new location. Alternatively

Re: [Lazarus] Installing FPC/Lazarus on Windows using SVN, no binaries

2010-06-07 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/7/2010 09:57, Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Marcos Douglas m...@delfire.net: 2010/6/7 Mattias Gärtner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de: But you have to make sure that the FPC installation is not mixed. That means before you install FPC into a directory, delete the units directory. First I

Re: [Lazarus] Clean Up and Build / Fatal Error: Can t Create object file: units/i386-linux/hello.o

2010-06-07 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/7/2010 10:11, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 7 June 2010 14:45, Graeme Geldenhuysgraemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, even with other products like Qt, GTK, Delphi which includes demos and the system is installed in a multi-user environment. Then if you want to compile and run a

Re: [Lazarus] Decoding USB sniff data

2010-06-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 18:18, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 4 June 2010 22:27, waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: right but one should be able to note the vid:pid (did i get that right?) attached to a particular USB port and note that it changes within a specific time period to a secondary and then

Re: [Lazarus] Decoding USB sniff data

2010-06-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 18:22, Henry Vermaak wrote: Anyway, this is a bit off topic now, since Adem's device just shows up as a serial port (we actually use one of these ftdi chips in one of our products). sure... i was just tossing out ideas from the sidelines ;) :) --

Re: [Lazarus] Suggestion again: remove GTK1 from IDE and LCL

2010-06-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 18:54, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: waldo kitty wrote: unless i misunderstand something, once the LCL_fpGUI interface stuff is done, fpGUI will be a drop-in replacement for any of the existing interfaces... GTK1, GTK2, QT, WIN-whatever, etc... do i misunderstand that? I'd hope

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 19:05, Rick wrote: Thanks for the feedback np :) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/5/2010 04:40, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, waldo kitty wrote: basically per user... The FPC installs for *unix allow you to install wherever you want, provided you have permissions for it. i've not seen that when i've installed the Laz packages that i've toyed

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 02:53, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 12:32:23AM -0400, waldo kitty wrote: On 6/3/2010 14:33, Marc Santhoff wrote: For practical reason it has always been the better way to install fpc and lazarus per user, not globally in the systems /usr/local tree

Re: [Lazarus] Suggestion again: remove GTK1 from IDE and LCL

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 05:19, Vincent Snijders wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schreef: In fairness, 0.9.29 + GTK1 didn't a couple of days ago but I was too wrapped up in my own problems to query it. Yes, if nobody tells, it will go unnoticed. absolutely! it isn't like some/all of the developers and/or

Re: [Lazarus] Decoding USB sniff data

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 05:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: That's obviously going to complicate things if you're only sniffing a single device (small group of endpoints) or a single class. The sniffing software (and any decoders) are not going to be able to say device x:y is now killing itself and will be

Re: [Lazarus] Suggestion again: remove GTK1 from IDE and LCL

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 06:21, zeljko wrote: On Friday 04 June 2010 12:08, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 4 June 2010 08:19, zeljko wrote: That's the reason why we split gtk/gtk2. We'll probably grant svn write access to gtk1 dir for few ppl who wants to maintain gtk1. A good idea. That would probably

Re: [Lazarus] Decoding USB sniff data

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 06:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: So to summarise: work out what class of USB device you've got, inspect the Java, and then (only) if necessary use standard tools on the XML. I believe that all of these are well-understood by practitioners in appropriate

Re: [Lazarus] TAchart multiple reticules and vertical series alignment

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 06:26, Alexander Klenin wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:02, Rickr...@sloservers.com wrote: The mailing list seems to be running really slow lately, almost as if it's only processing mail in nightly batches. Are you sure it is not a problem on your side? I do not seem to notice

Re: [Lazarus] Suggestion again: remove GTK1 from IDE and LCL

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 06:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Then switch to fpGUI for embedded systems. It works perfectly and is low on resources and small size executables. Plus fpGUI is a lot more modern in looks than GTK1 - and fpGUI is still actively being developed. :) Yes,

Re: [Lazarus] Decoding USB sniff data

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 07:11, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sure it's abusing the standard- just like taking more current than you've asked for abuses it, or handling termination incorrectly. Doesn't stop it happening. true... and those folk doing that should know better (for one thing) and it also enables

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 07:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, waldo kitty wrote: On 6/3/2010 14:33, Marc Santhoff wrote: For practical reason it has always been the better way to install fpc and lazarus per user, not globally in the systems /usr/local tree. It is easier to swap

Re: [Lazarus] Alternative widget sets

2010-06-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/3/2010 08:22, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: So if you don't want to move to LCL-GTK2, then your only other option under Linux is to use LCL-Qt at this moment in time. Or use fpGUI directly and not via LCL - but I know this will mean lots of work to most developers here, so not really an option.

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/3/2010 14:33, Marc Santhoff wrote: For practical reason it has always been the better way to install fpc and lazarus per user, not globally in the systems /usr/local tree. It is easier to swap compilers or mess with the sources of something that otherwise would be r/o. Concluding there is

Re: [Lazarus] Alternative widget sets

2010-06-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/3/2010 15:47, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 3 June 2010 19:29, waldo kitty wrote: Or use fpGUI directly and not via LCL - but I know this will mean lots of work to most developers here, so not really an option. as the maintainer of fpGUI, you (and your co-workers) use fpGUI directly

Re: [Lazarus] Installing FPC/Lazarus on Windows using SVN, no binaries

2010-06-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/3/2010 15:48, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: Hi, Or does someone know an easier/better way? Please tell. just my 2 ... Plz, replace the .. with the full path. [trim excellent instructions] now that looks like a viable answer to my recent question about easily adding multiple

Re: [Lazarus] Suggestion again: remove GTK1 from IDE and LCL

2010-06-03 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/3/2010 22:03, Paul Ishenin wrote: 04.06.2010 9:48, Martin пишет: Graeme Geldenhuys to whom you replied is that fpGUI's developer I think that was a kind of joke. At least I feel it so. Maybe in GB humor is a bit different? i, too, got a chuckle out of gustavo's comment and just

Re: [Lazarus] easy cross-platform compiling??

2010-05-31 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/31/2010 05:22, Vincent Snijders wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: On 30 May 2010 18:16, waldo kitty wrote: does that make sense?? i don't think that these add-on packages would really be all that large, either... There is definitely a demand for this. With Lazarus IDE

Re: [Lazarus] easy cross-platform compiling??

2010-05-31 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/31/2010 06:57, Andreas Schneider wrote: Am Sonntag 30 Mai 2010, 18:16:09 schrieb waldo kitty: does that make sense?? i don't think that these add-on packages would really be all that large, either... they're mostly source code and a binary or three, right? Compiling for any *nix platform

Re: [Lazarus] fpweb for delphi?

2010-05-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/30/2010 06:33, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 02:30:19AM +0200, Dimitri Smits wrote: Java, silverlight.net on small hosting? Less than CGI? Ruby is even more an white elephant. NEver saw a commercial hoster offer RoR. (sure if I go to the Ruby site I find a few), but it

[Lazarus] easy cross-platform compiling??

2010-05-30 Thread waldo kitty
why can't one locate easily installable, pre-packaged add-ons (not correct term) for cross-compiling capabilities? for example, one might install the win32 flavor of Laz/FPC and then simply install the win32 flavor of the linux cross-compile add-on... the linux cross-compile add-on would have

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus CGI Sample

2010-05-28 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/28/2010 04:22, Joost van der Sluis wrote: And anyone can help, it's no rocket science. Cgi is about writeln's after all... ;) and STDIN and STDOUT (plus environment vars) since everything travels that way in CGIs ;) heck, i've done CGIs written in plain old DOS .BAT files ;) --

Re: [Lazarus] fpweb for delphi?

2010-05-28 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/28/2010 05:03, Bee Jay wrote: On 27 Mei 2010, at 18:56, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I don't think we will do this. It will require too many changes. Yes, I've seen the code. fpWeb has a very tight dependency to other fcl packages. Poor Delphi people. ;) serve's'em right... what's that

Re: [Lazarus] virus note about 0.9.28.2 package?

2010-05-28 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/28/2010 07:50, José Mejuto wrote: Hello Lazarus-List, Friday, May 28, 2010, 8:31:04 AM, you wrote: FMdC On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:29 PM, José Mejutojoshy...@gmail.com wrote: Get the MD5, SHA1 or SHA256 signature and check in http://www.virustotal.com Most popular files have been

Re: [Lazarus] clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting case]

2010-05-28 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/28/2010 09:17, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 28 May 2010 13:08, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Tabwidths is more like line endings and encodings. It should be per file. It should be per user, regardless of files. But that may result in conflicts with SVN, even if only tabs are used to

Re: [Lazarus] clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting case]

2010-05-28 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/28/2010 10:13, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/28/2010 02:20 PM, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: A block is a sequence of commands that are executed step by step one after the other. begin and end are not executed, but just limitations of the block they mark, so it's a matter of taste if they are

Re: [Lazarus] clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting case]

2010-05-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/26/2010 12:06, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: But when having it formatted like this if x then begin code; end else if y then begin code; end else begin code; end; you can immediately see that the new-command has to be inserted like that: if

Re: [Lazarus] clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting case]

2010-05-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/26/2010 14:26, Vannus wrote: IMO thats redundant lines + more scrolling to read the code. whereas:- if x then begin code end else begin if y then begin code end else begin code end; end; the above format hurts my eyes... i cannot see else, for one thing, and cannot

Re: [Lazarus] clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting case]

2010-05-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/27/2010 05:13, Marco van de Voort wrote: I always put begin,else,end on newlines. If they were not important they would be omitted. exactly :) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

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