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] 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 Geldenhuys 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 holds all information i

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 i

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/18/2010 12:39, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: but I would prefer if programmers think about performance a bit and not use databases for every small junk. +1000(can't put enough zeros)00 imagine how fast our apps would be today if they were developed with the same attention

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

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] 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 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 the same XML read/write co

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 kitty 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 been to

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 03:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17 June 2010 23:12, waldo kitty wrote: damn! you had pascal as a course in high school? ya lucky barstard :P :) It was as an extra subject, and was actually after school where I had to attend the classes in another school, because my own school

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 kitty 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 structures, convert it to va

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 Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepas

Re: [Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

2010-06-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/17/2010 15:26, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 17 June 2010 20:07, 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

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 f

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 my

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 kitty 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 see if there

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 kitty 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 suffice... in

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 Geldenhuys 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 "deploy and forget" insta

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

2010-06-16 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 singl

Re: [Lazarus] Regexp syntax

2010-06-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/15/2010 09:08, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: ^Tnt(([^L]|.[^X]).+) Hmmm... It doesn't look very clean. I don't think *any* regex looks clean. ;-) that because you aren't using the sandpaper on your eyeballs before studying the regex :P :lol: -- _

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

2010-06-07 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/7/2010 11:11, Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Marcos Douglas : On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Marcos Douglas wrote: Rigth. But the 'make install' do not override these files? If not, then is better delete all .ppu files in all directory? I deleted all ppu files. Now I have another

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 Geldenhuys 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 demo, you first have to copy

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 : 2010/6/7 Mattias Gärtner : 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 compiled FPC 2.5.1. But now, I change to 2.

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] 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

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] 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?

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] 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 kitty 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 within another certain time

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] 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 ot

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, it's

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, Rick 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 a large delays for m

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 field

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 solve

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 06:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 4 June 2010 06:32, waldo kitty wrote: what would it take for the various *nix flavor maintainers to fix their install scripts so that FPC and/or Lazarus were installed in this manner? it would definitely fix a lot of headaches when it comes to

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 resu

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 mainta

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. It is

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 aut

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 cross

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 in

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 no

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] easy cross-platform compiling??

2010-06-01 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/1/2010 02:57, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 1 June 2010 02:56, waldo kitty wrote: hopefully one day it will be as simple as installing the base product and then simply ticking all of the other platforms you want to compile for and at the end, you end up with a binary for each of those chosen

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? Co

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

2010-05-31 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/31/2010 05:50, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/28/2010 06:18 PM, waldo kitty wrote: i don't see begin/end as inside or outside... they _are_ the boundary or frame of the block ;) To represent this as an indentation you would need to go_ if x then begin incode; end; outcod

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 Lazaru

Re: [Lazarus] spaces or tabs?

2010-05-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/30/2010 17:15, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 30 May 2010 17:11, waldo kitty wrote: their "code tags" to preserve the formatting... the tabs become spaces in the browser and the alignment is thrown off... it doesn't matter if it is a table, chart or simply source code... Ma

[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

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 i

Re: [Lazarus] spaces or tabs? (was: clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting "case"])

2010-05-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/30/2010 05:53, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Again, here is some of my other formatting style I use in my code. 1) Aligning the identifier in a class, irrespective if it is a function, procedure, constructor etc. See untitled1.png. 2) Align the assignment characters so it forms a visual blo

Re: [Lazarus] fpweb for delphi?

2010-05-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/30/2010 00:04, Bee Jay wrote: On 30 Mei 2010, at 07:30, Dimitri Smits wrote: On the other hand, why anybody would want to develop new webapps (on new db's) in delphi or fpc for that matter seems a bit like a one-tool-in-my-toolbox mindset. "If all you have/know is a hammer, every problem

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 the

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 indica

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 Mejuto wrote: Get the MD5, SHA1 or SHA256 signature and check in http://www.virustotal.com Most popular files have been already checked. They c

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

2010-05-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/27/2010 15:29, Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:53:17 +0100 Martin wrote: IMHO the exact style ot intend is mostly a matter of taste. Wahtever you grew up with (or are used too), seems most readable. +1 procedure quicksort; procedure sort(l,r: index); var i,j: i

Re: [Lazarus] virus note about 0.9.28.2 package?

2010-05-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/27/2010 13:29, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: Does someone know, if any virus scanner does not like the lazarus-0.9.28.2-fpc-2.2.4-win32.exe On freepascal.ru forum, there are at least two messages, one mentioning this file and Kaspersky tool, another one mentioning FPC ins

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 http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/m

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 5/26/2010 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 x

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

2010-05-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/26/2010 01:06, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: But why have an indentation after BEGIN? There is no new block to start after BEGIN. I would indent like this: so you can see the begin and end... in any case, as i originally stated, it is how i was taught and also how all of the books i have on

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

2010-05-25 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/25/2010 05:44, Mattias Gaertner wrote: But highlighting helps a lot reading code with unfamiliar indentation. The case label highlighting helps reading foreign code. Try it. For example for me the indentation of the MSEGui code is unfamiliar. The case labeling helps here. this is one reaso

Re: [Lazarus] quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting "case"

2010-05-24 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/24/2010 08:36, Martin wrote: What are the opinions. Do you like/dislike the new highlighting of case-labels? e.g case a of *foo* : *bar*, *def*: end; In your opinion, should it be: - off by default - italics - underline - other / color / frame? -1 for italics -1 for underline +1 for Off B

Re: [Lazarus] OT: Ideas for marketing Pascal + Lazarus

2010-05-23 Thread waldo kitty
e for the last week and no one wanted them for $0! hope you enjoy them anyway ;)" :lol: Antônio 2010/5/23 waldo kitty that or someone finally came out from behind the shades after they finished smoking their crack rocks and was looking for some way to get som

Re: [Lazarus] OT: Ideas for marketing Pascal + Lazarus

2010-05-23 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/23/2010 19:33, Brad Campbell wrote: Sad as it is. I put my old camp tents on my verge with a sign "free to good home" a month or so ago. After a week they had not gone (does nobody go camping anymore?). My father jokingly suggested I put a sign on them "Camping tents, $25 each" and they'd be

Re: [Lazarus] OOP basics - 2

2010-04-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 4/15/2010 13:08, Aleksa Todorovic wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 18:35, waldo kitty wrote: On 4/15/2010 05:33, Juha Manninen wrote: Now, the question is also if a big source file is a bad thing or not. I have adjusted my way of thinking. The code can be maintained with good tools (like

Re: [Lazarus] OOP basics - 2

2010-04-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 4/15/2010 05:33, Juha Manninen wrote: Now, the question is also if a big source file is a bad thing or not. I have adjusted my way of thinking. The code can be maintained with good tools (like Lazarus) even in big files. A big file is of course intimidating for someone who looks at it for the

Re: [Lazarus] [OT] Lazarus Event

2010-04-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 4/5/2010 17:14, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Ehm ? And in proper English this means... ? :-) from google translate, portuguese -> english [quote] PessoALL, http://www.blaisepascal.eu/index.php?actie=./lazarus_dutch_event Someone here got more water in the mouth? ;) Look at the 'small'

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus / FPC in GSoC

2010-03-26 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/26/2010 17:00, Jonathan wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:41:57 -0300 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: We subscribed and got rejected in both 2008 and 2010. In both cases no reason was presented. What upsets me is that mono got in I can not see any pascal project on the list. maybe t

Re: [Lazarus] A question about files managing

2010-03-26 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/26/2010 09:58, Andrew Brunner wrote: I always use copyfile and check the error and then delete the file if needed. This ensures that the file was actually copied. It's just better that way :-) it is also required when moving files to different drives/partitions... at least, that's the w

Re: [Lazarus] helphtml example

2010-03-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/18/2010 14:13, Vincent Snijders wrote: Mattias Gaertner schreef: Any windows user out there who knows how to find the right rundll on all windows platforms? I don't know, but we could try something like AppendPathDelim(GetEnvironmentVariable('WinDir'))+'system32\rundll.exe' first. that

Re: [Lazarus] helphtml example

2010-03-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/18/2010 13:30, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:57:14 +0100 Andrea Mauri wrote: The find function looks in PATH, on my pc I have rundll32.exe in windows\system32 but PATH environment variable does not include c:\windows\system32, so find function does not find rundll32 Any

Re: [Lazarus] Newcomers with Debian based systems

2010-03-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/18/2010 08:04, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Another problem: how can a user rebuild Lazarus, when it has been installed into /usr where the user has not enough rights. if this has been done, then it indicates that root installed Laz/FPC... that means that root has to do the rebuild, not th

Re: [Lazarus] $500 of bounty

2010-03-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/17/2010 20:58, Antônio wrote: The advertiser contacted me in LazarusBrasil, explicitly citing your tutorial. so does that mean they rescind the bounty? ;) :) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.f

Re: [Lazarus] How to notice Lazarus forum posts effectively

2010-03-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/16/2010 20:59, Alexander Klenin wrote: I try to support TAChart users on Lazarus forums, but since I have no time to read forums every day, I regularly miss posts. Recent examples include is there no option on the front forum page to "read new posts"?? i use this on the numerous forums i

Re: [Lazarus] make clean bigide

2010-03-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/16/2010 13:12, Kjow wrote: 2010/3/16 waldo kitty: i would suspect so... since lazbuild works for you, your actual problem/question is "how to pass -dOldAutoSize to/thru lazbuild?" /that/ is the question that needs to be answered for you to use lazbuild and get everything t

Re: [Lazarus] Newcomers with Debian based systems

2010-03-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/16/2010 08:29, patspiper wrote: Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: The official Ubuntu packages did not allow to install a working version of Lazarus, so I consulted the Lazarus homepage. If somebody can update the Ubuntu repository, I'd give that solution another try. Before installing, add to t

Re: [Lazarus] make clean bigide

2010-03-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/16/2010 08:16, Kjow wrote: ./lazbuild --build-all --build-ide= after: make bigideclean bigide OPT="-dOldAutoSize" FPCOPT="-Xg" I will lose the -dOldAutoSize option... right? i would suspect so... since lazbuild works for you, your actual problem/question is "how to pass -dOldAutoSi

Re: [Lazarus] creating a Lazarus package "NoGUIApplication"

2010-03-15 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/15/2010 08:18, Michael Schnell wrote: While doing a "persistent CGI program" is one application for an event-queue enabled NoGUI Application (that avoids any dependencies on external gui-libraries) my target is embedded devices which don't provide any hardware that could enable a GUI. That

Re: [Lazarus] Help! Linux custom saved theme sharing. How?!?

2010-03-12 Thread waldo kitty
peter, please... the lazarus mailing list is not the place to seek assistance and support for your OS configuration or theme problems... while there are several who can/may offer assistance, it is definitely off topic for the list... i'm not trying to be ugly or an arse and i have thought to

Re: [Lazarus] creating a Lazarus package "NoGUIApplication"

2010-03-12 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/11/2010 21:10, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mattias Gaertner schrieb: The strange thing is, that every time I read your mails in the last weeks about nogui and lazarus, I thought you meant the nogui widgetset. AFAIR the wish was an application with message processing, but without a GUI. I

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus svn history visualization

2010-03-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/8/2010 08:14, Vladimir Zhirov wrote: Hi, Following the discussion about downward spirals I decided to make a visualization of Lazarus svn activity using CodeSwarm. i've been wondering if someone could and/or would do this... codeswarm is very cool... If someone else find it interestin

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/7/2010 19:58, Doug Chamberlin wrote: I see a bunch of bugs reported and developers posting that those are fixed. But unless I wade in and install SVN and figure out how to use it to update my local source and figure out how to compile FPC and Lazarus I cannot make use of those bug fixes. So

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus & MySQL 5.1

2010-03-02 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/2/2010 18:34, Terry A. Haimann wrote: I have tried this and it doesn't work. in what way "it doesn't work"?? do you get an error or a complete failure with nothing indicating what went wrong? FWIW: "it doesn't work" is pretty poor for an analysis to

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus & MySQL 5.1

2010-03-01 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/1/2010 23:18, Terry A. Haimann wrote: I upgraded my laptop to Fedora Core 12, which has MySQL 5.1.42 installed. I have installed the latest Lazarus RPM, which is 0.9.28.2 and FPC 2.2.4. My Lazarus App won't connect to the server. I have the libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0 installed. I am not sure

Re: [Lazarus] debug windows layout

2010-03-01 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/1/2010 15:42, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: MDI child windows MUST live inside the bounds of the Main Form! That's a matter of taste, and I do not expect everybody to agree with my viewpoint. MDI windows and menus are specific to the Windows platform, so that oth

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus book

2010-02-26 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/26/2010 17:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 26 February 2010 18:35, waldo kitty wrote: yay!! how far off is the english version?? any idea on the price? i much prefer a real book to pdf cr4p ;) I'm hoping for an English edition too (and will by it simply because I'm a La

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

2010-02-26 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/26/2010 10:16, Juha Manninen wrote: Personally I don't understand why someone would make a Windows-only program using a multi-platform system like FPC / Lazarus. ...but that's just my thought... why? because they only work with winwhatever systems and they can't afford or simply don't wa

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus book

2010-02-26 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/26/2010 06:03, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L is currently in print, and will be shipped on March 25. yay!! how far off is the english version?? any idea on the price? i much prefer a real book to pdf cr4p ;) It is targeted

Re: [Lazarus] Bitmap transparency problem (I don t want transparency)

2010-02-21 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/21/2010 13:57, Pierre Delore wrote: Hi, I have a transparency problem when I try to display a bitmap stored in a TImagList. The bitmap I want to display is a green arrow with a white background. I want to display it without transparency. With the code below the bitmap is displayed but the b

Re: [Lazarus] lazarus as normal user

2010-02-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/18/2010 09:10, petr.kris...@epos.cz wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:48:17AM -0300, Pino Zollo wrote: Hi to the list, I am just a beginner with lazarus I have installed it on my Debian 5.01first fpc an then I have compiled lazarus from sources copied in /usr/src/lazarus. Easiest

Re: [Lazarus] Check out my photos on Facebook

2010-02-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/18/2010 07:49, Andrew Brunner wrote: I really think facebook ran through his email list and crawled the list for invites... If this was the case I would certainly think banning all facebook emails would be in order and appropriate. that is most likely what happened... most folk do just

Re: [Lazarus] Hiding Comments

2010-02-16 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/16/2010 02:55, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: theo wrote: I think it would be helpful to hide all comments at times, because while helpful, they make reading the actually working code a lot harder. I just thought of another solution. Change your editor preferences and change the foreground and

Re: [Lazarus] TPanel bevel and client size

2010-02-13 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/13/2010 06:12, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:03:27 -0500 waldo kitty wrote: On 2/13/2010 05:23, Mattias Gaertner wrote: In other words: If you want to position a child control to fill the complete width of its parent, use the above. (or use Align=alTop,alBottom,alClient

Re: [Lazarus] TPanel bevel and client size

2010-02-13 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/13/2010 05:23, Mattias Gaertner wrote: In other words: If you want to position a child control to fill the complete width of its parent, use the above. (or use Align=alTop,alBottom,alClient). This will exclude the bevels. :shock: :!: :!: you can list multiple alignment options by comma sep

Re: [Lazarus] Server down/error?

2010-02-12 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/12/2010 07:44, Juha Manninen wrote: I just entered on: http://bugs.freepascal.org/ but there is a MySQL error: There are too many bugs in Lazarus and FPC and so the bug tracker crashed. :-) that must be a bug, too! ;P -- ___ Lazarus mailing l

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