Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: Trying to do a 'svn diff' might be an issue. Git has a filter that converts ODT files to text before it shows such a diff, so in Git it is not a problem either. I don't know if svn supports such a feature. If you

Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: If you use tortoiseSVN it does support showing the differences between document files. I was amazed when I first saw and it clearly something new (maybe 1 or 2 years, dont know) Oh yes, and it

Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-02 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 02/03/2012 09:04, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: If you use tortoiseSVN it does support showing the differences between document files. I was amazed when I first saw and it clearly

[Lazarus] Test

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Mace
Please can someone respond, as I don't think my messages are gettingthrough to the list. Thanks Richard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Missing Documentation

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Mace
Is anybody else lined up to take over? Richard On 2 March 2012 07:40, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: Op 2 maart 2012 00:04 heeft Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: Googling brought up this link -

Re: [Lazarus] Test

2012-03-02 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 02/3/12 9:22, Richard Mace wrote: Please can someone respond, as I don't think my messages are getting through to the list. That message appeared OK. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Test

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Mace
Many thanks Howard On 2 March 2012 09:32, Howard Page-Clark h...@talktalk.net wrote: On 02/3/12 9:22, Richard Mace wrote: Please can someone respond, as I don't think my messages are getting through to the list. That message appeared OK. --

Re: [Lazarus] Missing Documentation

2012-03-02 Thread Samps
On 02/03/12 20:44, Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 2 maart 2012 10:27 schreef Richard Mace richard.m...@gmail.com mailto:richard.m...@gmail.com het volgende: Is anybody else lined up to take over? I don't know. Vincent -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] Missing Documentation

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Mace
Is anybody else lined up to take over? I don't know. Vincent -- ___ Lazarus mailing listLazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.orghttp://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus I'll be happy to do it. I have silently

Re: [Lazarus] Adding packages at build time

2012-03-02 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk hat am 2. März 2012 um 12:18 geschrieben: In the fpc-pascal ML, Martin said: If you work on the IDE itself try the package IdeInspector (it adds itself to view Ide Internals if installed) Is there a best practice way of installing

Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-02 Thread leledumbo
Oh yes, and it shows them grafically, not as raw text. Now that's something I don't know :) -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-Contribute-to-a-book-instead-of-wiki-tp3789922p3793507.html Sent from the Free Pascal - Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-02 Thread Alexsander Rosa
I suggest convert it to LyX format. 2012/3/2 leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id Oh yes, and it shows them grafically, not as raw text. Now that's something I don't know :) -- View this message in context:

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-03-02 Thread Juha Manninen
2012/3/2 Marc Santhoff m.santh...@web.de Maybe it's a bit more than only improving documentation itself. The project management part of it is to care for keeping docs up to date and keep the shape following the needs. An example would be some kind of general info pages about how the project

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-03-02 Thread Sven Barth
On 02.03.2012 20:32, Juha Manninen wrote: 2012/3/2 Marc Santhoff m.santh...@web.de mailto:m.santh...@web.de Maybe it's a bit more than only improving documentation itself. The project management part of it is to care for keeping docs up to date and keep the shape following the

[Lazarus] Background colours etc.

2012-03-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On a form, I've got a TImage containing a star that changes colour to indicate the progress of a comms protocol I'm trying to get working. It normally shows a plain background, then a blue star showing that it's trying to connect, which changes to red or green depending on the result- and so

Re: [Lazarus] Background colours etc.

2012-03-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
There are 2 options: 1- The default form color is very well defined, just use ColorToRGB(clForm) to get it or 2- You can also set a region for your TImage which matches the star shape, which will make the control non-rectangular. Use TWinControl.SetShape(Region). Use LCLIntf functions to create

Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/3/2 Alexsander Rosa : I suggest convert it to LyX format. No need really. The newer OpenOffice and LibreOffice also supports the Flattened ODT format (older versions of OOo can install the plugin for this too). That is basically just an XML file (no zip archive like ODT). This makes it much

Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-02 Thread Alexsander Rosa
The problem with secretary's editors like MS Word or Open/LibreOffice is that they waste user's time with formatting and other non-content related activities. With LaTeX and derivatives such as LyX, the user is free to be productive. When I was working on my MSc paper, ages ago, I wrote some 40

Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-02 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 02.03.2012, 23:49 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: 2012/3/2 Alexsander Rosa : I suggest convert it to LyX format. No need really. The newer OpenOffice and LibreOffice also supports the Flattened ODT format (older versions of OOo can install the plugin for this too). That is

Re: [Lazarus] Background colours etc.

2012-03-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: There are 2 options: 1- The default form color is very well defined, just use ColorToRGB(clForm) to get it or 2- You can also set a region for your TImage which matches the star shape, which will make the control non-rectangular. Use

Re: [Lazarus] Background colours etc.

2012-03-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: OK, but are you saying that I've got to start filling areas at runtime or drawing vectors? I was hoping to be able to use some fire and forget bitmaps, possibly with one colour being reserved for