Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Disk Full error

2015-06-18 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:05:34 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: [...] Why would Lazarus report such an issue? And where does it do such a disk check? Normally IDE error messages contain more than just E.Message. Maybe this is from an unhandled exception. Can you

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Disk Full error

2015-06-18 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 18/06/2015 12:45, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: On 2015-06-18 11:35, zeljko wrote: AFAIK, that message comes from fpc. How can it? I get the error at a time when I'm not compiling a project. Simply opening or navigating a project - that is all Lazarus IDE right? To be more exact, this

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:20:53 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: Hi, I've come across a relatively recent project of mine that has project defined macros in the LPI file, but for the life of me I can't see where in the Project Options dialog that is defined. See the

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Juha Manninen
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: I thought maybe it is the IDE macros as can be seen in this screenshot. That wiki page is badly outdated. Somebody should fix it ... IDE macros were replaced with Additions and Overrides which is more

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 13:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I've come across a relatively recent project of mine that has project defined macros in the LPI file, but for the life of me I can't see where in the Project Options dialog that is defined. See the MacroValues shown below. The Wiki also doesn't

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 13:26, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I thought maybe it is the IDE macros as can be seen in this screenshot. http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Project_Options#Project_macros Here it shows that Build modes node too...

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:53:31 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2015-06-18 13:46, Juha Manninen wrote: IDE macros were replaced with Additions and Overrides which is more versatile and its settings affect dependent packages, too. Thanks for the info Juha (and

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 14:02, Juha Manninen wrote: When you look at the New_IDE_features_since page, Glad to see that page is still going. :) you may notice that your EditorToolbar is now part of BigIde (installed by default). We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. :-D

[Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I've come across a relatively recent project of mine that has project defined macros in the LPI file, but for the life of me I can't see where in the Project Options dialog that is defined. See the MacroValues shown below. The Wiki also doesn't mention it. I just updated my Lazarus to the

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Schnell
On 06/18/2015 02:46 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I found similar functionality well hidden in Additions and Overrides. I already often used this new kind of Build modes. Seemingly I am the only one ;-) . (I am always focused on ARCH/OS/GUI-System portability.) For my degenerating mind it's

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 13:46, Juha Manninen wrote: IDE macros were replaced with Additions and Overrides which is more versatile and its settings affect dependent packages, too. Thanks for the info Juha (and Mattias). Which Lazarus release added the new Additions and Overrides functionality? Regards,

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Juha Manninen
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: Which Lazarus release added the new Additions and Overrides functionality? Lazarus 1.2. http://wiki.freepascal.org/New_IDE_features_since#Project_Additions_and_Overrides When you look at the

Re: [Lazarus] Ways of making new style design

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 15:40, aradeonas wrote: Yes but its not even beautiful and you should know specially as a Mac user we are not living in that time when people care about memory and size.For example chrome is a memory hunter and download all of it again in every update but small count of people

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: Concerning Safenet I tried to access their support portal (which I have used frequently in the past) only to discover that they have moved to a new portal and apparently NOT migrated the registered users... So now I have to wait a while for my login to be created before I can

Re: [Lazarus] Ways of making new style design

2015-06-18 Thread aradeonas
EditPad Pro is a fraction of the size, uses MUCH less memory and with a lot more feature. Yes but its not even beautiful and you should know specially as a Mac user we are not living in that time when people care about memory and size.For example chrome is a memory hunter and download all of it

Re: [Lazarus] Ways of making new style design

2015-06-18 Thread aradeonas
Dear Graeme,you said all I know :D I don't buy software so I can stare at their beauty Most of the people are like this but you care more because you are a developer. Consider count of chrome users. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Also lovely browser like Opera is going

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Bo Berglund
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:34:32 +0200, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 06/16/2015 06:14 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Being open source and allowing me to customise things the way I like is a brilliant feature. He also wants to use closed source 3rd party stuff and want to impose

Re: [Lazarus] Ways of making new style design

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 16:29, aradeonas wrote: Consider count of chrome users. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp I always take such stats with a pinch of salt. Most new browsers are based on Chromium, so do the stats count that as Chrome? eg: Opera v12, Vivaldi, Sleipnir just

Re: [Lazarus] Project defined Macros?

2015-06-18 Thread Juha Manninen
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: I found similar functionality well hidden in Additions and Overrides. I already often used this new kind of Build modes. Seemingly I am the only one ;-) . (I am always focused on ARCH/OS/GUI-System portability.) For

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:21:49 +0200, Bo Berglund bo.bergl...@gmail.com wrote: 1) We have created a number of non-visual components that are dropped on the forms to supply various kinds of functionality. Some of these are handlers for language dependent texts, software protection dongles,

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:08:19 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Bo Berglund wrote: Concerning Safenet I tried to access their support portal (which I have used frequently in the past) only to discover that they have moved to a new portal and apparently NOT

Re: [Lazarus] Ways of making new style design

2015-06-18 Thread aradeonas
Yes maybe.I guess both of us right but we look at this subject from different angle and if making beautiful new age app was easy with Lazarus or your library for sure I didn't looking for slow way. I want to know others thoughts too. Regards, Ara -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access your email

Re: [Lazarus] Ways of making new style design

2015-06-18 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Am 2015-06-18 um 18:22 schrieb aradeonas: and if making beautiful new age app was easy with Lazarus or your library for sure I didn't looking for slow way. Beauty is very subjective. I see the beauty in programs that respond and process data with high speed and have a clear minimalistic user

Re: [Lazarus] Different packages for different usage

2015-06-18 Thread Sven Barth
On 18.06.2015 23:48, aradeonas wrote: Hi, I made package including some units that some of them need LCL but some of them will be need in server tools and they should not use LCL or graphical stuff so I want to make 2 package one for client app and other one for server with some of tools and

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 17:48, Bo Berglund wrote: I would not have a problem using it as a general purpose object and changing my programs accordingly, that would be pretty easy, provided I can make it work in Lazarus/FPC. (never tried, never used .obj files since Turbo Pascal days) If all else fails

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:02:02 +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2015-06-18 17:48, Bo Berglund wrote: I would not have a problem using it as a general purpose object and changing my programs accordingly, that would be pretty easy, provided I can make it work in

Re: [Lazarus] Different packages for different usage

2015-06-18 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 18/06/2015 23:48, aradeonas ha scritto: Hi,   I made package including some units that some of them need LCL but some of them will be need in server tools and they should not use LCL or graphical stuff so I want to make

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread ListMember
On 2015-06-18 23:32, Bo Berglund wrote: There could be a vulnerability for hacking, though, since someone couls create a fake dll with the same interface and this way circumvent our protection... You could add another function to that DLL and do an authentication handshake (to check that

[Lazarus] Different packages for different usage

2015-06-18 Thread aradeonas
Hi, I made package including some units that some of them need LCL but some of them will be need in server tools and they should not use LCL or graphical stuff so I want to make 2 package one for client app and other one for server with some of tools and without any dependency on graphical stuff

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 21:32, Bo Berglund wrote: for the dongle component after stripping out the component related stuff, then I could have a minimalistic project to figure out... That is exactly what we did back in 2006/7 when we evaluated the possibility of moving our Delphi code to FPC. We noted all

[Lazarus] Lazarus - Disk Full error

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, For some reason I keep getting a Disk Full error (see attached screenshot) in Lazarus this morning. I have two hard drives in my system. One has 51GB free, and the other has 2.8TB free. So I am definitely NOT out of disk space. The error occurs at different times, but not consistent. For

Re: [Lazarus] Ways of making new style design

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 10:26, aradeonas wrote: Imagine a desktop app that UI (graphic,animation and other stuff) written in HTML, CSS and JS and working with internet,file,system native menus and dialogs come from FreePascal. I don't have to imagine it - I've already seen developers do that with Kylix

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, aradeonas wrote: fun enough Sure. exciting ? yes. But enough for doing what you can do with Native tools? No. Even Delphi with XE series and advertising about Android and iOS is not good choice. I agree if you want to make a professional tool for multi platform

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread aradeonas
fun enough Sure. exciting ? yes. But enough for doing what you can do with Native tools? No. Even Delphi with XE series and advertising about Android and iOS is not good choice. I agree if you want to make a professional tool for multi platform including Android ,Lazarus is very good but I like

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread aradeonas
Exactly and I said that because a new user can decide better. Regards, Ara -- http://www.fastmail.com - IMAP accessible web-mail -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, aradeonas wrote: Exactly and I said that because a new user can decide better. Without context, I have no idea what you are replying on ? Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Ways of making new style design

2015-06-18 Thread aradeonas
Another way to make new style apps is using web technologies for desktop. For example using web browser to display app content but use FreePascal and Lazarus for backend and preparing system usage and ... . Example of this is : http://electron.atom.io/ Imagine a desktop app that UI

Re: [Lazarus] Ways of making new style design

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, aradeonas wrote: Another way to make new style apps is using web technologies for desktop. For example using web browser to display app content but use FreePascal and Lazarus for backend and preparing system usage and ... . Example of this is : http://electron.atom.io/

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Disk Full error

2015-06-18 Thread zeljko
On 06/18/2015 12:05 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, For some reason I keep getting a Disk Full error (see attached screenshot) in Lazarus this morning. I have two hard drives in my system. One has 51GB free, and the other has 2.8TB free. So I am definitely NOT out of disk space. The error

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Disk Full error

2015-06-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-06-18 11:35, zeljko wrote: AFAIK, that message comes from fpc. How can it? I get the error at a time when I'm not compiling a project. Simply opening or navigating a project - that is all Lazarus IDE right? Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using