Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

Howard, good job on the new menu designer. It's working very nicely right now. I'll take a look at modifying TShadowMenu to be a scrolling control without the need for a TScrollBox. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Who "killed" TDBGrid? Ondrej?

2016.01.11. 19:25 keltezéssel, Ondrej Pokorny írta: It can be in the recent commits. Please try to find the revision that broke it. My problem exists with fixes_1_6 50541, so the problem inherited from trunk. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29191 This particular one seems to be

Re: [Lazarus] Unable to compile Lazarus after revision 51233

On 10/01/16 22:47, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: Should be fixed in r51245. Please test. Ondrej Thanks Ondrej, now it works. -- Victor Campillo -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11.01.2016 10:09, Anthony Walter wrote: No matter where I click it always shows the same pattern: ugly blue check board below, ugly aliased triangles to the right. Can you please define "ugly" in an objective way? I can say the same about your approach: "/No matter where I click it always

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11.01.2016 4:33, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: The bottom one. It's more "calm". Doesn't look like a circus.​ I prefer the old one (top) :) The arrows/squares are very neat and show what you are going to do. If you think it looks like a circus, what about using a less agressive colour for

Re: [Lazarus] NewMenuDesigner: Removing start-up modal dialog

2016-01-11 9:38 GMT+01:00 Ondrej Pokorny : > What about removing the start-up modal prompt in NewMenuDesigner? > > 1.) It doesn't make much sense for me. > 2.) If you have the dialog open and you place a TPopupMenu onto a form, > the modal prompt is shown automatically. > IMO

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11.01.2016 9:35, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: I prefer the old one (top) :) The arrows/squares are very neat and show what you are going to do. Arrows: new submenu item. Squares: new sibling menu item. Very neat, IMO. Not to be removed, please :) Ondrej --

[Lazarus] tcheckgroup and childsizing

Deal all, if I put a Tcheckgroup on a form and I add few items and setting childsizing on Layout:= cclLeftToRightThenTopToBottom; ControlsPerLine:= 2; I can see the items in 2 columns in form designer. When I run my application the tcheckgroup is shown with just one column. Otherwise if I

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

In my opinion the top one is kind of terrible. Just look at this video: http://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/menu-arrows.mp4 No matter where I click it always shows the same pattern: ugly blue check board below, ugly aliased triangles to the right. I can tell the item is going to be inserted

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

The top one. I find there is room for beauty (ugly?) and personality in programming. I find straight forward utilitarian to be ugly. I like things to be interesting. Any way to make the pattern settable? Win-Win! On 01/11/2016 10:34 AM, Anthony Walter wrote: > The point is, on a TPopupMenu if

Re: [Lazarus] NewMenuDesigner: Removing start-up modal dialog

I say no to the modal startup dialog as well. It really doesn't work (click) for me. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 2016-01-11 03:33, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: > The bottom one. It's more "calm". Doesn't look like a circus.​ +1 Regards, - Graeme - -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

The point is, on a TPopupMenu if the pattern to the right is always alias arrows, and the pattern below is always check board, then it's entirely superfluous, nonessential, redundant, and unneeded. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 2016-01-11 09:21, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: > IMO, it is very clear, again: > - Arrows: new submenu item. > - Squares: new sibling menu item. As a programmer the bottom image is equally clear to me. I simply find the bottom one more pleasing to the eye - less distracting. If the arrows and

[Lazarus] NewMenuDesigner: Removing start-up modal dialog

What about removing the start-up modal prompt in NewMenuDesigner? 1.) It doesn't make much sense for me. 2.) If you have the dialog open and you place a TPopupMenu onto a form, the modal prompt is shown automatically. Ondrej -- ___ Lazarus mailing

[Lazarus] Lazarus trunc and fpc 2.6.4

i have another issue when i try to compile Lazarus trunc:   rlprinters.pas(124,10) Error: Identifier not found "OpenPrinter" rlprinters.pas(261,73) Hint: Local variable "ResultOrientation" does not seem to be initialized rlprinters.pas(261,55) Hint: Local variable "ResultPaperHeight" does not

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11/01/2016 16:07, Anthony Walter wrote: Very nice. I like the new design. Side note: Who wrote that FScroller for the new menu editor? It acts very erratic for me on Gtk2. I don't know about on other widget sets. See issue 29369. Why not use TScrollBox or make TShadowMenu a

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On my system suddenly all is well with the new menu editor. Nice work :) The docked form designer still has the issue where it's not being realigned/repainted when a TMainMenu is placed on it. Issue 29370. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] NewMenuDesigner: Removing start-up modal dialog

On 11.01.2016 10:07, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Anthony Walter wrote: I say no to the modal startup dialog as well. It really doesn't work (click) for me. +1 Such things are an annoyance more than a help. In the best case make it a preference. Removed in r51248.

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Anthony Walter wrote: Relevant link: http://www.codebot.org/delphi/?doc=9579 My question is: Does anything like this already exist for Lazarus? To my knowledge no such thing exists yet for Lazarus ? I have something similar for my own applications, and it is indeed

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11/01/2016 12:35, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: On 11.01.2016 13:31, Howard wrote: The latest trunk accepts a patch which adopts Bart's suggestion of identifying the purpose of the dummy menuitem by displaying a self-descriptive text. The background is no longer patterned. Of course this can be

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:24:40 +0100 "John Landmesser" wrote: >[...] > Kompiliere Package IDEIntf 1.0: Exit code 1, Fehler: 4, Hinweise: 1 > projectintf.pas(708,14) Error: Identifier not found "RawByteString" Fixed. Mattias -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:00:59 -0700 (MST) leledumbo wrote: > > Isn't it possible anymore to compile svn Lazarus with fc 2.6.4 ?? > > No. Latest stable is the only one that's supported, latest stable is 3.0.0. FPC 3.0.0 is still fresh. We should try to give users

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11.01.2016 14:20, Bart wrote: In the image below, which style do you prefer. The top or bottom? The bottom one. Looks like I have been outvoted :) No problem. On 11.01.2016 10:09, Anthony Walter wrote: ugly aliased triangles On 11.01.2016 11:25, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: If the arrows

Re: [Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote: > Back to the original thread subject, IMO the best course is simply to remove > the PaintSwastika procedure, which is out of place in a small collection of > simple graphic shapes ... Yes, I also realized how

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 1/11/16, Anthony Walter wrote: > In the image below, which style do you prefer. The top or bottom? Suggestion: can you put the buttons in a grid like container? With at least vertical lines between the different groups. Bart --

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Howard wrote: > It is the second patch submitted on issue 29205 Oops, I failed to notice it. Should it be applied? I am happy if the issue is assigned to somebody else. Bart? Ondrej? I have some other issues to look at. Juha --

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11.01.2016 14:51, Juha Manninen wrote: Oops, I failed to notice it. Should it be applied? I'll apply it manually. The patch won't apply because I fixed some issues recently. Ondrej -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: > I'll apply it manually. The patch won't apply because I fixed some issues > recently. Assigned the issue to you. Thanks. :) Juha -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

> Isn't it possible anymore to compile svn Lazarus with fc 2.6.4 ?? No. Latest stable is the only one that's supported, latest stable is 3.0.0. -- View this message in context:

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:00 PM, leledumbo wrote: >> Isn't it possible anymore to compile svn Lazarus with fc 2.6.4 ?? > > No. Latest stable is the only one that's supported, latest stable is 3.0.0. Actually we plan to keep Lazarus compilable with FPC 2.6.4 for some

Re: [Lazarus] NewMenuDesigner: Removing start-up modal dialog

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Anthony Walter wrote: I say no to the modal startup dialog as well. It really doesn't work (click) for me. +1 Such things are an annoyance more than a help. In the best case make it a preference. Michael. -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11.01.2016 13:31, Howard wrote: The latest trunk accepts a patch which adopts Bart's suggestion of identifying the purpose of the dummy menuitem by displaying a self-descriptive text. The background is no longer patterned. Of course this can be further changed. Where is the patch? Ondrej

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 1/11/16, Anthony Walter wrote: > In the image below, which style do you prefer. The top or bottom? The bottom one. Please add a text to it so one knows what it does. Keep up the good work !!! Bart -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

[Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

i get this error message if i try to compile    Lazarus 1.7 r50846 FPC 2.6.4 i386-win32-win32/win64 ( last working version, December 2015 )   Message: Kompiliere Package SynEdit 1.0: Abgebrochen, Warnungen: 1, Hinweise: 2 synedithighlighterfoldbase.pas(1168,43) Hint: Mixing signed

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11/01/2016 09:34, Anthony Walter wrote: The point is, on a TPopupMenu if the pattern to the right is always alias arrows, and the pattern below is always check board, then it's entirely superfluous, nonessential, redundant, and unneeded. The latest trunk accepts a patch which adopts Bart's

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:46:00 -0500 Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Mattias Gaertner < > nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote: > > > There is no overload. There is only one definition: > > > > {$define PathStr:=RawByteString} > > > why not >

[Lazarus] new menu designer: dblClick should show assigned code?!!

dblClick does not actually show assignde Code?!! just svn-updated lazarus: Lazarus 1.7 r1.5 FPC 2.6.4 x86_64-linux-gtk 2 -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

On 11.01.2016 17:44, Anthony Walter wrote: > I Delphi at least if you create a component with AOwner set to nil it > actually (tested under Delphi 7 at least) would set the Owner to > Application. That would lead to crashes all over the place: C:=TComponent.Create(nil); try ... finally

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

Am 11.01.2016 um 15:23 schrieb Mattias Gaertner: On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:24:40 +0100 "John Landmesser" wrote: [...] Kompiliere Package IDEIntf 1.0: Exit code 1, Fehler: 4, Hinweise: 1 projectintf.pas(708,14) Error: Identifier not found "RawByteString" Fixed. Mattias --

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

I Delphi at least if you create a component with AOwner set to nil it actually (tested under Delphi 7 at least) would set the Owner to Application. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

On 11.01.2016 17:44, Anthony Walter wrote: I Delphi at least if you create a component with AOwner set to nil it actually (tested under Delphi 7 at least) would set the Owner to Application. You are wrong: Assert(TComponent.Create(nil).Owner = Application); Ondrej --

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: On 11.01.2016 17:44, Anthony Walter wrote: I Delphi at least if you create a component with AOwner set to nil it actually (tested under Delphi 7 at least) would set the Owner to Application. You are wrong: Assert(TComponent.Create(nil).Owner =

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On 11.01.2016 16:32, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:13:49 +0100 Ondrej Pokorny wrote: I think it fails to find exact overloads. There is no overload. There is only one definition: {$define PathStr:=RawByteString} function ChangeFileExt(const FileName,

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:42:23 +0100 Ondrej Pokorny wrote: >[...] > finah.inc is loaded twice with different PathStr macro so there are > effectively 2 overloaded ChangeFileExt. You are right. > The issue can be easily reproduced (try to complete X): > > function

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

On 01/11/2016 11:07 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: On 11.01.2016 17:44, Anthony Walter wrote: I Delphi at least if you create a component with AOwner set to nil it actually (tested under Delphi 7 at least) would set the Owner to Application. You

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Mattias Gaertner < nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote: There is no overload. There is only one definition: {$define PathStr:=RawByteString} why not type PathStr= RawByteString; ? Poor mans generics,

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

Very nice. I like the new design. Side note: Who wrote that FScroller for the new menu editor? It acts very erratic for me on Gtk2. I don't know about on other widget sets. See issue 29369. Why not use TScrollBox or make TShadowMenu a TScrollingWinControl? --

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On 11.01.2016 15:22, Mattias Gaertner wrote: In this particular case RawByteString is not needed and not intended. It probably was created by auto completion of xIconFiles|:=ChangeFileExt(); Correct. It wasn't definitely intended. I'll be more careful when using Code Completion. On

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11.01.2016 14:38, Howard wrote: It is the second patch submitted on issue 29205 Applied. IMO the discussion about the pattern is now solved :) Ondrej -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:13:49 +0100 Ondrej Pokorny wrote: >[...] > > xIconFiles|:=ChangeFileExt(); >[...] > > Code completion needs a heuristic when to use String (or maybe > > AnsiString) instead of RawByteString. > > I think it fails to find exact overloads. There is no

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Mattias Gaertner < nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote: > There is no overload. There is only one definition: > > {$define PathStr:=RawByteString} > why not type PathStr= RawByteString; ? thanks, Dmitry -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Who "killed" TDBGrid? Ondrej?

On 11.01.2016 18:39, Gabor Boros wrote: Hi All, I have a DataSet with 1 lookup and 10 string fields. If the DataSet empty and press Enter on the one of string field cells the lookup field combobox displayed on it. With mouse works as earlier (ie. with fixes_1_4). I see many commits about

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

Bart: Not really. When you free a component it's removed from the owner's list. Others: If I can dig up my D7 SE installer I'll attempt to verify. I distinctly remember being surprised at this behavior in D5 1999, but I could be mis-remembering. -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunc does not compile with fpc 2.6.4 Win32

On 11.01.2016 18:18, Mattias Gaertner wrote: I'm aware. Codetools have only three states: exact, compatible and incompatible. But in case of RawByteString and UnicodeString one "compatible" is not enough. This is somehow not entirely correct (I haven't checked why). The integer example I gave

Re: [Lazarus] new menu designer: dblClick should show assigned code?!!

Am 11.01.2016 um 18:26 schrieb John Landmesser: dblClick does not actually show assignde Code?!! just svn-updated lazarus: Lazarus 1.7 r1.5 FPC 2.6.4 x86_64-linux-gtk 2 -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

On 11.01.2016 18:26, Bart wrote: That would lead to crashes all over the place: C:=TComponent.Create(nil); try ... finally C.Free; end; Upon app termination the Application object would the again try to free C (note: it is not nil) -> Access Violation. No, you are also wrong :) The owner

Re: [Lazarus] Something the examine Lazarus or applications?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Anthony Walter wrote: > Others: If I can dig up my D7 SE installer I'll attempt to verify. I > distinctly remember being surprised at this behavior in D5 1999, but I > could be mis-remembering. > I've D7 here. I tried Ondrej's sample here and

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

On 11.01.2016 17:07, Anthony Walter wrote: Side note: Who wrote that FScroller for the new menu editor? It acts very erratic for me on Gtk2. I don't know about on other widget sets. See issue 29369. You can easily check by yourself in the SVN history. I don't know. Why not use TScrollBox

[Lazarus] Who "killed" TDBGrid? Ondrej?

Hi All, I have a DataSet with 1 lookup and 10 string fields. If the DataSet empty and press Enter on the one of string field cells the lookup field combobox displayed on it. With mouse works as earlier (ie. with fixes_1_4). I see many commits about grid editor. I found an issue but don't

[Lazarus] "Video: Anyone want to take over this library?"

This is a portion of my old Windows only Delphi library for shell controls: http://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/shellctrls-delphi.mp4 The manual: http://www.codebot.org/shell/ Does anyone have any interested taking the library it over and bringing it into Lazarus? Obviously it would still be