Re: [Lazarus] Using dbugintf

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-19 21:38, Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf: Does anyone knows how to use dbugintf?, I mean, where's the program that get the messages generated from SendDebug?. The one I use and recommend is in lazarus/tools/debugserver. There is also a GUI debug server in fpGUI:

Re: [Lazarus] Using dbugintf

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-19 19:10, Leonardo M. Ramé het geskryf: Does anyone knows how to use dbugintf?, I mean, where's the program that get the messages generated from SendDebug?. WARNING: Just be warned that the dbugintf under Windows is dodgy/broken... if you generate too many debug lines (eg 500ms or

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Michael Fuchs
Am 20.10.2010 03:20, schrieb silvioprog: It's possible in Lazarus?: http://www.fliptext.org/ Of course. You need only two TMemo and a unicode font. Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] [REQ] Serial comunication

2010-10-20 Thread Guadagnini David
Dear, I tried the following components: Sdpo synapse39 Cportlaz and they work fine for windows and linux, but for MAC I could not find anything. Somebody knows some component for serial communications working under MAC David attachment: sw_dept.vcf--

[Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I've played with the latest snapshot of Lazarus and FPC (as release by Vincent) for the last 3 days now. I started with a new profile (via --pcp= parameter). Off the bat, one *major* annoyance of Lazarus IDE now is that I seem to spend more time trying to figure out how to disable all the

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I have also concluded that the editor settings smart tabs should be renamed to idiot/stupid tabs instead, because that is exactly what it does! | symbol denotes cursor pos, and stupid tabs enabled, and auto indent disabled and tab indentation set to 2, tabs set to spaces. eg: if Accept then

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 20/10/10 10:39, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I've played with the latest snapshot of Lazarus and FPC (as release by Vincent) for the last 3 days now. I started with a new profile (via --pcp= parameter). Off the bat, one *major* annoyance of Lazarus IDE now is that I seem to spend more time

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-20 12:00, Henry Vermaak het geskryf: Hmm, yes, same here. Glad I'm not alone in this boat. I have been using the same profile for years, so it wasn't much of a problem, but starting with a new profile, I had to start fiddling with all the various editor settings (which I normally

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 20:39, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: I started with a new profile (via --pcp= parameter). Off the bat, one *major* annoyance of Lazarus IDE now is that I seem to spend more time trying to figure out how to disable all the damn I'm trying to be clever

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Juha Manninen (gmail)
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 04:20:40 silvioprog wrote: It's possible in Lazarus?: http://www.fliptext.org/ How is that done? I can copy the flipped text to a normal editor (like Lazarus editor or KMail's editor) and it still shows flipped. Changing the fon't doesn't turn it. uǝuıuuɐɯ ɐɥnظ

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread ik
It does one of two things: A. Reverse the text (I tested it on Hebrew). B. Uses a map of other unicode chars that looks like latin but are not. On April 1th the Linux Kernel website did the same thing. Ido 2010/10/20 Juha Manninen (gmail) juha.mannine...@gmail.com On Wednesday 20 October

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Žilvinas Ledas
On 2010-10-20 15:16, Juha Manninen (gmail) wrote: It's possible in Lazarus?: http://www.fliptext.org/ How is that done? I can copy the flipped text to a normal editor (like Lazarus editor or KMail's editor) and it still shows flipped. Changing the fon't doesn't turn it. uǝuıuuɐɯ ɐɥn

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Žilvinas Ledas
On 2010-10-20 15:27, Žilvinas Ledas wrote: d as flipped q That should be d as flipped p ... -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] clipboard bug in IDE

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I just want to confirm this as a bug before I report it in Mantis. I develop my software under Linux and Windows. Linux being my primary OS, and Windows running in a VirtualBox (v3.2.6) session. If I am in Linux and copy code to the clipboard from within the IDE editor window, I can paste it

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Juha Manninen (gmail)
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 15:23:35 ik wrote: It does one of two things: A. Reverse the text (I tested it on Hebrew). B. Uses a map of other unicode chars that looks like latin but are not. On April 1th the Linux Kernel website did the same thing. Cool. Only this one char looks different:

Re: [Lazarus] clipboard bug in IDE

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I forgot to mention in my previous post, that I can go the other way. Inside Windows VirtualBox session, I can copy code in the Lazarus IDE editor, and paste in into the Linux Lazarus IDE running in the host system, or to any Gnome application on my desktop. So the bug seems specific to LCL-GTK2

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Martin
On 20/10/2010 10:39, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I've played with the latest snapshot of Lazarus and FPC (as release by Vincent) for the last 3 days now. I started with a new profile (via --pcp= parameter). Off the bat, one *major* annoyance of Lazarus IDE now is that I seem to spend more

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-20 14:40, Martin het geskryf: the new one: Codetools - general overrides the above, if switched on, and does the mind of it's own auto indent Ah, finaly I killed the indent on paste feature too. It always got it wrong. yeah, I know: who is expecting it to be in the

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Andrew Brunner
Actually, I am often pleased when I copy/cut and past a block of text from one area to another only to find that the Editor knew what I was trying to do. I've left all the defaults the same. But I install Ubuntu often. One suggestion may be to delete your Lazarus profile information in your

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Martin
On 20/10/2010 10:49, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I have also concluded that the editor settings smart tabs should be renamed to idiot/stupid tabs instead, because that is exactly what it does! | symbol denotes cursor pos, and stupid tabs enabled, and auto indent disabled and tab indentation set

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread ik
I wrote there in Arabic (Hello): مرحبا and it reversed it to ابحرم It seems tough that the letters are the same, you see the Mem, Ra, Het, ba and Alef the same, at least here (My Arabic skill are not that good though, I haven't used it for a lot of reading since high school almost 15 years ago).

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Andrew Brunner
 if Accept then  begin | 1 2    3    4   5 Actually, I rarely break my If statements across more than one line save to accommodate large logic statements for code readability. if (condition1=condition2) or (conditionx=conditiony) then begin // code here end else begin // more code here

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-20 14:51, Andrew Brunner het geskryf: Ubuntu often. One suggestion may be to delete your Lazarus profile information in your home directory. This will reset everything to the latest and greatest as defaults and ensure that any settings you change will actually be respected...

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-20 14:52, Martin het geskryf: I updated the help: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Editor_Options#Smart_tabs Hope it is more understandable now. if Accept then begin | 1 234 5 1 begin of line 2 first word begin 3 end of line 4 next word,

Re: [Lazarus] lazarus unit test failures: 198 out of 257 fail

2010-10-20 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/10/19 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Hi, I don't know how frequent these are run or looked at, but I used yesterday's FPC 2.4.2rc1 and Lazarus 0.9.29 snapshot (that Vincent release) under Windows 2000, and got all these test failures...

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-20 15:11, Andrew Brunner het geskryf: Hmm... When using lazarus from /trunk you should be more open to discussing/resolving/reporting issues with respect to leaps in features such as smart space/tabs. Do a Mantis search, I think I report more than enough bugs already. The purpose

[Lazarus] Smart Cut/Paste Spacing of declared variables and contants...

2010-10-20 Thread Andrew Brunner
var iCount: Integer; Commands : TDatabaseCommands; iLcv,iWhatEver: Integer; When I declare variables I tend declare them one per line but not always. I also place my : at column 34. When I cut/paste variables and they move

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: I have also concluded that the editor settings smart tabs should be renamed to idiot/stupid tabs instead, because that is exactly what it does! | symbol denotes cursor pos, and stupid tabs enabled, and auto indent disabled and tab

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Martin
On 20/10/2010 14:28, Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: I have also concluded that the editor settings smart tabs should be renamed to idiot/stupid tabs instead, because that is exactly what it does! | symbol denotes cursor pos, and stupid tabs

Re: [Lazarus] Smart Cut/Paste Spacing of declared variables and contants...

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-20 15:24, Andrew Brunner het geskryf: does not adjust the left side. To be REALLY smart and for declarations only, it would cool if the editor could remove some white space (if possible) between the end of the last declared variable and the colon. What you are looking for is

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/10/20 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Op 2010-10-20 15:11, Andrew Brunner het geskryf: Hmm... When using lazarus from /trunk you should be more open to discussing/resolving/reporting issues with respect to leaps in features such as smart space/tabs. Do a Mantis search, I

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread zeljko
And yes that page automatic features is another place, where no one ever would expect anything (half of it is display related, and should be on a page nested into display) = for the rest: a good name is needed (maybe the hints can even get there own page...) At least all those

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Martin laza...@mfriebe.de: On 20/10/2010 10:39, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I've played with the latest snapshot of Lazarus and FPC (as release by Vincent) for the last 3 days now. I started with a new profile (via --pcp= parameter). Off the bat, one *major* annoyance of Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-20 15:28, Mattias Gärtner het geskryf: Have you seen the link on the editor options to the codetools option? Yes, but that seems wrong. Why two tools to do indentation, and if both enabled gives undefined behaviour. It should always be one or the other, and preferably on the same

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-20 15:49, Mattias Gärtner het geskryf: Yes. OTOH codetools are only for pascal. If we move the codetools options to the editor options, it must be made clear that these are only for pascal. I didn't know that, but I see your point. I'm not sure how to do that in an

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Andrew Brunner andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com: [...] But I do agree that this is frustrating. I remember when Lazarus used to crash when laying out my forms with tons of components only to be missing them when I reopen the editor. I also recall a time when Delphi did the very same

Re: [Lazarus] Smart Cut/Paste Spacing of declared variables and contants...

2010-10-20 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Andrew Brunner andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com: var iCount: Integer; Commands : TDatabaseCommands; iLcv,iWhatEver: Integer; When I declare variables I tend declare them one per line but not always. I also place my : at

Re: [Lazarus] Smart Cut/Paste Spacing of declared variables and contants...

2010-10-20 Thread Andrew Brunner
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: What you are looking for is called Elastic Tabstops. That feature will reproduce your expected behaviour exactly. That's totally awesome! That was neat how they had a demo page for trying it out. --

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Op 2010-10-20 15:28, Mattias Gärtner het geskryf: Have you seen the link on the editor options to the codetools option? Yes, but that seems wrong. Why two tools to do indentation, and if both enabled gives undefined behaviour. It should

Re: [Lazarus] FPC 2.4.2 RC1 available

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-19 10:34, Graeme Geldenhuys het geskryf: Any ideas why the linking of the IDE keeps failing? It can successfully compile and link a default project (File New Project Application) without problems, but it can't link the IDE itself. I found the problem! :-) The drive Windows

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread Martin
On 20/10/2010 14:49, Mattias Gärtner wrote: Yes. OTOH codetools are only for pascal. If we move the codetools options to the editor options, it must be made clear that these are only for pascal. I'm not sure how to do that in an intuitive way. I still think they need a more prominent

Re: [Lazarus] FPC 2.4.2 RC1 available

2010-10-20 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/10/20 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: I found the problem!  :-) The drive Windows and Lazarus is installed on, ran out of space in the linking phase. Windows 2000 never reported that it is out of space, so it never even occurred to me to look. By pure chance I saw I have 100

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread silvioprog
2010/10/20 Martin laza...@mfriebe.de On 20/10/2010 02:20, silvioprog wrote: Hi guys, It's possible in Lazarus?: http://www.fliptext.org/ (canvas? :s special font? :o ) font.orientation := 180; canvas.Textout... It works, but not allows to use Copy/Paste. :/ -- Silvio Clécio,

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread silvioprog
2010/10/20 Michael Fuchs freepas...@ypa-software.de Am 20.10.2010 03:20, schrieb silvioprog: It's possible in Lazarus?: http://www.fliptext.org/ Of course. You need only two TMemo and a unicode font. Michael Do you know any? (GPL) Thanks. ;) -- Silvio Clécio, *programmer*

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread silvioprog
2010/10/20 Žilvinas Ledas zilvinas.le...@dict.lt It is faking it :) You can use s as flipped s, use x as flipped x and you can use d as flipped q (and vice versa), u - n... Regards Žilvinas Ledas Hmm... and this: 'ǝ', 'ɐ', 'ɯ', 'ɥ' ??? :S -- Silvio Clécio, programmer ObjectPascal --

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Antônio
I think it is made by a special font. Antônio 2010/10/20 silvioprog silviop...@gmail.com: 2010/10/20 Žilvinas Ledas zilvinas.le...@dict.lt It is faking it :) You can use s as flipped s, use x as flipped x and you can use d as flipped q (and vice versa), u - n... Regards Žilvinas Ledas

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Antônio
You could not paste it on an app of your computer. Antônio 2010/10/20 Antônio antoniog12...@gmail.com: I think it is made by a special font. Antônio 2010/10/20 silvioprog silviop...@gmail.com: 2010/10/20 Žilvinas Ledas zilvinas.le...@dict.lt It is faking it :) You can use s as flipped

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread silvioprog
2010/10/20 Antônio antoniog12...@gmail.com I think it is made by a special font. Antônio In my OS there are only 184 fonts, and not have seen these characters in them. :o -- Silvio Clécio, *programmer* *ObjectPascal* -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Antônio
Because that font is not installed on your system. Antônio -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Žilvinas Ledas
On 2010-10-20 20:02, silvioprog wrote: 2010/10/20 Žilvinas Ledaszilvinas.le...@dict.lt It is faking it :) You can use s as flipped s, use x as flipped x and you can use d as flipped q (and vice versa), u- n... Regards Žilvinas Ledas Hmm... and this: 'ǝ', 'ɐ', 'ɯ', 'ɥ' ??? :S Standard

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread silvioprog
2010/10/20 Žilvinas Ledas zilvinas.le...@dict.lt Standard unicode characters: ǝ - $01DD (in latin extended-b subset) ɐ - $0250 (IPA extensions subset) ɯ - $026F (IPA extensions subset) ... Most of the unicode fonts have these (eg. Arial (unicode), Times new roman ... in Windows) Regards

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread silvioprog
2010/10/20 Žilvinas Ledas zilvinas.le...@dict.lt Standard unicode characters: ǝ - $01DD (in latin extended-b subset) ɐ - $0250 (IPA extensions subset) ɯ - $026F (IPA extensions subset) How to convert from $01DD to ǝ? (e.g. 'AnyFPCFunction'($01DD); returns ǝ) Thanks ;) -- Silvio

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Sven Barth
On 20.10.2010 21:53, silvioprog wrote: 2010/10/20 Žilvinas Ledas zilvinas.le...@dict.lt mailto:zilvinas.le...@dict.lt Standard unicode characters: ǝ - $01DD (in latin extended-b subset) ɐ - $0250 (IPA extensions subset) ɯ - $026F (IPA extensions subset) How

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Zaher Dirkey
2010/10/20 ik ido...@gmail.com I wrote there in Arabic (Hello): مرحبا and it reversed it to ابحرم It seems tough that the letters are the same, you see the Mem, Ra, Het, ba and Alef the same, at least here (My Arabic skill are not that good though, I haven't used it for a lot of reading

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread silvioprog
2010/10/20 Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com If you're using Lazarus you can do Canvas.TextOut(x, y, Utf8Encode(#$01dd)); When you're using Linux and you want to print on a utf8 stdout you can use Writeln(Utf8Encode(#$01dd)); Utf8Encode(WideString) converts an UTF-16 (fixed

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread Žilvinas Ledas
On 2010-10-21 00:06, silvioprog wrote: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin Caption := Utf8Encode(#$01dd); end; You can do something like: showmessage(UTF8Encode(''+#$01dd)); or you can add WideChar() (I'm used to add it to ease code reading in the future):

Re: [Lazarus] FlipText

2010-10-20 Thread ik
2010/10/20 Zaher Dirkey parm...@gmail.com 2010/10/20 ik ido...@gmail.com I wrote there in Arabic (Hello): مرحبا and it reversed it to ابحرم It seems tough that the letters are the same, you see the Mem, Ra, Het, ba and Alef the same, at least here (My Arabic skill are not that good

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/20/2010 08:59, Andrew Brunner wrote: if Accept then begin | 1 234 5 Actually, I rarely break my If statements across more than one line save to accommodate large logic statements for code readability. if (condition1=condition2) or (conditionx=conditiony) then begin //

Re: [Lazarus] Verdict of Lazarus 0.9.29

2010-10-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/20/2010 09:12, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Op 2010-10-20 14:52, Martin het geskryf: I updated the help: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Editor_Options#Smart_tabs Hope it is more understandable now. if Accept then begin | 1 234 5 1 begin of line 2 first

Re: [Lazarus] Smart Cut/Paste Spacing of declared variables and contants...

2010-10-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/20/2010 09:24, Andrew Brunner wrote: Notice that when I take declarations from one spot I want the colons to be in alignment. If I could get that when I copy/cut paste I would be totally impressed :-) +1 but i gotta ask... what can/will be used to determine the column for the colons

[Lazarus] How to jump to start of function

2010-10-20 Thread Frank Church
Does Lazarus offer the ability to bring up a list of functions and jump to a start of a function, like the function in gexperts used to? Surely something in CodeTools or some other IDE package must be able to. -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com --

Re: [Lazarus] How to jump to start of function

2010-10-20 Thread Alexander Klenin
2010/10/21 Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com: Does Lazarus offer the ability to bring up a list of functions and jump to a start of a function, like the function in gexperts used to? Surely something in CodeTools or some other IDE package must be able to. Alt+G? -- Alexander S. Klenin --

Re: [Lazarus] How to jump to start of function

2010-10-20 Thread Martin
On 21/10/2010 00:17, Frank Church wrote: Does Lazarus offer the ability to bring up a list of functions and jump to a start of a function, like the function in gexperts used to? Surely something in CodeTools or some other IDE package must be able to. don't know/remember gexpert closest