Re: [Lazarus] Test the Lazarus fixes_0_9_30 branch

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
While there is no 0.9.30 version to choose from in Mantis, I added a '0.9.30' tag to my bug report. Mouse cursor disappears while modal dialog is visible http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18394 Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE creates lots of empty config dirs

2011-01-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/1/5 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Hi, Wanting to test the 0.9.30 branch, I wanted to make a copy of my current ~/.config/lazarus/ directory. That's when I noticed lots and lots of directories similar to what is shown below. All these directories are empty.  $ ls -l

Re: [Lazarus] Test the Lazarus fixes_0_9_30 branch

2011-01-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/1/5 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Hi, Found two problems in the first minute of testing. * Just checked out the 'fixes_0.9.30' and did a 'make lcl bigide'. Lazarus reports it's version still as 0.9.29 instead of 0.9.30 The fixes branch contains 0.9.29. After the release,

Re: [Lazarus] Test the Lazarus fixes_0_9_30 branch

2011-01-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/1/5 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Op 2011-01-05 09:38, Vincent Snijders het geskryf: ... and newly found issues (even regressions) are unlikely to block a release. That's not good practice.  Unless the first release of 0.9.30 branch will be a rc1 release, instead of stable

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE creates lots of empty config dirs

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-01-05 10:09, Vincent Snijders het geskryf: * Why are they there? No idea, I don't have such files in C:\Documents and Settings\vincent\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus Note the 'd' in first column of the listing I provided. They are _not_ files but directories - with names

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE creates lots of empty config dirs

2011-01-05 Thread zeljko
On Wednesday 05 of January 2011 09:09:51 Vincent Snijders wrote: No idea, I don't have such files in C:\Documents and Settings\vincent\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus I have same problem as Graeme under linux. zeljko -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE creates lots of empty config dirs

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-01-05 10:29, zeljko het geskryf: I have same problem as Graeme under linux. Thanks for confirming. I reported it as a bug, seeing that Windows doesn't seem to have the same behaviour. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18396 Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-01-05 10:23, Bo Berglund het geskryf: What is a widget and how does it relate to my aim of making a cross-platform program? widget = component Widget is a term often used in Linux (and maybe other OSes too) as a gui component. Delphi calls them components, but then in Delphi how to

Re: [Lazarus] No FPC sources on lazarus start....

2011-01-05 Thread Sven Barth
Am 04.01.2011 20:24, schrieb Bo Berglund: On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:10:26 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: David Emerson wrote: Sounds like you installed the compiler part, but not the fpc sources. Try here: http://www.freepascal.org/down/source/sources.var On

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: I am switching from Delphi7-BDS2006 on Windows to FPC-Lazarus on Windows with the aim of making cross-platform programs. I also want to make one program run on an embedded ARM board running linux for ARM. So I have read a lot of the discussions here and asked questions about

[Lazarus] Mantis attached tags are broken

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I created one report with a new tag '0.9.30', so I can easily find bug report related to the fixes_0_9_30 branch. I did a view issues and selected '0.9.30' tag as filter. It only showed one bug report. I went back to my previous bug reports and the '0.9.30' tag was removed for all but the

Re: [Lazarus] Mantis attached tags are broken

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
OK, I just got a Mantis report email which listed that Vincent removed all the tags - believing they are unnecessary. Personally, I don't think so, because now all 0.9.30 related reports fall under the 0.9.29 version - which was also the Trunk a little while ago. So now there is no way to

Re: [Lazarus] Mantis attached tags are broken

2011-01-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/1/5 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: OK, I just got a Mantis report email which listed that Vincent removed all the tags - believing they are unnecessary. Personally, I don't think so, because now all 0.9.30 related reports fall under the 0.9.29 version - which was also the

Re: [Lazarus] Test the Lazarus fixes_0_9_30 branch

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Please guys and girls, help test the 0.9.30 branch. Vincent asked for this request over a week ago, and he seems to have gotten little response. I've been using 0.9.30 for an hour and already reported 6 bugs. Lets make 0.9.30 release a REAL STABLE release please. What you don't report, the

Re: [Lazarus] Test the Lazarus fixes_0_9_30 branch

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Here is what I got so far: 0018399 Editor 'tabs on right' is not remembered after restart 0018398 IDE Help Options - text gets clipped 0018397 IDE Options | Event Log | has a empty groupbox 0018396 Lazarus IDE creates lots of empty config dirs 0018395 JCF config file displayed with

Re: [Lazarus] Can't find unit contnrs used by Masks

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Schnell
On 01/04/2011 06:13 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Best you build clean *everything* except the examples (some examples may not compile from time to time). I don't see how to do this (and of course they already are cleaned as I already did clean and build all). So I'll just wait until the

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Schnell
On 01/05/2011 09:44 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: It's not so much widgets as widget set, and it refers to whether the intermediate layer between your program is based on Windows, Qt, GTK (1 or 2) etc. Widget Set is the more common term, but in Lazarus it's (mostly, e.g. Project - Options -

Re: [Lazarus] Can't find unit contnrs used by Masks

2011-01-05 Thread Kjow
2011/1/5 Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de: I don't see how to do this (and of course they already are cleaned as I already did clean and build all). So I'll just wait until the problem is fixed. If I understood what you need, in Build profiles, you can choose what build or not. In the last

Re: [Lazarus] Test the Lazarus fixes_0_9_30 branch

2011-01-05 Thread Paul Ishenin
05.01.2011 16:27, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: 0018397 IDE Options | Event Log | has a empty groupbox This groupbox is reserved for future. Event log is not implemented now but I hope it will be before the 1.0 release. Best regards, Paul Ishenin --

Re: [Lazarus] Test the Lazarus fixes_0_9_30 branch

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-01-05 12:38, Paul Ishenin het geskryf: 0018397 IDE Options | Event Log | has a empty groupbox This groupbox is reserved for future. Event log is not implemented now but I hope it will be before the 1.0 release. OK thanks. May I then suggest that the groupbox, or even better, the

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 01/05/2011 09:44 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: It's not so much widgets as widget set, and it refers to whether the intermediate layer between your program is based on Windows, Qt, GTK (1 or 2) etc. Widget Set is the more common term, but in Lazarus it's (mostly,

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-01-05 13:38, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf: supports, i.e. Windows, and he's probably going to have to move onto something like gtk v2; clearly this means that gtk etc. does have to work on whatever ARM-based board he's chosen. [promo hat on] Obviously he can also move to something

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Op 2011-01-05 13:38, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf: supports, i.e. Windows, and he's probably going to have to move onto something like gtk v2; clearly this means that gtk etc. does have to work on whatever ARM-based board he's chosen. [promo hat on] Obviously he can

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-01-05 14:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf: Yes, I was going to mention that but at present it's unclear whether it's immediately usable from the Lazarus IDE. fpGUI works with any IDE or editor - their are no dependencies to a specific IDE. If it is not, since Bo is talking about

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Op 2011-01-05 14:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf: Yes, I was going to mention that but at present it's unclear whether it's immediately usable from the Lazarus IDE. fpGUI works with any IDE or editor - their are no dependencies to a specific IDE. Right, so you're

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Bo Berglund
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:05:26 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Op 2011-01-05 14:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf: Yes, I was going to mention that but at present it's unclear whether it's immediately usable from the Lazarus IDE. fpGUI

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 05/01/11 13:23, Bo Berglund wrote: The embedded card is a touch panel from Technologic Systems (http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-TPC-7390#), which runs an embedded version of Debian Linux, I believe. If it supports GTK (what is that?) or not I don't know but I

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-01-05 15:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf: Right, so you're saying that it's not integrated with Lazarus to the same extent that the LCL is. If that is the case I'm not sure that it's going to be a painless option for Bo. Define integrated? Here I have registered fpGUI project

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread zeljko
On Wednesday 05 of January 2011 09:39:52 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Op 2011-01-05 10:23, Bo Berglund het geskryf: What is a widget and how does it relate to my aim of making a cross-platform program? widget = component I'd say that widget = TWinControl (and others derived from TWinControl

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Sven Barth
Am 05.01.2011 14:23, schrieb Bo Berglund: So basically a widget set is a definition on what kind of graphics environment is used on the target system then? What about making a program for Linux? Do we have to compile the same program in different versions for different desktop managers on Linux?

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 05/01/11 13:38, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 05/01/11 13:23, Bo Berglund wrote: The embedded card is a touch panel from Technologic Systems (http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-TPC-7390#), which runs an embedded version of Debian Linux, I believe. If it supports GTK

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: Bo, I suggest that you check that your board supports GTK etc. If it doesn't support GTK but it does have basic X graphics then fpGUI might be the least painful option. Back again so I could read up on this thread... So basically a widget set is a definition on what kind

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-01-05 15:23, Bo Berglund het geskryf: So basically a widget set is a definition on what kind of graphics environment is used on the target system then? Correct. As standard, Windows only has the WinAPI (GDI etc), and Delphi's VCL is a wrapper for that API. Under Linux you have more

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: On 05/01/11 13:38, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 05/01/11 13:23, Bo Berglund wrote: The embedded card is a touch panel from Technologic Systems (http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-TPC-7390#), which runs an embedded version of Debian Linux, I

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:12:46 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Note though that if you are creating commercial apps with Qt, you need to purchase a license (+-3500 US dollars per developer - last time I checked). fpGUI and MSEide are free, even for commercial apps. That must have been over a

Re: [Lazarus] Rxnew component install error on amd64

2011-01-05 Thread Diwakoe
Is the svn version same with snapshot version? Thanks, Diwa On 5 Jan 2011 12:53, alexs alex...@yandex.ru wrote: 05.01.2011 05:20, Diwakoe пишет: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: The svn version seems to be 64 bits safe:

[Lazarus] [FR] Add an image file to package for components icons

2011-01-05 Thread Zaher Dirkey
Hi, i like to add an image for components icons, but i like to be more easy, is it possible to have this feature request. Just adding the image file like mycontrol.png to the package, mark File Typeas Image not binnary, when save it the file automatically included in the resource file .lrs.

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Paul Breneman
Hi Mark, I've got slight reservations about KDE/Qt because my experience is that the libraries required aren't compatible with the current (Stable, Lenny) Debian, but only with the unreleased next version (SID, Squeeze). And SID/Squeeze uses KDE v4, which is pretty alien to anybody used to

Re: [Lazarus] Rxnew component install error on amd64

2011-01-05 Thread alexs
Yes. 05.01.2011 18:31, Diwakoe пишет: Is the svn version same with snapshot version? Thanks, Diwa On 5 Jan 2011 12:53, alexsalex...@yandex.ru wrote: 05.01.2011 05:20, Diwakoe пишет: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: The svn version

[Lazarus] complex ini like syntax parser

2011-01-05 Thread ik
Hello, I'm looking for a setting parser for something like this: --- snips - [foo](!) bar = 1 baz = fff ; comment ; comment #include file #include = section --- snips Before I'll do this the hard way and write something for myself, is there something like that existed

Re: [Lazarus] fpGUI

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Kjow wrote: 2011/1/5 Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk: OK, but is the implementation status at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Roadmap#Status_of_components_on_each_widgetset up to date? I did earlier say that the situation was unclear, and that table hardly helps matters.

Re: [Lazarus] complex ini like syntax parser

2011-01-05 Thread Zaher Dirkey
2011/1/5 ik ido...@gmail.com Before I'll do this the hard way and write something for myself, is there something like that existed already, or even something that implement part of it, so I could based my code on it instead of writing one for myself ? In project

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-05 Thread Micha Nelissen
Bo Berglund wrote: 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input matrices. You couldn't translate the code or the function declarations? Calling the fortran code from

Re: [Lazarus] complex ini like syntax parser

2011-01-05 Thread ik
2011/1/5 Zaher Dirkey parm...@gmail.com 2011/1/5 ik ido...@gmail.com Before I'll do this the hard way and write something for myself, is there something like that existed already, or even something that implement part of it, so I could based my code on it instead of writing one for myself ?

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Sven Barth
On 05.01.2011 16:42, Paul Breneman wrote: Yesterday I loaded the Win32 fpGUI zip into ReactOS in VMware and it *mostly* worked. ReactOS has some good potential as a free embedded OS but I doubt it will ever be good enough for general desktop use. I know this is getting off topic, but how much

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-05 Thread Sven Barth
On 05.01.2011 18:33, Micha Nelissen wrote: Bo Berglund wrote: 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input matrices. You couldn't translate the code or the function

Re: [Lazarus] complex ini like syntax parser

2011-01-05 Thread Zaher Dirkey
2011/1/5 ik ido...@gmail.com Thanks Zaher, but I'm looking for a parser to read the keys and values, and not syntax highlighter. Sorry stupid me :P syntax word is confused me. But that file is not just an INI file. You can try lcl\translations.pas UpdateStrings but it is not fit to what

Re: [Lazarus] fpGUI

2011-01-05 Thread José Mejuto
Hello Lazarus-List, Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 5:23:01 PM, you wrote: MML OK, but is the implementation status at MML http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Roadmap#Status_of_components_on_each_widgetset MML up to date? I did earlier say that the situation was unclear, and that MML table hardly

Re: [Lazarus] complex ini like syntax parser

2011-01-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed,Jan 05, 2011 at 06:23:36PM +0200, ik wrote: I'm looking for a setting parser for something like this: --- snips - [foo](!) bar = 1 baz = fff ; comment ; comment #include file #include = section --- snips Before I'll do this the hard way and write

Re: [Lazarus] fpGUI

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 5 January 2011 17:41, Kjow wrote: I'm testing fpGUI on Lazarus and following the link: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpGUI_Interface#Creating_your_first_LCL_application_with_fpGUI (step 3.1) That would be for using LCL-fpGUI (LCL with fpGUI as the backend widget set). I don't maintain

Re: [Lazarus] fpGUI

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 5 January 2011 18:23, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: OK, but is the implementation status at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Roadmap#Status_of_components_on_each_widgetset up to date? I did earlier say that the situation was unclear, and that table hardly helps matters. Those tables only

Re: [Lazarus] fpGUI

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 5 January 2011 19:14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I for one have been keeping an eye on that table, because I think that fpGUI would potentially be useful in conjunction with FluxBox which I already use on low-resource systems. I fully agree. I think it will be great having a fully

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Paul, On 5 January 2011 17:42, Paul Breneman wrote: I would very much like to get MSEide set up that way and into a minimal distro for demonstration purposes.  If you have this documented somewhere please share a link!  You may already have this and I've overlooked it. Have a look at:

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 5 January 2011 17:50, Paul Breneman wrote: would be interesting to see how well that could be done using Lazarus and QT.  The device is a bit underpowered but using framebuffer rather than X probably helps. Adding a Linux framebuffer backend to fpGUI is already on my todo list. I hope to

[Lazarus] JSON - RTTI streaming.

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hello, For those of you that need JSON support: I have committed support for streaming published properties (properties for which RTTI is generated) from objects to JSON and vice versa, in a unit fpjsonrtti. Not the full streaming as implemented in the classes system is supported: - No

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 5 January 2011 14:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: It should not be necessary to use a tailored image, all you need to do is get the development package from the Debian repository which should pull in the libraries as well. I'd usually expect embedded vendors to

Re: [Lazarus] Is there an svn command to find out the last commit affected a particular file?

2011-01-05 Thread Frank Church
On 2 January 2011 16:44, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/2 Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com: Is there an option to filter display just the latest one? svn log -l 1 file Henry This does exactly what is needed. Thanks --

Re: [Lazarus] Rxnew component install error on amd64

2011-01-05 Thread Diwakoe
2011/1/5 alexs alex...@yandex.ru: Yes. 05.01.2011 18:31, Diwakoe пишет: Is the svn version same with snapshot version? Thanks, Diwa ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread Paul Breneman
Sven Barth wrote: On 05.01.2011 16:42, Paul Breneman wrote: Yesterday I loaded the Win32 fpGUI zip into ReactOS in VMware and it *mostly* worked. ReactOS has some good potential as a free embedded OS but I doubt it will ever be good enough for general desktop use. I know this is getting off

Re: [Lazarus] What are widgets in lazarus?

2011-01-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 1/5/2011 08:47, zeljko wrote: On Wednesday 05 of January 2011 09:39:52 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Op 2011-01-05 10:23, Bo Berglund het geskryf: What is a widget and how does it relate to my aim of making a cross-platform program? widget = component I'd say that widget = TWinControl (and

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 1/5/2011 12:33, Micha Nelissen wrote: Bo Berglund wrote: 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input matrices. You couldn't translate the code or the function

[Lazarus] What do I need to do to install and use JEDI-SDL-v1.0

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, What do I need to do to install and use JEDI-SDL-v1.0 or which ever is latest?I have downloaded JDL-SDLv1.0.zip and unarchived it. It is in Delphi format and free pascal and lazarus. See below that I have tried to run the fpc-install.sh file (with the command sh ./fpc-install.sh ).

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-05 Thread Salvatore Coppola
2011/1/3 Birger Jansen bir...@cnoc.nl Hi all, Last month I converted a 500.000 lines Delphi project to FreePascal, and I wanted to thank those who replied to my questions over the mailing list and the whole FPC / Lazarus team for delivering a great product. Also all contributors to wiki