Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 01:24, Darius Blaszyk wrote: Here's a first version of a graphical front end for fppkg. Unfortunately you are not the first. ;-) I have already seen a graphical front-end for fppkg (I think in Lazarus CCR). Either way, I guess having more choices are always good. :) Regards,

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 08:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I have already seen a graphical front-end for fppkg (I think in Lazarus CCR). Found it on Lazarus CCR download section: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus-ccr/files/fppkg%20gui/ Announcement from original author:

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 01:24, Darius Blaszyk wrote: it supports all basic commands. It's my plan to extend this front end in the future and at some time support lazarus packages as well. I guess you developed it against Lazarus (trunk). Anyway, I just thought I would let you know it compiles against

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 09:07, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: 3) I really liked the idea from the original front-end project. Having the ability to run it as stand-alone (normally my preferred choice), but also as a Lazarus IDE add-on (somebody will probably like this option). Ignore that, I only now saw

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread dhkblaszyk
On Tue, 10 May 2011 08:43:47 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/05/2011 08:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I have already seen a graphical front-end for fppkg (I think in Lazarus CCR). Found it on Lazarus CCR download section:

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread dhkblaszyk
Hi Graeme, Thanks for the feedback. 1) Remove LCLBase package dependency. The LCL package is enough. I will look at dependencies later on indeed. For now I have slung a couple of units together from other projects and didn't pay too much attention to the details. Probably there are other

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 09:16, dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl wrote: Thanks, I have seen the mail, but i couldn't find it on the CCR repositories. That confused me too, but I was pretty sure I saw it on CCR. In the end I found the code is not hosted in the repository, just in the File Downloads section.

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 09:27, dhkblaszyk@zee* wrote: I have chosen for a dump for now. Later this will be replaced by a parser. I will probably link to the fppkg units to use that parser No problems. The dump was at least informative to see where packages will be installed and what compiler will

[Lazarus] [OT/Readability] Re: Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

2011-05-10 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hi Peter, I recall you are using the lazarus mailing list to send posts/mails, but you use gmane as news reader ? (if it is not your case, ignore above statement...) From the headers it appears you are using Exim to post. It is incredibly frustrating since something mangles tabs/spaces/newlines

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread Juha (gmail)
Darius Blaszyk kirjoitti tiistai, 10. toukokuuta 2011 02:24:39: Please review and commit if approved. Commit where? I noticed you wrote also to forum thread suggesting a similar installer: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,12827 This idea seems to boil in collective

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 01:24 +0200, Darius Blaszyk wrote: Here's a first version of a graphical front end for fppkg. Currently it supports all basic commands. It's my plan to extend this front end in the future and at some time support lazarus packages as well. I didn't looked at it yet, but

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Tue, 10 May 2011, Joost van der Sluis wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 01:24 +0200, Darius Blaszyk wrote: Here's a first version of a graphical front end for fppkg. Currently it supports all basic commands. It's my plan to extend this front end in the future and at some time support lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread dhkblaszyk
On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:38:47 +0300, Juha (gmail) juha.mannine...@gmail.com wrote: Darius Blaszyk kirjoitti tiistai, 10. toukokuuta 2011 02:24:39: Please review and commit if approved. Commit where? ./trunk/components/lazfppkg/ I noticed you wrote also to forum thread suggesting a similar

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread dhkblaszyk
On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:02:07 +0200 (CEST), michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011, Joost van der Sluis wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 01:24 +0200, Darius Blaszyk wrote: Here's a first version of a graphical front end for fppkg. Currently it supports all basic commands. It's my

[Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
It seems the whole world is going mobile computing nuts!! http://www.osnews.com/story/24713/Nokia_Announces_Qt_5_Plans My thoughts on pushing those mobile computing UI interfaces into the desktop application space is rather negative. eg: Unity in Ubuntu, Gnome Shell in Gnome 3 - clearly all

[Lazarus] LCL-Qt with horizontal tabs or left/right

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Even before the option was available in the IDE, I have hacked my Lazarus IDE to have editor tabs on the right of my editor window instead of the default top. The really nice thing is that in GTK2, the text is in a normal horizontal orientation. NOT rotated on it's side (like Windows) - thus

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Very strange. Nokia already sold the business of offering service to Qt developers, and it fired most of the MeeGo department, so it doesn't use Qt in it's own products and doesn't sell services based on it. Why would it work in Qt 5? I'd rather have them stay far away from it, since I don't see

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Schnell
Hmm, The big thing is Android !!! So doing Lazarus for Android would be essential. I do know that there are several ways to do this, but IMHO, the most decent best integrated (though most painful) way would be not to use a second non-Android GUI-framework (such as QT) but somehow make the

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 13:23, Michael Schnell wrote: Android controls usable for Lazarus programs. I supposed this would ask for some kind of local remote GUI, i.e. serializing the GUI communication by some kind of byte stream and do a java based remote GUI handler application on the Android site.

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 13:18, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: it. Why would it work in Qt 5? I'd rather have them stay far away from it, since I don't see anything good coming from Nokia these days. I don't have much faith in Nokia either these days. They don't even know what they really want. I

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/10/2011 01:54 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: MSEgui has some remote GUI via serializing support, Yep. This is originally an idea of Martin's and his name for it is ifi (nobody knows what this means :-) ). AFAIK, this is an unfinished open source project he once started and abandoned at

Re: [Lazarus] LCL-Qt with horizontal tabs or left/right

2011-05-10 Thread zeljko
On Tuesday 10 of May 2011 12:51:19 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Even before the option was available in the IDE, I have hacked my Lazarus IDE to have editor tabs on the right of my editor window instead of the default top. The really nice thing is that in GTK2, the text is in a normal

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread zeljko
On Tuesday 10 of May 2011 12:41:02 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It seems the whole world is going mobile computing nuts!! http://www.osnews.com/story/24713/Nokia_Announces_Qt_5_Plans My thoughts on pushing those mobile computing UI interfaces into the desktop application space is rather

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Joyner
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.comwrote: code when done. The whole JavaScript thing scares me too, but that is maybe just because I'm not very proficient in JavaScript. Just what we need.. a program that you can publish that doesn't show any errors

Re: [Lazarus] Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, [snip] Unit1.pas http://pastebin.com/wuEft4Kb Why do you declare TIsland as a generic if you don't use the type T anywhere? I have (though all of these posts) been trying to follow the instructions for GENERICS on this page:http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GenericsThis page

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread waldo kitty
On 5/10/2011 03:27, dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl wrote: 4) Maybe rename the project and actually give it a name rather than 'project1'. ;-) Have a better name for it? :) how about 'myproject' or '%date%%time%project' where %date% is MMDD format and %time% is HHMM or possibly HHMMSS format?

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:23:57PM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: Hmm, The big thing is Android !!! And if you want to capitalize on it, you need to be ready now, not only start. Lazarus is not suitable for trying to follow fast moving trends. Iphone was just yesterday, and even that is not

Re: [Lazarus] [OT/Readability] Re: Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

2011-05-10 Thread Juha (gmail)
Lukasz Sokol kirjoitti tiistai, 10. toukokuuta 2011 11:38:20: If nobody else sees this but me, feel free to ignore; but if somebody has a similar issue reading your posts, please back me :) Yes I can back you. The mails are quite unreadable, and the very latest mail still has the same problem.

Re: [Lazarus] Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

2011-05-10 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Peter Williams schrieb: The reason why I am choosing a Generic or Specialize is so that I have accept to the Sort procedure of TList. I am not sure if I am doing this correctly. The Sort method requires a user-supplied *compare function*. Only that function must know about the type and

[Lazarus] Issue 0019296, Launch many instances, and forget about them [Re: Run Without Debbuging Shift+Ctrl+F9]

2011-05-10 Thread Martin
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19296 On 05/05/2011 22:43, Flávio Etrusco wrote: Of course. It only that I often wanted this in lazarus when I needed several instances to run concurrently. Since the discussion about the patch was started on the list, I decided to continue it here,

Re: [Lazarus] fppkg front end

2011-05-10 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 10 May 2011 01:24:39 +0200 Darius Blaszyk dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl wrote: Hi, Here's a first version of a graphical front end for fppkg. Currently it supports all basic commands. It's my plan to extend this front end in the future and at some time support lazarus packages as well.

[Lazarus] My change of email address.

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, Just a quick note to say that I am changing my subscription email address to this one. I will only send plain text messages in future and that should fix the message formatting problems. Sorry for the hassles. Best Regards, Peter -- ___

[Lazarus] Example requested for TList and Sort using data type of Object (or record).

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Williams
Hi all, I have been googling without success looking for Lazarus TList examples using the Sort procedure. I want to use a TObject or Record data type. Does anyone here know of any examples of this (TList, Sort and Object or Record data types) ? I realize that I need to write my own compare