Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 08:14, schrieb Michael Schnell: On 02/28/2012 12:00 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: a stable D7 compatible version/branch is required, IMHO a compiler switch (Lazarus Project menu option) should be provided (D7 compatibility or non-Unicode or something like this) There are

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 08:22, schrieb Michael Schnell: On 02/27/2012 09:51 PM, Martin Schreiber wrote: A side mark: I don't think using the old ansistring as combined binary and character buffer is such a bad thing. + 1/2 It would be better to have a type that 1:1 allows for all the well known

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 21:02, schrieb Marco van de Voort: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:53:21PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote: http://rpmfind.net/ Found 157 RPM for fpc Found 3 RPM for gpc (all of them in very old Mandriva versions) You can't even find GPC packages in newer distributions. See also:

Re: [Lazarus] upx dont work

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 01:31, schrieb Ing. Héctor F. Fiandor Rosario: Dear colleagues: i have used por many years the upx for compact the executable files. Really, it have worked pretty well. today, i have tried to compact an executable but i have obtained a nom good result. previously i have used the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 28-2-2012 9:43, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: But summing up, more then yet another discussion on this topic, what really helps is contributions. If you think that Pascal needs better support for the Internet, well, then just write some tutorials about fpweb, write a usage statistics

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, all the fpc/lazarus team is doing a wonderfull work! William de Oliveira Ferreira Bacharel em Sistemas de Informação 2012/2/28 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com I believe that is a

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that is a lost cause, because Pascal doesn't exist, or Pascal is just uncool.  :-( I think not necessarely. Last year I complained a bit and they were quite open about it, and apparently they changed

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Rigel R.
От: Lukasz Sokol Относно: Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong? До: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Изпратено на: Вторник, 2012, Февруари 28 11:08:16 EET On 27/02/2012 11:49, Rigel Rigel wrote: [snip] Sorry for cutting all of this out, but [to the OP]: As you can see

[Lazarus] editor toolbar's buttons glyph

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
i've installed the editortoolbar0.4 and configured it but i wanna change the toolbar's buttons glyph to what they mean. How can i do? my toolbar looks like this: http://imagebin.org/201188 and on it i have a cut/copy/paste button, toggle comment on selection, etc...

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Rigel R.
Thanks for answers, but you know when you begin with Web programing. Before anything was written in other languages ​​and will be difficult to change people's understanding. Which mobile devices are the bes for Lazarus programing? And after Lukasz Sokol blame me for troll no sense to

Re: [Lazarus] One thank.

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
I know the mailing list is the standard today, in many places not just here. But is unclear in his lack of formated data, maybe something like the bug tracker to discuss inprovements in which that info like the one you just sended about the TLabel and FocusControl could be added as notes. Would be

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-28 Thread Alexsander Rosa
My company also tried (and abandoned) Kylix: http://port2laz.blogspot.com/2005/12/from-clx-to-vcl.html 2012/2/28 zeljko zel...@holobit.net ** On Tuesday 28 of February 2012 08:23:35 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I'm not saying Kylix 3 is still a booming product (it isn't), I'm just saying

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/28/2012 10:24 AM, Sven Barth wrote: Am 28.02.2012 08:22, schrieb Michael Schnell: In my projects I usually do something like Type ByteString = AnsiString for a future migration :) . type TByteArray = array of Byte; ??? array of Byte AnsiString. You can't do +, there is not

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-28 Thread Lv
Same here. Kylix had a great debugger, something that still doesnt work nice in Lazarus, but other than that Lazarus is exceptional and the support is very good. Try to get any support out of Borland and their successors. Even earlier years before Delphi, they failed to fix RT-200 for pentium

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 14:00, schrieb Michael Schnell: On 02/28/2012 10:24 AM, Sven Barth wrote: Am 28.02.2012 08:22, schrieb Michael Schnell: In my projects I usually do something like Type ByteString = AnsiString for a future migration :) . type TByteArray = array of Byte; ??? array of Byte

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/28/2012 02:13 PM, Sven Barth wrote: Did you even look at my code? Sorry, I did not want to be rude, but I understand that this is in fact _your_ code and not supplied by the RTL which is what this part of the discussion was about. Thanks anyway, -Michael --

Re: [Lazarus] Android Target GUI

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Montag, den 27.02.2012, 10:13 +0100 schrieb Sven Barth: Am 27.02.2012 10:03, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the website of the FreeX magazine:

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 28/02/2012 12:11, Rigel R. wrote: I do not understand why insulting me. Maybe because you are stupid and do not understand what I write? All described applications using CGI or others languages who are not written in Pascal. Now you understand or you need more explanations? If so, read the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
My intend in start this thread was in order to make visible the potential of the FPC/Lazarus, that i believe is more than Java. 2012/2/28 Lukasz Sokol el.es...@gmail.com On 28/02/2012 12:11, Rigel R. wrote: I do not understand why insulting me. Maybe because you are stupid and do not

Re: [Lazarus] One thank.

2012-02-28 Thread Juha Manninen
2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com I know the mailing list is the standard today, in many places not just here. But is unclear in his lack of formated data, maybe something like the bug tracker to discuss inprovements in which that info like the one you just sended about the TLabel

Re: [Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange gap on right hand side

2012-02-28 Thread Martin
On 28/02/2012 15:01, John Repucci wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:53:38 +0100 From: Bart bartjun...@gmail.com mailto:bartjun...@gmail.com Subject: [Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange gap on right hand side To: Lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Sven Barth schrieb: Before Delphi 2009 you might have been right, but with that version Embarcadero did a cut and we now need to adapt and live with that. I dare to disagree. A ByteString only requires a dedicated encoding (value), which makes it incompatible with other encodings, and thus

Re: [Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange gap on right hand side

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 16:15, schrieb Martin: On 28/02/2012 15:11, Sven Barth wrote: Am 28.02.2012 15:53, schrieb Bart: Hi, After upgrading from r34833 to r35612 I noticed that the SourceEditor now had a strange gap on the right hand side, see attached screenshot. Anybody knwos what it is, or why it

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 28/02/2012 16:01, Hans-Peter Diettrich ha scritto: Yes, much time is spent on the *code*, on mass instead of quality. No, the *documentation* is in an horrible state. Every possible user will need some documentation, before he starts to write code. As he doesn't find such documentation,

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Martin Schreiber
Am 28.02.2012 16:13, schrieb Sven Barth: Am 28.02.2012 15:40, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: Sven Barth schrieb: Before Delphi 2009 you might have been right, but with that version Embarcadero did a cut and we now need to adapt and live with that. I dare to disagree. A ByteString only

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: William Oliveira Ferreira schrieb: Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, all the fpc/lazarus team is doing a wonderfull work! +-1 Yes, much time is spent on the *code*, on mass

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 15:31, schrieb Martin Schreiber: Am 28.02.2012 16:13, schrieb Sven Barth: Am 28.02.2012 15:40, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: Sven Barth schrieb: Before Delphi 2009 you might have been right, but with that version Embarcadero did a cut and we now need to adapt and live with

Re: [Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange gap on right hand side

2012-02-28 Thread Bart
On 2/28/12, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: Yay!!! The overview gutter is finally here by default :D Make some changes in the file, save it, make more changes and place some breakpoints. I can see little green squared dots when I change a line, but they do not appear at/near

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Martin Schreiber
Am 28.02.2012 16:52, schrieb Sven Barth: Did you look at the 2.7.1 or 2.6.0 implementation of these procs? If the 2.6.0 one then I suggest you to look at the 2.7.1 ones and reconsider your statement ;) True. :-) Do you think 2.7.1 FPC string handling is an improvement compared with FPC

Re: [Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange gap on right hand side

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 16:53, schrieb Bart: On 2/28/12, Sven Barthpascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: Yay!!! The overview gutter is finally here by default :D Make some changes in the file, save it, make more changes and place some breakpoints. I can see little green squared dots when I change a

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 16:09, schrieb Martin Schreiber: Am 28.02.2012 16:52, schrieb Sven Barth: Did you look at the 2.7.1 or 2.6.0 implementation of these procs? If the 2.6.0 one then I suggest you to look at the 2.7.1 ones and reconsider your statement ;) True. :-) Do you think 2.7.1 FPC string

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 17:25, schrieb William Oliveira Ferreira: sometimes all lazarus' users wanna see core team do something that themselves can Thank you for speaking that out aloud :) writing a basic article of how to compile a basic application, how compiler directives affects the way fpc manage

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
That's just the way i understand the meaning of community and opensource projects: Everyone helping with what they can (if they want), not just a little group... Today, i simply can't get the lazarus' source and solve a bug because i have a limted knowledge of how it works internally but i can

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 13:25 -0300 schrieb William Oliveira Ferreira: sometimes all lazarus' users wanna see core team do something that themselves can I absolutely agree with you. Because I do I'd like to ask you to do two things: 1. Please answer to the mail you're referring to - which

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
I'm always looking for ways of more participation and, please, believe me, today is not clear. If you work on a company, by example, embarcadero, is very clear the way the work is done. There's a very well knew structure of how that happens. Here, i'm on a small company making software and the

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:35:55AM +0100, Michael Schnell wrote: dead, They (unfortunately) did not follow FPC on the path to Object Pascal (Delphi and Apple style). If FPC programs could be compiled using gcc, we could port Lazarus / FPC programs to any CPU architecture. More likely, we

[Lazarus] Problem compiling lazarus trunk

2012-02-28 Thread dhkblaszyk
Since yesterday I have problems compiling Lazarus with FPC trunk. Regards, Darius Compiling .widgetsetwsgrids.pp dbgrids.pas(1991,31) Error: Incompatible types: got Pointer expected AnsiString dbgrids.pas(3828,54) Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got Pointer, expected AnsiString

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
2012/2/28 Marc Santhoff m.santh...@web.de 2. Do not top post, instead try to reply inline, so anyone can understand, what part of the mail you are talking about. Sorry about that. I do it 'cos gMail do it automatically and i just follow, but i'll try to stop... --

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
I understand what you want to help but i don't think it's too hard as i understand how. Exaclty how you wanna help? As i can see, if you found a bug and solved it in your pc, you can submit a patch generated by a svn tool in bugtracker. If you wanna enter in the core staff, well, the current staff

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Rich Saunders
On 2/28/12 12:27 PM, Everton Vieira wrote: I'm always looking for ways of more participation and, please, believe me, today is not clear. If you work on a company, by example, embarcadero, is very clear the way the work is done. There's a very well knew structure of how that happens. Here, i'm

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
I'll try once more to tell on what i'm refering: project managemant of the development. All that i have to say about it is in that. Who some day had worked with project management and has the insight of how could be done in the open source enviroment knows on what i'm talking about it. 2012/2/28

[Lazarus] Missing Documentation

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Hi again, since there were multiple complaints about missing documentation, where can I find a list of what is missing exactly in detail? Is there a wiki page about it? Or a docs page collecting empty descriptions or the like? Sometimes I'm bored, maybe there are items I'm able to add a couple

Re: [Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange gap on right hand side

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Am 28.02.2012 16:53, schrieb Bart: On 2/28/12, Sven Barthpascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: Yay!!! The overview gutter is finally here by default :D Make some changes in the file, save it, make more changes and place some breakpoints. I can see little green squared dots

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 13:23 -0500 schrieb Rich Saunders: Today, i simply can't get the lazarus' source and solve a bug because i have a limted knowledge of how it works internally but i can submit bugs on mantis, that's a way that i can help. On my environment, with

Re: [Lazarus] Missing Documentation

2012-02-28 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:43:48 +0100 Marc Santhoff m.santh...@web.de wrote: Hi again, since there were multiple complaints about missing documentation, where can I find a list of what is missing exactly in detail? Is there a wiki page about it? Or a docs page collecting empty descriptions

Re: [Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange gap on right hand side

2012-02-28 Thread Martin
On 28/02/2012 18:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: As said it presents a complete overview of the current file to you. You see where you changed something (yellow and green like on the left) and where you put breakpoints. In the future there might be icons to indicate compilation

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com I'll try once more to tell on what i'm refering: project managemant of the development. All that i have to say about it is in that. Who some day had worked with project management and has the insight of how could be done in the open source

Re: [Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange gap on right hand side

2012-02-28 Thread Martin
On 28/02/2012 19:42, Martin wrote: On 28/02/2012 18:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: As said it presents a complete overview of the current file to you. You see where you changed something (yellow and green like on the left) and where you put breakpoints. In the future there

[Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Juha Manninen
I create a new thread because this is not related to the original Why Java got popular thread... 2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com I'll try once more to tell on what i'm refering: project managemant of the development. All that i have to say about it is in that. Who some day had

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
The bug tracker works perfectly for the bugs, i would only suggest to make a front-end in the IDE in order to make him more visible, or at least by start a simple link in the help menu of the IDE would be enough. This is a patch so small and simple that i'm even with shame to do it :p. 2012/2/28

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Rich Saunders
On 2/28/12 2:53 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: 2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com mailto:tonvie...@gmail.com I'll try once more to tell on what i'm refering: project managemant of the development. All that i have to say about it is in that. Who some day had worked with

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Martin
On 28/02/2012 20:04, Rich Saunders wrote: As a newcomer I would like to see on the web site a team organization chart. The current contributors would appear in the roles they currently play. Open positions would be identified with links to pages where you can find out more about what is

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
About the documentation i had the idea of make centralized data help that could generate the off-line as well the on-line help versions. And to elegantly show the contributor who did the examples and so on. 2012/2/28 Juha Manninen juha.mannine...@gmail.com I create a new thread because this is

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Juha Manninen
2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com The bug tracker works perfectly for the bugs, i would only suggest to make a front-end in the IDE in order to make him more visible, or at least by start a simple link in the help menu of the IDE would be enough. This is a patch so small and simple

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Rich Saunders
On 2/28/12 2:53 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: 2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com mailto:tonvie...@gmail.com I'll try once more to tell on what i'm refering: project managemant of the development. All that i have to say about it is in that. Who some day had worked with

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
About the project management is something like the bug tracker but not for bugs. With all that richness that has a project management: projects, teams, head members, status of it, code already done, code to be done, ideas about it, discussions on, notes from everyone, and so on. 2012/2/28 Juha

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 28 februari 2012 21:01 heeft Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: The bug tracker works perfectly for the bugs, i would only suggest to make a front-end in the IDE in order to make him more visible, or at least by start a simple link in the help menu of the IDE would

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:52 PM, waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: why did they reject? do they, too, think that pascal is dead? No reason was provided. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
2012/2/28 Juha Manninen juha.mannine...@gmail.com 2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com It is already there for a long time: Help - Reporting a Bug Is true, my fall, but the idea of the front-end is still up. You can perhaps make such front-end yourself as a contribution. :) It is

Re: [Lazarus] Missing Documentation

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marc Santhoff schrieb: since there were multiple complaints about missing documentation, where can I find a list of what is missing exactly in detail? Is there a wiki page about it? Or a docs page collecting empty descriptions or the like? You can checkout e.g. rev. 34110, and search for ?]

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marc Santhoff schrieb: rant If poeple would stop ranting or complaining, real work could be getting done. Why do discussions like this end up in the same complaints any time? /rant Right, the customers are the brake-shoes in every business. Simply ignoring them will increase the in-house

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marc Santhoff schrieb: Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: William Oliveira Ferreira schrieb: Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, all the fpc/lazarus team is doing a wonderfull work! +-1 Yes, much time is spent on the

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Juha Manninen schrieb: Improving the documentation is now a hot topic. I think more people should get write access to the doc directory in the repository, if only there are people willing to take the effort. IMO this is not a good idea, for several reasons: I already removed so much crap

Re: [Lazarus] Missing Documentation

2012-02-28 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:17:45 +0100 Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: Marc Santhoff schrieb: since there were multiple complaints about missing documentation, where can I find a list of what is missing exactly in detail? Is there a wiki page about it? Or a docs page

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Juha Manninen
2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com About the project management is something like the bug tracker but not for bugs. With all that richness that has a project management: projects, teams, head members, status of it, code already done, code to be done, ideas about it, discussions on,

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Everton Vieira schrieb: About the documentation i had the idea of make centralized data help that could generate the off-line as well the on-line help versions. What's missing from the current documentation tools? And to elegantly show the contributor who did the examples and so on.

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 21:56 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: Marc Santhoff schrieb: rant If poeple would stop ranting or complaining, real work could be getting done. Why do discussions like this end up in the same complaints any time? /rant Right, the customers are the

Re: [Lazarus] Missing Documentation

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: You can checkout e.g. rev. 34110, and search for ?] in the xml files. These are the places where I couldn't find reliable infos myself. There were all converted to notes, were they not? Even if so, moving a note out of its context invalidates the note. E.g. the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 21:45 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: Marc Santhoff schrieb: Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: William Oliveira Ferreira schrieb: Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, all the

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread John Repucci
From: Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Project management Everton Vieira schrieb: And to elegantly show the contributor who did the examples and so on. Right, sometimes it would be nice to know whom to ask specific questions. DoDi As much as I would

Re: [Lazarus] editor toolbar's buttons glyph

2012-02-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/2/28 William Oliveira Ferreira : i've installed the editortoolbar0.4 and configured it but i wanna change the toolbar's buttons glyph to what they mean. How can i do? my toolbar looks like this: http://imagebin.org/201188 and on it i have a cut/copy/paste button, toggle comment on

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Juha Manninen
2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com About the documentation i had the idea of make centralized data help that could generate the off-line as well the on-line help versions. And to elegantly show the contributor who did the examples and so on. Again, you clearly have not studied the

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
Em 28/02/2012, às 21:13, Juha Manninen escreveu: 2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com About the documentation i had the idea of make centralized data help that could generate the off-line as well the on-line help versions. And to elegantly show the contributor who did the examples

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Juha Manninen
2012/2/28 Rich Saunders saunders.richar...@gmail.com Another idea is for someone to summarize a lengthy exchange in a mailing list. The summary would be something along the lines of: The idea of X has been brought up and discussed at length. There appear to be 3 options for moving forward. A

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Juha Manninen
2012/2/29 John Repucci john.repu...@gmail.com As much as I would like to get answers directly (and promptly) from the source experts, I would prefer that the developers be allowed to focus on development (if that is their passion). I would rather have a set of SMEs (subject matter experts)

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
Em 28/02/2012, às 19:02, Juha Manninen escreveu: 2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com About the project management is something like the bug tracker but not for bugs. With all that richness that has a project management: projects, teams, head members, status of it, code already

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Rich Saunders
On 2/28/12 7:22 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: 2012/2/28 Rich Saunders saunders.richar...@gmail.com mailto:saunders.richar...@gmail.com Another idea is for someone to summarize a lengthy exchange in a mailing list. The summary would be something along the lines of: The idea of X has

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
John Repucci schrieb: As much as I would like to get answers directly (and promptly) from the source experts, I would prefer that the developers be allowed to focus on development (if that is their passion). In a perfect world the specificiation preceeds the implementation :-] What's so

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Rich Saunders
On 2/28/12 7:28 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: 2012/2/29 John Repucci john.repu...@gmail.com mailto:john.repu...@gmail.com As much as I would like to get answers directly (and promptly) from the source experts, I would prefer that the developers be allowed to focus on development (if

Re: [Lazarus] MouseOver hint is broken

2012-02-28 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:16:14 +0100 zeljko zel...@holobit.net wrote: Ok, just tell me if composition is ON or OFF so I can try to fix it. It is not as easy as that. I tested different desktop environments with and without compisiting. There's no problem without compositing and there is no

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Juha Manninen
2012/2/29 Rich Saunders saunders.richar...@gmail.com Of course, the core developers would not be expected to do it unless they chose to. I see it as a project management task. Who is the project manager then? I have tried to explain in my mails that you guys don't understand the reality here.

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Rich Saunders
On 2/28/12 8:52 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: 2012/2/29 Rich Saunders saunders.richar...@gmail.com mailto:saunders.richar...@gmail.com Of course, the core developers would not be expected to do it unless they chose to. I see it as a project management task. Who is the project manager

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Juha Manninen
2012/2/29 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com Em 28/02/2012, às 19:02, Juha Manninen escreveu: It may also be an illusion from your side that contributing code to a big project becomes easy if only there was a project manager with a nice list of tasks. I think it would be easy with more

Re: [Lazarus] Project management

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
Em 28/02/2012, às 23:25, Juha Manninen escreveu: 2012/2/29 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com Em 28/02/2012, às 19:02, Juha Manninen escreveu: It may also be an illusion from your side that contributing code to a big project becomes easy if only there was a project manager with a nice list

Re: [Lazarus] Problem compiling lazarus trunk

2012-02-28 Thread leledumbo
Same error I got about two days ago svn. I just crazily typecast the problematic expression to the expected type and it compiles smoothly (and no bug so far, because I haven't used the dbgrid :p) -- View this message in context:

Re: [Lazarus] MouseOver hint is broken

2012-02-28 Thread zeljko
On Wednesday 29 of February 2012 02:14:35 Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:16:14 +0100 zeljko zel...@holobit.net wrote: Ok, just tell me if composition is ON or OFF so I can try to fix it. It is not as easy as that. I tested different desktop environments with and without

Re: [Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange gap on right hand side

2012-02-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/2/28 Martin And WithTopInfo is also a normal feature now If you are (caret pos) in a big class (or procedure) it shows you the name Now this is going to be very useful, though I would have to get used to how it is displayed... a bit confusing at first. -- Regards,   - Graeme -

[Lazarus] SynEdit painting while paintlocked

2012-02-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I got a lazarus update this morning, and rebuilt the IDE via the Tools menu. While it was compiling, I was scrolling the editor window. Then suddenly the IDE froze up! Luckily I ran the IDE from a console window, and saw the following warning message. In the end I had to kill the Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/28/2012 02:43 PM, Sven Barth wrote: And with the way I described we can at least provide a type that handles similar to good old AnsiString, but will continue to work even if String should be changed to UnicodeString in the future. I just did a component using Delphi 2009 (as I don't

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/28/2012 03:40 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: ByteString only requires a dedicated encoding (value), which makes it incompatible with other encodings, and thus disables all conversions. Such an encoding doesn't break Delphi compatibility, but allows to use all stringhandling functions

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-28 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/28/2012 04:13 PM, Sven Barth wrote: And instead of introducing yet another type or another special encoding we could just leverage the features FPC has today and use TBytes. I agree, if all features are in place: - its available out of the box (in the RTL) - it has all string functions