On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote:
The wiki is utterly useless and broken!! If you don't know the
directly link to what you are looking for, chances are you will never
find it.
lol! Only if you don't know how to use Google. It flawlessly finds
Op 1 maart 2012 08:12 heeft Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.li...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:
On 1 March 2012 02:22, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
The results are very strange. Entering documentation finds almost all
pages, because these have this keyword in the headline and navigation menu.
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:42:34 +0200
Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I got a Lazarus Trunk update yesterday, and this morning noticed that
my File Filters (masks), as defined in Tools - Options - File
Filters are not being loaded displayed correctly.
I have 12 filters
On 02/29/2012 06:17 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
I'm not familiar with CHM, don't know how this could be achieved. But
I assume that such a feature should be available already - who knows
more?
That is why I mainly concentrated on DocView and culpably ignored CHM help.
-Michael
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:45:02AM +0200, Juha Manninen wrote:
Usually they are driven by a foundation and/or core team. Much like FPC
nowadays, with occasional alliances with commercial parties that sponsor a
certain development.
There are not many alternative routes.
I was
On 03/01/2012 08:05 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
What's the point of having a search or index when it always spits out
garbage!
This is why I vote for decent offline help for all aspects of Lazarus,
IDE, Language, LCL, RTL, ...
I was happy to get to know that Mathias and you are working on
On 1 March 2012 10:41, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
In other words: replace Filter01 with Filter1.
Thanks, it's working again.
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On 02/29/2012 05:54 PM, Marc Santhoff wrote:
Reading about this type of confusion - count me in - I need to ask:
Where is the process of building up help files documented?
In fact (after the work in progress has stabilized), the documentation
should be quite short. Hopefully, finally, there
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 03/01/2012 09:45 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Don't blame the tools, don't blame core, don't blame the weather, just
start.
Sorry, I tried to keep my moth shut, but I can't.
If we want contributors who help enhancing the documentation, we are
On 1 March 2012 10:09, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
lol! Only if you don't know how to use Google. It flawlessly finds
everything I need by searching for lazarus wiki searchterm.
Totally defeats the point of the Search and Index features on the wiki
then, doesn't it?
In that case,
On 1-3-2012 7:51, Kaj Mikkelsen wrote:
Hi
I wrote a little tutorial about creating pie chart with the TAChart
components.
I was encouraged to upload it to the wiki.
Could I please get some directions for how and where?
Look in the wiki itself, I think there's a help link on the right
Hi list,
Noticed some people said they don't want to contribute to the Lazarus
wiki for various reasons.
If those people want to contribute their knowledge and help others with
it, there are alternatives, such as the Object Pascal/Lazarus book by
forum member motaz (Motaz Abdel Azeem):
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote:
In that case, could we ask the wiki maintainers to please disable the
wiki Search and Index functions, and rather embed a Google Search in
it's place.
Yes, that would be a great solution. Unfortunately I don't
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:30:00AM +0100, Michael Schnell wrote:
Don't blame the tools, don't blame core, don't blame the weather, just
start.
Sorry, I tried to keep my moth shut, but I can't.
If we want contributors who help enhancing the documentation, we are
addressing quite normal
2012/3/1 Kaj Mikkelsen l...@vgdata.dk:
Will it be OK to put a link to the page in a mail, or is that considered
bad?
Please do, so I shall see it. I do not monitor wiki actively enough to
notice your contribution in the recent changes.
I will perform some copyediting, and then link to your
Yes, I am discovering this. For example, how to change the background
colour of only a portion of a cell. That turned out to be very easy.
Thanks,
Dave.
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From: Alexsander Rosa alexsander.r...@gmail.com
Reply-to: Lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org
Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2012, 09:05 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
2012/3/1 John Repucci :
Ah - silly me. All this time I have been using Wiki Search.
Search for virtual
Index returned: 11
Wiki Search returned: 186
As usual, the wiki returns rubbish, 100% of the time!
No it
Rich Saunders schrieb:
On 2/29/12 7:35 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Juha Manninen schrieb:
So, what does the management mean in practice? Should Lazarus be
managed differently from how it is managed now?
IMO it's not so much a matter of management, but of mind shift. The
developers should
Martin schrieb:
On 01/03/2012 00:35, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Juha Manninen schrieb:
So, what does the management mean in practice? Should Lazarus be
managed differently from how it is managed now?
IMO it's not so much a matter of management, but of mind shift. The
developers should
Martin Schreiber schrieb:
I experience the same from time to time in MSEide+MSEgui project. People
complain missing documentation and write if there were good
documentation tools (which actually means if I would make them) they and
other users would write documentation.
Tools are not a
Michael Schnell schrieb:
On 03/01/2012 09:45 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Don't blame the tools, don't blame core, don't blame the weather, just
start.
Sorry, I tried to keep my moth shut, but I can't.
If we want contributors who help enhancing the documentation, we are
addressing quite
On 1-3-2012 12:05, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
Hi list,
Noticed some people said they don't want to contribute to the Lazarus
wiki for various reasons.
If those people want to contribute their knowledge and help others with
it, there are alternatives,
Op 1 maart 2012 14:28 heeft Hans-Peter Diettrich
drdiettri...@aol.com het volgende geschreven:
Vincent Snijders schrieb:
Op 1 maart 2012 08:12 heeft Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.li...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:
On 1 March 2012 02:22, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
The results are very
Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2012, 14:28 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
Vincent Snijders schrieb:
Op 1 maart 2012 08:12 heeft Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.li...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:
On 1 March 2012 02:22, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
The results are very strange. Entering
Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2012, 14:15 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
Marc Santhoff schrieb:
Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2012, 01:22 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
Marc Santhoff schrieb:
A complete index, yes. To the right on
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/
under the
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
Essentially the same problem: where to search for existing documentation?
I don't really see your problem.
What do you mean with existing documentation? Link/refer from the book
to the wiki and vice versa.
Okay, so far, but how many documentation sources will be
On 1-3-2012 16:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
Essentially the same problem: where to search for existing
documentation?
I don't really see your problem.
What do you mean with existing documentation? Link/refer from the book
to the wiki and vice versa.
Okay,
2012/2/29, Juha Manninen juha.mannine...@gmail.com:
I was hoping something more concrete and detailed, like ideas for helping
new potential contributors to get a softer landing. That was the original
idea of this thread.
Well, it's not so concrete, but this book might help clarify some
topics
Hello,
this is the output:
HTML Files written. Collecting other files and compressing...this could take
some time
Generating Table of contents...
Generating Index...
Finishing compressing...
Exception at 004FFF6F: EAccessViolation:
Access violation.
'lcl.chm' has 0 Byte
openSUSE 12.1
On 3/1/12 8:58 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Rich Saunders schrieb:
On 2/29/12 7:35 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Juha Manninen schrieb:
So, what does the management mean in practice? Should Lazarus be
managed differently from how it is managed now?
IMO it's not so much a matter of
On 01/03/2012 14:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Martin schrieb:
On 01/03/2012 00:35, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Juha Manninen schrieb:
So, what does the management mean in practice? Should Lazarus be
managed differently from how it is managed now?
IMO it's not so much a matter of
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:31:47 +0100
Thomas Moritz thm...@thmoritz.de wrote:
Hello,
this is the output:
HTML Files written. Collecting other files and compressing...this could take
some time
Generating Table of contents...
Generating Index...
Finishing compressing...
Exception at
Martin schrieb:
It does still cost time to write up all the info, and guarantees
nothing. While if someone wants to do work on something, there are
much better chances that the work (providing infos/answers) will bear
fruits.
This finally explains the often confuse and inconsistent
Hi All,
I've noticed that the Lazarus IDE toolbar does not restore itself correctly
after I run a project, and I have to keep maximising it.
Is this a known issue, or is there a setting that I need to set?
Thanks in advance
Richad Mace
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On 01/03/2012, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote:
In that case, could we ask the wiki maintainers to please disable the
wiki Search and Index functions, and rather embed a Google
On 03/01/12 13:51, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:31:47 +0100
Thomas Moritz thm...@thmoritz.de wrote:
Hello,
this is the output:
HTML Files written. Collecting other files and compressing...this could take
some time
Generating Table of contents...
Generating Index...
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:15:39 -0500
Andrew Haines andrewd...@aol.com wrote:
On 03/01/12 13:51, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:31:47 +0100
Thomas Moritz thm...@thmoritz.de wrote:
Hello,
this is the output:
HTML Files written. Collecting other files and
2012/3/1 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com
That`s true. To get the softer landing improving the doc (and i think
the ways of it) would be enough. The project management is more about to
lead the people to achieve *common* goals. I don`t know how you people
from the core lives with so few
Em 01/03/2012, às 21:14, Juha Manninen escreveu:
2012/3/1 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com
That`s true. To get the softer landing improving the doc (and i think the
ways of it) would be enough. The project management is more about to lead the
people to achieve common goals. I don`t know
The book seems to be written with OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice, that would be
difficult to track changes.
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Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2012, 01:45 +0200 schrieb Juha Manninen:
2012/2/29 Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl
Usually they are driven by a foundation and/or core team. Much
like FPC
nowadays, with
Juha Manninen schrieb:
DoDi and others!!!
Please don't hijack this thread for whining about documentation and
docking and whatnot! You can do that in another thread if you must.
Besides, you are supposed to improve the documents, not whine all the
time like a baby. I don't know what is wrong
Am Donnerstag, 1. März 2012, 19:51:17 schrieb Mattias Gaertner:
Hello Mattias,
this is the output:
HTML Files written. Collecting other files and
compressing...this could take some time Generating Table of
contents...
Generating Index...
Finishing compressing...
Exception at
Op 2 maart 2012 00:04 heeft Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com het
volgende geschreven:
Googling brought up this link -
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Custom_Search_Engine
Who is the webmaster of the wiki and can this be forwarded to him?
I was, but I want to stop doing it.
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