Re: [Lazarus] TCanvas, Qt, device context, TextOut(), anti-aliasing

2012-04-01 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 31 of March 2012 15:35:32 Bernd Kreuss wrote: Hello widgetset and Qt experts, I need some explanations to better understand what is going on. I recently posted a thread TCanvas.TextRect, subpixel antialiasing with Qt4 that also included a small demo application and screenshots to

Re: [Lazarus] Configuration thicket: Jump to error in source code

2012-04-01 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:55:59 +0200 Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote: Long ago I configured Lazarus to directly jump to an error (if it occurs) on my home machine. On my machine at work I also want to configure it that way but even after a desperate long search on all

[Lazarus] RE : Lazarus crashing reproducibly on startup (64-bitLinux)

2012-04-01 Thread Ludo Brands
And you're running on an AMD CPU? In that case, I'm absolutely baffled You shouldn't, I have reported it working on AMD in the mantis case (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21515) and on the lazarus forum (http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,14881.msg89591.html#msg

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: Each package has its own compiler options. For example the LCL units need some flags like inlining and C style operators and some linker options. Why isn't this simply added to the source files (compiler switches)? It would be much easier, rock solid and would even

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: AFAIR Turbo Pascal was pretty simple. I really liked it. It supported only one target platform and the OOP came with Delphi. OOP was already implemented in Borland Pascal. Compare the compiler flags of TP and FPC. TP is a toy compared to FPC. But what has all this

[Lazarus] FPDocmanager readme suggestion

2012-04-01 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Decided to try FPDocmanager. The readme wasn't entirely clear to me. What about a change like this? Additionally, might it not be better to remove the entire paragraph I marked Obsolete? Thanks, Reinier Index: examples/fpdocmanager/README.txt

[Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-01 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Trying out FPDocManager. Have somme comments/questions - sorry if these have been raised before: 1. What is the common documentation directory you are asked to select when starting it for the first time? Does it contain your sources? Compiled documentation? Would be nice if there were a bit more

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:04:23 +0200 Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote: Mattias Gaertner schrieb: Each package has its own compiler options. For example the LCL units need some flags like inlining and C style operators and some linker options. Why isn't this simply added

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:20:49 +0200 Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote: Mattias Gaertner schrieb: AFAIR Turbo Pascal was pretty simple. I really liked it. It supported only one target platform and the OOP came with Delphi. OOP was already implemented in Borland Pascal.

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: That's exactly what I did. I used Larazus to create a console application. I then added my general purpose unit to the uses clause. Then compile failed with an error message that had nothing to do with my program or unit. A console application is for simple

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 12:52:02PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: OOP was already implemented in Borland Pascal. AFAIK this was only the object syntax, not the class syntax. IMO the object syntax is too limited to be called true OOP. TP Object syntax was perfectly valid oop. It provided

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Martin
On 01/04/2012 14:15, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Mattias Gaertner schrieb: That's exactly what I did. I used Larazus to create a console application. I then added my general purpose unit to the uses clause. Then compile failed with an error message that had nothing to do with my program or

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Jürgen Hestermann schrieb: Compare the compiler flags of TP and FPC. TP is a toy compared to FPC. But what has all this to do with the concept of packages? The concepts used in TP where enough to allow arbitrary complex applications. And my main critic about all this is, that even when new

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:20:49 +0200 Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote: Mattias Gaertner schrieb: AFAIR Turbo Pascal was pretty simple. I really liked it. It supported only one target platform and the OOP came with Delphi. OOP was already

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Jürgen Hestermann schrieb: Mattias Gaertner schrieb: That's exactly what I did. I used Larazus to create a console application. I then added my general purpose unit to the uses clause. Then compile failed with an error message that had nothing to do with my program or unit. A

Re: [Lazarus] FPDocmanager readme suggestion

2012-04-01 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Reinier Olislagers schrieb: Decided to try FPDocmanager. The readme wasn't entirely clear to me. What about a change like this? Additionally, might it not be better to remove the entire paragraph I marked Obsolete? The FPDocManager requires (parts of) FPC 2.7, so many users may wonder why it

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-01 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Reinier Olislagers schrieb: Trying out FPDocManager. Thanks for trying out, and for all your feedback :-) Have somme comments/questions - sorry if these have been raised before: 1. What is the common documentation directory you are asked to select when starting it for the first time? Does it

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-04-01 Thread waldo kitty
On 4/1/2012 05:04, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Mattias Gaertner schrieb: Packages allow to share ppu files. You don't have to recompile the LCL for every project. Each package has its own directory where its ppu files are stored. That's the concept of units. I just wonder why this is/was not

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 is branched

2012-04-01 Thread zeljko
On Sunday 01 of April 2012 23:25:39 Bart wrote: On 4/1/12, zel...@holobit.net zel...@holobit.net wrote: Hi all, As I've already mentioned few weeks ago on lazdevel, today we branched 1.0 :) Nice indeed. Whatever happened to 0.99, which as I understood would be the next (and