Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Gordon Cooper wrote: I once worked in the international section of the New Zealand Meteorological Servce, which used Greenwich Time (UTC). So, each day started at noon, 12 hours behind local time. Plenty of scope for confusion there. But was conveniently in line with the astronomical

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-29 Thread Tony Whyman
I must say that I'm amazed at how long this thread is - but then I shouldn't be. Many moons ago, I used to work at the long gone British Mainframe Computer company ICL. Here, there was a well used term a bicycle sheds argument. This supposedly came from the sales force retelling how the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE pixelated on Mac with Retina display

2015-05-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-05-29 12:04, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: applications, but trying that with Lazarus IDE, Retinizer says that Lazarus is already Hi-Res enabled Found a solution. I had to comment out the NSHighResolutionCapable line in the Info.plist file, then use Retinizer to fix hi-res support. Regards,

[Lazarus] IDE under OSX causes TDefaultComponentEditor error

2015-05-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, New Lazarus v1.4 install from the files on SourceForge, using OSX 10.9.5. If I create a new application and drop a button on the empty form, double click the button so I can implement a OnClick event handler, the IDE pops up with an error Error in TDefaultComponentEditor unable to find

Re: [Lazarus] IDE under OSX causes TDefaultComponentEditor error

2015-05-29 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev
You probably need to Tools-Rescan FPC Source Directory? thanks, Dmitry On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: Hi, New Lazarus v1.4 install from the files on SourceForge, using OSX 10.9.5. If I create a new application and drop a button on

Re: [Lazarus] Mac retina pain

2015-05-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-02-05 23:13, Mattias Gaertner wrote: The trick is to close the program, then remove the following two lines from projectname.app/Contents/Info.plist: Arg! It would have saved me so much time, if only I read the whole message thread before trying all kinds of things. :) At least in the

Re: [Lazarus] Mac retina pain

2015-05-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-02-06 08:14, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: That's it, I already hate Tim Cook. Someone should resurrect Jobs. I second that motion! :) After all the frustrations we are having with our Macbook Pro + Retina display, my wife refuses to upgrade her 2011 iMac! I don't blame her at all.

Re: [Lazarus] Strange: still Mails to my gmail Adress

2015-05-29 Thread Marc Weustink
John Landmesser wrote: thats the source of a Mail ( without gmail in it !!), but it was sent to my gmail address!! If this message was received on your gmail, it wasn't sent there by the mailinglist: Received: from mailer.lazarus.freepascal.org ([80.123.225.56]) by mx-ha.gmx.net

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Tony Whyman wrote: I must say that I'm amazed at how long this thread is - but then I shouldn't be. Many moons ago, I used to work at the long gone British Mainframe Computer company ICL. Here, there was a well used term a bicycle sheds argument. This supposedly came from the sales force

Re: [Lazarus] Strange: still Mails to my gmail Adress

2015-05-29 Thread waldo kitty
On 05/29/2015 05:19 AM, Marc Weustink wrote: John Landmesser wrote: thats the source of a Mail ( without gmail in it !!), but it was sent to my gmail address!! If this message was received on your gmail, it wasn't sent there by the mailinglist: Received: from mailer.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] Lazarus IDE pixelated on Mac with Retina display

2015-05-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Has anybody got a solution to the very pixelated Lazarus IDE on a Macbook Pro with Retina display? Normally I use Retinizer to fix applications, but trying that with Lazarus IDE, Retinizer says that Lazarus is already Hi-Res enabled (clearly not here), and I should check in the icon (app)

Re: [Lazarus] Mac retina pain

2015-05-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-02-05 22:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Maybe a button can be added: 'I can live with that, shut up' to not ask every start. Was that ever added post-v1.4? That nag screen is rather annoying at every start. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free

Re: [Lazarus] IDE under OSX causes TDefaultComponentEditor error

2015-05-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 29 May 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, New Lazarus v1.4 install from the files on SourceForge, using OSX 10.9.5. If I create a new application and drop a button on the empty form, double click the button so I can implement a OnClick event handler, the IDE pops up with an error

Re: [Lazarus] Mac retina pain

2015-05-29 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: eg: in Lazarus on OSX I pressed F12 to see the form designer, but OSX grabbed the shortcut and rather showed be the useless desktop widgets (clock, calendar etc) screen. That's defaults hate. (an

Re: [Lazarus] Mac retina pain

2015-05-29 Thread FreeMan
On 29.05.2015 18:17, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Their hardware build quality is brilliant on all there products. It's not just about the resolution though. Yes I absolutely love the crispness of hi-res displays, but I'm a creature of habit (aka old school), and just can't get the damn hang of

Re: [Lazarus] Mac retina pain

2015-05-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-05-29 16:02, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Most software was simply not designed to run on such high resolutions. It will take some time for the programs to adapt. Their hardware build quality is brilliant on all there products. It's not just about the resolution though. Yes I absolutely

Re: [Lazarus] Mac retina pain

2015-05-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-05-29 16:26, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: Just spend some time to configure your environment! I know both OSX and Lazarus allows for shortcut customisation. The problem is (partly because I'm a Dvorak user), I have customised my shortcuts in Lazarus IDE and my other tools (all under

[Lazarus] Base64 broken in json?

2015-05-29 Thread Leonardo M. Ramé
Hi, does anyone know if when adding a base64 encoded string to an TJsonObject and calling AsJson method, the base64 is broken? I did try to decode (with base64 -d command) and I'm getting errors when trying to decode the base64 string contained in the json. Btw, this is the 1nst time I get

Re: [Lazarus] Mac retina pain

2015-05-29 Thread Michael Ring
The _real_ solution is also hidden in this thread: Felipe found it, perhaps the fix never found it's way in the Lazarus Sourcecode: With this search string: site:lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev retina Here is the magic! Commands in the terminal: Retinize! defaults write

Re: [Lazarus] Base64 broken in json?

2015-05-29 Thread Leonardo M. Ramé
El 29/05/15 a las 14:55, Leonardo M. Ramé escibió: Hi, does anyone know if when adding a base64 encoded string to an TJsonObject and calling AsJson method, the base64 is broken? I did try to decode (with base64 -d command) and I'm getting errors when trying to decode the base64 string contained