Re: [Lazarus] debugger feature request created

2009-10-04 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:33:09 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: What where your other issues? I will try and use the Watch window today and see how it goes. As well as the Watch window, are you aware of the excellent little debugserver application (separate executable)

[Lazarus] Version page of Lazarus 'About' dialog

2009-11-02 Thread Howard Page-Clark
Under Windows (XP SP3) the Version page of Lazarus' About dialog does not display correctly, with 'Lazarus' text obscuring 'Free Pascal' (see attached screenshot). By amending the OnPaint method of the PaintBox1 control in \lazarus\ide\aboutfrm.pas as follows: procedure

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi to Lazarus converter

2009-11-07 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:29:15 +0100 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de wrote: It was an uninitialized function result, fixed today. Can you test with lazarus from svn and see if this bug is fixed? Tested with Lazarus 0.9.29 r22463 FPC 2.3.1 i386-win32, and it now works flawlessly, as

Re: [Lazarus] Passing properties as var paramatars

2009-11-08 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:33:39 -0500 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk sanlit...@ttmail.com wrote: Marco van de Voort wrote: On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:17:35AM +, Howard Page-Clark wrote: On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Marco van de Voort wrote: This is not orthogonal. VAR parameters are generally updated

[Lazarus] Lazarus CCR files page

2009-11-12 Thread Howard Page-Clark
Hi I'm having no luck accessing the Lazarus Code and Component Repository on Sourceforge. Anyone else having problems? Howard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] OpenSuse

2010-01-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/1/10 10:49, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: We also have a distance learning university in South Africa (called Unisa) than spread there coarse material to students across the country - one kiosk in every registration office. I guess you meant to write ...spread their course material...!

[Lazarus] Lazarus compilation error

2010-02-06 Thread Howard Page-Clark
Hi I get the following error when doing a make clean all with latest SVN under win32 (Windows 7) ... compiling lclclasses.pp imglist.pp(160,14) Error: There is no method in an ancestor class to be overridden TCustomImageList.Equals(TObject):Boolean; imglist.pp(206,1) Fatal: There were 1

Re: [Lazarus] Bitmap transparency problem (I don't want transparency)

2010-02-21 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 21/2/10 6:57, Pierre Delore wrote: Hi, I have a transparency problem when I try to display a bitmap stored in a TImagList. The bitmap I want to display is a green arrow with a white background. I want to display it without transparency. With the code below the bitmap is displayed but the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus book

2010-02-27 Thread Howard Page-Clark
/fpc as in Delphi, and he will feature as much high quality Lazarus material in the magazine as he can. yours Howard Page-Clark -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] TDBNavigator button click

2010-03-13 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 13/3/10 3:42, andtag wrote: Hello, I have a DB with 400 records and clicking the next button i can see the next record. If i want to reach record 200 i must do 200 clicks. I want to have a continue action pressing the dbnavigator button, for example, when i click Next button, i want the

Re: [Lazarus] Petition to Skype

2011-12-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/12/11 8:14, Krzysztof wrote: I am wondering... maybe create some online petition to Skype? Corrections are welcome (my English is not good). I don't know if there is merit in such a submission. But if so, my suggestions for slightly improved phrasing are as follows: This petition is

Re: [Lazarus] Check changes on disk with loading

2011-12-11 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 11/12/11 4:52, Juha Manninen wrote: Ok, after reading your reply again I got it, and the feature even seems to work as advertised. Still,'Check changes on disk while loading' doesn't mean anything. Maybe it should be: 'Read also file contents when checking if file has changed on disk'

Re: [Lazarus] Combobox styles

2011-12-27 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 27/12/11 12:57, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: A combobox with csSimple style is not handled properly at design time (win32). It's impossible to give the control a specific Height, it stays on the dropdown style equivalent (Height=23). Is it me, or is this a bug? I think it's a limitation of

Re: [Lazarus] Cycle vs. Circle errors

2012-01-03 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 03/1/12 5:43, Mattias Gaertner wrote: The term circle was translated from German graph theory, but the common words in English graph theory are cycle and cyclic. I'm not familiar with graph theory and the possibly specialist technical meanings given there to words in common use.

Re: [Lazarus] Cycle vs. Circle errors

2012-01-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/1/12 12:39, Mattias Gaertner wrote: In both cases the important thing is not so much the adjective (circular, cyclic) but the combination of adjective plus noun, which /should/ be used consistently in documentation and error messages. Yes. And since this is open source, it should also

Re: [Lazarus] circular reference etc.

2012-01-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/1/12 4:21, etienne.lebl...@free.fr wrote: in a famous French langage dictionnary there was once upon a time a perfect circular reference étourneau (see) sansonnet sansonnet (see) étourneau .. not to mention the numerous programming books which have indexes containing entries like

Re: [Lazarus] Need help with TValueListEditor

2012-01-18 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 18/1/12 5:52, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Please create a bug report with a small example project (only sources). Done, issue 21115. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Displaying serial data

2012-01-26 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 26/1/12 10:28, Koenraad Lelong wrote: I'm using a memo to contain the serial port data. I add the data to the last line of the memo, until I get a CR and/or LF character, then I add a new line in the memo. That works fine, except when the lines are longer, then the memo starts to flicker.

Re: [Lazarus] TPageControl - how to use it?

2012-01-28 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 28/1/12 7:50, Bernd wrote: I have a TPageControl on my form and at runtime I want to add a new page with a SynEdit on it. This is what I have so far: ... But it does not work. Try this: procedure TForm1.AddTab(AFileName: String); var Sheet: TTabSheet; Ed: TSynEdit; begin Sheet :=

Re: [Lazarus] TPageControl - how to use it?

2012-01-28 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 28/1/12 9:00, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Hint: You don't need the Delphism set Parent first under LCL. The above will create a lot of updates. procedure TForm1.AddTab(AFileName: String); var Sheet: TTabSheet; Ed: TSynEdit; begin Sheet := TTabSheet.Create(pagecontrol1); Sheet.Caption

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 11/2/12 3:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Within the notes tag, you can include one or more note tags. Why so complicated? Can you give a *reasonable* example of the intended usage of this feature? Yes. User notes on a website. This website has been in the pipeline for a long time. The

Re: [Lazarus] from hfiandor 23 feb 2012 about popup menu

2012-02-22 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 23/2/12 3:50, Ing. Héctor F. Fiandor Rosario wrote: Dear colleagues: i have included a tPopUpMenu in a form and programed as in Delphi, but I can´t make it visible. 1. You've hijacked an existing thread with an unrelated topic. Please start a new thread when raising a new issues. 2. A

Re: [Lazarus] Test

2012-03-02 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 02/3/12 9:22, Richard Mace wrote: Please can someone respond, as I don't think my messages are getting through to the list. That message appeared OK. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] External help dialog

2012-03-03 Thread Howard Page-Clark
The work being done to improve the Help functionality in Lazarus is much appreciated. One part of the newer interface that currently seems inadequate to me is the naming of the Macrofy button (Tools¦Options¦Help¦External). I think it is OK to name the underlying string function Macrofy, as a

Re: [Lazarus] External help dialog

2012-03-04 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 04/3/12 5:57, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:05:32 + Howard Page-Clarkh...@talktalk.net wrote: The work being done to improve the Help functionality in Lazarus is much appreciated. One part of the newer interface that currently seems inadequate to me is the naming of

[Lazarus] minor typo

2012-03-15 Thread Howard Page-Clark
/lazarus/lcl/lclclasses.pp has a minor typo in line 203. The debugln string should read '... circular reference ...' (not 'circulair'). -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] Minor typo in rttigrids.pas and objectinspector.pp

2012-04-19 Thread Howard Page-Clark
I've noticed that the property PrefferedSplitterX is misspelled in three source files (should be PreferredSplitterX). The corresponding F data field that holds the value is spelled correctly, so it's clearly an inadvertent typo. Locations are: lazarus\components\rtticontrols\rttigrids.pas

Re: [Lazarus] Has there been a known bug in GTK2 where TabVisible property affects the visibility of the tabsheet?

2012-04-25 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 25/4/12 2:44, Frank Church wrote: I am running a program developed for Win32 on Linux and I notice that setting the TabVisible to false on a PageControl make the whole tabsheet invisible. Is that a known bug with the GTK2 page control? TabSheets have two properties (for Delphi

Re: [Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?

2012-04-30 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 30/4/12 9:23, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:03:41 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneytmich...@freepascal.org wrote: Hi, The lazarus code editor shows tooltip hints about identifiers; It gets those from the sources or even fpdoc. Is there any reason why the object inspector

Re: [Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?

2012-04-30 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 30/4/12 11:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Howard Page-Clark schrieb: What's the use of such additional information in OI? You can let the OI create the event handler for you, no need to bother with parameters here. For people who use a stable release all the time, set up according

Re: [Lazarus] Removing read-only files in FileUtil.DeleteDirectory ?

2012-04-30 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 30/4/12 11:45, Bart wrote: On 4/29/12, Juha Manninenjuha.mannine...@gmail.com wrote: I would change the declaration to: function DeleteDirectory(const DirectoryName: string; OnlyChilds: boolean; const RemoveReadOnlyFiles: Boolean = False): boolean; If the suggestion is adopted

Re: [Lazarus] Main menu disappeared

2012-06-20 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 20/6/12 5:50, Timothy Groves wrote: I am working on a project, and decided for the first time ever to use a main menu. I set it up, it worked, and then it vanished. It is still present in the IDE and source code, but it no longer appears when the app is run. You could check that the

[Lazarus] Probable CodeTools error?

2012-07-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
In recent Lazarus trunk revisions (running under Win 7, 32-bit) I get CodeTools errors on units that specify unneeded units in the uses clause (usually Classes or SysUtils). The Messages window error message includes a negative line number something along the lines of unit1.pp(-1,7) Error:

Re: [Lazarus] Probable CodeTools error?

2012-07-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/7/12 5:33, Mattias Gaertner wrote: In recent Lazarus trunk revisions (running under Win 7, 32-bit) I get CodeTools errors on units that specify unneeded units in the uses clause (usually Classes or SysUtils). The Messages window error message includes a negative line number something

Re: [Lazarus] Probable CodeTools error?

2012-07-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/7/12 6:56, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:11:00 +0100 It does in many cases, but not in all. Scanning everything every time would be too slow. Understood. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] Strings Property Editor dialog newline keystroke reminder

2012-07-08 Thread Howard Page-Clark
The object inspector's strings editor has its [OK] button set as the default so pressing [Enter] closes the dialog, which is logical. I usually forget this when trying to enter several lines of text, and so close the dialog when trying to enter a new line in the strings memo. Could the

[Lazarus] TTIProgressBar component

2012-07-23 Thread Howard Page-Clark
Presently TTIProgressBar's properties Link and UseRTTIMinMax remain public. To be useful in this component surely they should be promoted to published? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] KZdesktop: tabbed IDE package

2012-07-23 Thread Howard Page-Clark
KZ doesn't ring a bell for me (and Google didn't help either), and since the developer seems to be Brazilian he's probably unaware of any offensive meaning. Can somebody please enlighten me? see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps --

[Lazarus] Unitname already in project dialog

2012-07-27 Thread Howard Page-Clark
When saving a new unit over an old one, you get an IDE dialog worded thus: The unit ... already exists. Ignore will force the renaming, Cancel will cancel the saving of this source and Abort will abort the whole saving. However the dialog does not have the 3 buttons implied (Ignore, Cancel,

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

2012-08-02 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 01/8/12 10:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: The Lazarus team is glad to announce that Lazarus 1.0RC is available for download at the SourceForge download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/ Also let me know if you installed it without any problem. Installed on 64-bit Win 7

[Lazarus] Type_Class_Explorer application

2012-08-02 Thread Howard Page-Clark
I'm contributing an application which you can find in the Third Party Announcements section of the online Lazarus forum (at 186k it's too big to travel as an attachment on this email list). It may be suitable for inclusion with existing Lazarus examples, now that the release of Version 1.0

[Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

2012-08-21 Thread Howard Page-Clark
If you have not seen it, users of Delphi XE2 may be interested to read Delphi Product Manager JT's blog about what Embarcadero are working on for native Android and iOS development (which won't be in the forthcoming XE3 release - it's all further ahead than that), dropping FPC in favour of

Re: [Lazarus] html control from turbopower_ipro that comes with lazarus

2012-08-23 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 23/8/12 8:17, Ajeandro Gonzalo wrote: But how can this control be used like Delphi's RichEdit control to just add color and bold (for example) to simple text? AFAIK the control itself has no colouring or emboldening capabilities beyond its ability to render valid html text correctly. You

Re: [Lazarus] What happened with make LCL_PLATFORM?

2012-08-29 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 29/8/12 4:32, Krzysztof wrote: BTW two questions: 1. What is FPC 2.6.1? Is this stable version? If yes why on http://www.freepascal.org/ is 2.6.0 as latest? 2.6.1 is some patch? 2. When FPC 2.7.X is planned? We have now Lazarus 1.0, It would be nice if it worked with version 2.7.X Since FPC

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 Release

2012-08-29 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 29/8/12 8:06, Bernd wrote: Is there an official press release so that the news portals that might happen to stumble over this news know what they need to write? I've just done a bit of tidying-up on the wiki history page in case news editors use that link (which Mattias mentions) for

Re: [Lazarus] What is aarre?

2012-09-04 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 03/9/12 9:56, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 16:03:26 +0200 Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I looked at recent svn commits and wondered, what is aarre? Aarre is finnish for treasure. Maybe the name will change. Aarre has the benefit of being

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release notes

2012-09-06 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 06/9/12 10:05, Mattias Gaertner wrote: The HTML is totally different. I converted both to text, but the diff still shows a lot of formatting changes. I attached the diff. I used LibreOffice to do the editing, and it may have mangled the HTML on saving. I'm not used either to editing HTML,

Re: [Lazarus] TForm BorderIcons

2012-09-06 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 06/9/12 8:21, Roberto P. wrote: Before going to call for a bug, is there anyone who can try it on a blank Form ? Setting biHelp here (Win 7, 32-bit app) does not give an extra border icon. Presence/absence of a manifest makes no difference either. Howard --

Re: [Lazarus] Passing a section of an array to a function.

2012-09-10 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 10/9/12 7:36, Dave Coventry wrote: Hi, I have an array of Byte which I have loaded from a file. I want to process a 100 byte section of the array which starts at offset 32 in my array. My function (or procedure) is as follows: procedure decompress_r(cbuf: array of byte); var len,i:

[Lazarus] Object Inspector

2012-09-19 Thread Howard Page-Clark
There is currently a spelling discrepancy which probably needs to be rectified in that the OI Favorites page is spelt in the US way, as is the popup context menu text that refers to it. Whereas the dialog caption and interior label of the Add to favourite properties dialog (and associated

Re: [Lazarus] How to deselect text in edit control

2012-10-09 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 09/10/12 1:32, Frank Church wrote: Whenever I press the enter key in an edit control which is not configured to tab to the next item, all the ext in the edit control becomes selected. Is there some way to disable this behaviour, or unselect the selected text? Try setting AutoSelect to

Re: [Lazarus] TListBox.AddItem doesn't exist?

2012-10-21 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 21/10/12 3:25, Timothy Groves wrote: So I am trying to add a TListBox to my program. Relevant code is below. TfrmFicMake = class(TForm) . . . lstVolumeList: TListBox; . . . end; procedure TfrmFicMake.btnAddVolumeClick(Sender: TObject); var index

Re: [Lazarus] TStrings, Windows and Unicode

2012-10-24 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 24/10/12 2:25, Marcos Douglas wrote: In the example below, running on Windows: The name of file, after saved, is atenção.txt but the content is atenção. I understand the filename, i.e, I need to use UTF8ToSys but I do not understand the valid content. procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender:

Re: [Lazarus] TStrings, Windows and Unicode

2012-10-24 Thread Howard Page-Clark
Marc Weustink wrote: A stringlist is not LCL and it does not expect anything but strings. If you write the contents of a stringlist to a file you get bytes you have put into the list. Nothing more nothing less. Thanks for the clarification. Juergen Hestermann wrote: There is the theory of

Re: [Lazarus] TStrings, Windows and Unicode

2012-10-24 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 24/10/12 12:40, Marcos Douglas wrote: Nope. A stringlist is not LCL and it does not expect anything but strings. I agree... If you write the contents of a stringlist to a file you get bytes you have put into the list. Nothing more nothing less. Yes, but... If you want a UTF8 text

Re: [Lazarus] TStrings, Windows and Unicode

2012-10-24 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 24/10/12 2:37, Marcos Douglas wrote: ...in my example I didn't do that and worked, why? I had not explained very well. When I said the file is Ok I mean the file on Windows Explorer, not in LCL. Do the test and you see. I guess the stringlist streaming saves the string with a BOM, and so

Re: [Lazarus] Splash window with drop shadow

2012-10-31 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 30/10/12 10:49, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Alberto, how can I make a window transparent?. There's a suggestion here: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,18738.msg106055.html#msg106055 -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] returning the stop execution dialog

2012-11-02 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 02/11/12 12:32, ik wrote: After I executed a code from the IDE, I pressed by mistake on Do not show this dialog anymore, of the finish dialog. How can I make Lazarus to display it again (so it will be clearer when the execution ended) ? I think you mean the IDE Options dialog, Debugger,

[Lazarus] Missing SVN resource: sortselectiondlg.lfm

2011-02-08 Thread Howard Page-Clark
Recent (Windows) snapshots have not got a working Edit-Sort Selection dialog, because the sortselectiondlg.lfm is missing from the snapshot. As far as I can see it has dropped out of the SVN repository too. Anyone able to rectify this? H -- ___

[Lazarus] Rebuilding IDE+packages fails

2011-02-10 Thread Howard Page-Clark
With the latest Win32 snapshot (revision 29435) I cannot successfully rebuild the IDE even with 'clean all'. Compilation fails saying Recompiling fcllaz, checksum changed for RegisterFCL fcllaz.pas(64,35) Fatal: Can't find unit fcllaz used by PackageSystem with the fcllaz unit opened in the

Re: [Lazarus] Refactor Menu

2011-03-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/3/11 11:19, Juha Manninen wrote: I have refactored Lazarus main menu ... More ideas? A further consideration is how to make locating seldom-used functionality accessible easily via the present menu system, without resorting to space-wasting GUI elements such as a Ribbon. Edit,

Re: [Lazarus] Newbie

2011-03-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/3/11 6:02, Milan Baša wrote: stringgrid1.Cells[1,1]:=inttostr(i); edit1.Text:=inttostr(i); sleep(1000); end; Progressbar is working, statictext is increasing numbers but every other components are frozen til the time program stops and at this moment i can see everywhwere number 10.

Re: [Lazarus] Newbie

2011-03-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/3/11 7:36, DSK wrote: Try for i:=0 to 1 and comment out //sleep .. This will fail - he's declared i as shortint H -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Newbie

2011-03-05 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 05/3/11 9:22, DSK wrote: Howard, This will fail - he's declared i as shortint Dang .. shoulda checked first ... 10,000 shouldn't fail: Smallint -32768 .. 32767 mea culpa - misread -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] trouble with Radiogroup

2011-04-06 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 06/4/11 12:08, hector fiandor wrote: hello: i have a medical app. with TDbf were it is used a lot of RadioGroups and CheckBox. When call Insert for a new patient, all this RadioGroups and CheckBox appears Cheched as default, but it is preferred to appear as unchecked and lets the doctors to

Re: [Lazarus] clDefault propagation

2011-04-26 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 26/4/11 8:35, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've got a form F, at the top of which is a status bar T. At the bottom is a panel B containing status bars B1 and B2. The status bars and panel are all set to clDefault. On 0.9.28, the status bars are all grey. On 0.9.30, the top status bar T is grey,

Re: [Lazarus] Parameter hints

2011-05-16 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 16/5/11 10:03, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Hi all, For those wondering what the new button in the parameter hints is good for: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_IDE_Tools#Parameter_Hints Thanks Mattias - this is a boon! Howard -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Whats happend for snapshots?

2011-06-09 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 09/6/11 3:57, lazarusportugalwebmast...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I'm using Lazarus from snapshots because is more easy correct the bugs that Lazarus from SVN because WE NEED OF COMPILING IT AND IS HARD CORRECT THE BUGS OF SYNTAX of an IDE or compiler. So we want that snapshots existing and are

Re: [Lazarus] New features since 0.9.30?

2011-06-17 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 17/6/11 10:06, Joost van der Sluis wrote: The Web-changes are more fpc changes, not really fpc. I did forget one myself: the LCL is a package now. That's a new feature. (Very useful when you do a lot cross-compiling, like I do) Any more? There's the shortcut [Ctrl][Shift][Space] when inside

Re: [Lazarus] LCL memory leak

2011-06-20 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 20/6/11 7:04, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:43:35 +0100 Howard Page-Clarkh...@talktalk.net wrote: Since the LCL has become a package like any other I've been building it using the heaptrace unit. This shows an 8 byte leak in line 30 of chmlcl.pas following the creation of

Re: [Lazarus] Drawing angle boundaries

2011-06-24 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 23/6/11 1:11, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi, I need to draw the angle(s) formed by any given four points. As you can see in the attached image, there are two crossed lines and an skewed-rotated ellipse that touches all four points, then between each two points and the cross point I would like

Re: [Lazarus] Absolute paths on different platforms

2011-06-27 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 27/6/11 8:12, Marco van de Voort wrote: Some of these features have been added only after W2K, as Mark annotated. It may be for compatibility reasons, or not-updated Explorer behaviour, when links and shortcuts still are stored in the old-fashion way. The tipping point is Vista, not XP

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation style

2011-07-23 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 23/7/11 1:20, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: During the development of the doc tracker I stumbled over several issues: The English wording often violates my feeling for the language. Can some native English speakers proofread the documentation, and correct stylistic flaws? snip I also can

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2011-07-31 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 30/7/11 11:15, Leonardo Rame wrote: Hi, I would like to drag the mouse over a form, while the mouse is dragged, FPos X and Y values must change in the direction of the move, but the mouse cursor must be fixed at the position where the first click was made. This code does more or less what I

Re: [Lazarus] [Feature request] Add PNF image to Package

2011-08-31 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 31/8/11 3:34, Zaher Dirkey wrote: Is it possible in the future to have this feature Add an png file to the package, when compile the package it automatically convert it to the .lrs file related to this package, it is useful for adding image icons for our controls. When

[Lazarus] typinfo routine gives memory leak

2011-09-20 Thread Howard Page-Clark
The following (button and memo) program loses 276 bytes heap memory that are not recovered. unit Unit1; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} interface uses Forms, StdCtrls; type TForm1 = class(TForm) BGetProperties: TButton; Memo1: TMemo; procedure BGetPropertiesClick(Sender: TObject);

Re: [Lazarus] typinfo routine gives memory leak

2011-09-21 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 20/9/11 10:02, Martin wrote: On 20/09/2011 21:59, Howard Page-Clark wrote: The following (button and memo) program loses 276 bytes heap memory that are not recovered. ... procedure TForm1.BGetPropertiesClick(Sender: TObject); var ppl: PPropList; pl: TPropList; ppi: PPropInfo; pi

Re: [Lazarus] Problem to rename a form

2011-09-28 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 28/9/11 1:24, Rafael Tuim Elias wrote: I found a strange behavior in Lazarus IDE. To reproduce follow that steps: 1 - Create a new project. 2 - Rename Form1 to fmAINmENU 3 - Save all 4 - Try to rename the form to FMainMenu IDE doesn't permit. The error: This component has already the class

[Lazarus] lazde problem with '' character

2011-10-02 Thread Howard Page-Clark
If you attempt to open the lazarus\docs\xml\rtl\system.xml in lazde it chokes on line 9705 pos 31 with an exception: character '' not allowed in attribute value and in the offending line: element name=operator =(variant, variant): Boolean it is clear that the 'less-than' operator is

Re: [Lazarus] lazde problem with '' character

2011-10-03 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 03/10/11 1:14, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:57:20 +0100 Howard Page-Clarkh...@talktalk.net wrote: If you attempt to open the lazarus\docs\xml\rtl\system.xml in lazde it chokes on line 9705 pos 31 with an exception: character '' not allowed in attribute value I

Re: [Lazarus] Does Lazarus have file name and line number macros for inserting into DebugLn/WriteLn statements?

2011-10-06 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 06/10/11 1:12, Frank Church wrote: all that remains is the name of the current procedure :) There is already $ProcedureName() you can use in a code template (see Tools-Code Templates). H -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

[Lazarus] unfortunate typo in ideintf\propedits.pp

2011-10-14 Thread Howard Page-Clark
In the declaration of the class TCustomShortCutGrabBox there is a hilarious inadvertent typo at line 1430. The method was doubtless intended to be named OnShiftCheckBoxClick, but a vital 'f' got missed. Lines 6408 and 6513 need adjusting accordingly too. Mattias, you made my day! regards

[Lazarus] FindInFiles dialog size

2011-10-14 Thread Howard Page-Clark
Under Windows (not sure about appearance on Mac or Linuxes) the FindInFiles dialog is not big enough to show the Where radiobutton group. The .lfm has object LazFindInFilesDialog: TLazFindInFilesDialog Left = 408 Height = 400 Height needs to be closer to 500 to display all the contained

Re: [Lazarus] How to obtain the color of a component?

2011-10-20 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 20/10/11 4:57, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Hello, Is there any easy way to obtain the color of a component taking into considerating all the factors? aka, propagating ParentColor, resolving clDefault, etc. I have my TCDPageControl on top of a form, but for TCDPageControl.Color I get

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.2RC2 available

2011-10-26 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 26/10/11 7:39, silvioprog wrote: The setup to Windows is corrupted too: http://imagebin.org/180904 Strange, I had no problem with the windows download or installation. Howard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] recent Tools-Example Projects dialog

2011-10-28 Thread Howard Page-Clark
Just for clarity in the code I suggest that \ide\manageexamples.pas lines 54 and 55 should have procedures named: FillDirectoriesPending; FillProjectsPending; with a 'P' not a 'B'? Howard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] RunError(53216) in TOpenDialog

2011-11-08 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 08/11/11 12:30, Anders E. Andersen wrote: I am using Lazarus 0.9.30.2 on Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit. When I hover with the mouse over a word document in TOpenDialog I get the runerror. I compile and run your project without errors on Win7. This runtime error you experience may be

Re: [Lazarus] RunError(53216) in TOpenDialog

2011-11-09 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 09/11/11 6:21, Anders E. Andersen wrote: I uninstalled win64 lazarus and installed win32 lazarus and rebuild my project. It works fine in 32 bit! Then I uninstalled that and reinstalled 64 bit lazarus and rebuild again. The program crashes again. In which case you have uncovered a bug in

[Lazarus] Dircleaner example application bug

2010-06-07 Thread Howard Page-Clark
There is a minor bug in the very useful example application dircleaner. The unit dircleaner.pp around line 441 has FileNameFits:=Pos(Ext,FWorkExt)0; to check if the current file under consideration fits the specified file extension. This test is too simple since it does not look for an exact

Re: [Lazarus] Dircleaner example application bug

2010-06-10 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 10/6/10 4:48, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:45:34 +0100 Howard Page-Clarkh...@talktalk.net wrote: On 08/6/10 8:10, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:54:22 +0100 Howard Page-Clarkh...@talktalk.net wrote: There is a minor bug in the very useful example

Re: [Lazarus] Functions, procedures etc for using Dbase3/4 files ... what are they in Lazarus? (I used XBase1 in Delphi 5)

2010-06-14 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 14/6/10 3:13, Peter E Williams wrote: Hi All, I really need to know what is the Dbase3/4 unit for Lazarus/Free Pascal and where is the sample project for manipulating them. I found it somewhere on the lazarus website but don't know where. I hope that it is okay for me to post some of my code

Re: [Lazarus] disable the debugger capturing the OutputDebugString() messages

2010-07-21 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 21/7/10 1:16, Michael Schnell wrote: On 07/20/2010 03:28 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I suggest you look at the debugserver tool and the dbugintf units in FPC. Where to find the dbugsrv executable ? lazarus\tools\debugserver\debugserver.lpi Howard --

Re: [Lazarus] CHM help snapshot

2010-08-22 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 22/8/10 7:26, Marco van de Voort wrote: Hello, I've generated a new help snapshot. (chm files) The archive still is at http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/doc-chm.zip and contains rtl,fcl,lcl ,fpdoc,ref,user,prog.chm Thanks for this. The archive contains .xct, but no .kwd files. Is this an

Re: [Lazarus] How to create: TButtonGrid descendant of TCustomDrawGrid ?

2010-08-28 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 28/8/10 10:31, Peter E Williams wrote: Hi, This email is related to my previous post. I want to create a new component called a TButtonGrid which would be a descendant of TCustomDrawGrid. Problem is that I don't know how to do that. Obviously, I would need to make the CustomDraw (???) draw

Re: [Lazarus] How to create: TButtonGrid descendant of TCustomDrawGrid ? (ik)

2010-08-29 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 29/8/10 10:17, Peter E Williams wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:41:53 +0300, Ido wrote: From: ikido...@gmail.com Hi, I've created this component. You can find it at: http://github.com/ik5/linesip-components/blob/master/buttons/untbuttonlist.pas Ido http://ik.homelinux.org/ Thanks, Ido, I

Re: [Lazarus] TDbf tutorials 07 nov 2010

2010-11-07 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 07/11/10 7:02, hector fiandor wrote: I am trying to do something with TDbf in my Lazarus 0.9.27 FPC 2.2.3 under my poor experience with Delphi5 Databases, but I can see how a lack of knowledge I suffer. I will appreciate very much the suggestions of how to obtain some literature about TDbf.

Re: [Lazarus] Compile time errors. Error: Duplicate identifier Fragments line 21 and AnsiStrings question.

2011-01-08 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 08/1/11 10:13, Pew (piffle.the.cat) wrote: Hi Lazarus list, ... I currently have 2 issues: 1) How do I define fragments_to_eggs_subrange which is an enumerated portion of green_types. 2) How do I define a constant array of strings // string_stunned_the_green_message, etc You want the

Re: [Lazarus] Forum under attack

2011-01-12 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 12/1/11 9:27, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: How about a Capcha that was a coding problem? Some users do not speak english very well, so they may not understand the

Re: [Lazarus] ICS on Lazarus?

2011-01-24 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 24/1/11 5:16, Joshua Lim wrote: Hi, i've a major project that uses ICS, and I intend to port it to Lazarus. Has anyone used ICS on Lazarus successfully? Note - you seem to have hijacked a thread with a different subject, I presume by mistake. The webservices toolkit (WST) available at:

Re: [Lazarus] Where is the System Unit source?

2012-11-14 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 14/11/12 4:19, Curt Carpenter wrote: Could anyone tell me where I'll find the system unit source? I have the source for FPC, but can's seem to find system.pas anywhere. Look in fpc/rtl/inc/system.inc Howard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

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