Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus crashing reproducibly on startup (64-bit Linux)

2012-03-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
and then use GDB's bt command to get a backtrace, do the first few lines say anything useful? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing

[Lazarus] [No subject]

2012-03-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
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Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4 release candidate 3 available for download

2012-03-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Building from svn, basic operation OK on SPARC (hosted on Debian Etch). Investigating other platforms. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4 release candidate 3 available for download

2012-03-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Vincent Snijders wrote: Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. Also let me know if you installed it without any problem. LAZTAG=/branches/release_0_9_30_4 USEFPC=2.6.0 Building from svn, basic operation OK on SPARC (hosted

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC2 available for download

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 8 maart 2012 19:19 heeft Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk het volgende geschreven: 0.9.30.2 built from /tags/lazarus_0_9_30_2 using 2.4,4 or 2.6.0 (2.6.0 probably won't work) CP from my build scripts to try to keep tab on what's happening. This one

[Lazarus] Status output window

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
is simply an indexed line or if it's an object. Can the preferred solution display a music rule background, i.e. alternate lines of different colour? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC2 available for download

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:25:14 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 7 maart 2012 20:26 heeft Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk het volgende geschreven: Vincent Snijders wrote: What's that from SVN

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC2 available for download

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 8 maart 2012 10:39 heeft Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk het volgende geschreven: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:25:14 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: The patches users sent for Sparc were for 0.9.31

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC2 available for download

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:25:14 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 7 maart 2012 20:26 heeft Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk het volgende geschreven: Vincent Snijders wrote

Re: [Lazarus] Multiple installations of Lazarus

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:11:40 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Sven Barth wrote: A further question Mattias, if I just run the individual lazarus.exe file in it's corresponding directory, I presume that would also be fine. Although, I

Re: [Lazarus] Multiple installations of Lazarus

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 08/03/2012 15:57, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I think what would be really useful would be a redirect, i.e. the IDE first looks at e.g. ~/.lazarus and if it sees ~/.lazarus/redirect it expands macros in the line it contains to have the same effect as -pcp. The version

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC2 available for download

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 8 maart 2012 12:53 heeft Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk het volgende geschreven: 0.9.31 at 35818 using 2.7.1 is OK apart from the form problem. 0.9.30.4RC1 built from /tags/lazarus_0_9_30_4RC1 using 2.6.0 has the problem. Which versions do you

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC2 available for download

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 8 maart 2012 19:19 heeft Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk het volgende geschreven: Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 8 maart 2012 12:53 heeft Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk het volgende geschreven: 0.9.31 at 35818 using 2.7.1 is OK apart

Re: [Lazarus] Multiple installations of Lazarus

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
the config file, what is the current directory (i.e. . in unix and Windows)? Could this be used to specify the same location as the binary? Have the developers ever considered allowing a macro expansion in the filename? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC2 available for download

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
beginning to look a bit ragged. branches/release_0_9_30_2_rc1/ branches/release_0_9_30_2_rc2/ branches/release_0_9_30_4/ .. tags/lazarus_0_9_30_2RC1/ tags/lazarus_0_9_30_2RC2/ tags/lazarus_0_9_30_4RC1/ -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC2 available for download

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 7 maart 2012 20:26 heeft Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk het volgende geschreven: Vincent Snijders wrote: What's that from SVN? Some of the naming's beginning to look a bit ragged. The release has been build from this branch: branches

Re: [Lazarus] Adding packages at build time

2012-03-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
to build the IDE with packages use lazbuild --build-ide= What do you mean- like lazbuild --build-ide=lazsvnpkg as an alternative to make all ? In that case what's the basic package list corresponding to bigide? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] Adding packages at build time

2012-03-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:26:13 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 15:46:18 +0100 Bernd prof7...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/3/2 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de: Why do you build two

[Lazarus] Background colours etc.

2012-03-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
a square panel that changes colour? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Background colours etc.

2012-03-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
areas at runtime or drawing vectors? I was hoping to be able to use some fire and forget bitmaps, possibly with one colour being reserved for background/transparency. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

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

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
failures, warnings, hints, etc. Nice one, I did something similar way back for bookmarks in an embedded script editor. Could it be merged with the scrollbar to avoid visual duplication? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: On 26/02/12 13:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've had this sort of requirement in the past, specifically when using libusb (i.e. the program needed sufficient privilege to grab the device). You need udev rules that set the user/group permissions for the devices that you

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Am 27.02.2012 11:07, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that you do since there is one specific kernel call (in effect, telling the kernel to release an unrecognised device to an unprivileged program) that won't work otherwise

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: On 27/02/12 10:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that you do since there is one specific kernel call (in effect, telling the kernel to release an unrecognised device to an unprivileged program) that won't work otherwise

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

2012-02-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
, and second in that it's arguably complete enough that it can be used as a system programming language. My own experience indicates that as soon as you start using a 4GL or similar for anything that the implementors didn't think of you're in very deep water. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

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

2012-02-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 26 February 2012 10:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: used as a system programming language. My own experience indicates that as soon as you start using a 4GL or similar for anything that the implementors didn't think of you're in very deep water. I guess in my 5 years

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. the program needed sufficient privilege to grab the device). I wonder whether setting either Lazarus or gdb setuid root would help? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

[Lazarus] Synedit and search/replace

2012-02-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
for regex-based SR, and if so how does one use it? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Synedit and search/replace

2012-02-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 25/02/2012 16:48, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Is my understanding correct that in order to get Synedit's replace facility working, one has to write a custom OnReplaceText handler? What does this in the source do: CurReplace:=AReplace; if ssoRegExpr in AOptions then CurReplace

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and FPC teams need direction for marketing/promotion

2012-02-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
, and anybody doing a mashup is used to doing that type of job PHP/Perl/Python, then an attempt to muscle in could be met with hostility. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Synedit and search/replace

2012-02-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 25/02/2012 18:40, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin wrote: On 25/02/2012 16:48, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Is my understanding correct that in order to get Synedit's replace facility working, one has to write a custom OnReplaceText handler? What does this in the source do

Re: [Lazarus] How well should Lazarus check method parameters?

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:54:52 +0100 Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 22.02.2012 22:49 schrieb Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:55:01 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: I've just spotted

Re: [Lazarus] LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-02-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Thanks for that Felipe. So if I'm reading you correctly, as a crude hack I should be able to start by hooking OnKeyDown etc. as exposed by (instances of) descendants

[Lazarus] How well should Lazarus check method parameters?

2012-02-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
either the IDE or the runtimes pick up this error? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

[Lazarus] Synedit: background colours and f(o)nts

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
on, what files should go into it? Specifically, should I be storing .lrs or are these better recreated on demand? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] I made a visualization of the Lazarus SVN repository

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
or similar with optional beep at the client? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Synedit: background colours and f(o)nts

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 20/02/2012 09:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've got a Synedit here which uses code as below to rule alternate background lines to a light colour: procedure TListForm.PaneMainEditSpecialLineColors(Sender: TObject; Line: integer; var

Re: [Lazarus] Synedit: background colours and f(o)nts

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 20/02/2012 09:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: In the same program (running on Linux), the Synedit font appears to force itself to a generic Sans at runtime, irrespective of what is actually selected (e.g. Monospace). Again, this is OK up to around 0.9.26. No idea... You set

[Lazarus] Lazarus projects in a local repository

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
When storing a Lazarus project in a local Subversion or similar, what files should be added and what discarded? As a particular example, should .lrs files be saved or are they better regenerated as required? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] Synedit: background colours and f(o)nts

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
zel...@holobit.net wrote: Quoting Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk: Martin wrote: On 20/02/2012 09:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: In the same program (running on Linux), the Synedit font appears to force itself to a generic Sans at runtime, irrespective of what is actually

Re: [Lazarus] Matching gutter width on two synedits

2012-02-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 13/02/2012 18:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: But be warned that before I go anywhere near that I'm going to be investigating injecting APL-style characters into Synedit. You might prefer to keep your head down :-) Let me know how it goes. As long as they are represented

Re: [Lazarus] Matching gutter width on two synedits

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
that had been polluted by the trunk IDE, and for the moment at least am trying to consolidate at 0.9.30.3 (fixed). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Main Window: height is too small and cannot resize (Linux/GTK2)

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
or dynamic content- and the programming model is not good at positioning this and then shrink-fitting a frame around it, taking into account any widgetset-defined furniture. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] Looking for a general text editor

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
there's probably a programmer's editor with whatever desktop you use e.g. Kate for KDE. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] an application that dont work

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
absolutely no useful information to try to diagnose what's happening. Link below might help. http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Matching gutter width on two synedits

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 13/02/2012 08:18, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin wrote: you got my 2nd mail? In trunk you can use Gutter.OnResize It is no longer internally used. Yes, but I'd spent the last few days scratching my head over a project that had been polluted by the trunk IDE

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

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
something (of dubious accuracy) to say about it; if you'd asked about a specific obscure implementation of C or C++ (anybody remember AD2500? or Zorland?) they'd have been completely nonplussed. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's

[Lazarus] Matching gutter width on two synedits

2012-02-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
with the other? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman

Re: [Lazarus] Matching gutter width on two synedits

2012-02-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 12/02/2012 18:19, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Continuing with my exercise of recompiling programs with (fairly) a recent version of Lazarus, I've got one here with two synedits: the bottom one is used to display and possibly edit a file, the top one is populated with numbers

[Lazarus] Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
) Allowing that the GUI-oriented stuff hasn't changed significantly in the program since it was on 0.9.30, how can I take the project and force it to be saved without any recently-introduced properties which now make reading unreliable on anything older than trunk? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: I'm in an uncomfortable situation where the last few weeks' worth of trunk won't display a project's main form (populated only with standard controls) and won't compile it to anything reliable (noting other discussion, it's got

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
/lazarus NOTE: codetools config file not found - using defaults NOTE: help options config file not found - using defaults TMainIDE.DoOpenProjectFile select form in designer: HeavyWethersForm:THeavyWethersForm TDesigner -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
to building the project using fixed, but I can probably revert to an earlier version of the code from my local svn i.e. back out of any UI pollution caused by trunk. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
zeljko wrote: On Saturday 11 of February 2012 15:00:35 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If I use the trunk IDE built for Qt rather than GTK2 then the form displays (some colours might be off), the project will compile but won't run reliably (thread issues?). To emphasise this, this is with all

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
fine for more than a year. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
project and manually removing properties (from which files- .lfm?) or would I be better going to an older revision to get safe forms and then integrating more recent code? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
to endianness, although I believe SPARC is OK by now) and go back in local svn to a point that will allow me to build reliably on 0.9.30+2.6.0. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
2.11.3-2 libc6-dev 2.11.3-2 Linux pye-dev-07 2.6.38-custom #2 SMP Thu Jun 9 11:07:18 GMT 2011 i686 GNU/Linux -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
to compile and run OK. I'm going to work through any other projects I've touched over the last few months checking they're OK with 0.9.30 on x86 before doing anything else, but will revisit trunk presently. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. It's the sort of thing that would be a compile-time option on a Cray :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. Not only will the data have been flushed, but you've wasted the time executing the procedure. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] semaphores

2012-02-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 09/02/2012 11:18, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 09/02/2012 10:01, Sven Barth wrote: The memory that is used by CPU caches is the fastest (but also the most expensive that's why it's only used for the relatively small caches). Regards, Sven

Re: [Lazarus] RE : lazarus for arm-linux

2012-02-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Ludo Brands wrote: I was able to procure fpc-2.4.4, and install it on the arm-linux machine. I also checked-out Lazarus from the link you gave; and ran make bigide. It ran fine for a while, but then termintaed, with the following error :: What could I try? I

Re: [Lazarus] RE : lazarus for arm-linux

2012-02-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
appropriate to go straight to trunk for this but if anybody is confident that a particular revision is robust please say and I'll use this in preference. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Newb alert: problem rebuilding Lazarus snapshot 0.9.31.35140-20120206 Linux

2012-02-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
a newer to an older version. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

[Lazarus] Lazarus on SPARC/Solaris

2012-02-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
I'm running 2.7.1. If anybody wants me to put more time into this please squawk. For the benefit of anybody getting here via Google, see http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_on_Solaris plus (for background info) http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18271 -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-02-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 31 January 2012 11:39, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: No. I don't want to simulate a keyboard, I want to be able to pick up an Alt or Meta shift so that if my keyboard was engraved like http://www.aplusdev.org/keyboard.html I could get the extra characters into editing

Re: [Lazarus] How to close a window from code

2012-02-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
word?) Not so much a reserved word as a predefined procedure if you're pulling in the standard libraries. http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/filefunctions.html -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-01-31 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Thanks for that Felipe. So if I'm reading you correctly, as a crude hack I should be able to start by hooking OnKeyDown etc. as exposed by (instances of) descendants

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : RE : RE : LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-01-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
is adequate to allow keywords/selectors to be defined in e.g. Far Eastern scripts, and I'm fairly sure UTF-8 would get very messy. Anyway, after all this messing around perhaps my resistance to the idea of an EBCDIC-based FPC port is a bit more explicable :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

[Lazarus] LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-01-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
, or at least a uniform interface? In short, where do I start? :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-01-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: Over the last few weeks I've hacked together a partial APL implementation, for use as a way of specifying lists of numbers etc. when passing commands between computers implementing a large distributed system. For test purposes I've

Re: [Lazarus] RE : LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-01-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
-capable control? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] RE : LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-01-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: On 28.01.2012 18:38, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Ludo Brands wrote: I'll start digging in and see where I get to, but any suggestions- particularly relating to Linux- will be welcome. Under X11 you can modify your keyboard to your likings. 4 levels per key are standard using

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-01-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
interest). You can do a bit with xmodmap, but things rapidly start getting messy: X has been rather halfhearted in its embrace of Unicode. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] RE : RE : RE : LCL and custom keyboard layouts

2012-01-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
now that I've got the bulk of the parser/evaluator out of the way, and before I start on the Lazarus app with probable refactoring. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Help on FCL?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
essential, is hardly a substitute for being able to access it from the IDE when offline or blessed with variable network latency. And it's absolutely no substitute for the context-sensitive help offered by most IDEs. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] Help on FCL?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 06:21:29PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'd suggest that having online documentation, while essential, is hardly a substitute for being able to access it from the IDE when offline or blessed with variable network latency. And it's absolutely

Re: [Lazarus] Help on FCL?

2012-01-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 24 January 2012 18:11, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Yes, but the point I'm trying to make is that those files are effectively locked out now for anybody unable to run HyperHelp, e.g. because they're not running on x86. True, it is x86 and x86-64 only. But to be fair

Re: [Lazarus] Help on FCL?

2012-01-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
/wiki/wiki.cgi?p=kylix-3-open-edition HyperHelp runs fine under 64-bit linux too (that is what I currently use). Yes, but the point I'm trying to make is that those files are effectively locked out now for anybody unable to run HyperHelp, e.g. because they're not running on x86. -- Mark Morgan

Re: [Lazarus] Help on FCL?

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. Is there an alternative for other platforms such as Solaris or non-x86? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Help on FCL?

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: If I understand things correctly, HyperHelp is closed-source, unmaintained, and available for x86 Linux only. Is there an alternative for other platforms such as Solaris or non-x86? At the time of Win3.0 I wrote an decompiler and viewer

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on Ubuntu: Pixbuf again

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
out e.g. Solaris is far more taxing. My own practice is to install build-essential and gdb on any new system (except for outward-facing systems where those are a security risk), followed by the half-dozen -dev packages required for FP and Lazarus. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co

[Lazarus] IDE's successfully built message

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Since messages window isn't automatically cleared by IDE editing activity, would whoever is responsible consider adding a timestamp to the successfully built message so that users can see at a glance how long ago they last compiled? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

Re: [Lazarus] Cycle vs. Circle errors

2012-01-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
operations which becomes a cycle if part of it is intentionally repeated. 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. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Error compiling trunk version 34361 on win64

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
on 2.7.1. Trunk used to work on 2.7.1 (e.g. 32573). That's a trifle inconvenient on a platform where there have been CG fixes since 2.4/2.6. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] What's the correct way to use TRegexEngine?

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
, slightly out of order in using an example for Sorokin rather than the old one. But I too fail to see what the OP is grounding his concern on, unless he assumes that write() and writeln() are part of the LCL. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Error compiling trunk version 34361 on win64

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
at the moment. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman

Re: [Lazarus] RE : Error compiling trunk version 34361 on win64

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
maintenance. Happy Midwinter Solstice everybody. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] What's the correct way to use TRegexEngine?

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. With the caveat that fixes might get applied to one or the other. For example I see that Ludo's fix for http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20806 (plus at least one alignment issue) is in FPC 19759 but not in Lazarus 34371. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

Re: [Lazarus] What's the correct way to use TRegexEngine?

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Am 23.12.2011 15:13, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:47:23AM +0100, Sven Barth wrote: The regex that I'm using belongs to FCL. [FCL]RegEx.TRegexEngine. TRegExpr (unit RegExpr) is also part of FCL in 2.7.1 since some weeks

Re: [Lazarus] What's the correct way to use TRegexEngine?

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
'); -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Lazarus] Postgres Cannot connect

2011-11-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
no experience, but on Linux using FPC 2.4.4 I had to set up a symlink for the library (see Joost's comments). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] read single char from STDIN

2011-11-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
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Re: [Lazarus] RE : read single char from STDIN

2011-11-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
, I was anticipating that but this was the result of a quick-and-dirty late-night experiment which relied on http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/keyboard/tkeyevent.html being correct: it explicitly says a typecast should work. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

[Lazarus] Marking columns in synedit

2011-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. I'd like to be able to highlight header columns to mark tab positions, it's safe to assume that all visible character positions will contain a digit or a space. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Marking columns in synedit

2011-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 29/10/2011 11:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Is there an easy way of setting columns to a different background and/or foreground colour? I've got two synedits, one in a main window with music ruled coloured lines and a small one above it numbered for columns, provided

Re: [Lazarus] Marking columns in synedit

2011-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:35:25 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: [...] I'm looking at some badly-OCRed Pascal, I'm curious, why do OCR Pascal? I think it was you who said that you've got a particular dislike of Perl? Well I've found

Re: [Lazarus] Use of .lps files to avoid unnecessary changes to .lpi files

2011-10-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. I'm running svnversion in Execute before, and have a minor niggle that the project invariably shows up as modified when I do the build. If I understand things correctly, having a separate .lps (not in VC) would fix this, in which case +1. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT

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