Re: [Lazarus] Compiling Win 64 bit LCL only with 32 bit IDE+cross compiler

2012-04-24 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 23-4-2012 20:15, Mattias Gaertner wrote: This should work make clean CPU_TARGET=x86_64 OS_TARGET=win64 make clean all useride lazbuild.exe --os=win64 --cpu=x86_64 lcl\interfaces\lcl.lpk Of course you need to have a 64bit compiler installed properly. Thanks, Mattias, using lazbuild

[Lazarus] lazbuild --build-ide= --addpackage bla.lpk?

2012-04-23 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, At the moment, the fpcup tool can compile packages using lazbuild. It would be very nice if the compiled package could be added to the list of packages to be installed on IDE recompile. Perhaps this functionality could better be placed in lazbuild so others using e.g. batch files can

[Lazarus] Compiling Win 64 bit LCL only with 32 bit IDE+cross compiler

2012-04-23 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, Triggered by Mattias' improvements in the make environment, I tried to incorporate support in fpcup. Goal: on Windows compile 32bit LCL+IDE; also compile 64 bit LCL with x64 cross compiler so users can immediately compile for x64 targets. Method 1: originally I just did something like

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild --build-ide= --addpackage bla.lpk?

2012-04-23 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 23-4-2012 12:49, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com hat am 23. April 2012 um 11:45 geschrieben: Perhaps this functionality could better be placed in lazbuild so others using e.g. batch files can use it as well, making possible something like lazbuild

Re: [Lazarus] lazbuild --build-ide= --addpackage bla.lpk?

2012-04-23 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 23-4-2012 15:13, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com hat am 23. April 2012 um 13:19 geschrieben: Thanks Mattias, Hope I'm not displaying too much ignorance here, but here goes: 1. the syntax for long options is --paramname=value Got it. 2

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling Win 64 bit LCL only with 32 bit IDE+cross compiler

2012-04-23 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 23-4-2012 12:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Method 3: I'm now trying someting like this: make CPU_TARGET=x86_64 OS_TARGET=win64 registration lazutils lcl ...list of dependencies taken from http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#Make_parameters but I get Compiling fcllaz.pas

[Lazarus] Right click, paste as string?

2012-04-21 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, When working with e.g. multiline SQL statements, sometimes I want to copy them to a string in Lazarus, e.g from something like: const SQL = with this on the clipboard: SELECT c.colid as recno, o.name as TableName, c.name as FieldName, c.colorder as FieldPosition, t.name as FieldType,

Re: [Lazarus] Right click, paste as string?

2012-04-21 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 21-4-2012 12:01, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Hi list, When working with e.g. multiline SQL statements, sometimes I want to copy them to a string in Lazarus, e.g from something like: The lazarus data dictionary SQL editor does

Re: [Lazarus] Right click, paste as string?

2012-04-21 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 21-4-2012 16:23, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 21 April 2012 11:40, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: I.e. indenting, appending quotes and + sign, and escaping existing quotes. (In this case, it's SQL and having an extra space at the end of the line before the closing

Re: [Lazarus] Non-lcl-designer design question

2012-04-19 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 19-4-2012 14:51, Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:05:45 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: Every heard of Git? ;-) You mean this old, little VCS that had so many problems on windows and was superseded by Bazaar because Bazaar just works? ^^ Yep, git's

Re: [Lazarus] Development of other revision control

2012-04-14 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 13-4-2012 20:28, Dawson wrote: Hi ... a few more replies ... On 12/04/12 1:06 PM, Reinier wrote ... First: a plugin and an API do not necessarily exclude each other. They're independent concepts. A plugin can provide an API, and a plugin can use an API. This may have been the cause of

[Lazarus] Heads up: started on MS SQL Server+Sybase ASE support for LazDataDesktop and FPdatadict

2012-04-14 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi lists, Just to let you know, I've started working on getting support for the new Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase ASE connectors into Lazdatadesktop. For that, I've started adding to the fpdatadict code (started out with a copy of the Firebird code). Code at my usual patch playground:

Re: [Lazarus] Development of other revision control

2012-04-12 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 12-4-2012 11:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: If you want to expose SVN functionality further, and if there's any need, adding an API to the component/plugin would be possible. It's just that I don't directly see the use for that - perhaps for other IDE

[Lazarus] Compilation errors current Lazarus+FPC

2012-04-12 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Running fpcup with current svn Lazarus and FPC, I get (when running make all for Lazarus): ... make.exe[2]: Entering directory `C:/development/lazarus_fpctrunk/tools' C:/development/fpctrunk/bin/i386-win32/fpc.exe -gl -Fu. -Fu../components/lazutils/lib/i386-win32 -Fu../lcl/units/i386-win32

Re: [Lazarus] Compilation errors current Lazarus+FPC

2012-04-12 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 12-4-2012 11:39, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Running fpcup with current svn Lazarus and FPC, I get (when running make all for Lazarus): Error: Undefined symbol: TC_FILEUTIL_$_REMOVEDIR_ ... Thanks, this problem seems to be fixed: FPC 20855 and Lazarus 36735 Reinier

Re: [Lazarus] Development of other revision control + easy searching through mailing list archives

2012-04-11 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 11-4-2012 8:44, Dawson wrote: Hi all, I just joined this list today as a result of an email conversation I had with the lead developer of LazSVNPkg, the Lazarus SVN plugin for revision control the SVN way. He suggested that I raise the issue on the list if I wanted to help on this. So

Re: [Lazarus] Changes of make, part III

2012-04-11 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 10-4-2012 22:26, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Precompiling a second LCL platform: Do not use make lcl LCL_PLATFORM=qt, as this will update lclbase.compiled and this tells the IDE to rebuild the existing ppu of the first platform. Use instead: make -C lcl/interfaces/qt Here is an example

Re: [Lazarus] Development of other revision control + easy searching through mailing list archives

2012-04-11 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 11-4-2012 12:45, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 11 April 2012 10:20, Martin Schreiber wrote: A FPC based git frontend is here: https://gitorious.org/mseuniverse/mseuniverse/trees/master/tools/msegit I might be wrong, but I think the original poster was referring to a Source Code

Re: [Lazarus] Development of other revision control

2012-04-11 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 11-4-2012 20:54, Dawson wrote: yes, I know what Darius (et al.) have done in lazsvnpkg is a plugin, and I really think it will be helpful. In a message from Darius, I got the impression that his work is open source, and it certainly would be a great building block. Looking at

Re: [Lazarus] Unknown Run-Time error : 202

2012-04-10 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 10-4-2012 16:43, Marcos Douglas wrote: 2012/4/10 Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com: Op 10 april 2012 16:37 heeft Marcos Douglas m...@delfire.net het volgende geschreven: This has been fixed in http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revroot=lazarusrevision=36699 I'm

Re: [Lazarus] Unknown Run-Time error : 202

2012-04-10 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 10-4-2012 17:02, Marcos Douglas wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: On 10-4-2012 16:43, Marcos Douglas wrote: 2012/4/10 Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com: Op 10 april 2012 16:37 heeft Marcos Douglas m...@delfire.net het

Re: [Lazarus] OpenDocument on Unix: single quotes versus double quotes?

2012-04-07 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 6-4-2012 15:34, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Looking at the lclintf.OpenDocument function on Unix: if (APath'') and (APath[1]'') then APath:=QuotedStr(APath); Am I being dense again or is this an error in the code? The first character of APath is checked for (double quote

[Lazarus] lclintf.OpenURL parameter: double quotes or not?

2012-04-06 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi all, (Example on Windows) OpenURL can be used to open a file on the local machine. The documentation http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/lclintf/openurl.html says you need to have a valid URL like file://c:\test\bla.pdf If I have a path with spaces in it and try and open a pdf file,

Re: [Lazarus] lclintf.OpenURL parameter: double quotes or not?

2012-04-06 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 6-4-2012 13:30, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: You should create a bug report (or a patch). The Windows code of OpenURL should detect the spaces and add the quotes. Thanks, Felipe - what about both a bug report and a patch ;) I'm admittedly rather poor at reading (or better:

[Lazarus] OpenDocument on Unix: single quotes versus double quotes?

2012-04-06 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Looking at the lclintf.OpenDocument function on Unix: if (APath'') and (APath[1]'') then APath:=QuotedStr(APath); Am I being dense again or is this an error in the code? The first character of APath is checked for (double quote). if it isn't, the path is enclosed in single quotes. So a

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 3-4-2012 18:36, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: As long as FPC and Lazarus expect that every user can use a console, I see no better solution. Except that the developers should decide to distribute the FPDoc projects instead of the Makefile... As I mentioned

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-4-2012 14:21, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: Otherwise, you can test if it's in the compiler binary path, fpcdir\bin\architecture, e.g. c:\development\fpctrunk\bin\i386-win32\make.exe fpdoc is in fpcdir\utils\fpdoc\fpdoc.exe (or in the compiler binary path, see

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-4-2012 14:35, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Then why is fpdocmanager in Lazarus, not in FPC - I thought fpcdocs should be maintainable with FPC only without requirement for Lazarus, but I might be mistaken... Do the current fpdoc toolset

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-4-2012 14:56, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 5-4-2012 14:35, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Then why is fpdocmanager in Lazarus, not in FPC - I thought fpcdocs should

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-4-2012 15:26, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 5-4-2012 14:56, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 5-4-2012 14:35, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-4-2012 15:36, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 5-4-2012 15:26, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: A happy user !! Quick, we must stuff him and put him in a museum !! Michael. As long as it's on alcohol ;) I have plenty of vodka

Re: [Lazarus] Make unreadable names into bunary

2012-04-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-4-2012 16:10, Kjow wrote: Hi all, I would make unreadable functions/components/classes/etc names into the binary built. I noticed that with an hex editor I can see things like TButton, width, heigh etc. Avoiding this, could make also more difficul a reverse engeneering with the

Re: [Lazarus] Keys attached to IDE functions

2012-04-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-4-2012 18:02, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: In the IDE Options the key mappings can be searched (and changed) very convenient. But when I filter for breakpoint I only get 3 functions listed. It took me quite a while to find out that the other breakpoint related functions are named break point

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-4-2012 9:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: On 1-4-2012 18:28, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: Is it required to have fpcdocs under your FPC directory? Correction: you are right, according to the FPDoc documentation fpcdocs must reside

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 3-4-2012 13:36, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: On 2-4-2012 9:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: On 1-4-2012 18:28, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: Is it required to have fpcdocs under your FPC directory? Correction

Re: [Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions crash

2012-04-03 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-4-2012 9:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: On 1-4-2012 18:28, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: 4. Trying to select the newly generated rtl.bat gives an access violation (Lazarus SVN 36494, FPC SVN 20683 x86). Any fix for that? You're right, I could reproduce

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 is branched

2012-04-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 2-4-2012 11:13, Michael Fuchs wrote: Am 02.04.2012 11:03, schrieb Carl Kruck: This needs a big press release! And release parties! :) Yes to both thanks to Zeljko (and undoubtedly the other developers). Very good decision to move to 1.0! Regards, Reinier --

[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] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?

2012-03-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 31-3-2012 2:56, João Marcelo Vaz wrote: 2012/3/30 Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com mailto:reinierolislag...@gmail.com On 30-3-2012 16:05, Frank Church wrote: Is there a function that returns the UTC time, either as a UnixTime or TDateTime irregardless

[Lazarus] @Mattias: dblib was Reminder: lovely new components for palette read for commit

2012-03-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-3-2012 15:00, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Already run on Windows; it's meanwhile been tested and approved by Ludo Brands on Linux. Anybody willing to apply it (optionally with less ugly icons) - or assign it to himself? http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21578 Mattias

Re: [Lazarus] @Mattias: dblib was Reminder: lovely new components for palette read for commit

2012-03-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 31-3-2012 11:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote: AFAIK there is no example yet for this stuff, so it would be helpful. Only x-platform examples are put into Lazarus sources. Do you have a x-platform example? It is x-platform. The underlying fpc mssqlconn connector just requires FreeTDS (i.e.

Re: [Lazarus] @Mattias: dblib was Reminder: lovely new components for palette read for commit

2012-03-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 31-3-2012 11:48, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:36:31 +0200 Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: On 31-3-2012 11:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote: AFAIK there is no example yet for this stuff, so it would be helpful. Only x-platform examples are put

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-03-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 31-3-2012 15:08, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Hint: When you use Cody to add the grids unit to the uses section, it will automatically add the LCL as dependency. What is Cody? http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearchsearch=codyfulltext=Search --

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-03-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 31-3-2012 15:22, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: On 31-3-2012 15:08, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Hint: When you use Cody to add the grids unit to the uses section, it will automatically add the LCL as dependency. What is Cody? http

Re: [Lazarus] @Mattias: dblib was Reminder: lovely new components for palette read for commit

2012-03-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 31-3-2012 12:22, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 31-3-2012 11:48, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Then the example can be added without the dll and icons. Can you write a small README.txt with some hints about the dblib and where to get the dll? Done: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21619 FYI

Re: [Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

2012-03-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 31-3-2012 16:36, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: Just wanted to encourage you that there often is documentation about concepts... even though it may not always be complete or correct. Of course, if I *wanted* to get information about Cody I know that I could use

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?

2012-03-30 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 30-3-2012 16:05, Frank Church wrote: When I get the time via the DateTime function result is adapted for the timezone, making it an hour ahead now? Is there a function that returns the UTC time, either as a UnixTime or TDateTime irregardless of timezone? Frank, You could search the fpc

[Lazarus] Reminder: lovely new components for palette read for commit

2012-03-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Already run on Windows; it's meanwhile been tested and approved by Ludo Brands on Linux. Anybody willing to apply it (optionally with less ugly icons) - or assign it to himself? http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21578 Don't know/remember if Michael Van Canneyt is committer for LCL; in

Re: [Lazarus] FPC Lazarus installation including cross compiling from source

2012-03-28 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 27-3-2012 19:26, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Reinier Olislagers wrote: I would strongly recommend using VMs as well so that the level of complexity/maintenance decreases. Linux to Windows can be done, but the other way round is difficult. I'd introduce some words of caution here

[Lazarus] [Patch] MS SQL Server/Sybase ASE connectors for Lazarus; was TMSSQLConnection - sqlDB component for accessing MS SQL Server

2012-03-27 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 18-2-2012 2:09, Marcos Douglas wrote: As you can see here http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17303 the developer known to LacaK developed a new connector for MSSQLServer, descendant of TSQLConnection class, and sent the beta code in 2010-08-30. snip To FPC core team: Could you take a

Re: [Lazarus] FPC Lazarus installation including cross compiling from source

2012-03-27 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 27-3-2012 17:44, Mattias Gaertner wrote: patspiper patspi...@gmail.com hat am 27. März 2012 um 17:17 geschrieben: This is related to bug 0021580: Feature request: Robust IDE cross-compiling. With Lazarus 1.0 being closer than ever, and with the availability of different Linux scripts

[Lazarus] Conditional compilation depending on Lazarus version?

2012-03-22 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, I'm sure I must be missing something. I want to compile some grid drawing stuff depending on whether a grid bug has been fixed - i.e. I want to do something like this: Had a look here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Macros_in_paths_and_filenames ... but that only seems to

Re: [Lazarus] Setting ModalResult

2012-03-13 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 13-3-2012 7:50, Richard Mace wrote: On 12 March 2012 23:51, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de Lazarus 0.9.30 fpc 2.4 Windows XP 2.4? Please check these versions. They look pretty old. Thanks Mattias. Yes, I had just installed the latest released binaries for

Re: [Lazarus] compiling Lazarus from svn

2012-03-13 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 13-3-2012 7:49, Richard Mace wrote: Hi All, I've just installed lazarus via svn trunk, and installed fpc binary from source forge. When I read the instructions online on how to install Lazarus from SVN, they tell me to change to the Lazarus directory, and then run make, however, I don't

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

2012-03-11 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 11-3-2012 10:46, Vincent Snijders wrote: The Lazarus team is happy to announce that Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC3 is available for download from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/ snip Please, let me know if you find any problems with these release candidates. Also let me know if you

Re: [Lazarus] problem with a dbf file

2012-03-10 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 10-3-2012 8:43, Richard Mace wrote: 2012/3/9 Ing. Héctor F. Fiandor Rosario hfian...@infomed.sld.cu mailto:hfian...@infomed.sld.cu first, i have tried to execute de application. The application work, but not read the .dbf file with some data. It work like the first time,

Re: [Lazarus] Update twiki

2012-03-01 Thread Reinier Olislagers
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

[Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-01 Thread Reinier Olislagers
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):

Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-01 Thread Reinier Olislagers
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

Re: [Lazarus] Contribute to a book instead of wiki?

2012-03-01 Thread Reinier Olislagers
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

Re: [Lazarus] Missing Documentation

2012-02-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-2-2012 14:02, Michael Schnell wrote: On 02/29/2012 12:59 PM, Sven Barth wrote: As already written: * either use the editor hints of the IDE which work on the FPDoc files in %laz%\doc\xml * or build the help files yourself Obvious best option: * do nothing. -Michael I'm sorry, but

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

2012-02-28 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 28-2-2012 9:43, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: But summing up, more then yet another discussion on this topic, what really helps is contributions. If you think that Pascal needs better support for the Internet, well, then just write some tutorials about fpweb, write a usage statistics

[Lazarus] [SOLVED} fpcup: failure compiling Lazarus with FPC fixes_2.6 on OSX 10.7 x64, works with x86

2012-02-27 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 14-2-2012 21:30, Reinier Olislagers wrote: We're trying to set up a Lazarus/FPC combo that's independent of any already installed fpc/Lazarus installs. snip The compiler is fixes_2.6, downloaded from SVN: /Users/reinier/fpc/bin/fpc.sh -i Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.1 Compiler

[Lazarus] Tools/Run Parameters storage in .lps/session file instead of lpi?

2012-02-26 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, Developing fpcup together using a mercurial repo with Ludo Brands, which is always a pleasure. Less of a pleasure is that we frequently have conflicts in fpcup.lpi One of the changes that we saw in the commits: -CommandLineParams Value=--verbose/ +CommandLineParams

Re: [Lazarus] Tools/Run Parameters storage in .lps/session file instead of lpi?

2012-02-26 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 26-2-2012 16:56, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:17:48 +0100 Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to store the Tools/Run Parameters in the .lps/session file instead of the lpi file? Each developer may have their own aspect

Re: [Lazarus] Custom Controls package cannot be found

2012-02-23 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 23-2-2012 10:04, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 23 February 2012 11:01, Sven Barth wrote: AFAIK make clean only removes files it knows about. If the unit directory got renamed from lib to units then it dies not know there is a lib directory to clean (it could be a directory created by the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus usable with FPC trunk?

2012-02-20 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 20-2-2012 16:43, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 07:07:16AM +0100, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Recently I've seen some indication Lazarus is being used with FPC trunk. Because of the major Unicode changes in 2.7, I think Marco advised to use Lazarus with FPC 2.6

Re: [Lazarus] Cross compiling LCL win32=win64; update wiki?

2012-02-19 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 19-2-2012 11:13, Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.02.2012 07:23 schrieb Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com mailto:reinierolislag...@gmail.com: snip description of Wiki LCL crosscompile instructions Note: this doesn't describe the situation in trunk anymore. snip 1) Does the above

Re: [Lazarus] Cross compiling LCL win32=win64; update wiki?

2012-02-19 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 19-2-2012 13:28, Sven Barth wrote: On 19.02.2012 13:22, Reinier Olislagers wrote: My regex skills are not that good, but fpcdev -h | grep ^ \-T already gives good results, thanks. Your tools is written in Pascal? Then you could just read the output of fpc -h, Trim() every line

Re: [Lazarus] Cross compiling LCL win32=win64; update wiki?

2012-02-19 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 19-2-2012 11:13, Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.02.2012 07:23 schrieb Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com mailto:reinierolislag...@gmail.com: The wiki [1] says to check your compiler, e.g. with fpc -Twin64 -Px86_64 test.pas. This works. Then: using the IDE: Open Tools / Configure

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus usable with FPC trunk?

2012-02-18 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 18-2-2012 8:21, Paul Ishenin wrote: 18.02.12 14:26, Hans-Peter Diettrich пишет: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: Would it make sense to move over to trunk? I'm using FPC trunk since several weeks, and didn't encounter problems with Lazarus. A lot of Unicode conversion hints occur

[Lazarus] Cross compiling LCL win32=win64; update wiki?

2012-02-18 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, I'm trying to cross compile LCL to win64 so users of fpcup can generate both x86 and x64 binaries. The wiki [1] says to check your compiler, e.g. with fpc -Twin64 -Px86_64 test.pas. This works. Then: using the IDE: Open Tools / Configure Build Lazarus / Advanced Build Options.

[Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, Busy with my fpcup svn installer/updater. 1. I've managed to let fpcup generate lcl.chm documentation using build_lcl_docs.lpr (going to get rtl.chm etc going later) 2. I also let it compile lhelp.exe. 3. fpcup also creates (if it doesn't exist) a helpoptions.xml file, with basically

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17-2-2012 10:24, Sven Barth wrote: Am 17.02.2012 10:22, schrieb Reinier Olislagers: However, in Lazarus trunk/Tools/Options/Help Options, Viewers, I only see HTML Browser, not CHM Help Browser. Trying to eliminate errors: copying over helpoptions.xml from a working (i.e. lhelp shows up

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17-2-2012 10:35, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 17-2-2012 10:24, Sven Barth wrote: Am 17.02.2012 10:22, schrieb Reinier Olislagers: Now I've got you reading: a question on the help options screen itself: what does FPC Doc HTML path stand for? HTML files generated by FPDoc? FPC documentation

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17-2-2012 15:16, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Reinier Olislagers schrieb: Now going to see if I can either persuade fpdoc to spit out rtl.chm and fcl.chm, or download the latest release versions... et voila, working offline help installed for free with your Lazarus SVN copy ;) (oh

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17-2-2012 15:45, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17 February 2012 16:37, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Since you have to download the docs sources in either case, you also can use the supplied MakeFile, of course. ... unless I'm overlooking something again, that requires latex to export to chm

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17-2-2012 17:18, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:37:49PM +0100, Reinier Olislagers wrote: If you want to create the RTL and FCL docs during installation, you can use according project files. These files are e.g. created by the FPDocManager. That's news...must have

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17-2-2012 18:11, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17 February 2012 17:22, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Just to confirm: that would be by running make chm in the fpcdocs directory? That throws up a lot of Latex warnings in my install... I'm at home now, and don't have a copy of the fpddocs

[Lazarus] Thanks for the help!

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Amidst the discussion of the failings/possible improvement of help systems, I'd like to thank everybody involved in getting Lazarus and FPC help to the state it is now. Using the ExternHelp and ChmHelpPkg packages in Lazarus, I get context-sensitive help for FPC/Lazarus keywords, and I even get

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17-2-2012 21:36, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:05:48PM +0100, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Chances of it being available on Windows, OSX, are not much higher than on Linux. Requiring it just to build documentation seems... excessive. I don't see why. I mentioned

Re: [Lazarus] TMSSQLConnection - sqlDB component for accessing MS SQL Server

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 18-2-2012 2:13, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote: sounds good, will be a nice tool! It works on linux natively or need some external lib? William de Oliveira Ferreira Bacharel em Sistemas de Informação It uses freetds; IIRC, the forum post contains (a link

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 18-2-2012 6:46, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 17-2-2012 21:36, Marco van de Voort wrote: The commandline problems can be avoided via the project system, and on a slightly longer term, maybe fpmake will allow to kill off the horrible makefile of fpdocs. The project system being fppkg

[Lazarus] Lazarus usable with FPC trunk?

2012-02-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, Recently I've seen some indication Lazarus is being used with FPC trunk. Because of the major Unicode changes in 2.7, I think Marco advised to use Lazarus with FPC 2.6. I'm still using fixes_2.6 for both my unstable development system, and a backup development system. Would it make

Re: [Lazarus] installing chm help

2012-02-16 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 16-2-2012 14:15, Michael Schnell wrote: On 02/16/2012 01:43 PM, Sven Barth wrote: The IDE has all infos that are necessary to find a certain identifier OTOH it does not have a clue about the help texts itself, as it does not know what format the help files the help viewer is about to show.

[Lazarus] LHelp: open RTL+FCL+LCL by default?

2012-02-16 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi all, The recent discussion about help got me thinking. When getting context-sensitive help in Lazarus, the first time lhelp opens I see e.g. the FCL help. Then, as I press F1 for other items, it helpfully opens other files, e.g. LCL. What I would like is to immediately open all three, or

[Lazarus] fpcup: failure compiling Lazarus with FPC fixes_2.6 on OSX 10.7 x64, works with x86

2012-02-14 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, Working on my fpcup installer, I tried it on OSX. We're trying to set up a Lazarus/FPC combo that's independent of any already installed fpc/Lazarus installs. To ignore any existing system wide fpc.cfg, we use a proxy for fpc: cat /Users/reinier/fpc/bin/fpc.sh #!/bin/sh # This script

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

2012-02-13 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 13-2-2012 16:19, Everton Vieira wrote: Why the Java became so strong? We could think about the good large library. We could think about the eclipse IDE. We could think about the partnerships. But doesn`t matter. What`s matter is that the fpc/lazarus has even more potential than.

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

2012-02-13 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 13-2-2012 17:24, Everton Vieira wrote: I found this: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,13754.msg86355.html#msg86355 But not sure if you referred this. Yep, that's the thread I was talking about... Regards, Reinier -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Adding Notes in FPDoc

2012-02-11 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 11-2-2012 19:27, Howard Page-Clark wrote: On 11/2/12 3:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Yes. User notes on a website. This website has been in the pipeline for a long time. The prospect of a website dedicated to discussion of documentation seems to me to be a helpful move forward. This

[Lazarus] FPCUp FPC/Lazarus installer/updater: first Linux/Windows version released

2012-02-10 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi all, With the help of the people on the forums and the lists, I've completed the first version of FPCup, a tool that downloads FPC and Lazarus sources from SVN, compiles and installs them. For Windows, it offers bare-metal install functionality: it downloads an SVN executable and the binutils

Re: [Lazarus] fpdoc + XML description file + indentation whitespace

2012-02-09 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 9-2-2012 12:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 9 February 2012 09:23, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: A simple modification could help: Let all preformatted text start on a new line, not directly after pre or code. The document generators can remove that additional line ending, if required. I

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

2012-02-06 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi all, Trying to port my fpcup FPC/Lazarus installer to Linux. Tried a Debian unstable x64 VM with xfce. Installed fpc (got FPC 2.6, ok). Tried lazarus = got old 0.9.30 version that didn't seem to have lazutils package. Ok, I'll get the snapshot cd ~ wget

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

2012-02-06 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 6-2-2012 10:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: Worked. However ran startlazarus, got complaints about instantfpc missing etc. It probably means you have some 0.9.30. Check your /etc/lazarus directory. Possibly also something incompatible in ~/.lazarus, although it's

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

2012-02-06 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Thanks for the help, Mattias... On 6-2-2012 11:19, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com hat am 6. Februar 2012 um 10:39 geschrieben: When updating from 0.9.30 to 0.9.31 you have to do a make clean all. Mmm, I installed updated using Debian packages (Debian

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

2012-02-06 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 6-2-2012 14:58, zeljko wrote: On Monday 06 of February 2012 12:10:33 Reinier Olislagers wrote: Load from FORMS (interface) unit AVGLVLTREE (AVGLVLTREE) Loading unit AVGLVLTREE Unitsearch: AvgLvlTree.ppu Searching file AvgLvlTree.ppu... not found /usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.31/lcl/forms.pp

Re: [Lazarus] Server Problems ?

2012-02-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 5-2-2012 14:53, ik wrote: 2012/2/5 Samuel Herzog sam_her...@yahoo.com mailto:sam_her...@yahoo.com Hi, is this just me ? I have problems to get the lazarus web-page loaded. Works for me Had problems as well earlier today and a while back (page did not load at all) but seems

Re: [Lazarus] Creating config files in primary config path for bootstrap installer

2012-02-05 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 4-2-2012 18:19, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 4-2-2012 17:59, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:03:28 +0100 If you need a tool to set some config variables, then please write one. Ok. I'll report back when I have something usable... Mattias all, Seems I've got FPCUp https

Re: [Lazarus] Creating config files in primary config path for bootstrap installer

2012-02-04 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 3-2-2012 14:36, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Hi list, Thanks to help from the FPC list, my FPCUp FPC/Lazarus SVN installer/updater seems to take a plain vanilla Windows machine and bla I'd also like Lazarus to compile Lazdatadesktop etc and perhaps some extra packages, and perhaps offline

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