Re: [Lazarus] 1 keypress gives multiple letters ONLY in program written in Lazarus in raspbian jessie Pi 2

2016-04-11 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/04/2016 21:16, Michael Thompson ha scritto: I know this issue is resolved, but I've just stumbled across this: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Faq#Typing_under_Ubuntu_in_edit_fields_generate_duplicate_letters We'll need to change Ubuntu now to Linux in general, but before I do

Re: [Lazarus] 1 keypress gives multiple letters ONLY in program written in Lazarus in raspbian jessie Pi 2

2016-04-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/04/2016 21:16, Michael Thompson ha scritto: Giuliano: Do you know if any of the steps listed here would have helped? If not, can you let me know how you disabled the Input Manager, and I'll update the wiki accordinly. I have only hearsay knowledge, from this list complaints, and from

Re: [Lazarus] Trying to work around "Illegal character in format string"

2016-04-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/04/2016 02:00, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: :-) I still have 0.9.30 here in one of my Windows VM's. It still works great! If it ain't broken, don't fix it.;-) Me too, in one of my USB disks. I happily keep it alive to support released software, but AFAIR it didn't handle too well chm

Re: [Lazarus] Trying to work around "Illegal character in format string"

2016-04-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 09/04/2016 21:00, Alan Corey ha scritto: I guess I've got to get to the bottom of why I get this “Illegal character in format string” error under OpenBSD. I seem to be able to work around it in programs I might write by taking the Run → Clean up Build Files -> Clean up and Build approach.

Re: [Lazarus] 1 keypress gives multiple letters ONLY in program written in Lazarus in raspbian jessie Pi 2

2016-04-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 09/04/2016 12:41, Dennis ha scritto: But the SD Card was corrupted so I installed the latest raspbian OS jessie on the same Pi 2 on a new SD Card. I reinstalled everything (e.g. mysql etc) and my program and it runs fine EXCEPT that pressing a key once will gives multiple letters. BUT this

Re: [Lazarus] PDF generator: please test

2016-04-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 09/04/2016 16:47, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: On 2016-04-09 14:44, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: interesting in what determines "correct"... Алло мир! Привет мир! Здравствуйте мир! That's my point exactly. I've seen the same thing in fpGUI's translation files. Many different terms, all

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Digest, Vol 99, Issue 32

2016-04-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 09/04/2016 16:41, Juha Manninen ha scritto: Comments are overrated. If you think of them as "deodorant masking fishy code" then less comments is better. Comments may help to clarify what is obvious to you at the moment of writing, but not to anybody else, and maybe even to you some time

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Digest, Vol 99, Issue 32

2016-04-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 09/04/2016 16:22, Juha Manninen ha scritto: On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Giuliano Colla <giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: Because without a minimal amount of documentation all this valuable work risks to be useless, because: - nobody except a few core developers know of its exi

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Digest, Vol 99, Issue 32

2016-04-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 09/04/2016 14:03, Juha Manninen ha scritto: Why all this valuable work from me and from other developers is ignored? Because without a minimal amount of documentation all this valuable work risks to be useless, because: - nobody except a few core developers know of its existence - nobody

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Digest, Vol 99, Issue 32

2016-04-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 08/04/2016 21:13, Juha Manninen ha scritto: Welcome to open source. Instead of complaining here and wasting everybody's time, you could have improved the documentation yourself and provide a patch. In principle you're right. However you should take into account some other factors.

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Suggestion for TRadioGroup documentation

2016-04-08 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 08/04/2016 18:56, Jürgen Hestermann ha scritto: > If NASA or Airbus or Boeing engineers would use that approach, I guess a lot of rockets, planes and whatnot would fall on our heads. > I am glad they do not seem to have this attitude. I am not sure that they do not have it. I saw a report

Re: [Lazarus] Instalation on win 10

2016-04-05 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 05/04/2016 18:30, Bart ha scritto: Just install a decent OS. (Sorry, couldn't resist) +1 Giuliano -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-05 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 02/04/2016 10:14, Special ha scritto: How can I use names with German Umlauts and 'ß' in the Name Field of TButton components? For instance, I try to set MyButton.Name to "Schließenbutton" and get an error message "Komponentenname Schließenbutton ist kein gültiger Bezeichner". Using

Re: [Lazarus] Feature Request: Disable/clear the "Recent files" and "Recent projects" lists

2016-03-29 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 28/03/2016 20:25, Ondrej Pokorny ha scritto: On 28.03.2016 18:14, max.lemradt2 wrote: I'd like to be able to disable or clear the "Recent files" and "Recent projects" lists, e. g. for privacy reasons. I will probably never use it but if you need it, feel free to create such a function and

Re: [Lazarus] Form Resizing

2016-03-06 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 06/03/2016 18:27, Bo Berglund ha scritto: [...] I have no idea what you mean by this statement... What is LXDE and how do I test Lazarus for LXDE? [...] Apart fromn that I have no idea how to use svn, which I assume you mean I should do. A general hint: whenever you don't know what an

Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 24/02/2016 22:49, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft? This is quickly going off-topic. If you want to answer this question please use fpc-other. Or better alt.destroy.microsoft ;-) Giuliano --

Re: [Lazarus] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwhatever

2016-02-21 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 21/02/2016 18:41, David W Noon ha scritto: You should not put .o files into library directories. You should use the ar command to build a library and put the resulting .a file into you library directory. E.g., ar -crs libsomething.a something.o Thanks a lot. I wasn't aware that I

Re: [Lazarus] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwhatever

2016-02-21 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 21/02/2016 16:29, Vojtěch Čihák ha scritto: Probably not your case but when you add manually libs to system (/usr/lib or /usr/local/lib), you need to run ldconfig as superuser in terminal so the system rescans available libraries. I'm aware of that, and I did it, but no luck:-(

[Lazarus] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwhatever

2016-02-21 Thread Giuliano Colla
Hi, I'm need to link some C modules to a Lazarus app. I started with just a minimal console app, and one module, I've created with h2pas the binding module, and edited to make it compile properly, but when it comes to link I get the "cannot find" error. I tried both a mymodule.o object and

Re: [Lazarus] Bring on the virgins, nintendo 3ds --> lcl?

2016-02-20 Thread Giuliano Colla
Spam filter failure? Il 20/02/2016 05:04, year0097ic ha scritto: threshold Anix Spec in millions @ 50 3DS & 154 DS Vie-IT Nand backup & let radio-freedom for cring, did the have any "non smothered renascence re invent calculator" on them? cake & file downgrade sevice downto FirmWare 4.2.0-9U.

Re: [Lazarus] Replacing LRT format with RSJ

2016-02-16 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 16/02/2016 17:29, Maxim Ganetsky ha scritto: As a result people using this feature will need to remove their .lrt files and save all affected forms again in order to generate .lrj files. No other changes should be needed. Any comments? To actually provide the benefit to users, it would be

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-16 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 16/02/2016 10:04, Michael Schnell ha scritto: a (potential) bug (in "Glib2" whatever this exactly means) Glib2 means version 2 of GTK Glib, which is used by Qt (and by GTK) to implement the main event loop. libglib-2.0.so.0 The full picture (from stack trace) is as follows: 1. The main

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-16 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 16/02/2016 10:04, Michael Schnell ha scritto: Anyway, IMHO it's not a good idea to fight a (potential) bug (in "Glib2" whatever this exactly means) by implementing a completely queer behavior in Application.ProcessMessage. I fully agree with you. Seeing a unexpected recursion, I had

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 15/02/2016 11:54, Michael Schnell ha scritto: On 02/13/2016 12:27 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote: At least under Qt widgetset, it may happen that calling Application.ProcessMessages from within a Message Handler will cause the same message which was being processed to be processed again

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

2016-02-14 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 14/02/2016 19:04, Bart ha scritto: In 2005 the first 64-bit Celeron D model saw light. Yes but it was a 2.6Ghz or something. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

2016-02-14 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 14/02/2016 15:14, Bart ha scritto: As for WM's: I'm used to KDE, but that might probably be a bit too heavy fo this old beast, so I don't mind experimenting with another, more light weight, one. That being said, the OS should come with GTK2 (and maybe QT) libraries in order to have a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

2016-02-14 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 14/02/2016 16:34, Giuliano Colla ha scritto: That being said, the OS should come with GTK2 (and maybe QT) libraries in order to have a functional Lazarus. Another important thing to consider is 32bit architecture support: many modern distros only support x86_64, to avoid the hassle

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-13 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 12/02/2016 15:35, Michael Schnell ha scritto: On 02/12/2016 03:17 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: IMHO, Michael, you should not redefine words. It confuses people. Reentrant means it can be called again, while it is still running. It does not need to be thread-safe. Sorry that was not me.

Re: [Lazarus] RFC : "Resolved View"

2016-02-12 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 12/02/2016 02:41, Martin Frb ha scritto: Actual hiding is more work, because it needs to shift x positions in some line. Probably needs big changes. Though readonly may be doable. IMHO such a feature would be typically used to read and understand code, therefore read-only is not only

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-11 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/02/2016 21:13, Giuliano Colla ha scritto: I don't believe that there's an easy way to protect Application.ProcessMessages from recursion unless someone is willing to debug and patch Glib (which is used not only by Qt, but also from GTK, if I'm not wrong). A snippet from gmain.c: #if 0

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/02/2016 13:48, zeljko ha scritto: I believe that Application.ProcessMessages should protect itself too, avoiding to handle more than once the same message. But where ? In LCL or per widgetset ? I skimmed through the backtrace. It would appear that the recursion originates in

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/02/2016 00:18, Denis Kozlov ha scritto: Is your LM_ERROR larger than LM_USER? Yes : const LM_ANSWER= LM_USER + 100; LM_MESSAGE = LM_USER + 101; LM_ERROR = LM_USER + 102; Giuliano -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/02/2016 00:22, Denis Kozlov ha scritto: You create a recursive scenario yourself by calling Application.ProcessMessages inside of ShowError inside of HandleError - which is the message handling procedure itself, which is triggered by Application.ProcessMessages. That's what I had

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/02/2016 08:44, zeljko ha scritto: 1.Your ErrList access does not look thread safe. It's a poor man's thread safe queue, implemented as a ring buffer, with two indexes, ErrGet and ErrPut. It's fully safe, provided the buffer is guaranteed not to overflow, and that ErrPut is updated only

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/02/2016 12:31, zeljko ha scritto: On 02/10/2016 11:19 AM, Giuliano Colla wrote: This I believe to be the problem. From the observations from Denis I realized that my code isn't protected against recursion, but I believe that Application.ProcessMessages should protect itself too, avoiding

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/02/2016 22:12, C Western ha scritto: My understanding is Application.ProcessMessages has to be reentrant for the clipboard to work, at least under X, as clipboard content is retrieved by receiving messages. See http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26242 for a (fixed) bug that showed

[Lazarus] Lazarus application crash. Is PostMessage thread safe?

2016-02-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Hi Lazarus guru's, I have stumbled into a problem with a Lazarus application. At random times, from 5 minutes to several hours, it crashes suddenly, and silently. The only way to get a clue has been to run it with gdb. It turns out that the crash occurs because of a Segmentation Fault in

Re: [Lazarus] Panel Top Negative Limitation

2016-02-05 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 04/02/2016 18:51, i...@voiceliveeditor.com ha scritto: Hi I have a problem using a panel, that is large say 7. If I try to bring areas of this into the view area by using panel.top:=-avalue, this works fine until you hit –32769; at which point the panel vanishes. How can this be

Re: [Lazarus] Web vs desktop development

2016-01-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 15/01/2016 18:29, Anthony Walter ha scritto: On a programming web forum someone said regarding Lazarus: On just cursory review, looks compelling. However, I get so little call these days for native/desktop applications. Seems everyone wants web now. I agree with your points, but I'd

Re: [Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

2016-01-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 09/01/2016 14:09, Juha Manninen ha scritto: What if come up with library that draws all important symbols? Well, of course you're free to do with your time whatever you please or feel right about. But please consider the following. The Internet is crowded with drawings of all

Re: [Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

2016-01-08 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 08/01/2016 18:47, Juha Manninen ha scritto: No, this project must be politically NEUTRAL instead. I perfectly agree with this statement of yours, but this is not the case. I would never object to a collection of religious and political symbols, where swastika could have its place together

[Lazarus] Qt issue: application blocks user logout

2015-12-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
Hi, folks. I have an application, on Linux environment, which should always be running, as long as an user is logged in. Therefore it's activated in Autostart, and should only be closed when the user logs out. If it is compiled using the GTK2 WS it works as expected. if it is compiled using

Re: [Lazarus] IDE - Bookmarks overview window?

2015-09-08 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 08/09/2015 17:53, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: Does Lazarus IDE have a window (something similar to TODO List window) that shows all set bookmarks (source editor bookmarks). Info like unit name, line number etc.? You mean View->Debug Windows->BreakPoints (default shortcut Ctrl+Alt+B) or

Re: [Lazarus] Newbie, porting class to FPC but get procedure assignment error

2015-06-22 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 22/06/2015 10:09, Bo Berglund ha scritto: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:16:20 +0300, patspiper patspi...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/15 02:00, Bo Berglund wrote: I just made a first test by adding the object to my main form as a private variable. Which object? Better show the code. Here is the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Disk Full error

2015-06-18 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 18/06/2015 12:45, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: On 2015-06-18 11:35, zeljko wrote: AFAIK, that message comes from fpc. How can it? I get the error at a time when I'm not compiling a project. Simply opening or navigating a project - that is all Lazarus IDE right? To be more exact, this

Re: [Lazarus] Different packages for different usage

2015-06-18 Thread Giuliano Colla
h which conditionals. Maybe there's a better way, but that's what I'd do. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] IDE is still building message

2015-06-13 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 12/06/2015 09:59, Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto: Quite often, I get the IDE is still building message, when the IDE is in fact, no longer building. AFAIR I've met a similar issue, when the IDE wasn't actually building itself, but just compiling a package, or something. A message mixup?

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-28 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 28/05/2015 11:18, Michael Schnell ha scritto: On 05/27/2015 08:48 PM, waldo kitty wrote: yes... 12:00am is midnight... 00:00am is the same... so also is 00:00 or 24:00 in 24hour time... AFAIK it's rather set that 24:00 is 00:00 the next day, but 12:00 am is not 100% confident as Mark

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-26 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 26/05/2015 13:30, Juha Manninen ha scritto: Regarding issue http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27735 Is there some convention how to show a date value 0? By default it shows year 1899. The patch changed it to ?. Delphi for value 0 shows 12/30/1899 12:00 am:

Re: [Lazarus] AlignTop/AlignBottom issue

2015-05-26 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 25/05/2015 22:45, Maxim Ganetsky ha scritto: Should I open an issue in the bugtracker, with the usual small example to demonstrate the issue? I guess it won't harm. Done: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=28183 Giuliano -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] AlignTop/AlignBottom issue

2015-05-26 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 26/05/2015 14:50, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: It works like this: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Autosize_/_Layout#Order_of_controls_with_same_Align The reason of my request is that it doesn't appear to work like this. Quoting the #Align paragraph: First all controls with alTop are

[Lazarus] AlignTop/AlignBottom issue

2015-05-25 Thread Giuliano Colla
AlignTop and AlignBottom do not appear to behave as they should. When you have several controls contained in another control, you would expect that each AlignTop or AlignBottom would stack the control in the first free position: with AlignBottom on top of the stack of the other bottom aligned

Re: [Lazarus] AlignTop/AlignBottom issue

2015-05-25 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 25/05/2015 21:33, K. P. ha scritto: Just setting top (while control is top aligned) puts it in the proper sequence, i.e. at the bottom of the stack It appears to work. I'll make some more tests. Thanks a lot. Giuliano -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] Qt doesn't return proper DC Device Size

2015-05-18 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 16/05/2015 17:54, Giuliano Colla ha scritto: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=28106 Now it works like a charm. I've closed the issue. Thank you Zeljko, Giuliano -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Qt doesn't return proper DC Device Size

2015-05-16 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 16/05/2015 14:27, zeljko ha scritto: On 05/16/2015 02:15 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote: While trying to obtain programmatically the snapshot of a window, I stumbled into a Qt bug. It turned out that TQtDeviceContext.getDeviceSize always returns a size of 10x10 for any widget I tried. It returns

[Lazarus] Qt doesn't return proper DC Device Size

2015-05-16 Thread Giuliano Colla
, GTK2 returns the proper size. Can it be fixed? Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] IDE unable to load form due to missing property

2015-05-16 Thread Giuliano Colla
time, and it gets fixed before execution. If it's not, it is most likely a cosmetic property, or an useless leftover from previous versions. A mild warning, or even a silent skip, would be much less annoying, and more appropriate. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when

[Lazarus] Lazarus Qt support and Wiki

2015-05-14 Thread Giuliano Colla
Hi all. In recent years the support for Qt Widgeset in Lazarus has dramatically improved, thanks to the efforts of Zeljan and others. My grateful thanks to all of them! The result is that nowadays Qt WS is fully mature, suitable for production projects, and, at least for my applications and

Re: [Lazarus] Keyboard handling messed up in LCL (recent change)

2015-05-14 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 14/05/2015 16:59, Toan Pham ha scritto: I am also affected by the keyboard issue. This issue affects the two version of lazarus I've tested (1.2.4 1.4.0), and both 32bit 64bit OSes. I did not know it was ibus until I read this mailing list. Thank you for sharing guys. It's a known issue

Re: [Lazarus] How to display html contents?

2015-05-12 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 11/05/2015 16:02, Michael Schnell ha scritto: Maybe start a Browser with the file spec as parameter. You're right, that would be the easiest path. But I happen to need an integrated help in an industrial environment: just a window with the appropriate information, a large close button

Re: [Lazarus] How to display html contents?

2015-05-11 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 11/05/2015 04:50, Dmitry Boyarintsev ha scritto: If you're planning to use Qt only, you can go as low as following: Yes I'm on a Qt only solution. I'll try your suggestion ASAP. Thank you very much, or better, спасибо большое, Giuliano -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] How do I change properties for GUI-components from another unit?

2015-05-11 Thread Giuliano Colla
in the Interface section. Then in unit1 you will have uses unit2,unit3. And to operate on them you will code: unit2.Panel1.hide; unit3.Panel1.show; If there's no ambiguity, it's unnecessary. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet

Re: [Lazarus] How to display html contents?

2015-05-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
page. Meaning that I should implement something of the sort you suggest within the ipro code, provided I find my way in the sources You gave me a clue, I'll try to take advantage of it. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet

Re: [Lazarus] How to display html contents?

2015-05-09 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 09/05/2015 00:02, Giuliano Colla ha scritto: Is it a known issue or I'm doing something wrong? By browsing the list I discovered it's a known issue: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-Help-turbopower-ipro-anchors-td4041182.html#none Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla

Re: [Lazarus] What is main form? (Splash question)

2015-05-08 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 08/05/2015 17:46, Vojtěch Čihák ha scritto: It seems that after adding splash screen is FrmMain no longer considered as a main form. Is it bug? Or do I something wrong? AFAIK you can't treat the splash screen as a regular form. It must be handled separately. I'd suggest you to give a

Re: [Lazarus] What is main form? (Splash question)

2015-05-08 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 08/05/2015 17:46, Vojtěch Čihák ha scritto: Is it bug? Or do I something wrong? The following code (where form2 is the splash screen) works fine under Lazarus RequireDerivedFormResource := True; Application.Initialize; Form2 := TForm2.Create(Nil); Form2.Show; Form2.Update;

Re: [Lazarus] How to display html contents?

2015-05-08 Thread Giuliano Colla
with the tag name passing with the mouse over the link). Is it a known issue or I'm doing something wrong? Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] How to display html contents?

2015-05-08 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 09/05/2015 00:02, Giuliano Colla ha scritto: a link to a tag in the same page doesn't work, I meant to an anchor. Sorry. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] *.lfm files in unit output directory?

2015-05-07 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 07/05/2015 13:47, Tony Whyman ha scritto: I thought that it had always done this, ever since the lfm format was used. If you don't link the lfm files in then how do you create forms? If I understand properly, the problem is not of having lfm files, but having them copied to the unit

[Lazarus] How to display html contents?

2015-05-06 Thread Giuliano Colla
Hi all, I need to display some local html files in a Lazarus application, which must run under Linux. What's the best way to go? Thanks in advance for any hint. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2015-05-06 Thread Giuliano Colla
a performance loss instead of a performance gain! I just disabled HT from BIOS, and the poor 10ms of my benchmark became 5ms! Of course it depends on applications, but it's worth a try. Just my 2 c Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway

Re: [Lazarus] How to display html contents?

2015-05-06 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 06/05/2015 14:48, leledumbo ha scritto: I need to display some local html files in a Lazarus application, which must run under Linux. * http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/THtmlPort * http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Webbrowser#Using_the_Turbopower_internet_pro_control Thanks a lot,

Re: [Lazarus] Project Improvement Help - YANA(Yet Another Network Analyzer)

2015-04-29 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 28/04/2015 22:38, Euller Pereira ha scritto: But the first problem is that I can't even compile the code provided by the author, because it uses Kylix compatibility-only units for Linux, libc and kernelioctl, and it relies on a specific dll of Windows, IP Helper DLL. Therefore, this fact

Re: [Lazarus] Auto Update Request

2015-04-13 Thread Giuliano Colla
) but I've no problems to update via SVN +1 Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus famous ?

2015-04-03 Thread Giuliano Colla
) support Brodway musicals, and Lazarus is so careful about Delphi compatibility, we would see only an empty, blank stage ;-) Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet

Re: [Lazarus] Statusbar Panel.Bevel has no affect

2015-04-01 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 01/04/2015 13:01, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: I'm using LCL-GTK2 under Linux. I've seen your desperate postings. In my esperience, except a very few cases, as of today, Qt widgetset is much more mature and reliable than gtk2, and much more likely to behave as expected. Always in my

Re: [Lazarus] IBUS warning

2015-03-28 Thread Giuliano Colla
ing doesn't remove any function you need, to deactivate it permanently. Again two solutions: 1) you might attempt to find out which start-up script launches it, and edit it. 2) take the brute-force approach: sudo apt-get remove ibus Giuli

Re: [Lazarus] IBUS warning

2015-03-27 Thread Giuliano Colla
ibus is an input method. If it's enabled (i.e. if the ibus-daemon is running) it will intercept anything coming from the keyboard, to any application. It's not Lazarus calling ibus explicitly: simply attempting to read user keyboard input gets ibus in the way. The annoying thing is that if

Re: [Lazarus] IBUS warning

2015-03-27 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 27/03/2015 13:36, JuuS ha scritto: Thanks Giuliano. This is what I had thought but wasn't sure. I hesitate to remove it completely because it seems to be tied into multiple keyboards which I do use. I will search for its initialization and disable it because, on my system at least, it is a

Re: [Lazarus] IBUS warning

2015-03-27 Thread Giuliano Colla
input system. I think this fear is a holdover from some of my MS experiences. If you're using Kde-Plasma Desktop you should find a Settings-Input Method menu entry: unchecking the enable box should be enough to disable Ibus. At least that's what I find on my desktop. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla

Re: [Lazarus] how can I show a hint without a mouse move?

2015-03-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
, but I'm confident. Thanks a lot Mattias! Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman

[Lazarus] how can I show a hint without a mouse move?

2015-03-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
the functionality of a show hint on an on OnClick event? Any ideas? Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

[Lazarus] how can I show a hint without a mouse move?

2015-03-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
the functionality of a show hint on an on OnClick event? Any ideas? Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] how can I show a hint without a mouse move?

2015-03-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 15/03/2015 20:43, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: On 2015-03-15 17:10, Giuliano Colla wrote: I'd need to show a hint when some components are touched (=clicked). Why not incorporate a web design in your user interface. Many websites have a small information icon next to components. Click

Re: [Lazarus] Someone help built qt4pas.dll for win64

2015-03-14 Thread Giuliano Colla
it to me as an attachment (to my personal e-mail, because the list doesn't accept too large things), and I can make it available in a website I'm webmaster of. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet

Re: [Lazarus] Go back when browsing code

2015-03-10 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 10/03/2015 10:57, aradeonas ha scritto: Thank you Graeme, Its not installed in 1.2.6 but It can be useful. It is in 1.4 which is due to see the light in a short time. I warmly suggest to switch to 1.4, which has a significant amount of fixes/enhancements. 1.4 RC2 is already available at

Re: [Lazarus] Startup delay of project (Qt)

2015-03-07 Thread Giuliano Colla
the same problem. Qt startup with F9 is a bit slower than GTK2, but within reasonable limits (3 - 4 seconds). A Qt issue? Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Promoting Lazarus: A Case Study Video

2015-02-24 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 14/02/2015 15:51, Anthony Walter ha scritto: As a reminder, if you could please use the wiki to make corrections rather than posting additions or corrections here, my life would be much easier. I didn't find any link to a wiki in getlazarus.org, so I'm forced to post just here. Which

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.4

2015-02-21 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 20/02/2015 19:18, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:29:15 +0100 Giuliano Colla giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il 20/02/2015 17:30, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:04:22 +0100 Giuliano Colla giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il 20/02/2015 01:32

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.4

2015-02-20 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 20/02/2015 01:32, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:23:57 +0100 Giuliano Colla giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it wrote: [...] After some further analysis, I'm becoming convinced that clean all would be unnecessary, There are always cases when a clean all is needed. For example

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.4

2015-02-19 Thread Giuliano Colla
CleanLazarusDestDir similar to CleanLazarusSrcDir could not be used to perform the cleanup when isRedirected is true? All that is required, in a user path, is to clean up compiler generated files, without all the other stuff which cleanide or cleanlaz do. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.4

2015-02-19 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 19/02/2015 14:10, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:44:03 +0100 Giuliano Colla giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il 19/02/2015 12:32, Juha Manninen ha scritto: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Giuliano Colla giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Whatever it was, it's got

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.4

2015-02-19 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 20/02/2015 00:23, Giuliano Colla ha scritto: Il 19/02/2015 14:10, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:44:03 +0100 Giuliano Collagiuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il 19/02/2015 12:32, Juha Manninen ha scritto: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Giuliano Colla giuliano.co

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.4

2015-02-18 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 19/02/2015 02:13, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 01:25:19 +0100 Giuliano Colla giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il 16/02/2015 23:38, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto: The Lazarus team would like to announce the first release candidate for the upcoming Version 1.4. We

Re: [Lazarus] Promoting Lazarus: A Case Study Video

2015-02-16 Thread Giuliano Colla
Open Source. RH is very accurate in providing only purely OS software. Sometimes it's a nuisance. I'll investigate. Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Promoting Lazarus: A Case Study Video

2015-02-14 Thread Giuliano Colla
, this appears a bit contradictory. Just my two cents, Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] to zeljko, about r47674

2015-02-12 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 12/02/2015 16:40, zeljko ha scritto: On 02/12/2015 04:08 PM, FreeMan wrote: Is this question for me, I say yes. 'cos Main IDE has all menus. It was general question. Is it normal under Mac such behaviour (mean other normal Mac applications ... if you minimize main window does other forms

Re: [Lazarus] Howto close my Bugreport in Mantis??

2015-01-25 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 25/01/2015 17:19, John Landmesser ha scritto: sorry, i couldn't find a way to close my own Bugreport 0027202 It's no bug!! I did it. Now the issue is closed. Thank you Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet

[Lazarus] trunk and fpc 3.0

2015-01-12 Thread Giuliano Colla
Hi, just to make sure that I'm using the right tools, am I correct to assume that Lazarus 1.4 should compile with fpc 2.6.4 while Lazarus trunk should now compile with fpc 3.0? Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Project planning question: when it's 90% done, are we halfway or not yet

[Lazarus] Fwd: Re: Alternative component palette layout

2014-12-28 Thread Giuliano Colla
Sorry, I see that my answer went only to Zeljko and not to the list. Messaggio Inoltrato Oggetto:Re: [Lazarus] Alternative component palette layout Data: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:51:30 +0100 Mittente: Giuliano Colla giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it A: zeljko zel

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