Re: [Lazarus] Detect that component selected in OI.

On 21/05/16 18:48, Vojtěch Čihák wrote: is there some event (message or method) triggered when component is selected in OI? It's just like PageControl and its TabSheets. When you select TabSheet in OI, component is repainted in form designer. I oberved the code but I didn't find solution.

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 20/01/16 17:30, Péter Gábor wrote: Width of the designed menu must be calculated using the length of captions including the lenght of actual translation of "Add menuitem"... Otherwise if the menu captions are too short the command's caption will not fit. See the attached screenshot. Yes, in

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 21/01/16 13:29, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:21:57 + Howard Page-Clark <h...@talktalk.net> wrote: [...] I don't know anything about the translation process, or at what stage in the IDE initialization captions are replaced with translated resources

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 17/01/16 23:22, Maxim Ganetsky wrote: 16.01.2016 1:19, Howard пишет: I have submitted a patch (29411) which I hope addresses these issues, except for the issue: 'String "composing" is still present ... in main menu creation form in "add menu item" fields captions' I am not clear about which

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 04/01/2016 14:24, Bart wrote: On 12/22/15, Juha Manninen <juha.mannine...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello I committed a new Menu Designer by Howard Page-Clark in r50992. See: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29205 Can we implement it so that adding a sumnenu to a Separator (a me

Re: [Lazarus] Design issues with the new menu editor

On 04-Jan-16 0:49, Anthony Walter wrote: Ondrej has been rapidly fixing issues in mantis and noted that there are problems with the new menu designer and the docked form designer. http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29328 While testing I noticed a few design issues with the new menu

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 26/12/2015 23:27, Juha Manninen wrote: Howard, as the author you also have voting power over the GUI. Besides GUI design is difficult, there is never a "right" solution that everybody would agree upon. Yes, dictatorship is far more efficient than democracy. Yet I feel some things should be

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 27/12/2015 13:25, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: On 27.12.2015 14:21, Juha Manninen wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: >Highlighting works fine on Windows. It doesn't work on Linux. I haven't >checked OSX. Strange. I have tested with GTK2 and QT on

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

ld one. Everybody who has modified and improved it says the same. Some improvements just feel impossible without a complete rewrite. So, this was the rewrite we were asking for. I was hoping the author Howard Page-Clark would participate in the discussion and improve his designer based on feedback. Maint

Re: [Lazarus] *** SPAM *** How to pass function method to TList.Sort?

On 09/12/2015 20:11, Donald Ziesig wrote: Is there any way to pass a method function as the Compare parameter to a TList or is there a work around for it? As in: type TMyClass = object fIndex : Integer; List : array of TList; function Compare( Item1, Item2 : Pointer) :

Re: [Lazarus] Editor loses focus on Compile

On 12/10/2015 15:37, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: When I compile a project in the IDE with Ctrl+F9 the editor window loses focus. Instead the message window is focused. When compiling is done, message window is still focused (even after a successful compile). In the IDE Options dialog under

Re: [Lazarus] TEdit: Find character at caret position

On 02/08/2015 18:33, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: In a TEdit component, how do I find out which character is at the caret/cursor position? Or in other words: At which (string) position will the next typed character be inserted? I want to insert text at just that position myself but cannot find out

Re: [Lazarus] Owner of a TCanvas

On 27/07/2015 10:31, Xiangrong Fang wrote: Hi There, Can I somehow get the object which owns a Canvas? e.g.: function GetCanvasOwner(ACanvas: TCanvas): TObject; begin Result := ACanvas.Owner; end; pb := TPaintBox(GetCanvasOwner(pb.Canvas); A TCanvas does not have a built-in Owner

Re: [Lazarus] Adding data field to a child node in a treeview

On 04/07/2015 09:46, Susie Nicol wrote: Hi - me again I have a Lazarus treeview, which I am populating from several sql queries. I add child nodes in this way, setting them to one of the fields returned from the query while Not SQLQuery1.EOF do Begin

Re: [Lazarus] Fugue icons for LHelp?

On 13/05/2015 23:38, Juha Manninen wrote: Please give opinions about new proposed icons for LHelp. See issue : http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=28072 There is a screenshot. I'm perhaps just rather dense - but I don't find any of these icons enhances my use of LHelp, because I don't

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

On 11/05/2015 22:41, Anders Eriksson wrote: How do I change properties for GUI-components from another unit? e.g. hide a button or change a label text from a different unit. Two example units that inter-communicate might be as follows: unit Unit1; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} interface uses

Re: [Lazarus] howto change the order the components of a Form are created?

On 09/04/2015 18:30, John Landmesser wrote: from Delphi i know there is a editor to change the order in which objects of the Application are created: I have a IniPropStorage and that has to be created before a FileListView. Searched the IDE, i know its there, but i can't find it! Project

Re: [Lazarus] TComboBox.DropDownCount has no effect.

On 04/04/2015 19:04, Donald Ziesig wrote: Hi All! I have several apps that use combo boxes for (e.g.) Minutes. For Minutes, the items range from 0 to 59. The Object Inspector shows that the DropDownCount is 8, but no matter what I put in there, I get the entirety of the items. This seems

Re: [Lazarus] Is this RC2 issue or my unknowledge?

On 27/03/2015 20:40, JuuS wrote: Happy Friday, Before I put on RC1, then RC2, I would find that adding a procedure gave something like this in body: procedure TfrmJuuRSync.EditButton1Change(Sender: TObject); begin end; I would then realize I don't want this procedure. If I left it blank, no

Re: [Lazarus] Oscilliscope Control

On 21/03/2015 20:56, Michael Thompson wrote: The (dead) link is http://eletronicalivre.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/english/oscilloscope/%7CISA This link is dead from my location also. Howard --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com --

Re: [Lazarus] TShortcut properties

On 07/03/2015 10:15, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:31:59 + Howard Page-Clark h...@talktalk.net wrote: Descendants of TCustomCheckbox and TCustomButton have public Shortcut and ShortcutKey2 properties which cannot be set since they are read-only. What is the purpose

[Lazarus] TShortcut properties

Descendants of TCustomCheckbox and TCustomButton have public Shortcut and ShortcutKey2 properties which cannot be set since they are read-only. What is the purpose of these properties? Howard --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com --

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.4

On 16/02/2015 22:38, Mattias Gaertner wrote: The Lazarus team would like to announce the first release candidate for the upcoming Version 1.4. ... Huge thanks to the team who have laboured to produce this latest marvel. It installed flawlessly (on my Windows 7 machine) in about 40 seconds,

Re: [Lazarus] Filling ListBox without triggering OnSelectionChange

On 07/01/2015 06:49, Marc Santhoff wrote: Hi, it has been a very long time since I've programmed GUIs. I have forgotten how to fill a ListBox without having the event handler OnSelectionChange executed. How can it be done? ListBox1.Items.Assign(someStringlist); does not trigger the

Re: [Lazarus] TTIGrid crashed after calling ListObject.Add

On 09/12/2014 10:41, John Landmesser wrote: no crash on a 32bit Windows XP with For me it sometimes crashes, and sometimes does not (Win7 32-bit). The problem is not with adding an item to TCollection (which is fine as far as I can see), but probably some hard to find bug in the LCL which

Re: [Lazarus] No halp entry for FindDialog ...

On 08/11/2014 00:35, Bob B. wrote: and my Delphi 3 code for OnFind does not work in Lazarus, at least not in Laz 1.2.4 for Win32. Could some kind person please offer an example that works? Drop a TFindDialog, TMemo, TPopupMenu on the main form of a new default Lazarus project, and code

Re: [Lazarus] Having more than 32 elements in a set (TGridOptions of TCustomGrid)

On 05/11/2014 18:58, Rik van Kekem wrote: So it should be something like this (with my limited English): *Error: Property can't have a default value* Set properties or indexed properties cannot have a default value if the upper and lower bounds of the set's base type have ordinal values

Re: [Lazarus] Redundant text on project buttons

On 16/10/2014 12:54, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de mailto:juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote: But IMO the majority of icons is meaningless. Some even look very similar although they mean complete different

Re: [Lazarus] Fuzzy translations ignored

On 18/09/2014 17:41, Giuliano Colla wrote: Canvas.RadalPie on GTK2 and Windows works only clockwise, but provides a very poor image (more like a portion of an octagon that a portion of a circle). Counterclockwise it generates the image of my previous e-mail. On Windows here, Pie (RadialPie)

Re: [Lazarus] Displaying a Listview entry in bold and a different colour

On 15/09/2014 13:10, Richard Mace wrote: Hi All, I just want to make sure that I am not doing anything wrong here, please can somebody give me a little code example of how to correctly set the font to bold and a differnet colour in a listview entry? I wouldn't claim the following is 'correct',

Re: [Lazarus] StrToDate and DefaultFormatSettings

On 12/09/2014 13:04, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 08:18:36AM -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi, I need to convert strings with format d-mmm-y to TDateTime. For example: '12-Sep-14' This will accomplish the task. function DatestrToDateTime(const aDate: string): TDateTime;

Re: [Lazarus] Code completion problems with Graph units

On 09/09/2014 21:17, Sven Barth wrote: Hello together! I'm currently working on a project that uses the good old Graph units (or PtcGraph to be more precise) and I have the problem that code completion is erratic if (Ptc)Graph is in the uses-clause, because the IDE can not find the graphh.inc

Re: [Lazarus] Is this normal or bug ?

On 02/08/2014 10:41, FreeMan wrote: Tmy_Form = class(TForm) private { private declarations } v1:integer; v2:string; public { public declarations } function exmple(v1:integer;v2:string):boolean; end; when compile: xx.pas(8,21) Error: Duplicate identifier

Re: [Lazarus] how to set two memos for parallel text editing ?

On 28/05/2014 00:46, Etienne Leblois wrote: how to manage that scrolling or arrowing up in one memo will also scroll up the other one ? The following Windows example shows how to synchronise scrolling between two memos (Memo1, Memo2) using scrollbar movement. Responding to memo caret

Re: [Lazarus] GetFormImage bug

On 13/05/2014 16:49, Chris Crori wrote: I have a thumbnail section in my main program form. In the forms, I use GetFormImage to make an image and send it to the mainform. The bug is that some components are not visible in this image. TDBGrid is one and a custom component derived from TBitBtn is

Re: [Lazarus] Forcing TMemo to dislplay last entry

On 25/04/2014 18:30, Richard Mace wrote: I have some code that populates a TMemo via TMemo.Text := 'lots of lines of text..' and need a cross platform way of programatically forcing the TMemo to display the last entry as if the user has had manually scrolled to the bottom. You can also use

Re: [Lazarus] OnBeforeSelection

On 19/04/2014 02:03, Eric Kom wrote: Hi Dear; Please I'm looking for the *OnBeforeSelection *Event on the TDBGrid? I can only see the OnSelectEditor. It is a protected property, so to use it you must declare a descendant and make it public (or published). Howard --

Re: [Lazarus] How to minimize application showing modal form(s)

On 12/04/2014 23:02, Frank Poretzky wrote: Apart from FindComponent, which makes an application with lots of modal windows very complex, I tried various versions of ... with a corresponding AppOnMinimize() procedure. None of them worked well, especially with the modal sub-sub-form scenario

Re: [Lazarus] How to minimize application showing modal form(s)

On 12/04/2014 17:06, Frank Poretzky wrote: Is there a way to modify my modal form to get it minimized as well? Create your modal form with the main form as its owner, and give it a unique Name at creation. In your main form's declaration set up two Application handlers, OnMinimize and

Re: [Lazarus] Scroll Wheel

On 11/04/2014 19:33, Timothy Groves wrote: No; I am unsure as to how to do that. Would I need to create a descendant class, or does Lazarus support overriding without doing so? The following should give you an idea how to develop the hint Mattias gave: ===code=== unit testIntWheelEdit;

Re: [Lazarus] TTimer woes (newbie)

On 01/04/2014 09:44, Michael Schnell wrote: In fact Bob is not doing this (eating up CPU Cycles), but he uses wait(), which only hampers it's own project. Actually Bob's wait uses his own TTimer-based code, and is not well designed. As Flavio wrote, he would be best to replace all his waits

Re: [Lazarus] TTimer woes (newbie)

On 31/03/2014 10:25, Michael Schnell wrote: On 03/31/2014 01:44 AM, Bob Axtell wrote: can someone show a newbie how to use the two system timers? What do you mean by system timers ? I think he means the TTimer and TIdleTimer found on the System page of the Component Palette. If you drop

[Lazarus] Codetools include search path(s)

I've been experimenting with the codetools example finddeclaration project, using the codetools outside the IDE, and feeding FPC and Lazarus source directory information via environment variables to the CodeToolBoss constructor, which works OK for simple source files. However, when looking for,

Re: [Lazarus] Setting TStringGrid row/col border styles

On 24/03/2014 18:19, Gary Randall wrote: If someone can tell me how to post a .png image to the forum I can show you the stringgrid format I need. Once logged in, go to the appropriate forum board (say Lazarus General) and click the [New Topic] button. As well as filling in the subject field

Re: [Lazarus] Setting TStringGrid row/col border styles

On 22/03/2014 20:53, Gary Randall wrote: ... Specifically, I need to change the penstyle and weight of row/col borders. The public properties: GridLineColor GridLineStyle and published property GridLineWidth may be all you need, without custom drawing. Howard --

Re: [Lazarus] Checking characters in a string

On 12/03/2014 13:53, Richard Mace wrote: Hi, I am trying to check to make sure the a string contains at least 1 uppercase character, 1 lowercase character and 1 number. Any ideas as of the best way of coding this? If you restrict yourself to Latin ansi encoding and 'number' means a numeric

Re: [Lazarus] Getting and setting the x numbered word in a sentence

On 07/01/2014 18:04, Richard Mace wrote: Hi, Is there an existing routine in Lazarus that will get and set effectively the x numbered word in a sentence without actually knowing what the actual word is? E.g with the string the cat sat on the mat If word delimiters are consistently all the same

Re: [Lazarus] how about a HasProperty() property?

On 05/01/2014 23:50, Alejandro Gonzalo wrote: For example, if you want to loop though components and set the dbNavigator's DataSource property to that of the component if it has a DataSource property (and of course is not a dbNavigator itself). It seems you can't do that by using the

Re: [Lazarus] Adding shapes to TShape

On 26/12/2013 12:03, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Should I forget about deriving TShape and should I directly modify TShape's code? For a project that needed something similar I found that TShape with its fixed TShapeType enumeration was too inflexible (though it is Delphi-compatible, hence

Re: [Lazarus] Souce listing on Mac

On 25/12/2013 13:20, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: I have a small problem with Lazarus on a Mac. If I use the print option on a source element, it is printed out, but ... The file to fiddle with is lazarus\components\printers\design\sourceprinter.pas Perhaps a horrid hack such as changing line

Re: [Lazarus] TSpinEdit and TFloatSpinEdit

On 18/11/2013 16:00, Avishai wrote: Why do we have both TSpinEdit and TFloatSpinEdit? It seems like TFloatSpinEdit is enough. TFloatSpinEdit has property DecimalPlaces and when set to 0, it displays an Integer (although it's a Float). It's easy enough to get the Integer Value, but it could

Re: [Lazarus] Inserting new pages into a TPageControl

On 11/10/2013 22:00, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Given a TPageControl with several existing pages, how does one insert a page at a specified position rather than at the end? This function should do it: uses ComCtrls; function InsertAt(ExistingIndex: integer; aPageControl:

Re: [Lazarus] How do you remove form caption area?

On 05/10/2013 16:25, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Does LCL not have a TPopupWindow class? eg: like you would use for Hint Windows, Splash Screens etc? Weird. There is THintWindow in the Forms unit, but AFAIK it does not allow the kind of border the OP wants without resorting to calls such as

Re: [Lazarus] TTreenode.data

On 11/09/2013 09:24, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Le 11/09/2013 07:51, Richard Mace a écrit : procedure TfrmMain.tvMainChange(Sender: TObject; Node: TTreeNode); begin ShowMessage('Node ' + IntToStr(Integer(Node.Data))); change to: ShowMessage('Node ' + IntToStr(*PtrInt***(Node.Data))); Also

Re: [Lazarus] TTreenode.data

On 11/09/2013 18:03, Flávio Etrusco wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Howard Page-Clark h...@talktalk.net wrote: Also unless you want the treeview to behave as if it were fully initialised with Data integer values of zero, you would need to add: procedure TfrmMain.tvMainChange(Sender

Re: [Lazarus] Positioning entries on main menu

On 30/08/2013 21:43, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: What I'm considering is something like a » symbol to control whether an extra pane is shown to the right of a text editor. You might get some ideas from the SelComponentPageButton which has been added in recent Lazarus commits (1.1). See

[Lazarus] Anders Hejlsberg interview

People may be interested to listen to this 20 minute interview with Anders (and a MS colleague named Steve Lucco) in which they discuss Java, Javascript, C#, Typescript, XMl... http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/619759/CodeProject-interviews-Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Steve They also mention

Re: [Lazarus] WindowsVersion

On 10/07/2013 06:33, Richard Mace wrote: Hi, Could someone let me know what until WindowsVersion is in please? The unit is win32proc. Howard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] libSANE.dll for winfows

On 28/05/2013 12:51, amin ibrahime wrote: Hi I try to uses scanner by lazarus application to multiplateform i found SANE demomain i compiled and run under liunx but when run under widows i need*libsane.dll * where i can find this dll or its pascle source code to compile and use Scanning

Re: [Lazarus] porting delphi project code

On 15/05/2013 19:19, waldo kitty wrote: can someone please give me the steps, in simple layman's terms, that are needed to convert a delphi project or application code to Lazarus/FPC? i have never run delphi and have not the first clue other than there is some sort of convertor available...

Re: [Lazarus] TextHeight in Console App

On 14/05/2013 15:32, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-05-14 14:07, Edilson Vieira wrote: The project is an Image Generation Program, a console program. The error ocurr when I call the method TextHeight of the Canvas property of TBitmap. You do realize that if you pull in the 'Graphics' unit

Re: [Lazarus] TMemo flicker

On 29/04/13 5:47, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Am 2013-04-29 18:38, schrieb K. P.: Have you tried wrapping your writes in memo1.Lines.BeginUpdate and memo1.Lines.BeginUpdate? I have tried it now but it doesn't change anything. In addition to wrapping the writes within BeginUpdate/EndUpdate

Re: [Lazarus] How to create a listbox that can be shifted

On 23/04/13 5:20, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: I am stuck again. How can I make long (wide) text visible in a restricted window? Use a TMemo, and set its ScrollBars property to ssAutoBoth? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Is the site http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org dead?

On 19/04/13 7:16, GREP wrote: I don't even know how to add a hostfile and your command on Windos XP sp3 dowsnot work ipconfig Try opening a command prompt in the directory c:\windows\system32 and type ipconfig /flushdns Enter (note that an h was missed off the parameter in a previous

Re: [Lazarus] PAnsiChar to UTF8 issues

On 09/04/13 6:35, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Well, I can live with the debugger problem, but is there a solution for the ? sign end displaying in my app?. If you get an ansi string, you must convert it to utf8 before giving it to the LCL need to find the exact function label.caption :-

Re: [Lazarus] Event generator

On 02/04/13 2:47, Antonio Fortuny wrote: BUT: on the form of an application (btw, multi-threaded + Indy 10) drop a common TButton on the main (and only) form: OK. When trying to assign an event to it: BOUM :o the LCLClasses unit is displayed and the next error is displayed in the errors

Re: [Lazarus] some number manipulation

On 09/03/13 11:12, appjaws wrote: Hi all, I have a series of results, for each day of the month I have 10 numbers ranging from 1 to 20. i.e. Day11,3,4,5,7,9,12,16,17,20 Day23,4,5,6,8,9,15,17,18,19 etc. Question 1 how can I find the number of 1's 2's 3's 4's etc. for the whole month

Re: [Lazarus] some number manipulation

On 09/03/13 3:06, appjaws wrote: I have a series of results, for each day of the month I have 10 numbers ranging from 1 to 20. i.e. Day11,3,4,5,7,9,12,16,17,20 Day23,4,5,6,8,9,15,17,18,19 ... I just realised that I need to sort the numbers because they are not like my example above.

Re: [Lazarus] exception handling in constructor

On 02/03/13 10:51, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: This will definitely cause a memory leak, because the FPC code does not know that an exception occurred in the constructor (you catch it with Except), and hence will not call the destructor. Thanks for the correction and explanation. Howard --

Re: [Lazarus] How to rename a Form

On 20/02/13 9:05, Frédéric Loyer wrote: When I create a new application project, my program start with a Unit1 (I can easily rename), associated with a Form1 I can't rename. How can I change the name of this form ? In the Lazarus IDE, make sure the form is selected by clicking it, move focus

Re: [Lazarus] Code Completion Templates

On 12/02/13 6:58, Donald Ziesig wrote: The following code from my TemplateExpander unit fails at compilation: uses CodeToolOptions; because the compiler can't find the file. Assuming CodeTools has been added as a dependency for your project, I think you also need to add in the Project

[Lazarus] Project Options dialog

This is a suggestion for improving the Project Options UI. The Application (settings) page now sports several platform-specific options. I think it would be better to group these by platform, and have the list of settings identified by platform. Something like: Cross-platform settings

Re: [Lazarus] Problem growing an array

On 25/1/13 3:55, appjaws wrote: Hi, Could one of you experts look at my code please. My program crashes after the first set of strings are added because -- I think -- the length is not updating. The following is just a snipet. It's hard to tell from a snippet, but I don't see anywhere that you

Re: [Lazarus] Problem growing an array

On 25/1/13 6:38, appjaws wrote: On 25/01/13 18:26, Howard Page-Clark wrote: On 25/1/13 3:55, appjaws wrote: Hi, Could one of you experts look at my code please. My program crashes after the first set of strings are added because -- I think -- the length is not updating. You're

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus books

On 24/1/13 6:51, appjaws wrote: I need a book or site that can explain these details and provide working examples that I can use as practise. I know what I want to achieve with a gui program but not the best way to to complete an operation. Have you looked at Lazarus the Complete Guide

Re: [Lazarus] Dynamic library dependency error

On 22/1/13 2:22, xrfang wrote: I try to make a dynamic library and get this error: paintrect.pas(0,0) Fatal: Can not find unit Controls used by paintrect. Check if package LCLBase is in the dependencies. You need to add LCLBase as a project dependency. Use the Project Inspector's Add button

Re: [Lazarus] Got Pointer, expected Open Array Of Char

On 13/1/13 1:58, Dave Coventry wrote: On 13 January 2013 14:56, leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id wrote: Or const since it's meant to be read only Hmmm. Doesn't help. Still getting the same error. I've tried passing the src parameter as a Pointer and then casting it as an array of Char.

Re: [Lazarus] Got Pointer, expected Open Array Of Char

On 12/1/13 6:10, Dave Coventry wrote: dst and src are passed to the function that calls Copybytes(); function copy_compressed_bytes(var dst: array of Char; var dloc, sloc: integer; src: array of Char; len: integer): integer; begin Copybytes(@dst[dloc],@src[sloc],16); return 0; end;

Re: [Lazarus] record literal in FPC?

On 08/1/13 3:30, xrfang wrote: I would like to use literal directly, such as: Edit1.CaretPos := (X: 0, Y: 0); You can use a typed constant thus: const Origin: TPoint = (x:0; y:0); begin ... Edit1.CaretPos := Origin; ... -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] My Lazarus logo using Inkscape

On 08/1/13 3:14, Zaher Dirkey wrote: We need the declaration for reproduce word, i don't think it is make a similar to it, i need a lawyer :P IANAL but reproduce here means produce a copy of, which you are not doing. Rather you are adapting the image (or taking inspiration from the image, or

Re: [Lazarus] Difference between Delphi 2010 / Lazarus

On 13/12/12 9:45, Jorge Gonçalves wrote: Hi, I'm translating one application from delphi to lazarus, and I'm having some problems with the way lazarus and delphi stores calculate fields in the dfm. The delphi store one more property :Calculated. This property is public and are stored using the

Re: [Lazarus] Converting pence into pounds and then to string

How's the best way of converting an integer number 208 (that is pence) into a string value that is in pounds (2.08) Here's another variant that provides an optional $, £ or € uses math; function PenceToString(pennies: integer; precision: integer=2; currency:

Re: [Lazarus] from hfiandor 11 dic 2012

On 12/12/12 1:40, Héctor F. Fiandor Rosario wrote: Dear fellows: I am using SQLite3 for an application and I have a problem. I need to use a table in an unit that don´t has a form -is a unit for ReadWrite procedures- and I can´t place the DataAccess for SQLite icom. Please, in this cases, what

[Lazarus] TDataModule accepts some visual controls

I discovered that a datamodule will let you drop a TMainMenu or a TPopupMenu on it. Is this by design, or an oversight? Should I report this as a bug? Howard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Beta testers needed / Lazarus with Editor-Macro-Script

On 30/11/12 1:21, Martin wrote: Hi, I need some testers for all the different available platforms. Because, unfortunately, I do not have every available hardware/OS myself :( ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? TestResults !-- Generated using FPCUnit on 2012-11-30 10:59:13-- TestListing

Re: [Lazarus] Why doesn't this work?

On 28/11/12 10:15, Erwin van den Bosch wrote: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var iLastError: integer; begin iLastError:=10053; if iLastError in [10053, 10054] then Label1.Caption:='Yes, it works!' else Label1.Caption:='No, it doesn''t

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

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

Re: [Lazarus] returning the stop execution dialog

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

Re: [Lazarus] Splash window with drop shadow

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

Re: [Lazarus] TStrings, Windows and Unicode

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

Re: [Lazarus] TStrings, Windows and Unicode

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

Re: [Lazarus] TStrings, Windows and Unicode

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

Re: [Lazarus] TStrings, Windows and Unicode

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

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

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

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

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

[Lazarus] Object Inspector

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

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

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

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release notes

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

Re: [Lazarus] TForm BorderIcons

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

Re: [Lazarus] What is aarre?

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

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