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

2016-04-18 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 18/04/16 11:53, Michael Schnell wrote: > On 04/18/2016 12:40 PM, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: >> >> No, the equation includes everything along with everybody's >> interests. >> >> Example: You spend X hours to write documentation for A that saves >> Y hours to Z users that otherwise had to study the

Re: [Lazarus] help writing help [was: Re: Re: Suggestion for TRadioGroup documentation]

2016-04-11 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hi Jürgen, On 09/04/16 13:38, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > > > Am 2016-04-09 um 13:26 schrieb Michael Thompson: >> What? How's that going to work? I prefer my open source projects >> alive and kicking :-( I'm not interested in theoretical "wouldn't >> it be nice". I agree that it would be nice

Re: [Lazarus] Bashing the developers

2016-04-11 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 09/04/16 18:14, Juha Manninen wrote: [...] > So, here are the rules: > 1. You can ask technical questions to help you solve your programming > problems. > 2. If you start to contibute yourself (very unlikely) then you have > right to criticise the development process, although a decent person

Re: [Lazarus] Keys not recognized by Lazarus 1.6 code editor [OT]

2016-02-25 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 25/02/16 10:45, Bo Berglund wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:11:57 +0000, Lukasz Sokol <el.es...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> gmane.comp.compilers.free-pascal.social = fpc-other ... recently added (less >> than a week ago) >> > I saw the "social"

Re: [Lazarus] Keys not recognized by Lazarus 1.6 code editor [OT]

2016-02-25 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 24/02/16 17:58, Bo Berglund wrote: [...] > However, Gmane does not carry the "-other" mail lists on its news > mirror and I do all of my talking here through Gmane > Can't stand the email interface because I lose totally the overview > and threading offered by a news service. > It does

Re: [Lazarus] searching the net

2016-02-12 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 12/02/16 07:30, duilio foschi wrote: > I'd like to programmatically query intenet for a number of keys, say > "key1 key2 key3" and get the number of hits. Any browser will do. > > How do I do this ? > CreateProcess - invoke a browser with parameters, or ShellExecute with appropriate URL -

Re: [Lazarus] "Test" button in project inspector

2016-02-05 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 05/02/16 13:52, Werner Pamler wrote: > In the Project inspector window, there is a Test button. What is it > good for? Its function is not documented in the help file accessible > by the Help button at the left. What's confusing is that executing > "Test" reports this error in the Message

[Lazarus] [OT] Re: [PATCH] components/turbopower_ipro: added the Iphttpbroker and its example

2016-01-28 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 27/01/16 15:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2016-01-27 13:12, Reimar Grabowski wrote: >> I never got what these 3D DEs would improve when we are interacting with 2D >> devices like mouse and touchpads. > > +1 > > Especially now that all "modern design" [yeah right] is going back to >

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

2016-01-18 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 18/01/16 10:36, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: > On 18.01.2016 10:42, Lukasz Sokol wrote: >> Then maybe make the 'No' answer default here? > > No. If I hit delete, I want to delete the button. The prompt is OK > there but the default action should always be what you want to do ->

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

2016-01-18 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 16/01/16 23:11, Howard wrote: [...] > In this particular instance of deleting a submenu (not just a single > item) my motivation was not to make it overly complicated (though I > appreciate it may seem so). It is quite possible a user may have > spent 10 minutes designing a submenu with half a

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer. which style do you prefer?

2016-01-18 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 18/01/16 15:20, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: > On 18.01.2016 14:03, Lukasz Sokol wrote: >>> Btw. Howard had the "No" button default but I changed it. >>> >> I'm with Howard here (and Matthias > > As far as I understood Mattias' email, he did not say the di

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

2016-01-08 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hello Matthias, On 08/01/16 10:40, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 23:27:50 +0200 > Juha Manninen wrote: > >> [...] >> Unfortunately popular symbols get negative associations sometimes. How >> long it takes to get rid of them? > > As long as it takes to

Re: [Lazarus] Fast file reading using file cache

2015-11-20 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 20/11/15 11:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Also even on client software which handles threading properly, if > somebody has a discussion group etc. sorted by date (to see messages > as they arrive, without having to scroll back) threading is not > immediately visible: /all/ you have is

Re: [Lazarus] TFPWriterJPEG quality

2015-11-18 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 18/11/15 13:55, Norbert Crettol wrote: > On 18/11/15 14:38, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 05:22:44 -0800 >> Aradeonas wrote: >> >>> Maximum 100 I think.At least it is better that 75. More is better ;) >> >> If you want a lossless image, you use for

Re: [Lazarus] Event created by program logic rather than user

2015-11-10 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 10/11/15 12:23, Michael Schnell wrote: > On 11/10/2015 01:14 PM, Engelbert Buxbaum wrote: >> >> as far as I can see the only advantage of running the math-routine >> in a thread would be that the program could be terminated at any >> time, rather than only in the main loop. > If a long winding

Re: [Lazarus] Extending TRect breaks Lazarus

2015-11-09 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/11/15 11:01, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:39:44 +0100 > Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > [...] >> - >> with PathArray[High(PathArray)]^ do >> fillchar(StatisticOfFiles,sizeof(StatisticOfFiles),0); >>

Re: [Lazarus] Extending TRect breaks Lazarus

2015-11-09 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 09/11/15 10:19, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > The above three are not the same. > > The second version executes the With-Expression multiple times, so > unless the compiler optimizes a lot it will create more code and will be > slower. > > The first and third versions have the same amount of

Re: [Lazarus] High-DPI aware LCL ?

2015-10-08 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/10/15 22:24, Sven Barth wrote: > Am 07.10.2015 20:55 schrieb >: >> >> On 10/07/2015 06:24 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 12:52:53 +0300 Juha Manninen >>>

Re: [Lazarus] High-DPI aware LCL ?

2015-10-07 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/10/15 11:44, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2015-10-07 11:24, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >> There are currently about 400 icons in the IDE. >> We need volunteers to create them either as SVG or as higher resolution >> image. > > Use SVG directly and let it render the correct size at runtime.

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

2015-09-22 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 22/09/15 08:47, Michael Schnell wrote: > On 09/21/2015 05:16 PM, Bo Berglund wrote: >> I don't really know how Telnet could tie in here. > "Telnet" is just a synonym for "transfer Bytes via TCP/IP without any > additional higher protocol". > > -Michael > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc854,

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

2015-09-22 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 22/09/15 10:43, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2015-09-22 at 11:28, Michael Schnell wrote: >> Delphi/Lazarus enabled software and "makes the difference" >> that makes using such programming systems desirable over "legacy" >> programming methods. > > > Now you are approaching “dangerous”

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

2015-09-22 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 22/09/15 16:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2015-09-22 15:27, Lukasz Sokol wrote: >> [...] > >> Aren't you making the tiOPF designer and framework for that purpose actually? > > What is "tiOPF designer"? > sorry

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

2015-09-22 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 22/09/15 16:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2015-09-22 15:27, Lukasz Sokol wrote: >> [...] >> Sometimes I want it to 'just work' and be based on well known and understood >> code base, > > I understand my code just fine. :) I have also built up a "developers

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-21 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 20/09/15 10:14, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: [...] > There is a Github project which collects all such .gitignore settings > for every language you can think of. Very useful. > > https://github.com/github/gitignore > No FreePascal or Lazarus entries there... ? > > Regards, > - Graeme - >

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-21 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 21/09/15 09:23, Patrick Chevalley wrote: >> > > No FreePascal or Lazarus entries there... ? > > https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/Lazarus.gitignore > > Oh, I did not even think to dive into the Global sub dir ;) thx ;) el es --

Re: [Lazarus] Storing projects in subversion (or git etc.)

2015-09-21 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 21/09/15 09:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Lukasz Sokol wrote: >> On 20/09/15 10:14, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> [...] >>> There is a Github project which collects all such .gitignore settings >>> for every language you can think of. Very useful. >>>

Re: [Lazarus] Sending and receiving record or object data between applications running on different machines.

2015-07-27 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 27/07/15 09:31, Richard Mace wrote: Hi Travis, Yes, I'm just not sure of the best way to do it with Lazarus. Richard Please avoid top-posting.(unless you have good reason for it; most email/news readers have a setting of where you start your reply, with others you just scroll down below

Re: [Lazarus] Tracking software useage

2015-07-24 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 24/07/15 11:35, Michael Schnell wrote: On 07/23/2015 07:01 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I don't like call home software either. Is such not commonly called a virus ? Not really, sometimes it's just your browser http://lwn.net/Articles/651118/ follow to

Re: [Lazarus] File sync system approach

2015-07-09 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 09/07/15 14:22, aradeonas wrote: Yes,not only but big question. Im reading about SFTP but it seems not to be a good choice for something like OwnCloud or DropBox or ... . From the idea these systems work like, you'd need a bilateral IP connection from one end to the other, and then (S)FTP

[Lazarus] [OT] Re: I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 17/06/15 11:03, aradeonas wrote: Yes but its wrong Wrong is typo here but its likely to be true.In Android and iOS I didn't saw ant foreign language do a good job.If you saw any good app with beautiful standard UI tell me. I mean if they are going with AsndroidStudio probably they

Re: [Lazarus] [OT] Re: I have some custom components, can I convert Delphi - Lazarus?

2015-06-17 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 17/06/15 14:16, aradeonas wrote: Android and AndroidStudio are bad against Lazarus? Well I can see the difference and to me Lazarus is the winner here and now. Yea I think but it has power of millions of users maybe, like some not exactly fresh meat has too ;) and it has a standard

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2015-06-09 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hi Graeme, On 09/06/15 14:17, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2015-05-06 15:27, Lukasz Sokol wrote: You are consistently: - top posting (please don't unless you have a good reason like need to use of screen reader) Lukasz, here is a good response that explains the issue clearly (screen

Re: [Lazarus] Date value 0

2015-05-28 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 28/05/15 16:14, waldo kitty wrote: On 05/28/2015 05:18 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: 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... Day runs from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 (or ::60) in 24h format ;)

Re: [Lazarus] programming tablets

2015-05-22 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 22/05/15 09:36, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015, duilio foschi wrote: nowadays tablets come cheap and with a lot of beautiful interactive objects/features: touchscreen bluetooth memory card gps wifi gsm usb etc These objects and features make a tablet the

Re: [Lazarus] Division by zero. with fpc r30855

2015-05-22 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 22/05/15 08:14, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2015 17:44:53 +0300 FreeMan freema...@delphiturkiye.com wrote: for not fill pain, not pay hate puzzle. in terminal gdb lazarus run lazarus IDE started, run or build project, if get error, you can see which file is raised

Re: [Lazarus] Google APIs

2015-05-08 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/05/15 22:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Hello, Some of you may have noticed that a package 'Google APis' has been added to FPC in subversion. These contain the Google APIs as generated from the Google Discovery Service (~70 APIS). I am of the opinion that such Web APIs have

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2015-05-06 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 06/05/15 15:08, Xirax Xirax wrote: I'm not just talking about splash,I'm talking about a complete graphical set. About configurable it can be good but I think we can make a restore point for probably change so if there will be changes and some users don't want it can go back to old. So

Re: [Lazarus] Modem config

2015-04-20 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 20/04/15 09:01, aradeonas wrote: Thank you Lukasz,Telnet ways is interesting. If you / someone wrote something directed at TR-069, directly speaking to a modem I'd be even more interested ;) and willing to cooperate in r d t of such a program. (we were looking for ways to pre-load

Re: [Lazarus] Modem config

2015-04-20 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 20/04/15 08:37, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, aradeonas wrote: Thanks Michael. So there is not an API for these modems? Not that I know of. I suspect each manufacturer uses his own way. Unfortunately that is true - even if they had a CLI over telnet or ssh,

Re: [Lazarus] Auto Update Request

2015-04-13 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 13/04/15 14:28, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Do you need additional features: a diff kind of update, My bet's primarily on this one. smaller download, recompile IDE with previously installed packages... whatever ? the latter being nice touches but dependent on the first too. Probably

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Codebot surface drawing examples

2015-03-27 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 26/03/15 19:16, Anthony Walter wrote: Cross Codebot is a set a collection of Free Pascal cross platform routines, classes, components, and controls. It uses makes prodigious of the newer Free Pascal language features, including: generics, generic interfaces, class/record helpers, records

Re: [Lazarus] Received a pull request from github - Fixes build_debug_apk.bat

2015-03-19 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 19/03/15 09:49, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: How to obtain a diff file from that? Click on 'commits' then on the file link. el es -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] [OT] Re: How to cast a Interface to a Object in Lazaeus

2015-03-13 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 12/03/15 17:12, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2015-03-12 16:26, Lukasz Sokol wrote: Please avoid top-posting unless you have a grave reason for it (like screen reader requirement). And the old one that NOBODY adheres too Please trim unnecessary quotes - it takes all of ONE SECOND

Re: [Lazarus] How to cast a Interface to a Object in Lazaeus

2015-03-12 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Please avoid top-posting unless you have a grave reason for it (like screen reader requirement). On 12/03/15 15:56, aradeonas wrote: I'm still don't get how cast interface in Lazarus. Regards, Ara I think (I'm a noob here too) what Marcos, Michael and Graeme want to say, is - first

[Lazarus] [OT] Re: How to write an eficient lexical scanner/parser?

2015-03-11 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 11/03/15 11:57, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: [...] When there is NO license information in your repositories , this means that NO one can use them . with respect to copy right laws or conventions . Pointer/Keyword/URL please? I presume for when it matters, one would ask the

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

2015-02-26 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 25/02/15 21:14, Brian Chalega da Silva wrote: On 25-02-2015 17:31, Marc Weustink wrote: On February 25, 2015 8:51:11 PM CET, Travis Ayres tray...@gmail.com wrote: I like the getlazarus version better so far than the official one (assuming it isn't an elaborate trick...). Free software is

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

2015-02-26 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 26/02/15 10:35, Vincent Snijders wrote: 2015-02-26 11:02 GMT+01:00 Lukasz Sokol el.es...@gmail.com mailto:el.es...@gmail.com: I've attempted to add some changes to getlazarus download page, hope the owner/moderator picks implements them... I deleted the script section in http

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

2015-02-25 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hi Anthony, On 25/02/15 09:43, Anthony Walter wrote: Lukasz, the motivation is to highlight the quality of software which Lazarus can produce, and create really simple to use installers for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I noted when I went to setup Lazarus on Mac recently just how difficult I was.

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

2015-02-24 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 24/02/15 12:55, Giuliano Colla wrote: 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,

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

2015-02-16 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 16/02/15 09:29, Giuliano Colla wrote: Il 16/02/2015 04:47, Den ha scritto: It also plays for me, Ubuntu 14.10 64bit, Chrome. Thanks to all for the feedback. Given other's experience, I tested with Linux-FC14 and it works for me too. It must be a CentOs 6 specific issue. Most likely a

Re: [Lazarus] Guide: Making Free Pascal and Lazarus from sources

2015-02-09 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hi Anthony, On 08/02/15 17:15, Anthony Walter wrote: Michael, from my script: # Note we use our bucket instead of sourceforge or svn for the following # reason: # It would be unethical to leach other peoples bandwidth and data # transfer charges. As such, we rehost the same fpc

Re: [Lazarus] Guide: Making Free Pascal and Lazarus from sources

2015-02-09 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hello Martin, On 09/02/15 14:50, Martin Frb wrote: On 09/02/2015 09:43, Lukasz Sokol wrote: say, if 100 people use your site to download and install Lazarus FPC, that still amounts to 1 download off the official FPC Lazarus sites... this would mean for FPC Lazarus that download statistics

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Application.ProcessMessages

2014-12-08 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 05/12/14 13:53, Michael Schnell wrote: On 12/04/2014 04:24 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: Or e.g. I run FindFirst/FindNext loop over a large number of files, or even if I delegate reading of a file to another procedure, still takes time while nothing else can happen... (although /that/ actually I

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Application.ProcessMessages

2014-12-05 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 04/12/14 20:34, waldo kitty wrote: On 12/4/2014 10:24 AM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: (OnTimer execution has the same problem : inevitably splits the procedure into more procedures, that can no longer use same local variables and stuff) you can't make them subroutines of the subroutine

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Application.ProcessMessages

2014-12-04 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hi, (for md as well as Michael) On 04/12/14 08:35, Michael Schnell wrote: On 12/03/2014 11:37 PM, Terry A. Haimann wrote: I have a program that starts some background processes and then needs to go to sleep for 15 seconds or so and then come back and check on their statuses. A more decent

Re: [Lazarus] OI Checkboxes

2014-11-19 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 19/11/14 10:58, Juha Manninen wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Bart bartjun...@gmail.com wrote: I find this rather counter-intuitive. If I have a checkbox that is not checked and the caption of it says False then I would assume that False is not checked. It is a valid point, I

Re: [Lazarus] TWin32WSCustomX class [OT]

2014-11-11 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 10/11/14 20:27, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: 2014-11-09 12:27 GMT+01:00 Antônio antoniog12...@gmail.com mailto:antoniog12...@gmail.com: Sorry for the big message, Gnail hides me the rest of the message. After clicking on the answer button, press Down twice (which selects the

Re: [Lazarus] TWin32WSCustomX class [OT]

2014-11-11 Thread Lukasz Sokol
It arrives exactly like you wrote it. But it's not good enough: no need to delete ALL previous message, JUST the not-important bits, AND start writing response BELOW them and inline. (screen reader exception applies, but then, would a screen reader work on GMail ?). el es (how was this now

Re: [Lazarus] Error messages: cannot versus can't [OT]

2014-10-20 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 17/10/14 15:51, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: Does Lazarus etc. have internationalisation for Esperanto? Err, isn't that *nationalization*? ;-) Well in case of Esperanto it's internationalization ;J Because Esperanto has no 'country' for itself to associate

Re: [Lazarus] formatfloat negative zero (-0)

2014-07-09 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hello Dymitry Andrea, (see my answer below) On 07/07/14 15:35, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: Very true, sorry for the typo. I meant give an idea, not an actual solution. Plus it might won't work, if FormatFloat is not called directly, but rather by a 3d party component. thanks, Dmitry

Re: [Lazarus] formatfloat negative zero (-0)

2014-07-09 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 09/07/14 11:17, Andrea Mauri wrote: Dear Lukasz, thanks, anyway I reported this problem using formatfloat just because it has the same behaviour of TFloatField.DisplayFormat and it was easier to provide a sample code. I do not use FormatFloat so I cannot use your function. As I

Re: [Lazarus] formatfloat negative zero (-0)

2014-07-07 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/07/14 13:13, Andrea Mauri wrote: Dear all, using formatfloat function I got an unexpected behaviour. If I round negative numbers I can get as result of formatfloat = '-0'. I think it is a bug, since -0 has no meaning, zero is zero. How can I make a workaround? e.g. label1.Caption:=

Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-06-20 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 20/06/14 11:53, Michael Schnell wrote: On 06/18/2014 04:03 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: I think this vdso time thing is so fresh, it'll be great if you contact the maintainer (Andy Lutomirski) or the guy that wrote it (Stefani Seibold) I wrote to Andy and he replied very quickly

Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-06-20 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 20/06/14 12:52, Michael Schnell wrote: On 06/20/2014 01:38 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: Is it possible to call about any syscall (timing included) through (32bit) exising vdso ? I understand that is what __kernel_vsyscall is supplied for (and I don't understand why it is nit supplied in 64

Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-06-18 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 18/06/14 11:27, Michael Schnell wrote: On 06/06/2014 12:25 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: if you do a vDSO implementation, please do not limit the implementation to the clock_gettime, but implement all calls that support it. First testing results: On Kernel 3.1.10 (32 bit): - I

Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-06-18 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 18/06/14 12:40, Michael Schnell wrote: On 06/18/2014 01:31 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 18/06/14 11:27, Michael Schnell wrote: On Kernel 3.2.0 64 bit, using a 32 Bit testing program: - I do find I guess it's because http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.15-DriversArch#head

Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-06-18 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 18/06/14 13:53, Michael Schnell wrote: Checking with a 64 Bit program (after overcoming the shock that with 64 fpc Integer is 32 bit =-O ): On Kernel 3.2.0 64 bit, using a 64 Bit testing program: - I do find the vDSO ELF structure at (e.g. at 7FFF5D2C9000, the location varies for

Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-06-12 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 12/06/14 09:43, Michael Schnell wrote: Am I correct to assume that a fork is similar to a branch and hence the branches can share common files (e.g. updated demo/test projects). Not really, 'fork' means you copy everything from one repo to another, and from then on your repo is totally

Re: [Lazarus] OpenDocument and Linux Mint

2014-04-25 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 25/04/14 16:08, silvioprog wrote: 2014-04-25 3:23 GMT-03:00 zeljko zel...@holobit.net mailto:zel...@holobit.net: [...] But not so good. Maybe you have kde and gnome and you are currently using gnome desktop. Calling kfclient can be pita in this case since kde isn't loaded so kfmclient

Re: [Lazarus] OpenDocument and Linux Mint

2014-04-17 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hi, unless you really have a good reason, can you avoid replying on top of previous replies ? It's not a corporate environment here, you know. On 17/04/14 02:56, Lazarus Linux wrote: Here the example indicated works perfect. Ubuntu 14.04 - Lazarus 1.3 trunk - fpc 2.6.2 May it be that

Re: [Lazarus] What better way to use the mailing list?

2014-03-21 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 20/03/14 21:31, silvioprog wrote: 2014-03-20 17:19 GMT-03:00 Leonardo M. Ramé l.r...@griensu.com mailto:l.r...@griensu.com: [...] Are you sure your ISP is not filtering or something?, what MUA do you use?. I'm using pure Gmail. Sorry, but, what is ISP and MUA? ISP =

Re: [Lazarus] Checking characters in a string

2014-03-13 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 13/03/14 09:29, Michael Schnell wrote: On 03/12/2014 07:08 PM, silvioprog wrote: It is not hard to allow chars like ã, Ã, ñ, Ñ, ç, Ç, ä, Ä etc. I left the function a little faster too: These beasts in UTF-8 are not char s (but multi-Byte codes) so your example code c: char ...

Re: [Lazarus] Threads and Libraries (dll and so)

2014-02-07 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/02/14 02:57, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: I think that the only thing remotely worth pursuing, bearing in mind the current state of widget sets etc., would be whether an LCL in a dll/so animated by its own thread (which MichaelS has already said was doable)

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus/FPC for Web Development only

2014-02-07 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/02/14 04:08, silvioprog wrote: 2014-02-06 14:10 GMT-02:00 leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id mailto:leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id: Hehe... Thanks buddy! Please see Bootstrap project. :) http://getbootstrap.com Yep, I already use that along with jQuery. They do help

[Lazarus] PR Call (was: Re: BSD Magazine Pascal quote) ;)

2014-02-04 Thread Lukasz Sokol
Hi, On 04/02/14 00:20, Allan E. Registos wrote: Hello to all, (Part of this mail also I posted earlier at the Lazarus forum). I was skimming the BSD Magazine: FreeBSD Programming Primer. In page 7 the magazine mentioned about Pascal this way: [...][sorry had to skim the context a

Re: [Lazarus] Threads and Libraries (dll and so)

2014-02-04 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 04/02/14 15:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: [...] I would be very interested to see experiments proving that this will make an actual difference in human operator efficiency. I know this is completely different ballpark, but, why do you think, 3d games are all in pursuit of FPS ? And

Re: [Lazarus] TFPTimer, Linux

2014-01-20 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 17/01/14 15:21, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Le 17/01/2014 16:02, Lukasz Sokol a écrit : Hello Antonio, Do you care (enough) to share ? :) Absolutely not: I'm just thinking that some FPC specialists over there could even enhance it. Just tell me how and where (I already have an access

Re: [Lazarus] TFPTimer, Linux

2014-01-17 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 17/01/14 14:56, Antonio Fortuny wrote: DaemonApp works using threads. TFPTimer is not usable in threads other than the main thread. Right. So I made my own Timer based on the TFPTimer. Almost the same code except that the Synchronize(@EventProc) disapeared in my code and the EventProc

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-08 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/01/14 23:16, Juha Manninen wrote: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Lukasz Sokol el.es...@gmail.com wrote: ...well here I disagree - go see [briefly] https://lwn.net - (one of) their editors (semi)regularly posts interesting topics dug out on lkml. That's 1000s% more press coverage

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-07 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 06/01/14 22:33, Juha Manninen wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Lukasz Sokol el.es...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I think it all works well together with mailing lists and forum. OK I agree; Only PR is almost missing. Linux kernel and other major commercially backed projects get much more

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-06 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 05/01/14 14:07, vfclists . wrote: [ cut tl;irit] There is another example of a mailing list where technical discussion, commit messages, bug reports and all kinds (trolls, phishing posts, spam) happens. it's LKML, fwiw. And yes, there is general one, and there are ones dedicated to arm,

Re: [Lazarus] Is there a separate mailing list for Lazarus developers?

2014-01-06 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 06/01/14 11:00, Juha Manninen wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Lukasz Sokol el.es...@gmail.com wrote: There is another example of a mailing list where technical discussion, commit messages, bug reports and all kinds (trolls, phishing posts, spam) happens. it's LKML, fwiw. And yes

Re: [Lazarus] OT: Happy new year!

2014-01-02 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 31/12/13 15:39, Kjow wrote: Happy new year! I hope that 2014 will be lucky and propitious for all of you! Kjow Another year older :) From UK, -L. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] The future of desktop

2013-12-04 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 03/12/13 12:42, Sven Barth wrote: Am 03.12.2013 10:26 schrieb Lukasz Sokol el.es...@gmail.com mailto:el.es...@gmail.com: And the [GEM/DR/?] idea of menus on top of screen also makes a come back in Ubuntu... and IIRC Gnome3. Considering Mac OS: were they ever away? Regards, Sven

Re: [Lazarus] The future of desktop

2013-12-03 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 02/12/13 20:55, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Kostas Michalopoulos schrieb: Actually, Microsoft has nothing to do with GEM, it was made by Digital Research. Right, but it was the first desktop presented by Microsoft. Also technically GEM is/was very different from Windows (GEM relies on

Re: [Lazarus] Writing a Lazarus program with its own display, RFB?

2013-11-19 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 19/11/13 00:30, vfclists . wrote: I want to write a program to provide its own remote display without an X Window server, ie the program has its own display which can be connected to via VNC server. There is a libvncserver/libvnclient project at http://libvncserver.sourceforge.net/ which

Re: [Lazarus] DateDif function needed

2013-11-19 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 18/11/13 16:46, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Jürgen Hestermann schrieb: I still find CalenderDiff the best name for this function because it clearly states that differences are calculated for calender dates and not for an homogeneous stream of seconds/hours/days. This raises immediately

Re: [Lazarus] Writing a Lazarus program with its own display, RFB?

2013-11-19 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 19/11/13 09:48, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Lukasz Sokol wrote: Check out x11vnc - it can open an existing X screen and provide it for vnc connection - and xinit - lets you open new X screen, with or without a Window Manager. Noting that on unix VNC provides an X server, so if you could

Re: [Lazarus] DateDif function needed

2013-11-15 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 14/11/13 17:48, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Am 2013-11-14 07:56, schrieb Patrick Chevalley: [...] The julian year of 365.25 is a convenient approximation still in use despite the julian calendar was abrogated some 400 years ago. Of what use would it be to use 365.25 days as a

Re: [Lazarus] DateDif function needed

2013-11-13 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 12/11/13 22:52, Bart wrote: On 11/12/13, waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: you do not need any of the above if you change Days := (DaysPerMonth(M1, IsLeapYear(Y2)) - D1) + D2 ; to Days := (DaysInAMonth(Y2,M1) - D1) + D2; I did not know about DaysInAMonth. I

Re: [Lazarus] DateDif function needed

2013-11-13 Thread Lukasz Sokol
[snip] All this, should be planned to use 64 bit Unix Timestamps already ;) (year 2038 is not that long away) -L. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.2

2013-11-07 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/11/13 01:23, waldo kitty wrote: On 11/6/2013 4:12 PM, Martin wrote: Anyone updating twitter, or other channels that we use? google+ and FB LWN ;) -L. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.2

2013-11-07 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 07/11/13 16:15, waldo kitty wrote: On 11/7/2013 4:33 AM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 07/11/13 01:23, waldo kitty wrote: On 11/6/2013 4:12 PM, Martin wrote: Anyone updating twitter, or other channels that we use? google+ and FB LWN ;) living well network? laugh with noise? too

Re: [Lazarus] WriteLn back to the GUI

2013-10-25 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 25/10/13 12:06, ListMember wrote: [...] I mean, since we (that is, everyone else, other that the compiler devs) expect them to throw us (over the wall) working code without us actually helping them in any direct way (other than bug reports, which are indirect and after the fact), why

Re: [Lazarus] WriteLn back to the GUI

2013-10-24 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 23/10/13 20:16, ListMember wrote: On 2013-10-23 21:11, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:59:04AM +0300, ListMember wrote: My ultimate goal, after finding where it is declared, is to locally modify that part of the sources so that (instead of writing to the console) it

Re: [Lazarus] WriteLn back to the GUI

2013-10-23 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 23/10/13 07:59, ListMember wrote: Hello, I am trying to find where WriteLn is declared; but, apparently, WriteLn is among the select few that Lazarus will ignore 'Find Declaration' requests --at least that's how it behaves (latest Lazarus stable) on my side. My ultimate goal, after

Re: [Lazarus] UTF8 string compare with correct locale sorting

2013-10-22 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 22/10/13 09:35, Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/22/2013 10:24 AM, Sven Barth wrote: I didn't know until around 1 or 2 years ago that and are supported on strings at all Nice try O:-) -Michael -- And (probably) overloaded operators are your friends here? operator (S1, S2:

Re: [Lazarus] Graeme would love this, or not, I think

2013-10-17 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 17/10/13 14:05, Reimar Grabowski wrote: Looks like I have to explain my last mail. It was just a test to see if you get that this discussions is off-topic or if you keep it going as long as somebody (me in this case) is willing to fuel it. You even missed or (most probably) ignored the last

Re: [Lazarus] Graeme would love this, or not, I think

2013-10-17 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 17/10/13 16:35, Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 17/10/13 14:05, Reimar Grabowski wrote: Now I feel like I have to apologize for making fun of you as my mail clearly went straight over your head. I am sorry. Can this discussion now finally end here? R. http://xkcd.com/1207/ :) -L

Re: [Lazarus] What's behind an IP address

2013-09-25 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 25/09/13 13:56, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Hi Folks. This is specifically neither a Lazarus nor an FPC question but because I'm using a Lazarus project (along with Synapse) I ask this question: Having an IP address, which could be the best question to ask to that IP to know what's behind

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