Re: [Lazarus] Memo for touchscreen

2013-08-27 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 26/08/13 20:33, Koenraad Lelong wrote: procedure TForm1.LetterAButtonClick ( Sender: TObject ) ; var testcaretpos: Integer; begin testcaretpos := Memo1.SelStart; Memo1.Text := Copy(Memo1.Text, 1, testcaretpos) + 'A' + Copy(Memo1.Text, testcaretpos+1, MaxInt); Inc(testcaretpos);

Re: [Lazarus] Memo for touchscreen

2013-07-19 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 19/07/13 13:45, Koenraad Lelong wrote: Works fine, except for navigating up and down. Left and right is OK, I have to find out how to know on what line the cursor is, and then going to the next/previous line, if possible. Well I did say it was only to get you started :D Memo1.CursorPos.y

Re: [Lazarus] Memo for touchscreen

2013-07-18 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 18/07/13 12:54, Koenraad Lelong wrote: For a touchscreen-application (so no real keyboard) I need something like a memo. I first tried a memo, but how do I enter text at the caret ? And the caretpos is readonly. Next I tried synMemo, but if I move the caret, the caret disappears. How can I

Re: [Lazarus] FirePOS (was: PDF in a Form)

2013-07-13 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 13/07/13 19:06, Koenraad Lelong wrote: Op 13-07-13 18:40, Paul Breneman schreef: Thank you *very* much Koenraad for mentioning that this project uses fpGUI. I didn't find any docs at the site but I hope to study the code more ASAP. It is very interesting to see a fpGUI program set up for

Re: [Lazarus] PDF in a Form

2013-07-12 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 12/07/13 16:13, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 12-7-2013 4:42, Edgar García wrote: I'm new to Lazarus and would like to know how I can display a PDF in a Form ... Have a look here: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,20221 Also for a simpler example and more up-to date

Re: [Lazarus] Touchscreen

2013-06-30 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 30/06/13 09:38, Koenraad Lelong wrote: I made some test-apps, and I think there will be problems with things like scrollbars. Is there a way to make those bigger ? Or is there a way to implement the swipe to move items in a list ? I decided to use fpgui for this; because it made it

Re: [Lazarus] terminal window not displayed in lazarus on kubuntu linux

2013-01-18 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 18/01/13 11:25, Paul wrote: I am running kubuntu linux which runs KDE as the desktop and have installed lazarus 1,0,4, FPC version 2.6.0. x86_64-linux-gtk2. The problem: When I choose run, the program compiles just fine but the output is not displayed in a terminal window. This happens with

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 Release

2012-08-29 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 29/08/12 18:51, Mattias Gaertner wrote: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of: Lazarus 1.0 Congratulations and many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this great programming tool. Malcolm -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Policy regarding HTML messages

2012-08-26 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 26/08/12 00:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: * Even setting your email client (I use Mozilla Thunderbird) to prefer plain text in a multi-part message, the HTML part shows up as an attachment. A huge annoyance for me when I search for important message that had valid (read real) attachments. I

Re: [Lazarus] FPC/Lazarus based backup system

2011-08-21 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 21/08/11 18:30, ik wrote: Does any of you know of a good backup system written using FPC/Lazarus, working inside Linux and open source ? Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but Dargui ( http://dargui.sourceforge.net/ ) is a front end for the Dar archiving utility and is developed

Re: [Lazarus] Using Visual C++ .libs?

2011-06-01 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 01/06/11 13:13, Prado, Renato (R.P.) wrote: You'll have to implement an wrapper, that allows to access the objects and their methods by mere (non-OO) subroutines. That wrapper will have to be written in the language of the library (here: C++), so that it can use the objects provided by the

Re: [Lazarus] Terminal in Lazarus

2011-05-01 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 30/04/11 21:37, Geoffray Levasseur wrote: Le dimanche 17 avril 2011 23:43:01, Malcolm Poole a écrit : It is possible to embed a libvte terminal in a lazarus form when using GTK and control it from the application, although I'm not sure if it's possible to do everything that you want. Pascal

Re: [Lazarus] Terminal in Lazarus

2011-04-17 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 16/04/11 11:39, Geoffray Levasseur wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a build manager for own compiled package. The project is in a good way but the next step is a bit hard for me. To complete the software, I need to have an integrated terminal. Here are the constraint: 1 - I need to be able

Re: [Lazarus] How to minimize/restore lazarus (Ubuntu)?

2011-04-12 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 12/04/11 15:22, ik wrote: 2011/4/11 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com mailto:flavio.etru...@gmail.com (...) When doing this I had to look at files from the test application and then code back and forth. But it was very annoying that it seems not to be

Re: [Lazarus] Where is fp ide located on my Mint 10 Linux system (ubuntu based)?

2010-12-31 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 29/12/10 19:08, Peter Williams wrote: If those binaries are in your path then `which fp` and `which fpc` should say where the programs are installed/located. I don't know where they are installed/located. The software manager application does not tell me. It simply installs them.

Re: [Lazarus] Serial communication??

2010-10-01 Thread Malcolm Poole
On 01/10/10 19:53, Bo Berglund wrote: The problem is that I have no clue as to *where* Lazarus is installed. I used the Synaptic Package Manager and let it find and install Lazarus for me (on Ubuntu 10.04-2). I was not asked where it should go, it just installed And being a Linux newbie (I

Re: [Lazarus] Commercial projects

2009-10-03 Thread Malcolm Poole
Ger Remmers wrote: The management is asking for examples of commercial projects currently being developed or in use. Can anyone provide me with links? I don't know if Lazarus is used in developing the Weather Display app (http://www.weather-display.com/index.php) but the error messages on