Re: [Lazarus] How to clear screen in console app

ClrScr then the programmer wants notification of this and it should probably /not/ wipe earlier debug output. After all, the debug window is there for debugging, not for normal interaction. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those

Re: [Lazarus] Bashing the developers

Juha Manninen wrote: users who don't understand the psychology behind the attacks, That makes it sound as though the unpleasantness is orchestrated, or at least premeditated. I thinks that's some way from being proven. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions

Re: [Lazarus] Testing Rapberry Pi 3 performance

to do with operations on variables that are double and currency. Like getting the wrong exponent when multiplying them. I never ever use currency variables so I guess I am good. :) Don't guess. You're not that good. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the au

Re: [Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

(initially, a patched 2.6.4) I've had no significant problems on either Raspbian or pukka Debian running on either a RPi 1 or 2 (3 not tested yet), with swap on either card or a USB-connected Flash stick. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's

Re: [Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

took a week to build, but would do so reliably. That sort of performance takes me back to my mainframe days :-) It does occur to me that this could be something to do with the way that the linker has been built, i.e. not strictly a Lazarus (or makefile etc.) problem. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 25.03.2016 um 11:19 schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Bo Berglund wrote: It should be noted that the default swap file size of Raspbian is only 100MB which combined with a possible GPU memory settings will occasionally cause Lazarus builds to fail mysteriously. I

Re: [Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

that the overall memory (i.e. RAM + swap) is at least 512Mb. It will be unfortunate if recent builds of FPC and/or Lazarus have pushed this requirement upwards, but so far I've not seen any problems on a Raspberry Pi (both 1 and 2) running Raspbian or Debian. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Testing Rapberry Pi 3 performance

at this point - at least until 3.0.2 is out. This issue has been fixed in FPC Trunk already though. They say: "This happens only on Win64 with FPC 3.0 " No, it will also happen on 64-bit arm. Or 32-bit on an RPi2 (Debian "Jessie" rather than Raspbian etc.). -- Mark

Re: [Lazarus] Testing Rapberry Pi 3 performance

been fixed in FPC Trunk already though. They say: "This happens only on Win64 with FPC 3.0 " Happens on all sorts of things, depending on what selection has been made for certain underlying types. /Specifically/ happens on an RPi2, as discussed in the bug report. -- Mark Mo

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

memory, i.e. RAM + swap, with the linker in particular benefiting from extra. Around here, I'm being firmly discouraged (by other colleagues with an electronics background) from putting swap on the card, but instead putting it on an external USB device with wear levelling. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd

Re: [Lazarus] LCL exports CC-licensed icons to every LCL application

Bart wrote: On 3/23/16, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: Wandering slightly: I wonder if it would also be possible for the app to get hold of things like the Lazarus and FPC version numbers and SVN revisions? Lazarus version and fpc version is no problem. F

Re: [Lazarus] LCL exports CC-licensed icons to every LCL application

wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: On 03/23/2016 06:11 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Looking at this a different way, could the TApplication object have provision (not necessarily enabled by default) for displaying a splash form which either had a default set of acknowledgements embedded or could

Re: [Lazarus] Testing Rapberry Pi 3 performance

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2016-03-23 10:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The RPi2 is superior in almost every way. I've got an RPi3 here but won't have time to exercise it for at least a few days. My RPi 1 Model B (the original) is still ticking nicely even after so many years of usage. At one

Re: [Lazarus] Testing Rapberry Pi 3 performance

patch). That opens the possibility of using it to implement special-purpose input peripherals: has anybody used FPC etc. to play with USB Gadget programming? http://hackaday.com/2016/03/02/hack-a-ps2-keyboard-onto-your-pi-zero/ http://isticktoit.net/?p=1383 -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. teleme

Re: [Lazarus] LCL exports CC-licensed icons to every LCL application

ferent way, could the TApplication object have provision (not necessarily enabled by default) for displaying a splash form which either had a default set of acknowledgements embedded or could gather them from packages etc.? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opin

Re: [Lazarus] Bug in FPC 3.0 discovered

IS affected. This bug can cause unpredictable misbehavior. For example in database applications using fcl-db/sqlDB and NUMERIC or DECIMAL data types as described in bug report #29760 Nota bene (Koenraad, Bo): *Does* affect Raspberry Pi. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

Re: [Lazarus] PWM on raspberry pi

n 8th Oct mentioned that he'd had to modify pigpio.pas to make it compatible with the RPi2. Second, how are you physically driving the system, my experience is that remote access can be less reliable than using the directly connected screen and keyboard particularly when single-stepping. -- Mark Morga

Re: [Lazarus] Form Resizing

earliest days of learning maths ("what's this ! supposed to mean? Let's ignore it for the moment") and it didn't exactly make me popular with my teachers. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or

Re: [Lazarus] Form Resizing

h I think would be of general interest. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.

Re: [Lazarus] Firefox

is an fpc to java byte code compiler (designed for doing Android apps), but I don't know the state either. I assumed he meant writing plugins using some API or other. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] Form Resizing

will not repeat it here. Bo, do you read the replies from other people? Sometimes you seem to ignore them completely. Seconded. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employe

Re: [Lazarus] Aarch64 as CPU target for RPi3 with Linux as OS

userland? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman

Re: [Lazarus] conditionals for detecting hardware platforms?

a known memory leak in irqbalance which will drive it into thrashing, see https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/issues/5 for patch. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

Bo Berglund wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:41:20 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ points to http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation both of which are giving me permane

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

Shaun O'Connor wrote: On 25/02/2016 11:41, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ points to http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation both of which are giving me permanent 403 "Forbidden". Anybody know wh

[Lazarus] Wiki and docs- where?

http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ points to http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation both of which are giving me permanent 403 "Forbidden". Anybody know what's going on? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opin

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

the list Thanks for your suggestions. ..been saying that for months :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

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

Bo Berglund wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:44:58 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: Discussion of the remote access side of things might be better continued in either fpc-other or lazarus-other. One of the list managers warned us some while ago that this w

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

aste should work. AGAIN, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS ON UNIX. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE COMBINATION OF PUTTY AND XMING SHOULD GIVE YOU SOMETHING COMPARABLE ON WINDOWS, BUT I'VE NOT DONE IT MYSELF. With apologies to the list managers if this is considered off-topic. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .

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

ed systems. Discussion of the remote access side of things might be better continued in either fpc-other or lazarus-other. One of the list managers warned us some while ago that this was off-topic. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not th

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

st if you investigated an X11-based system o your desktop, rather than Windows... at least while you're working out what's possible and what suits your working arrangements. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or c

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

ect (programs written using) Delphi. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org h

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

e keyboard (scan) codes into internal X11 codes. I had to dig around a little a few weeks ago when I needed to simulate a "Windows" key on a keyboard that didn't have one, but I don't pretend to really understand how the various tables etc. work. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. t

Re: [Lazarus] ANN: Glibc - Mega bug found

, by Roland McGrath et al. .. Compiled on a Linux 3.16.7 system on 2016-01-01. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

. Nothing else. Alternatively, I run Debian "Lenny" with KDE on a number of machines of that sort of spec. For later Debians consider XFCE irrespective of system spec. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

in this case I /mean/ Debian not Raspbian). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.la

Re: [Lazarus] bad luck

could benefit from storing projects onto a transaction-aware database server rather than as individual files. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] bad luck

probably corrupted files. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Is porting Delphi program using AsyncPro to fpc/laz possible?

Michael Schnell wrote: On 01/21/2016 11:38 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: That of course is a significant issue. I don't see what could prevent this from working. I didn't say anything wouldn't work. The simple method would be to create a new buffer for the data to be transferred

Re: [Lazarus] Is porting Delphi program using AsyncPro to fpc/laz possible?

its (ring) buffer. I wonder whether using something reference counted would be a useful compromise here. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- __

Re: [Lazarus] TOracleConnector connect as SYSDBA

uot; I used the username "system", and leave Role empty. Thanks for updating us. I'd imagine that quite a few people are in the position of not using Oracle routinely but being interested in looking at evaluation copies etc. I wonder whether some form of quoting would have made

Re: [Lazarus] Building GUI program for RPi1 on RPi2?

using an older RPi is a false economy here. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Cannot find unit lNet when building project

istorical reason for this? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/

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

to be removed as well because (among others) it is used in the U.S. flag and in the former Soviet Union flag. And there's a long-running campaign against Trident in the UK ;-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

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

d we please drop this. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Reducing output when building bigide?

r has been invoked automatically by the compiler. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepasca

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

-- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus compile project via ssh?

this is fixable since newer versions aren't open source: there's been no significant work done on it for something like ten years. If you want to run Lazarus remotely then tunnel it over SSH. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus compile project via ssh?

Bo Berglund wrote: On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 09:41:37 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: As previously discussed, VNC is broken in many areas and it's unclear how much this is fixable since newer versions aren't open source: there's been no significant wor

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2016-01-02 00:11, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've yet to see a GUI frontend which is remotely usable when attached to a table with a few billion rows. Then I guess you have never seen the setting in most GUI frontends that limit the return result to say 500 records

Re: [Lazarus] Cross Platform SQL Client/Editor

cuting it. A good starting point might be to make sure that pyacc has the cojones to parse SQL, and then before attempting to support any particular backend writing a fairly complete set of parsing rules. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The good news is that it builds with FPC 3.0.0 on: PPC Linux, Debian "Lenny" Raspbian "Jessie" on RPi2 SPARC OpenSXCE 2014 (approx. Solaris 11) SPARC Linux, Debian "Squeeze" x86 linux, Debian "Lenny" and "Jessie"

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

Juha Manninen wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The good news is that it builds with FPC 3.0.0 on: PPC Linux, Debian "Lenny" Raspbian "Jessie" on RPi2 SPARC OpenSXCE 2014 (appro

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.4.4 fpc 3.0

Santiago A. wrote: Is it posible to use Lazarus 1.4.4 with fpc 3.0? Will I run into a lot of problems (compiling IDE for new packages etc)? Seems to be OK here. I've used that combination intermittently since about September, but it's not one I run regularly. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.4.4 fpc 3.0

cent. *BUT* if you're asking the core developers for help, the first thing that they'll expect is that you're on the current version of IDE and compiler. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On a recent Raspbian running on an RPi2, using a directly-connected HDMI screen with USB keyboard and mouse, with OpenBox or LXDE as window manager: GTK2 radio box squashed Qt messagebox button icons garbled. No obvious problems on Debian Jessie running on x86_64

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The good news is that it builds with FPC 3.0.0 on: PPC Linux, Debian "Lenny" Raspbian "Jessie" on RPi2 SPARC OpenSXCE 2014 (approx. Solaris 11) SPARC Linux, Debian "Squeeze" x86 linux, Debian "Lenny" and "Jessie" x86_6

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

easily say what version created these files it might be one that will bite more people with elderly projects. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazar

Re: [Lazarus] Obviously I'm missing something.

at version of the compiler doesn't know about EABIHF. I suggest starting with the one I pointed you at the other day. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus compile project via ssh?

there. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 19:46:11 + Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: The good news is that it builds with FPC 3.0.0 on: PPC Linux, Debian "Lenny" Raspbian "Jessie" on RPi2 SPARC OpenSXCE 2014 (approx. Solaris 11) SP

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus compile project via ssh?

computers and a Tektronix logic analyser, are past. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

ms on all tested platforms. I'm assuming that http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-A-change-in-LCL-require-your-TCustomForm-descendants-to-have-a-resource-or-to-use-a-CreateNer-td2402646.html is relevant, but at present am struggling. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT.

Re: [Lazarus] Syntax error compiling fpc 3.0.0 3.0.0rc1 3.0.0rc2

beyond me :-[ ). Because the standard build checks that repeated recompilations are substantially the same. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus ma

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 make bigide fails on Raspberry Pi2

something like 512Mb RAM+swap for a long time. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 make bigide fails on Raspberry Pi2

an successfully maintain multiple versions of FPC and Lazarus including different combinations of compiler and IDE, why can't anybody? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employe

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 make bigide fails on Raspberry Pi2

Koenraad Lelong wrote: Op 17-12-15 om 11:36 schreef Mark Morgan Lloyd: $ fpc -iV 3.0.0 # Unpack 1.6RC1, rename directory to lazarus-1.6.0+3.0.0 $ cd lazarus-1.6.0+3.0.0 $ make bigide .. make[1]: Leaving directory ... lazarus-1.6.0+3.0.0/components/chmhelp/lhelp' The result runs, including

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 make bigide fails on Raspberry Pi2

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I tried what you said. Lazarus runs indeed, but can't compile a existing project. I get an error stating fpcres could not be found. When I run fpcres on the command-line it starts and gives some output. I also can't compile lazarus itself (e.g. after adding packages

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 make bigide fails on Raspberry Pi2

nary release files. I use the same fpc.cfg for everything from 2.2.4 through 3.0.1, and have not- so far- had to do anything special when building ARM or MIPS cross compilers. Also see Lazarus's --pcp= option. Again, I don't think this is the first time I've pointed you at that. -- Mark Morgan L

Re: [Lazarus] Release Candidate 1 of Lazarus 1.6

Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:31:20 + Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: [...] Quite frankly I feel that the Lazarus version numbering is progressing faster than is reasonable, and that it would be highly desirable to have a "Long T

Re: [Lazarus] Release Candidate 1 of Lazarus 1.6

support commitment from both teams? Or with the number of exciting things that the core developers have on the boil, is promoting the project to outsiders simply irrelevant these days? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not th

Re: [Lazarus] Release Candidate 1 of Lazarus 1.6

Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:31:20 + Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: [...] Quite frankly I feel that the Lazarus version numbering is progressing faster than is reasonable, and that it would be highly desirable to have a "Long T

Re: [Lazarus] Release Candidate 1 of Lazarus 1.6

Juha Manninen wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd make sure that this is still compatible with FPC 3.0.0. After that try to slow down the Lazarus numerical progression a bit by using "hundredths" more. I think the backwards compatibility of LCL is the most

Re: [Lazarus] Detecting when decompiler is running

, maybe not. But it's not just a case of who's worked out how a program (supplied as a binary or as "shrouded" source) works, but who's got a right to re-use bits of it. And quite frankly, I'd suggest that banging the "anything written using an open source tool *MUST* be open source

Re: [Lazarus] Detecting when decompiler is running

nt to call it) being tied to that. I'd like to hear from others about their anti hacking tools ... ;) Marc Btw., the licence of the library code permits making closed source programs. Only Lazarus itself and the compiler code are open source. One point I like FPC/Lazarus for and use it. -- Mark Mo

Re: [Lazarus] Detecting when decompiler is running

unmodified sources. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Fast file reading using file cache

is context. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman

Re: [Lazarus] File is locked?

is in your case ;-) I think you'd do better monitoring the file timestamp(s) so that you're not reparsing it redundantly, and being prepared to handle cases where IniFile fails. You might be able to request change notifications, but again that depends heavily on OS. -- Mark Morgan Llo

Re: [Lazarus] kill a running program by name

fecske fecske wrote: How can I kill a running program (proces,task) by name? Depends on operating system. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Smooth scrolling label (marquee)

e are ways that OpenGL can be mapped over a LAN, but in practice it would- at present at least- be safest to assume that these aren't reliable and at the very least provide a user option to make sure the program doesn't attempt to use it for anything that is basically cosmetic. -- Mark Mo

Re: [Lazarus] How can I close a Lazarus project and open another?

azarus completely locks up In that case raise a bug that the Dire Warning message that points out that you really don't want to press OK isn't adequately intelligible . -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of h

Re: [Lazarus] How can I close a Lazarus project and open another?

Open Project - Now I get a pop-up error box saying: Access violation. Update to latest trunk Lazarus, report as bug if it persists. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] How to find out the public IP in code?

ions on IP addresses, and in particular don't speculate on "next hops" etc. based on what you know about your local network. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- __

Re: [Lazarus] Using event driven components in console application

JuuS wrote: On 11/05/2015 07:05 PM, JuuS wrote: On 11/04/2015 12:30 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: JuuS wrote: On 11/04/2015 09:48 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: When building the IDE you'd normally use make bigide or similar which would use the platform defaults, but depending on what

Re: [Lazarus] Extending TRect breaks Lazarus

essarily make it bad. That syntax looks OK to me (i.e. make a and b look like consts) but I also find myself wondering what the type rules are, i.e. with pod: TTabSheet= Pages.Objects[deleteAt] do vs with pod= TTabSheet(Pages.Objects[deleteAt]) do -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT.

Re: [Lazarus] Using event driven components in console application

al changes, and if you want to do anything that involves reaching below the surface I think you have to use compile-time conditionals rather than RTTI. That's one reason that I did the work to find out what compiler versions worked with which LCLs, expect problems around 0.9.28. -- Mark Mo

Re: [Lazarus] Using event driven components in console application

JuuS wrote: On 11/04/2015 09:48 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: When building the IDE you'd normally use make bigide or similar which would use the platform defaults, but depending on what libraries etc. were available you could also use e.g. make LCL_PLATFORM=qt bigide Hi, This question

Re: [Lazarus] Error SIGILL appearing out of the blue, what does it mean?

built with debug info, then running it from a shell session (i.e. not inside Lazarus) and getting a GDB backtrace. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Creating_a_Backtrace_with_GDB#Very_short_how-to -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those o

Re: [Lazarus] Using event driven components in console application

... Are there some hick-ups with the mailing list today where message are out of sync? No, it's HMG filtering your email. Who've you upset? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Using event driven components in console application

a bit as the IDE has gained things like build modes. When building the IDE you'd normally use make bigide or similar which would use the platform defaults, but depending on what libraries etc. were available you could also use e.g. make LCL_PLATFORM=qt bigide -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT.

Re: [Lazarus] Encoding with SDF dataset

of TDataSource or TSdfDataset. When loading a TFileStream is used, but I did not find a property or method for changing the encoding on the fly in it, either. How can I fix it? In my limited experience depends critically on the version etc. of the OS you're running. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus implementation of TListView etc?

being e.g. a looping interactive command interpreter which calls Application.ProcessMessages when it's got nothing to do. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- _

Re: [Lazarus] External SIGSEGV (random) when assigning TBookmark

queries in a background thread, to try to avoid UI glitches while the backend's doing its stuff. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus implementation of TListView etc?

. Assume that none of the LCL is thread-safe, i.e. background threads have no safe UI access. Assume that the RTL and FCL are not specifically thread safe except where documented, but that you can use it in conjunction with conventional "cautious" programming techniques. -- Mark Morgan Llo

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus implementation of TListView etc?

ect missed messages, but it has the advantage that messages won't need reassembly if they get fragmented due to e.g. a router having a smaller-than-expected MTU. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus implementation of TListView etc?

Bo Berglund wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:22:08 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: Bo Berglund wrote: What does the main thread do? If you can contrive to write that as a loop, then as you've already been told you can call CheckSynchronize() which

Re: [Lazarus] is scrypt available?

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZW#Patents for a summary. What you choose to use depends on what (if anything) you need to be compatible with, but for some password stuff I wrote a couple of years ago I used Tiger2 from DCPcrypt. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] is scrypt available?

wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: On 10/28/2015 01:00 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: the above link is the license URL... the stuff about patents is off putting to say the least... Apologies for chopping the bulk of that message, but it's coming over unformatted

Re: [Lazarus] *SPAM* Re: annoying (attn: Michael Schnell)

e by your service provider to your incoming (not outgoing) messages. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.free

Re: [Lazarus] Clipboard problem with Lazarus using VNC

Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/26/2015 10:09 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: No, as I've said before... Seemingly this mail is not in the List. 22nd October. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

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