[Lazarus] My latest Lazarus project. FIND_EM word puzzle generator. Porting code from working. Written by myself.

2011-06-03 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Lazarus list, // I have no idea how long the lines are displayed on your screens. My computer is a PC with Windows 7 Ultimate and a 26 inch television. I am short sighted. == It triple boots between Windows 7, Linux Mint 10 and Linux Ubuntu 11.04 -- I installed the OSes mostly myself and I am

[Lazarus] compile errors trying to create array of tbutton.

2011-05-21 Thread Peter Williams
type Tarray_of_tbutton = array of tbutton; TForm1 = class(TForm) Button1: TButton; procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject); procedure MyArrayButtonsClick(Sender: TObject); procedure define_3x3_button_array; private { private declarations } public { public

Re: [Lazarus] compile errors trying to create array of tbutton.

2011-05-21 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Mattias, On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 01:37:35 +1000 Peter Williams peterericwilli...@gmail.com wrote: [...]        my_array_of_tbutton[ array_count ].OnClick :=          myArrayButtonsClick; You forgot

Re: [Lazarus] OT : Wanted demo to generate and walk through a 2D in 3D simple graphics.

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Kjow, On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Kjow antispamm...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/13 Peter Williams peterericwilli...@gmail.com: Thank you for your hard work and the source code. Don't worry :) It isn't so hard :) I used the above command and got GLScene...  U   GLScene Checked out

Re: [Lazarus] OT : Wanted demo to generate and walk through a 2D in 3D simple graphics.

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Kjow, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Kjow antispamm...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/14 Peter Williams peterericwilli...@gmail.com: The other issue with your program (and this is really not a problem except that I want to extend your code) is that I want to use my own maze generating code

Re: [Lazarus] OT : Wanted demo to generate and walk through a 2D in 3D simple graphics.

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Kjow, On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kjow antispamm...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/12 Peter Williams peterericwilli...@gmail.com: That's exactly what I need. Would you mind please archiving it and uploading it to http://hotfile.com -- file sharing website. Also, what changes would need

Re: [Lazarus] OT : Wanted demo to generate and walk through a 2D in 3D simple graphics.

2011-05-12 Thread Peter Williams
Hi, On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Kjow antispamm...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/12 Kjow antispamm...@gmail.com: Otherwise it is multiplatform (Windows [32/64], Linux [32/64], MacOSX). I forgot a thing, you can rotate the view by clicking in 3D view and moving mouse. If you click with both

Re: [Lazarus] OT : Wanted demo to generate and walk through a 2D in 3D simple graphics.

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Kostas, On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Kostas Michalopoulos badsectorac...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/5/2011 3:33 πμ, Peter Williams wrote: Hi, Hi I am looking for a demo in Pascal / Delphi / Lazarus (* preferred) of generating a 2D maze and letting the user walk through the maze

Re: [Lazarus] Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, [snip] Unit1.pas http://pastebin.com/wuEft4Kb Why do you declare TIsland as a generic if you don't use the type T anywhere? I have (though all of these posts) been trying to follow the instructions for GENERICS on this page:http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GenericsThis page

[Lazarus] My change of email address.

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, Just a quick note to say that I am changing my subscription email address to this one. I will only send plain text messages in future and that should fix the message formatting problems. Sorry for the hassles. Best Regards, Peter -- ___

[Lazarus] Example requested for TList and Sort using data type of Object (or record).

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Williams
Hi all, I have been googling without success looking for Lazarus TList examples using the Sort procedure. I want to use a TObject or Record data type. Does anyone here know of any examples of this (TList, Sort and Object or Record data types) ? I realize that I need to write my own compare

Re: [Lazarus] Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Sven all, Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 22:06:55 +0200 From: pascaldra...@googlemail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable On 06.05.2011 17:58, Peter Williams wrote: Hi

Re: [Lazarus] Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Williams
...@googlemail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable On 06.05.2011 17:58, Peter Williams wrote: Hi, Options changed, recompiling clean with -B Hint: Start of reading config

Re: [Lazarus] OT : Wanted demo to generate and walk through a 2D in 3D simple graphics.

2011-05-07 Thread Peter Williams
Hi, Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 12:20:40 +0200 From: nottu...@quipo.it To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] OT : Wanted demo to generate and walk through a 2D in 3D simple graphics. Il 07/05/2011 02:33, Peter Williams ha scritto: I am looking for a demo in Pascal

[Lazarus] dtm_maker project compile errors with TList code.

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have uploaded my project with compile time errors to here: Download link: http://hotfile.com/dl/116917459/8effac0/dtm_maker_002.zip.htmlAnd I am getting these errors: Options changed, recompiling clean with -BHint: Start of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfgHint: End of reading

Re: [Lazarus] dtm_maker project compile errors with TList code.

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have copied the relevant unit to pastebin.com and here it is: http://pastebin.com/2v4xw4ep unit1.pas(191,18) Error: No member is provided to access propertyunit1.pas(192,21) Error: No member is provided to access propertyunit1.pas(193,20) Error: No member is provided to access

Re: [Lazarus] dtm_maker project compile errors with TList code.

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Williams
Hi The new version of unit1.pas is here: http://pastebin.com/vNdNeHQe Options changed, recompiling clean with -BHint: Start of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfgHint: End of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfgFree Pascal Compiler version 2.4.2-0 [2010/11/11] for i386Copyright (c) 1993-2010 by

Re: [Lazarus] dtm_maker project compile errors with TList code.

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Mattias, I found the fgl unit. It was just a matter of adding it to the uses clause the using the right click 'find declaration'. Thanks. PEW From: pewilliams2...@live.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 01:13:25 +1000 Subject: Re: [Lazarus] dtm_maker project

[Lazarus] Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Williams
Hi, Options changed, recompiling clean with -BHint: Start of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfgHint: End of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfgFree Pascal Compiler version 2.4.2-0 [2010/11/11] for i386Copyright (c) 1993-2010 by Florian KlaempflTarget OS: Linux for i386Compiling

[Lazarus] OT : Wanted demo to generate and walk through a 2D in 3D simple graphics.

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Williams
Hi, Apologies in advance for this off topic message. I am looking for a demo in Pascal / Delphi / Lazarus (* preferred) of generating a 2D maze and letting the user walk through the maze in simple 3D graphics with lines (e.g. not ASCII) but using graphics. For example, looking down a corridor

Re: [Lazarus] Master/Detail Relation

2011-04-17 Thread Peter Williams
Hi, Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:50:42 +0200 From: lazar...@de-brouwerij.be To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Master/Detail Relation Op 17-04-11 01:15, Peter Williams schreef: Hi Leonardo, ... I would like to see your solution. I am wondering if you

Re: [Lazarus] Missing components when reading CCR through svn

2011-04-16 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Vincent and All, Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:08:12 +0200 From: graemeg.li...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Missing components when reading CCR through svn On 16 April 2011 19:30, Vincent Snijders wrote: I think those components are

[Lazarus] TRichView (ccr) component and Shareware version of it... any users here?

2011-04-16 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have just finished using SVN to check out the Lazarus-ccr from SourceForge. I am looking at the RichView component demo: TRichView Demo and Help Program (Copyright(c) 1997,98 by Tkachenko S.V.) IntroductionTRichView controls can contain:- text with various fonts - hypertext

Re: [Lazarus] Master/Detail Relation

2011-04-16 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Leonardo, Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:39:05 -0300 From: l.r...@griensu.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Master/Detail Relation On 2011-04-16 15:56:19 -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi, I was looking at SqlDb components and I can't find any property to

[Lazarus] Lazarus errors -- DVD procedure identifiers.

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have a legacy Delphi 7 project which works fine in D7, but it gives these errors in Lazarus 0.9.31. Options changed, recompiling clean with -BHint: Start of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfgHint: End of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfgFree Pascal Compiler version 2.4.2-0 [2010/11/11]

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus errors -- DVD procedure identifiers.

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Williams
is the syntax for the Linux versions (cross platform) of these? Best Regards,Peter / pew 2011/4/7 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com Hi All, I have a legacy Delphi 7 project which works fine in D7, but it gives these errors in Lazarus 0.9.31. Options changed, recompiling clean with -BHint

Re: [Lazarus] MDI implementation

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Williams
,Peter / pew 2011/4/2 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com Hi Daniel, Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 19:02:46 -0300 From: daniel.franz...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: [Lazarus] MDI implementation Hi there. I'm trying to write a MDI application in Lazarus (Win32/Vista

Re: [Lazarus] MDI implementation

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Williams
: [Lazarus] MDI implementation Hi Peter. I found this version to be newer. http://www.oocities.org/br/hipernetjr/lmdi/index_en.html It seems to work well, but needs further testing. 2011/4/3 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com Hi Daniel, Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 10:28:07 -0300 From

Re: [Lazarus] Project / Save Project As ... - expected behavior?

2011-04-02 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 10:19:08 +0200 From: nc-gaert...@netcologne.de To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Project / Save Project As ... - expected behavior? On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:54:11 -0500 John Repucci john.repu...@gmail.com wrote: If I have a project

Re: [Lazarus] MDI implementation

2011-04-02 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Daniel, Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 19:02:46 -0300 From: daniel.franz...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: [Lazarus] MDI implementation Hi there. I'm trying to write a MDI application in Lazarus (Win32/Vista, Lazarus 0.9.31). I created the main form and set its

[Lazarus] SOLVED - RE: Lazarus 0.9.30 Linux Mint 10 installation fails... Build Lazarus gives Error...

2011-03-27 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Mattias, Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:34:22 +0200 From: nc-gaert...@netcologne.de To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30 Linux Mint 10 installation fails... Build Lazarus gives Error... On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 05:59:41 +1100 Peter Williams

Re: [Lazarus] SOLVED - RE: Lazarus 0.9.30 Linux Mint 10 installation fails... Build Lazarus gives Error...

2011-03-27 Thread Peter Williams
, 27 Mar 2011 05:59:41 +1100 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com wrote: [...] Selecting Applications / Programming / Lazarus (0.9.30) gives: System default is missing Startlazarus now shows the system default file name. The system default lazarus executable

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30 Linux Mint 10 installation fails... Build Lazarus gives Error...

2011-03-26 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, From: pewilliams2...@live.com To: laza...@lazarus.freepascal.org Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:58:42 +1100 Subject: [Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30 Linux Mint 10 installation fails... Build Lazarus gives Error... Hi All, Today I downloaded these 2 files: lazarus-0.9.30-i386.deb.tar

Re: [Lazarus] TVirtualStringView (new trunk) and issues with items display

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Ido, From: ido...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:49:02 +0200 To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: [Lazarus] TVirtualStringView (new trunk) and issues with items display Hello, I have created the demo of TVirtualStringView from the wiki (with few changes), and when I

Re: [Lazarus] TVirtualStringView (new trunk) and issues with items display

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Ido, From: ido...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:26:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [Lazarus] TVirtualStringView (new trunk) and issues with items display To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org CC: pewilliams2...@live.com 2011/3/25 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com Hi Ido

[Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30 Linux Mint 10 installation fails... Build Lazarus gives Error...

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, Today I downloaded these 2 files: lazarus-0.9.30-i386.deb.tar fpc-2.4.2-0.i386.deb.tar and after unarchiving them I did a sudo dpkg -i * Selecting Applications / Programming / Lazarus (0.9.30) gives: System default is missing The system default lazarus executable is missing, butyour

[Lazarus] Animals game - exception: Failed to create win32 control, error: 1407 : Cannot find window class.

2011-03-24 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have a Lazarus project which is a legacy game project from Delphi 7. It works fine in D7 and I used the tools menus to convert it to Lazarus. It compiles fine and when I run it it immediately gives this exception: Debugger Exception Notification Project ANIMALS.exe raised exception

Re: [Lazarus] Fixing of SDL.PAS under WINCE

2011-03-23 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Robin, Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:25:06 +0800 From: robin.hoo...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: [Lazarus] Fixing of SDL.PAS under WINCE Hi, All I'm doing some development of WINCE stuff with sdl. And I found the original SDL.PAS is not supported WINCE for the

Re: [Lazarus] Indy compilation problem revisited.

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Frank, Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:21:04 + From: vfcli...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: [Lazarus] Indy compilation problem revisited. There is a persistent problem in installing Indy which always returns to bite me and I have to get the bottom of it.

[Lazarus] FW: Accessing USB HID from Lazarus programs?

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Bo, I found these 2 links with google. They discuss the unit libusb which seems to work (I have NOT tried it myself). http://laurensdelangeelectronics.blogspot.com/2011/01/interfacing-with-usb-parallel-port.html It appears from the article that it only works as a linux superuser. I suggest

[Lazarus] SOLVED - RE: Lazarus updates dfm not lfm and changes to form NOT being shown at run time.

2011-03-19 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Mattias, Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:49:14 +0100 From: nc-gaert...@netcologne.de To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus updates dfm not lfm and changes to form NOT being shown at run time. On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:10:26 +1100 Peter Williams pewilliams2

[Lazarus] exception class 'EResNotFound' with message: Resource H1 not found

2011-03-18 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have a legacy Delphi component which I converted to Lazarus. I needed to delete the compiler directive: {$R *.res} in order to get my component to compile. Now I get this run-time error in the demo project which I am using to test it. The only .res file I have is one from it's

[Lazarus] exception class 'EResNotFound' with message: Resource H1 not found

2011-03-18 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have a legacy Delphi component which I converted to Lazarus. I needed to delete the compiler directive: {$R *.res} in order to get my component to compile. Now I get this run-time error in the demo project which I am using to test it. The only .res file I have is one from it's

[Lazarus] Lazarus updates dfm not lfm and changes to form NOT being shown at run time.

2011-03-18 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have a Lazarus project which I ported from a Delphi one. It has 2 units with a form each e.g. unit1, form1 unit2, form2. I used the Tools conversations menu items to convert it and the forms and units. It all works fine except that when I change form1, then changes are made to

Re: [Lazarus] Unable to rewrite .ini file which exists... error unable to create .ini file. (need to rewrite it).

2011-03-15 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Bart, Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:45:49 +0100 From: bartjun...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Unable to rewrite .ini file which exists... error unable to create .ini file. (need to rewrite it). On 3/15/11, Peter Williams pewilliams2

Re: [Lazarus] Unable to rewrite .ini file which exists... error unable to create .ini file. (need to rewrite it).

2011-03-15 Thread Peter Williams
From: bartjun...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Unable to rewrite .ini file which exists... error unable to create .ini file. (need to rewrite it). On 3/15/11, Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com wrote: ConfigIni := TIniFile.Create

[Lazarus] How to create a directory from a path string? (cross-platform needed).

2011-03-15 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Sven, Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:02:55 +0100 From: pascaldra...@googlemail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Unable to rewrite .ini file which exists... error unable to create .ini file. (need to rewrite it). Am 15.03.2011 15:51, schrieb Peter

Re: [Lazarus] QuickSort procedure - raised exception class 'External SIGSEGV'

2011-03-14 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Joerg, Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:17:09 +0100 From: joerg.schue...@gmx.de To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] QuickSort procedure - raised exception class 'External SIGSEGV' Am Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:29:36 +1100 schrieb Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com

[Lazarus] Unable to rewrite .ini file which exists... error unable to create .ini file. (need to rewrite it).

2011-03-14 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I use this procedure to save an inifile using the standard IniFiles unit. The problem I have is that when an .ini file already exists I cannot overwrite it. I need the TextFiles equivalent of Rewrite() for Inifiles. This line: ConfigIni :=

[Lazarus] Source / Insert General / Current username ... does nothing

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, Menu Source / Insert General / Current username ... does nothing on my system. Lazarus 0.9.31, Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bits. Best Regards,Peter E Williams / pew -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

[Lazarus] QuickSort procedure - raised exception class 'External SIGSEGV'

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I am trying to use some legacy Delphi QuickSort code. The problem is that the original defines this var: Vard : ptrArray Absolute da;and I have changed this in my version and it crashes with an error. Project Island_maker.exe raised exception class 'External SIGSEGV' I am

[Lazarus] SOLVED - RE: FW: exception class 'EReadError' with message Invalid value for property (onClick event in TMenuItem)

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Williams
+1000 Alexander Klenin kle...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/3/12 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com: Hi All, I am unable to debug this error. Can someone please download the sample application which gives this error and tell me what am I doing wrong? Your .lrs file is out of sync

[Lazarus] exception class 'EReadError' with message Invalid value for property (onClick event in TMenuItem)

2011-03-11 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Lazarus List, I am encountering a strange run time error... Project island_maker.exe raised exception class 'EReadError' with message Invalid value for property Error reading CreateaNewIsland1.OnClick: Invalid value for property procedure TForm1.CreateANewIslandClick(Sender: TObject);begin

[Lazarus] FW: exception class 'EReadError' with message Invalid value for property (onClick event in TMenuItem)

2011-03-11 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All,I am unable to debug this error. Can someone please download the sample application which gives this error and tell me what am I doing wrong?Download link: http://hotfile.com/dl/109861372/9072f69/island_maker_laz_001a.zip.html(zip archive of source and exe, 4028 KB).OS - Windows 7

[Lazarus] Off topic maths question with real constant and trunc() statement.

2011-03-10 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have a slightly off-topic maths question based on the following of my Delphi legacy code. var max_x, max_y, max_loop : integer;begin max_x := 35; max_y := 90; max_loop := trunc( max_x * max_y / 1.575 ); // gives 2000 for 35 x 90[...] Is 1.575 represented as a fraction? It does

Re: [Lazarus] a consult about Tdbf

2011-03-04 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Hector, From: hfian...@infomed.sld.cu To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:37:18 -0500 Subject: [Lazarus] a consult about Tdbf Dear List: i am working with Tdbf and i want to fix in a DBEdit control the words Yes or No. If i do it typing yes or no, no

[Lazarus] How to install (compile) the GNU Debugger 7.2 for Windows 7 ?

2011-02-28 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I am using Lazarus 0.9.31 on Windows 7 and I need to set a breakpoint and use a debugger. When I set a breakpoint I got a message that there was no debugger. I used the Options / Debugger menu and found that GNU debugger is an option, so I found this site and downloaded it:

[Lazarus] http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/DELPHI_FORM_TO_HTML_CONVERTER

2011-02-26 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/DELPHI_FORM_TO_HTML_CONVERTER This is the new component for Lazarus Delphi Form to HTML Converter (originally for Delphi 3). Needs some work... please contact PEW... It should work fine with Delphi 3 forms... Help is requested to make it work for

Re: [Lazarus] Menu View / Source code fails to show source editor window.

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Martin, Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:41:13 + From: laza...@mfriebe.de To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Menu View / Source code fails to show source editor window. On 25/02/2011 04:52, Peter Williams wrote: Hi All

[Lazarus] (no subject)

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Vincent Ann, I have finished as much work as I can on the Form2Html project for Lazarus. Could Vincent please contact me and I will send you a copy of the zipped code for Lazarus (171 KB). This code is to be included into the Lazarus component repositories. Ann F2H has now been released

[Lazarus] Form 2 Html project is now ready for release under Creative Commons License.

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Vincent Ann,(apologies for sending earlier copy of this with a blank subject). I have finished as much work as I can on the Form2Html project for Lazarus. Could Vincent please contact me and I will send you a copy of the zipped code for Lazarus (171 KB).This code is to be included into the

[Lazarus] SOLVED RE: Error compiling Lazarus: makefile:29: *** You need the GNU utils package to use this Makefile. Stop.

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi, SOLVED. To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:09:20 +0100 From: mar...@stack.nl Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Error compiling Lazarus: makefile:29: *** You need the GNU utils package to use this Makefile. Stop. In our previous episode, Peter Williams said

Re: [Lazarus] New component - Delphi Form to HTML Converter (F2H) component

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Vincent, Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:23:37 +0100 From: vincent.snijd...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] (no subject) 2011/2/25 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com: Hi Vincent Ann, I have finished as much work as I can on the Form2Html

Re: [Lazarus] FW: *** ECN: Lazarus or Delphi 5 version of TwhForm2HTML

2011-02-24 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Sven, Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:52:14 +0100 From: pascaldra...@googlemail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] FW: *** ECN: Lazarus or Delphi 5 version of TwhForm2HTML Am 23.02.2011 16:06, schrieb Peter Williams: Hi All, I have been working

[Lazarus] Menu View / Source code fails to show source editor window.

2011-02-24 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, Lazarus 0.9.31 Date 2011-02-13 FPC 2.4.3 SVN Revision 29483 i386-win32-win32/win64 I am having the following problem with a Lazarus project. It compiles and runs okay but I am unable to view the source code. I have about 8 forms with units, and I open the units, and open main.pas then

[Lazarus] Error compiling Lazarus: makefile:29: *** You need the GNU utils package to use this Makefile. Stop.

2011-02-24 Thread Peter Williams
Lazarus 0.9.31 I have done a SVN Update on my c:\freepascal\laz folder and Lazarus is still dated 2011-02-13 I have downloaded GNU Make for Windows and GNU Utils and when I do a Tools / Build All with profile Build All get this error: makefile:29: *** You need the GNU utils package to use this

[Lazarus] FW: *** ECN: Lazarus or Delphi 5 version of TwhForm2HTML

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I have been working on a project from Delphi 3 from Ann Lynnworth which is Delphi form to html conversion tool. It was written for Ann's company and she has kindly offered it to the Lazarus community under this licence (originally commercial I believe):

[Lazarus] ERROR compiling Lazarus for first time on Windows 7 Ultimate OS. Fatal: Can't find unit system used by AllLCLUnits

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, Using today's SVN snapshot and these instructions: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus Fatal error compiling Lazarus 2.5.1 for first time on Windows 7 Ultimate OS. Clean installation from TortoiseSVN. Fatal: Can't find unit system used by AllLCLUnits makelaz.bat

[Lazarus] What is the planned date for the next official release of stable version of Lazarus?

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi What is the planned date for the next official release of stable version of Lazarus? Is the Lazarus project on schedule for this release target? Regards, pew -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] ERROR compiling Lazarus for first time on Windows 7 Ultimate OS. Fatal: Can't find unit system used by AllLCLUnits

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Williams
OS. Fatal: Can't find unit system used by AllLCLUnits On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:01:20 +1100 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com wrote: Hi All, Using today's SVN snapshot and these instructions: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus Fatal error compiling Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] SDL.pas Error while linking in Lazarus 0.9.28.2 and 0.9.29

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Dominique, This problem occurs with Lazarus on Mint 10 Linux and Windows. A normal Lazarus application does not get this error. I will investigate Delphi XE on my Windows 7 Ultimate system tomorrow as it is 12:14am now and time to make my bed and get some sleep. I will email you later today

[Lazarus] Mantis #18448. Changes to win32object.inc, +procedure TWin32WidgetSet.AppInit(var ScreenInfo: TScreenInfo);

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Lazarus list, I am proposing some changes to +procedure TWin32WidgetSet.AppInit(var ScreenInfo: TScreenInfo); in win32object.inc. These are changes to enable exception error handling which *should* be reported in file 'AppInit_backtrace.txt'. This was suggested as a general hint by someone

[Lazarus] What do I need to do to install and use JEDI-SDL-v1.0

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, What do I need to do to install and use JEDI-SDL-v1.0 or which ever is latest?I have downloaded JDL-SDLv1.0.zip and unarchived it. It is in Delphi format and free pascal and lazarus. See below that I have tried to run the fpc-install.sh file (with the command sh ./fpc-install.sh ).

Re: [Lazarus] How do you set an event at runtime?

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Frank, Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 17:56:54 + From: vfcli...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: [Lazarus] How do you set an event at runtime? I need to create some databases at runtime which use same event handling code as a component created at design time. Is

Re: [Lazarus] SVN user

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Graeme, Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:47:07 +0200 From: graemeg.li...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] SVN user 2010/12/30 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: I regret Graeme is trying to sell git once again - worse yet to a I was

Re: [Lazarus] SVN user

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Williams
Hi blfm, Thanks for the link to the RedBean book. I am currently having a read of it. I have it bookmarked, so that I can return to it. I enjoy this book very much. “It is important not to let the perfect become the enemy of the good, even when you can agree on what perfect is.

Re: [Lazarus] SVN user

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Mark, From: markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:27:11 + To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] SVN user waldo kitty wrote: On 12/29/2010 05:36, Peter E Williams wrote: use the normal diff format for your patch.

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

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Williams
Dear Mark, Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:33:14 +0100 From: mar...@stack.nl To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Where is fp ide located on my Mint 10 Linux system (ubuntu based)? On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 09:37:25AM +0100, Vincent Snijders wrote: 2010/12/29 Peter

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

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Mark, From: markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:52:50 + To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Where is fp ide located on my Mint 10 Linux system (ubuntu based)? Honza wrote: 2010/12/29 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com

Re: [Lazarus] SVN user

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Henry, Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:42:36 + From: henry.verm...@gmail.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [Lazarus] SVN user 2010/12/29 Peter Williams pewilliams2...@live.com: That's news to me. Thanks. What is apropos short for? I guess you're about

[Lazarus] using WM_USER const and TMessage to press escape to minimize form.

2010-12-27 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, I am trying to port some Delphi 5 or 7 (cannot recall which) to Lazarus. What do I change WM_USER to? I am getting Identifier not found. Here is the code: main.pas const WM_USER_APPLICATION_MINIMIZE = WM_USER+1; // identifier not found WM_USER type [...] private { Private

[Lazarus] (no subject)

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Williams
Dear Mattias, Here are my attempts to find your memory leak. So far it does not compile. Too many parameters. See attached file. /lazarus/lcl/interfaces/win32/win32object.inc PEW procedure TWin32WidgetSet.AppInit(var ScreenInfo: TScreenInfo);const Win32ClassesToInit: array[0..5] of DWord =

[Lazarus] This is how you can fix that annoying bug with Build All asking to reset the debugger then aborting.

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Williams
Mattias, This is how you can fix that annoying bug with Build All asking to reset the debugger then aborting. When you do a Build All you will get: ConfirmationDo you want to rebuild lazarus with profile: Build All[yes] [no] Selecting yes gives Some message that I cannot find about the debugger

[Lazarus] Error with Lazarus 0.9.29.2 for Windows running on Wine 1.3 under Linux Mint 10

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Williams
Mattias, In the pascal unit splash.pp Lazarus show a splash screen. In the build of 25 December for Windows the splash screen never closes!!! Please fix this. Best Regards, PEWPeter Eric Williams from Hobart, Australia-- in mid Summer. ps - I have temporarily stopped using my gmail account,

Re: [Lazarus] (no subject)

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Mattias, see below changes to writeln statement. From: pewilliams2...@live.com To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:07:45 +1100 Subject: [Lazarus] (no subject) Dear Mattias, Here are my attempts to find your memory leak. So far it does not compile. Too

[Lazarus] BUG! - Please include the following files in the snapshot. Lazarus.lpi Lazarus.lpr Lazarus.lfm

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Team, Please include the following files in the snapshot: Lazarus.lpiLazarus.lprLazarus.lfm They appear to be missing!!! It makes debugging impossible as I cannot open the Lazarus project. I would like to open Lazarus project from within Lazarus. Hey... you guys did say that you wanted bugs

[Lazarus] Error with Lazarus 0.9.29.2 for Windows running on Wine 1.3 under Linux Mint 10

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Mattias, A picture is worth a 1000 words. http://hotfile.com/dl/92009201/bdbd299/Screenshot-2.png.html (then click on [Regular Download]) See Screenshot-2.png (above url for download from HotFile.com) for capture of screen with Lazarus open and the splash screen not closed. On my Wine 1.3

[Lazarus] Fwd: [delphi-en] Seeking Memproof like app for use With Free Pascal Lazarus RAD (Delphi 7 clone)

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Williams
Hi All, Please do not think this is SPAM as that is furthest from my honest intentions. ALSO Apologies for the long post. If it upsets you then I respectfully suggest that you excercise you finger and delete the message -- it does not bother me. I want to develop FOSS code for Linux Games with I

Re: [Lazarus] Newcomers with Debian based systems

2010-03-20 Thread Peter Williams
G'day Lazarus FANS, The attached (small) .iso file *may* help! Although I don't recall whether twist [or not] I have Lazarus installed. It's an .iso file created with my HP Laptop and a Ethernet cx to my desktop with an ethernet hub. I created it with my laptop and DVD-RW drive!!! GRIN

Re: [Lazarus] help with bulletin board software...

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Williams
? See how other people have done it! :) --- On Mon, 3/15/10, Peter Williams pewslinuxva...@gmail.com wrote: From: Peter Williams pewslinuxva...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Lazarus] help with bulletin board software... To: Lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Date: Monday

Re: [Lazarus] help with bulletin board software...

2010-03-14 Thread Peter Williams
G'day Dennis, Back when I was a teenager, in the 1980's and into my 20s in later years (I was born in 1961), WE (the Williams family) had different computers to access BBS's. I used many models of Commodores (C=) starting with the C= PET 4016/32 in 1977 (circa). We moved to C=64, C=128 and C=

Re: [Lazarus] [ Slightly Off Topic ] Background Why I love Lazarus Pascal

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Williams
G'day Robert, (and all CC folks) See my comments below (I'll try to not top post). Fond Regards and Best Wishes, PEW { Peter Eric Williams } from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia My free websites: http://pewink.org () http://pewslinuxvault.googlepages.com On 12 March 2010 03:32, Robert

Re: [Lazarus] Subversion RapinSVN on Linux -- Configuring?

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Williams
...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 March 2010 03:06, Peter Williams pewslinuxva...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have some tutorials for learning Subversion and RapidSVN ??? I've started to read the RapidSVN doc's (both installed and online). There is a lot there. ;-)  I went to the Lazarus wiki but I

[Lazarus] Help! Linux custom saved theme sharing. How?!?

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Williams
G'day Everybody, Hi All, How is everyone this fine Tasmania, sunny Autumn day? That's you nice Americans call 'Fall' ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn Anyway, it was not my intention to discuss the weather, apart from to tell you that it's a beautiful, sunny day here in West Hobart.

[Lazarus] [ Slightly Off Topic ] Background Why I love Lazarus Pascal

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Williams
G'day All, Hello to the Nice and Talented Lazarus Folk :-))) My fondest memories of my times at the Uni of Canberra (see below) was learning about this new programming language called Pascal. It was a bit like BASIC but much more strongly typed. As opposed to Commodore PET 4032 BASIC 4.0 which

[Lazarus] Subversion RapinSVN on Linux -- Configuring?

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Williams
G'day ALL Fellow LazarusFolk, Hi All, Me again! ;-))) I am finally getting to a stage with my pc with Mandriva 2010.0 Free 32bit OS installed that I'm pretty happy with it. I only installed that (this) OS onto this pc about 3-4 months ago. But I've been using Mandriva of different versions for

Re: [Lazarus] Compiler status window crops text with large text (fonts) displayed.

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Lazarus list, Feedback, anyone??? ;-))) I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced or patched this bug. Surely I'm not the only large size text (font) Lazarus user / developer !!! ?!?!?! On 26 February 2010 09:44, Peter Williams pew...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Lazarus users, developers

[Lazarus] Compiler status window crops text with large text (fonts) displayed.

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Lazarus users, developers and all, This is a fairly minor bug report (email to the Lazarus discussion list) about the appearance of the compiler status window -- which shows on the screen (optionally) when compiling a project. It *should* be (hopefully) fairly trivial to correct these problems

Re: [Lazarus] Bitmap transparency problem (I don't want transparency)

2010-02-22 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Pierre and Lazarus List see my comments below... Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you

Re: [Lazarus] Bitmap transparency problem (I don't want transparency)

2010-02-21 Thread Peter Williams
Hi Pierre and Lazarus list, 2010/2/22 Pierre Delore dpli...@free.fr: Hi, I have a transparency problem when I try to display a bitmap stored in a TImagList. The bitmap I want to display is a green arrow with a white background. I want to display it without transparency. With the code below

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