[Lazarus] How to install LNet package in Lazarus 1.6RC2?

2016-01-21 Thread Bo Berglund 
Want to install LNet into the Lazarus component palette in order to
create a GUI program with TCPIP socket communications. I have already
installed the lnet package in FPC 3.0.0 using the fppkg command line
function. Then I could use lnet in a console program.
 
Now I need the visual components for lnet in Lazarus 1.6RC2, but I
could not find how to install them.
I have only found this on the Internet:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/lNet#Installation
and its description does not work...

1) I have extracted the lnet-0.6.5.zip file into components.
Contrary to directions there was no lnet- dir created, just a
lnet dir without any version number.

2) Next I am supposed to open the lnetvisual.lpk package file in
Lazarus "Component/Open", but there is no such "Component" menu
command in my Lazarus!
The closest I get is "Package/Open package file", so I tried that.

3) Next step is "Click on Install", but there exists no such button or
function!

Since already at the first step the instruction was incorrect I might
have wandered totally off track here.

Please supply a correct instruction to install lnet components in
Lazarus 1.6RC2 (maybe not possible?)
(And update the wiki page above.)

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Re: [Lazarus] How to install LNet package in Lazarus 1.6RC2?

2016-01-21 Thread Mattias Gaertner 
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:29:14 +0100
Bo Berglund  wrote:

>[...]
> 2) Next I am supposed to open the lnetvisual.lpk package file in
> Lazarus "Component/Open", but there is no such "Component" menu
> command in my Lazarus!
> The closest I get is "Package/Open package file", so I tried that.

Yes. It was renamed some years ago. I updated the wiki.

 
> 3) Next step is "Click on Install", but there exists no such button or
> function!

It's under "Use".

 
Mattias

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Re: [Lazarus] How to install LNet package in Lazarus 1.6RC2?

2016-01-21 Thread Bo Berglund 
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:19:42 +0100, Mattias Gaertner
 wrote:

>On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:29:14 +0100
>Bo Berglund  wrote:
>
>>[...]
>> 2) Next I am supposed to open the lnetvisual.lpk package file in
>> Lazarus "Component/Open", but there is no such "Component" menu
>> command in my Lazarus!
>> The closest I get is "Package/Open package file", so I tried that.
>
>Yes. It was renamed some years ago. I updated the wiki.
>
> 
>> 3) Next step is "Click on Install", but there exists no such button or
>> function!
>
>It's under "Use".
>

Thanks,
what I did meanwhile was this:

- Clicked the Compile button
- Nothing seemed to happen so:
- I clicked the Use/Install function
- Then it said something about already busy or similar
- Still there appeared to be nothing going on, but I went for
afternoon tea
- Came back and saw nothing changed so I assumed the Compile part was
done and again activated Use/Install.
- But as before there is no indication that something is actually
going on
- It would be nice with a status message "Building package -
Rebuilding Lazarus - Done"

While writing this post I suddenly saw some blinkings happening on the
background window  where VNC shows my RPi2 desktop, so I had a look
and it looks exactly as when I left off.
However, I now have an lNet tab on my component palette!

Question:
Is there supposed to be some indication towards the user that
something is going on when a package is being compiled or installed?
If not then I suggest that it is added to Lazarus.

If thers is a message then I certainly saw nothing, so could it be
platform dependent (Raspberry Pi2/Raspbian Jessie in my case) or
display dependent (tightvnc server on RPi2 and VNC client on Win7
laptop)?

I installed FPC 3.0.0 and Lazarus 1.6RC2 from svn sources.

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Re: [Lazarus] How to install LNet package in Lazarus 1.6RC2?

2016-01-21 Thread Bo Berglund 
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:22:51 +0100, Bo Berglund
 wrote:

>
>Question:
>Is there supposed to be some indication towards the user that
>something is going on when a package is being compiled or installed?
>If not then I suggest that it is added to Lazarus.
>
>If there is a message then I certainly saw nothing, so could it be
>platform dependent (Raspberry Pi2/Raspbian Jessie in my case) or
>display dependent (tightvnc server on RPi2 and VNC client on Win7
>laptop)?
>

Found the problem:
The output goes to the Messages pane, which was hidden by a form
belonging to the currently loaded project. So I did not see a thing.
I started to suspect this but when I tried to minimize or close the
form it did not work (maybe because Lazarus was busy). I managed to
move it though and saw the Messages pane with the activity.
Nice if the loaded project would have been closed or hidden while
installing the package...


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