Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
It is possible under both Linux and Windows. Under windows with Delphi, we set the forms borderstyle := bsNone. Hide the TaskBar with a windows API call, Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del (and all its friends) with an API call. Then set the Form maximized (or the size of the desktop). I can post the code fo

Re: [lazarus] Transparent glyphs

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 8/9/06, Andreas Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone tell me how to load transparent glyphs for a TSpeedButton at run time? You are forgetting that bitmaps contain no information about transparency at all. You must provide the transparency infor

Re: [lazarus] Transparent glyphs

2006-08-09 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 8/9/06, Andreas Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone tell me how to load transparent glyphs for a TSpeedButton at run time? You are forgetting that bitmaps contain no information about transparency at all. You must provide the transparency information yourself. In this case it will

Re: [lazarus] Transparent glyphs

2006-08-09 Thread Cesar Romero
I not sure how is the FPC/Lazarus behavior, in Delphi the transparent color is the last left bottom pixel color. []s Cesar Romero www.liws.com.br Brazil Andreas Berger escreveu: Can someone tell me how to load transparent glyphs for a TSpeedButton at run time? I have tried: glyph.LoadF

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:46:18 -0400 "Alexandre Leclerc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/8/9, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > > > 2006/8/8, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> A resource manager for the IDE is a good idea. Why not create a > > >>

[lazarus] Transparent glyphs

2006-08-09 Thread Andreas Berger
Can someone tell me how to load transparent glyphs for a TSpeedButton at run time? I have tried: glyph.LoadFromFile('x.bmp'); glyph.LoadFromFile('x.bmp'); glyph.Transparent := true; glyph.Transparent := true; glyph.LoadFromFile('x.bmp'); bmp := TBitmap.Create; bmp.LoadFro

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/8/9, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > 2006/8/8, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> A resource manager for the IDE is a good idea. Why not create a >> designtime package for it? If you need help, don't hesitate to ask. > > > Please, any help on how to s

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/8/8, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: A resource manager for the IDE is a good idea. Why not create a designtime package for it? If you need help, don't hesitate to ask. Please, any help on how to start would be appreciated. I'm not enought knowledgefull of

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
2006/8/8, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: A resource manager for the IDE is a good idea. Why not create a designtime package for it? If you need help, don't hesitate to ask. Please, any help on how to start would be appreciated. I'm not enought knowledgefull of lazarus to do all that is

Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Darius Blaszijk
Marco, Vincent, Alexsander, Thanks for your help. Darius - Original Message - From: "Alexsander Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide See this: http://port2laz.blogspot.com/2006/01/fpc-202-and-postgresql3dyn.

Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Alexsander Rosa
See this: http://port2laz.blogspot.com/2006/01/fpc-202-and-postgresql3dyn.html 2006/8/9, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Marco van de Voort wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Darius Blaszijk wrote: > >>I was planning on doing a "make clean bigide" but the compiler complains

RE: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread John Meyer
You missed it: Did a search and it's there. http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2006/08_07_06_borlands _developer_tools_group_plans_to_rev_up_classic_turbo.html -Original Message- From: Mark Wrenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:27 PM To:

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Mark Wrenn
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bit fishy? Something doesn't seem right about this. Why isn't this mentioned in a press release on the Borland site? Did I miss it? Why doesn't David I's blog mention it? (http://blogs.borland.com/davidi/). Even the turboexplorer web site doesn't quit

Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Marco van de Voort wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Darius Blaszijk wrote: I was planning on doing a "make clean bigide" but the compiler complains it cannot find unit postgres3dyn. Do I need to install this first? Where can I find it? Simply part of FPC's postgress pkg. So

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Alexsander Rosa
Kylix is dead. 2006/8/9, Zlatko Matić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What about Kylix? Would they enable Turbo Kylix as well? - Original Message - From: "m2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer Lord_ZealoN a écrit : > Delphi go

Re: [lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Darius Blaszijk wrote: > I was planning on doing a "make clean bigide" but the compiler complains it > cannot find unit postgres3dyn. Do I need to install this first? Where can I > find it? Simply part of FPC's postgress pkg. So fpc/packages/base/postgre

[lazarus] compiling bigide

2006-08-09 Thread Darius Blaszijk
Hi, I was planning on doing a "make clean bigide" but the compiler complains it cannot find unit postgres3dyn. Do I need to install this first? Where can I find it? Darius _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 07:38, Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: > A good question, at least for me: > > How a company like Borland will survive if it > turns its softwares Open Source? May someone say some words about this? > > Borland survive sailing licenses paid. Doesn't it? > > [ ] > > Ricardo I thin

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Zlatko Matić
What about Kylix? Would they enable Turbo Kylix as well? - Original Message - From: "m2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer Lord_ZealoN a écrit : Delphi going to OpenSource? No. Al Boldi was saying that nothing ca

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Arí Ricardo Ody
A good question, at least for me: How a company like Borland will survive if it turns its softwares Open Source? May someone say some words about this? Borland survive sailing licenses paid. Doesn't it? [ ] Ricardo At 11:24 9/8/2006, you wrote: Lord_ZealoN a écrit : Delphi going to Open

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread m2
Lord_ZealoN a écrit : Delphi going to OpenSource? No. Al Boldi was saying that nothing can beat open source, i.e., Borland may do what they want, they won't beat FPC+Lazarus. Moreover, I find it strange that after having announced they wanted to sell all that concerns programming tools, they n

RE: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Sergio Samayoa
> Delphi going to OpenSource? NO. AFAIK they will offer an entry level version like MS's Express editions. Regards. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http:

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Alexsander Rosa
They (Borland and the "DevCo") are talking about a "free download" version (Explorer Edition), like Microsoft's Visual Studio Express Edition. No "Open Source" here, it's a free (gratis) as beer version, not free (libre) as speech. They will keep only 2 versions: Explorer and Professional (under $

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Lord_ZealoN
Delphi going to OpenSource? I will be very happy if in near future I can hear this, but I think, Delphi don't will go to OSI never unfotunatly El Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:53:11 +0300 Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Luis R. Hilario B. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > "CUPERTINO, Calif. — August 8, 2

Re: [lazarus] Turbo explorer

2006-08-09 Thread Al Boldi
Luis R. Hilario B. wrote: > Hello, > > "CUPERTINO, Calif. — August 8, 2006 — Today, the Developer Tools Group > of Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) announced plans to > release single language versions of Borland Developer Studio, the > company's development environment for Microsoft(r)

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Christian Budde
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: isn't looking to the VCL code illegal (copyright and stuff?) Looking not yet. Copying is. And copying without knowing what the code does is dangerous. Sorry about that. I think I you should rewrite my code without the knowledge, now that there exists

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:28:06 +0200 "Nathan Samson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > isn't looking to the VCL code illegal (copyright and stuff?) Looking not yet. Copying is. And copying without knowing what the code does is dangerous. Mattias > > On 8/9/06, Christian Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Micha Nelissen
Christian Budde wrote: > Hello Micha, > >>> + PTopMostEnumInfo(Info)^.TopWindow := Handle; >>> + Result := False; >>> >> Why these two lines ? >> > A similar passage was there in the VCL code and I thought that it must > make any sense, but in fact I don't know. Copying code fro

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Nathan Samson
isn't looking to the VCL code illegal (copyright and stuff?)On 8/9/06, Christian Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hello Micha, Today is day 3 of my LCL experience, so sorry about all the issues. Now that you are assigned to the bug I think it should be fixed quite fast. +function G

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Christian Budde schreef: Hello Micha, Today is day 3 of my LCL experience, so sorry about all the issues. Now that you are assigned to the bug I think it should be fixed quite fast. I assigned it to Micha, so he could review your patches. Vincent

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Christian Budde
Hello Micha, Today is day 3 of my LCL experience, so sorry about all the issues. Now that you are assigned to the bug I think it should be fixed quite fast. +function GetTopMostWindows(Handle: HWND; Info: LongInt): BOOL; stdcall; Shouldn't that be PtrInt for 64 bit compatibi

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 8/9/06, A.J. Venter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Either way - the consensus seems to be that lazarus cannot do it at present ? It´s not that Lazarus cannot do it. It is possible, but not implemented. Starting with the Handle property of Forms you should be able to use the necessary Gtk and/or

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:21:06 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:02:39 +0200 > > "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > will include the resource file in the binary. This feature

Re: RES: [lazarus] win32 program icon

2006-08-09 Thread Ewald Horn
Oh my hat! Thank you Henrique, I didn't know such a website exists. (Feels like an idiot, again) Regards Ewald _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.l

[lazarus] tpanel problem after rev. 9707

2006-08-09 Thread barko
On linux, fpc 2.0.3 (latest from svn), lazarus from svn (latest). How to reproduce this: create new application project put on form tpanel and save open (or reload) project, there is no panel (visible) -- bye, ...s]-[it happens... -= OPINFOS d.o.o. -= OBRTNE IN POSLOVNE INFORMACIJE -= BARKO, S

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
> Thanks for the explanation, Marc, Mattias and Michael. > > So the executable size will be the same (maybe slightly (negligible) > bigger, because string constants can be stored without lookup tables in the > binary and a resources might need some lookup tables). But the memory use > is smaller,

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schreef: In fact, Free Pascal suppprts including Windows resources in the binary on all ELF platforms (e.g. linux). The fpcres program does exactly that. {$R somefile.res} will include the resource

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Marc Weustink wrote: > Vincent Snijders wrote: > > Michael Van Canneyt schreef: > > > > > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:07:42 -0400 > > > > "Alexandre Leclerc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > As posted on ano

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:02:39 +0200 > "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even > > > in the fixes branch. > > > > > > In fact, Lazarus could switch now to using this fo

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, A.J. Venter wrote: > > will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even > > in the fixes branch. > > > > In fact, Lazarus could switch now to using this for including form files. > > This would drastically reduce the memory requirements of all Lazaru

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Marc Weustink
Vincent Snijders wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schreef: In fact, Free Pascal suppprts including Windows resources in the binary on all ELF platforms (e.g. linux). The fpcres program does exactly that. {$R somefile.res} will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt schreef: > > > > In fact, Free Pascal suppprts including Windows resources in the binary > > on all ELF platforms (e.g. linux). The fpcres program does exactly that. > > > > {$R somefile.res} > > > > will include the resource f

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:02:39 +0200 "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even > > in the fixes branch. > > > > In fact, Lazarus could switch now to using this for including form files. > > This would drastically reduce the

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Marc Weustink
Vincent Snijders wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:07:42 -0400 "Alexandre Leclerc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As posted on another thread: http://www.lazarus-resource.com/resource-manager.shtml I see that this little appli

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: In fact, Free Pascal suppprts including Windows resources in the binary on all ELF platforms (e.g. linux). The fpcres program does exactly that. {$R somefile.res} will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even in the fixes branch. In fa

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
> will include the resource file in the binary. This feature is enabled even > in the fixes branch. > > In fact, Lazarus could switch now to using this for including form files. > This would drastically reduce the memory requirements of all Lazarus > applications. Hang on a second... you're saying

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:07:42 -0400 "Alexandre Leclerc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As posted on another thread: http://www.lazarus-resource.com/resource-manager.shtml I see that this little application is doing exactly w

Re: [lazarus] About including ressource manager in lazarus

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:07:42 -0400 > "Alexandre Leclerc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As posted on another thread: > > http://www.lazarus-resource.com/resource-manager.shtml > > > > I see that this little application is doing exactly what is mis

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
> > Basically I don't know if lazarus CAN do what I need for this part... and > > before I can finalize design, I need to know if this will be a form > > inside the app or a sepperate program altogether acting as a plugin. > > I'm not sure that X/The Window manager can do what you want ? > This is

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread Micha Nelissen
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> What I need is a way to do a TRUE fullscreen mode form. Specifically this >> form >> should make it IMPOSSIBLE to get to the desktop behind it until it's closed. >> >> It should capture the keyboard ENTIRELY so that Alt+Tab won't work - and >> cover >> up all icons

Re: [lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, A.J. Venter wrote: > Hi all, > I am facing an interesting challenge - I don't know if lazarus CAN do what I > want, if not I suppose I shall have to write an extra plugin using plain > fpc+sdl - though I would VERY much prefer not to have to. > > What I need is a way to do

[lazarus] True fullscreen mode

2006-08-09 Thread A.J. Venter
Hi all, I am facing an interesting challenge - I don't know if lazarus CAN do what I want, if not I suppose I shall have to write an extra plugin using plain fpc+sdl - though I would VERY much prefer not to have to. What I need is a way to do a TRUE fullscreen mode form. Specifically this form

Re: [lazarus] Bug 2011: fsStayOnTop hides modal dialogs

2006-08-09 Thread Micha Nelissen
Christian Budde wrote: > +function GetTopMostWindows(Handle: HWND; Info: LongInt): BOOL; stdcall; Shouldn't that be PtrInt for 64 bit compatibility ? > +begin > + Result := True; > + if GetWindow(Handle, GW_OWNER) = > PTopMostEnumInfo(Info)^.W32Widget.AppHandle then W32Widget does not need to