RE: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread George Birbilis
All this is possible, but IMHO it is nonsense to put effort into creating such a snapshot. I think there is some intelligence test, test if people persevere enough. If a person cannot find the link to getting the sources from the home page and follow those instructions to get a svn

Re: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread Florian Klaempfl
George Birbilis schrieb: All this is possible, but IMHO it is nonsense to put effort into creating such a snapshot. I think there is some intelligence test, test if people persevere enough. If a person cannot find the link to getting the sources from the home page and follow those

[lazarus] Problem with transparent images

2006-12-11 Thread Andreas Berger
Well, I finally had time to try transparent images again. This is important for me since it is the last factor that is keeping me from migrating totally to fpc. Actually transparent bitmaps work, but sprites (copying portions of an image transparently to the main canvas) didn't. Here is the

Re: [lazarus] Problem with transparent images

2006-12-11 Thread A.J. Venter
While I don't have an answer for you, I can add more information. GamePack development highlighted the same - as yet I could not find a sollution - but I CAN add that it ONLY seems to affect win32. Under GTK at least, transparency for sprites worked perfectly. A.J. On Monday 11 December 2006

Re: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 12/11/06, George Birbilis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't say I agree, people with experience and skills don't have the time to spend reading all those instructions etc. Downloading subversion Lazarus consists of typing 1 expression on the command prompt. This expression can be copied from

Re: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread Adrian Maier
On 12/11/06, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Birbilis schreef: All this is possible, but IMHO it is nonsense to put effort into creating such a snapshot. I think there is some intelligence test, test if people persevere enough. If a person cannot find the link to getting

[lazarus] Catching linux return code

2006-12-11 Thread Arí Ricardo Ody
I create a single program that, after capture a list of files and the name of the tar file, execute a TProcess running the Tarball program under linux(Mandriva 2006). I'm writting because I'd like to know if there is a way of catch a return code or similar to detect if there were errors in

Re: SPAM-LOW: [lazarus] Catching linux return code

2006-12-11 Thread Lee
Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: I create a single program that, after capture a list of files and the name of the tar file, execute a TProcess running the Tarball program under linux(Mandriva 2006). I'm writting because I'd like to know if there is a way of catch a return code or similar to detect

Re: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread Al Boldi
Adrian Maier wrote: On 12/11/06, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Birbilis schreef: All this is possible, but IMHO it is nonsense to put effort into creating such a snapshot. I think there is some intelligence test, test if people persevere enough. If a person

Re: [lazarus] Graphing

2006-12-11 Thread Vincent Snijders
Mark Morgan Lloyd schreef: Otherwise is there a preferred graphing library? I'm currently using Tee-Chart to plot points from a database against time, but am expecting to have to rewrite that on Delphi let alone when (finally) porting to FPC/Lazarus. I don't know Tee-Chart nor your

Re: [lazarus] Graphical Object Inheritance Tree

2006-12-11 Thread Al Boldi
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: ModelMaker is a brilliant tool and well worth learning. I just don't think is supports include files though. Then again, i don't know of any other UML tool that does either... Anyway, here is a few more... http://argouml.tigris.org/ http://www.gentleware.com/

Re: [lazarus] Trying to make TScrollingWinControl more useful...

2006-12-11 Thread Micha Nelissen
Mattias Gaertner wrote: Which Delphi apps/components depend on this? I guess not many, because Hmm. From what I remember when I made a TScrollBox with dynamically created controls in it, I needed to adjust for the Horz/VertScrollBar.Position a lot. Therefore, I'm almost certain that code would

Re: [lazarus] Problem with transparent images

2006-12-11 Thread Micha Nelissen
Andreas Berger wrote: This works perfectly in Delphi, but never worked in FPC. I finally found the problem: ClipRect is incorrect at this stage. Instead I changed line 4 to: 4 bmp.Canvas.CopyRect(Rect(0, 0, w, h), Image.Canvas, Rect(x*w, y*h, x*w+w, y*h+h)); Now transparency works.

RE: [lazarus] Trying to make TScrollingWinControl more useful...

2006-12-11 Thread Pieter Valentijn
Why not place all controls on a panel and adjust that ? Met vriendelijke groet, Pieter Valentijn Delphidreams http://www.delphidreams.nl -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Micha Nelissen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 11 december 2006 18:46 Aan: lazarus@miraclec.com

Re: [lazarus] Graphing

2006-12-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Vincent Snijders wrote: I don't know Tee-Chart nor your requirements. Did you look at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TAChart ? I have now and I'll investigate further :-) It might be some while though, at present I'm just trying to review things we might need to buy. -- Mark Morgan

Re: [lazarus] Trying to make TScrollingWinControl more useful...

2006-12-11 Thread Micha Nelissen
Pieter Valentijn wrote: Why not place all controls on a panel and adjust that ? I'm not maintaining that code anymore. My point was, that others may have done the same as me, so there might be more people depending on it than Mattias suggests. But I have no concrete figures either. Maybe some of

RE: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread George Birbilis
Somebody not patient enough to walk through the setup won't fix anything anyways. Well, I've fixed the unihighlighter (had posted the fix to the list, but never found the time to setup and then diff etc. [was too busy - now trying to make some time to send the diff, have installed laz, fpc, the

RE: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread George Birbilis
Regarding size, we could have a clever autodownloader/installer that reads a config/instructions file online from Laz site and grabs the correct FPC archive from FPC site, unpacks it etc., same with Laz files and places them were needed Yes, please implement this. I cannot wait for your

RE: [lazarus] Gambas

2006-12-11 Thread George Birbilis
The other stuff you talk about is XBRL. And if if cource accounting standaards for stock (FIFO LIFO). This is mainly about the current stock value. http://www.xbrl.org/SpecRecommendations/ This allows (for instance) to export a trailbalance in a general format than manny packages can

RE: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread George Birbilis
But it doesn't seem to be extremely hard to build something like : - the Lazarus tree is put on a ftp server - inside the tree there is a file containing (for axemple) the list of files and their md5 checksums - when a user clicks Update Lazarus , the program downloads the list of files

RE: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread George Birbilis
In fact it should be Set path=%fpcmakepath%;%path% So that the %fpcmakepath% takes precedence (the leftmost ones are checked first), in case other MAKE are in the path from MS or Borland or other tools 1) Can you please add the following batch file to the Laz source distro? Please name it

RE: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread George Birbilis
1) Can you please add the following batch file to the Laz source distro? Also, what is lazarus.exe and what startlazarus.exe? (big size difference). Why are there two? If it's for making a singleton process and starting the small one first, then closing if large one is running it's not needed,

RE: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, George Birbilis wrote: 1) Can you please add the following batch file to the Laz source distro? Also, what is lazarus.exe and what startlazarus.exe? (big size difference). Why are there two? If it's for making a singleton process and starting the small one first,

[lazarus] Interesting: Mylar

2006-12-11 Thread George Birbilis
From SD times: Mylar for Eclipse Calms Chaotic Project Views By Alex Handy A free Eclipse plug-in available today, Mylar 1.0, seeks to bring calm to chaotic and colossal development projects. Mylar swaps out traditional project views in favor

RE: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread George Birbilis
There is no singleton IDE option. Why would you want to have this ? How will you debug lazarus with itself, in such a case ? It is cause I use Windows Explorer (many people use that for organizing project files) to open files in the IDE and with Lazarus I get a new IDE running each time The

Re: [lazarus] repository

2006-12-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 12/11/06, George Birbilis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonsense. The .svn folders contain a whole copy of the files. ??? Strange, I'd expect them to contain signatures (MD5 or something) and get the whole copy from the server when needed to diff (after all the files [each one separately] aren't

[lazarus] TProcess change.

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hello, I've changed the TProcess.WaitOnExit return type to boolean; A return value of True means success, a return value of False means failure. This is a conscious break with the old DWord return value, which returned a highly inconsistent, system-dependent return value. The current solution is