Re: [lazarus] fpDoc & LazDoc vs pasDoc

2006-07-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Thanks! BTW: I just ran fpdoc against my code and the html didn't look like the FPC or Lazarus documentation. A close look at the HTML, I noticed that it is referring to a non-existent fpdoc.css stylesheet. Is fpdoc supposed to create that on th

Re: [lazarus] fpDoc & LazDoc vs pasDoc

2006-07-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I comment my code using the pasDoc syntax and generate HTML files. I am thinking of moving over to fpDoc & LazDoc, but have a few questions. What happens to the documentation when I refactor my code? Example: Move classes to another unit, or

Re: [lazarus] Developing Linux application

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Petr Hlozek wrote: Hi, I'm developing Linux application and I need install some share data. How should I work with these data in program? Can I use direct path to data (/usr/share/myapp/data)? Yes, although I would recommend that you make this a configuration option for

Re: [lazarus] Gdk-error on launching lazarus

2006-07-01 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Chris Kirkpatrick wrote: > Hi folks - > > New installation of Mepis 6 (with ububtu kernel) on Toshiba satellite - 512MB > RAM > Latest libgdk-pixbuf-dev from Debian repository > Latest libgtk2 > > latest subversion fpc and lazarus - both compile OK > > on launching lazatus

RE: [lazarus] Event declaration problem

2006-06-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, George Birbilis wrote: user. I understand that it first tries to parse the right side and throws this error though, since one could have also written proc1+proc2 there, but having an extra precheck for the case of :=proc wouldn't hurt I think (or if it doesn't stop on fi

RE: [lazarus] lazarus licensing

2006-06-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, George Birbilis wrote: I'm afraid that since FPC is GPL, than Lazarus can't be LGPL, but has to be GPL too, including all other code that is compiled using FPC (since compiled code contains the FPC runtime). Unless that is you compile Lazarus using Delphi, but not sure i

RE: [lazarus] lazarus licensing

2006-06-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, George Birbilis wrote: Pages like the VMWare page recently posted on this thread mention FPC as GPL, so did other posts, that's why I commented on this. So the only part of FPC that is GPL is the tokenizer/parser/compiler itself? The compiler itself is GPL, the RTL is mo

RE: [lazarus] lazarus licensing

2006-06-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, George Birbilis wrote: I'm afraid that since FPC is GPL, than Lazarus can't be LGPL, but has to be GPL too, including all other code that is compiled using FPC (since compiled code contains the FPC runtime). Unless that is you compile Lazarus using Delphi, but not sure if

Re: [lazarus] Any king of IsNumeric() function arround?

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/6/29, Matt Henley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Which include is tryTextToFloat in? There is actually TryStrToFloat... but I can't find any TryTextToFloat. My mistake. It should have been TryStrToFloat... Michael. ___

Re: [lazarus] I'm looking for a Image library...

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/6/29, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > I see that there are no actual TFPImage superclass that can detect the > file type; but many T[JPG,PNG,PNM,TGA,BMPXPM,...]Image classe

Re: [lazarus] I'm looking for a Image library...

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/6/28, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for an image library that could open and display jpg, png, > bmp. Then with this class be ab

Re: [lazarus] I'm looking for a Image library...

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for an image library that could open and display jpg, png, > bmp. Then with this class be able to convert that in a standard > TBitmap so that I can draw in canvas, etc. > > If the class can be brilliant (auto-detect the f

Re: [lazarus] Any king of IsNumeric() function arround?

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Alain Michaud wrote: > Hi, > > excuse my naive questions again, but what is wrong with val() Val does not take into account the value of DecimalSeparator. Michael. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Any king of IsNumeric() function arround?

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > 2006/6/27, Alexandre Leclerc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've looked in many rtl units for a IsNumeric() like function. Any > > arround or I should code one? > > Ok, TextToFloat will do the trick. :) Better, use TryTextToFloat - it saves you an excep

Re: [lazarus] fpGui and fpGfx

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Anybody know the history of these two projects? Why was the development stopped? Lack of time. I still think a custom lightweight toolkit for FPC and Lazarus will be great. No dependency on large toolkits, looks the same on all platform

Re: [lazarus] Problem porting an application

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Nathan Samson wrote: > sorry for not giving the errors > > OtherMethod.pas(114,19) Error: Identifier not found "FindIntToIdent" > OtherMethod.pas(127,18) Error: Identifier not found "FindIdentToInt" Where does this function 'FindIntToIdent' come from ? It's not a standard

Re: [lazarus] Problem porting an application

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Nathan Samson wrote: > Hi all > > I'm porting an application from delphi to lazarus/FPC > Most things are allright, but I have some problems with porting the > following code: > > function PropertyToString(obj: TPersistent; PropName: string): string; > var > IntToIdent: T

Re: [lazarus] lazarus licensing

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Darius Blaszijk wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 7:34 PM > Subject: Re: [lazarus] lazarus licensing > > > > On 6/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Wh

Re: [lazarus] lazarus licensing

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Carlo Kok wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm having some questions about the licensing of Lazarus. According to > >> the

Re: [lazarus] lazarus licensing

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having some questions about the licensing of Lazarus. According to the docs supplied lazarus sourcecode is GPLed. Does this mean that the IDE binary is too? Is this automatically the case always? Yes. In my company I got the question t

Re: [lazarus] Pascal IS obsolete. Let's drop it.

2006-06-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Giuliano Colla wrote: > > My point was that the name must carry the idea. The name Delphi doesn't. Indeed. I mentioned only yesterday that I can program in Object Pascal. The Delphi programmer in front of me asked: 'Yes, but can you program in delphi' ? :-) Michael. ___

Re: [lazarus] Patch for fpcunit

2006-06-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Darius Blaszijk wrote: > Here's a patch for the guitestrunner form for fpcunit. I have added a synedit > XML highlighter and done some anchoring. > > Q: is fpcunit inspired on dunit or is it actually derived from some version > of dunit? I have briefly glanced at dunit an

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus/Freepascal Propaganda

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > How about changing the word "propaganda" to "Marketing". For me that word > > has > > a negative conation. To me "propaganda" implies lying and "Marketing" > > implies spreading the word or message. > > To me propaganda implies lying by a

Re: [lazarus] pascal is obsolete?

2006-06-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Regular expressions are great for simple text conversions. I use them very often, except when I need speed. Under Perl you can create a Trim function easily, but because Perl's regex are faster compared to other operations, your choice will be nearl

Re: [lazarus] pascal is obsolete?

2006-06-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, ik wrote: OK I'll answer everything from this email ... On 6/16/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >>>> 3. Better/Faster IO usage ;) >>> >>> Better designed I/

Re: [lazarus] pascal is obsolete?

2006-06-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: 3. Better/Faster IO usage ;) Better designed I/O libraries/classes ? Better way to control the I/O buffering etc... so we will not need to "hack" our way to have bigger container then 255 chars... Perhaps even better: Automatically adapting t

RE: [lazarus] pascal is obsolete?

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, William Cairns wrote: Why have their never been any successful Pascal dirivitive languages? Because pascal is perfect. Why change a perfect language ? Michael. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lazarus] Running only one instance of the program

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Andreas Berger wrote: Does Lazarus have a cross-platform way of guaranteeing that only one instance of the program can run? I know how to do this in windows but would like to use a cross-platform approach for my Lazarus apps. It would also be nice (but not necessary) if

Re: [lazarus] Problem with TRegistry

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Andreas Berger wrote: I have a routine that I have been using for years in Delphi to read the registry. However, it does not work with Lazarus. I looked at the Lazarus sources and examples and it seems that Lazarus uses it the same as Delphi. Can someone please tell me w

Re: [lazarus] c faster than pascal? was: Compiling GlScene ...

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Thierry Coq (Personnel) wrote: Hello, can't you increase the I/O size? I've tested large-scale I/O buffers (80K and over) with pascal with 4x the speed of C or C++ code. Not on the FPC compiler, though. Use SetTextBuffer() from the system unit. You can set any size yo

RE: [lazarus] c faster than pascal? was: Compiling GlScene ...

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, George Birbilis wrote: This would raise a simple basic question... why FPC doesn't also use 4K buffer? If it'd improve I/O performance a lot. Any specific technical reasons why FPC decide to allocate 256 byte for I/O buffer? Yes. TP compatibility. The "Text" internal r

Re: [lazarus] offline help system

2006-06-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Tom Verhoeff wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:32:05AM +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: > > > > > Bisma Jayadi wrote: > > > > > > > 2. After download, I copy FCL, LCL, and RTL folder to local > > > > Lazarus docs folder (mine in c:\programs\laza

Re: [lazarus] c faster than pascal? was: Compiling GlScene ...

2006-06-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Bisma Jayadi wrote: Yes. TP compatibility. The "Text" internal record contains the buffer. Can we have 255 byte buffer works only on TP mode? While on other modes (DELPHI/OBJFPC) is using 4 KB buffer as the default. At the moment, I don't see how we could do this. Mic

Re: [lazarus] c faster than pascal? was: Compiling GlScene ...

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Bisma Jayadi wrote: > > All you do is compare standard IO performance. You don't compare the > > compiled code's speed. > > I know. But I/O performance benchmarking is one of the basic language > comparison item. When you want to participate on ACM contest > (http://acm.uva

Re: [lazarus] c faster than pascal? was: Compiling GlScene ...

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Have a look at the following... http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602 Nine Language Performance Round-up: Benchmarking Math & File I/O It compares C#, C, C++, VB, etc... I ported the benchmark to Delphi (not tested under FPC but should be

Re: [lazarus] c faster than pascal? was: Compiling GlScene ...

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Bisma Jayadi wrote: Actually, C isn't faster. That's a Myth (tm) Is there any scientific proof of this and written by a really known good c or pascal programmer? Any URLS? I just can't say it without a real acceptable proof. Even the language-shoutout website still sho

Re: [lazarus] Trouble installing Lazarus 0.9.16 under VMWare appliance running Fedora Core 5

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: When I try to compile a classic "Hello World" program after install the packages of FPC 2.0.2(i'm going to install Lazarus 0.9.16 under this VMWare appliance running Fedora Core 5, I hope) I receive the message I show in the console screen snapshot

[lazarus] Lazarus installation for VMWare !

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
See: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/339 Congratulations to the Lazarus team. Recognition on it's way :-) Michael. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject a

Re: [lazarus] Error in the first compilation

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:49:12 -0300 "Arí Ricardo Ody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to install Lazarus in a Fedora Core 5 under VMWare. I install the fpcsrc e fpc via fedora package install. when I try to compile the classic "Hello world" pr

Re: [lazarus] About ReadlnFromStream in ide/wutils.pas

2006-06-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > 2006/6/8, Alexandre Leclerc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Rewrite causes no problems, but I don't know if it works or not > > because TMemoryStrem.SaveToFile() is not saving anything... :S can't > > find any file... > > Correction, I found the file; I w

Re: [lazarus] About ReadlnFromStream in ide/wutils.pas

2006-06-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > 2006/6/7, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Var > > M : TStream; > > F : Text; > > l : String; > > > > begin > > M:=TMyStream.Create; > > Try > > AssignStream(F,M); > &g

Re: [lazarus] Doubt about DirectoryExists

2006-06-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: The command "if DirectoryExists ('\\Japi1\bradesco\Publico\Conversão COOLGEN\Acompanhamento\LOG')" returns false, although the network directory "\\Japi1\bradesco\Publico\Conversão COOLGEN\Acompanhamento\LOG" exists. Text property of a TDirectoryEd

Re: [lazarus] MySQL Date Fields

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 6/7/06, Joost van der Sluis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > International ISO 8601 date time format and use a string field to > store the value. > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html > > For storage we use: mmddThhmmss eg: 20060606

Re: [lazarus] empty TDateEdit

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Fernando Kochhann wrote: Someone have a idea about this? Strange. The Delphi version of this component has that property. I assumed it was implemented here as well... Michael. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EM

Re: [lazarus] About ReadlnFromStream in ide/wutils.pas

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/6/7, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So readln / writeln is not possible with streams. This is a problem. > I'm actually loading a file, but I wanted to use streams internally to > increase flexibility; I migh

Re: [lazarus] About ReadlnFromStream in ide/wutils.pas

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: 2006/6/7, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > Well, I tought to improve the function by: > > while not WeHaveGotALine > ReadBufferChunk > ParseForEol > -

Re: [lazarus] About ReadlnFromStream in ide/wutils.pas

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: Well, I tought to improve the function by: while not WeHaveGotALine ReadBufferChunk ParseForEol - ReadMoreBufferIfRequired - SetStreamPositionWhereWeFoundEolToContinueThereLater You can't do that, because not all streams support positioning (en-/

Re: [lazarus] About ReadlnFromStream in ide/wutils.pas

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: I was looking for such a function and ask myself: - is it available in another unit in lcl so that I can use that in my app? - why not add TStream.Readln/Writeln directly? Whould be much better. And very inefficient, because you can only read 1 ch

Re: [lazarus] New function proposal in strutils: DecodeCSVStr()

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, David Nicolás Abdala wrote: Hi all, here is the CSV decoding function. I have a problem with the array of string as the compiler is saying the type is not good when trying the SetLength(a). I must create a type for this. Now I submit this procedure (because a function c

Re: [lazarus] JCL and JVCL

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Bogusław Brandys wrote: > George Birbilis wrote: > > Has anybody managed to "pot" JCL and maybe JVCL too to Lazarus? > > Plus Turbo Power set of components (Orpheus,Abbrevia,B-Filer SQL database,XML > Parner,LockBox,OnGuard etc) Abbrevia works. Lockbox too. Onguard I never

Re: [lazarus] Fwd: Question about memory leaks with array of string

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > 2006/6/6, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, David Nicolás Abdala wrote: > > > > > > > >> Since the fpc list is down, I post my message her

Re: [lazarus] empty TDateEdit

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Fernando Kochhann wrote: > Why TDateEdit can't be empty? Executing my software, when I leave the > TDateEdit and it's empty the today's date is inserted automatically! But > I need it empty. > And the calendar of TDateEdit is confused, the days of the week are > overlapped, b

Re: [lazarus] New function proposal in strutils: DecodeCSVStr()

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > Hi all, > > here is the CSV decoding function. I have a problem with the array of > string as the compiler is saying the type is not good when trying the > SetLength(a). I must create a type for this. This is perfectly normal; otherwise the a: arra

Re: [lazarus] Fwd: Question about memory leaks with array of string

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, David Nicolás Abdala wrote: Since the fpc list is down, I post my message here... -- Forwarded message -- From: Alexandre Leclerc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05.06.2006 17:27 Subject: Question about memory leaks with array of string To: FPC-Pascal users di

Re: [lazarus] Function to parse valid CSV string?

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, ik wrote: I might be wrong here, but as far as I remember, in CSV the first line tells us what is the seperator of fields, and only if there is no such line, you need to assume that it is ",". Not necessarily. This depends on the application that created the file. Someti

Re: [lazarus] Looking for a "pos in array" like funciton.

2006-06-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a string function that would return the position in an > array where the string is found. I was about to code it, but I told > myself to ask if such a function already exist in the lcl or fcl, etc. > > Here a pseudo-cod

Re: [lazarus] More generic RPM for SuSE and FedoraCore

2006-06-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 11:56 +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:47:10 +0200 > > Joost van der Sluis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 20:32 +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > I created a new laza

RE: [lazarus] procedure TObject.Free

2006-06-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, David Nicolás Abdala wrote: > >> >> It happens when you try to free an object which either you didn't > >> >> create, or you've already set free. > >> > > >> > Only when the pointer to the object is containin nil. This > >> is not the > >> > case if you free an object and als

Re: [lazarus] procedure TObject.Free

2006-06-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Al Boldi wrote: > > > > A useful shorthand for A.Free; A := nil; isFreeAndNil(A); > > Similarly, A.Free; is a shorthand for if A<>nil then A.Destroy; > > > > As the example shows, the programmer has to take care that once a object > > is freed, none of the poi

Re: [lazarus] Laarus 0.9.16 e Suse

2006-06-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, John E Briggs wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:59:39PM +0200, Lord Satan wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:10:02 +0200 (CEST) > > Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 4

Re: [lazarus] Laarus 0.9.16 e Suse

2006-06-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Lord Satan wrote: > > Also gtk1 appears to have gone away in this version. I also read > > that Fedora is dropping gtk1. > > > According to this page > http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/suselinux/index_all.html gtk1 is > still part of OpenSUSE 10.1. > So you

Re: [lazarus] SourceEditor improvements

2006-06-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 07:09:43 +0300 > Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > Al Boldi wrote: > > > > The SourceEditor currently has the ability to search in files by > > > > searching a complete directory hierarchy.

Re: [lazarus] procedure TObject.Free

2006-06-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Al Boldi wrote: > Flavio Etrusco wrote: > > On 6/3/06, Al Boldi wrote: > >> In the fpc-rtl there is something like this: > >> > >> procedure TObject.Free; > >> begin > >> if self<>nil then self.destroy; > >> end; > >> > >> Does this make sense? i.e. How is it possible for

Re: [lazarus] Does 'inlike;' means what I thnik?

2006-06-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > I just saw the 'inline' reserved work... It's weird, I code in Delphi > since 1997 and I never got in toutch with that. This is a discovery > for me! :) > > So if I declare: > function Max(const a, b: Integer): Integer; inline; > begin > if a > b

Re: [lazarus] Setting up help system

2006-05-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Christian U. wrote: > > > I think, in 0.9.16 we can have an help system that works. > > > I tried to set up those in windows: > > > As i dont have an perl interpreter installed ive searched for an > compiled > > > version of the docs but i dont found one ! > > > > Why woul

Re: [lazarus] Setting up help system

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Christian U. wrote: > I think, in 0.9.16 we can have an help system that works. > I tried to set up those in windows: > As i dont have an perl interpreter installed ive searched for an compiled > version of the docs but i dont found one ! Why would you need perl ? Michae

Re: [lazarus] A Studio IDE layout

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Al Boldi wrote: This form implements a Studio-style IDE layout in contrast to the current VB-style. It's a Delphi style, not VB :-) Michael. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] starting Python script from Lazarus

2006-05-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Zlatko Matic wrote: > What about komponent SynPythonSyn1: TSynPythonSyn in SynEdit pallete? > For what is it used? Syntax highlighting Python source code. Michael. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [lazarus] data files ~ cross platform

2006-05-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Dale Welch wrote: > Is there a tutorial on how to set up your options files and data files > for cross platform compatibility as to where to store them? > > I have a simple program (for now hangman, others in the works) > but i want the user to be able to offer alternati

Re: [lazarus] linux sql tool

2006-05-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 5/26/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Events are something you must define in the interbase database itself. It's a construct specific to Interbase/firebird. Oh, so that is not the same as monitoring the activit

Re: [lazarus] linux sql tool

2006-05-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 5/26/06, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about Flamerobin ? 2 out of 2! Thanks, busy downloading it now... Thanks guys! FlameRobin is exactly what I was looking for. Simple and easy to use and it works. Not to mention,

Re: [lazarus] linux sql tool

2006-05-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Does anybody know of a decent (even a half decent one will do) sql tool for GNU/Linux that can connect to a Firebird database. By that I mean one that I can write and execute sql statements. What about Flamerobin ? I don't need a DB admin

Re: [lazarus] New Standard forms

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 5/25/06, Borut Maricic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would like to create a new template form with added > > > > functionality above what > > > > TForm offers, but I do not have the faintest clue as to how to > > > > write it or how > > >

Re: [lazarus] New Standard forms

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Alex du Plessis wrote: > Hi > > I would like to create a new template form with added functionality above what > TForm offers, but I do not have the faintest clue as to how to write it or how > to make it available at design time. > > Can anybody point me in the right dire

Re: [lazarus] Dynamic Library on Linux??

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 23 May 2006, David Nicolás Abdala wrote: > Sorry for what I'm going to write, but.. > > when I try to doit from the command line (with ld ¿rigth?) I get a lot of > 'unknown reference', and really don't know wich directory to point at.. You'll have to send a more complete list of errors

Re: [lazarus] Dynamic Library on Linux??

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 23 May 2006, David Nicolás Abdala wrote: > >> Is possible to develop dynamic libraries for Linux with Lazarus?? If the > >> answer is Yes (have my fingers cross!!) How do I load them?? (I can't > >> find > >> the dlopen, or equivalent, function). > > > > - dlopen and friends are in dynli

Re: [lazarus] Dynamic Library on Linux??

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 23 May 2006, David Nicolás Abdala wrote: Hi, all I can't access the lazarus site (the forum nor the mailing list archives), and can't find any information relate to how to load libraries in linux. I'm trying to make a dynamic library under Linux but I get the .o generated not the .s

Re: [lazarus] Compiling, outside lazarus environment

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 5/23/06, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any options, that lazarus adds, when compiling ... or so ? The IDE creates a *.compiled files with the options. Just copy the options from this file and adjust the paths for your

Re: [lazarus] contemplating future of Lazarus in context of Mono and dotGNU

2006-05-20 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 20 May 2006, L505 wrote: > > I come with a different point of view to Lazarus. I want to build projects > > that first feed my family and second please my sense of right. > > All of us who think this way should start a group/joint endeavor together > because I am > voting for the sam

Re: [lazarus] Speedbutton property transparant default value should be false.

2006-05-19 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Marien van Westen wrote: Delphi compatibility. Delphi compatability is not the issue here I think. The strange thing is that speedbuttons don't have borders in the designer, but at runtime the borders show when the mouse is over the speedbutton. This is standard beh

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Lv wrote: So if you guys want to change the name, where does it leave users like me presenting papers at conferences and citing Lazarus in technical papers as my software of choice? I am asked a lot what software I use and I explicitly promote Lazarus/FPC. This thread ma

Re: [lazarus] why there is no win32 component tab?

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 15 May 2006, roozbeh gholizadeh wrote: Well.i just also saw a post on forums,somebody asking why there is no richedit components,and answers was it is not availble on other platforms? I was wondering is it against lazarus policies to have components for specefic oses/interfaces?shou

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Mon, 15 May 2006, Marc Santhoff wrote: For most things like shell scripts (don't hit me ;) I use JEdit. What I really love is having the "Pos1" key jumping to the start of the indented text o

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Marc Santhoff wrote: Am Sonntag, den 14.05.2006, 23:15 +0200 schrieb Mattias Gaertner: The IDE is not only form designing. Many people would like to use one IDE for all of their source - pascal GUIs, php/html/js webpages, c++ tools/libs, perl/python/bash scripts ... We ha

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Ido Kanner wrote: > > Nicholas Wirth once said that a language requires good name (I don't recall > the > exact quote), without a good name the language will fail. In that case he did a poor PR job, obviously. > > Personally, I belive that we need to kill the name "Pasc

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Ales Katona wrote: > Lazarus might not be the best of names but neither is Delphi and > especialy not Gambas (which sounds extremely moronic). > > Delphi is a stupid name too, it's just marketing which got it to the > position it has. Amen to that :-) If Lazarus puts pasc

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 14 May 2006, m2 wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt a écrit : > > People taking offense at this name only make themselves ridiculous. > > I refuse to take that (or them) serious. ( Yes, and I will take the > > risk that I will burn eternally in hell for this ;-) ) > &g

Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Flávio Etrusco wrote: > On 5/13/06, Tony Maro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > > On 5/13/06, johnf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > They printed an article on "Gambas". In Spanish it means > > > > shrimp. > > > > > > On portuguese, G

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Marc Santhoff wrote: > Am Samstag, den 13.05.2006, 16:20 +0200 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > > > > On Sat, 13 May 2006, Thierry Andriamirado wrote: > > > > > Le samedi 13 mai 2006 à 09:57 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt a écrit : > > >

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > On 5/13/06, Thierry Andriamirado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But 'many' (all!) translators use .po editors. If apps produced by > >> fpc/lazarus doesn't support .po and .mo formats, they'll never be > >> tr

[lazarus] Request for PR noise !

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hello, I am a long-time reader of Linux Journal. Once, a long time ago, an offer of mine to write about Free Pascal in Linux Journal was turned down (actually, shunted to Linux gazette). I was therefore quite shocked when I discovered that in the latest issue of Linux Journal, Gambas is covere

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Thierry Andriamirado wrote: > Le samedi 13 mai 2006 à 09:57 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt a écrit : > > > Same goes for docs... I agree that we should make some modifications for > > tranlations, but I don't think that .po files are the way to g

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:07:28PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > Not for the initial format either: > You have to insert the tag: > > > > > rdate=200613050135 > >> > > blah-blah > > blah

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: There is no need to use a .po file format for this. For the final product, no. I really intended to obtain html _AND_ any other suitable for browse/search format like chm or pdf or info or whatever you like. Not for the initial format either: bl

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Luiz Americo wrote: I did more tests, all give comparable results: sqlite is very fast for simple stuff. Your results are comparable from one made without index published in sqlite wiki, but when using index, according to the test, sqlite compares to the other. Obvio

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:33:02PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I think the po2xml is just used to translate the program strings which

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:33:02PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I think the po2xml is just used to translate the program strings which appear in the docs (used to refer to button captions etc), not for the actual documentation text. Wrong. It is

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus Help System Requirements

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Bogusaw Brandys wrote: Micha Nelissen wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: they use inside the *.jar files (html, straight xml or odt ...) and what viewer they use for the help. They do use the Berkeley Database for indexes, keywork search and extended tooltips. Berkeley D

Re: [lazarus] New help doc format?

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Luiz Americo wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt escreveu: > > > sqlite is good candidate too (multiplatform,single file,fast, only > > > one > > > dll/so required) > > > > > > > Sorry, but no: > > - No external depen

Re: [lazarus] Suggestions for Improvement

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 11 May 2006, [UTF-8] Bogusław Brandys wrote: > As an answer just look into way in which wxWidgets framework is > developed - XML based dialogs in zip file and totally separate source > code (with only some functions to load and initiate dialogs). > Completely separated GUI and logical

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