[lazarus] Object Inspector and combobox controls

2005-12-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Is anybody else experiencing this? In the Object Inspector, any property than uses a ComboBox to display selection values, the ComboBox is bigger (in height) than the height of the property. All other property types seem to draw correctly in the available space (eg: Edit box). See

Re: [lazarus] Object Inspector and combobox controls

2005-12-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Is anybody else experiencing this? In the Object Inspector, any property than uses a ComboBox to display selection values, the ComboBox is bigger (in height) than the height of the property. All other property types seem to draw correctly in the available space

Re: [lazarus] Object Inspector and combobox controls

2005-12-28 Thread Micha Nelissen
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:10:18 +0100 Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is, that the combobox cannot be resized in windows, it has a fixed height, which depends on the font size. You can change the height of the object inspect items in Environment Options - Object

Re: [lazarus] Object Inspector and combobox controls

2005-12-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Vincent Snijders wrote: The problem is, that the combobox cannot be resized in windows, it has a fixed height, which depends on the font size. You can change the height Ok, I see what you mean about the resizing issue, but how does Delphi manage it? See the attached image from Delphi's OI.

Re: [lazarus] unitinfodlg

2005-12-28 Thread dhkblaszyk
Graeme, Thank you for taking the time. 1) Maybe you should limit the minimum size the dialog can be resized. It makes no sense being able to resize it smaller so you cannot see the text and no scrollbars appear. Do not limit the maximum size though! Fixed 2) The Show CodeTools Values button

Re: [lazarus] unitinfodlg

2005-12-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Darius Blaszijk wrote: What are the design guides of win32 and osx? Isn't that more or less subject to personal taste? On win32 at least I've seen many different interpretations of good GUI design. OSX I don't know of, but for all Each of those OS's have their own official set of GUI design

Re: [lazarus] RoundRect calculation error

2005-12-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
Markku Niskanen wrote: I found The RoundRect creation very problematic and just to test whether it is me or the math functions I ran the Delphi help file example application and it resulted in External SIGFPE just like my own application. If anybody happens to find a decent routine for

Re: [lazarus] RoundRect calculation error

2005-12-28 Thread Markku Niskanen
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:53:51 +0100, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + a := (Rect.Right - Rect.Left) / 2; + b := (Rect.Bottom - Rect.Top) / 2; Being a linguist I must confess that my graph math skills are probably worse than anybody else's but I do know that division by zero is not

Re: [lazarus] RoundRect calculation error

2005-12-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
Markku Niskanen wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:53:51 +0100, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + a := (Rect.Right - Rect.Left) / 2; + b := (Rect.Bottom - Rect.Top) / 2; Being a linguist I must confess that my graph math skills are probably worse than anybody else's but I do know

Re: [lazarus] RoundRect calculation error

2005-12-28 Thread Markku Niskanen
Maybe it is better to look, why EccentricAngle is equal to zero. Has a similar You are absolutely correct. I just changed that to get a bit further with the application and the real cause should be tracked down. Well, there is something funny going on with the RoundRect, anyhow. The smaller the

Re: [lazarus] different dpi settings

2005-12-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Mattias Gaertner wrote: 96dpi is 75x25 pixels, and at 120dpi (125% bigger), let's say 125% as big :) Oops! At least you got what I meant... :) The IDE supports many languages and themes. A button depends on its text, font and border. Scaling won't help much. We need better autosize

[lazarus] zeos

2005-12-28 Thread Nicolás López de Lerma Aymerich
hello! When installing zeos libs in I complete lazarus/fpc of cvs and compiles well, but when reinitiating lazarus leaves east error: Runtime error 210 at $08055819 $08055819 $0851D9A6 ZVARIANT_init, line 1486 of /home/nicolas/lazarus/components/zeos/src/core/ZVariant.pas $08061AFD

Re: [lazarus] Compiling Lazarus for Gnome

2005-12-28 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, What are the requirements to compile Lazarus (latest svn version) for Gnome? I keep getting this error while linking: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 I am using Ubuntu 5.10. I have installed every -devel package I could find... eg: libgnome-dev, gnome-devel,

[lazarus] Re: Compiling Lazarus for Gnome

2005-12-28 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I can compile for Gtk and Gtk2 (this one is very buggy and keeps crashing) just fine, but no luck with Gnome. You don't need to compile Lazarus itself. Compile only the LCL. Go on Tools -- Configure Build Lazarus, set the LCL to clean+build and everything else to

[lazarus] Re: Compiling Lazarus for Gnome

2005-12-28 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I keep getting this error while linking: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 I have the package db1-1.85-10mdk in my computer if it helps. I don't have the corresponding devel package, but I got gnome to work anyway. Felipe

[lazarus] Re: Compiling Lazarus for Gnome

2005-12-28 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I keep getting this error while linking: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 My bad! I do have db1-devel installed ^^ It must be this package that you need. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with