[lazarus] 'Find in Files enhancements

2006-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I am thinking of enhancing the Find in File search and add a new option under Include sub directories in the lines of Ignore hidden directories. The reason for this is, I often search the Lazarus and FPC directories for certain text inside a file, and then it starts searching inside the .svn

Re: [lazarus] 'Find in Files enhancements

2006-03-16 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I am thinking of enhancing the Find in File search and add a new option under Include sub directories in the lines of Ignore hidden directories. Good idea. The reason for this is, I often search the Lazarus and FPC directories for certain text inside a file,

Re: [lazarus] No thread support error

2006-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Thanks! G. On 3/16/06, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: program Browser; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses {$IFDEF UNIX}{$IFDEF UseCThreads} The is part of the Lazarus Application template for the lpr file.. Packages requiring threading can add

[lazarus] [patch] docs - ActionList

2006-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Attached is a patch for the docs regarding the actnlist.xml file. If fixes a few spelling mistakes and better grammar. The patch needs to be applied from the /Lazarus directory. Regards, - Graeme - Index: docs/xml/lcl/actnlist.xml

[lazarus] TDateTimePicker

2006-03-16 Thread Andreas Berger
I can't seem to find an equivelant to Delphi's TDateTimePicker in Lazarus. Is there anything similar? A dropdown list that opens the calandar? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the

[lazarus] another newbie ? on DB

2006-03-16 Thread johnf
Hi, Thanks all for the recent help. I am now able to retreive data without any trouble (so far). And using a dataset allows the data aware controls to display data but I can't save the edit fields (even if I tab off the control). Everything I've read suggest that I need to set the

Re: [lazarus] TDateTimePicker

2006-03-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Andreas Berger wrote: I can't seem to find an equivelant to Delphi's TDateTimePicker in Lazarus. Is there anything similar? A dropdown list that opens the calandar? Ehm?! What about TDateEdit on the 'Misc' tab ? Michael.

Re: [lazarus] [patch] docs - ActionList

2006-03-16 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Attached is a patch for the docs regarding the actnlist.xml file. If fixes a few spelling mistakes and better grammar. The patch needs to be applied from the /Lazarus directory. Thanks. Applied. Vincent.

Re: [lazarus] TPageControl

2006-03-16 Thread m2
Lepidosteus a écrit : If you find no clean way of doing it, using OnChange to set back the page the user should watch should be okay. I know it's not a clean way, but it at least it's working. Thanks but I cannot use this. Two of the pages of the TPageControl are dialog boxes that are

[lazarus] [patch] doceditor

2006-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I attached a patch for the doceditor. It must be applied from the /Lazarus directory. Changes: 1) Fixed the Close button's Anchor properties in the About Form. When you resized the form, the button resized as well. 2) Resized the about form, so that the text regarding the copyright fits

Re: [lazarus] Version Information: your comments please

2006-03-16 Thread Marc Weustink
Jouke Rensma wrote: I've sent the mail below earlier but apparantly it did not make it. Maybe due to the attachements? I now zipped them into one (smaller) file. --- Hi all, After some strugling, re-doing and starting from scratch again, I managed to get the version information hooked into

Re: [lazarus] Making an installer

2006-03-16 Thread Tony Maro
bobby wrote: I want to include an exe, a html file, and two pictures into my exe-file done in Lazarus. The question is: if I include those 4 files into resources, and link them into my exe-file, how can I save them back to HDD from already linked executable? To make the clear picture, all of

Re: [lazarus] another newbie ? on DB

2006-03-16 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
On 3/16/06, johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks all for the recent help. I am now able to retreive data without any trouble (so far). And using a dataset allows the data aware controls to display data but I can't save the edit fields (even if I tab off the control). Everything I've

Re: [lazarus] Wiki

2006-03-16 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 3/16/06, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have added a td.working style to the css file. td.working { background-color:#88ff88; } I think we can also have: * td.partial #88 - for Partially Implemented * td.not #ff - Not Implemented * td.progress #ff - In

Re: [lazarus] Wiki

2006-03-16 Thread Vincent Snijders
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 3/16/06, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we can also have: * td.partial #88 - for Partially Implemented * td.not #ff - Not Implemented * td.progress #ff - In Progress Can you also make them centralize the text? Done.

Re: [lazarus] SQL Statement

2006-03-16 Thread Joost van der Sluis
What I missed in this question, and the one before, is the error-message you've got. It should be: 'Cannot open a non-select statement' If you had asked the question: What do I do wrong when I got: 'Cannot open a non-select statement', everyone here with some sql-knowledge would have known the

Re: [lazarus] 'Find in Files enhancements

2006-03-16 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
On 3/16/06, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: should we query the directory attributes? Can you actually create a directory on Windows with a dot in the front? This is a very funny one from microsoft. The user interface (explorer) will not let you do this... but the API will let you

Re: [lazarus] Wiki

2006-03-16 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 3/16/06, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done. ummm ... the styles don't seam to be working please check: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Road_To_1.0#Widgetset_dependent_components thanks, Felipe

Re: [lazarus] another newbie ? on DB

2006-03-16 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Just a question like this are you using a SQLQuery to get your information and display it? If yes, (from Delphi experience), you can't commit like that the changes. In Delphi the programmer required to use another object... a kind of SQLCommit (???) object and define there the required

Re: [lazarus] another newbie ? on DB

2006-03-16 Thread johnf
On Thursday 16 March 2006 13:33, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, johnf wrote: Hi, Thanks all for the recent help. I am now able to retreive data without any trouble (so far). And using a dataset allows the data aware controls to display data but I can't save the edit

[lazarus] Because I can't get SQLDB working

2006-03-16 Thread johnf
Hi, I'm now attempting to get zeoslib working. After many attempts (lots of errors due to sqlite) I got it to compile. But now I can't get it to install as a package. The first thing is Lazarus can not support dynamic packages. Then it starts compiling/rebuilding lazarus it fails with:

Re: [lazarus] before I go to far with this

2006-03-16 Thread johnf
On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:07, Joost van der Sluis wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 08:13 -0500, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: On 3/15/06, Joost van der Sluis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A varchar can hold 2000 characters in sqldb. Postgres supports up to 8192 characters in a varchar. If you really

Re: [lazarus] Because I can't get SQLDB working

2006-03-16 Thread Joost van der Sluis
I'm now attempting to get zeoslib working. After many attempts (lots of errors due to sqlite) I got it to compile. But now I can't get it to install as a package. The first thing is Lazarus can not support dynamic packages. Then it starts compiling/rebuilding lazarus it fails with:

Re: [lazarus] cut and paste on the IDE

2006-03-16 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 3/16/06, johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, SUSE 10.0. It appears that I can not paste anything into the IDE from other apps. i.e. I try to cut and paste a bit of code from the wiki and nothing happens. I also tried to use the menu commands and also nothing occurred. My guess it has

Re: [lazarus] cut and paste on the IDE

2006-03-16 Thread johnf
On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:44, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 3/16/06, johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, SUSE 10.0. It appears that I can not paste anything into the IDE from other apps. i.e. I try to cut and paste a bit of code from the wiki and nothing happens. I also tried

Re: [lazarus] cut and paste on the IDE

2006-03-16 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 3/16/06, johnf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's funny I did try to use an helper app. But of course I chose the wrong one (kate). Also, cut-and-paste should work with Firefox because it's gtk based. You are probably using konqueror or another qt based browser -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

Re: [lazarus] another newbie ? on DB

2006-03-16 Thread johnf
On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:30, Joost van der Sluis wrote: So to recap datasource1.dataset.UpdateRecord; datasource1.dataset.Post; datasource1.DataSet.close; sqlquery1.sql.Clear; sqlquery1.SQL.Text:='commit'; sqlquery1.ExecSQL sqlquery1.Close; does not work.

Re: [lazarus] analog meter component wanted

2006-03-16 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Donnerstag, den 16.03.2006, 16:18 -0700 schrieb L505: Hmm I think KOL project (for win32 only) there is one by Thaddy de Koning, maybe you could get some ideas from it and convert it to non KOL linux/win32 cross platform. http://members.chello.nl/t.koning8/kol_indicator.jpg

[lazarus] Qt graphics patch

2006-03-16 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Hello, The attached patch adds initial support for: * TBitmap * TComboBox I also attempted to add support for custom drawn components that descend from TCustomControl, but it isn't complete yet. Also the bindings were updated to version 1.0.10 thanks, Felipe qtgraphics.dif.bz2

Re: [lazarus] another newbie ? on DB

2006-03-16 Thread johnf
On Thursday 16 March 2006 13:48, Joost van der Sluis wrote: In a save button click I have the following code: datasource1.dataset.UpdateRecord; datasource1.dataset.Post; 1. Normally, a simple Post should be enough. 2. You should commit the transaction when you're completely done.

Re: [lazarus] Changing SynEdit

2006-03-16 Thread L505
Unless you have in depth knowledge about how every bit of ansistring memory management works, using getmem and freemem and pchars are simpler, no? Because you are not battling the automatic memory management. Now, if you are an expert in battling the automatic memory management