Re: [Lazarus] Detecting anomalous DPI

On 25/02/17 18:30, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 25.02.2017 16:16, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:> But it would be very useful if a program could log the /actual/ DPI > for support purposes. You have these properties: TScreen.PixelsPerInch and TMonitor.PixelsPerInch. You sure

[Lazarus] Widget set definitions

I've got a bit of diagnostic code that I add to most programs that retrieves things like Subversion revision numbers and link-time build ID. It also contains (*$IFDEF LCLQT *) widV= 'Linked with the Qt widget set'; (*$DEFINE WIDGETSET *) (*$ENDIF *) (*$IFDEF LCLFPGUI *)

Re: [Lazarus] Widget set definitions

On 13/02/17 10:00, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 09:23:35 +Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: I've got a bit of diagnostic code that I add to most programs that > retrieves things like Subversion revision numbers and link-time

Re: [Lazarus] Semicolon checking

On 16/01/17 07:30, Lars via Lazarus wrote: On Sun, January 15, 2017 3:30 pm, Vojtěch Čihák via Lazarus wrote:> Hello, has Lazarus (CodeTools) or FPC some checking for empty commands? I> accidentally did this stupid mistake: > if ... then begin>> end else;> begin> ...> exit;>

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Version

On 08/11/16 16:30, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 15:20:22 +Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: On 08/11/16 13:30, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:> > On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 13:08:41 +0100 (CET)Michael Van Canneyt

Re: [Lazarus] Startup environment: to Gui, or not to GUI?

On 11/04/17 16:00, Henry Vermaak via Lazarus wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 01:34:35PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:> Something like this does appear to work, tested on Linux only.> > function notGui(): boolean;> > var i: integer;> > begin> i := IsaTt

Re: [Lazarus] Startup environment: to Gui, or not to GUI?

On 11/04/17 10:00, Henry Vermaak via Lazarus wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:15:16AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:> Apologies if this is an FAQ.> > Is there an orthodox way that a Lazarus program can very early on look at> how it's been started and decide wh

Re: [Lazarus] Startup environment: to Gui, or not to GUI?

On 11/04/17 11:00, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote: This question could be reformulated as "How do I dynamically determine the correct GUI to use or whether to use the nogui interface." My understanding is that Lazarus programs usually do this at link time as a result of setting the LCL_PLATFORM

[Lazarus] Startup environment: to Gui, or not to GUI?

Apologies if this is an FAQ. Is there an orthodox way that a Lazarus program can very early on look at how it's been started and decide whether it can usefully fall back to a text mode, e.g. to display help info on stdout rather than a messagebox? I'm tinkering with something (a media test

Re: [Lazarus] Startup environment: to Gui, or not to GUI?

On 11/04/17 10:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: On 11/04/17 10:00, Henry Vermaak via Lazarus wrote:> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:15:16AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:> Apologies if this is an FAQ.> > Is there an orthodox way that a Lazarus program can very e

Re: [Lazarus] How can I write to arbitrary position on device

On 12/04/17 21:30, Carlos E. R. via Lazarus wrote: Hi, I'm new on this list, so if I should post this to a different place, just tell me. I want to find a function that I can use on Linux to write a memory block to an arbitrary position on a device, say, /dev/sda or /dev/sda5 . I can do that on

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling Cudatext on RPi 3

On 14/04/17 07:30, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: Hi, I'm new to RPi 3. only byed it (sum is bigger than in Europe). Maybe someone helps to compile CudaText on RPi, ie ARM. I can distribute compiled app. as ARM version. On Raspbian i don't know how to install Lazarus, FPC, svn .. ps. I can put to

[Lazarus] "Configure Lazarus IDE" window

I'm in the middle of setting up several versions of Lazarus for test purposes on a system I use rarely. Is it possible to invoke this form from inside the IDE, please could it tell us where it's about to store the information, and could it please have a button to clone the information to a

Re: [Lazarus] Error when rebuilding the IDE in Lazarus 1.6.4, AMD64

On 05/03/17 15:00, brian via Lazarus wrote: On 03/05/2017 09:15 AM, brian666--- via Lazarus wrote:> Hi all,> > Just upgraded to the AMD 64 versions of FPC 3.02 and Lazarus 1.6.4 as> downloaded from SourceForge, I upgraded an instance of 1.6.2 (from the> same source) which was working just

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.8 RC1 under Raspbian Jessie

On 26/05/17 11:20, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2017 18:46:43 +0200, Joe via Lazarus wrote: I am trying to test Lazarus 1.8 RC1 (and following versions) under >Raspbian Jessie with PIXEL.>But unfortunately I could not find any instructions or

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.8 RC1 under Raspbian Jessie

On 26/05/17 15:02, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: On Fri, 26 May 2017 13:29:50 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus<lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: Just to check the "standard way of doing it" in case there's any >surprises, with FPC 3.0.2 installed:>>svn co

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.8 RC1 under Raspbian Jessie

On 27/05/17 09:40, Joe via Lazarus wrote: Am 26.05.2017 um 15:29 schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus:> Just to check the "standard way of doing it" in case there's any > surprises, with FPC 3.0.2 installed:>> svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags

Re: [Lazarus] (Local) variable value hints

On 06/06/17 20:00, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 06.06.2017 21:54, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:> Bearing in mind things like the %H hint that Lazarus uses to suppress > warning messages, is there anything comparable that can be applied to > a variable so that when the ID

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.8 RC1 under Raspbian Jessie

On 06/06/17 06:30, Joe via Lazarus wrote: Am 30.05.2017 um 00:36 schrieb Bo Berglund via Lazarus:> The corrected script is found here:> http://blog.boberglund.com/install_lazfpc_local_pi.sh.On Pi Zero W, using the ARMv6 option and De-de locale, i get this error message: "make: -iVSPTPSOTO

Re: [Lazarus] Startup environment: to Gui, or not to GUI?

On 11/04/17 09:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: Apologies if this is an FAQ. Is there an orthodox way that a Lazarus program can very early on look at how it's been started and decide whether it can usefully fall back to a text mode, e.g. to display help info on stdout rather than

Re: [Lazarus] How can I write to arbitrary position on device

On 13/04/17 07:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: On 12/04/17 21:30, Carlos E. R. via Lazarus wrote:> Hi,> I'm new on this list, so if I should post this to a different place,> just tell me.> I want to find a function that I can use on Linux to write a memory> block

[Lazarus] (Local) variable value hints

Bearing in mind things like the %H hint that Lazarus uses to suppress warning messages, is there anything comparable that can be applied to a variable so that when the IDE pops up a value during debugging it will always be shown in a certain format? .. end else begin euCount := cardEsu;

[Lazarus] Attaching GDB to running process

I'm sorry to have to ask this, but can somebody remind me please how to get Lazarus to attach gdb to a running program by GDB? I think I'm having a "senior moment". (Debian on x86_64 etc.) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of

Re: [Lazarus] custom thread reading file does not respond properly

On 05/09/17 13:00, Andrea Mauri via Lazarus wrote: Dear all, I have an issue using threads on OSX.Basically I have a thread reading a file and looking for a string match.I have no problem on win and linux but on osx my thread updates the form but my application does not respond.I opened a

Re: [Lazarus] Attaching GDB to running process

On 30/08/17 22:30, Cyrax via Lazarus wrote: On 31/08/17 00:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:> I'm sorry to have to ask this, but can somebody remind me please how to > get Lazarus to attach gdb to a running program by GDB? I think I'm > having a "senior moment".> &

Re: [Lazarus] "Character" -> "Codepoint" in LazUTF8 function names

On 12/12/17 16:00, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus<lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:> I think it was IBM introduced the term no later than the 80s when people> started using codepages. It might have been rel

Re: [Lazarus] "Character" -> "Codepoint" in LazUTF8 function names

On 11/12/17 22:00, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-12-11 20:11, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:> I changed "Character" to "Codepoint" in some LazUTF8 function names in> r56692. Please take a look.> "Codepoint" is more accurate and hopefully reduces confusion. I haven't looked at

Re: [Lazarus] "Character" -> "Codepoint" in LazUTF8 function names

On 12/12/17 14:15, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus<lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:> Agreed, but I hope nobody tries to retrofit any more IBMisms like "octet"> instead of "byte" :-) Where di

Re: [Lazarus] How to use two different versions of FPC

On 09/05/18 10:45, Joost van der Sluis via Lazarus wrote: Op 08-05-18 om 13:46 schreef Giuliano Colla via Lazarus:> E.G. you may have a full tree (fpc+Lazarus) in ~/development/ another > one in ~/production and a third one in ~/experiments. The main trick, as > far as fpc is concerned, is to

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE on Android (ARM and x86_64)

On 29/06/18 16:00, Paul Breneman via Lazarus wrote: On 06/24/2018 03:16 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:> On 24/06/18 01:00, Paul Breneman via Lazarus wrote:>> A couple of days ago I loaded UserLAnd on my Moto Z2 Android phone.  I >> then loaded fpc and got fpc 3.0.0 loa

[Lazarus] Lazarus IDE on Android (ARM and x86_64)

I'm aware of http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Custom_Drawn_Interface/Android and assume it's fairly current, but could somebody give me a quick summary of where Lazarus is when it comes to running the IDE etc. on a tablet? I'm in a situation elsewhere where I need to compare notes with a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE on Android (ARM and x86_64)

On 24/06/18 01:00, Paul Breneman via Lazarus wrote: A couple of days ago I loaded UserLAnd on my Moto Z2 Android phone.  I then loaded fpc and got fpc 3.0.0 loaded for AArch64.  I have this web page started:  www.turbocontrol.com/userland.htm Please try UserLAnd and report back how it works for

Re: [Lazarus] Qt WS on Raspberry pi 3

On 02/05/18 15:15, Giuliano Colla via Lazarus wrote: Hi all, before starting from scratch, and falling in the same pitfalls someone else has already learned how to avoid, is there anyone who's already successfully managed to use the Qt WS on Rasbian for a Rapberry PI 3? Thanks in advance for

Re: [Lazarus] Who is using Object Pascal in production?

On 27/10/17 12:30, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: I would like to propose a discussion about "What is the relevance ofObject Pascal nowadays".I don't want waste your time. I just want to know if we are growingand being more relevant or not. I use Object Pascal (mostly FPC, some

Re: [Lazarus] TTrackbar and Wine

On 22/12/17 15:00, Giuliano Colla via Lazarus wrote: Il giorno 22 dic 2017, alle ore 14:02, zeljko via Lazarus ha scritto:> >> On 12/22/2017 01:26 PM, Vojtěch Čihák via Lazarus wrote:>> I can confirm behavior in Wine. When you change trVertical to trHorizotal -

Re: [Lazarus] Linux: howto define file *.lpi to be opened with lazarus?

On 15/01/18 17:30, John Landmesser via Lazarus wrote: I'm on Linux-Mint Cinnamon and i want to associate *.lpi with lazarus Application: *.lpi is of Filetype XML, but we need the fileExtension *.lpi here!! found: lazarus.desktop copied:  cp '/home/john1/lazarus/install/lazarus.desktop'

Re: [Lazarus] Translating a small C program to pascal (on lazarus)

On 25/02/18 20:00, Carlos E. R. via Lazarus wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to translate a little Linux C program (600 lines) to pascal (so that I can then add my parts in comfort). I failed to find a good automated tool in Linux. I had a look here:

[Lazarus] Embedding an X11 server as a component

Is it possible to embed the main window of another program into a pane in something written using Lazarus, letting the Lazarus program provide the "furniture" functionality that's usually handled by the window manager? The scenario I'm thinking about is putting multiple instances of something

Re: [Lazarus] Building a C (or possibly C++) program into a Lazarus app

On 10/08/18 20:45, leledumbo via Lazarus wrote: I find myself wondering whether > they could be given a more friendly frontend by wrapping them in a > Lazarus app, with an on-screen keyboard similar to what's found on a > tablet etc. Sounds like my non-web hobby projects with Lazarus. Is it

[Lazarus] Building a C (or possibly C++) program into a Lazarus app

Is it possible to link a C or possibly C++ program into a Lazarus one by simply calling its main() function? Has anybody actually done this? I've got a couple of C/C++ programs which are based on stdin/stdout user interaction (no curses etc.) but have thoroughly unpleasant keyboard

Re: [Lazarus] Building a C (or possibly C++) program into a Lazarus app

On 12/08/18 20:00, leledumbo via Lazarus wrote: what's the current situation and future plans of > Lazarus as far as Android is concerned? I see mention of Laz4Android in > e.g. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Android_tutorial : is that > mainstream or is there some other preferred

Re: [Lazarus] Usage of Serial in a testing program?

On 09/09/18 12:00, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: I am writing a testing application for checking out a TCP to Serialbridge component. I am using Lazarus 1.8.0 and fpc 3.0.4 on Windows 7 For the serial port handling I found the "built-in" Serial unitdescribed

Re: [Lazarus] Usage of Serial in a testing program?

On 10/09/18 13:30, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 20:44:34 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: I did quite lot of work on the serial.pp unit more recently than that >wiki page, in fact I didn't even know it existed. Please refer to the >comments in tha

[Lazarus] Debugging Lazarus using Lazarus

When multiple copies of the same version (e.g. trunk) Lazarus are being run, with a view to stepping through a problem in IDE-related code, is there any way to force an override so that all windows associated with the "inner" copy are marked distinctively with e.g. an implausible background

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging Lazarus using Lazarus

On 07/07/18 10:45, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: On 07/07/2018 11:46, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:> When multiple copies of the same version (e.g. trunk) Lazarus are > being run, with a view to stepping through a problem in IDE-related > code, is there any way to force an ov

Re: [Lazarus] TStringGrid and cancelling a modal form

On 12/03/18 18:15, zeljko wrote: On 03/12/2018 06:25 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: Running on (Debian) Linux on AMD64 or ARM, Lazarus 1.6.4 and FPC 3.0.2, I'm seeing different behaviour depending on whether a program uses Qt or GTK2. The program changes the hardware configuration

Re: [Lazarus] TStringGrid and cancelling a modal form

On 12/03/18 17:45, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote: El 12/03/2018 a las 18:25, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus escribió:> On the main form I've got (a tabbed notebook containing multiple > instances of) a TStringGrid. The OnSelection event invokes a modal form > (containin

[Lazarus] TStringGrid and cancelling a modal form

Running on (Debian) Linux on AMD64 or ARM, Lazarus 1.6.4 and FPC 3.0.2, I'm seeing different behaviour depending on whether a program uses Qt or GTK2. The program changes the hardware configuration of a mouse (Logitech G600) using hidraw, and as such needs to run with root privilege (e.g.

Re: [Lazarus] TStringGrid and cancelling a modal form

On 13/03/18 09:00, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote: El 13/03/2018 a las 9:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus escribió:>>> Yes, the modal form appears while the mouse button is held down (for >>> both GTK2 and Qt).>>>>>>> So, yes, seem that grid expects

Re: [Lazarus] TStringGrid and cancelling a modal form

On 13/03/18 08:00, zeljko wrote: On 03/12/2018 08:05 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: On 12/03/18 17:45, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote: El 12/03/2018 a las 18:25, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus escribió:> On the main form I've got (a tabbed notebook containing multiple > ins

Re: [Lazarus] TStringGrid and cancelling a modal form

On 13/03/18 09:00, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote: El 13/03/2018 a las 9:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus escribió:>>> Yes, the modal form appears while the mouse button is held down (for >>> both GTK2 and Qt).>>>>>>> So, yes, seem that grid expects mouse

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

On 06/04/18 18:30, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2018-04-06 16:26, Reinhold via Lazarus wrote:> I compiled a lazarus project with lazarus 1.8.0 and 1.8.2. This error > occurs (s. appendix):> > With 1.6.4 is no problem.> > Is this a bug, or is Win NT4 out of time? It's not so much

Re: [Lazarus] E,bedding a terminal window in Lazarus

On 10/04/18 03:30, leledumbo via Lazarus wrote: I am considering writing an IDE package to do this, but wanted to know ifanyone knows if this has been done before AFAIK, no. Previous attempts don't embed actual terminal, but use aterminal like component with application controlled command to

Re: [Lazarus] Terminal Component Available

On 12/04/18 05:45, R0b0t1 via Lazarus wrote: Did you ever try to make it cross platform? I only ask as I have notfound a good way to embed either PowerShell or cmd.exe. I did it years ago for cmd.exe on Delphi, I think it used pipes in some form. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT.

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

On 08/04/18 21:15, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: But like I also mentioned... "you might be lucky" in that that is theonly non NT4 API. If you are not so lucky, then there might be otherAPI's that also break NT4 support. In which case it might be worth usingan older LCL version for

Re: [Lazarus] Google vs Oracle case - does it affect LCL ?

On 15/04/18 10:30, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2018-04-15 09:42, Adrian Veith via Lazarus wrote:> What do you think ? It will never concern or worry use. Why...? If Embarcadero can't evenbother, or simply can't stop Code Typhon in shipping a leaked FMXframework, why would Google,

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 2.0

On 19/09/18 12:00, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the first release candidate ofLazarus 2.0. This release was built with FPC 3.0.4.The previous release Lazarus 1.8.4 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as well. Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 2.0

Please could somebody (Martin?) review the final patch at https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=33935 which limits a hack I put in to certain widget sets (Qt will print a $00 character, GTK2 won't). I'm off-list in a couple of days time, I'll probably be able to get to Mantis before I have

Re: [Lazarus] Usage of Serial in a testing program?

On 23/09/18 08:15, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 08:39:52 +0200, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: I have now come as far in my application as I can test the way the>Serial unit opens and closes com ports.>It turns out that on Windows there are two port name syntaxes:>>Ports