Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

2018-04-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus
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 that

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

2018-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2018-04-08 21:46, Bart via Lazarus wrote: > Then if I understand the release notes correctly, the NT 4 platform is > not supported anymore. I point was, that if the NT4 support is broken simply because LCL-Win32 is now using the FlashWindowEx API, then it is pretty easy to resolve. Simply comme

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

2018-04-08 Thread Bart via Lazarus
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 7:24 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > it doesn't look like a very important/critical API call (introduced in > Windows XP). So maybe the original poster can comment out that call in > LCL-Win32, then recompile LCL and his app and see how it goes. With some > luck

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

2018-04-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2018-04-07 18:07, Bart via Lazarus wrote: >> If you'd look at the screenshot you'd see that the function FlashWindowEx is >> missing. That one is not used by the RTL or the FCL and thus must be used by >> the LCL. > > ($lazarus)\lcl\interfaces\win32\win32callback.inc appr at line 850 Accordin

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

2018-04-07 Thread Bart via Lazarus
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 8:47 AM, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: > If you'd look at the screenshot you'd see that the function FlashWindowEx is > missing. That one is not used by the RTL or the FCL and thus must be used by > the LCL. ($lazarus)\lcl\interfaces\win32\win32callback.inc appr at line 8

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

2018-04-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2018-04-07 08:41, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote: > At the very least, use W2K for > development and then test on NT4. I still to this today. Win2000 is my default Win32 development environment (when using FPC) - running in a VM of course. No nag screens, no constant license checks, super

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

2018-04-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus
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 abou

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

2018-04-06 Thread Sven Barth via Lazarus
Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus schrieb am Fr., 6. Apr. 2018, 20:29: > 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 t

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus - Windows NT4

2018-04-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
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 about Lazarus as far as I know, but more about which vers