Re: [lazarus] DOS platform conditional defines

2008-01-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Marco Alvarado wrote: > Hello! In Free Pascal Compiler 2.0.4, is there a conditional define I > could check for DOS platform? I was looking around Google, but no > luck. If anyone can give me a link for the whole list of conditional > that will be even more appreciated! See

Re: [lazarus] Delphi/Lazarus comparison by Codegear

2008-01-18 Thread Gerard N/A
On Jan 18, 2008 8:46 AM, Dave Coventry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it was licensing issues that brought me away from Delphi. > > I have Delphi 3 Standard and I still code with it, I never upgraded to > 4 because it had a bad re tion, when 5 came out they had changed > the license so that yo

Re: [lazarus] Delphi/Lazarus comparison by Codegear

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Coventry
On Jan 18, 2008 10:03 AM, Gerard N/A wrote: > Uh? This would mean that I've been distributing apps illegally made with pro > versions for years. Are you sure? > Reasonably sure. I read the licensing stuff a few years back and I could be wrong, but that's how I understood it. If anyone has info

Re: [lazarus] Delphi/Lazarus comparison by Codegear

2008-01-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Jan 18, 2008 9:37 AM, Dave Coventry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anyone has information on this, I'm happy to stand corrected. You can just ask on borland.delphi.non-tech newsgroup and get an answer from CodeGear. Anyway, I find that impossible. Who would buy an IDE with which you can't red

Re: [lazarus] ToDo List not working in IDE

2008-01-18 Thread Gerard N/A
I added two reports with patches in the bug tracker, both for the parsing issue (10650) and the comment (10651).

Re: [lazarus] DOS platform conditional defines

2008-01-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Damien Gerard wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Marco Alvarado wrote: > > > > > Hello! In Free Pascal Compiler 2.0.4, is there a conditional define I > > > could check for DOS platform? I was looking aroun

Re: [lazarus] DOS platform conditional defines

2008-01-18 Thread Damien Gerard
On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Marco Alvarado wrote: Hello! In Free Pascal Compiler 2.0.4, is there a conditional define I could check for DOS platform? I was looking around Google, but no luck. If anyone can give me a link for the whole list of

Re: [lazarus] Delphi/Lazarus comparison by Codegear

2008-01-18 Thread Gerard N/A
I just read Dephi 7 Pro (I don't have earlier versions installed anymore) license.txt and deploy.txt and it says I can freely distribute my compiled apps, along with some Borland binary files (runtime packages, BDE, Active X Controls) The only restrictions are for some of the runtime packages (Main

Re: [lazarus] Delphi/Lazarus comparison by Codegear

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Coventry
Is that the Standard Edition? I have the Delphi 3 Standard Edition which allows me to distribute apps. I believe that subsequent Upgrades split into 'Standard Edition' and 'Enterprise Edition'. The Enterprise Edition allowed you to distribute your apps, but the Standard Edition added certain res

Re: [lazarus] SVN

2008-01-18 Thread Marc Weustink
Stephano wrote: Vincent Snijders wrote: Can you try with svn2.freepascal.org? Same problem with http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk! Moreover, http://svn.freepascal.org:8080/svn/lazarus/trunk and Ah, I guess that since the rebuild of the svnserver is doesn't listen to 8080 anymore

Re: [lazarus] Delphi/Lazarus comparison by Codegear

2008-01-18 Thread Gerard N/A
On Jan 18, 2008 10:21 AM, Dave Coventry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is that the Standard Edition? No, it's the Professional edition. > > I have the Delphi 3 Standard Edition which allows me to distribute apps. > > I believe that subsequent Upgrades split into 'Standard Edition' and > 'Enterpr

Re: [lazarus] SVN

2008-01-18 Thread Stephano
John wrote: I don't know about SVN, but with TortoiseSVN open the "settings" panel and go to the network item, and there is a sheet to fill in just like browser settings. Works for me via a squid proxy cache. (But not necessarily at the moment, I haven't updated for a few weeks). Same beh

Re: [lazarus] SVN

2008-01-18 Thread Stephano
Marc Weustink wrote: The other svn repositories you mentioned, are they too on the default http port 80 (and have you recently accessed them )? Now things have gone back to normal! I can access FPC & Lazarus svn again :) The working svn urls are (at the time FPC & Lazarus svn were out of reac

RE: [lazarus] Problem with printing

2008-01-18 Thread Hess, Philip J
>From cupsdyn.pp: cupsLibs :Array[0..MaxcupsLibs] of string = ('libcups.so', 'libcups.so.2', '/usr/lib/libcups.dylib'); InitializeCups exits after loading one of these libraries, trying each one in th

Re: [lazarus] BerkeleyDB in Lazarus

2008-01-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:16:24AM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:12:23PM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > BerkeleyDB is supported in Lazarus? > > > > > > Not unless you translate the C headers... > > >

Re: [lazarus] Patch for processing WM_COPYDATA in Win32 / BugID 9210

2008-01-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Lukas Gradl wrote: > I, for example, needed it to talk to some external application > remote-controlled by WM_COPYDATA - that's why I tracked down the way of > the message and submitted this patch. > > I'm not quite shure if we need it in other interfaces too - it's a > windows-specific message.

Re: [lazarus] Delphi/Lazarus comparison by Codegear

2008-01-18 Thread Steven Graham
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Reading that wiki, it would make me choose Lazarus over Delphi! (which I have) ;-) Lazarus seem to have nicer features... Well, I've certainly found features in Lazarus too that would make it very very difficult to go back to Delphi, mainly the support for 64-bi

Re: [lazarus] MouseMove problem in WinCE

2008-01-18 Thread Paul Michell
On Friday 04 January 2008 11:32:26 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > The problem is that no wince snapshot using fpc 2.2.1 ... If you are > brave enougth there are step-by-step instructions on the wiki on how > to build a wince cross-compiler from code. > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/W

Re: [lazarus] Introduction

2008-01-18 Thread Jon Foster
I don't want to put down Lazarus because I think it has tremendous potential and like the others here I love the cross-platform capability. On the other hand I have yet to be able to accomplish any serious project with it. I've run into a series of issues with just about every component I've tr

Re: [lazarus] Introduction

2008-01-18 Thread Damien Gerard
On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 18/01/2008, Jon Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the other hand I have yet to be able to accomplish any serious project with it. I've run into a series of issues with just about every component I've tried to use. The main issu

Re: [lazarus] Delphi/Lazarus comparison by Codegear

2008-01-18 Thread Giuliano Colla
Flávio Etrusco ha scritto: On Jan 17, 2008 7:15 PM, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:40:11PM +0100, Giuliano Colla wrote: I stumbled, by chance, into a rather fair comparison of Delphi and Lazarus in the Delphi Wiki: http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/The_Busin

Re: [lazarus] Introduction

2008-01-18 Thread Lee Jenkins
Jon Foster wrote: I don't want to put down Lazarus because I think it has tremendous potential and like the others here I love the cross-platform capability. On the other hand I have yet to be able to accomplish any serious project with it. I've run into a series of issues with just about every

Re: [lazarus] Problem with printing

2008-01-18 Thread Jon Foster
After running my report on my older version of Linux I have indeed seen that it does print landscape as expected. So this doesn't appear to be a Lazarus problem. I know its not CUPS or the print filters because my other programs don't have any trouble printing Landscape. So any insight as to w

Re: [lazarus] Introduction

2008-01-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 18/01/2008, Jon Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the other hand I have yet to be able to accomplish any serious > project with it. I've run into a series of issues with just about every > component I've tried to use. I had the same experience. Good news is that you have a few choices. 1.

Re: [lazarus] Introduction

2008-01-18 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Friday 18 January 2008 21.53:27 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 18/01/2008, Jon Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the other hand I have yet to be able to accomplish any serious > > project with it. I've run into a series of issues with just about every > > component I've tried to use. > > I