Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-04 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. To answer your question about screen readers, basically, a screen reader reads in synthesized speech what a sighted person would read on their monitor. The way it works is that the program gets information from the operating system about what is on the screen. This means that on W

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-04 Thread Micha Nelissen
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I'm curious... How do you manage to create a GUI or use a GUI program if you are blind? Sorry, I don't know how screen readers work? Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader for a start? Micha ___ fpc-pascal maillist

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-04 Thread Ryan Mann
Thanks. I will check this out. Ryan On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:45 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Ryan Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK thanks, but where can I find information about doing this? The lazarus tutorial on the Wiki talks about using the IDE.

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetAppConfigDir but for temp data?

2008-12-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could also follow the advice un the "Using Xdg-Utils" section (i.e. > bundle a copy of those scripts with your application but put them last in > the path). Luckily we have pretty good control over our deployment envi

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetAppConfigDir but for temp data?

2008-12-04 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: These are all inconsistencies, which they need to resolve for desktop apps to truly take off in the Linux environment. http://portland.freedesktop.org :-) I know about that, and that is

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetAppConfigDir but for temp data?

2008-12-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> These are all inconsistencies, which they need to resolve for desktop >> apps to truly take off in the Linux environment. > > http://portland.freedesktop.org :-) I know about that, and that is exactly what I am talking abo

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetAppConfigDir but for temp data?

2008-12-04 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: These are all inconsistencies, which they need to resolve for desktop apps to truly take off in the Linux environment. http://portland.freedesktop.org Bye -- Luca ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freep

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus: graphical interface using code only?

2008-12-04 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Ryan Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK thanks, but where can I find information about doing this? The lazarus > tutorial on the Wiki talks about using the IDE. Hello, I added a tutorial about this in the wiki: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LCL_Tips#Creati