Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
That shouldn't be to difficult to add. All TWidget (most basic control class) decendants have a CanExpandWidth and CanExpandHeight property, including all Layout Managers. All it would need is a bit of tweaking with the layout mode for that to happen. I will add it to the todo list. Regards,

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-30 Thread Andreas Berger
Very, very nice. One question: Will eventually be able to reposition objects when the form size is changed? For example: A line has two Edits + Label. When the form is diminished horizontally, and the two edits no longer fit the the same line without violating their minimum sizes, will the sec

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
As promised... Below is a link to a web page showing some screenshots (under Linux) and information on the widget set. I typed it out really quick, so am pretty sure I forgot some stuff in the feature list. At a later date, I will create a full web page and put the documentation online. http:/

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
What are your thoughts on msegui, also a gui library on top of xlib and gdi ? To be honest, I haven't really looked at it much... maybe I should look at it again. The bit I did see, it looked to alien (different) compared to the native looks on different platforms. It does support themeing, so

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Graeme, you can also use SDL as a portable windowing system. The upside is you get a lot of flexibility with the passing of events (eg: Is that what eLiquid and Pixel uses? Regards, Graeme. -- There's no place like 127.0.0.1 ___ fpc-pascal maillist

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Den Jean
On Friday 28 July 2006 11:16, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > I am currently busy creating a FPC widget set (based on Qt, fpGUI and > lptk), hence my interest in this document.  The widget set uses > Windows GDI and XLib directly, no underlying 3rd party widget set > requirements.  Integration with Laza

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Krishna
On 7/28/06, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Freitag, den 28.07.2006, 16:21 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Thanks Marc... My current source of documentation has been the Man > pages for XLib on some internet website. Other than that, Google is > my friend! Maybe installing the co

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Thanks, will do... Graeme. On 7/28/06, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Freitag, den 28.07.2006, 16:21 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Thanks Marc... My current source of documentation has been the Man > pages for XLib on some internet website. Other than that, Google is > my f

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 28.07.2006, 16:21 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Thanks Marc... My current source of documentation has been the Man > pages for XLib on some internet website. Other than that, Google is > my friend! Maybe installing the complete X11 Dev man pages locally is > a good idea. The

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Thanks Marc... My current source of documentation has been the Man pages for XLib on some internet website. Other than that, Google is my friend! Maybe installing the complete X11 Dev man pages locally is a good idea. Regards, Graeme. On 7/28/06, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 28.07.2006, 11:16 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > I am currently busy creating a FPC widget set (based on Qt, fpGUI and > lptk), hence my interest in this document. The widget set uses > Windows GDI and XLib directly, no underlying 3rd party widget set > requirements. Integrat

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I will create a web page containing info on the project and post a link during the weekend to the mailing list. Regards, Graeme. On 7/28/06, Krishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Graeme, On 7/28/06, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For now I will keep hosting the project on my

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Krishna
Hi Graeme, On 7/28/06, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For now I will keep hosting the project on my server as I do frequent updates, but maybe posting a notification somewhere on a wiki with some screenshots and feature list might not be a bad idea. Start fishing for some potenti

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
My first thought was to get a few more things done before releasing any code. I would like to get a solid base for others to start on. Also I want to get a few more themes, demos and documentation completed. The widget set will be used for my next company project, so I need to get a move on. Th

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Darius Blaszijk
re done in less time. Darius - Original Message - From: "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC On 7/28/06, Krishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 7/28/06, Krishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happened to the fpGui and fpGfx projects? I thought (back then) they were coming along nicely. The first version of my widget set was based around a heavily modified LPTK. I then discovered the discontinued fpGUI and fpGFX projects. I tried

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Krishna
Hi all, On 7/28/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From my point of view it is worth it - it would be great material to help in creating a LCL widget set on top of X, but the question is who has the time for this... I certainly don't :( What happened to the fpGui and fpGfx p

Re: Re[2]: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 7/28/06, Alexey Pavluchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GG> Would you mind if a asked you a few things in case AltaVista didn't do GG> a good job with the translation and I couldn't figure it out myself? Just in case, I (natively) speak Russian

Re: Re[2]: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 7/28/06, Alexey Pavluchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GG> Would you mind if a asked you a few things in case AltaVista didn't do GG> a good job with the translation and I couldn't figure it out myself? Just in case, I (natively) speak Russian too :) Feel free to ask if you have any question

Re[2]: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Alexey Pavluchenko
Hello Graeme, Friday, July 28, 2006, 12:16:00 PM, you wrote: GG> I will start the translation - just wanted to know if it would GG> actually be worth the effort. I couldn't judge before, because I GG> couldn't understand the content. GG> Would you mind if a asked you a few things in case AltaVis

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 7/28/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I absolutely don't mind, but tonight I leave on a holiday for a week, so you won't get any response before the 7th of august, as I will not have access to internet. Thanks Michael. Enjoy your holiday... Graeme. -- There's no place l

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 7/28/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From my point of view it is worth it - it would be great material to help in creating a LCL widget set on top of X, but the question is who has the time for this... I certainly don't :(

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 7/28/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From my point of view it is worth it - it would be great material to help in creating a LCL widget set on top of X, but the question is who has the time for this... I certainly don't :( I am currently busy creating a FPC widget set (ba

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 7/28/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this 121 page document on the Internet, but I don't understand > Russian (or whatever it is written in). I seems to cover a lot about > X Windows programming in FPC. I speak ru

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 7/28/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this 121 page document on the Internet, but I don't understand > Russian (or whatever it is written in). I seems to cover a lot about > X Windows programming in FPC. I speak russian, can you send the PDF to me ? It will be in

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I found this 121 page document on the Internet, but I don't understand Russian (or whatever it is written in). I seems to cover a lot about X Windows programming in FPC. I speak russian, can you send the PDF to me ? It will be interesting

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
ROTECTED]> wrote: Try this link, http://world.altavista.com/. It's not perfect, but it helps. ;) Darius - Original Message - From: "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:22 AM Subject: [f

Re: [fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Darius Blaszijk
Try this link, http://world.altavista.com/. It's not perfect, but it helps. ;) Darius - Original Message - From: "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:22 AM Subject: [fpc-pascal] X

[fpc-pascal] X Windows and FPC

2006-07-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I found this 121 page document on the Internet, but I don't understand Russian (or whatever it is written in). I seems to cover a lot about X Windows programming in FPC. Anybody know if there is an English translation floating around somewhere? I have the document in PDF format called xwin