Re: [Lazarus] LHelp or help systems that also work on..

2016-11-19 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 18, 2016 6:16 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-18 11:36, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> Since I use both Lazarus and Delphi and never just use one or the >> other, is there any help system that works in both delphi and Lazarus? > > Yes, Docview and INF help can b

Re: [Lazarus] stale pipe workarounds

2016-11-19 Thread Andrew Haines via Lazarus
On 11/19/2016 10:50 PM, Lars via Lazarus wrote: Hi while researching help systems I came across the code which uses IPC to communicate and see that people are adding stale pipe work arounds. So this can't be resolved in the ipc code itself and must be in the application? Just wondering why thes

[Lazarus] stale pipe workarounds

2016-11-19 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Hi while researching help systems I came across the code which uses IPC to communicate and see that people are adding stale pipe work arounds. So this can't be resolved in the ipc code itself and must be in the application? Just wondering why these work arounds are needed and when they occur. The

Re: [Lazarus] LHelp or help systems that also work on..

2016-11-19 Thread Andrew Haines via Lazarus
On 11/19/2016 05:33 PM, Lars via Lazarus wrote: On Sat, November 19, 2016 3:24 pm, Lars wrote: On Fri, November 18, 2016 5:08 am, Andrew Haines via Lazarus wrote: lhelp uses IPC to communicate so it wouldn't be too bad to write a Delphi unit to control it. p.s. in addition to my last message,

Re: [Lazarus] LHelp or help systems that also work on..

2016-11-19 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sat, November 19, 2016 3:24 pm, Lars wrote: > On Fri, November 18, 2016 5:08 am, Andrew Haines via Lazarus wrote: > >> lhelp uses IPC to communicate so it wouldn't be too bad to write a >> Delphi >> unit to control it. p.s. in addition to my last message, wouldn't SimpleIPC need to be ported to

Re: [Lazarus] LHelp or help systems that also work on..

2016-11-19 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 18, 2016 5:08 am, Andrew Haines via Lazarus wrote: > lhelp uses IPC to communicate so it wouldn't be too bad to write a Delphi > unit to control it. Compiling lhelp though is a fpc only job. > > https://github.com/graemeg/lazarus/blob/upstream/components/chmhelp/packa > ges/help/lh

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and MySQL 5.7

2016-11-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-11-19 03:25, Terry A. Haimann via Lazarus wrote: > What version of Lazarus can connect to MySQL 5.7 using TSqlConnector? Technically it's got nothing to do with the Lazarus version, but rather the FPC version. FPC is the one where the database components are defined, in the FCL. Regards,