[Lazarus] Problems teaching kids programming

2020-03-24 Thread Anthony Walter via lazarus
Here is something I had to resort to this to teach one of my students: https://www.getlazarus.org/learn/courseware/homework/project-4/ For the effort I made for this one child in creating this lesson, I thought I'd at least share my sorrows. -- ___ laz

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread Juha Manninen via lazarus
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:58 PM Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Note the project inspector is still open, and the package editors as well. > Ok, project inspector showing the closed project is clearly a bug. Juha -- _

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread Martin Frb via lazarus
On 24/03/2020 10:39, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: To any normal human being, *Close All* means close *ALL*. 'All' is just a 3 letter english word with a very clear meaning. Savour the simplicity of it by pronouncing it out loud, prolongue the 'l' sound if you need that to fully grasp

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, R.Smith via lazarus wrote: On 2020/03/24 11:39, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: See my (held for moderation, attachment to big) answer to Ondrej for why this reasoning is insufficient and the current Lazarus behaviour is actually buggy. It's in fact hilarious

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread R.Smith via lazarus
On 2020/03/24 11:39, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: See my (held for moderation, attachment to big) answer to Ondrej for why this reasoning is insufficient and the current Lazarus behaviour is actually buggy. It's in fact hilarious that I am forced to even discuss this ! :-) I mean

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread Marco van de Voort via lazarus
Op 2020-03-23 om 19:39 schreef Juha Manninen via lazarus: On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:35 PM Marco van de Voort via lazarus mailto:lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>> wrote: Personally I hate the mandatory open project (or else the modal options). E.g. you want to open a .lpk and you have to

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread Juha Manninen via lazarus
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:39 AM Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > To any normal human being, *Close All* means close *ALL*. > But when it is under File menu, it means "Close All Files". :-) -- ___ lazarus mailin

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:56 AM Ondrej Pokorny via lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: I though "Close Project" does the thing, or isn't this good enough? +1 Exactly. As a bonus the editor files session of the closed projec

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread Juha Manninen via lazarus
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:56 AM Ondrej Pokorny via lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > I though "Close Project" does the thing, or isn't this good enough? > +1 Exactly. As a bonus the editor files session of the closed project is remembered and reopened next time. Please remember th

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread Ondrej Pokorny via lazarus
On 24.03.2020 9:08, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: So as far as I am concerned, the case for actually closing everything still stands. I though "Close Project" does the thing, or isn't this good enough? Ondrej -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.l

Re: [Lazarus] IdeIntf was split to BuildIntf

2020-03-24 Thread Juha Manninen via lazarus
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 9:47 AM Juha Manninen wrote: > The easiest cure is to open components/buildide.lpk in the IDE. > Oops :( It should be "components/buildintf/buildintf.lpk" obviously. -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org htt

Re: [Lazarus] Close all menu item ?

2020-03-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Ondrej Pokorny via lazarus wrote: On 23.03.2020 20:26, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: Well, I think it does need to be closed from time to time. Namely: I want to be sure that all is closed before doing an svn update or git pull. Although many bugs have been fixe

[Lazarus] IdeIntf was split to BuildIntf

2020-03-24 Thread Juha Manninen via lazarus
IdeIntf package was refactored, non-GUI parts were moved to a new BuildIntf package. Commit r62795 by Mattias (although I did the actual split). Rebuilding the sources after r62795 using a Lazarus executable built before it gives an error. The old IDE does not know where the BuildInf package is. T