Re: [Lazarus] Clipboard Data Goes Away

2021-04-01 Thread C Western via lazarus
(You have definitely educated me) I tried something similar on one of my own applications, and it doesn't work for me either. I suspect sometihing more elaborate is required, as I don't think the LCL does calls gtk_clipboard_set_text, even for text. Reading the documentation for gtk_clipboard_

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE text display

2020-08-16 Thread C Western via lazarus
On 16/08/2020 18:27, Alexey Tor. via lazarus wrote: On 16.08.2020 19:24, Martin Frb via lazarus wrote: And how does a this text look? MMM@@@WWW In Pascal syntax, it is 3 tokens; all 3 tokens are clipped on right side (with non monospaced font). Doing some more tests (with Cocoa) with diff

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus not working on Fedora 32 beta

2020-05-04 Thread C Western via lazarus
Is there a problem on FC32? Mattias At least on my system, unless https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36976 is applied, Lazarus is not usable. This definitely applied to trunk, and my limited testing suggested older versions could be affected also. Colin -- _

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus not working on Fedora 32 beta

2020-04-30 Thread C Western via lazarus
On 25/04/2020 11:27, C Western via lazarus wrote: I have recently upgraded to Fedora 32 beta (though I think the packages are pretty close to their final versions). The Lazarus IDE misbehaves - in the editor all characters entered are doubled up. It is specific to the editor window - other

[Lazarus] Lazarus not working on Fedora 32 beta

2020-04-29 Thread C Western via lazarus
I have recently upgraded to Fedora 32 beta (though I think the packages are pretty close to their final versions). The Lazarus IDE misbehaves - in the editor all characters entered are doubled up. It is specific to the editor window - other dialog boxes and my applications work fine. A little d

Re: [Lazarus] We are planning the next release: Lazarus 2.0.8

2020-04-10 Thread C Western via lazarus
The current FPC 3.2.0RC1 / 2.0.8 release works fine for me, though I would comment that debugging with gdb seemed particularly crash prone; I am using: GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora 8.3.50.20190824-30.fc31 (64 bit) It (gdb) would crash far too often on hitting a breakpoint in my program. I would say t

Re: [Lazarus] Find in files crashes Cinnamon

2019-11-15 Thread C Western via lazarus
On 13/11/2019 21:00, Florian Klämpfl via lazarus wrote: Recently, I tried again to work with Linux Mint when developing FPC. For FPC development I use normally lazarus from trunk, typical updated very few weeks. For navigation in the code I use "Find in files" from time to time, e.g. when looki

[Lazarus] gtk2 font sizes

2019-11-02 Thread C Western via lazarus
I have just upgraded to Fedora 31, and noticed some odd effects with font sizes. With some investigation the cause seems to be that the underlying font sizes can be a non-integer number of pixels; with a 'MonoSpace' example looking at gtk2widgetset.inc:5919: TextMetric.tmAscent := pango_font_m

Re: [Lazarus] Showing selection on drawing under Cocoa

2019-10-19 Thread C Western via lazarus
On 17/10/2019 08:09, C Western via lazarus wrote: On 17/10/2019 03:44, Dmitry Boyarintsev via lazarus wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 4:33 PM C Western via lazarus <mailto:lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>> wrote:     Am I missing something? How does the Cocoa toolkit expect this to   

Re: [Lazarus] Showing selection on drawing under Cocoa

2019-10-17 Thread C Western via lazarus
On 17/10/2019 03:44, Dmitry Boyarintsev via lazarus wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 4:33 PM C Western via lazarus mailto:lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>> wrote: Am I missing something? How does the Cocoa toolkit expect this to be done? I'm see 3 ways of doing that.

[Lazarus] Showing selection on drawing under Cocoa

2019-10-16 Thread C Western via lazarus
Is there an easy way of indicating a selection on a plot in Cocoa? I have a plot that is relatively time consuming to plot (particularly under Cocoa), and I want to be able to indicate the area selected with a mouse. On other widget sets I can xor a rectangle and do this quickly in the mouse ev

Re: [Lazarus] Install Lazarus on Mac OSX Catalina

2019-10-13 Thread C Western via lazarus
Some experiences having just tried moving my main application to Cocoa without upgrading to Catalina. The results look very promising, and my application looks usable, though I didn't try running 64 bit Lazarus. i can make the following observations: 1. For 32 bit compilation you need to avoid

Re: [Lazarus] Universal FontDialog for LCL

2019-03-11 Thread C Western via lazarus
On 08/03/2019 09:10, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:09 PM zeljko via lazarus wrote: Not as default TFontDialog. Maybe as TLazFontDialog or similar. +1 AlexeyT, what is wrong in having a separate component for those who need it? If the current native dialogs have bug

Re: [Lazarus] Universal FontDialog for LCL

2019-03-07 Thread C Western via lazarus
On 07/03/2019 13:09, zeljko via lazarus wrote: On 03/06/2019 07:54 PM, AlexeyT via lazarus wrote: I have an idea to make LCL based TFontDialog- which will be LCL form, which can be called by TFontDialog.Execute (if Boolean variable in LCL is set). Why make it? I haven't checked recently, but

[Lazarus] Oddity in uninstalling packages

2019-01-21 Thread C Western via lazarus
Just updated to the current trunk where I presume virtual tree view has been added. Starting lazarus (trunk from a few days ago) gives an error message about it not being found, and creates a dummy package. Trying to rebuild lazarus then fails as virtualtreeview is absent. I didn't think I need

Re: [Lazarus] Can't start lazarus trunk

2019-01-03 Thread C Western via lazarus
On 03/01/2019 10:00, Joost van der Sluis via lazarus wrote: "An error occured during the initialization of Fppkg: Could not find a fpc executable in the PATH. Check your Fppkg configuration and restart Lazarus to be able to use Fppkg's functionality." ever time I start Lazarus? I don't see t

Re: [Lazarus] Can't start lazarus trunk

2019-01-03 Thread C Western via lazarus
On 02/01/2019 23:31, Joost van der Sluis via lazarus wrote: Op 02-01-19 om 16:46 schreef C Western via lazarus: To start the current lazarus trunk, I had to delete ~/.fppkg, as otherwise lazarus crashed after trying to execute a compiler that didn't exist. Traceback is: [FOR

[Lazarus] Can't start lazarus trunk

2019-01-02 Thread C Western via lazarus
To start the current lazarus trunk, I had to delete ~/.fppkg, as otherwise lazarus crashed after trying to execute a compiler that didn't exist. Traceback is: [FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred   Sender=EProcess   Exception=Executable not found: "/home/me/fpc-3.0.2-64/lib/fpc/../../bin/fpc"   Stack

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 2 of 2.0

2018-11-03 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 01/11/2018 07:46, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the second release candidate of Lazarus 2.0. I am still seeing the error on loading a (specific) package with missing dependencies, but I have been able to do some debugging to track down the error. I

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 2.0

2018-10-28 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 27/10/2018 13:37, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:34:26 +0100 C Western via Lazarus wrote: [...] Did you try this starting the IDE with an empty .lazarus directory? Yes, exactly. I am not sure I made it clear in the original message, but this was on first run

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 2.0

2018-10-27 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 27/10/2018 09:56, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:22:16 +0100 C Western via Lazarus wrote: On 19/09/2018 12:50, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the first release candidate of Lazarus 2.0. I worked through installing and

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 2.0

2018-10-21 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 19/09/2018 12:50, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the first release candidate of Lazarus 2.0. I worked through installing and compiling with a fresh user on linux, and only noticed one issue. If I loaded a package (via "Package, Open Package File")

Re: [Lazarus] New debugger for Mac based on lldb (Call for testers)

2018-10-17 Thread C Western via Lazarus
I have identified the issue. It seems that fpdebug opens all the object files associated with the project, and keeps them open. For the project I was working on this results in 700 or so open files in lazarus, and it seems the default system limit is 256. Awkwardly it is not clear how to change

Re: [Lazarus] New debugger for Mac based on lldb (Call for testers)

2018-10-17 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 16/10/2018 22:39, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: On 16/10/2018 23:23, C Western via Lazarus wrote: On 14/10/2018 20:09, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: - Go to Tools > Options > Debugger   In the "debugger type" dropdown, you should find and select "LLDB debugger (with

Re: [Lazarus] New debugger for Mac based on lldb (Call for testers)

2018-10-16 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 14/10/2018 20:09, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: - Go to Tools > Options > Debugger   In the "debugger type" dropdown, you should find and select "LLDB debugger (with fpdebug)"   The edit below this (where you normally have the path to gdb), should be changed to the path of lldb.   (lldb com

Re: [Lazarus] Location of executable

2018-05-31 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 31/05/18 08:09, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2018 22:41:31 +0100 C Western via Lazarus wrote: Has something changed recently in fpc or Lazarus, with respect to the location of the executable produced? In my projects I have the target file name set including a

[Lazarus] Location of executable

2018-05-30 Thread C Western via Lazarus
Has something changed recently in fpc or Lazarus, with respect to the location of the executable produced? In my projects I have the target file name set including a directory name (including ...$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS)-$(LCLWidgetType)...) and the same directory set for unit output. Using trun

Re: [Lazarus] High-DPI TImageList

2018-01-29 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 29/01/18 22:10, C Western via Lazarus wrote: On 29/01/18 09:44, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 29.01.2018 10:02, C Western via Lazarus wrote: On 29/01/18 08:45, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 28.01.2018 15:33, C Western via Lazarus wrote: On 27/01/18 18:59, Ondrej Pokorny via

Re: [Lazarus] High-DPI TImageList

2018-01-29 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 29/01/18 09:44, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 29.01.2018 10:02, C Western via Lazarus wrote: On 29/01/18 08:45, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 28.01.2018 15:33, C Western via Lazarus wrote: On 27/01/18 18:59, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: I merged the High-DPI (multi

Re: [Lazarus] High-DPI TImageList

2018-01-29 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 29/01/18 08:45, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 28.01.2018 15:33, C Western via Lazarus wrote: On 27/01/18 18:59, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: I merged the High-DPI (multi-resolution) ImageList into trunk. I'll document the changes in http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TImag

Re: [Lazarus] High-DPI TImageList

2018-01-28 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 27/01/18 18:59, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: I merged the High-DPI (multi-resolution) ImageList into trunk. I'll document the changes in http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TImageList soon (tomorrow) and also in http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.10.0_release_notes Ondrej With trun

Re: [Lazarus] Annoyance with 1.8RC5

2017-10-27 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 27/10/17 02:42, kapibara via Lazarus wrote: I agree with Don, Object Inspector "always on top" is in the way for other forms. Actually, this issue came up a year ago and was resolved. Now popped up again. @Don did you find and report the revision that reintroduced this behaviour? On 10/15

Re: [Lazarus] TStatusBar initialization problem.

2017-07-29 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 28/07/17 19:00, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote: Hi Everyone! I am writing a new app that will use a StatusBar at the bottom of the main window (just like I have done many times in the past - with both Delphi and Lazarus). Strangely enough, even though I have nothing but the gui implement

Re: [Lazarus] Strange problem compiling IDE

2017-03-28 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 28/03/17 18:56, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: "checksum changed for spe.ppu" was the first error. That is exactly what happens. Isn't the full path to the ppu available to the compiler? If the error message had been checksum changed for components/tachart/numlib_fix/spe.ppu (or wherever the

Re: [Lazarus] Strange problem compiling IDE

2017-03-28 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 27/03/17 22:18, Werner Pamler via Lazarus wrote: Luckily, no other units of numlib depend on ipf, and therefore, I could rename the modified ipf to ipf_fix. mdt and sle seem to contain minor modifications, a diff shows me that they were modified only to silence the compiler, and so I deleted

Re: [Lazarus] Strange problem compiling IDE

2017-03-27 Thread C Western via Lazarus
But nevertheless, as mentioned in the beginning, I don't think that these files are the reason of the compilation issues that you mention. If that were true then anybody would have them - at least I don't. I can't claim to be an expert on the way the search path works, but the issue might only

Re: [Lazarus] Strange problem compiling IDE

2017-03-27 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 26/03/17 23:13, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote: On 26/03/2017 22:11, C Western via Lazarus wrote: I am having a strange problem when compiling the IDE (current svn for both IDE and FPC). The compilation stops with Warning: Recompiling Expr, checksum changed for spe {impl} "changed fo

[Lazarus] Strange problem compiling IDE

2017-03-26 Thread C Western via Lazarus
I am having a strange problem when compiling the IDE (current svn for both IDE and FPC). The compilation stops with Verbose: PPU Source: Expr.pas not found Verbose: PPU Source: utils.inc not available Verbose: [lazarus] Error 1 Verbose: [idepkg] Error 2 Debug: make: *** [idepkg] Error 2 Warning:

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE crash

2017-03-19 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 18/03/17 18:31, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: Please test with r54447. Juha Happy to confirm this is fixed - thank you. Colin -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Lazarus IDE crash

2017-03-18 Thread C Western via Lazarus
I am seeing the following crash in r54438 and later; this is on adding a panel to an empty project: AddComponent TPanel Parent=Form1:TForm1 125,63,0,0 Parent is 'Form1:TForm1' Hint: (lazarus) [TPkgManager.AddUnitDependenciesForComponentClasses] Extending Uses unit1.pas ExtCtrls Codetools Stac

Re: [Lazarus] Always on top: Object Inspector and Message Window

2017-02-19 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 19/02/17 17:02, Bart via Lazarus wrote: On 2/19/17, kapibara via Lazarus wrote: I am also using XFCE, but on Debian 9 Please open a bugreport about it. Mention the revision that caused this for you. Don't forget to mention you use XFCE, it may be significant. Bart I added my comment to

Re: [Lazarus] Always on top: Object Inspector and Message Window

2017-02-19 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 18/02/17 02:17, Kapibara Pas via Lazarus wrote: Bart, rev. 53831 introduced the bug. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13051 I uploaded a patch for each affected file and added a note. I can confirm that I am seeing this bug (messages window always on top), and that the applying gtk2_

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Component-dialog: small button

2017-02-06 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 06/02/17 09:04, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 06.02.2017 9:49, C Western via Lazarus wrote: It looks like a button that has been autosized; I must admit my feeling is that autosized buttons should have a minimum width You can use the Constraints property to set the minimum width in

Re: [Lazarus] IDE Component-dialog: small button

2017-02-06 Thread C Western via Lazarus
On 06/02/17 02:28, wkitty42--- via Lazarus wrote: On 02/05/2017 07:41 PM, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: In this dialog, button Use is too narrow. Can i make diff, to make it wide, e.g. 80pix? ummm, it looks plenty big enough... all of the letters show with no clipping on either side... what am i m

Re: [Lazarus] macOS Sierra save as dialog hangs

2016-11-30 Thread C Western via Lazarus
May be http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29911 which is supposed to be resolved in the trunk version. See also http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30533 Colin On 30/11/16 09:20, Lars via Lazarus wrote: Hi, Not sure if this has anything specifically to do with Sierra version of MacOS bu