Re: [Lazarus] IDE Spotter

2018-09-24 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > > Hello, > > I've polished something that was started during the Lazarus Pro conference > in Bonn the last days, the IDE Spotter (this is a "Working Title"). > > The idea is to have a command box such as it exists in Atom or

Re: [Lazarus] Building a C (or possibly C++) program into a Lazarus app

2018-08-10 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
I have some posts on the forum asking about similar questions. I was told FPC object files will link just fine with GNU tools, so you should be able to. To me it seemed it would be easier to keep the codebase in C++ but then call into the LCL. Sadly that is quite a bit off. On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 a

Re: [Lazarus] Crosscompile to Android on arm?

2018-07-25 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:57:54 -0500, R0b0t1 via Lazarus > wrote: > >>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android > > That page does not contain a single instance of the words "pascal" or > "

Re: [Lazarus] Crosscompile to Android on arm?

2018-07-25 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:04 AM, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: > I have a GUI program developed in FPC/Lazarus x64 on Windows. > It is an IoT device configuration application which would benefit from > being portable, i.e. executable on an Android pho

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus still not usable with VNC under Raspbian

2018-04-29 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Joe via Lazarus wrote: > Hi, community, > > on Pi computers under Raspbian controlled over VNC the Lazarus code editor > doesn't recognize keystrokes with AltGr and therefore characters like {[]}\ > can't be put in. That's a known issue since 2016 > (https://bugs.f

Re: [Lazarus] Cool IDE add-on idea

2018-04-24 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Santiago A. via Lazarus wrote: > These studies show that the most efficient is toolbar; second, keyboard > shortcuts; third, second level menu option. With the objection that > shortcuts needs a lot of practice to be better than menu. > How well did those studies

Re: [Lazarus] Google vs Oracle case - does it affect LCL ?

2018-04-15 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev via Lazarus wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus > wrote: >> >> Take a routine that converts an integer to a string: Why would you >> force someone to change what is an obvious name, simply because someone >

Re: [Lazarus] Cool IDE add-on idea

2018-04-14 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > Hi, > > I just discover this add-on for Eclipse. Every time you use the mouse to > do something, it pops up (without interrupting your workflow) and lists > the keyboard shortcut you could have used to accomplish that same ta

Re: [Lazarus] Terminal Component Available

2018-04-12 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
: > On 12/04/18 05:45, R0b0t1 via Lazarus wrote: > >> Did you ever try to make it cross platform? I only ask as I have notfound >> a good way to embed either PowerShell or cmd.exe. > > > I did it years ago for cmd.exe on Delphi, I think it used pipes in some > form. > &

Re: [Lazarus] Terminal Component Available

2018-04-11 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: > I'm am starting a new thread because I've completed my task. > > Here is a terminal component for Lazarus that is easy to reuse. > > https://cache.getlazarus.org/archives/terminal.7z > > To install, make sure you're on Linux wit

Re: [Lazarus] Test this please

2018-03-26 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:22 PM, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: > Any feedback would be appreciated. > Bad: 1) The webpage is fixed width, or has a minimum width. 2) I can't view videos, but this may be me. 3) The popover for viewing file content could be replaced with opening a browser wind

Re: [Lazarus] Special Request: Theme entire IDE support

2018-03-10 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Saturday, March 10, 2018, Vojtěch Čihák via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > > you can do it for Qt applications, just run Lazarus (or any Laz. project built as Qt) as: > > > > ./lazarus -stylesheet mydarkstyle.qss > > > > where mydarkstyle.qss must be valid Qt Style S

Re: [Lazarus] Translating a small C program to pascal (on lazarus)

2018-02-26 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Carlos E. R. via Lazarus wrote: > Hopefully, one program translates most of the declarations, and another > a good part of the code :-) > I doubt that in general a program exists to do what you want, as it would require having a front end for the C language and t

Re: [Lazarus] Garbage writing to console

2018-02-24 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 5:17 AM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:15 AM, R0b0t1 via Lazarus > wrote: >> Not to take the thread offtopic, ... > > You took it offtopic anyway. > UTF-8 works just fine. Please read this page : > ht

Re: [Lazarus] Garbage writing to console

2018-02-23 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:25 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, R0b0t1 via Lazarus wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 2:29 AM, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus >> wrote: >>> >>> OK, you mean it's a wiki page issue. I ju

Re: [Lazarus] Garbage writing to console

2018-02-23 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 2:29 AM, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: > OK, you mean it's a wiki page issue. I just didn't understand how we could > solve it in Lazarus :) > I am interested in this thread because I was under the impression that UTF-8 support in Windows is fundamentally broken and sh

Re: [Lazarus] Form events firing order and count

2018-02-20 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:09 AM, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: > True words. IMO we can apply the same to LCL events: the order/count is an > implementation detail and depends on the underlying widgetset. > I agree, and am glad to find this was brought up. On the other hand, I think it would

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Console text

2018-02-09 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 1:10 AM, Wolf via Lazarus wrote: > Hi > > What must I do to change font on the Lazarus console - not the Kubuntu > console - to a monospace font, and how do I change font color there? > Sorry for the noise, but I am also very interested in an answer to this. I would like t

Re: [Lazarus] Doe fpc/lazarus already have System-Threading or is it planned

2018-02-02 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Zoë Peterson via Lazarus wrote: > On 2/2/2018 10:19 AM, Zoë Peterson wrote: >> >> System.Threading requires anonymous methods, which Free Pascal doesn't >> currently support. > > > Oops, Sven's right, it mostly doesn't use anonymous methods, so this isn't a > block

Re: [Lazarus] Windows touch input

2018-01-21 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello friend, 2018-01-21 13:36 GMT-06:00 AlexeyT via Lazarus : > How does Laz support touch input [e.g. on Surface from MS]. Where to read > about it in wiki? > For most input, touch events are turned into mouse events. The most basic events are WM_GESTURE[1] (received by default) and WM_TOUCH[2]

Re: [Lazarus] Recommended practices for Win / Linux development.

2018-01-13 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > A long time ago, I tried to develop common software for Windows and Linux. > I remember having problems keeping the object files, etc, separated so that > the two versions of Lazarus would re-compile the appropria

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on Power8 (ppc64le)

2017-12-29 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Alfred via Lazarus wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to run Lazarus on a IBM Power8 (ppc64le), OS=Debian. > Problem: it does not run. > (it does start, but errors out on an illegal free() ) > > Details. > > Command line apps compiled native on Power8 do run. > Comman

Re: [Lazarus] Utf8Tosys and SysToUtf8

2017-12-22 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Kamen Ketev via Lazarus wrote: > The program is being compiled and started, but my Cyrillic text in over 100 > files in text DB comes out with ? - ??? How can I fix the problem? > > Regards, > Kamen > Hello, Can you provide code? I recently had to port a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.8

2017-12-15 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
These are true things. On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote: > Many thanks to all who worked on 1.8.0. It looks great and works better. > > Don Ziesig > > > -- > ___ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org > h

Re: [Lazarus] Problem accessing the lazarus forums...

2017-12-03 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Bo Berglund via Lazarus wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 23:34:39 +0100, Teresa Williams via Lazarus > wrote: > >>> So, >>> can someone here please tell me where I should find the fpc.cfg file. >>> When Lazarus 1.6 starts up it complains about not finding it and >>> sug

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling/linking/debugging package with generics

2017-11-28 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Sorry list, I'm trying to stop my double posting. On Tuesday, November 28, 2017, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello, > > On Tuesday, November 28, 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:46:01 -0600 >> R0b0t1 via La

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling/linking/debugging package with generics

2017-11-28 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello, On Tuesday, November 28, 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:46:01 -0600 > R0b0t1 via Lazarus wrote: > >>[...] >> To be clear, for some reason most of the time the unit (and every >> other u

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling/linking/debugging package with generics

2017-11-28 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Apologies for the additional post: On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:44 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus > wrote: >> Hi All! >> >> I have been having a problem for a long, long time when developing/debugging >> code which is included in a packag

Re: [Lazarus] Compiling/linking/debugging package with generics

2017-11-28 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello, On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote: > Hi All! > > I have been having a problem for a long, long time when developing/debugging > code which is included in a package and which contains generics. > > It took me years :'(, but I finally figured out what I was do

Re: [Lazarus] Howto disable Lazarus IDE using a XFCE dark theme

2017-11-07 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello, On Tuesday, November 7, 2017, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > >> On 2017-11-06 23:58, R0b0t1 wrote: >>> >>> Integrated theming is a good idea because unless all assets are obtained >>> f

Re: [Lazarus] Howto disable Lazarus IDE using a XFCE dark theme

2017-11-06 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello, thanks for your input. On Monday, November 6, 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > On 2017-11-06 18:13, R0b0t1 via Lazarus wrote: >> >> Theming support for Lazarus might be a tall order but I think it would be >> worth i

Re: [Lazarus] Howto disable Lazarus IDE using a XFCE dark theme

2017-11-06 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello again, very sorry for the three posts. It is the case I am not very smart. Please excuse my poor reading comprehension. On Monday, November 6, 2017, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello again, > > On Monday, November 6, 2017, R0b0t1 wrote: >> Hello friend, >> >> On Monday, November 6, 2017, Landmesser Jo

Re: [Lazarus] Howto disable Lazarus IDE using a XFCE dark theme

2017-11-06 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello again, On Monday, November 6, 2017, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello friend, > > On Monday, November 6, 2017, Landmesser John via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: >> New Linux Distro Manjaro-XFCE and i use a dark theme. >> >> But that dark theme is bad for Lazarus IDE. >> >> Can i chang

Re: [Lazarus] Howto disable Lazarus IDE using a XFCE dark theme

2017-11-06 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello friend, On Monday, November 6, 2017, Landmesser John via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > New Linux Distro Manjaro-XFCE and i use a dark theme. > > But that dark theme is bad for Lazarus IDE. > > Can i change that as an option for compiling the IDE? > > With Debian KDE there

Re: [Lazarus] Who is using Object Pascal in production?

2017-10-29 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello friends, On Sunday, October 29, 2017, Schindler Karl-Michael via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Hi > > My use is probably just another nice niche: > > Creating a nice GUI wrapper in Lazarus/Object Pascal for heavy numerical simulation routines written in Fortran. > I have

Re: [Lazarus] Who is using Object Pascal in production?

2017-10-29 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello friends, On Sunday, October 29, 2017, Samuel Herzog via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Hello, > I earning my money as delphi developer (now 20years). > In the freetime I support Lazarus/FPC. > The system I wrote (in the company) is in-house software used > by about 150 use

Re: [Lazarus] Who is using Object Pascal in production?

2017-10-28 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Saturday, October 28, 2017, Alexander Klenin via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:26 PM, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus > wrote: >> I would like to propose a discussion about "What is the relevance of >> Object Pascal nowadays". >> I don't want

Re: [Lazarus] Who is using Object Pascal in production?

2017-10-27 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: > I would like to propose a discussion about "What is the relevance of > Object Pascal nowadays". > I don't want waste your time. I just want to know if we are growing > and being more relevant or not. > > I use Object Pa

Re: [Lazarus] lazopenglcontext on Raspberry Pi?

2017-10-20 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: > I've done a bit of work on Pi and OpenGL and thought I'd give you some > advice. > > 1) Pi only supports OpenGL ES contexts > > 2) Depending on your raspberry OS configuration, OpenGL ES might only be > supported when X window ma

Re: [Lazarus] IPC: TSimpleIPC, ZeroMQ, nanomsg...

2017-10-18 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if someone has already worked with Messages > between different programs, made in different languages, with binds to > work in FPC and Delphi 7. > > My main case is connect a old Delphi 7 pr

Re: [Lazarus] Rendering Issue Emoji for HTML List Items

2017-10-16 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: > Am 17.10.2017 07:19 schrieb "R0b0t1 via Lazarus" > : >> >> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:56 PM, R0b0t1 via Lazarus >

Re: [Lazarus] Rendering Issue Emoji for HTML List Items

2017-10-16 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:56 PM, R0b0t1 via Lazarus > wrote: >> >> Is it not possible to bundle supported resources in the LCL? That seems >> like the typical solution for Windows. On other OSes this

Re: [Lazarus] Rendering Issue Emoji for HTML List Items

2017-10-16 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Monday, October 16, 2017, Juha Manninen via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Martok via Lazarus > wrote: >> when I checked what HTML2TextRenderer uses to translate list items, I found that >> since rev 55743 it uses U+26AB MEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE ⚫

Re: [Lazarus] Accessibility enhacement request Lazarus version 1.7

2017-10-06 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Sorry about the delay. I'm not sure I can help directly. You may want to ask on the forums. Now the problem has been expressed in terms that someone can use to create goals. The complexity of adding accessibility hints to custom GUI work is what led me to suggest an external editing program. Do y

Re: [Lazarus] Documentation in Lazarus

2017-10-03 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > > On 2017-10-03 23:06, Wolf via Lazarus wrote: >> >> As an editor, I'd prefer LibreOffice, since I am familiar with it. My >> experience with LaTeX is limited > > > Having extensive experience with both for many years I can say

Re: [Lazarus] Hi-DPI for own components

2017-10-03 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Vojtěch Čihák via Lazarus wrote: > Hi, if I want hi-DPI for my own components, it is enough to draw two > additional icons with suffix _150 and _200 and bundle it to package? > > Thanks, V. If the LCL handles asset selection for you, yes. But I don't remember seei

Re: [Lazarus] Accessibility enhacement request Lazarus version 1.7

2017-09-30 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Friday, September 29, 2017, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Dear specialists, > My name is Janusz Chmiel. I Am visually impaired user of Lazarus. My dream is to use yours development environment to create professional Android applications. But to make not

Re: [Lazarus] [ANN] Xavier for XML — Compatible with FPC and Delphi

2017-09-20 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] List down?

2017-08-10 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 4:11 AM, John Landmesser via Lazarus wrote: > just to see if my post will be shown on > > lazarus-ide.org > > > because: > > Last message date: Sat Aug 5 16:27:27 CEST 2017 > > > ... or just holiday? > The forums are far more active, and the developers seem to be fairly ac

[Lazarus] Cross OS API Wrappers

2017-07-09 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
Hello, I was wondering if cross-platform (Linux, BSD, Windows) wrappers exist for certain goals like "create a system timer" or "use asynchronous IO." A good example would be a class which uses timerfds and epoll on Linux, kqueues and kevent on BSD, or Waitable Timers on Windows to do very accura

Re: [Lazarus] KDE 5

2017-07-06 Thread R0b0t1 via Lazarus
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: > Moved from the "Release Candidate 3" thread: > > On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: >> { >> "OutOfTopic" : ["If by mature you mean 'bloated', then yes.", >> "KDE has become so bloated