Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-02-01 Thread Ed Murashie via Lazarus
I want to thank everyone for their comments and suggestions and give a summary of what worked for me. First my background and hardware I used. I am an electronics engineer with experience in C with PIC and Cortex M3/4 ARM processors and windows with Visual Studio. I had two weeks to learn enou

Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-30 Thread Michael Schnell via Lazarus
On 25.01.2017 11:40, Ed Murashie via Lazarus wrote: No matter what I try I get “ Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: “. This also happen on a Beaglebone What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it? Do you *want* a GUI ? -Michael -- ___ Lazarus m

Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-25 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Wed, January 25, 2017 6:26 am, Paul Breneman via Lazarus wrote: > > Or switch to a Raspberry Pi and use https://Ultibo.org ? Maybe Ultibo > can be ported later to Beaglebone? > Beaglebone is more "open" hardware than pi but I guess that's another topic. The price of pi certainly is attractive

Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-25 Thread Marc Santhoff via Lazarus
On Mi, 2017-01-25 at 08:26 -0500, Paul Breneman via Lazarus wrote: > On 01/25/2017 08:09 AM, zeljko via Lazarus wrote: > > You cannot run an X11 application without running X11 server. That's > > wrong. If you need headless server gui app then you can use xfvb for > > such purpose , or normally ru

Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-25 Thread Marc Santhoff via Lazarus
On Mi, 2017-01-25 at 02:40 -0800, Ed Murashie via Lazarus wrote: > I wrote a simple Lazarus program that displays a window and a button and did > the same thing using Glade which also uses Gtk+. > > I am using a Beaglebone Black with the latest stock Debian Jessie image > which start a LxQt deskto

Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2017-01-25 15:28, Santiago A. via Lazarus wrote: > fpgui needs a "graphic environment", Windows or X (or Mac?) . Doesn't it? There is a port to Ultibo that doesn't require X11 or GDI. Take a look at the section “Ultibo with fpGUI support” on http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/community.shtml Regar

Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-25 Thread Santiago A. via Lazarus
El 25/01/2017 a las 15:15, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus escribió: > On 2017-01-25 13:26, Paul Breneman via Lazarus wrote: >> Or switch to a Raspberry Pi and use https://Ultibo.org ? > And then you can also use fpGUI Toolkit to keep things small and > “lite” (no large 3rd party libraries required

Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2017-01-25 13:26, Paul Breneman via Lazarus wrote: > Or switch to a Raspberry Pi and use https://Ultibo.org ? And then you can also use fpGUI Toolkit to keep things small and “lite” (no large 3rd party libraries required or there dependencies. eg: GTK, Qt etc). Regards, Graeme -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-25 Thread Paul Breneman via Lazarus
On 01/25/2017 08:09 AM, zeljko via Lazarus wrote: On 01/25/2017 11:40 AM, Ed Murashie via Lazarus wrote: I wrote a simple Lazarus program that displays a window and a button and did the same thing using Glade which also uses Gtk+. I am using a Beaglebone Black with the latest stock Debian Jessi

Re: [Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-25 Thread zeljko via Lazarus
On 01/25/2017 11:40 AM, Ed Murashie via Lazarus wrote: I wrote a simple Lazarus program that displays a window and a button and did the same thing using Glade which also uses Gtk+. I am using a Beaglebone Black with the latest stock Debian Jessie image which start a LxQt desktop program after it

[Lazarus] Running an app on boot

2017-01-25 Thread Ed Murashie via Lazarus
I wrote a simple Lazarus program that displays a window and a button and did the same thing using Glade which also uses Gtk+. I am using a Beaglebone Black with the latest stock Debian Jessie image which start a LxQt desktop program after it boots up. When I run my program in the LxQt window or i