Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager

2017-04-12 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2016-10-04 07:11, Balázs Székely via Lazarus wrote: Hi, I decided to implement the online package manager(opkman) or at least give it a try. The first stable(alpha) version is ready and it works like this: the packages are zipped and stored in a webserver(repository) along with a json file.

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager

2017-04-12 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2016-10-04 07:35, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2016-10-04 13:11, Balázs Székely via Lazarus wrote: I decided to implement the online package manager(opkman) or at least give it a try. Not to deter from all your efforts, but I think there is already a brilliant solution called "

Re: [Lazarus] Quick Video: A Web Application

2017-05-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Sorry, didn't watch the video yet, but, wasn't Morfik something similar? Or that was mostly offline apps? Then there was also the intraweb for delphi, but AFAIR the Indy authors. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.la

Re: [Lazarus] Quick Video: A Web Application

2017-05-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-04-19 10:21, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-04-19 15:58, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: Lazarus would b able to seamlessly create such programs (even more up to date, versatile and fast: using WebAssembly compiled from Pascal instead of hand crafted Java Script). I

Re: [Lazarus] Vulkan Library for FreePascal/Lazarus

2017-05-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-04-12 23:32, James.mcjohnson via Lazarus wrote: This is both an announcement and request for help for an open source FreePascal project which strives to provide: You may want to also post this to the FPC mailing list rather than just the Lazarus list, as, vulkan can probably be used o

Re: [Lazarus] Vulkan Library for FreePascal/Lazarus

2017-05-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-04-13 11:34, Michalis Kamburelis via Lazarus wrote: @James, would you mind removing the "Public Service Announcement" from https://github.com/james-mcjohnson/VulkanLibraryForFreePascal/blob/master/LICENSE.md ? Don't get me wrong, I understand that you want to promote your faith and I res

[Lazarus] CodeTools On Event insert? detect

2017-05-24 Thread Lars via Lazarus
I am looking for a way to detect when someone has added an event in the ide, for example button1click.. When someone double clicks a button in lazarus it generates code in the IDE for the event handler procedure.. I want to intercept/detect this, and add SomeCode(); between the begin/end

[Lazarus] Codetools OnBeforeCompile/After events

2017-05-25 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Does something like OnBeforeCompile/OnAfterCompile exist in codetools? If not, would it be acceptable as a new code tool, or any criticisms if it is a bad idea? (I can work on a unit that does it, or would it be better to add it to one of the existing codetools units?) AFAIR delphi had someth

Re: [Lazarus] Codetools OnBeforeCompile/After events

2017-05-25 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-05-26 01:24, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote: On 26.05.2017 8:21, Lars via Lazarus wrote: Does something like OnBeforeCompile/OnAfterCompile exist in codetools? Yes, they exists. "OnAfterCompile": LazarusIDE.AddHandlerOnProjectBuildingFinishe

Re: [Lazarus] CodeTools On Event insert? detect

2017-05-26 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-05-26 04:44, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, 24 May 2017 13:43:10 -0500 Lars via Lazarus wrote: [...] I want to intercept/detect this, and add SomeCode(); between the begin/end of the event, i.e. on button 1 click. Does codetools provide some way to do it? Donald

Re: [Lazarus] CodeTools On Event insert? detect

2017-05-26 Thread Lars via Lazarus
[...] I want to intercept [...] and add SomeCode(); between the begin/end of the event, i.e. on button 1 click. Does codetools provide some way to do it? Found this discussions about it too: http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2014-March/086457.html http://free-pascal

Re: [Lazarus] CodeTools On Event insert? detect

2017-05-29 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Mattias, I'm still having issues figuring out exactly what Donald Z.'s code does and how to use it, but is there even a way to "hook" the ide event insertion currently? i.e. if you throw a Button on a form and double click it, I want to hook into that, and insert code immediately after the even

[Lazarus] Find/Replace inside IFDEF FPC else

2017-06-27 Thread Lars via Lazarus
When I use the find/replace dialogs, and search for text, it does not search inside the else section of {IFDEF FPC}. I assume this is a feature. However some times I want to replace text inside delphi code that is outside the IFDEF FPC and in the ELSE section? Is there an option to set this be

Re: [Lazarus] Find/Replace inside IFDEF FPC else

2017-06-29 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-06-28 02:37, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:46:55 -0500 Lars via Lazarus wrote: When I use the find/replace dialogs, and search for text, it does not search inside the else section of {IFDEF FPC

[Lazarus] Write array of byte data to TImage

2017-06-29 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Is there any way to write array of bytes to a TImage? LoadFromStream doesn't appear to work, as it does not contain, AFAIK the bitmap header information that would be stored in a file... i.e. is there any way to write raw array data to a bitmap or TImage. Sorry, I haven't worked with images m

Re: [Lazarus] Which HTML render component better?

2017-07-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-07-06 08:05, Martok via Lazarus wrote: Or use the CEF, but that bloats your application by about 35MB... I think more... maybe 35mb back in the cef 1 days? But now it is larger with cef3 -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide

Re: [Lazarus] Congrats to the FPC/Lazarus projects - job well done!

2017-07-23 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-07-12 19:11, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: Hi Guys, This is just to give everybody that works on FPC or Lazarus a pat on the back. Seriously, you guys are doing an *excellent* job. Even though I am sometimes a bit hard on you guys. Having moved back to Delphi (I'm using XE at the

Re: [Lazarus] Video: Terrain Demo

2017-07-23 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-07-14 01:18, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: I've been working on actually finishing Bare Game version 2. This evening I created another example program and thought some of you might want to view it. It's a procedural terrain generation example. You can view a small screen capture of i

Re: [Lazarus] Congrats to the FPC/Lazarus projects - job well done!

2017-07-25 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-07-24 09:42, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-07-24 03:39, Lars via Lazarus wrote: Wirth's law applies, if you know it... As computers get faster, software gets more bloated and computers cannot keep up with the software bloat. Indeed, and it doesn't only seem t

[Lazarus] Display multiple images

2017-07-26 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Is there any component to display multiple images, and, maybe scroll through them, left to right, or up and down? These methods might be the way: 1. do it manually with code. Put TImages in a tscrollbox, display them one by one 2. ListView? but size might be too small, just thumbnails, unless i

Re: [Lazarus] Display multiple images

2017-07-27 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-07-27 03:22, Alexey via Lazarus wrote: Old from me, 2008 year, Delphi only http://atviewer.sourceforge.net/atimagemap.htm Alex That looks really neat ! Were there reasons you decided to not port to lazarus (too difficult).. As I could start a project attempting to convert it to Lazar

Re: [Lazarus] The new kid is growing up fast

2017-08-20 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-08-15 06:19, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: Hi guys, Just wanted to show you guys something. The new kid on the block is growing up very fast CrossVCL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lr_BQlXvkk I believe the programmer is the ex-FMX (FireMonkey) developer that was let go

Re: [Lazarus] The new kid is growing up fast

2017-08-20 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-08-15 14:16, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-08-15 12:35, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: How to compare it against Lazarus ? No idea - I've only been watching the CrossVCL videos as milestones get reached. I've never tried CrossVCL personally, and don't use Delphi pers

Re: [Lazarus] Why is there no announcement of Lazarus event

2017-09-14 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On 2017-09-08 07:03, Marc Weustink via Lazarus wrote: Which event are you referring to? Marc The resurrection, second, or third coming of the hero Lazarus? Not fully familiar with the Bible character... but if Lazarus is here, I will need to see him. Just wondering? Or is it still comin

Re: [Lazarus] Launching External Tool Cmd.exe in Windows

2016-09-26 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sat, September 24, 2016 11:06 pm, Cyrax via Lazarus wrote: >> Any idea what workarounds people used before? Surely someone used >> cmd.exe before as an external tool in an older version. I tend to not >> use the latest version from source control. But I can, if I have to! >> > > In Tools->Confi

Re: [Lazarus] Run Parameters Dialog

2016-09-26 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, September 23, 2016 12:19 am, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:46:49 -0600 > "Lars" wrote: > > >> Hi in the Run Parameters dialog, it appears as though $macros such as >> $TargetFile() or the current project directory, etc., don't get >> expanded > > Please create a bug

Re: [Lazarus] Run Parameters Dialog

2016-09-28 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, September 26, 2016 11:55 pm, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Lars via Lazarus > wrote: > >> The designer of Lazarus didn't necessarily need this feature... >> > > Mattias is the designer of Lazarus. :) > I thought th

Re: [Lazarus] Run Parameters Dialog

2016-09-28 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Wed, September 28, 2016 2:19 pm, Lars wrote: > On Mon, September 26, 2016 11:55 pm, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Lars via Lazarus >> wrote: >> >> >>> The designer of Lazarus didn't necessarily need this feat

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-17 Thread Lars via Lazarus
> On 14/10/16 08:30, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > > > Of course there are decent drawbacks regarding relying too much on RAD > and about not really understanding the fundamentals behind it. But in the > end the addressees are non-computer engineers. The big issue with teaching using a RAD

[Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Hi, I have been experimenting with chromium embedded and the power is endless. It's like being able to write CGI programs but on the desktop with no server needing to be installed. I was thinking documentation for software could benefit from having a chromium embedded (or firefox embedded) system

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, October 18, 2016 2:11 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > >> The big issue with teaching using a RAD tool, is welding the program >> logic into the onclick events, instead of decoupling the logic in >> separate procedures that can be reused elsewhere. > As you point out in the text th

[Lazarus] Chromium embedded on freebsd or firefox embedded

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
What is the actual status of chromium embedded and firefox embedded on bsd? Does it only work on Windows and Linux? Seems there is not so much info about CEF in general on freebsd other than this info: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chromium/2014-January/001113.html I so much love th

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, October 17, 2016 7:32 pm, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > One obvious point is that an "event" driven programming knowledge is a > must to become a competent programmer . The problem is how this can be > learned . Without knowing how to program an algorithm when a related event > is occurred

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, October 17, 2016 2:52 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > On 14.10.2016 16:10, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote: > >> >> In most cases they never get to the step "find out how it works". >> If it works, nobody wants to invest time anymore to look under the hood. >> So they always

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, October 17, 2016 3:07 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-10-17 09:52, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > >> - do I need know how/why the GUI builder creates the code that makes a >> Button visible on a Form and my Event handler be called when a button >> is pressed ? > >

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, October 17, 2016 3:48 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > On 17.10.2016 11:07, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > > >> YES ...YES...NO... >> > > IMHO a personal POV that is not very helpful in a totally general > discussion (please keep in mind that the intention of the OP to consi

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, October 18, 2016 4:42 am, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk via Lazarus wrote: > One unfortunate situation is that there is not much Pascal software for > Petri Nets processing , except the following ( which its license is very > ambiguous means not usable ) Hopefully in these situations, you can find

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, October 18, 2016 4:53 am, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk via Lazarus wrote: > My application was like the following ( as a very simple example ) : > > > Pose a problem "Display your name ." > After this is done : > > > "Display your name 10 times ." > > > The students were not able to write their pr

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, October 14, 2016 6:11 am, wkitty42--- via Lazarus wrote: > On 10/14/2016 07:04 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > >> On 2016-10-14 12:01, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: >> >>> and maybe incite them every now and again >> >> Oops, that meant to read: "...and maybe entice them..

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
> Both points are important, > being popular is also important, network effect is important. More users > means more libraries, more beta testers, more information, more tools. So, > better frameworks. Popular isn't always good. Look at perl's Cpan, or heck even java. Basically if you have a bu

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
>> Il 13/10/2016 16:48, Reimar Grabowski via Lazarus ha scritto: >> >> >>> If you want modern, teach them Java and let the programs run on their >>> phones or keep doing console programs and do the GUI in JS (aka web >>> applications). ^^ Wait, wasn't java killed, the day someone thought up the

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, October 18, 2016 7:23 am, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote: > Am 2016-10-18 um 12:53 schrieb Mehmet Erol Sanliturk via Lazarus: > >> Order of teaching is not so critical : As you say , write a GUI program >> for events : Say : "Now it is necessary to define what will be done for >> the

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, October 18, 2016 9:16 am, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote: > Am 2016-10-18 um 16:47 schrieb Michael Schnell via Lazarus: > >> If you start with complex stuff that does not yield immediate success >> (i.e. a working program that does something that might be useful) The >> students will

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, October 14, 2016 4:42 am, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk via Lazarus wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Michael Schnell via Lazarus < > lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > >> On 13.10.2016 10:20, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: >> >> >>> +1 >>> That would be the best solution. GUI pr

Re: [Lazarus] How to use strings properly with fixes_1_6 and FPC 3.0.0?

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, October 21, 2016 1:03 am, Gabor Boros via Lazarus wrote: > Hi All, > > > In the past I used Length, Pos, Delete, for i:=1 to Length(s) do s[i]... > and realized yesterday these practices are wrong. But I do not know what > the right practice. Indeed this is a serious problem these days, un

Re: [Lazarus] Chromium embedded on freebsd or firefox embedded

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, October 21, 2016 3:07 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > > I don't know about Chromium Embedded, but I did dab with Firefox > Embedded 4 years ago, and from what I remember it was working fine. I > never used in in a large-scale application though. I didn't like the large > depende

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, October 21, 2016 2:11 am, Martin Schreiber via Lazarus wrote: > On Friday 21 October 2016 09:51:38 Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> >> I'm not so sure event driven programming is a must to become a >> competent programmer, I would have to think about that. >

Re: [Lazarus] Chromium embedded on freebsd or firefox embedded

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, October 21, 2016 6:04 am, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote: > > Embeded Firefox is not possible anymore via XulRunner as embedded > support has been dropped by Mozilla. Really? I heard about them changing the architecture to a new embedded architecture and no longer supporting an old archite

Re: [Lazarus] Chromium embedded on freebsd or firefox embedded

2016-10-21 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, October 21, 2016 8:19 pm, Lars wrote: >> Firefox embedded does not work properly in Lazarus since Firefox 9 +/- >> and it is not possible to make it work unless forking Firefox xulrunner. >> > > Isn't there a new xulrunner architecutre they created to replace it.. > that's what I remember r

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-10-23 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Now that I think about my post about using chromium embedded for a help engine, the issue I see is that it's a large dependency .. so for small applications that are say 1MB large, and you want to supply a help system with it... all of a sudden the 1mb exe has to be shipped with a gazillion other f

Re: [Lazarus] Chromium embedded on freebsd or firefox embedded

2016-10-23 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sat, October 22, 2016 4:59 am, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote: > Hello, > > > Yes XulRunner is being replaced by GeckoSDK, but the main difference is > that XulRunner had an stable API (frozen) and some semi-stable APIs, so > most base functions for embed are stable. This is now longer available

Re: [Lazarus] Chromium embedded on freebsd or firefox embedded

2016-10-23 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sat, October 22, 2016 7:25 am, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote: > > The link that explains almost anything: > > > https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/the-gecko-m > onoculture/ > > And the link that shows the embedding problem: > > > http://chrislord.net/index.php/2016/03

Re: [Lazarus] Run FPC on Raspberry Pi3 in command line mode

2016-10-30 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, October 28, 2016 11:23 pm, Ken Kashmarek via Lazarus wrote: > I have been runing FPC v3 on Windows 7 from a command line window. The > Windows 7 version of the IDE sucks. > By IDE do you mean lazarus, or the freepascal IDE which is different (like turbopascal). There is an FPC mailing li

Re: [Lazarus] Chromium embedded on freebsd or firefox embedded

2016-10-30 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, October 24, 2016 5:33 am, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote: > Hello, > > > Yes, currently Chromium seems to be better, but anyway it will need a > lot of work starting from the CEF as if my brain serves me CEF API is C++ > so you will find the same problem as Qt interface, a very big DLL/so

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager

2016-10-30 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, October 28, 2016 12:20 am, Balázs Székely via Lazarus wrote: > Hi, > > > We have made considerable progress with the online package manager. Next > week the central repository will be populated with 30+ packages. Here is a > short video(please watch it in 700p). > > https://youtu.be/y_hT

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sun, November 6, 2016 4:35 am, vfclists . via Lazarus wrote: > On 24 October 2016 at 00:34, Lars via Lazarus > >> wrote: >> > >> Now that I think about my post about using chromium embedded for a help >> engine, the issue I see is that it's a large depe

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sun, November 6, 2016 4:35 am, vfclists . via Lazarus wrote: > Something which is likely to get > more support is "more better" than a perfect but little used and little > known system. One issue is firefox has a track record of not supporting embedded browser for very long without abandoning i

Re: [Lazarus] ctrl-c code completion

2016-11-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sun, November 6, 2016 10:05 am, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > > press ctrl-c to do command-completion If ctrl - c is for copying, how does this not interfere? i.e. ctrl c is for copy and paste, so... how is ctrl-c used for command completion without interfering with clipboard? -- _

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sun, November 6, 2016 1:18 pm, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > If anybody things installing 300MB just to get some lousy help for a > small 1MB application is acceptable, Maybe CEF needs a lite version. I am guessing that chromium embedded pulls in a lot of unused code that is not neede

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, November 7, 2016 12:25 pm, vfclists . via Lazarus wrote: > I mean the latest thing now is > WebAssembly which shows how ridiculous the whole business has become. Web assembly, if designed properly, might actually get rid of some problems. Javascript is a large mammoth, or ugly beast. Web

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-08 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, November 8, 2016 3:49 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > On 08.11.2016 11:42, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > >> >> I seriously doubt that. It's just something that will exist next to >> javascript but in essence will perform the same tasks as javascript. > ==OFF TOPIC== (so

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-08 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, November 8, 2016 3:19 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-08 02:51, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> It's sort of like a JVM bytecode, but for the web browser. >> > > That makes you wonder, why not simply go back to Java Applets. One issue,

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-08 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, November 8, 2016 9:36 am, Werner Pamler via Lazarus wrote: > Am 08.11.2016 um 15:56 schrieb Martok via Lazarus: > >> Hi, >> >> >> I may have missed this point in the discussion, but would it not make >> more sense to get a native HTML component (either from IPro or the THTML >> port) to the

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-08 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, November 8, 2016 3:13 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > My point is, for a help system you really don't need the latest and > greatest HTML5 features. It's simply not needed. What you do want in well > formatted text, images and some basic rich text styles. Good help is more > abou

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-08 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, November 8, 2016 3:42 am, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > I seriously doubt that. It's just something that will exist next to > javascript but in essence will perform the same tasks as javascript. You > can create relatively clean and structured javascript if you want. It just > re

Re: [Lazarus] WebAssembly

2016-11-10 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Wed, November 9, 2016 2:38 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > IMHO Silverlight is dying because Java is the winner over C#, due to > Android systems outselling any other OS architecture. > > > Hence WebASM - that seems to be based on Java - might be successful in > pushing the idea of allo

Re: [Lazarus] WebAssembly

2016-11-10 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Wed, November 9, 2016 4:02 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > On 09.11.2016 11:53, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: > >> >> WebAsm <> WebAssembly. >> >> >> WebAsm is "A processor for text-based documents (most notably, HTML)". >> >> >> WebAssembly is a subset of JavaScript with some add

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-10 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Wed, November 9, 2016 3:07 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-09 04:43, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > > >> One issue, back in the day, was that you could only use Java >> programming language, right? > > Hence the name "Java Applet" ;-) &g

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-10 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Wed, November 9, 2016 3:10 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-09 05:13, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> I find the documentation, for example, for >> Total Commander, to just be a little bit too Windows 3.1 looking. >> > > I'll bet you a 6-pack

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-10 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Wed, November 9, 2016 7:57 am, Marco van de Voort via Lazarus wrote: > The frequent updates that often break interfaces are also an headache. > This is what happened to firefox: xul runner's current state is broken/unknown/scary. I hope the same doesn't happen to chromium. Cef1 has some incompa

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-10 Thread Lars via Lazarus
>>> The best reason to have some local (whatever how limited) widget is >>> for IDE popups of helptext instead of an external browser. External browser requires alt-tabbing away from the ide which is a pain. A external browser cannot be communicated with once you open the html file. with a local w

Re: [Lazarus] WebAssembly

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 11, 2016 2:23 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > On 11.11.2016 01:33, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> Maybe best to start from scratch. >> > Regarding the Lazarus paradigm "write once, compile and run everywhere", > IMHO not a good idea.

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 11, 2016 3:54 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-11 00:53, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> I do appreciate simple documentation without eye >> candy crap. > > :) Just take a look at Apple's OSX built-in help (not the online > conte

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 11, 2016 4:03 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-11 01:11, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> port alternative to port 80 which may be blocked by firewall. That I >> would want to avoid, as it's just another hassle. > > You can always use

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 11, 2016 4:37 am, wkitty42--- via Lazarus wrote: > what's wrong with something like LHelp and using IPC to tell it where to > load the next help from that the user has asked for?? > I'll have to experiment with LHelp, thanks > from these cheap seats i have way over here, it seems

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 11, 2016 4:23 pm, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-11 22:46, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> Would the current help systems be even capable of looking like that? >> Must >> be just a few div boxes. Really simple, interesting color shades. N

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

2016-11-18 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Hi, 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? i.e. anyone port LHelp to delphi so delphi apps can have a similar help system? Or any other help systems that are portable between Laz and Delphi? I haven'

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] 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

[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 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,

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and MySQL 5.7

2016-11-22 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, November 21, 2016 2:33 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-21 00:30, Giuliano Colla via Lazarus wrote: > >> Lazarus 1.6 includes the package SQLDBLaz which provides support for >> MySQL from >> versions 4.0 to 5.6. > > Yes, and that "Lazarus Packages" is simply a IDE wrapp

[Lazarus] macOS Sierra save as dialog hangs

2016-11-30 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Hi, Not sure if this has anything specifically to do with Sierra version of MacOS but that's the only Mac I have to test on.. When I run the latest Lazarus from source forge download section, on Mac Sierra OS version, The IDE loads up and works fine except for when I try to save the project. If I

Re: [Lazarus] macOS Sierra save as dialog hangs

2016-11-30 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Wed, November 30, 2016 2:31 am, C Western via Lazarus wrote: > 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 > Thanks. Just applied the patch to my local copy, in

Re: [Lazarus] SQLite & DB Aware Components

2016-12-05 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, December 2, 2016 9:18 am, Martin Collins via Lazarus wrote: > The weird thing is that when creating my fields the visual database > managers did not have the option of VARCHAR only TEXT (plus INTEGER, BLOB, > REAL & NUMERIC), but I just found I can create a VARCHAR field by > executing your

Re: [Lazarus] DoomRL based of FPC now open sourced

2016-12-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
There was also the original doom source code released in C, which was converted 100 percent to Delphi, and then I modified it to work with FPC... had some bugs, that were worked out. Not sure what the difference between actual original Doom and DoomRL is There is also Quake for delphi, and quake

Re: [Lazarus] FPC on Rpi3 executable module sizes

2016-12-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sat, December 3, 2016 8:58 am, Ken Kashmarek via Lazarus wrote: > I have solved the problem with modules sizes when compiled under Lazarus > FPC > 3.0.0 on RPi3. > > > First, I am able to perform scripted compile and link operations (ie, not > done via the IDE). Another option is to write you

Re: [Lazarus] DoomRL based of FPC now open sourced

2016-12-13 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Wed, December 7, 2016 9:55 pm, Anthony Walter via Lazarus wrote: > Lars, > > > DoomRL has nothing to do with Doom, other than borrowing the > theme/setting. It's a rogue-like game or RPG in a Doom setting. > -- True, just thought I would mention, incase anyone had forgotten about these projects

[Lazarus] macOS developer files and bindings to be created

2016-12-25 Thread Lars via Lazarus
Hi, I noticed some of the macos lazarus implementations are incomplete (for example AVFoundation doesn't seem to exist anywhere) so the question is if I want to create an avfoundation library, where do I start? First I would try to find macos header files/include files, and where are they on my sy

Re: [Lazarus] Why is SAX so slow?

2016-12-25 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sun, December 25, 2016 4:47 am, Werner Pamler via Lazarus wrote: > Motivated by a user comment on excessive memory consumption of > fpspreadsheet Sorry to not answer your question, but, fpspreadsheet looks very intereresting and first time I really looked.. So it is a spreadsheet without usin

Re: [Lazarus] In search of a component for holding a table of strings

2017-01-06 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, January 6, 2017 5:40 am, Bart via Lazarus wrote: > Mind you FF is able to copy the table in plaintext format using Tabs > as a separator, which would be easy, but IE (which is the only browser > available to me on the system) cannot do so. > > Obviously my boss does not care, he does not ha

Re: [Lazarus] In search of a component for holding a table of strings

2017-01-07 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, January 6, 2017 10:35 am, Bart via Lazarus wrote: > On 1/6/17, Michael Schnell via Lazarus > wrote: > > >> Instead of a two dimensional array of strings you could have use a >> single dimensional array of StringLists (a less symmetrical way, of >> course). > > That was my frist try (see: >

Re: [Lazarus] Semicolon checking

2017-01-15 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Sun, January 15, 2017 3:30 pm, Vojtěch Čihák via Lazarus wrote: > Hello, has Lazarus (CodeTools) or FPC some checking for empty commands? I > accidentally did this stupid mistake:   > if ... then begin > >   end else; >   begin >     ... >     exit; >   end; >   Yikes! I think you just disco

Re: [Lazarus] Changes to fpWeb...

2017-01-16 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, January 16, 2017 12:19 pm, Daniel Gaspary via Lazarus wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Michael Schnell via Lazarus > wrote: > >> Does fpweb / weblaz already support status messages from the server to >> the client (or will it some day) to allow for "Rich Web Applications") ? >> >

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2017-01-16 Thread Lars via Lazarus
> On Sunday 15 January 2017 15:30:44 Martin Vahi via Lazarus wrote: > >> >> I haven't used Lazarus yet, I need to learn it, >> but during the development of my own JavaScript GUI library I have came >> to a conclusion that GUI-s are inherently something that require "dynamic >> programming" or the

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2017-01-16 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, January 16, 2017 3:19 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > On 15.01.2017 15:30, Martin Vahi via Lazarus wrote: > >> have came to a conclusion that GUI-s are inherently something that >> require "dynamic programming" or the code gets really bloated. >> >> > The nice thing about Lazarus "

Re: [Lazarus] Changes to fpWeb...

2017-01-16 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Mon, January 16, 2017 1:59 pm, Leonardo M. Ramé via Lazarus wrote: >> Indeed, does he mean javascript pop up messages, but initiated by the >> server? when is the message displayed and why would it be displayed? an >> ajax on the current web page loaded, but initiated by the server? > > I thi

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2017-01-17 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Tue, January 17, 2017 2:22 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2017-01-16 20:18, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> GUI's require wrappers. >> > > No they don't. > Sane GUI programming requires wrappers... Insane programmers will program a GUI withou

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] Saving namespace files on WinXP

2017-01-29 Thread Lars via Lazarus
> On 1/27/17, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus > wrote: > > > If you try to save a file that has a "namespace" like > "foo.bar.unit1.pas" the IDE won't put the file extension. > > > Is this a known bug? > But why save an fpc unit with dots in it, does this file syntax even get accepted as a u

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