[lazarus] LazDoc

2007-08-27 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
I have recently started trying to create documentation for Lazarus, after a prolonged break. Running a variant of Debian Linux (Mepis 6.5) I have checked out the latest SVN for lazarus and fpc, compiled lazde and started trying to edit. If I run the just-compiled version of lazde and try to open a

[lazarus] LazDE documentation editor won't build HTML file

2007-08-31 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
I am trying to use LazDE (documentation editor) to construct an HTML file based on a recently edited XML documentation file. All tools including LazDE and Lazarus built from latest SVN. Mepis32 v6.5 (a variant of debian linux) Intel Pentium4 with 512 MB memory. I (consistently) get the following

Re: [lazarus] LazDoc

2007-08-31 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Thanks - after recompiling everything using latest versions and all compatible with each other, it works! When will we learn? Regards - Chris Vincent Snijders wrote: > Chris Kirkpatrick schreef: >> I have recently started trying to create documentation for Lazarus, >> after a

Re: [lazarus] LazDE documentation editor won't build HTML file

2007-08-31 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Chris Kirkpatrick wrote: > > >> I am trying to use LazDE (documentation editor) to construct an HTML >> file based on a recently edited XML documentation file. >> >> All tools including LazDE and Lazarus built fr

Re: [lazarus] Mouse wheel and Lazarus IDE editor

2007-09-09 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:32:26 +0200 > Burkhard Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Am Samstag, 1. September 2007 15:20 schrieb Marc Weustink: >> >>> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >>> -- Forwarded message -- From: Graeme Geldenhuys <

Re: [lazarus] Overview of LCL architecture.

2007-09-14 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Bruce Tulloch wrote: > I thought I'd have a go at finding a bug I reported today: > > http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=9676 > > and I think I might get to the bottom of it eventually. > > My question here is a tangential to this... > > Is there any overview documentation about the arc

Re: [lazarus] Another icons for Lazarus

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
wile64 wrote: Thank you for your answers, but not to forget that the icons make 16x16 pixels! There is necessary to remain simple and clear ;) Here a first proposal on the Marc idea. -- Laurent.

[lazarus] latest SVN revision

2007-10-25 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Hi all - Attempting to recompile lazarus from command line with 'make'. (Same problem previously occurred when I tried to rebuild from lazarus ide). Latest SVN revision for lazarus (12586) Latest SVN for fpc (3925) - re-compiled/installed OK (have even deleted local version of lazarus and done a n

Re: [lazarus] latest SVN revision

2007-10-27 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Thanks. After even more recent SVN (fpc r8594, lazarus r12606) and 'make cleanall all') lazarus compiled successfully. Regards - Chris Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:42:43 +0100 Chris Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all - Attempting to recomp

Re: [lazarus] DataAccess components in lazarus 2.9.24

2007-11-18 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
A live CD is one that you put in your CD rive and boot from it; it usually contains a distribution of linux, like Mepis, Ubuntu or Koppix, which gets installed in a RAMDISK and you can run it without involving the computer's hard drive. Good for evaluating software (you can run linux on window

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
some of the documentation, and particularly if yuo have an understanding of some of the more abstruse aspects of programming, please let me know and we can decide on priorities. With kindest regards - Chris Kirkpatrick Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos wrote: Hello Mattias, I did some tests now and

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Hi Wanderlan - I have started at the 'ancestor' level of the LCL, and have produced documentation for several of the Classes in Controls, mainly TControl, TWinControl, TCustomControl; then I did some work on Dialogs, Forms (TForm, TApplication, TScreen and TScrollBox) and Graphics (TBitMap,

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-21 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
more productive for you? TIA Wanderlan On 11/20/07, Chris Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Wanderlan - I have started at the 'ancestor' level of the LCL, and have produced documentation for several of the Classes in Controls, mainly TControl, TWinControl, TCustomControl;

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-21 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Mattias Gaertner wrote: Please concentrate on the public or published properties - anyway, these are the only ones that MakeSkel will have put into the skeleton XML file. Would it hurt, if other tools add entries for private and protected members? No, absolutely not. It would be

[lazarus] Primitive classes in fpc/lazarus

2007-11-26 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Several types and classes that are ancestors of classes in the LCL are not found in the RTL, and it is difficult to document the LCL classes completely without them. These include many classes with TFPx prefixes; some examples are TFPCanvas and related classes, found in fpc/packages/fcl-ima

Re: [lazarus] Primitive classes in fpc/lazarus

2007-11-26 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos wrote: Is RTL documented in the same XML format that LCL documents? As far as I know, all the on-line help files for RTL and FCL were produced in the same way as the LCL documentation, using .XML files and FPCDoc. The RTL and FCL descriptor files are not, however, i

Re: [lazarus] some questions

2007-11-28 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
There is also a more advanced tutorial which addresses the use of data-sensitive components: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/MySQLDatabases Hope it helps! Chris Roberto Padovani wrote: about accessing databases, there is a tutorial: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Database_Tutoria

Re: [lazarus] What is wrong with the Toolbar?

2008-01-22 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
I don't know whether the Toolbar has been correctly fixed (bug 0010530: Toolbar background not painted), but bug 0010562: (LazDe toolbar shows previous background) certainly has not been resolved - I had assumed it was a consequence of the previous bug, and should be resolved when it was fix

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started

2008-01-23 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Hi John, Joost and Adrian - As you might know, I have been trying to get the documentation for parts of the Lazarus Component Library (LCL) into shape, mainly by putting information into the .XML files associated with each Unit, to enable generation of .HTML files using FPDoc. Quite a few elem

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started

2008-01-23 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Forge HTML file, which unfortunately can be several days out of date. Hope this helps. Regards - Chris John wrote: Chris Kirkpatrick wrote: Hi John, Joost and Adrian - snip So I should very much like to collaborate with you guys in improving the documentation of sqldb and fc-db, as well as t

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started

2008-01-23 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Hi Mattias - I have looked at LazDoc in the IDE. It is very nice in principle, and allows us to copy inherited properties, for example. However, I cannot save any changes that I make with LazDoc in the IDE. If I make a change and press SAVE, then go to another property, when I come back to the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
The list of possible nodes is found, of course, in the FPDoc manual. Some examples of fairly densely populated descriptions are in StdCtrls, DBCtrls, Dialogs, and also in Controls, Graphics, and Forms. In general the TCustom components are the most fully described. StdCtrls, DBCtrls, Menus

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FCL-DB/SQLDB docs started

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
aise a new Bug report, or add this to the existing one? Regards - Chris Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:33:23 +0000 Chris Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mattias - I have looked at LazDoc in the IDE. It is very nice in principle, and allows us to copy inhe

[lazarus] LazDoc for preparing documentation files

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
I have been trying out the new functionality of LazDoc in the IDE, on which Mattias Gaertner has been working very hard. Although it is still incomplete, and has been the subject of several bug reports, it has a number of useful features. One of these is the facility to 'copy from inherited',

Re: [lazarus] LazDoc for preparing documentation files

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
empfl wrote: Chris Kirkpatrick schrieb: All comments are most welcome. Just curious, are the docs as pdf available somewhere or how can I build them? _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lazarus] Error: Invalid Free Pascal Source Directory

2008-02-09 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Source files will be in /usr/share/fpc ... or somewhere close to that (you may have to dig around a little!) In general, Lazarus will be in the directory in which it is installed, fpc compiler will be in /usr/bin (or there will be a symbolic link from /usr/bin/ppc386 to /usr/(local)/lib/fpc/$

[lazarus] Gdk-error on launching lazarus

2006-07-01 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Hi folks - New installation of Mepis 6 (with ububtu kernel) on Toshiba satellite - 512MB RAM Latest libgdk-pixbuf-dev from Debian repository Latest libgtk2 latest subversion fpc and lazarus - both compile OK on launching lazatus I get the following errors [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./lazarus TApplica

Re: [lazarus] Gdk-error on launching lazarus

2006-08-01 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 13:50 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Chris Kirkpatrick wrote: > > > Hi folks - > > > > New installation of Mepis 6 (with ububtu kernel) on Toshiba satellite - > > 512MB > > RAM > > Latest libgdk

[lazarus] Relative paths for Lazarus and FPC libraries

2005-08-10 Thread chris . kirkpatrick
I quote something I wrote on the Lazarus-CCR Wiki: Installing Lazarus under Windows The current releases of the Windows Lazarus binary packages install very easily, and should work 'out-of-the-box'. It is even possible to install the whole Lazarus/FPC package on a portable USB drive (capacity

Re: [lazarus] Wiki

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose to merge the following pages; > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Lazarus_IDE_ToDo_List > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Roadmap&file=index > > into > > http