Re: [lazarus] Lazarus foundation news

2007-07-31 Thread Sebastian Günther
CCRDude schrieb: For a eV that is capable of holding rights (members not liable except if they misuse the association), it needs seven founding members at least (and it may at no later point be less than three). Not sure if those have to be German citizens. If so and you have trouble finding sev

Re: [lazarus] Problems with TListView (Win32)

2007-08-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: Hi Sebastian, I've needed OwnerDraw for TListView (Linux and Windows) as well a few months back and wasn't able to use it. I was told it wasn't implemented yet. Like you, I noticed some code that made me think it was implemented. False alarm. :) Not sure what the stat

[lazarus] Problems with TListView (Win32)

2007-08-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
Hi *, I discovered that Lazarus 0.9.23 starts to support ownerdraw messages in TListView for Win32. As I urgently need this (as image lists still are not implemented for this control), I tried to use them, and faced some problems: (note that I used report style) - ownerdraw messages for subi

Re: [lazarus] Problems with TListView (Win32)

2007-08-05 Thread Sebastian Günther
Luiz Americo Pereira Camara schrieb: Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote: I feel ListView isn't completed (other controls have issues too but not that much), at least under gtk i get warnings about things, i was wondering if VirtualTreeView might do the job, last time

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus promotion opportunities..

2007-08-05 Thread Sebastian Günther
David Lyon schrieb: Sounds good. Which city is that ? I wonder how many people could attend if we did it in say October... coinciding with say Oktoberfest.. :-) Too bad that the Systems fair is always a couple of weeks _after_ Oktoberfest and not _during_ Oktoberfest *g* (which is, btw, Se

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus promotion opportunities..

2007-08-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
David Lyon schrieb: Burkhard Carstens wrote: Maybe we can do a meeting right before or right after Systems .. Sounds like a convenient date to shoot for. I will have to see if I can make it to Dresden then, I've got a few other things close to then so I am just not sure. But if everybody

Re: [lazarus] going legal, time for a name change....

2007-08-07 Thread Sebastian Günther
David Lyon schrieb: Florian Klaempfl wrote: There is no need to register a trademark if you can prove otherwise (publications etc.) that you use this trademark. Florian, True. You can run for many years without any legal protection with a given name. But if somebody comes along tomorow a

Re: [lazarus] Systems 2007

2007-08-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
David Lyon schrieb: Oh, and maybe the address of the Greek restaurant we were in 2005 (Mattias maybe remembers it :-) I could only find this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~patto1ro/munipubs.htm There are so many pubs, bars, restaurants etc. in Munich... Marco: In about which area was the Gree

Re: [lazarus] Systems 2007

2007-08-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
David Lyon schrieb: Sebastian Günther wrote: There are so many pubs, bars, restaurants etc. in Munich... Exactly. that's the problem... If we can give an address to feed to the GPS... then it makes life a lot easier... especially for out-of-towners.. :-) If we can finalise on a

Re: [lazarus] FPC dynamic Library issues

2007-08-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
Micha Nelissen schrieb: I think on windows, it's not "forbidden" to put the version number in the number, e.g. msvc, and delphi vcl do it. So having the major version in the name seems most logical. Yes. But what about having e.g. version 2.0 and 2.1, where 2.1 is backwards compatible to 2.0,

Re: [lazarus] Systems 2007

2007-08-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: Marco: In about which area was the Greek restaurant? Near the youth hostel, i.e. near Rotkreuzplatz / in Neuhausen? Yes. AFAIR it was west of the youth hostel. Okay I'll investigate this matter tomorrow, the head of one of my best customers is living in Neuhausen,

Re: [lazarus] Systems 2007

2007-08-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
David Lyon schrieb: Mattias Gaertner wrote: Marco: In about which area was the Greek restaurant? Near the youth hostel, i.e. near Rotkreuzplatz / in Neuhausen? Yes. AFAIR it was west of the youth hostel. Does this help ? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Rotkreuzplatz

Re: [lazarus] VOOE Programming ? so what about running in a browser someday...?

2007-08-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Please explain why that isn't possible to do a conversion of such an app using Javascript ? Are you going to compile the pascal to javascript ? Hello *, as I already wrote Michael in private I'm thinking about developing a web widgetset for LCL as well. My c

Re: [lazarus] VOOE Programming ? so what about running in a browser someday...?

2007-08-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
David Lyon schrieb: Sebastian Günther wrote: The application of course gets compiled as usual and runs on the server. Maybe it gets compiled to javascript and the javascript runs on the client. Talking to some custom-server(-script?) running on the server. Ehm no, we are talking about

Re: [lazarus] VOOE Programming ? so what about running in a browser someday...?

2007-08-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
Hi Michael, Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: This is always so in Client/Server. Global variables are a big no-no. Of course. I just tried to identify potential problems when converting a desktop application to a web application. The widgets itself are not the problem; They are the easiest.

Re: [lazarus] Systems 2007 Hotel

2007-08-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: On 8/20/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Normally, I'll be staying in a youth hostel. By far the cheapest option, and since I cannot deduct it from my costs, the only option as far as I'm concerned :-) Hey, have you ever been to hostels in

Re: [lazarus] report writer 4 Lazarus?

2007-08-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: On 20/08/07, David Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do people think we should try to package LazReport into Lazarus at some future point? Someone else also mentioned that idea a while back. I think that would be a good idea and a step forward in the right direction.

Re: [lazarus] report writer 4 Lazarus?

2007-08-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: My 2ct: I think it's quite important for Lazarus in the long term to have important basic functionality built-it automatically, or else the situation will get as worse at it is the case with Delphi. (Each time I have to reinstall Delphi it takes 2 hours until all co

Re: [lazarus] [ASK] How To Play FLV (Flash Video) YouTube

2007-08-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
Reimar Grabowski schrieb: Hi, I found some windows bindings for ffmpeg on the net and 'ported' them to linux. At the moment I am trying to write a player class, but it is for my own project and therefore it streams the movie to an OpenGL texture. If I succeed I will try to make a component for

Re: [lazarus] [ASK] How To Play FLV (Flash Video) YouTube

2007-08-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:31:42 +0200 Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know that VLC and mplayer have been ported to Win32, but xine-libs unfortunately not (at least I'm not aware of a port.) Having multimedia components in Lazarus, based on

Re: [lazarus] [ASK] How To Play FLV (Flash Video) YouTube

2007-08-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
Reimar Grabowski schrieb: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:53:43 +0200 Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ehm all three of them? That is what they say here: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/projects.html Oh yes, thanks for this reference. But as far as I know, stuff like file type detecti

Re: [lazarus] report writer 4 Lazarus?

2007-08-22 Thread Sebastian Günther
Vincent Snijders schrieb: Sebastian Günther schreef: (btw, something totally different: I noticed that the FCL source files are missing in recent Lazarus Win32 installers. Is this a known issue somebody cares about already?) It is not known. What version do you use, for fpc 2.0.4 or 2.1.5

Re: [lazarus] [ASK] How To Play FLV (Flash Video) YouTube

2007-08-22 Thread Sebastian Günther
Reimar Grabowski schrieb: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:27:49 +0200 Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But as far as I know, stuff like file type detection and demultiplexing is still a job for the library around ffmpeg? Don't ask me, I don't really know what I am doing.

[lazarus] i18n in Lazarus applications

2007-09-17 Thread Sebastian Günther
Hi all, I'm wondering myself why I can't find any information about i18n in Lazarus. Writing applications which support several languages is not an uncommon task; what is the currently recommended way to go? (In sourcecode I'd have to use resourcestrings of course, but what about forms?) Reg

Re: [lazarus] i18n in Lazarus applications

2007-09-17 Thread Sebastian Günther
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: In the streaming code there is an experimental feature which hooks into the reading of streams, the "OnReadStringProperty" event of TReader. It allows to translate the string 'on-the-fly'. I don't know whether the LCL hooks this property or not. Thanks (and of co

Re: [lazarus] Serial Comm Support Windows

2007-11-24 Thread Sebastian Günther
Jeff Steinkamp schrieb: I know there is a serial unit for Linux/Unix, but is there similar support for serial communications for the Windows Platform? I have a port of my original Unix serial unit (the one which has been included in FPC years ago) for Windows; it has even are more OOP-like in

Re: [lazarus] Serial Comm Support Windows

2007-11-27 Thread Sebastian Günther
Alvise Nicoletti schrieb: Sorry but... where is the serial unit for linux/unix? I don't find it... and I'd like to try. It's part of the RTL. You can find the source in rtl/unix/serial.pp Regards, Sebastian _ To unsubscrib

Re: [lazarus] FPDoc or PasDoc?

2007-11-30 Thread Sebastian Günther
Lee Jenkins schrieb: Am I supposed to write the actual xml markup using it? Or is it preferred to use a separate XML editor? By the way, actually I'm working on a visual editor component which can be used for developing a full-featured visual fpDoc editor quite easily (we'll have to see we

Re: [lazarus] FPDoc or PasDoc?

2007-12-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: On 01/12/2007, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And, if all goes well, really soon there'll be a wysiwyg editor for fpdoc. Oh boy Santa read my wishlist letter! :-) I'm working on it, I'm working on it... Please be patient ;) - Sebastian

Re: [lazarus] xmlwriter not yet implemented in Lazarus

2008-01-11 Thread Sebastian Günther
willem schrieb: But in the Fpdoc source of dw_xml.pp the TXMLWriter.WriteDoc is is a Stub. Its only a stub. with a begin then nothing !! then end; Seems like sebastian started but didn't finish it... No I ever concentrated myself on HTML output. The XML output target has been planned

[lazarus] Patch for reading LRE encoded BMP files

2008-02-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
Hi *, attached is a small patch which enables the LCL to read RLE encoded BMP files (successfully tested with some hundreds of small 8 bpp bitmaps, 4 bpp should work as well). Maybe somebody wants to commit this small patch :) Diff is against Lazarus 0.9.24 Regards, Sebastian 426a427 >

Re: [lazarus] Patch for reading LRE encoded BMP files

2008-02-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
Giuliano Colla schrieb: Maybe there's some inconsistency hanging around: in intgraphics.pas - TLazReaderBMP.InternalReadBody, when attempting to read RLE Bitmap: raise FPImageException.Create('4 bit RLE Bitmaps not supported'); raise FPImageException.Create('8 bit RLE Bi

Re: [lazarus] Patch for reading LRE encoded BMP files

2008-02-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: I think the reason is historical: TFPBMPReader allows to override some methods, and lazarus did this to improve on performance. Meanwhile the TFPBMPReader also improved, but lazarus never 'sees' the improvements, since the methods are overridden. Okay, so what is

Re: [lazarus] Patch for reading LRE encoded BMP files

2008-02-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Sebastian Günther wrote: Hi *, attached is a small patch which enables the LCL to read RLE encoded BMP files (successfully tested with some hundreds of small 8 bpp bitmaps, 4 bpp should work as well). I don't understand why this is n

[lazarus] Multithreading on WinCE/ARM?

2008-02-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
Hi *, is it possible that multithreading is actually not working on Windows CE on ARM? When I create a TThread descendant, it won't start. Device: O2 XDA Orbit 2 (a.k.a. HTC Polaris) OS: Windows Mobile 6 Lazarus 0.9.24/WinCE-Cross (within MS' emulator it won't work either) Regards, Sebasti

Re: [lazarus] XMLCFG BUG ?

2005-08-11 Thread Sebastian Günther
Christian Fillion schrieb: > Hi all i'm making a application tha use the xmlcfg.pp unit. > > I dont know if i find a bug in the xmlcfg file at > procedure TXMLConfig.SetValue(const APath, AValue: String); > > Anyway this is a small sample of the bug [...] > > For some reason SetValue have difficult

Re: [lazarus] XMLCFG BUG ?

2005-08-12 Thread Sebastian Günther
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: > > I don't know if the one letter is a problem, but > > token_xml.SetValue('keys/' + {'t' +} inttostr(x) + '/values' , > 'some_value' ); > > the inttostr(x) does not create a valid xml name. > > The fpc xmlwriter allows it and writes it (bug), but the xmlread

Re: [lazarus] XMLCFG BUG ?

2005-08-15 Thread Sebastian Günther
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: >> >>While you are thinking about it, can you give an opinion on how to fix >>lazarus bug 902: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=902 > > > Yes, it is the same. > > I would expect, that xmlwriter should raise an exception. I have a small suggestion,

Re: [lazarus] XMLCFG BUG ?

2005-08-15 Thread Sebastian Günther
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: > Just one question: Why should xmlcfg allow, what xml does not? > I mean, I see the gain to allow numbers as identifiers, but OTOH a newbie > could be mislead, that his paths are the xml paths (e.g. '1' vs '_1'). When > the configs are read by other applications the path

Re: [lazarus] XMLCFG BUG ?

2005-08-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: >> >>Any further comments? :-) > > > I'm satisfied. :) Ok great, then I'll implement it now. But, checks within the xmlwriter are hard to do, as the whole DOM stuff uses WideStrings in FPC 2.x and I don't think we have functions for Unicode character classification and

Re: [lazarus] Using XML-RPC with Lazarus/FPC ...

2005-08-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
Thomas Zastrow schrieb: > Hello, > > I see that there seems to be XML-RPC-functionality comming with FPC > (under \fpcsrc\fcl\net there are some units which are dealing with > XML-RPC). > > I need to write a little XML-RPC-Client and don't want to do that in > Java ... ;-) > > Perhaps somebody c

Re: [lazarus] Using XML-RPC with Lazarus/FPC ...

2005-08-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
Thomas Zastrow schrieb: >> >> > That sounds great ;-) > > If I could help something, just tell me! hmm not at the moment, but hopefully I can finish the new fcl/net stuff within the next days. But it's somewhat difficult, as I have different versions on different PCs and the new units should wo

Re: [lazarus] XMLCFG BUG ?

2005-08-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
Sebastian Günther schrieb: > > Ok great, then I'll implement it now. Done. The new xmlcfg unit is committed (trunk only, so far). I've changed quite some things, so be warned that it might break existing application somewhat. The main change: You cannot specify the filename in

Re: [lazarus] Using XML-RPC with Lazarus/FPC ...

2005-08-27 Thread Sebastian Günther
Joao Morais schrieb: > > Hi Sebastian, > > Plans to include SOAP? Not in the short term. But it is on the todo list. - Sebastian _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject a

Re: [lazarus] GNOME Toolkit

2005-09-27 Thread Sebastian Günther
Marc Weustink schrieb: > > When the initial widgetsets were setup, there existed something like a > gnomelib. All standard dialogs and iirc it had also a (more advanced) > list and treeview. there is a libgnomeui, for example. But the recent GTK development (in 2.x series) shows that there is mu

Re: [lazarus] "Make" Problem in Debian

2005-10-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
Florian Klaempfl schrieb: >>... >>Linking ./lazarus >>/usr/bin/ld: cant' find -lgdk >>lazarus.pp(98,1) Error: Error while linking >>make[1]: *** [lazarus] Error 1 >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/lazarus' >>make: *** [ide] Error 2 >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/lazarus$ >> >>Can anybody tel

[lazarus] Free Pascal and Lazarus at SYSTEMS 2005 in Munich, Germany

2005-10-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
Hello everybody, unfortunately the official announcement is a little bit late, but nevertheless: Free Pascal and Lazarus have a small booth at the SYSTEMS 2005 exhibition in Munich, Germany; October 24th to 28th. Actually Mattias Gärtner, Marco van de Voort and me are present, additionally Floria

Re: [lazarus] Interprocess Communication

2005-11-07 Thread Sebastian Günther
SteveG schrieb: > There was talk recently of IPC methods being worked upon for Laz/FPC - > (Windows) > Does anybody know if this was competed (or could be tried if not) ? we had a first working implementation of D-Bus running on Systems two weeks ago. But it's not finished yet for general usage.