Announcment: RC2 for the upcoming Version 1.2.

[taazz]

hi all,
I need some help on how to connect to Oracle DB in Lazarus.

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wrong thread try starting a new thread at the programming\databases category and delete your message from here.

[exdatis]

After that, read:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/oracle
Maybe help

[tintinux]

Hi

Thanks for this new release !

I installed and recompiled some various and large applications, and specific packages, without any issue.

The new design for Project, Options, Builds is good.

I have only noticed problems in the french translations, but I don't know if they are expected to be finished.

During installation, some of the first windows are not translated.
The last ones and the readme are OK.
This is strange, probably due to ISS internal translations, or an old release.

In the EDI most of the new features are not translated. And Some old ones are still not properly translated (E.g : "pas à pas approfondi" shown for both F8 and Shift F8, as in 1.0.14).

Do you need a bug report to list what I have found ?  Or help to update the translation file ?

Regards

[snorkel]

just updated my 1.0.14 to 1.2 RC2

Just noticed that when I do the release and debug build modes there is not a huge difference in exe size.
In 1.0.14 the exe size was huge when debugging, not complaining but why is the debug exe size so much smaller now?

[snorkel]

Never mind,
I see now it defaults to using a external symbol file.

[Hoch]

First of all, congratulations to the Lazarus team.

I've been following the Lazarus project since the early days. And I I'm glad to see that it is becoming a *very powerful* environment.

Over the years I used lots of tools and several IDE and I must say that Lazarus is probably one of the best, if not the best.

Lazarus efficient, light and fast (not on Mac OS, see below) IDE, multiplatform capabilities, ultra fast native binaries and Object Pascal friendly and easy to read code, makes it a formidable tool.

But on Mac OS there are several (near) show stoppers.

I've been using 1.2 RC2 for MacOS Leopard 10.6.8, for several weeks now and I would like to report several bugs I found:

1. The first thing I experienced is that RC2 refused to load. I had to recompile Lazarus with the 'clean all' flag in order to be able to use it.

2. One of the (almost) show stoppers for Lazarus in Mac Os is the terrible slowness of the Source Editor. At least in my dual core MacBook.
I thought that this would be fixed in RC2 but this behavior still exists.

When I select the Source Editor window, the CPU usage of Lazarus jumps to 40%. Scrolling, typing and debugging is very slow and uncomfortable. It is like coding in slow motion

If I select any other window in Lazarus, for example, the Code Explorer, the CPU usage drops to 0. Or if I switch to another application the CPU drops to 0.

3. Also I noticed that 'indent selection' y 'unindent selection' do not work.

That's it for now.

Thanks again and keep up the good work!

Hoch.

[Martin_fr]

2. One of the (almost) show stoppers for Lazarus in Mac Os is the terrible slowness of the Source Editor. At least in my dual core MacBook.
I thought that this would be fixed in RC2 but this behavior still exists.

Well I am not aware, that his was reported by anyone. So there is (was) no work/investigation into that.
And afaik, for many people this does no happen, for them it works fast.

Please read and reply the new thread I opened for this issue:

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,23494.msg140283.html#msg140283

[snorkel]

One thing I noticed is when I create the two build modes (release and debug) the debug build mode has the
heaptrc unit option checked by default, this is actually annoying because by default it shows the heap trace info in a message box and
some third party libs show a lot of info and the message box can't handle the amount of data and the OK button goes off the
screen.

Also is there a way to have the release and debug as the default for all projects?

[taazz]

Also is there a way to have the release and debug as the default for all projects?

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[JuhaManninen]

One thing I noticed is when I create the two build modes (release and debug) the debug build mode has the
heaptrc unit option checked by default, this is actually annoying because by default it shows the heap trace info in a message box ...

It only shows a message box on Windows. The option can be unchecked easily, although the best solution would be to fix this issue:
  http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19837

Also is there a way to have the release and debug as the default for all projects?

Yes, there could be another option for that, maybe in the build mode manager window.
I did not consider it important because clicking the button is so easy.
Creating those modes is behind a button because not all users wanted to use or see build modes at all.

[Martin_fr]

One thing I noticed is when I create the two build modes (release and debug) the debug build mode has the
heaptrc unit option checked by default, this is actually annoying because by default it shows the heap trace info in a message box

That is why I build all my debug builds with -WC
Then they have a console, and the info goes there.

If I need to catch it, I can use a logfile.

[snorkel]

Laz 1.2RC2 on win32 issue:

When I save a project that has a Lazreport component on it that I made a change to I get this error:

[Window Title]
Streaming error

[Content]
Unable to stream MainReportMod:TMainReportMod.
Illegal character

Path to failed Instance:
TMainReportMod.report.ReportXML

[Abort] [Retry] [Ignore]

I have not been able to resolve this issue, any ideas?

[snorkel]

Also is there a way to have the release and debug as the default for all projects?

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Thanks Tazz, I totally did not see that.

The version I have of rc2 does not have a build mode tree node in the project options, but it does have the use compiler settings as default.

it does work perfectly though, thanks.

[JuhaManninen]

The version I have of rc2 does not have a build mode tree node in the project options,

Nobody has it any more because the GUI for build modes was moved above the compiler options.

but it does have the use compiler settings as default.

What is that? I didn't understand your meaning.

[snorkel]

The version I have of rc2 does not have a build mode tree node in the project options,

Nobody has it any more because the GUI for build modes was moved above the compiler options.

but it does have the use compiler settings as default.

What is that? I didn't understand your meaning.

No worries, it's cool, works great now that I know I can set the compiler options as default.