Lazarus IDE problem in WinXP

[Anonymous]

I installed Lazarus, that was rather painless.
Run lazarsu. Icons were black, but we can live with that.
On opening lazarus, it auto starts a new project. Nice.

I run the project.
In runtime, a console window opens and a bit later the applications main form shows.
Close the application to go back into desing time, but wait, you cant because lazarus also closes.

Is this a know issue?

[Vincent Snijders]

I know it, but I don't know it cause yet.

It is on my todo-list, but I don't know when it will be fixed.

For the moment I just compile my app with lazarrus and run them in a seperate dos-box or from the win dows explorer.

[neli]

This issue should be fixed now in CVS.

Micha.

[neli]

This issue should be fixed now in CVS.

...should have been fixed....

ie. if I tested correctly, it is now fixed. ;-)

Micha.

[Lightning]

Don't use manifest file to enhance the looks or you get something like black controls.
Hints don't get displayed on the main form, instead they flicker, scrollbars get hidden sometimes and forms are not "working" together, plus lots of other bugs that don't exist in linux.

[neli]

This isn't related to this topic at all; please post a new topic for a new question, thanks.

The only black control I saw is a radiobutton in a groupbox, of which it is unknown how it's caused, for example a checkbox does work. Did you notice other controls having problems?

[Lightning]

I have WinXP, are these problems in other windows versions.
I think messages are the problem.
WinXP sends messages in a different way than 9x i made a skinable button in Delphi
but it behaved strange when moved to WinXP so i used more messages for Painting
WM_PAINT is not enough nor is WM_ERASEBKGND. (I am converting it to Lazarus
it's really nice with a transparent window)