Fresh from Delphi XE2 to Lazarus -- need a few pointers in the right
direction..
lazarus / 11-Options

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EganSolo · 2014-06-23 05:27

Folks,
I've tried Lazarus a few years back and it wasn't stable enough for my
needs. About to upgrade from Delphi XE2 to XE6, I thought I should
good old Laz another whirl...

I'm impressed. I managed to convert a core project to Lazarus/fpc in
one afternoon. Lazarus has features that Delphi lacks or does poorly
such as auto-generation of methods with the proper signature, handling
of regions, include files, a tighter and cleaner pascal thanks to
objfpc mode. All in all a great environment to work with.

I have a few usability-related questions, and I'm hoping some of these
would be easy to take care of.

1. Is there a similar concept to ProjectsGroup in Delphi where the
project explorer could show multiple projects and allows me to switch
between them, pick which one is active?

2. When I test my code, it would be nice if the set of windows open
switch from editing to debugging (so the fpDOC window is hidden, and
the breakpoint, stack, watches, window show-up?

3. It must be me, but whenever I try to add a package "available for
installation", and I click "Save and Rebuild IDE" I get a message that
says  "one or more required packages were not found. See package graph
for details," and that view does not seem to be able to tell me which
package is missing? Do I need to reinstall Lazarus from scratch?

Thanks for any suggestions, you may have!

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Mike.Cornflake · 2014-06-23 06:17

Quote1. Is there a similar concept to ProjectsGroup in Delphi where
the project explorer could show multiple projects and allows me to
switch between them, pick which one is active

2. When I test my code, it would be nice if the set of windows open
switch from editing to debugging (so the fpDOC window is hidden, and
the breakpoint, stack, watches, window show-up?
Not that I've found.  I miss both these items too, so if you do find
equivalents, I'd love to know about it.

Quote3. It must be me, but whenever I try to add a package "available
for installation", and I click "Save and Rebuild IDE" I get a message
that says  "one or more required packages were not found. See package
graph for details," and that view does not seem to be able to tell me
which package is missing?
Yeah, I don't get a lot of mileage from that dialog either.  It's one
of those that I'm sure, if I knew what was going on, would be
useful...

QuoteDo I need to reinstall Lazarus from scratch?
Doubt it.  We just need to identify what the problematic package is.

Have a look in the left hand pane of "lazarus" - "Packages" -
"Install/Uninstall Packages" (see attached image)

Any odd looking icons in that list?  Somewhere (sorry, don't know
where) there is a list of what the different icons are.

In fact, when you click "Save and Build IDE" you get presented with a
list of what Packages will be added, and which will be unchanged.  Let
us know what's in the list of new packages....

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BigChimp · 2014-06-23 06:21

Quote from: EganSolo on June 23, 2014, 07:27:23 am3. It must be me,
but whenever I try to add a package "available for installation", and
I click "Save and Rebuild IDE" I get a message that says  "one or more
required packages were not found. See package graph for details," and
that view does not seem to be able to tell me which package is
missing? Do I need to reinstall Lazarus from scratch?
Have a look at tools/package links. You can let it show only invalid
lpk files. Perhaps that helps.
(I don't very often have problems with missing packages when
recompiling - maybe I'm lucky??)