Question fpGUI integration to CT

Hello Sternas.

Wow...

Is it pure fpGUI or LCL-fpGUI ?

Thanks.

Fre;D

but we want help on this

What help do you need ?

On screenshot, it seems that you are using LCL-fpGUI (i am not sure it is the right way).

Hello Sternas.

Sorry but i do not understand "Platform integration".

Do you mean integration of the LCL-fpGUI widgetset (like LCL-GTK widgetset or LCL-Qt widgetset) ?
If yes, as Graeme explain, it is not a good idea because you will only add the LCL-bugs to fpGUI, loosing all the plus of fpGUI (hyper-safe, hyper-light, hyper-fast).

The best way will be to integrate a pure fpGUI-designer, with his pure-fpGUI object inspector and use Typhon for source editor.
I may help you for the fpGUI-designer (github.com/fredvs/uidesigner_ext) => there are already patch for Typhon.

sternas wrote: step 1)- I mean integration of the LCL-fpGUI widgetset (like LCL-GTK widgetset or LCL-Qt widgetset)
for Normal Style "LCL-application" (status: 100% now).

Nice to see support for fpGUI in CodeTyphon. The LCL-fpGUI interface still needs lots of development work before it is useful though, so I don't believe this is the way to go in using fpGUI at the moment.

task step 2)-but all new Style "native fpGUI -applications" will use only fpGUI units (status: 50% now).

If there is anything I can help with, please let me know.

Register new Application Type with IDE
By the way, did you know inside fpGUI code repository there is a Lazarus IDE add-on package that registers a new Project Type, which starts a pure fpGUI Application via File -> New -> Application -> fpGUI Application. Take a look at the <fpgui>/extras/lazarus_ide/fpgui_ide.lpk package. fpGUI's code repository also includes Lazarus IDE code templates which I think you might also find useful. I actualy use code templates the most when starting a new fpGUI project. Again, see the <fpgui>/extras/code_templates/lazarus.dci file. Add the content to the default lazarus.dci file.

DocView (help viewer integration)
Take a look at the following web page which describes how you can integrate DocView into Lazarus IDE and many other IDE's and editors. [fpgui.sourceforge.net/docview_ide_integration.shtml]

fpGUI's UI Designer integration
Follow the same instructions as for DocView integration. I use the Ctrl+Shift+F11 shortcut to launch the UI Designer with the current file being edited.

Is there a daily download to test Lab CodeTyphon 5.3?

ps:
Not sure if you knew, but I recently release fpGUI v1.4, but I suggest you use the code from the 'fixes_1.4' branch which contains a couple of last minute fixes since the v1.4 release.

sternas wrote: Do you want, to upload this Lab CT for public test ?

No, I just wanted to know if there is a public beta/build of 5.3 that I could use to test. I don't really know how CT development works or even if you have public betas/builds available.

PS: Do want to be the Moderator of this forum session (fpGUI) ?

Thank you for the offer, but I will decline at this moment - simply because of my time constraints. But now that I know about this forum, I'll visit occasionally and help with queries on fpGUI where I can.

I don't really know how CT development works or even if you have public betas/builds available.

Hum, if you use freeBSD ( ), CodeTyphon is for you.
It install all the dependencies to do last fpc release work.
Easy and without cry.

Fre;D

Many thanks, that is pretty impressive to do.

Okay, just did the above and got the following result:

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...snip...
2015-04-23 11:50:43 (4.37 MB/s) - ‘typhon_src.7z’ saved [35821383/35821383]

FINISHED --2015-04-23 11:50:43--
Total wall clock time: 2m 5s
Downloaded: 63 files, 539M in 2m 3s (4.38 MB/s)
chmod: -R: No such file or directory
root is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
root is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
...snip...
root is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
_______________________________________________________________

Terminate Action at 23-4-15 11:50:43
Total time: 00:02:05.267
ExitCode : 0
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Yes, but I found the problem. It seems zupdate/allupdate.sh was being executed via sudo (switch to user root), and then inside the script it uses sudo and many commands again. Meaning it is trying to call sudo with the root user. Root is not in the sudoers file, hence the error.

My work-around was to run zupdate/allupdate.sh as my normal user, then run CodeTyhpon Center and select Scripts -> Studio Setup and then select build all. I'm now finally on v5.3.

Hello.
I have try to install fpGUI package => <fpgui>/extras/lazarus_ide/fpgui_ide.lpk but fpgui_ide.lpk needs => LazarusPackageIntf, LazIDEIntf, ProjectIntf.
Could it be possible to translate fpgui_ide.lpk into something CT compatible ?
This package adds a new project type in the Lazarus IDE => It would be good if it could be done in Typhon too.
So you can then create a fpGUI based project by going: 'File | New' and selecting 'fpGUI Application'.

PS: In new release => github.com/graemeg/fpGUI/tree/develop
[EDIT] and in github.com/graemeg/fpgui/tree/fixes_1.4 =>

In => <fpgui>/extras/lazarus_ide/fpgui_ide.lpk

=>
Added a new project type that uses fpGUI+Agg2D.
So you may choose now or "New fpGUI Application" or "New fpGUI Application using Agg2D".

Many thanks.

Fre;D

Hi Fred,

That was fast! The problem is that CT seems to rename all the Lazarus packages, thus it causes package dependency breakages in all code that is not included with CT. Quite annoying.

The problem is that CT seems to rename all the Lazarus packages, thus it causes package dependency breakages in all code that is not included with CT.

Hum, it seems to me that CT and Lazarus are quite different now.

For example, in => github.com/fredvs/uidesigner_ext , =>
is added a patch to make fpGUI designer integrated into Lazarus and Typhon IDE.

For Lazarus, the patch is applied to => main.pp
For Typhon, the patch is applied to => sourcefilemanager.pas

And main.pp <> sourcefilemanager.pas

By the way, sourcefilemanager.pas is much easier to use than main.pp (but that is a other story).

Fre;D

Yes, they are diverging, which also means it makes it harder for CT developers to integrate latest Lazarus and other package changes.

ps:
Regarding your "uidesigner_ext", why don't you rather use the Releases feature of github to distribute your binaries, instead of including them in the code repository? [github.com/fredvs/uidesigner_ext/releases] It is very easy to use on Github. Simply tag a commit with a release version, then go to the Release page and make a new release, selecting the release tag. Then upload your binaries against that release. That way you still have binary releases, and the source code repository doesn't have the huge binary file overhead (which makes your repository much larger to download). Github will automatically supply *.tar.gz and *.zip archives of the source code for each release.