[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 09:37:16 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>[...]
> >> An annoyance affecting all platforms above is that the timeout in the 
> >> "Configure Lazarus IDE" -> "Compiler" box is impossibly fast, if the 
> >> default isn't right about the only way to use it is to paste a prepared 
> >> name.
> > 
> > What timeout?
> 
> After the compiler name has been changed by the addition or removal of a 
> single character, it goes and checks whether the filename is now valid. 
> The timeout here is something like 10th sec, and displays a dialogue if 
> the name is bad.

Fixed.


>[...]
> >> Slightly more serious from my POV is that a project that created a form 
> >> early to set up a configuration file from a template is now giving 
> >> problems on all tested platforms. I'm assuming that 
> >> http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-A-change-in-LCL-require-your-TCustomForm-descendants-to-have-a-resource-or-to-use-a-CreateNer-td2402646.html 
> >> is relevant, but at present am struggling.
> > 
> > This is a pretty old change.
> 
> Yes, but has only now become mandatory.

The change was already in 1.0.

 
> > Simply use CreateNew instead of Create.

Or set RequireDerivedFormResource to false.

 
Mattias