[lazarus] Lazarus with X-Win32

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:17:50 +0200
Florian Klaempfl <Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de> wrote:

> I jsut tried to run lazarus with XWin32 (X server for Win32) and it runs fine
> as the following screen shot shows: http://www.klaempfl.de/lazarus.png . 
> The performance
> is through a 100Mbit network and running lazarus on a Cyrix 166+ very good 
> also compared with Kylix on my Athlon TB 1GHz :) !

Cool.
Especially, since I have just reduced the amount of paint messages.


> The only problem is that 
> running/debugging an
> application inside of lazarus doesn't work:
> 
> I tried to set the DISPLAY variable in the run options. But it doesn't help 
> either.

It was not implemented. Now it is.


> BTW: If the DISPLAY field is empty, lazarus should read it imo from the 
> environment.
> Or isn't it used anyway?

TProcess uses the default environment if no environement is given. So DISPLAY should have the same value as in the IDE.
Now the IDE always copy its environment variables to the child (merged with the user overrides).


Mattias