[Lazarus] Lazarus Custom Tools issue under Windows

[Vincent Snijders]

2008/10/28 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
> <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Under Linux everything works fine - the UI Designer loads the current
>> editor file and displays the form to be edited. Under Windows there is
>> a problem. The main form of the UI Designer doesn't display for some
>> reason, but the Object Inspector form does.
>
> I searched the Lazarus IDE code and saw that it launches the custom
> tool via a TProcessUTF8.  I just used the standard TProcess class and
> did the following under Windows.  It worked perfectly, so I gather
> that confirms there is a bug in Lazarus IDE somewhere.
>
>
> procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
>
> var
>
>  p: TProcess;
>
> begin
>
>  p := TProcess.Create(self);

And if you do:
  p := TProcessUTF8.Create(self);

>
>  p.CommandLine := 'C:\Programming\fpGUI\uidesigner\uidesigner.exe'
>
>    + ' ' + 'c:\Programming\fpGUI\examples\gui\animation\anim_test.lpr';
>
>  p.Execute;
>
> end;

Vincent