[Lazarus] Component installs without icon on component toolbar - tarraybutton.lrs(1, 17) Error: Identifier not found "LazarusResources"

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:38:59 +1000
Peter E Williams <foss.game.pascal.developer at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Hi dmitry & All,
> 
> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 12:21 +0400, dmitry boyarintsev wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Peter E Williams
> > > Any ideas???
> > 
> > try to clean up manually "lib" directory at the package dir (remove
> > any .o file located there).
> > 
> > If ugradbtn is located in stand-alone package (not arraycolorbtn.pkg),
> > you must add the  ugradbtn package to arraycolorbtn requirement's,
> > instead of using the file directly!
> > 
> 
> I managed to get both the ugradbtn and arraybutton (based on
> arraycolorbtn) compiled... but with one problem: there was not icon for
> it on the Misc component toolbar. The tarraybutton.lrs file was missing.
> This happens even when I created a new component based on TGradButton
> (ugradbtn.pas).

Yes, the IDE does not create icons.

 
> This seems to be a bug in lazarus. When you create a new component based
> on a existing component the .lrs file is missing.

See the fine manual

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Packages#Add_a_component_icon


> Also I could not save
> the lpk file with the default name because it told me that it already
> existed even tho' it didn't.

Please create a bug report and steps to reproduce.

 
> After copying tgradbutton.lrs to tarraybutton.lrs I get these 2 errors:
> 
> /home/pewink/Public/My_code/lazarus/0.9.28.2/pewink/Hexxpawn/ArrayButton/tarraybutton.lrs(1,17) Error: Identifier not found "LazarusResources"

Your forgot to use the the unit lresources.


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Mattias