[Lazarus] VirtualTreeView: new home, new release

[Torsten Bonde Christiansen]

On 2016-06-03 08:49, Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote:
> On 2016-06-02 17:52, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:
>> The LCL port of VirtualTreeView component has a new home: 
>> https://github.com/blikblum/VirtualTreeView-Lazarus
>>
>> It's now a direct fork of Delphi repository making easier to keep in 
>> sync
>>
>> Two versions are released
>> - 4.8.7
>> - 5.5.3
>>
>> Major changes:
>> - Uses native resources instead of Lazarus resources: smaller binary
>> - Fix reported bugs: remaining bugs also affects original code or is 
>> a side effect of bugs in other parts of LCL
>>
>> Remarks:
>> - The users of 4.x must be warned that 5.x has breaking changes. 
>> Search for VTMajorVersion directives at the 5.x version of the demos 
>> to some of the incompatibilities
>> - Tested in windows with fpc 2.6.4, fpc 3.0 and fpc trunk
>> - Under linux the test was fairly basic. Only gtk2 with fpc 2.6.4, 
>> compiled and run advanced demo
> I get a compile-time error when compiling the lazarus package:
>
>
> Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.0 [2015/11/26] for x86_64
> Copyright (c) 1993-2015 by Florian Klaempfl and others
> (1002) Target OS: Linux for x86-64
> (3104) Compiling lclextensions_package.pas
>
> < ... snip ... >
>
> /home/torsten/FreePascal/VirtualTreeView-Lazarus/Source/VirtualTrees.pas(3083,25) 
> Fatal: (2003) Syntax error, ":" expected but "<" found
> Fatal: (1018) Compilation aborted
> Error: /home/torsten/FreePascal/fpc/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode

Sorry - this was from the master repository, not from the releases.

The releases are working fine on linux x86_64, fpc 3.0

-Torsten.