[fpc-pascal] Starting out with Free Pascal
Hello, I'm absolutely new to this list... and to Pascal. I was getting pretty good with Foxpro programming when MS bought and then changed the program, eventually to kill it. I see the need to get back into programming and I remember a Foxpro instructor saying that Pascal was similar. So here are my initial questions: Should I learn study FPC first and then move on to Lazarus, or just start with Lazarus? What books would you suggest? My interest is still in databases. Anything else I should know about pointing myself in that direction? Thanks. Bill Minden, NV ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal] Starting out with Free Pascal
Graeme, Terrific answers and just what I was looking for. While I plugged around the net all yesterday morning I was unable to find the answer "any Delphi book should do." Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now I can plunk down my money and not expect to wait a week to find out that I am no closer to my solution. I will continue on with Lazarus and wait for my book to arrive. I sincerely appreciate your answers. I will connect up with Amazon right now. Bill On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Bill http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal>> wrote: / Should I learn study FPC first and then move on to Lazarus, or just start />/ with Lazarus? / I think it should be okay to start directly with Lazarus. Lazarus IDE makes project management much easier and has some fantastic editor features. / What books would you suggest? / "any Delphi book should do." Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal] Feature Request: Evalution Box instead of Calculator
Although I would like to transfer my programming from TP to FPC, I found that I cannot test some source lines directly without writing a full program. I suggest to implement the evalutation box in TP7 to the IDE, enabling users to input a full expression and evaluate the result, and support more operator/system functions(binary op, sincos, ...). I hope it can replace the calculator now in the IDE completly. If that is possible, I think the evaluation box should also allow the user to calculate with some user-defined functions in the source code to help them check the correctness of the function without extra coding. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal]Free Pascal IDE
How can I increase the width of the Free Pascal IDE? Free Pascal is running under Windows XP. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
