On 8/31/2021 10:40 AM, joseph turco via fpc-pascal wrote:
I guess I should just use lazarus and learn the GUI Tools.
Using Lazarus doesn't mean you HAVE TO write GUI programs. Just use it
as an IDE. And by and large, any book/resource about Object
Pascal/Delphi will do just fine to learn the
Although not likely in this case, I am visually impaired, use a screen
reader, and find the Lazarius IDE nearly unusable. Of course, I've not
touched it in years, because my first attempt at using it failed
miserably, so for me, I simply use notpad, pico, nano, or text edit
(depending on what
I guess I should just use lazarus and learn the GUI Tools. I was having a
problem when i was following the one of the books on the FP book wiki
, where i went to compile my program, and the IDE threw an error about an
.o file not found.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 1:21 PM Bart via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pas
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 12:23 PM Liam Proven via fpc-pascal
wrote:
> I've got Lazarus running here and it's more of the same. But I
> discovered that I have `fpc` in the terminal and I had a "Hello world"
> program running in 30 seconds there... something that took hours in
> Delphi.
Menu->Proje
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, Liam Proven via fpc-pascal wrote:
For those of us who don't, though, docs that focus on doing that
aren't much help.
Agreed!
I am only really interested in FPC for one thing -- targeting Ultibo,
a bare-metal runtime for the Raspberry Pi. I'm interested in trying to
emula
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 15:53, geneb wrote:
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> Liam, I think you're mixing the language with the framework.
>
> I'll be the first person to agree with you that doing a gui application in
> Delphi (and realistically, any RAD environment) can be intimidating if you
> don't know that you're looking a
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, Liam Proven via fpc-pascal wrote:
Plain old FreePascal is approachable. Object Pascal is deeply
intimidating, and I'm not sure it's worth the entry price.
Liam, I think you're mixing the language with the framework.
I'll be the first person to agree with you that doing a
On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 at 15:26, Bart via fpc-pascal
wrote:
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> So, if you're on Windows, *nix or a Mac, my advice is to use Lazarus
> as your IDE of choice.
I see where you are coming from, I think, but I can relate to the OP.
I played with Pascal at university, and in my first job -- I wrote a
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