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    Getting Started with the Lazarus IDE
    Getting Started with the Lazarus IDE
    Getting Started with the Lazarus IDE
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    Getting Started with the Lazarus IDE

    By Roderick Person

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    This book is written in a simple, easy-to-understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations.This book is geared toward developers that have a familiarity with Delphi or Free Pascal and would like to start using the open source Lazarus Integrated Development Environment. You should have knowledge of creating a console and GUI applications as well as creating basic components. Example source code and projects are provided to help learn the differences between Delphi and Lazarus projects.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateFeb 22, 2013
    ISBN9781782163411
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      Getting Started with the Lazarus IDE - Roderick Person

      Table of Contents

      Getting Started with the Lazarus IDE

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewer

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Installing and Configuring the Lazarus Development Environment

      Why Lazarus?

      Installing Lazarus in Linux

      Downloading and installing the Lazarus Linux RPM package

      Requirements

      Downloading and installing the Lazarus Linux DEB package

      Lazarus for Ubuntu

      Installing under Windows

      Installing under other OSes such as FreeBSD or Mac OS X

      Installing Lazarus on Mac OS X

      Installing under FreeBSD

      Installing from source

      Configuring the Lazarus development environment

      Summary

      2. Getting to Know the Lazarus IDE – a Quick Tour

      The Object Inspector window

      The Component Tree window

      The Source Editor window

      Main menu, quick icons, and the LCL Palette window

      Project Options

      The Run menu

      The Tools menu

      The LCL Palette

      The Standard tab

      The Additional tab

      The Common Control tab

      The Dialogs tab

      The Data Controls tab

      The SQLdb tab

      Summary

      3. Creating a Hello World Program

      Hello World console application version

      Modifying the code

      Compiling and running

      Hello World graphical user interface version

      Adding components and modifying code

      Compiling and running

      Debugging

      Expanding the Hello World application

      Debugging commands

      Other debugger features

      Deploying

      Summary

      4. Converting Delphi

      Differences between Lazarus and Delphi Components

      Fonts

      Dragging and docking

      TEdit and TCustomEdit

      TCustomTreeView and TTreeView

      Messages and events

      Unit differences

      Conversion methods

      Filenames and extension

      Semantic and syntax differences

      32-bit and 64-bit considerations

      Resource files

      Using the Convert Delphi Project Wizard

      Converting a Delphi project manually

      Summary

      5. Creating a Lazarus Component

      Creating a new component package

      Adding properties

      Adding events

      Events with more parameters

      Property editors

      Component editors

      Summary

      6. The Lazarus Documentation Editor

      Building the LazDE tool

      Examining existing source documentation

      Documenting your code

      Using FPDoc

      Summary

      7. Rebuilding Lazarus with a GTK2 Interface

      Rebuilding Lazarus interface on Windows

      Summary

      Index

      Getting Started with the Lazarus IDE

      Getting Started with the Lazarus IDE

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      Credits

      Author

      Roderick Person

      Reviewer

      Juha Manninen

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      About the Author

      Roderick Person has a varied background in the corporate IT field. For the last 14 years, he has been a programmer for one of the top-ranked health system in the United States. He is experienced with developing applications in Delphi, Free Pascal, Python, SQL, and other languages. He is also an advocate of leveraging open source application in a corporate environment.

      I'd like to thank Barbara Kolski for her support and encouragement with this book, and my wife, Vicky Starr, and daughter, Milan Starr.

      About the Reviewer

      Juha Manninen is a software developer with more than 25 years of experience. Now, as a middle-aged man, he is studying in a university of applied sciences.

      He has been a part of the Lazarus development team since 2009. However, as the team is made up of developers who volunteer their time to the project without compensation, Juha earns a living as a Delphi programmer.

      Object Pascal is his favorite programming language, because it's a nice combination of native-compiled code and clear syntax.

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      Preface

      Lazarus is an open-source integrated development environment for the Free Pascal compiler. Lazarus provides a code editor with syntax-highlighting, a visual form designer, and the Lazarus Component Library (LCL). Lazarus is very similar to Delphi, making it ideal for Delphi programmers to utilize. Because the LCL is highly compatible with Delphi's VCL, existing Delphi projects can be easily converted to Lazarus projects.

      Lazarus is cross-platform and runs on many platforms, including Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. Lazarus applications can be created on one platform and compiled on other supporting platforms, making it suitable for many programming tasks. Besides graphical user interface and console applications, Lazarus can also support web-based applications, Android, and iOS applications.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring the Lazarus Development Environment, explains the installation and configuration of the Lazarus environment on various platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD.

      Chapter 2, Getting to Know the Lazarus IDE – a Quick Tour, is an overview of the basics of the Lazarus IDE, such as the code editor, object inspector, and the LCL palette.

      Chapter 3, Creating a Hello World Program, provides an overview of the basics of creating a GUI and console application with Lazarus using the traditional Hello World program and expanding on it.

      Chapter 4, Converting Delphi, covers converting an existing Delphi project to a Lazarus project using the Delphi conversion wizard, as well as manually converting the project.

      Chapter 5, Creating a Lazarus Component, covers the creation of a custom component that

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