Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-02 Thread leledumbo
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Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Dave Coventry
Hi Marco, I'm probably not the best person to welcome you, but as a fellow potterer who has been using Lazarus for a number of small projects, over the last ten years or so, welcome! This is the ml I use whenever I want to ask questions and nobody has (yet!) disabused me, so I think you've come

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Marco Ciampa ciam...@libero.it hat am 1. Juni 2012 um 12:05 geschrieben: 1) is this a developers only ml? Am I in the wrong list to ask general usage questions? I case vould you (please) point me to the right ml? TIA You are welcome. This list is about Lazarus. There are many other

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:28:40PM +0200, Dave Coventry wrote: Hi Marco, Lazarus is still pretty close to Delhi and I still use the help files that came with my Delphi 3 installation for reference. Too bad. So for Lazarus use I have to study (and buy!) Delphi first... very strange situation

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Marco Ciampa ciam...@libero.it hat am 1. Juni 2012 um 13:19 geschrieben: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:28:40PM +0200, Dave Coventry wrote: Hi Marco, Lazarus is still pretty close to Delhi and I still use the help files that came with my Delphi 3 installation for reference. Too bad. So

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Torsten Bonde Christiansen
On 2012-06-01 13:19, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:28:40PM +0200, Dave Coventry wrote: Hi Marco, Lazarus is still pretty close to Delhi and I still use the help files that came with my Delphi 3 installation for reference. Too bad. So for Lazarus use I have to study (and

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Sven Barth
Am 01.06.2012 13:08, schrieb Marco Ciampa: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:05:23PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: - FreePascal is a Dos app. , really ugly as was TP 20 years ago with similar concern regarding the multiuser use with Win... I meant the FreePascal IDE that comes if you download the

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marco Ciampa schrieb: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:28:40PM +0200, Dave Coventry wrote: Hi Marco, Lazarus is still pretty close to Delhi and I still use the help files that came with my Delphi 3 installation for reference. Too bad. So for Lazarus use I have to study (and buy!) Delphi first...

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Dave Coventry
Marco, You misunderstand me. :+( You don't need Delphi to use Lazarus. I also use http://delphibasics.co.uk/ as a resource, but that's just because Lazarus is close enough to Delphi to be able to use resources intended for Delphi, and indeed, a lot of the libraries for Delphi have been adapted

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: - FreePascal is a Dos app. , really ugly as was TP 20 years ago with similar concern regarding the multiuser use with Win... You need to differentiate here: 1. Free Pascal is a compiler and thus the tool you use for compiling your Pascal code 2. The IDE is called fp

Re: [Lazarus] newbie questions

2012-06-01 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 01/06/2012 12:05, Marco Ciampa ha scritto: 1) it uses windows, graph; where can I find reference info, examples and other doc about these libs? Hello Marco, your questions hit the really, really painful issue about Lazarus and every other medium-large sized open source project: