2009/10/17 Thierry Coq <[email protected]>: > you are most helpful! I saw indeed many improvements over the Delphi > environment, and I would certainly not exchange Lazarus for Eclipse!
For more nice features of Lazarus IDE, please take a look at the following wiki page. http://wiki.freepascal.org/New_IDE_features_since > Also I tend to use "macros" within the Delphi, but I already code quite fast > within Lazarus, so is this needed? I'm not quite sure what "marcos" you are talking about. But I use Lazarus's code templates a lot. Combine the basic code templates with the Macros feature it supports, I have created quite powerful code templates that write complete class interfaces definitions of me. "Environment > Code Templates" menu option > I also used the "debug" window sending the messages to the screen, but in > Lazarus I use the "logger", so it's probably not useful as much. Somebody mentioned it a while back to me, but I haven't tried it yet. Lazarus has some "external debug monitor" application. This allows you to use an external monitor program to view debug info while your application is running. I already use something like this in tiOPF, and it is very useful. I have no idea how the Lazarus one compares though. > > The ASCII chart is helpful, from time to time ;-) "Edit > Insert from Character Map" menu option. > in Lazarus already! But in my case, I was using Delphi in conjunction with a > UML tool (Modelmaker), and I quite liked the integration! I have heard somebody mention they are working on a UML integration plug-in for Lazarus. So idea if the project has been started and if so how far they are. But since I stumbled upon the small application called UMLet, I have not used any other UML designer. UMLet allows the user to very quickly design UML diagrams with no popup dialogs in sight - an awesome little tool. As for ModelMaker - personally, I am not a fan of such two-way design tools. That means sometimes I generate code in the IDE and sometimes I have to switch to ModelMaker to generate "ModelMaker managed" code from there. I prefer one tool for writing my code - the IDE. http://www.umlet.com -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
