Hi, this was a thought that I had too when I started: "bad documentation" but the reality is different:
Lazarus/FPC, is a "multi-platform", "multi-IDE", "multi-anything" project that is constantly under development by a group of "wizz" who just do that for the fun! It seems that you will be able to do anything you like using this software, and even more... But like everything there is a price to pay for such thing. The price is that it would be very difficult to get a good "starters book" that would fit all types of users. However, the developers are real "pros" and the reference manual is about one thousand pages long and you can always ask for questions on the forum (even my dumb questions never were unanswered). There are some undocumented features, this is true, and I feel a little frustrated sometimes too, but in general I never was stuck for long. Thanks to the help from other people on the forum. I bought all the old books about turbo pascal and Delphi (Kylix) that I found at the flea market and ninety percent of the time I could use the code in Lazarus/fpc I came to Lazarus(linux) from Delphi(windows) two years ago, and the transition was very painfull, but after one year I started to feel very comfortable. It was worth the trouble! good luck Alain Michaud On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 15:34 -0600, Matt Henley wrote: > One avenue that has worked in the past is go to a used/discount > bookstore and grab a cheap book on delphi... I found a lot for next to > nothing and they are mostly relavent. > > On 3/11/06, Adrian Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/11/06, Matthijs Willemstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 15:34 +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: > > > > So, my question is how do you manage to actually write programs > > > > with lazarus with so little documentation? Do you know Delphi's classes > > > > already? Are you using some other reference manuals ? > > > > > > > But the cut a long story short, use Delphi documentation if you cannot > > > figure it out yourself and when you have figured it out, add it to the > > > documentation. > > > > Ok, I'll try to get some Delphi reference manuals and see how it goes. > > > > > > Thanks for the answer > > Adrian Maier > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
