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| − | ==Lazarus and Pascal Tutorials==
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| − | *[[Overview of Free Pascal and Lazarus]] - A brief discussion of kinds of things you can develop with these general-purpose tools.
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| − | *[[Lazarus Tutorial]] - A tutorial for beginners and a detailed description of the Lazarus IDE.
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| − | *[[Lazarus IDE Tools]] - An intermediate level tutorial about code completion and other IDE tools.
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| − | *[[Lazarus Database Tutorial]] - An introduction to using Lazarus with databases.
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| − | *[[Developing with Graphics]] - Some basic examples on graphic programming.
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| − | *[[Pascal Tutorial]] - [http://www.taoyue.com/ Tao Yue's] [http://www.taoyue.com/tutorials/pascal/ Pascal Tutorial] (reposted with permission).
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| − | *[[TXMLPropStorage]] - Using TXMLPropStorage to save user preferences.
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| − | *[[Executing External Programs]] - A short tutorial showing how to run external programs from inside your program.
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| − | *[[Hardware Access]] - How to access hardware devices, such as ISA cards, PCI cards, parallel and serial ports and USB devices.
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| − | *[[Networking]] - Tutorials about XML, TCP/IP protocol, creating secure network programs, WebServices, etc.
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| − | *[[Multithreaded Application Tutorial]] - How to write multithreaded applications using Free Pascal and Lazarus
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| − | *[[Streaming components]] - How to write components to streams and read/create components from streams
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| − | *[[OpenGL Tutorial]] - How to use GLUT in Lazarus
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| − | *[[Creating bindings for C libraries]] - How to convert C header files (.h) to pascal units
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| − | *[[Lazarus/FPC Libraries]] - How to create dynamic libraries (.so, .dll, .dynlib) and how to use them
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| − | ==The Lazarus User Guides==
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| − | *[[Lazarus Faq]] - General information about Lazarus and specifics for Linux and Windows users.
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| − | *[[Lazarus DB Faq]] - FAQ on database issues in Lazarus.
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| − | *[[Code Examples]] - Example working code for Lazarus.
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| − | *[[Feature_Ideas|Wishlist/Wanted Features]] - Features that you would like to see in Lazarus
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| − | *[[How do I create a bug report]] - You think you found a bug in Lazarus, how can you report it?
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| − | ===Installation===
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| − | *[[Installing Lazarus]] - An installation guide (please add to it!)
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| − | *[[Getting Lazarus]] - Instructions on how to download a released or SVN version of Lazarus
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| − | *[[OS X Programming Tips]] - Lazarus installation, useful tools, Unix commands, and more...
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| − | ===IDE===
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| − | *[[IDE tricks]] - Tips, tricks and hidden features
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| − | *[[Lazarus IDE]] - The IDE windows
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| − | *[[Lazarus Packages]] - A guide for creating a package under Lazarus
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| − | *[[Install Packages]] - A small guide to install packages
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| − | *[[Extending the IDE]] - How to add functionality to the Lazarus IDE
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| − | *[[Adding Kylix Help]] - How to use the Borland Help files within the IDE editor.
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| − | ===LCL===
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| − | *[[doc:lcl/|LCL documentation]] - On line help for LCL (work in progress).
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| − | *[[Main Loop Hooks]] - How to handle multiple event sources
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| − | *[[Asynchronous Calls]] - How to queue methods for later execution
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| − | *[[File size and smartlinking]] - How to smartlink applications and create smaller executables.
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| − | *[[Accessing the Interfaces directly]] - Example how to access the LCL widgetsets
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| − | *[[Add Help to Your Application]] - How to create a Online Help for your application
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| − | *[[Anchor Sides]] - Description of Anchor Sides Feature
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| − | *[[LCL Tips]] - Tips and tricks
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| − | *[[LCL Defines]] - Choosing the right options to recompile LCL
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| − | ===Developing===
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| − | *[[The Power of Proper Planning and Practices]] - common-sense programming best practices for the Free Pascal and Lazarus developer
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| − | *[[Multiplatform Programming Guide]] - How to develop cross-platform applications and how to port from one platform to another
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| − | *[[Using Pascal Libraries with .NET and Mono]] - yes, you can use your Free Pascal code with .NET and Mono
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| − | *[[Deploying Your Application]] - How to create an installer for your application
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| − | *[[Cross compiling]] - Creating executables of one platform, on another.
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| − | *[[Remote Debugging]] - How to debug your Lazarus application from another machine.
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| − | ===Tools===
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| − | *[[Lazarus Documentation Editor]] - Using "lazde" to create documentation
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| − | *[[LazDoc]] - An integrated editor for documentation files
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| − | *[[lazbuild]] - Compiling projects and packages without the IDE
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| − | ===Coming from Delphi===
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| − | *[[Lazarus Components]] - Comparison between Lazarus and Turbo Delphi components
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| − | *[[Lazarus For Delphi Users]] - For Delphi users who are getting started with Lazarus
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| − | *[[Code Conversion Guide]] - How to convert existing code and components from Delphi and Kylix
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| − | ==The Lazarus Developer Guides==
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| − | *[[How To Help Developing Lazarus]] - A guide to help newbies start improving Lazarus
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| − | *[[Version Numbering]] - Explanation of the different version numbers of Lazarus
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| − | *[[Creating A Patch| Creating a Patch]] - A guide to making a patch with changes made to Lazarus
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| − | *[[Creating a Backtrace with GDB]] - A guide to making a backtrace to help you debug a program
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| − | *[[Nomenclature]] - Guide to choose a name for a new method or property
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| − | *[[DesignGuidelines|Design Guide Lines]] - A guide about how to procede when changing Lazarus Source Code.
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| − | *[[GUI design]] - Notes on guidelines when designing the lazarus GUI
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| − | *[[Roadmap]] - An idea of the current status of the various parts of Lazarus
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| − | *[[Road To 1.0]] - What needs to be done for Lazarus 1.0
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| − | *[[Moderating the bug tracker]] - Guidelines for lazarus developers and moderators for using the [http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/ bug tracker].
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| − | *[[Codetools]] - How the codetools are integrated into the IDE
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| − | *[[Creating IDE Help]] - How to extend the IDE documentation
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| − | *[[Unit not found - How to find units]] - How to setup the IDE and source files
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| − | *[[Bounties]] - Need a particular new feature soon? Set a price here.
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| − | ===LCL - Lazarus component library===
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| − | *[[LCL Messages]] - Guide related to LCL Messages
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| − | *[[LCL Internals]] - Some info about the inner workings of the LCL
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| − | *[[LCL Key Handling]] - Help! A key press, what now?
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| − | *[[LCL Unicode Support]] - Road to Unicode enabled Lazarus
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| − | *[[LCL Documentation Roadmap]] - Which units have to be documented
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| − | ===Interfaces===
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| − | *[[GTK2 Interface]] - The gtk2 for Unixes, Mac OS X, Windows
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| − | *[[Carbon Interface]] - The Carbon Interface for Mac OS X
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| − | *[[Qt Interface]] - The Qt 4 Interface for Unixes, Mac OS X and linux-based PDAs
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| − | *[[Windows CE Interface]] - For Pocket PC and Smartphones
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| − | *[[fpGUI Interface]] - A widgetset completely written in Object Pascal
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| − | ===Translations===
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| − | * [[Getting translation strings right]] A few notes for programmers on how to create and use translateable strings in your application. Quickly discusses general things about creating strings, offers a few hints on implementation issues and points out some things to consider when using English as base language in particular.
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| − | * '''Localization Notes:'''
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| − | :* [[German localization notes|German]] - Notes and guidelines for translating the Lazarus IDE to German, including a small dictionary to look up often used translations.
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| − | :* [[Portuguese-Brazilian Localization Notes|Portuguese-Brazilian]] - Small dictionary containing common translations of terms used in the Lazarus IDE for the Portuguese-Brazilian translation.
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| − | <!-- *[[TO-DO]] Remaining Tasks -->
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| − | * [[Help:Add language bar | Add language bar]] explains how you can add a list of translations to the top of a wiki page.
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| − | ==Additional Components Documentation==
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| − | *[[Pascal Script]] and [[Pascal Script Examples]] - How to use the pascal script components in Lazarus
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| − | *[[OpenGL]] - How to use OpenGL in Lazarus
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| − | ==Free Pascal Compiler Documentation==
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| − | In addition to [http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/fpcdoc/ this site], the latest version of the documentation can also be found online and in a variety of downloadable formats on the main [http://www.freepascal.org/docs.html Free Pascal Compiler site].
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| − | There is now also a WiKi site for FreePascal [http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page] very similar in style to this one, to allow developers to submit documentation in addition to the official FPC documents below.
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| − | *[http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/fpcdoc/user/user.html User's guide]
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| − | *[http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/fpcdoc/prog/prog.html Programmer's guide]
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| − | *[http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/fpcdoc/ref/ref.html Reference guide for the system unit, and supported Pascal constructs]
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| − | *[http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/fpcdoc/rtl/index.html Run-Time Library reference manual]
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| − | *[http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/fpcdoc/fcl/index.html Free Component Library reference manual]
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| − | *[http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/fpcdoc/fpdoc/fpdoc.html Free Pascal documentation tool manual]
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| − | *[[Build messages]]
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| − | ==Lazarus related blogs==
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| − | *[[Adventures of a Newbie]] - A blog of a newbie getting started with some tutorial information in a running log.
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| − | *[http://lazarusroad.blogspot.com/ On the road with Lazarus/Freepascal] - A blog dedicated to register my experiences while programming with Lazarus and Freepascal (by Luiz Américo)
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| − | *[http://port2laz.blogspot.com/ Porting to Lazarus] - This blog describes the porting of a medium-sized application (~100 kloc) from D7 with CLX to Lazarus (by Alexsander da Rosa)
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| − | *[http://living-lazarus.blogspot.com/ Living Lazarus] - One mans exploration into the possibilities of an open source RAD (by [[User:Wibblytim|Wibblytim]]).
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| − | *[http://beeography.wordpress.com/tag/object-pascal/ Bee.ography] just (another) Bee’s buzz!
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