User:Dbannon

Hi, I'm David, Davo or DBannon, as you like.

A new Lazarus user in 2017, I once used Delphi One and Two, long long ago, in a universe far away !

I use this page to 'bookmark' some pages I keep referring back to but always have problems finding.

General

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Executing_External_Programs#Example_of_.22talking.22_with_aspell_process

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Turn_warnings_and_hints_on_or_off

Installing

I'd like to make some changes to how the FPC/Lazarus install process is described on the Wiki. Its inconsistent and not very user focused in some places. See

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus is quite comprohesive but dated in parts and a bit inconsisten in a number of ways. It infers near the top its only going to talk about a developers intall but then gives possibly the clearest default (user) binary install of FPC/FPC-SRC/Lazarus under heading of FPC Install. It deals with some complicated install modes with explaining to a new user what the different options are.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#Download_and_install_Lazarus_release_version - is sort of presented as a binary install page but does then has a discussion on how to build from src but has a link to what it describes as a better page. .

Get your binaries from here - sourceforge ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/

Types of install

* Binaries, every thing in predefined, read only access.
  * From SourceForge, newest release, reliable
  * From Your Package Distrubuter, easy install, risks ....

* Src, everything installed in your user space, write access.
  * Trunk, careful....
  * A release, safer but not newest possible.

Language

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Step-by-step_instructions_for_creating_multi-language_applications

UTF8

http://wiki.freepascal.org/UTF8_strings_and_characters

http://wiki.freepascal.org/UTF-8

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Unicode_Support_in_Lazarus

Strings

https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/sysutils/stringfunctions.html

Mac

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_MacOS_X

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Mac_Preferences_and_About_Menu

Pages I have contributed to

http://wiki.freepascal.org/How_to_use_a_TrayIcon

http://wiki.freepascal.org/spelling (under development)

http://wiki.freepascal.org/KControls/KmemoNotes

http://wiki.freepascal.org/RichMemo/WorkArounds

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_MacOS_X

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Clipboard