Is there a doc in the house?
lazarus / 10-Designer

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argon99 · 2010-08-11 04:32

I am having some difficulty in finding the documentation for the
components that are installed with Lazarus.  Things like TButton or
TLabel.  From my fumbling about on the net is seems this is called the
Visual Component Library, VCL.  I have been unable to find the
documentation for this library.  I would think that this documentation
would be the most useful but for some reason I can't find it.  Would
someone be kind and point me in the correct direction.  A link would
be very helpful.

I am not above buying a book.  Does anybody have any recommendations
as to what books I should look at to program in Object Pascal using
Lazarus?

Thank You

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felipemdc · 2010-08-11 05:57

VCL is the library from Delphi. Lazarus has the Lazarus Component
Library (LCL). They are largely compatible, but not the same.

You should probably start reading this wiki page:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Tutorial

There are links to the documentation of each control here:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Tutorial#Standard

Which will take you to the our repository of documentation:

http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/

The Base Free Pascal classes can also be found here:

http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/fcl/
http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/

And in general, for learning how to do particular tasks, the first
steps should be searching the Wiki if this information is there,
particularly starting from this page:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation

The official Lazarus Book is currently available in the german
language:

http://www.amazon.de/Lazarus-Arbeiten-mit-IDE-Klassenbibliotheken/dp/3
93654638X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281506009&sr=8-1

If you can't read german then you will have to wait for the english
version, we are working on that.