[lazarus] Simple HelloWorld

[Cliff Baeseman]

Very nice and very few lines of code....

Sure beats programming the GTK native doesn't it...  ;)

I wish I could work on the code some but I have to get this java applet
banged out for work.

JBuilder3 all night tonight.

Cliff


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Hess <mhess at miraclec.com>
To: Lazarus-List <lazarus at miraclec.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 9:59 PM
Subject: [lazarus] Simple HelloWorld


>I know everyone is waiting with baited breath for the IDE. But I'm sure
>some people would like to see how a program will be written, or at least
>can be written at this point.
>
>I have built a really simple HelloWorld program. It gives you the
>opportunity to see how a program is organized using FPC and the class
>libraries. All the program does is create a window with a button located
>in the middle. As we develop and clean up more components we can expand
>on this example.
>
>Since it isn't big I have attached the code to this email. Just unzip
>the file into the fpc directory. That is the same directory where you
>see lazarus, rtl, rcl. It will create a directory called hello. Then
>just change to that directory and type make. It assumes that you have
>the latest compiler (if not from CVS at least a snapshot) and the latest
>lazarus code from CVS.
>
>You can see that it is very similar to Delphi code. Some things that are
>handled in the Delphi .frm file must be done manually but hopefully as
>the IDE/RAD develop they will be done automatically as they are in
>Delphi.
>
>--
>==== Programming my first best destiny! ====
>
>Michael A. Hess      Miracle Concepts, Inc.
>mhess at miraclec.com   http://www.miraclec.com