[Lazarus] run-time vs desgin-time packages

[ik]

‎Thanks Graeme, Mattias, Reimar and Martin.

I have wrote about it on my blog:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fidkn.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F14%2Finstalling-packages%2F&sl=iw&tl=en&history_state0=

Google translate does not translate it properly, but I think you can
understand that post more or less :)

Ido
http://ik.homelinux.org/


On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/11/14 ik <idokan at gmail.com>:
> >
> > That much I understand (I hope). However, I can't install run-time
> packages,
> > so how does Lazarus knows about them ?
>
> run-time packages do not modify the IDE - no components get install
> into the IDE's component palette. So you will create a project and
> simply and that run-time package as a dependency to that project, so
> that it gets compiled into you project and used at run-time.
>
> As soon as you open the run-time package and compile it (NOT compile &
> install, just compile), then Lazarus knows about the package and it
> will appear as a option in the "dependency list" of other projects.
>
>
> design-time packages will add a new Property Editor or Component on
> the component palette of the IDE. It will register components that you
> can drop on a Form in the Form Designer.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
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