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Vince,

I am not quite sure how to respond to a posting, if I havn't done it correctly, sorry, ignorance sounds so much better than 'stupidity'.

Vince, this is just a personal opinion but you may find this forum a little 'choppy' to pick up general and structural knowledge from. I would recommend the Lazarus Manual for a reasonable structure and it seems to be quite complete. I have been heavily into Kylix for the past number of years and the IDE for Lazarus seems to be more reliable and the compatibility to Kylix is also excellent, from my experience. Using that logic, any book on Kylix would probably put the 'structure' would also help in using Lazarus. My only additional comment would pick the database you plan on using and stick to it, mysql seems to be the most used, but I don't want to start a fight with any of the others, I took my poll made my decision and like the decision so far, but that is just me. Try to jump into development with a short, real problem that will teach you the most for the least code, have a few glasses of wine, with dinner. Then the next day, decide what you learned.
I haven't doubted for a day I made the correct choice, first with Delphi, then Kylix and now Lazarus, good luck.
John A. Ward, john at mbstemps.com

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Send Lazarus mailing list submissions to	lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.orgTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit	http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarusor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to	lazarus-request at lists.lazarus.freepascal.orgYou can reach the person managing the list at	lazarus-owner at lists.lazarus.freepascal.orgWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Contents of Lazarus digest..."Today's Topics: 1. Freepascal/Lazarus port of JEDI Code Library (JCL) (luiz americo pereira camara) 2. Re: Embedded/small database (Kostas Michalopoulos) 3. Hi everyone (Vincenzo Campanella) 4. Re: Embedded/small database (Graeme Geldenhuys) 5. GIS (Terry A. Haimann) 6. Re: Hi everyone (Travis Ayres) 7. Re: How to access libraries from other languages? (Chavoux Luyt)----------------------------------------------------------------------Message: 1Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:23:27 -0300From: luiz americo pereira camara Subject: [Lazarus] Freepascal/Lazarus port of JEDI Code Library (JCL)To: Lazarus mailing list Message-ID:	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"Hi,I ported JCL to Freepascal/Lazarus. More info athttps://github.com/blikblum/jclAlthough most of the changes was adjusting defines / uses clause to makecompilable, it needs more tests since I only tested JclExprval.Luiz-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: ------------------------------Message: 2Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:50:04 +0100From: Kostas Michalopoulos Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Embedded/small databaseTo: Lazarus mailing list Message-ID:	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"Is this something that will be networked or running locally? If it is alocal only program, i'd go with sqlite.On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys <mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:> On 2015-02-15 16:58, zeljko wrote:> > Maybe you should look at Firebird.>> +1>> Regards,> - Graeme ->>>> --> _______________________________________________> Lazarus mailing list> Lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus>-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: ------------------------------Message: 3Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:54:55 +0100From: Vincenzo Campanella Subject: [Lazarus] Hi everyoneTo: Lazarus mailing list Message-ID: <54E212CF.4020007 at gmail.com>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowedHi everyoneI have just subscribed to this mailing list, being interested in a future (in the next few months) development of an accounting program using Pascal + Lazarus.For the time being, I'll probably lurk keeping silent, but then I'll start asking questions, hoping not to disturb you, as my Pascal and Lazarus skills are for sure not the best (up to now experiences in C and Access VBA only).Meanwhile, thank you for Lazarus that seems a very very interesting development tool.Sorry for my bad English, but my mother tongue is Italian and I am from Switzerland.Cheers,vince------------------------------Message: 4Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:11:56 +0000From: Graeme Geldenhuys Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Embedded/small databaseTo: lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.orgMessage-ID: <54E216CC.6090503 at geldenhuys.co.uk>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8On 2015-02-16 15:50, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote:> Is this something that will be networked or running locally? If it is a> local only program, i'd go with sqlite.Firebird RDBMS allows you to run both Embedded (local DB access only) orClient/Server (TCP/IP access). This means the application can easilyscale from a Embedded DB (desktop database app) to a full blownClient/Server application.Regards, - Graeme --- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascalhttp://fpgui.sourceforge.net/------------------------------Message: 5Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:43:10 -0600From: "Terry A. Haimann" Subject: [Lazarus] GISTo: "lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org"	Message-ID: <1424104990.24660.2.camel at Hercules>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"I have seen where there might be some GIS Tools added to Lazarus. Whatis the current sttatus of this? I am currently running 1.2.4.Thx,	Terry------------------------------Message: 6Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:58:03 -0800From: Travis Ayres Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Hi everyoneTo: Lazarus mailing list Message-ID:	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"Don't worry. The Lazarus/Free Pascal people are very nice. Good luckdeveloping your accounting program!On Feb 16, 2015 7:55 AM, "Vincenzo Campanella"  wrote:> Hi everyone>> I have just subscribed to this mailing list, being interested in a future> (in the next few months) development of an accounting program using Pascal> + Lazarus.>> For the time being, I'll probably lurk keeping silent, but then I'll start> asking questions, hoping not to disturb you, as my Pascal and Lazarus> skills are for sure not the best (up to now experiences in C and Access VBA> only).>> Meanwhile, thank you for Lazarus that seems a very very interesting> development tool.>> Sorry for my bad English, but my mother tongue is Italian and I am from> Switzerland.>> Cheers,> vince>> --> _______________________________________________> Lazarus mailing list> Lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus>-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: ------------------------------Message: 7Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 21:52:03 +0200From: Chavoux Luyt Subject: Re: [Lazarus] How to access libraries from other languages?To: Lazarus mailing list Message-ID:	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"Hi again...On 16 February 2015 at 16:05, wrote:> From: Den > Subject: Re: [Lazarus] How to access libraries from other languages?> To: lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org> Message-ID: <54E1E6CA.3030809 at gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed>> Indeed.. It's no easy task for sure. Sven would have to implement> all features of the C++ Class that C++ supports. I'm guessing Sven is> gonna go with the basic VMT C++ support, which would probably include> virtual method overriding, am I right Sven?>> - Dennis>> On 2015-02-16 04:19 AM, zeljko wrote:> > On 02/16/2015 11:08 AM, Sven Barth wrote:> >> Am 16.02.2015 08:35 schrieb "zeljko"  >> >:> >> >> >> > On 02/16/2015 08:04 AM, Sven Barth wrote:> >> >>> >> >> Am 16.02.2015 04:48 schrieb "Den"  >> > >> >> >>:> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > lol, speaking of which Sven, what's the progress report on the> >> C++> >> >> Classes? :D> >> >>> >> >> Currently not working on it. Generics and packages have higher> >> priority.> >> >> But I plan to continue it especially since the API of our> >> company's OS> >> >> is C++ based ^^> >> >> >> >> >> > That will be the one of the greatest features :)> >>> >> Don't look forward to it too much. It will likely only work for simple> >> cases. E.g. once a C++ class uses operators (without providing the> >> functionality in other ways) it will likely break down...> >> > I thought that it'll really work. Without ability to override virtual> > methods it's unuseable for me.>I was maybe thinking more low-level (e.g. when using a compiled C++ librarywithout the source code)? All C++ class methods are translated into(mangled) functions in any case, so as long as Lazarus can wrap these asmethods in a class of its own it should work? It should even be possible towrap 2 or 3 C++ classes into one Lazarus class?Cheers and thanks for the insights so far.Chavoux-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: --------------------------------_______________________________________________Lazarus mailing listLazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.orghttp://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarusEnd of Lazarus Digest, Vol 85, Issue 51***************************************
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