[Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

[Paul Breneman]

On 10/13/2016 05:13 PM, Erwin van den Bosch via Lazarus wrote:
...
> Another problem with the RAD way is that a lot is stored in forms (.lfm
> files) and it's difficult to see/notice changes to those files. They can
> be very big and it's difficult to see if some control is missing, for
> example, an event or so. The Lazarus IDE does frequently change the
> properties of controls on the form. For example the width and the height
> properties frequently change with no reason as it seems. As specially
> when you do development on both Windows and Linux. That makes tracking
> code changes (and so potential new bugs) not very easy.
>
> Regards,
>     Erwin

I've used Beyond Compare since (about) 1995 to always compare my form files.

Here is a related topic:
Cleaning up the Delphi uses statements
http://brenemanlabs.com/Uses.htm

Regards,
Paul
www.ControlPascal.com