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Getting Started with Lazarus IDE

By : Roderick Person
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Book Image

Getting Started with Lazarus IDE

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By: Roderick Person

Overview of this book

A good integrated development environment can be the key to creating and delivering software on time and budget. Having a programming language and a development environment that runs on multiple platforms greatly eases and lessens the time taken on creating cross-platform applications. An IDE that is compatible with a legacy code base allows developers to leverage existing libraries in future applications."Getting Started with Lazarus" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear step-by-step exercises, which will help you take advantage of the power of the Lazarus IDE and Free Pascal to develop software that can be created for cross-platform use."Getting started with Lazarus" discusses developing software with the open source cross platform integrated development environment and the Free Pascal language. We'll learn how to install Lazarus on various platforms such as Linux and Windows, as well as how to create new projects and convert existing Delphi projects to Lazarus projects by learning the differences between Delphi's Pascal syntax and Free Pascal's Object Pascal using a real world example project. We'll learn how to create custom components for use in Lazarus. We'll also learn the basics of documenting a Lazarus project using the Lazarus Documentation Editor. Finally we will learn that the IDE can be rebuilt using a different widget type, specifically GTK 2. Teach yourself the basics of programming with Lazarus and the open source IDE for the Free Pascal language.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Getting Started with the Lazarus IDE
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Debugging commands


Examining some of the more commonly used debugging commands and shortcuts will make debugging the code much simpler:

  • Step Over (F8): This command executes the code one statement at a time. If a method is encountered, do not enter into that code.

  • Step Into (F7): This command executes the code one statement at a time. If a method is encountered, enter into the method's code, and execute the code one line at a time.

  • Run To Cursor (F4): This command executes the code until the current position of the cursor is reached.

  • Stop (Ctrl + F4): This command stops the execution of the code and exits the debugger.

  • Evaluate/Modify (Ctrl + F7): This command shows the current result of an expression and modifies that expression, evaluates it, and shows the result.

  • Inspect (Alt + F5): This command shows the type and value of a variable.

Since an age calculation is what this function is to perform, double-click on the Age variable to highlight it, and add it to the debug inspector by using...