Hello
first, excuse my bad English, I am French and I speak only a littleyour language.I have just discovered with
pleasure the lazarus project :�
Can it be regarded as a complete alternative in Delphi and kilix ?
Which are the possibilities of connection to the�most popular SGBD�?
I use Interbase / Firebird .
Is now or for the future a french version avalaible ?
I currently work with Jbuilder (Version 5 perhaps 7), I�have programmed
a long time�with� Pascal
(P-System UCSD and Borland Turbo Pascal) but
I never used�Delphi :�

Do you think� I can use Lazarus easily and quickly ?�
Thank you very much to answer me with short
sentences.
�
Jacques

And also
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Postgres
- Dbase
- ODBC (just finished last tests, will commit tonight)

With the latter, virtually everything is more or less supported. With all this finished, I expect to start work on the unification of all this in september.

Michael.

I have already started some internationalization. But it is a lot of boring work. I will do it, as soon as I have written a nice tool to create automatically resource strings. If u want it earlier, u can help us, by replacing all strings in the sources by a resource strings.

At least May's version didn't accept any international keys (koi8-r) in OnKeyPress or OnKeyDown, but I think, it accepted 1st locale hack.

Lazarus can already contain Interbase components. They have been commented out by me because they required interbase lib's that I didn't have on my development pc. However, the components are "ready". They are FPC components that are displayed in the IDE when uncommented.

Shane

FPC has interbase support.

I have just discovered with pleasure the lazarus project : Can it be regarded as a complete alternative in Delphi and kilix ?

Not yet and not in the near future. But it will be eventually become RAD like Delphi. The form editing is under construction, and I hope to get some things working in a few weeks.

Which are the possibilities of connection to the most popular SGBD ? I use Interbase / Firebird .

Lazarus is an IDE and a visual library called LCL. All non visual parts including database support will be provided by Free Pascal and their packages. Perhaps someone from the fpc team can tell what is already working.

Is now or for the future a french version avalaible ?

I have already started some internationalization. But it is a lot of boring work. I will do it, as soon as I have written a nice tool to create automatically resource strings. If u want it earlier, u can help us, by replacing all strings in the sources by a resource strings.

I currently work with Jbuilder (Version 5 perhaps 7), I have programmed a long time with Pascal (P-System UCSD and Borland Turbo Pascal) but I never used Delphi : Do you think I can use Lazarus easily and quickly ?

There is hardly any documentation or tutorial, and the RAD part is not working. So I would say, it will not be easy without Delphi knowledge.

Mattias