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Questions about Lazarus

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Peter Williams

Hi All,

I have a few questions about Lazarus, in particular for my OS, Linux Ubuntu 8.04 { Hardy Heron }:

(1) Does Lazarus (or should I say Free Pascal) support "Virtual Keycodes" e.g. constants for keyboard trapping events etc.

(2) How can I ensure that I have the latest versions of Lazarus and Free Pascal Compiler installed. I would prefer to let the "Synaptic Package Manager" do this automatically if possible... but it does not seem to update them. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to change some Ubuntu configurations?

(3) Is there available an off-line or internet based help file/system for language reference. Note: I would prefer an off-line help system as opposed to an internet based one.

Thanks in advance

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Mattias Gaertner
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Hi All, I have a few questions about Lazarus, in particular for my OS, Linux Ubuntu 8.04 { Hardy Heron }: (1) Does Lazarus (or should I say Free Pascal) support "Virtual Keycodes" e.g. constants for keyboard trapping events etc.

Do you mean something like VK_A, VK_ESCAPE and VK_F1?

(2) How can I ensure that I have the latest versions of Lazarus and Free Pascal Compiler installed.

By using svn and updating several times a day.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Connect_to_Source_Repository_with_SVN_.28replaces_section_on_connection_to_CVS.29

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#Development_versions_from_SVN

I would prefer to let the "Synaptic Package Manager" do this automatically if possible... but it does not seem to update them. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to change some Ubuntu configurations?

The Ubuntu repositories only contain releases, not the very unstable development versions. This is better for most users.

(3) Is there available an off-line or internet based help file/system for language reference. Note: I would prefer an off-line help system as opposed to an internet based one.

There is all kind of documentation. The pascal-language-reference guide is available in a single pdf.

http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var

Mattias

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Vincent Snijders
to Peter Williams: I have a few questions about Lazarus, in particular for my OS, Linux Ubuntu 8.04 { Hardy…
Peter Williams wrote 9 lines
Hi All, I have a few questions about Lazarus, in particular for my OS, Linux Ubuntu 8.04 { Hardy Heron }: (1) Does Lazarus (or should I say Free Pascal) support "Virtual Keycodes" e.g. constants for keyboard trapping events etc.

Maybe: see the VK_xxxx constants in the LCLType unit: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/lcltype/index-2.html

(3) Is there available an off-line or internet based help file/system for language reference. Note: I would prefer an off-line help system as opposed to an internet based one.

For language reference, see http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var

Vincent

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Chris Kirkpatrick
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Vincent Snijders wrote 30 lines
Peter Williams schreef: > Hi All, > > I have a few questions about Lazarus, in particular for my OS, Linux > Ubuntu 8.04 { Hardy Heron }: > > (1) Does Lazarus (or should I say Free Pascal) support "Virtual > Keycodes" e.g. constants for keyboard trapping events etc. > > Maybe: see the VK_xxxx constants in the LCLType unit: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/lcltype/index-2.html > (3) Is there available an off-line or internet based help file/system > for language reference. Note: I would prefer an off-line help system as > opposed to an internet based one. > For language reference, see http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var Vincent _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

For the most recent documentation (daily snapshot) for individual components visit

ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/

and select

fpc-lazarus-doc-html-20080722.tar.bz2
with the most recent date.

Gives you a set of HTML files that can be used for local reference. Regards - Chris

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