I came from an Algol background, so for home computing the use of Pascal seemed natural !

I started off with Borland, but when I gave up using Windows, I switched to GNU/gpc and more recently Free Pascal.

I never used Delphi in my Borland days, so I am learning Lazarus with no previous Delphi experience.

I would like to get into contact with other Lazarus users, and learn from their accumulated experiences !

My operating system is Debian GNU/Linux ("Squeeze"), which is the testing version, and use it on a small network (two desktop + one laptop).

I am located in England.

Best regards,

Geoff

2009/6/19 Geoff Bagley :

the wiki has a lot of nice articles that can get you off the ground quickly:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation

My operating system is Debian GNU/Linux ?("Squeeze"), ?which is the testing version, ?and use it on a small network (two desktop + one laptop).

same here :)

I am located in England.

same here :)

this is a friendly list with a lot of clever people reading it, so don't be afraid to ask!

henry

2009/6/19 Henry Vermaak :

Indeed!

Very few people here that might bite your head off for asking a silly question; fire away! ;)

I'm in South Africa.

Welcome.

Boas vindas de Cajazeiras, Para?ba, Brasil!

I'm in Brazil.

Dave Coventry wrote

Very few people here that might bite your head off for asking a silly question; fire away! ;)

I don't know.... Sometimes it feels like I'm in the firing line. Especially if I use the word Git. ;-)

[...but it's all done in good spirit... I think.]

I'm in South Africa.

+1

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Thanks for the welcome !
I have written many, many, ordinary straight Pascal programs starting with BP7 and eventually Free Pascal.
I have never used Delphi (having given up Windows), and would like to try Lazarus. In particular, to plot graphs of calculated figures after the manner of BP7 "graph".

I am not certain whether Debian GNU/Linux allows this. It may do so with Lazarus, but I never got graphs to work with straight Pascal. I have done some graphical work including mapping, using Postscript (!) which is tedious !

Please, is anyone out there interested in these types of programming ?

Best regards,

Geoff Bagley.

I came from an Algol background, ?so for home computing the use of Pascal seemed natural !

Welcome Geoff. I can confirm there are really great developers here and that you could not find a better support.

I am located in England.

Italy here.

Antonio

2009/6/19 Geoff Bagley :

something like this?

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TAChart

henry

Thanks Henry.

It would certainly appear to be a good starting point.

One application I had was to regularize the curvature of railway track by processing measured versines. In this case the coloured histogram might be attractive.

Best regards,

Geoff

And if no existing component does exactly what you want you can just write your own graphical control:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Developing_with_Graphics#Create_a_custom_control_which_draws_itself

I most of my projects I end up making a new graphical control for some special graphics =)

I have never used Delphi (having given up Windows), and would like to try Lazarus. In particular, to plot graphs of calculated figures after the manner of BP7 "graph".

Some years ago I wrote an interpreter for BGI, painting into a bitmap on a form. For new programs I'd suggest to use the Canvas methods for painting, with double buffer enabled for persistence of the graphics (e.g. a TPaintBox).

DoDi