[fpc-devel]Questions about building an IDE/RAD System

[Jeremy Darling]

A while back I built a form designer that looks much like the Delphi IDE.  
The idea was to create an advanced form design system that could be used 
easily with Delphi.  A friend of mine has been using it and suggested that I 
port it to Free Pascal.  I don't have a problem with this, but can't figure 
out where to start.  I would figure that the first step would be to add in a 
code editor and a way to save/load FP files.  I downloaded the 1.90 release 
as I figured it was the best place to look and installed it.  Now I can't 
figure out anything past that.  Sorry but PDF doesn't work on my system so I 
can't really read the documentation.  Can someone post a small tutorial on 
how to get started with FP and some notes about how the visual elements all 
go together.  As an example my current Form Designer loads the Delphi BPL's 
and overrides the calls that normally the IDE would use to register 
components.  How or where would I do this in FP?  I'll build it first in 
Delhi and then use it to build the same or similar project in FP so that it 
can be compiled with FP in the frist place.

Thanks,
Jeremy Darling

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