[fpc-pascal]About FCL

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Aitor Santamaria Merino wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry, some basic questions of FCL (hopefully short!):
>
> - where is it documented? (which manual?) I can't find it...

The documentation is not yet finished. See
   http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/classes/
for a preliminary version.
  http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/classes.pdf
contains a .pdf version of the same documentation.

> - which unit do I have to include? (both OBJECTS and CLASSES seem to
> work!) (I am interested in classes, not objects)

Classes.

> - how can I know which objects have been implemented? I have a file
> (taken from somewhere, can't remember) called FreePascal Object Chart
> (classchart.gif), which of these are implemented?  (please, do let me
> know if it has been updated...)

The chart should be pretty complete.


>
> I'd like to use the most generic units, those independent of platform (I
> guess TObject and some others...).

Most FCL units are generic and are cross-platform.

Michael.