[fpc-pascal] Basic Windows tutorial

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2015-10-22 05:20, Ryan Joseph wrote:
> Keeping in mind I know literally nothing about Windows programming,
> where is a good place to start?

Start reading MSDN and study the Win32 API.

> I installed Lazarus which I think is the preferred IDE for FPC (if not are there others?)

Yes, MSEide is also very good. Even using a very good text editor like
EditPad Pro is very nice. Geany IDE also works well with FPC.


> Are there are any example projects for this and a place I could
> reference the Windows headers in Pascal? I don’t even know what the
> Windows GUI library is called

Wow, you are in for a world of pain. ;-) Plus even writing the most
basic programs will to magnitudes longer. You should rethink your goal.
What do you want to accomplish?

If LCL is to bloated for you, there are other GUI toolkits (100% Object
Pascal based) that produce much smaller executables. By no means does
this means less features or widgets though. Take a look at fpGUI Toolkit
and MSEide+MSEgui projects.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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