Lazarus Free Pascal – Getting started with SQLite
Lazarus, a Free Pascal based free and open source cross-platform Delphi look-a-like software development tool, has been around for a while now and has become more and more mature. I actually used with...
View ArticleHow to install Lazarus Pascal on Raspberry Pi 2 (Raspbian)
For those of you who have visited Tweaking4All more often, you might have noticed that I really like Lazarus Pascal. I use it to develop little freeware applications for multiple platforms (if...
View ArticleLazarus – How to add data to lists with AddObject
Some components in Lazarus Pascal (and Delphi), especially the ones that have a list of strings, allow you to add additional data by linking an object to a string. The function “AddObject” is often...
View ArticleLazarus Pascal – Unit to Add or Remove Autorun items (Windows/MacOSX)
When developing an application, sometimes it can be useful to offer the user a way to add this application to the LoginItems (Mac) or Autorun items (Windows), so that the application starts when MacOS...
View ArticleLazarus Pascal – Retrieve Yahoo Weather Forecast
I like dabbling with Lazarus Pascal, a free IDE for developing Pascal programs for Windows, MacOS X and Linux, quite similar to Delphi. One of my projects, would look great with a weather forecast, so...
View ArticleLazarus Pascal – Custom Fonts for MacOS Applications
I’m not sure about other developers, but I occasionally like to use my own custom font for my Lazarus Pascal applications. Typically I do this so I have access to better icons and symbols available in...
View ArticleMacOS – SMJobBless: Elevated Privileges in Lazarus Pascal
As some of you know, I created ApplePi-Baker a while ago, and with a new version I wanted to get away from using command-line tools like “dd” and “diskutil“. To do this the right way I needed to know...
View ArticleLazarus Pascal – Move Items to Trash for Windows, Linux and macOS
In this short article I’ll show how I implemented a cross platform (Windows, Linux, macOS) function for Lazarus Pascal to move files or directories to the TrashCan or Recycle Bin. Since it took me some...
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