Greetings,
I really want to use FinalBuilder.
However, the documentation is not clear to me at all.
I have studied the 2010 pdf, I have studied the online docs for FB8. I studied the one youtube video (5 years old, by a russian guy, with a heavy accent, speaking very fast), Lastly, I have studied the one Example on GitHub (I was able to run it, but it does not show how to compile a Delphi application. I have written an email to FB with no reply.
This is just terrible.
I would like to contract with someone to help me compile a simple ‘Hello World’ Delphi application. I cannot make it any more simple.
Thanks,
Keith Tolbert
Hi Keith
We have received your email (at 4am local time) and was in the queue to reply to today. We are in Australia, so we were tucked up in bed when you sent the email.
FinalBuilder has online help, I would recommend having a read through
http://wiki.finalbuilder.com/display/FB8/Finalbuilder+Basic+Concepts
http://wiki.finalbuilder.com/display/FB8/Actions+Tab
The steps to compile a delpjo project are
1) Open FinalBuilder, click on the New project toolbar button, or File menu, New Project.
2) On the Actions tab (if it’s not in view, Shift+F12 will bring it into view), click in the search box at the top and type Delphi - the list of actions will narrow, click on the “Build Delphi” action.
3) This will show the Build Delphi Action properties dialog. In the Project tab, fill in the Project File field (or browse for) with the project.dpr or project.dpk file path.
4) Select the Delphi compiler version you want and then click “From Project File…” button next to the project field, and then on the “Load Project Settings” - this will load the compiler/linker etc settings from the projectg.dproj file. Apply other settings as required.
5) Save the project
6) Press F9 to run the project. The Build Log panel will show the output from the compiler.
That youtube video you refer to was not made by us, Embarcadero did it back when they were bundling a cut down version of FinalBuilder with Delphi. You the sound is bad and the accent is strong, but I was able to understand him ok. You can slow down the playback on youtube if you need to.
Getting new tutorial videos online is on the task list for this year, the ones that were there were very out of date, so we need to produce new ones.
Greetings Vincent,
YEAH!!!
My ‘Hello World’ project compiled!
Thank you so much for your personal help.
I feel so much more comfortable, now that I can compile a Delphi application.
Of course … you know what this means … I will be bugging you for more help, as I learn FB8. ;-D
However, I will learn as much as I can through the docs before I come bothering you.
Please make those videos as soon as you can.
Next, I will be purchasing my copy of FB8 some time this week.
Cheers (that’s an Aussie expression)!
Keith Tolbert