Lazarus

Lazarus: A powerful Delphi programming environment with an intuitive IDE

Lazarus is a comprehensive Delphi development environment, that allows developers to create functional software with cross-platform support. Lazarus bundles a feature-rich IDE for Free Pascal, which includes compiling and debugging functionalities as well as other packages, components and frameworks needed for development.

This IDE comes with a tab-based UI and well organized toolbars, as well as a source code editor with support for line numbering, comment insertion, syntax highlighting, syntax checking and code completion.

Lazarus helps developers create complex graphical interfaces with multiple components through its graphical form designer. There’s an impressive object library that bundles a large number of components like menus, buttons, check boxes, drop down lists, text input fields, navigation buttons, scroll boxes, tool bars and so on.

Using the Object Inspector you can customize properties for any item, set restriction for selected widgets, manage anchors, set the respons to user actions and with the built-in debugger you can detect code errors in a fast and reliable manner.