Hi, nice to meet you!

Let's get started. Just fire up Kylix. I'm running Kylix3 in KDE under Suse 8.0, so your Images might look a little different if you're running, let's say, Gnome under RedHat

At the top of your windows you'll see the following windows. This is the heart of Kylix. For here you can direct your app building.

You'll also find, on the left, another window: The Object Treeview and Object Inspector. Don't worry, if one of them is not there. You can add more later, like the Project Manager. It'll something like this:

If you just started up Kylix, you'll also find a window called Unit1.pas(wondering where the pas extension comes from?). Kylix has already prepared the most basic code, needed for the application to be run. This is where you will write your code.

And if you press F12, you'll see the interface window of your program. Here you will place you components and build your interface for your users. To switch back to the coding window, press F12 again. Both will look like this :

After this short introduction to the interface, we'll start building our first program.