Hi miker1264, thank you for the suggestion, but the idea for me was to use the Amiga for the development, so I was looking to create an app to use to develop in Pascal directly on the Amiga, not on another platform. I am not keen to use C++ anymore, and I was trying to see if I could use some of the more modern tools available from Lazarus.
I have made some progress with the IDE, even though I still get errors when compiling for the Amiga. For some reason, I get the error that the Cairo unit is missing, and it fails to build the app. Perhaps it's my fault because when I clicked on clean up and build I did not uncheck "Package source directories" (which is selected by default) and it might have deleted the original units.
I am not sure which are the controls that use this unit, I used the notebook, memo, and the IPro controls but I still get the error after removing them. Actually, I got several I had to rebuild the application because some of the classes I was not using anymore were still referenced somewhere.
So it's been an experiment so far but I still hope to come up with something. Now the open save and new item menus work, even though I must work on the configuration to be able to have them load correctly. I probably publish another version of the app if I manage to compile it for the Amiga