Step 3 - Starting the design and coding!

I'll introduce my tools:

- Computer: Laptop PC, Dell Latitude D410 Intel Pentium M 1.6 GHz with 512 MB RAM
- Operating System: Windows XP Professional
- Programming software: Borland Delphi 2005 (choose Custom Installation and select Borland Delphi 2005 for Microsoft Win32, this will save you disk space and time when you launch the application)
- Language: Delphi



Delphi is pretty straight forward... Indeed, I'm not an engineer and sort of managed to understand and get it work ;-)

By the way, it is worth mentionning a very useful and free tool that can be used to launch Borland Delphi which is called Delphi Configuration Manager that basically allow you to lauch a minimal configuration version of Borland Delphi saving you again some time and resources!

In terms of the structure, I will create the following elements:

- A first screen displaying the box artwork



- A second screen displaying the game closed



- A last screen displaying the game opened



In Delphi, that translates into a main program or executable (AirportPanic.exe) embedding 3 different sections:
- "Splash": introduction screen displaying the box artwork
- "Front": game closed, need to click to open the game
- "Game": game open and ready to play

I've been able to leverage much from my previous simulator, but I'll still explain the detail of the different actions to perform to build those different sections.

Links:
- Dell
- Borland Delphi
- Delphi Configuration Manager