DFM/LFM in Lazarus WAS: RE: [lazarus] How I can participeinLazarus?.....

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Shane Miller wrote:

> So, do we have a time frame when this will be worked on?  

Not in the nearest weeks, that is for sure. Too much regular work :(

> 
> My main interest is getting Lazarus to be able to compile and run programs.
> I need the DFM's to build the hidden create's and such behind the scenes so
> that I can get lazarus to actually compile AND run a working program.
> I have it compiling but the control's are never really "create"d because
> the code isn't there for that.

A quick hack would be to convert a .dfm to the following:

Procedure TMyForm.CreateForm;

begin
  Button1:=TButton.Create(Self);
  Button1.Parent:=Self;
  Button1.Top:=15;
  Button1.Left:=100;
  // etc
end;

That should be easy to do.

Michael.

> 
> Shane
> 
> 
> >>> michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be 06/20/00 07:58AM >>>
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Sebastian [iso-8859-1] Gnnther wrote:
> 
> > Shane Miller wrote:
> > > 
> > > Could someone explain to me how it works please.
> > 
> > Reading DFM files simply doesn't work yet. (that writing should work is
> > new for me...
> 
> Not DFM files, but I did create text files with the textwriter.
> 
> > )
> > And adding reading support is not a matter of a few hours of work, this
> > is a really heavy task if it should be implemented properly. I already
> > had a look on this over 8 months ago, and it will still need a few weeks
> > until I can try to add full serialisation support to FCL.
> 
> If it was easy, it would probably have been done a long time ago :(
> 
> Michael.
> 
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