[lazarus] Lazarus Status and "How would I"

[Matt Henley]

I have been looking at Lazarus lately because Borland's interest in
Kylix seems to be on the downside. I have been working on a little
project which is to be gpl'd if i ever get it to a stage that is
presentable. I have made quite a bit of progress in the background
calculation portion and have been working on the user interface and the
database interface. The user interface is to be diagram based... like
Dia or Visio, where the user drags building blocks onto a canvas and
then connects them with lines. Any ideas on how to get started with this
type of interface? I am more adjusted to the math and simulation portion
and am new to the graphics part. Is lazarus and Free Pascal ready to be
used for something like this? Are there existing components that could
be leveraged for such? Any library that i create I would be willing to
license as to be useable by everyone.

Second, what is the status of the database components? I am looking to
use something like SQLite where a complete database can be saved as one
file which looks to the user like a single project file.

Thanks for any help
Matt Henley