[Lazarus] wxWidgets - cross platform widget set

[david.lyon at preisshare.net]

Guys -

I am not such an active pascal developer anymore, having (been forced  
to) switch to python.

However, I am very certain that Lazarus could benefit by adopting the  
wxWidget cross platform widget set.

In the old days, maybe you guys had to do it all yourself. Develop the  
widgets.

But after having used wxpython (wxwidgets under python) i am so  
impressed about how smoothly it all works on the various platforms.

Basically, wxwidgets is a rip off of delphi anyway. But they coded it in c++.

It works on all platforms.

It is not dissimilar to existing lcl.

Old programs would probably stay with lcl for compatability

But new programs could use the wxwidgets gui componentry.

With wxwidgets, the amount of work spent working on the widget sets  
(lcl) would be reduced. And the quality of resulting programs (that we  
users write) would be higher.

So i am just suggesting that it be looked into.

Here is the evaluation that i would suggest:

  - install boa constructor (the python-wxwidgets ide - like lazarus)

  - to do this you need
    * python (activepython)
    * wxwidgets

Have a close look at how polished apps can be. eg gui2exe (a python compiler)

It is just astounding how nice these applications can be.

This suggestion is aimed around reducing the work you guys need to do,  
and leveraging off a really fantastic widget/gui library, not  
dissimilar but more polished and refined.

Regards

David










Quoting Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Alexander Hofmann
> <alexander.hofmann at new-h.de> wrote:
>>  Is the development of the Carbon Widgetset also discussed in here?
>
> Yes, sure.
>
>>  I recently wanted to use Mac OS X's Window-Sheets in an Application if
>>  is is compiled on Mac OS X and had to write a rather rude piece of Code
>>  to support them... Has anybody else used them before, or is anybody
>>  interested in my code?
>
> Maybe you could add it here:
>
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Components_and_Code_examples
>
> I think that there was a wiki page explaining how to submit a new
> example to the lazarus-ccr, but I can't find it at the moment...
>
> --
> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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