[Lazarus] New version of WebDesign available

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Joost van der Sluis wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 14:15 +0100, Michael Schnell wrote:
>> On 03/17/2010 01:32 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>> It cannot use a TTimer, since TTimer presupposes a GUI and an X server.
>>
>> That is what I did expect.
>>
>>> It can use a TFPTimer, which does not suppose
>>> a GUI and X server.
>>
>> Sounds good. So it might have an event queue.
>
> It doesn't need to. It has a web-server, which queues all requests, and
> sends them one-by-one to the fcgi application. (If you configure it
> right)
>
>> Maybe fastCGI Application in fact implements the NoGUIApplication that I
>> need and I can use it, even if I will not do a CGI. Perhaps just the
>> name is confusing...
>
> No, it implements a fastCGI application. You can not use it for what you
> want. Otoh, what you want is not necessary to build a persistent
> web-application. That can be done much easier. (As is done in the
> fastCgi application)
>
>> My intention is to create a "toolbox" that allows to convert free
>> running (embedded) "normal" applications to not needing the GTK binding
>> (after having stripped them from the user interface). But they still do
>> need things like Timers, TCP/IP communication, serial interfaces,
>> threads (with "synchronize" and "postmessage" / "procedure...message")
>
> Well, the fcl-web applications do not support timers, TCP/IP, serial
> interfases and postmessage functionality.

Why not ? 
My fcl-web application does a SOAP request to another server.
What is this other than a TCP/IP request to another machine ?

Michael.