[Lazarus] What are "widgets" in lazarus?

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Wed Jan 5 09:44:22 CET 2011


Bo Berglund wrote:
> I am switching from Delphi7-BDS2006 on Windows to FPC-Lazarus on
> Windows with the aim of making cross-platform programs.
> I also want to make one program run on an embedded ARM board running
> linux for ARM.
> 
> So I have read a lot of the discussions here and asked questions about
> setting up the environment etc.
> 
> One thing that bothers me is that I don't understand the term
> "widget", which gets mentioned very often when discussion is about
> screen output and the like....
> 
> What is a "widget" and how does it relate to my aim of making a
> cross-platform program?

It's not so much "widgets" as "widget set", and it refers to whether the 
intermediate layer between your program is based on Windows, Qt, GTK (1 
or 2) etc.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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