[Lazarus] fpGUI

[Marcos Douglas]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Mattias Gaertner
<nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> [snip]
> True.
> Although these points are valid for both formats: lfm and pascal.
>
> I think the advantages of the lfm format are:
> - the format is very simple, everyone immediately knows what it does
>  and how to edit it. AFAIK the only questions about its format were
>  about encoding of strings.
> - they are stored compressed in the executable
> - allows to hook into the string reading, so that translations can be
>  loaded automatically while reading
>
> I think the important point for the "stream pascal" is that it makes it
> possible to run without the streaming code, so smart linking
> could produce smaller executables.

Okay, that I didn't know... pros and cons for each design.


Marcos Douglas