[Lazarus] What is the future of NoGUI widget set?

[Marco van de Voort]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:53:54PM +0100, Michael Schnell wrote:
> > I think this is a windows artefact, where Delphi "abuses" that widgetset...
> In fact IMHO it is a Lazarus artifact calling implementing some 
> functionality that not necessarily needs a GUI (or widgets) in a source 
> code section that is referred to as "Widget Type" (and sometimes "Widget 
> Set" or "interface").

I never said anything otherwise. However the failure is the assumption that
such functionality would use the same functionality as the widgetset API.

This happens to be the case on Windows (where both plug into Windows
message system, and thus have the same message loop), but not on other
systems.