[Lazarus] The future of desktop

[Avishai]

@vfclists.  I agree with what you said.  I have the knowledge about the
requirements of RightToLeft applications, but I don't have the programming
skills to make it happen.  My suspicion is that the great majority of
Lazarus/FPC users are not proficient enough to dig down into the low level
code and figure out how to fix problems.  I know for fact that I am not.
 That doesn't keep me from trying though.  I've been looking for that
TWinControl Canvas bug for 2 years and I'm no closer today than the day I
started.

But Mirroring technology is the simplest and most straightforward approach
to RightToLeft on the MSWindows platform.  For the most part it already
works, but only if you disable Themes.  That's a price most programmer feel
they can't pay.



On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Avishai <avishai.gore at gmail.com> wrote:

> The guys that started Lazarus had a base to start from.  They didn't start
> from scratch.  They already had the basic code to do a lot of things and it
> worked.  But it only worked for LeftToRight.
>
> If Lazarus could address even a few of the major issues, I think it would
> become the dominant programming tool of the Middle East. I thing that's
> significant.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org>wrote:
>
>> Am 04.12.2013 21:08, schrieb Avishai:
>> > There's very little interest because it simply can't do the job.  If
>> > you're looking to buy a new car, you don't stop at a motorcycle shop.
>> >  If Lazarus could overcome just a few of the major obstacles I think
>> > there would be RightToLeft people that would make the effort to create a
>> > great RightToLeft tool.
>>
>> If the guys who started lazarus, would have thought the same, there
>> would be no lazarus at all. If an OSS tool misses a certain feature,
>> then there is simply not enough interest, else somebody who needs it,
>> would implement it. Period.
>>
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> Avishai
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