[Lazarus] New iOS xib-Designer for Lazarus available for testing

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sun Feb 17 19:52:12 CET 2013



On Sun, 17 Feb 2013, Sven Barth wrote:

> On 17.02.2013 19:08, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2013, Sven Barth wrote:
>> 
>>> On 17.02.2013 18:40, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
>>>>> I've not closely followed your recent discussions with the Lazarus
>>>>> devs,
>>>>> so one little question: are you using the non-LCL designer included
>>>>> with
>>>>> Lazarus here?
>>>> 
>>>> Yes. Mattias wrote that for me a few years ago for another project.
>>>> Now it is also used for this xib-designer.
>>>> 
>>>> Biggest difference between this version and earlier versions is that
>>>> the xib-file is used as a resource-file, so it can be opened in Xcode
>>>> and thereafter opened in Lazarus again. The earlier version could
>>>> only export to xib-file, not import it.
>>> 
>>> Ok, nice. Finally the non-LCL designer is put to good use :P
>> 
>> What Joost did is exactly what it was intended to do.
>> 
>
> Yes, I know. But it has taken some time until someone (even if that someone 
> is the same person that requested its addition in the first place) has used 
> it fully. When was the article about that feature published in the ToolBox? 
> 2010? 2011?

November 2009.
But do not be mistaken: Joost uses it in his webpage technology since years.

It was a request by me and Joost (independently) to Mattias, BTW. 
Requested beginning September 2009, finished.... September 2009 :-)

Michael.




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