[Lazarus] nonlcl basic issue: is codetools LCL dependent?

[Michael Schnell]

On 06/23/2014 10:48 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:

> You mean on a DataModule? I don't really understand the question...

(@Mattias: sorry if this is off-topic here.)

Imagine a new Widget Type (and "Application") that does not provide any 
GUI but (other than the current not GUI based Lazarus Application types) 
allows for TTimer (and other Event Queue based stuff).

When doing "New Application", the Lazarus IDE automatically creates code 
that provides a main Form (TForm sibling) for the user code, and the GUI 
designer allows to place visual components, that behave appropriately as 
well in the GUI designer as in the running application.

When the user wants to use a TTimer, he usually simply "drops" one on 
this Form.

Of course a running "Active NoGui" application does not show any Form 
(and does not have runtime code to do so).

Nonetheless it could be doable to have it provide the design-Time 
functionality to allow for showing some kind of "Main Form" in the IDE 
and allow for placing (e.g.) TTimers there. The (non visual) properties 
of these components  would need to be streamed from the Resource as 
usual when the program starts. Otherwise the user needs to "manually" 
create such timers e.g. in "TForm0.DoCreate" - this is how my current 
testing state works.

-Michael