[Lazarus] External/out-of-tree LCL widgetset

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 05 December 2017 00:50:19 Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> On 2017-12-02 14:48, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote:
> > I think you misunderstand me. I said "RAD is the best way to code a
> > GUI", the visual part, not the business rules.
>
> For that you just need a visual form designer. RAD normally entails a
> whole lot else like hooking into events (in the UI), live view of data
> in form designer (using eg: a TDBGrid) etc.
>
> > I don't use db-aware — well only TDBGrid just to show data
>
> And DBGrid behaves slightly different to TStringGrid, and is slow. Many
> DB-aware components behave slightly different to the non DB-aware
> versions. Why two sets of basically the same component? Yet another
> layer of components that can contain bugs. With Model-GUI-Mediator you
> use the standard components only, and the mediators are literally just a
> few lines of code. The rest of MGM (at least the implementation in
> tiOPF) is all non-GUI and well unit tested.
>
This also is your opinion, I don't think you are so absolutely right as your 
statements allways sound. :-)
In MSEgui the DB-components work very well, are convenient and fast and 
provide much more possibilities than a TStringGrid. And there is no overhead 
and limitations and additional complexity by an additional layer like 
tiOPF. ;-)

Martin