<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>As it stands right now, if you mirror any TWinControl (like the Forms) to make it RightToLeft it corrupts the canvas and makes it unusable. At that point, you close Lazarus, and delete it from your system and continue looking for a development tool that can do what you need. Bottom line, very little interest.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Delphi doesn't have this problem. You can make true RightToLeft applications that work very well with very little effort. But Delphi is expensive and in many respects it is inferior to Lazarus.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Florian Klämpfl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:florian@freepascal.org" target="_blank">florian@freepascal.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am 04.12.2013 15:49, schrieb Avishai:<br>
> Everything I say here is my opinion only and related to MSWindows only<br>
> because I do not have another OS to work with. I think Lazarus could grow<br>
> quite a bit and maybe find some deep pockets, if it would address the<br>
> problems of RightToLeft language support. There are a few billion people<br>
> that must deal with the RightToLeft world.<br>
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If there was a significant interested, I'am sure somebody using<br>
RightToLeft would have addressed these problems.<br>
<br>
> But with Lazarus's RightToLeft<br>
> limitations, programmers take one look and move on to something with better<br>
> support. At the moment, on MSWindows, you can not produce a true<br>
> RightToLeft application with Lazarus.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Shalom,<br>Avishai<br><a href="mailto:avishai.gore@gmail.com">avishai.gore@gmail.com</a><br>אבישי גוֹר
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