[lazarus] Delphi/TSE, Lazarus/X

[michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Chris G. Royle wrote:

> Hi
> 
> As a very interested lurker, I would like to congratulate the Lazarus Team -
> well done, can't wait for version 1.
> 
> I am currently designing an application under Delphi, which will probably
> use NT Terminal Server to run remote sites over a WAN. The Delphi app
> accesses an Interbase Server on Linux.
> 
> I am hoping to use Lazarus to port my app to Linux, and use X windows for
> the remote sessions. I would also use PostGreSQL as the SQL server.

Why not stick to Interbase ? FPC supports it.

> Being
> new to Linux, I am not sure if this is possible. Does the GTK / Lazarus have
> the remote x functionality, and do remote X sessions perform close to their
> Terminal Server counterparts ?

Yes, every X application has this possibility. The remote X-sessions perform
very well; I haven't compared with NT TS though. Since the remote-X stuff
has been built in in X since it was started, I expect performance to have
been an issue since the beginning.

Michael.