[lazarus] A Little Cleanup

[Michael A. Hess]

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Curtis White wrote:

> OK. Well if that is the case, then why are we even using the same filenames
> and component list as Delphi?

A starting place.

> For example, I have been working on making the TNotebook component work like and
> have the same functions and properties as the Delphi TNotebook component. Then
> we would need another component called TTabbedNotebook that is similar, but has
> the tabs. If we are not trying to be Delphi compatible at all, then these two
> components could easily be combined into one that you could turn the tabs on or
> off. 

Go for it.  :-)
 
> As a matter of fact, we could even create an import tool that would
> automatically convert their Delphi code to Lazarus when they "import" it.

That is sort of what I am going to be doing with the LFM. Since we don't
have a RAD feature yet I planned on building a DFM to XML converter so
that I could code the features for using the LFM before the RAD portion is
finished. Then it will be possible to take Delphi DFM files and convert
them into Lazarus LFM files.