[lazarus] GTK or XLib or Whatever

[Baeseman, Cliff]

Rick,

   We are currently debating all of the control issues right now.


 Many of you are asking us to use the GTK. This is fine but I can tell you
programming against it does have limitations.

  Maybe I am not as smart as I should be also. Here is the only problem that
I have with running against GTK. If you wish for the IDE to be as Delphi
Like as possible you have to have a couple of things that I have not been
able to create cleanly.

1. X and Y control placement.

2. The ability to resize and move a control once it is on a container.

3. The signal event model is not working very well. We need some way to
control our own event model. We need to have something like our own event
stack on TForm or something to that affect. Right now if I connect a
function to the gtk events we will get code fall thru not to mention it has
to be declared cdecl which cannot appear in a class definition.

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Dawson [mailto:dawson_j at crane.navy.mil]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 8:43 AM
To: lazarus at miraclec.com
Subject: [lazarus] db components


Has anyone started on db components yet? I have yet to get a working copy
of the project yet so that I can really find out, so I thought I would ask.

What direction is it taking / would it take? I have been looking iodbc and
unixodbc a bit, and have come across a few references about kde and gnome
might be including iodbc, or a dirivative thereof, in the future.  The
iodbc, is, I believe, supposed to be source compatible with MS's odbc spec. 

This is of prime importance to me, much more so than your debate over where
to base your controls, in GTK or QT.  My job is to do 'database
development', which I do in Delphi. I would like, very much for my delphi
code to continue on into the Linux environment.

Since this is my area of experience, I am willing to devote some of my time
to this part of the project, though it would probably only be a couple of
hours a week. I am slow, but I think I can contribute. Besides, I have
several problems with Delphi's implementation of TTable and TQuery, such as
they don't implement the 'recno' property for SQL databases like they
should. That would have been a tremendous help in my current project.

Rick Dawson

 
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