[lazarus] mwEdit TODO

[Curtis White]

I changed all the release files for mwEdit so it will include the Windows
functions under Windows. This may allow it to work when compiled in Windows. But
since I don't have FPC installed on Windows, I can't try it. Can someone try
compiling the release version of mwEdit (lcl/components/mwedit/release) in
Windows? Then try putting it on a form to see if it works?

There are still a couple of FPC specific issues that need to be resolved, so it
may have some bugs, but I think it may actually show the control on a form and
partially work in Windows now (if we are lucky).


Thanks...Curtis

On 10-Nov-99 Curtis White wrote:
>
> I was just thinking about all this and realized something. FPC has a Windows
> unit for Windows. All those functions already exist there. I bet we could add
> {$IFNDEF LINUX} and {$IFDEF WIN32} statements to the existing {$IFDEF
> MWE_FPC} statements and get mwEdit to compile and "work" in Windows as it is
> now. This should be OK to do since we are going to create these functions in
> Linux anyway. 
> 
> I will make these changes so we can see if it will work. If not, then we can
> back those changes back out. But since those functions already exist in
> Windows,
> there is no reason for us to create them there again. We might be able to get
> a
> Windows version of Lazarus working real soon if we can get mwEdit to compile
> and
> work in Windows. Then it is just a matter of creating those functions in
> Linux
> to get it working in Linux also. Since we will need these functions on any
> platform we port Lazarus to, we need to be sure to write those functions in
> some way that can easily be ported to other platforms.
>