[lazarus] MWEDIT TODO's needed

Florian Klaempfl Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de
Thu Oct 28 04:46:34 EDT 1999


Shane Miller wrote:
> 
> Well, it looks like there are quite a few things that need to be done to make this project a success.
> I have a few points:
> 
> 1) One thing we need to determine is what we are going to use the property HANDLE for in Linux.  Can we use it for something that will allow us to FIND the correct gtkwidget or QTWidget by using this handle?  All the winapi calls pass this handle so it seems that we are going to need to start using this to be compatable.
> 
> 2) One of the major things is the FONT stuff.
> 
> GetObject, CreateFontIndirect, etc all gather font information in different ways.  Would anyone be willing to tackle this?
> It seems that it would be best to create these functions in LCLLINUX (or LCLWIN, depending on if I rename it) and have them either call into gtkinterface to get this info.

What about using FreeType? This would allow to use TTF fonts with all guis?






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