[lazarus] native Win32 Interface

[Andrew Johnson]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:36:16 -0400
"cryst" <cryst at golden.net> wrote :

>If the whole group had wxWindows at the same level that Lazarus is at with 
>gtk then windows support, (and Mac and others as well) would already be 
>present. The wxWindows is Open source and could use a nice programming 
>environment (like Lazarus)
>to support it.

This would a MAJOR pain, as wxWindows is entirely C++, which means we would 
be unable to link it directly with Freepascal 1.0.x, instead all routines 
would have to be flattened using C, and then linked in. This is the same 
issue being run into with QT, and very likely why no one has cared to work 
on the QT port for so long. Also, since the LCL is itself supposed to be an 
extensive OOP GUI toolkit, basing it on top of another such toolkit makes 
for ultra-large programs. And really this is unnesesary, as most of the time 
it would take longer too modify existing code too work exclusively with 
wxWindows, then too wait until such time as Lazarus is already fully 
functional, and then, if someone wished too, create an interface designed to 
use wxWindows, at which time you could hope that C++ linking would be 
supported by way of FPC 1.2.X. The only reason Lazarus and the LCL, aren't 
more functional is because of the lack of available time to work on it on 
the parts of the main developers, switching code mid-gears isn't the 
solution to this, more skilled programmers willing to devote their time to 
the project IS.

Andrew


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