[lazarus] About compatibility???

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 02:53:37 +0100
Matjaz Mihelic <matooo at email.si> wrote:


> Basically, idea goes like this
> instead of TDataLink for TDBEdit
> Add a wrapper to TControl, TEdit has inherited that and our new TEdit 
> can be controled from anywhere or any data structure same as TLabel, 
> TListbox.... >>>> Our wrapper would mean same control over value and 
> state of any kind of control.
> [...]
> 
> This way using my suggestion there would be a wrapped control over 
> editing, but easy gaining compatibility with Borland.
> [...]
> Hasn't nobody else but me being bored using one control set for accesing 
> normal input, one control set for DB, one control set to control for 
> accesing Btrieve....???? I already tried to do something like that on 
> Delphi, but the damn f...up was closed for any kind of internal lower 
> editing of components. I would just end up deriving another set of 
> components??? Bugger...

I like the idea.


> In case of preprocessor, I was asking about. Wouldn't be nicer to write 
> a preprocessor that knows how to <#include somelibrary.h>, than waiting 
> some of us to translate C headers in pascal (that's first idea that 
> comes to my mind, and this one would put project much further than it 
> really is, there would be no need to develop or translate things already 
> done, but case of preprocessing I'm thinking one is simply as suggested 
>  >> IDE specified preprocessor tool, started in another CVS project 
> completely out of, or with lazarus but different branch (This way 
> lazarus wouldn't suffer any consequences, but gain a lot))?

Since it is impossible to translate any c header file to good pascal code, the current h2pas is the better solution. 
I would like to add a h2pas frontend to the IDE, so that using c libraries will become much easier. But before that, h2pas must be improved.


Mattias