[lazarus] Printers unit

[andrew johnson]

Since this doesn't need to be (IMO shouldn't be) LCL based, does it
really matter anyway? So long as the core properties are the same I see
no reason why they couldn't be changed cleaned up.. aka un-convoluted.
In this situation I see no need for Delphi Compatibility, it has no need
to be streamed, and it should never show up in a situation where it
wants to be in the OI. So unless someone else as a compelling reason
otherwise, I say feel free to change this to make more sense, use less
overhead et-al.

Andrew

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:53, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On 07 Nov 2002 11:45:23 -0600
> Tony Maro <tony at maro.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 10:31, andrew johnson wrote:
> >  
> > > yes you definitely should use Pen's and Brush's,
> > 
> > I was afraid you were going to say that.  The problem is I don't
> > understand why a Pen or Brush is so... convoluted.  Like, why is it a
> > TPersistent?  What advantage is that over just a plain TObject...?
> 
> TPersistent is compiled with the $M+ compiler directive and supports RTTI.
> In other words: It is streamable and can be used in the object inspector.
> More words: Delphi compatibility.
> 
> 
> Mattias
> 
> 
> > 
> > >   TPSPen = class(TPSObject)
> > 
> > Thanks for the samples.  I'll build on that.
> > 
> > -Tony
> > 
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