[Lazarus] QT bindings as defalt (was Release 1.0, part 2)

[Phil Hess]

I see that GTK/GTK2 doesn't appear to have PtInRegion implemented. That's probably why I didn't use it.

In some cases the compatibility functions still need to call the Win API regardless of widgetset if running on Windows, but you're right, if a handle is passed, that should only be passed on to Win API if LCLwin32 is defined. I'll review all the compat. functions when I have some time.

Thanks.

-Phil


----- "Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Phil Hess <macpgmr at fastermac.net>
> wrote:
> > Good point, although if you recall the history of this port, it
> started with the only two widgetsets that worked back then: win32 and
> gtk1 - the others just came along for the ride. I'm not even sure that
> LCLWin32 was defined back when I started.
> 
> I would bet they were already defined, they are extremely old.
> 
> > Does anyone use Qt on Windows though? That doesn't make sense to me.
> Why put another layer on top of Windows when win32 works quite well?
> And without any auxiliary libraries.
> 
> Less work to port between LCL platforms. If you use LCL-Qt in all
> platforms your port effort between them is minimal (if necessary),
> both because you are using the same LCL-Qt codebase instead of
> multiple widgetset codes with various states of supported components
> and because Qt is not a native toolkit, it just looks native but has
> custom painting which helps it be very consistent across platforms.
> 
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> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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