[Lazarus] Some thoughts about the global 'Application' instance.

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Joost van der Sluis schrieb:

>> Same in Delphi
> 
> I know, but can't we come up with a better design?
> 
>> I have service and forms application in same exe file, so i have 2
>> application in same instance.

In a redesign we also should consider the different handling of consol 
applications with GUI on non-Windows platforms.

Should we (also) have a Process object, for the console part of an 
application?

Should we have objects at all, for process/application management? When 
the general TApplication methods are converted into (non-virtual) class 
methods, these methods can be implemented and used for all application 
types.

We also could create a true Pascal singleton, in an Application.pp unit.

The primary question IMO is about the role which the Application object 
plays, in an application in general, and in specialized application 
types. In the best case we can press all the methods and properties into 
one class, and add the implementation of application-specific parts by 
OnXYZ handlers.

DoDi