[Lazarus] Delphi wxWidget plugin for Lazarus

[Ron Grove]

Having posted on that thread already, I'm not sure I understand your  
comment.  I just checked to see if there were new posts there bashing  
Lazarus or FPC and I don't see it.  One poster thinks Lazarus is a  
"disaster", but it's only one post.  I don't really see anything wrong  
with the desire for the CrossFPC tool if it ever came to fruition.   
Dean only asked if it was possible to compile in FPC in Delphi.  I  
prefer developing in Delphi over Lazarus on Windows myself and would  
love that feature.  ModelMaker Code Explorer and other add-in tools I  
have for Delphi are really nice and I miss them if I do something in  
Lazarus.

As for the project, it's not very compelling for a Lazarus user to me  
but we'll see.  The process, from the video, appears to start in  
Delphi where the coding is done, and then exported to a Lazarus format  
primarily just for recompilation on the target platform.  Unless they  
did a lot more than I expect, it would be a far more limiting  
environment to work in than Lazarus.  I stand by my comment that it's  
nice, worthy of support, and would probably be a good choice for a  
simple project that needed to be cross platform.  But for anything  
complex you need a tool that you can create your own components in.   
I'll look at it, and if it's cheap perhaps even buy it to reward the  
effort.  I can see using it for some simple utility apps and the  
like.  But if you want reporting, charting, ability to descend and  
customize your own components, you need Lazarus.  This won't change  
that unless they've actually recreated CLX or something (possible, but  
doubtful and the video doesn't show enough to tell).

-Ron

On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Bee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Someone had made an interesting project. You may see the screencast  
> here:
>
> https://forums.codegear.com/thread.jspa?threadID=14612&tstart=0
>
> Nice work! It's good for both sides, Delphi and Lazarus. But, I'm
> personally not interested since it would double my work, one with it,
> another with Lazarus. Lazarus alone is more than enough to me, . What
> I don't understand is the responses to this project in Delphi forum,
> as you may read here:
>
> https://forums.codegear.com/thread.jspa?threadID=14612&tstart=0
>
> Everyone seemed to be surprise and happy. As you already knew, Delphi
> people are quite offensive to FPC/Lazarus with many arguments which
> are mostly wrong and non-sense. But, if there's a project that
> *indirectly* uses FPC/Lazarus through Delphi, as this one and
> CrossFPC, they could accept it. Can someone explain this phenomena? :D
>
> -- 
> -Bee-
>
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