[Lazarus] New version of WebDesign available

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 14:39 +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 14:15 +0100, Michael Schnell wrote:
> >> On 03/17/2010 01:32 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >>> It cannot use a TTimer, since TTimer presupposes a GUI and an X server.
> >>
> >> That is what I did expect.
> >>
> >>> It can use a TFPTimer, which does not suppose
> >>> a GUI and X server.
> >>
> >> Sounds good. So it might have an event queue.
> >
> > It doesn't need to. It has a web-server, which queues all requests, and
> > sends them one-by-one to the fcgi application. (If you configure it
> > right)
> >
> >> Maybe fastCGI Application in fact implements the NoGUIApplication that I
> >> need and I can use it, even if I will not do a CGI. Perhaps just the
> >> name is confusing...
> >
> > No, it implements a fastCGI application. You can not use it for what you
> > want. Otoh, what you want is not necessary to build a persistent
> > web-application. That can be done much easier. (As is done in the
> > fastCgi application)
> >
> >> My intention is to create a "toolbox" that allows to convert free
> >> running (embedded) "normal" applications to not needing the GTK binding
> >> (after having stripped them from the user interface). But they still do
> >> need things like Timers, TCP/IP communication, serial interfaces,
> >> threads (with "synchronize" and "postmessage" / "procedure...message")
> >
> > Well, the fcl-web applications do not support timers, TCP/IP, serial
> > interfases and postmessage functionality.
> 
> Why not ? 
> My fcl-web application does a SOAP request to another server.
> What is this other than a TCP/IP request to another machine ?

I meant that it is not implemented within the framework. It uses the
webserver for all that.

Joost.