[Lazarus] Stand-alone (external) Form Designer?

[dmitry boyarintsev]

I see no problems building external form designer.
All you need is to read and write .lfm format. :)

And since .lfm writting/reading is based on RTTI, any FPC program
should support it, natively.
as Hans-Peter has already noted, the biggest problem would be
supporting custom (non LCL standard) controls, since in Lazarus
they're rendering themselves. So either external Form designer must be
LCL based, or must provide some way to render custom controls.

thanks,
dmitry