[Lazarus] Lazarus make me create better apps

[Paul Nicholls]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graeme Geldenhuys" <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>
To: "Lazarus mailing list" <lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus make me create better apps


> On 6 May 2010 09:31, Juha Manninen <juha.manninen at phnet.fi> wrote:
>>
>> Please don't continue the same discussion any more, anyone!
>
> Correct, and the reason why I replied to those posters in private.
>
>
>> Given the design goals and Graeme's coding skills, I would estimate his 
>> IDE
>> will be in good shape relatively quickly, in one or two years.
>
> And like I told someone in private, it will also serve as a showpiece
> for what fpGUI is capable of (unlike the existing small [feature
> specific] demos included with fpGUI).
>
> Features already implemented (using +- 12 hours of my time):
>  * Project / unit management
>  * IDE macros
>  * User defined macros per project
>  * multi-threaded for compiling and searching functions, keeping the IDE
>     and UI very responsive.
>  * multiple build modes
>  * very customizable compiler options and search directories.
>     this works hand-in-glove with multiple build modes.
>  * project templates support
>  * External tools support
>  * Context sensitive help (by using offline help)
>  * Single Window (tabbed) design
>  * File Browser support
>  * Scratch Pad or Code Snippets window
>
> I'm now working on the GDB front-end. Code will be made available in
> the fpGUI repository after the fpGUI v0.7 release.
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>

Neat! I'm looking forward to seeing this Graeme...good luck chief :)

cheers,
Paul