[Lazarus] What are "widgets" in lazarus?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 05/01/11 13:38, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>> On 05/01/11 13:23, Bo Berglund wrote:
>>>
>>> The embedded card is a touch panel from Technologic Systems
>>> (http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-TPC-7390#), 
>>>
>>>
>>> which runs an embedded version of Debian Linux, I believe.
>>> If it supports GTK (what is that?) or not I don't know but I will ask
>>> them.
>>
>> I quote from the link you gave ("Software" tab):
>>
>> "Custom Linux GUI applications can be developed using X Windows
>> (Xorg-Xserver included) or QtEmbedded libraries (available for 
>> download)."
>>
>> So you can use lazarus with the Qt widgetset. You can also use fpgui and
>> MSEide+MSEgui.
> 
> On further investigation, it looks like they have images which contain gtk:
> 
> ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7390-linux/distributions/

It should not be necessary to use a tailored image, all you need to do 
is get the development package from the Debian repository which should 
pull in the libraries as well.

I've got slight reservations about KDE/Qt because my experience is that 
the libraries required aren't compatible with the current (Stable, 
"Lenny") Debian, but only with the unreleased next version (SID, 
"Squeeze"). And SID/Squeeze uses KDE v4, which is pretty alien to 
anybody used to older versions.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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