[Lazarus] What are "widgets" in lazarus?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 01/09/2011 11:44 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>> I think it makes more sense to skip SDL and directly use the linux 
>> framebuffer.
> 
> Someone might want to use SDL controls together with Lazarus generated 
> controls.
> 
> A friend of mine did this (using Delphi and later - as he did not get it 
> working with Lazarus for Linux) with Python. to create a graphical 
> editor that does  graphic-card processor supported zoom and pan.

At which point presumably his code was- eventually- using something like 
Linux DRI/DRM, which is only implemented for a comparatively small 
number of graphics processors and which typically has additional 
restrictions e.g. some minimum amount of on-card RAM. This is getting a 
very long way from something which is guaranteed to run on almost any 
system with minimal prerequisites.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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