[Lazarus] What are "widgets" in lazarus?

[Vincent Snijders]

2011/1/10 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> Op 2011-01-10 13:57, Michael Schnell het geskryf:
>> Yep, but the API between the no-Widget-Type depending LCL parts and the
>> Widget set seems quite complex
>
> Well that is all LCL internal design stuff and nothing related to fpGUI.
> But yes, the LCL internals are rather daunting when you haven't worked
> on it before. What is annoying though is the Windows-ism design in the
> LCL. LCL works on many platforms, but it is clearly biased towards
> Windows design. This is quite odd, seeing that Windows wasn't even the
> first widgetset LCL supported (I believe it was GTK1 first).

It is not so odd, if you remember that the LCL was modeled after the
VCL, which has even more 'Windows-ism's.

Vincent