[Lazarus] fpGUI

[Henry Vermaak]

On 12/01/11 11:18, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 01/12/2011 11:36 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
>>
>> Now lets see what I can do with this.
>
> Works like charm !
>
> Just changing the Project's Widget Type from gtk2 to fpGUI toggles the
> Widget set and both create working application with just a slightly
> different look.
>
> Thus the Lazarus Form designer does work for fpGUI including visually
> creating TTimer instances.
>
> GREAT !
>
> So what do I need the external dedicated / additional fpGUI designer for
> ? Can it do additional tricks ?

What you are using now is the fpgui lcl interface.  This is why the 
lazarus form designer works.  This interface is not complete, so less 
things will work than using the fpgui designer.

>
> Additional questions:
>
> Can I hope for some thinks that are broken in the gtk2 Widget set to be
> working with fpGUI ? Such as
> TThread.synchronize (that is said to drop events when system load is high),

How does a widgetset make a difference to TThread.Synchronize?  Is there 
a bug report for this?

> SendMessage -> Procedure ..Message (AFAIK, not working in the current
> svn version of gtk2)

I believe postmessage works in gtk2 now.

Henry