[Lazarus] fpGUIx

[Michael Schnell]

On 01/12/2011 05:04 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> Looks like I will be dead and burnt before that happens.
> (in which case I will care little one way or the other - luckily)
>
I did many days of research on that issue once when we (company) really 
intended to use FPC/Lazarus in an embedded design. Right now these 
efforts are on hold, as the "Delphi team" right now is not very 
interested in starting to port their stuff to Linux. So I just hope to 
be helpful with some testing and providing my research results when 
possibly appropriate,

 From my researches I do know that the Widget set code is very complex 
and distributed in many places of the source tree, thus it's not a good 
Idea for a newcomer to try to restructure it.

OTOH, now that I finally have been able to get Lazarus up and running 
(nearly nicely) I might be able to take a deeper look in what is 
happening, but I will not dedicate much pointless research effort in 
order to create a patch that will anyway be rejected due to the 
political decision that we will not dare to do a change to all Widget 
sets and risk that something will be broken in one of them, even if it 
runs with some others. (Even though exactly this is the current state as 
we just saw.) And I am not able to do any tests with the Mac based 
implementations, anyway.

So maybe fpGUI could be a starting point for the move, as it seems to 
feature the fewest dependencies on external and legacy stuff. Moreover 
it's still bleeding edge anyway and Graeme seems to be interested in 
these issues, so my research results and suggestions might be not 
completely in vain,.

-Michael