[Lazarus] fpGUIx
Paul Breneman
list2010 at BrenemanLabs.com
Wed Jan 12 19:47:48 CET 2011
Michael Schnell wrote:
> 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
Michael, you know that I am also *very* interested (for non-GUI embedded
stuff) in what you propose. I'm also involved a bit with fpGUI so if I
can help you and Graeme I'd like to do what I can (especially if you
need any minimal FPC & fpGUI distros to test/demonstration things :) ).
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