[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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