[Lazarus] fpGUI

[Martin Schreiber]

On Sunday, 16. January 2011 01.21:01 Marcos Douglas wrote:

> I do not understand why Delphi and Lazarus were made like this. Would
> be more easy to write Forms and Widgets just with Pascal code...
>
The separation of code and user interface definitions has advantages.
For example it is possible to edit and update the form layout without touching 
and parsing the code. The form layout can be modified language specific by 
resource dll's/so's. There is no danger that one destroys the the definition 
structure in source by accident. There is no danger that the IDE destroys the 
source code by accident. With a streaming mechanism the components have 
better possibilities to specialize and optimize their behaviour without aid 
of the IDE. Graeme must write for every component dedicated IDE integration 
code AFAIK.
Graeme probably will encounter the limitations of his approach when he tries 
to implement more sophisticated RAD possibilities into fpGUI. Visual form 
inheritance and submodules (TFrame) come to mind for example.

Martin