[Lazarus] fpGUI

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:21:01PM -0200, Marcos Douglas wrote:
> > visual forms designer generate the source code from the word go. It
> > works well for me. ;)
> 
> I agree.
> 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...

You can postedit resources in a binary, or overlay them with translated
resource DLLs. You can't do so with generated code.

Also, Borland's Java product, JBuilder is very close to a Delphi that does
that. 

Problem is that the interaction between design and writing code in handlers
gets lost, unless the system can also parse the code. And then it must be
very hardened so that editing by users doesn't kill the parsing.

JBuilder failed that test. The designer constantly broke if you touched
generated code, and if you didn't, the system was less flexible than Delphi.