[Lazarus] What is the future of NoGUI widget set?

[waldo kitty]

On 1/26/2011 13:43, Frank Church wrote:
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> On 26 January 2011 18:29, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net
> <mailto:wkitty42 at windstream.net>> wrote:
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>     On 1/26/2011 13:08, Frank Church wrote:
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>         After having sparked a much longer thread than I expected, I need to get
>         back to my problem, although it may belong in a different thread.
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>         Now in most case data modules expose interfaces that the GUI parts of
>         the app call to get data.
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>         My problem now is the other way round, where the Data Module needs to
>         connect with the GUI first, in that whether or not the GUI is running,
>         the Data Module can make a call and send the data to it if it exists,
>         but without having to compile in any GUI dependencies.
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>     in this case, i would consider a pipe (named or otherwise)... create the
>     pipe when the GUI unit starts up ... the data unit looks for the pipe... if
>     it does not exist, it does not attempt to communicate with the GUI part...
>     when the pipe comes into existence, then the data unit can start sending its
>     data into the pipe...
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>     seems workable ;)
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> Pipes are a new area for me, are there any Lazarus demos of their usage?

uncle google found this while searching for lazarus fpc "named pipe"

http://lazarusroad.blogspot.com/2006/12/only-one-instance.html

there are others that show up as well...