[Lazarus] "Select another LCL Widget Set"

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:38:21 +0100
Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

> There has been a modification in the "Options for Project" dialog with 
> the latest svn version..
> 
> I think it was a good idea to move the Widget Type selection from the 
> "Compiler Options" to the "Build Modes" page.
> 
> OTOH, the blue text "Select another LCL Widget Set (macro LCL Widget 
> Type)" on the "Compiler Options" page looks a little bit weired and the 
> Term "Widget Set" IMHO is misleading, maybe the newly introduced term 
> "Platform" would be more appropriate..

The word platform is already used at many places in the documentation
for TargetOS+TargetCPU. So IMO the "LCL platform" is more like the
triple OS+CPU+WS. OTOH the makefiles use the macro LCL_PLATFORM.


> It looks like if no "LCLWidgetType" macro is selected, the default is 
> used. 

Correct.

> To allow for not setting a "LCLWidgetType" macro at all might or 
> might not be a good idea.

?

 
> Why is there setting " fpGUI" for the "LCLWidgetType" macro and 
> additionally a macro "fpGUIPlatform" that can be set ?

See my other mail about the LCL package.

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Mattias