[Lazarus] "Select another LCL Widget Set"

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:16:40 +0100
Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

> On 01/27/2011 03:14 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > 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.
> I still would like to see a more strict way to separately select the GUI 
> (Widget) and the non-GUI functionality, so that it is possible to do a 
> GUI-free, 

GUI-free is not the goal of the LCL.
The nogui widgetset was added, because its maintenance cost is near
zero, it is optional and some users think it is useful. 

> but event-queue enabled application (e.g. on Linux and on OSX).
> I don't know if providing  "Widget Type" selections for future things 
> like remote GUI (e.g. ExtJS, Silverlight or "ifi" based.) is the best 
> way do go.

I kindly ask you to put the main contribution for non gui code to the
FCL and keep additions to the nogui widgetset at a minimum.


> >> To allow for not setting a "LCLWidgetType" macro at all might or
> >> might not be a good idea.
> > ?
> Not making clear that in fact a macro (here hidden) is used. So doing a 
> dropdown selection control (that maybe also provides  '-' for 
> command-line applications) and pre-select the appropriate default, seems 
> less confusing to me.

I will add an empty value.

Mattias