[Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

[Michael Schnell]

On 05/10/2011 01:54 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> MSEgui has some "remote GUI via serializing" support,
Yep. This is originally an idea of Martin's and his name for it is "ifi" 
(nobody knows what this means :-) ). AFAIK, this is an unfinished open 
source project he once started and abandoned at some point of time.

Some years ago I tried to define a project that would need this and I 
wanted to use it with Lazarus and the LCL. I talked a lot with Martin 
about "ifi" that time and started an LCL implementation but this was too 
big a task for me, being an LCL-internals illiterate.

In fact, having an "ifi" Widget Type would be a really great feature of 
Lazarus'. There are lots of ways it could be used.

  - a remote GUI via TCP/IP or a serial port could be done, using a 
standard Lazarus program providing all possible controls on the user 
site, for self-contained (embedded) server projects
  - in  same way a GUI-less Windows-Service could be created 
(Windows-Servers don't allow services with GUI binding as of 2008).
  - an HTTP/HTML based remote browser GUI could be created (e.g. using 
extJS) for FCGI based server projects
  - ...
  - and the said Android Widget Type could be done, doing the local 
"remote" GUI in Java.

-Michael