[Lazarus] TIBConnection + LCLNoGui + FreeBSD

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 24/05/2011 09:27, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> Of course the LCL fails here, because it is not used here, but the
> freetype unit.

I did not mean it as trolling, but rather as an idea for improved
cross-platform support. I believe I mentioned this font issue with
Lazarus some years ago, when we still used LCL in our applications
(around v0.9.18 I think). Nothing about this problem has since been changed.

LCL does not warn the developer that if they pick a font in the Form
Designer (say under Windows), that that font will probably not exist
under Linux or Mac or FreeBSD. So that part of LCL is really not
cross-platform at all! Luckily freetype will try and pick a similar
alternative font - but with no guarantees that it will look good.

I was simply suggesting a solution - using what I have done in fpGUI as
an example of one such solution. I did not mean it any other way.

LCL is developed and promoted as a cross-platform framework, so surely
that should translate to the Font usage too?


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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