[Lazarus] Initial value of BidiMode in RightToLeft system

ik idokan at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 18:04:05 CEST 2011


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 17:16, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:

> On 10/10/2011 02:31, ik wrote:
>
>> Hi Zaher,
>> 2011/10/10 Zaher Dirkey <parmaja at gmail.com <mailto:parmaja at gmail.com>>
>>
>>    In short to understand what happened
>>    ----------
>>    Imagine that you made an English tools worked fine for you (not multi
>>    language tools), and you send it to me, that tools will flip to use RTL
>> in
>>    my system with English language.
>>    ----------
>>
>> I agree with you, but most Delphi developers decided that the want more
>> Delphi
>> approach rather then anything else, so that why you have that code afaik.
>> It's time to think what we prefer, Delphi computability or decide if we
>> want to
>> set new ground rules.
>>
>
> ido, are you saying that delphi compiled english language apps that are
> executed on RTL systems will flip the english backwards and display it RTL
> instead of LTR???
>
>
As far as I understand, yes. I never tried it myself, or seen their code for
that.
There was a discussion at the forums or here at the malling list (I can not
find it) early this year about this subject.

Ido
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