[Lazarus] Forms and Generators

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:09:15 +0200
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 31.08.2011, 00:28 +0200 schrieb Mattias Gaertner:
> > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:54:26 +0200
> > Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have some question regarding forms and storage formats and the like:
> > > 
> > > 1. Lazarus can write a form definiton to disk as an XML file. Is there a
> > > way to load this XML file again making a form out of it?
> > 
> > AFAIK the XML Writer need some work on collections.
> > And I have not tested specials like frames.
> 
> So it is write only but does support the complete LCL (besides some
> TODOs left). Interesting, only the half way left to go.

The reader works too.

 
> Can somebody give me a name for grepping or file pointer to the sources
> of the XML writer, please?

Maybe you want to look at the example:
lazarus/examples/xmlstreaming/streamasxmldemo.lpi

 
> > > 2. Is there any support for XForms planned or existing?
> > > See http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/xforms
> > 
> > As far as I know: no.
> 
> OK
> Understandable, the set of components defined by the XForms standard is
> much smaller than the LCL component set.
> 
> > > 3. Are there any other generator sources known making forms from
> > > objects, database records or anything else?
> > 
> > lfm, lrs, binary, pascal code.
> 
> Fine, I'd have overlooked those completely. :)
> Although I think i meant .lfm whre I wrote .dfm, sorry.

Ah, I forgot: the FCL reader/writer are quite dfm compatible. The LCL
lfm reader has some extras to read dfm too.

Mattias