[Lazarus] Is there an industry language for specifying for declaring GUIs in JSON?

Alexsander Rosa alexsander.rosa at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 17:11:24 CET 2013


Maybe a way to call a webservice, get a JSON reply and show it on a
TStringGrid?


2013/12/2 vfclists . <vfclists at gmail.com>

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> On 2 December 2013 08:25, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:
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>> On 12/01/2013 04:57 PM, vfclists . wrote:
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>>> Are there some industry standards for specifying GUIs in JSON?
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>> See "Future of the Desktop" right here.
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>> -Michael
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> I am already following that thread. What I have in mind is using
> Lazarus/FreePascal forms as purely presentation layer, not for Pascal
> programs alone, but any language, DWScript, Python, bash, Basic, whatever
> even DWScript In effect the form opens a web server or another type socket
> where the business layer sends the screen drawing commands to. Whereas a
> browser is pull system, this is a both pull and push
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> When I did some Googling, knockout.js a framework that came up, something
> similar for Lazarus is what I have in mind. FreePascal, LCL, fpGUI etc are
> the system I know and the best foundation for a  high performance cross
> platform presentation layer that I can think of.
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> I think parsing QML or a reasonable subset for building Lazarus UIs as an
> alternative to .lfm and .dfm files is where the future of the
> Lazarus/FreePascal lies. I wouldn't say the future, but it is area where
> the Pascal development ecosystem can experience a revival. It is rapidly
> loosing ground to programming languages  which can be are interpreted,
> JITed, compiled, and have garbage collection, not just in usage, but in
> performance as well.
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> I think my vision warrants a separate blog post. I know what I want, I
> just don't have the technical know how to accomplish it.
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Atenciosamente,
Alexsander da Rosa
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