[Lazarus] TextHeight in Console App

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 16 May 2013, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

> Flávio Etrusco schrieb:
>
>> Is it a design decision that "NoGUI does not do much more than satisfy
>> some open externals when linking a Lazarus based project" or is it
>> just lack of manpower?
>
> AFAIR NoGui was invented for writing (Windows) services, which have to 
> process messages, but do not provide any GUI. Dunno how such server 
> applications work on other platforms.

No. Windows service applications (daemonapp) work without LCL and noGUI.

The reason for noGUI is to allow applications that somehow use one 
of the basic LCL units (graphics, with TFont and Canvas support) 
to compile.

Michael.