[Lazarus] nonlcl basic issue: is codetools LCL dependent?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2014-06-30 10:36, Michael Schnell wrote:
> Hence the decent way of handling things would be to improve the LCL,

In the past I have done just that. But due to the design goals of LCL
(being as native as possible), some changes simply ain't possible, or
only possible in some backend toolkits (eg: QT), but not possible in
others (eg: Win32). This inconsistency of LCL and incompatibility of
backend toolkits is what Giuliano and myself have fought with. In hobby
projects that might be fine, but in commercial multi-platform apps that
is unacceptable.

Years back I've made my peace with LCL, and then started fpGUI to solve
our company's development needs. It worked out very well. I still use
Lazarus IDE though - it is an excellent tool to write code in.

Regards,
  - Graeme -

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