[Lazarus] Target Survey

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2016-07-20 10:35, Michael Schnell wrote:
> I am astonished to hear that, because up to now I thought that fpGUI 
> ("drawing" a lot of the more complex stuff in Pascal code) would

Other toolkits ultimately do drawing to a canvas too - just like fpGUI.
There is no reason why I couldn't optimise fpGUI drawing - as is
supposedly done in other toolkits. :)

There are plenty of examples where LCL or VCL standard components are
very slow. Here is another link to a Mantis report where it was revealed
that using TListView caused a 4-5 second delay in the user interface.
Switching out the TListView (which maps to native controls) for a
TStringGrid (which is custom drawn I believe) made the screen updates
near instant.

  http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30317


> In a second step, I intend to do the basics for a "remote GUI" on top of 
> that. Options here are "ifi" (invented by Martin, and already working in

I never really understood the need for that - but then I don't know
MSEgui very well. What I mean is, X11 already natively supports running
applications remotely. Also with the popularity of Remote Desktop, VNC,
TeamViewer (which is absolutely brilliant and even does session
recordings in unbelievable small file sizes), I think all based are
already covered pretty well.



Regards,
  Graeme

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