[Lazarus] Target Survey

[Michael Schnell]

On 07/20/2016 12:32 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> Why would you not do this with a HTML interface ?

This would need to be completely new designed from scratch with "non 
visual" methods, while the LCL (aka Delphi VCL) interfacing software is 
already in place with the (to be) ported projects. In fact I was not 
intending to do the (re-) design of the actual projects, but I only 
tried to create an infrastructure to enable the team of programmers who 
did the Delphi projects to have them port their code to be "embedded" in 
the said  way.

>
> The browsers are so powerful these days that your solution is hopelessly
> outdated even before you started.
OK. Completely re-implementing the software in Java, Python, PHP or 
whatever world be a "modern" way, but dumping millions of lines of code 
did not seem attractive.
Right mow they live with doing nothing about the software (i.e. staying 
with Delphi) and buying much too expensive Windows enabled hardware for 
the "IoT nodes", so that a GUI is supported and can be remoted by 
standard tools .

-Michael