[Lazarus] External/out-of-tree LCL widgetset

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-12-02 14:48, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote:
> I think you misunderstand me. I said "RAD is the best way to code a
> GUI", the visual part, not the business rules.

For that you just need a visual form designer. RAD normally entails a 
whole lot else like hooking into events (in the UI), live view of data 
in form designer (using eg: a TDBGrid) etc.


> I don't use db-aware — well only TDBGrid just to show data

And DBGrid behaves slightly different to TStringGrid, and is slow. Many 
DB-aware components behave slightly different to the non DB-aware 
versions. Why two sets of basically the same component? Yet another 
layer of components that can contain bugs. With Model-GUI-Mediator you 
use the standard components only, and the mediators are literally just a 
few lines of code. The rest of MGM (at least the implementation in 
tiOPF) is all non-GUI and well unit tested.


Regards,
   Graeme

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