[Lazarus] Sciter for Lazarus: VCL Handle vs. LCL Handle

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2023, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via lazarus wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to run Sciter.TIS https://sciter.com/download/ on Lazarus, which could be an open source project in the future — yes,
> not the newer version (named Sciter.JS) as I don't need these new features.
> 
> I've started looking into https://github.com/da-baranov/SciDe (~8 years ago). Then, I discovered a fork
> https://github.com/Mikanoshi/SciDe (~5 years old) and forked from it because it is "newer".
> 
> The da-baranov's original repository already tried to run on Lazarus, but they have an issue which couldn't be solved:
> https://github.com/da-baranov/SciDe/issues/3#issuecomment-87698772

If you look at the issue, you see there is a commit that claims to solve
this issue. Did you test if that commit is incorporated in your code ?

> 
> I have the same issue, even using the newer version...
> When it calls API.SciterWindowAttachEventHandler() here
> https://github.com/Mikanoshi/SciDe/blob/master/source/Sciter.pas#L1439-L1440, the result is always SCDOM_INVALID_HWND.
> 
> Why am I asking this here? Well, the project claims that it works from Delphi 7 to newer; they could compile on Lazarus; I also
> could compile (creating a package, a component, etc) on Lazarus; but it do not work because something looks like different about
> how a Handle works on VCL comparing to LCL.

On windows, the handle should work the same. If you're working on another
platform, then it works very different, and then you'll need to see what sciter
actually expects.

Michael.