On 29/09/13 23:33, Patrick wrote: > BTW, Would it be correct to compare LCL to WxWidgets ? In the sense that > it is a meta-widget toolkit?
Yes, that would be an accurate comparison. LCL and WxWidgets are a "common front-end toolkit" to other underlying GUI toolkits. This obviously has its pros and cons, because not all GUI toolkits have the same functionality. So you "meta-widget toolkit", as you call it, often only uses functionality that all GUI toolkits have in common. Also if the underlying GUI toolkit has a bug, it is out of your control to fix it, so instead you need to find a way to work around it. A 100% custom drawn toolkit like fpGUI or MSEgui are probably more work to develop initially, but you gain much greater flexibility and consistency. All functionality works identical on all platforms, and you have full control over everything (like fixing a toolkit bug etc). Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
