On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:25:34AM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > 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).
With the obvious drawback that it doesn't respond to theme/accessibility changes. If a user with impaired vision, for example, changes the GNOME theme to high contrast with bigger default fonts, the custom drawn toolkit doesn't know/respond, while an application that uses the GNOME toolkit automatically adjusts itself. The LCL, however, didn't respond to font changes last time I checked. This functionality can probably be built into the custom drawn toolkit. Can fpgui pick up theme related changes from other widgetsets? Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
