On Wed, 11 May 2016 22:33:13 +0200 Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > On 2016-05-11 18:58, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > >> > For 99,99% of cases, no changes to your code are required. > >> > If it worked in 2.6.4, it will work in 3.0.0 > > > > Just curious, so why was there so many changes required for LCL, and a > > whole wiki page of its own to explain it? > > Those changes were not required, (almost) everything worked still fine > with the old code. They made the changes to take advantage of the new > functionality in FPC 3.0, because the end result is much simpler code > both in the LCL and in user programs. Yes, simpler and more powerful. For example FPC now supports full UTF-8 in many RTL/FCL functions under Windows. > The wiki page is mainly to explain all of the things you no longer have > to do when using this new method. Yes. And the few incompatibilities. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
