Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-10-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
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

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-10-01 Thread Michael Schnell
On 09/30/2013 12:25 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: All functionality works identical on all platforms, Which, regarding look and feel, does have pros and cons, depending on the users targeted. -Michael ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-10-01 Thread Ben Smith
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 09/30/2013 12:25 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: All functionality works identical on all platforms, Which, regarding look and feel, does have pros and cons, depending on the users targeted. Sometimes company

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-10-01 Thread Henry Vermaak
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

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-10-01 Thread Patrick
work Graeme. -Patrick On 09/30/2013 03:33 PM, Fred van Stappen wrote: Have you try fpGUI ? https://github.com/graemeg/fpGUI/tree/develop Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 01:07:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-10-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 01/10/13 11:07, Henry Vermaak wrote: With the obvious drawback that it doesn't respond to theme/accessibility changes. Audio accessibility is possible. I just recently had a developer implement that in his applications. He requested one or two small changes to fpGUI to accomplish that.

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-30 Thread Michal Wallace
On Sep 29, 2013 8:24 AM, Patrick patr...@spellingbeewinnars.org wrote: I don't really like IDEs. I used gvim and I suppose it could almost be called an IDE as well but I mean I would rather use the shellr then clicking on a build button. For what its worth, I use free pascal practically every

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-30 Thread m...@rpzdesign.com
But how do you enable the anchor docking extension for Lazarus 1.0.12 and get some control of all the floating panels. I personally would want all the panels to come to the front when I click on any panel instead of having to click a couple of times to bring console or messages panel to the

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-30 Thread Sven Barth
Am 30.09.2013 15:57, schrieb m...@rpzdesign.com: But how do you enable the anchor docking extension for Lazarus 1.0.12 and get some control of all the floating panels. Install AnchorDockingDsgn package, rebuild Lazarus and now you're able to dock. Regards, Sven

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-30 Thread Peter
HI, You might like Geany. http://www.geany.org/Main/About Peter ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-30 Thread m...@rpzdesign.com
Sven: You ROCK! md On 9/30/2013 11:19 AM, Sven Barth wrote: Am 30.09.2013 15:57, schrieb m...@rpzdesign.com: But how do you enable the anchor docking extension for Lazarus 1.0.12 and get some control of all the floating panels. Install AnchorDockingDsgn package, rebuild Lazarus and now

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-30 Thread Patrick
I am new. I use multiple monitors so, all of the panels could stay on one screen and the form widget on another, docking might be handy to move all the panels at once. On 09/30/2013 09:57 AM, m...@rpzdesign.com wrote: But how do you enable the anchor docking extension for Lazarus 1.0.12

[fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-29 Thread Patrick
Hi Everyone I really like the pascal code I have looked at and I am very excited about FPC. I hope this email won't upset anyone, it is a bit negative. I don't really like IDEs. I used gvim and I suppose it could almost be called an IDE as well but I mean I would rather use the shellr then

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-29 Thread Sven Barth
On 29.09.2013 15:24, Patrick wrote: Hi Everyone I really like the pascal code I have looked at and I am very excited about FPC. I hope this email won't upset anyone, it is a bit negative. I don't really like IDEs. I used gvim and I suppose it could almost be called an IDE as well but I mean I

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-29 Thread Patrick
Thanks again to Reinier and Sven I just bought Getting Started with Lazarus IDE. I actually tried to get started with FPC back In January. I felt that the language was too tied to Lazarus and that I didn't want to use an IDE so I gave up. I will report back when I am a little further along

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-29 Thread Sven Barth
On 29.09.2013 20:54, Patrick wrote: I actually tried to get started with FPC back In January. I felt that the language was too tied to Lazarus and that I didn't want to use an IDE so I gave up. FPC is definitely independant of Lazarus, but Lazarus on the one hand simplifies development

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29/09/13 14:24, Patrick wrote: Could anyone point me to resources on how to build GUI applications without Lazarus? There are alternatives, but first a distinction needs to me made. When you say Lazarus, do you mean simply the IDE, or do you mean the LCL (Lazarus Component Library)? From

Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-09-29 Thread Patrick
There are alternatives, but first a distinction needs to me made. When you say Lazarus, do you mean simply the IDE, or do you mean the LCL (Lazarus Component Library)? From your earlier remard about IDE's I assume you simply don't like IDE, but you might not mind building LCL-based