On 07/20/2016 11:59 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
I never really understood the need for that - but then I don't know MSEgui very well. What I mean is, X11 already natively supports running applications remotely. Also with the popularity of Remote Desktop, VNC, TeamViewer (which is absolutely brilliant and even does session recordings in unbelievable small file sizes), I think all based are already covered pretty well.
All these options use an external complex graphics library in the remote "embedded" target.
The device is a thingy that nowadays in "new speak" is called and "Internet of Things" node. Hence a potentially very small and needing to be very cheap and extremely energy efficiently running device. So it does not feature any hardware allowing for displaying a GUI, and the OS and library infrastructure does not support any GUI work. Microsoft recently hopped on that bus by providing "Windows IoT" for free that in fact is Windows 10 with all GUI stuff stripped off. (A Colleague of mine was able to run Windows Services (that don't have a GUI) written in Delphi on Win IoT running on an Intel CPU based "embedded" board.)
So, my original (some 5 years old) motivation for the said enhancement to the LCL was running Lazarus- (or having been Delphi-) projects on such a board (usually called "embedded" at that time, the infrastructure of which does not provide any support for a GUI), after developing them on a PC in the "normal" RAD way (i.e. porting them from existing projects). Here having a Widget Type "remote GUI" would be extremely helpful for testing/examining and occasionally configuring the device.
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