On 2017-01-16 20:18, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > GUI's require wrappers. No they don't.
> Delphi 5 as an example, is a wrapper around the win32api Yes, Delphi's VCL is a wrapper around the common Win32 widgets. LCL is a wrapper around Win32, Qt, Cocoa, Carbon and even fpGUI. But not all GUI toolkits are designed like than. For example, fpGUI is not a wrapper around any existing widgets on any platform. fpGUI implements its own widgets (gui controls) from scratch and talks directly to the underlying libraries (XLib & GDI) to notify the system about the top-level window and receiving OS events. All other behaviour (widget clipping, widget events, widget mouse events etc) are all implemented in fpGUI itself. The benefit of this design is that you are in full control of everything, have real single source across multiple systems, and fpGUI is very easy to port to new OSes. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
