Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 5 March 2010 14:24, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
<[email protected]> wrote:
  
I think it's a nice effort, but wouldn't it be better to improve the
correct control (TPageControl) instead of making the wrong control
better at what it isn't supposed to do?
    
Wouldn't it be better to simply have one tab-type component? All
efforts placed on only improving one component?
  
No, it would not.  As has been pointed out already, the page control and the tab control are quite different.  I use them both, in different circumstances.  I can write a treatise on when and why if you like, but I thought it had already been covered.  (I am not so fussed about the notebook)
Say way you want, but LCL is *not* VCL (and will never be), and
everybody has been using non Delphi compatible PageControl & Notebook
control for 10 years now (how ever long Lazarus exists for). So nobody
had issues until I mentioned the duplicated efforts. I think it's more
important in directing the little resources Lazarus team has to make
the components they have more stable. Start by removing duplicate
components. PageControl, TabControl, Notebook - all duplicates one one
or two minor differences. Not enough to justify 3 separate components
which over all do the same thing.

[...I'll continue my other thoughts in a new thread...]
  
It is not about VCL computability.  And they do not do the same thing!

cheers,
John Sunderland
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