On 7 March 2010 14:21, Michael Van Canneyt <[email protected]> wrote: > > The downside to this is: there is also a lot less functionality. > A simpler product is by definition easier to maintain.
Being a one-man-band, things take a while to be implemented - especially if it's not the only thing you are working on. Looking at what v0.6 (last release of fpGUI) had and what v0.7 (soon to be released) will have, there is a huge amount of new components and features. v0.8 will have drag-n-drop, full clipboard support and MDI window type support, so fpGUI is becoming more feature complete. To give you an example of what I meant by easier to maintain. For the last 6 months I have pretty much 99% of my time developing under Linux - that included adding new features and components to fpGUI. Just the other day I though I better test my work under Windows. Fired up the VM session and even to my surprise, everything worked 100% like it did under Linux. That's the benefit I'm talking about - more common code reduces the amount of bugs and maintenance. > And as soon as someone says 'I want native look and feel', you're That's what the themes are for. :) As for the "feel" - I haven't had a user complain yet. Most components (buttons, menus, comboboxes, grids etc.) all work like the users where used to under native Windows applications. So clearly it's just developers that have an issue with the "feel", not the common user. > If I was planning Lazarus' future (for clarity: I am not), I would lay out > for the LCL: See, now that is the type of thing I'm talking about. Have some goal for the LCL, and try and reach that goal. Currently, it's just from version to version, adding more features, introducing regression bugs and having no stable version of the IDE or LCL. Simply not ideal, and very hard to promote to others. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
