Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:11:05 +0200
From: Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?
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Marc Weustink het geskryf:
I don't count you as the average lazarus user. And you clearly didn't
pickup the numerous incompatibility complains here, or the bugtracker or
on the forum.
Porting a component to a new development tool chain like Lazarus should
mean making the component platform independent. With that comes the
removal
of Win API calls from the old component to the new - this should be quite
logical. If the said developer wants to use Win API calls in a Linux or
Mac
apps, they have no business in developing cross-platform applications.
I have a little word here, in a encapsulation, user should avoid touching
low level things.
But for M$ environment, they have many features that is correlate with
winapi.
I am a wince widget user, and happy that LCL remain the window handle for
winapi compatibility.
So I don't need to dig to underlay of LCL and uncover those low level
things in order to use OS Specific features, like DirectDraw, D3D.
I just reuse lcl and make some code around the handle and thing go smooth.
I have use undelphix years ago, and they just encap all D2D/D3D surface and
make them untouchable on user level.
When I want to add some low level feather Like the Fixed pipeline line that
it don't provide,
I have a hard time on digging the underlay code and uncover those D2D/D3D
surface so I can add my feather for my propose.
May be for Mac/ Linux user, you just think the windows handle there is some
thing useless, but it actually help people on other platform.
To make a decision of removing some OS specific feature, may be the best way
to thing is what kind of user you are serving for.
If the target is Delphi user, surely winapi specific thing is a must have.
Because Delphi user most likely is windows user. And LCL add cross platform
value on top of VCL.
Otherwise, there are Java, C they have much more nice library to use why use
FPC/LCL?
porting other delphi app a lot easier. So please shut up if you don't
know where you talking about.
No idea where that came from... but very nice Marc.
Regards,
- Graeme -
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