On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 17:01 +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:04:40 +0100 > Michael Schnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Experts, > > > > I'd like to create an opens source Lazarus package "NoGUIApplication", that > > allows for creating a Linux "Application" that allows for event driven > > programming but avoids any binding to the GUI. Same can be used in GUI-Less > > embedded systems. > > > > If that works, I'd like to add a Lazarus package "IFI" that allows for > > creating a "remote GUI" or such applications. > > > > As discussed in the "fpc-devel" mailing list, I already have a running > > implementation of "NoGUIApplication, that I did by porting the code from > > MSEIDE (which provides "NoGUIApplication" as a standard choice when > > creating a new project). > > > > Now I am not happy with introducing this huge amount of code into Lazarus > > (i.e. a Lazarus "package") and rather use what the Lazarus and FPC > > distributions offer. > > > > So I took a look what we have in the RTL and the LCL. I did some steps to > > do do a "TNoGUIApplication = class(TCustomApplication)", but looking into > > the "Forms" code (that implements the LCL "Application = > > class(TCustomApplication)", I saw that the connection to the underlying > > Graphics system is not direct, but done by kind of dynamically linking to a > > "Widget Type", and looking in the project options, I see that the Widget > > Type can be selected independently of the source code and creation method > > of the Application. Here even we already have a selectable widget type > > "NoGUI (Pre-Alpha)". Obviously somebody already once started such a project. > > The strange thing is, that every time I read your mails in the last > weeks about nogui and lazarus, I thought you meant the nogui widgetset. > > The "pre-alpha" is misleading. > The nogui widgetset is for applications, that uses the LCL, but doesn't > use the widgetset functions. The nogui widgetset simply makes the > compiler happy. > It does what it should, so you can say it is "beta". So far we didn't > receive much bug reports, so maybe it is "stable".
It works perfectly. You can use it to compile any fcl-web application against. So that there are no dependencies on external gui-libraries (like gtk, qt etc) Joost. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
