Michael Schnell wrote:
Technically I agree that this in fact asks for multiple Applications - even though I have the impression that as well Windows as GTK allows for using multiple (kind of) main Forms with a single application *). For the programmer I would wish for having him work in a more "integrated" environment than doing two separate applications and manually code any communication between them. Maybe a framework that organizes the communication under the hood might be a way to go.
The really important thing is not to kill performance for the sake of "good design", something that I think both Mozilla (compared with Netscape) and KDE (compared with older versions) stand guilty of. As a very low priority background project I'm thinking about something which would synchronise multiple apps and possibly multiple users to do a particular job, this would be very much tree-structured with a database backend. [The market leader is strictly single-user, in fact the user can't open up multiple windows let alone spread his workload over different computers. However in this case synchronisation would be by a work queue on the backend, i.e. it would need nothing like the bandwidth of a single integrated application.]
Windows: MadShi for Delphi seems to allow for creating an additional message queue in an application (I did not test this)
Interesting that both you and Mattias are on the same track. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
