On 05/10/2011 01:54 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
MSEgui has some "remote GUI via serializing" support,
Yep. This is originally an idea of Martin's and his name for it is "ifi"
(nobody knows what this means :-) ). AFAIK, this is an unfinished open
source project he once started and abandoned at some point of time.
Some years ago I tried to define a project that would need this and I
wanted to use it with Lazarus and the LCL. I talked a lot with Martin
about "ifi" that time and started an LCL implementation but this was too
big a task for me, being an LCL-internals illiterate.
In fact, having an "ifi" Widget Type would be a really great feature of
Lazarus'. There are lots of ways it could be used.
- a remote GUI via TCP/IP or a serial port could be done, using a
standard Lazarus program providing all possible controls on the user
site, for self-contained (embedded) server projects
- in same way a GUI-less Windows-Service could be created
(Windows-Servers don't allow services with GUI binding as of 2008).
- an HTTP/HTML based remote browser GUI could be created (e.g. using
extJS) for FCGI based server projects
- ...
- and the said Android Widget Type could be done, doing the local
"remote" GUI in Java.
-Michael
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