On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this distinct from fpgui, or are the two related?
I wrote 99% of the code from zero here, but I did copy (of course with many modifications) the X11 backend from sourceforge.net/projects/fpgfx/ which is the pre-2007 code from fpgui. I have always wanted to get rid of Gtk and move the LCL to a customdrawn solution, and already in 2006/2007 I worked for a short time in fpgui with exactly this aim (see http://www.ohloh.net/p/fpgui/contributors ), but gave up on it and from then on I worked mostly in the LCL native interfaces. Then MS killed WinCE which ment that I wasted years developing LCL-WinCE and saw it killed without a blink and this led me to reactivate my old idea, which always was the LCL running in a pure Pascal customdrawn toolkit which can support all major desktop and smartphone platforms. So I restarted from zero with the knowledge I acquired in the mean time and I steadly advanced. First building the TCD controls, then the entire regions system for capturing events and clipping the drawing, then wrote a non-native Canvas, then the Android backend, etc, etc, and I finally achieved what I always wanted since 2006 at least: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Image:Lazclock_customdrawn.png http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Image:Custom_drawn_android_test1.png And in the end is what people really want: the full LCL running everywhere and they have it =) Right now my main focus is Android, because there is a really strong demand for this from the community and I am writing a native drawer to implement the Android look. For a comparison over the tecnical point of view see: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Custom_Drawn_Interface#Comparison_of_LCL-CustomDrawn_and_LCL-fpGUI Ah, and the traditional invitation: patches are welcome =) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
