On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:49:45 +0200 Marc Santhoff <m.santh...@web.de> wrote:
> On Sa, 2014-04-05 at 12:23 +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 12:06:20 +0200 > > Marc Santhoff <m.santh...@web.de> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > ist there a complete documentation of Lazarus' LFM xml file format? > > > > No. > > If someone wants to start one I will help. > > Note: The xml format has not yet implemented all features. > > Oops, I confused something. I silently assumed .lfm's are stored in XML, > but they are not. In fact the storage format is someting like XML > without tags but python-like syntactical indentation. Yes. > Now I'm confused. When and how is XML used to store form descriptions? Some people use it. The IDE does not. > What use cases is it made for? Some people prefer xml. > What I really want to do is to write some form descriptions (and code) > by a generator program. If there is any existing code that can be reused > it would be very helpful. This is too vague. What do you want to achieve? > > > Maybe someone having good knowledge of the IDE source code can name the > > > unit(s) where writing and reading forms is handled? > > > > xml "driver" reader/writer: > > components/lazutils/laz_xmlstreaming.pas > > > > Component streaming in general: > > unit classes, see TReader/TWriter > > > > IDE additions: > > designer/jitforms.pp > > So for not generating form code myself I would learn to use jitforms > unit. Do you see any problems in writing the code to a file instead of > using it like in lazarus' desing mode? The jitforms unit is only useful if you want to write a form designer, which can load arbitrary forms with unknown classes. Normal loading/saving only needs the stuff of the RTL+LCL. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus