On 2015-02-25 10:40, Michael Schnell wrote: > On 02/25/2015 11:35 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> Is the LCL-CustomDrawn widgetset maybe meant as the target for FMX >> compatibility? > Do you think it _should_ ?
I honestly don't know what LCL-CustomDrawn is targeting. It also isn't in a usable state at the moment and still needs a lot of development before it is usable. > Do you see a real advantage with FireMonkey ? Well, considering that VCL is _very_ Windows specific, Delphi needed something different to target other platforms. FireMonkey toolkit was their ticket. CLX could also have been their answer (as Qt runs on pretty much every platform out there), but Borland/CodeGear/EMB long forgot about CLX. > In fact, AFAIK, the FM library once was a freely available library that > should be usable with fpc. I'm pretty sure FMX now uses many Delphi specific features that wouldn't make it compilable with FPC any more. I also don't know (but would like to find out) if Delphi includes full source code of FMX - in case somebody wanted to try and do a personal port to FPC. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus