On 2015-02-25 11:26, Michael Schnell wrote: >> Well, considering that VCL is _very_ Windows specific, > IMHO the LCL proves that close to all VCL features can be done as good > (or even better) with other Widgets sets than just "Windows".
I agree that the Lazarus team did a very good job, but I still consider the LCL design to Windows centric (by looking at what I had to implement to get LCL-fpGUI to work). And as you might guess, the reason I started fpGUI Toolkit is because LCL was (and still is - in my opinion) too limiting for some of the application I had to develop over the last 5 years. Your mileage my vary. > Borland failed with trying to port the VCL with Kylix, No, they failed to market Kylix correctly, thus lost interest too quickly. To date there are still companies [though getting less] like Scooter Software that use Kylix and CLX. The Kylix IDE was a bigger problem than the actual CLX toolkit. Either way, we are straying from the topic at hand. > I can't think of any language features that would make this necessary. I guess the only way to find out is to buy a copy of XE7 and try to compile FMX with 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