On 2015-06-27 10:31, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > I am strongly beginning to feel something is wrong with me...
You are predominately a backend man. ;-) > Can you give some examples ? Sure... * Events fired in different orders depending on the widgetset you use. I can't remember which components it was (I think TListView), but if I really must I can find out exactly. * TStatusBar.Panels[].Width only works in LCL-Win32/64. Under OSX and Linux they are simply ignored. I had to apply an ugly "floating panel" work-around to position online/offline status images on the right edge of the statusbar. * Button (or maybe BitButton) clipped button images under OSX, but doesn't under Linux and Windows. * Properties exist on a component and available to all widgetsets, yet is only functional for one widgetset. The developer isn't warned about this in the code editor (eg: code completion popup), only in the Object Inspector's Restricted tab. I don't verify every single property I use via Object Inspector before I use it - I doubt others do too. ...I could list many more if I dug deeper and thought about it a bit more. I didn't make notes of them all and in hindsight, I should have reported them all on Mantis. My bad. Anyway, I found these within the first day of working with a LCL application. Yes, they might sound trivial on their own, but add them up, and it is a huge time waster and annoyance for the developer having to find work-arounds of something that should just work. LCL's whole theory is making your programs portable, write once and compile everywhere etc... But the fact of the matter is, it hardly works out like that. I've seen it, Scooter Software has seen it, and probably many more. As I said, I found issues like these back in 2006. It caused so much frustration that I started a new GUI toolkit to prevent such issues. Fast forward to 2015, and LCL still behaves the same as it did in 2006 - that's almost 10 years later! Yes, yes, I know some things have improved too. I fully understand this is an open source project. Everybody wants to work on things they like, everybody wants to introduce the newest and latest feature or component.... Nobody wants to fix bugs. But hey, the Lazarus project doesn't have to feel bad, Embarcadero is doing exactly the same thing with Delphi (<sarcasm>just look at all the happy customers in the Delphi newsgroups). Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
