On 4/26/06, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:30:26 -0300
"Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Separate tool, It's better it's development at start.
> >
> > You may added to Lazarus IDE later, or create a "lite version".
>
> I think it's better that it is a separate program. No need to be added
> to the IDE later. We can add a menu item to launch it from the IDE. If
> we add all helper tools to the IDE it will soon become huge and hard
> to maintain.
>
> > It would be nice if backend of the resource tool also supports
> > reading/writting different formats like RC, RES, COFF, ELF
> > (fpc-specific) resouces. This way we don't depend anymore on windres
> > from binutils.
>
> In this case it may be useful to have 2 separete executables. One is
> the graphical tool to edit things, and another is a non-graphical tool
> to build resources.
>
> They need to be separete so we can use the resource build just like
> windres from the command line on non-graphical environments.
Good idea.
Start a package with the conversion functions.
Create a simple command line utility (e.g. TCustomApplication) like windres.
And a graphical application or a design time package as graphical editor.
Mattias
Any update on lazarus getting mentor's status ?
Lepidosteus
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