On Wed, 10 May 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2006 23:08:33 +0300
> Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Greetings!
> >
> > Congrats for the delphi replacement.
>
> Thanks.
> Although it is a little bit humiliating to call lazarus a 'delphi
> replacement'. The biggest part of the development time of FPC/Lazarus was
> spent on features, that Delphi does not have.
> And of course Delphi has a lot of features FPC/Lazarus do not have.
>
>
> > It's rather neat, despite the following suggestions:
> >
> > 1. Lazarus ?!? Cheetah would be a better name, IMHO!
>
> Sounds like cheater. May be good, may be bad.
>
>
> > 2. Replace the delphi dfm with a real code init (java style).
>
> .lfm need a format that can be easily parsed. Pascal is too powerful. Of
> course it would not be hard to write a component writer, that writes pascal
> statements instead of .lfm files. If someone wants to implement that I can
> help.
You can't, I think.
Binary properties cannot be expressed as pascal code.
(thinking bitmaps and so on)
Michael.
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