As the WINE system matures the WIN32 requirement will be less of a stumbling block.
This should be feasible in a few months.
Supporting the BDE may take more time though.
It would be nice to have an Object Pascal frontend to egcs.
Regards
Phil Scadden wrote:
> > Do they have to be thou? I'm sure the VCL could work on top of say GTK or
>
> Perhaps, and from a programming point of view you would think a VCL wrappers
> on something else would be easy. However, there is that teeny module
> Application.run that is MASSIVELY dependent on the Win32 event model. To
> have your code produce the same results as Win32 with a different event model
> has to be non-trivial.
> [ Consider clicking a wincontrol - what sees the event first? The wincontrol - or
> the container, or its container etc. Windows does it one way, other GUIs do
> it differently -(dont know what X does). What about the default OS responses to
> events? These sorts of nightmares plague multi-GUI development systems and
> I havent been impressed with the compromises that such systems made (havent
> seen product produced by them for while either come to think of it...).
>
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