Re: [Lazarus] Is there an industry language for specifying for declaring GUIs in JSON?
Maybe a way to call a webservice, get a JSON reply and show it on a TStringGrid? 2013/12/2 vfclists . vfcli...@gmail.com On 2 December 2013 08:25, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 12/01/2013 04:57 PM, vfclists . wrote: Are there some industry standards for specifying GUIs in JSON? See Future of the Desktop right here. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus I am already following that thread. What I have in mind is using Lazarus/FreePascal forms as purely presentation layer, not for Pascal programs alone, but any language, DWScript, Python, bash, Basic, whatever even DWScript In effect the form opens a web server or another type socket where the business layer sends the screen drawing commands to. Whereas a browser is pull system, this is a both pull and push When I did some Googling, knockout.js a framework that came up, something similar for Lazarus is what I have in mind. FreePascal, LCL, fpGUI etc are the system I know and the best foundation for a high performance cross platform presentation layer that I can think of. I think parsing QML or a reasonable subset for building Lazarus UIs as an alternative to .lfm and .dfm files is where the future of the Lazarus/FreePascal lies. I wouldn't say the future, but it is area where the Pascal development ecosystem can experience a revival. It is rapidly loosing ground to programming languages which can be are interpreted, JITed, compiled, and have garbage collection, not just in usage, but in performance as well. I think my vision warrants a separate blog post. I know what I want, I just don't have the technical know how to accomplish it. -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is there an industry language for specifying for declaring GUIs in JSON?
On 3 December 2013 16:11, Alexsander Rosa alexsander.r...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe a way to call a webservice, get a JSON reply and show it on a TStringGrid? I mean a general GUI building language Pascal development ecosystem can experience a revival. It is rapidly loosing ground to programming languages which can be are interpreted, JITed, compiled, and have garbage collection, not just in usage, but in performance as well. I think my vision warrants a separate blog post. I know what I want, I just don't have the technical know how to accomplish it. -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is there an industry language for specifying for declaring GUIs in JSON?
On 12/01/2013 04:57 PM, vfclists . wrote: Are there some industry standards for specifying GUIs in JSON? See Future of the Desktop right here. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is there an industry language for specifying for declaring GUIs in JSON?
On 2 December 2013 08:25, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 12/01/2013 04:57 PM, vfclists . wrote: Are there some industry standards for specifying GUIs in JSON? See Future of the Desktop right here. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus I am already following that thread. What I have in mind is using Lazarus/FreePascal forms as purely presentation layer, not for Pascal programs alone, but any language, DWScript, Python, bash, Basic, whatever even DWScript In effect the form opens a web server or another type socket where the business layer sends the screen drawing commands to. Whereas a browser is pull system, this is a both pull and push When I did some Googling, knockout.js a framework that came up, something similar for Lazarus is what I have in mind. FreePascal, LCL, fpGUI etc are the system I know and the best foundation for a high performance cross platform presentation layer that I can think of. I think parsing QML or a reasonable subset for building Lazarus UIs as an alternative to .lfm and .dfm files is where the future of the Lazarus/FreePascal lies. I wouldn't say the future, but it is area where the Pascal development ecosystem can experience a revival. It is rapidly loosing ground to programming languages which can be are interpreted, JITed, compiled, and have garbage collection, not just in usage, but in performance as well. I think my vision warrants a separate blog post. I know what I want, I just don't have the technical know how to accomplish it. -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Is there an industry language for specifying for declaring GUIs in JSON?
Are there some industry standards for specifying GUIs in JSON? Something which can specify the type of elements like edit controls, buttons, the positions etc, and draw stuff like squares, triangles, boxes etc? It doesn't have to be an official standard, but have widespread use to make it easier to work with? QML appears to be one, are there any others? FWIW I am trying to use the LCL Widgets as a means of displaying information from interpreter based development, passing the GUI creation commands over a socket. -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
