Mark Derricutt wrote:
Max Nilson wrote:
There are already a couple of OpenSource type efforts underway to do a VCL
type library based on one of the X toolkits for the Free Pascal Compiler
(FPK).
Yup, there's Medigo (i think) which is doing it's MCL wrapper around GTK
which should
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Subject: RE: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)
Max Nilson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
There are two main
Modify or Re design the VCL??? You guys a gotta be in ga ga land. Man, like
this is bullshit. Max Fox was onto it, and said it all for me.I mean
lets get a little practical about all this. Are all your egos so inflated
that you actually think you can out do the guys in Borland ??? So why are
I hate to bring the flogging of dead horses back, as thats just
criminally insane. But when this VCL thread started a few days ago, an
immediate thought came to mind.
Max/Ian have spoken at great lengths decribing how to replaced TEdit and
the Grids, I wonder, how much do these new controls
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Some of you may guess
The origins of Object Pascal were with Apple. They managed to implement it
without the Win32 API.
Object Pascal has nothing to do with the VCL - aside from that fact that
its
written in OP. OP has NO ties Win32. The VCL is build on Win32, it
exists around its messaging model etc. If you have a
Ian wrote:
I thought perhaps we needed a timelock, but the version we published only
worked for D3 so we effectively had a timelock.
You almost certainly needed some kind of lock or nag. "...only
worked for D3..." basically means:
a) Anyone using D3 gets it for free
b) Anyone using D4
Max Nilson wrote:
100% pure GDI and Windows event handling is used in the production of these
new controls 8-)
Eeek :) I fear to tread on even LOOKING at that code Max :)
There are already a couple of OpenSource type efforts underway to do a VCL
type library based on one of the X toolkits
Max Nilson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
There are two main problems with marketing any Delphi component from
our
experience. One is that the time to properly document a component is
fairly
long, almost as long as it takes to write them. The other is in having
enough time to spend actually
Carl Reynolds replied to me:
Well if you can't abide the standard Windows controls then you do have a
problem: you're using an operating system you don't like. I'm not very
fond of Windows myself, but I'm not quite so ambitious as to attempt to
supersede all of the underlying Windows
Max Nilson wrote:
I have to point out here that my issues are with the standard Windows
control types, not with the actual OS itself. I'm quite happy with the
kernal, the GDI and most of the Windowing and event handling code, its just
the existing controls that are weak.
Strictly speaking we have
By replacing controls such as the edit control you are alienating yourself
from automatic updates if Microsoft ever changes or updates the way those
controls work. In the near future Windows 2000 will be out and there may
significant changes to the user interface (unlikely - but there may),
Just my 0.02c.
With all of the donations we should have enough for Friday drinkies by now.
With everyone so up in arms about shortcomings of the VCL why do we not start
an open source project at delphi.org.nz... Discuss a class hierarchy and methodology
and begin to provide functionality to
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Good Idea,
I have been slowly encapsulating the date/time functions into a type (ie
rap all the date and time
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