Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: (don't forget to ask Martin about the language he is creating, I tried to plug some M2 features, maybe you can drive the message home :-) If I'm reading his wiki page properly, at least he's got the bit of M2 that matters- resolution of the dangling else problem- whi

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread Juha Manninen
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Peter wrote: > Well, thats good news then. I couldn't find any mention of QT5 in the wiki. The QT5 binding libs can be found in section "V2.6Alpha (Qt 5.1.X)" at page http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/fpcqt4.html In fact I recently asked in lazarus-

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > I think that the one thing I'd suggest to everybody is that it would be > highly desirable if the dangling else fix were guaranteed to break > Pascal syntax. As such end if; etc. might be a better choice If you start a different language, yes,

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread Ewald
On 08/05/2015 09:14 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: >> I think that the one thing I'd suggest to everybody is that it would be >> highly desirable if the dangling else fix were guaranteed to break >> Pascal syntax. As such end if; etc. might be a

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: I think that the one thing I'd suggest to everybody is that it would be highly desirable if the dangling else fix were guaranteed to break Pascal syntax. As such end if; etc. might be a better choice If you start a d

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Ewald said: > > Second would be a different procedure-block ending from just "end;" though > > the M2 way > > of end "procedurename" is unnecessary hard to maintain. end proc; or end > > function would be just fine. > > You mean something like Ada? > > while true loop >

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread fredvs
Gour wrote > Hello, > > I’m new to FPC and researching about different GUI options available to > write open-source multi-platform desktop app using FPC… > > Based on what I’ve found there are mainly three options: > > a) Lazarus and LCL > > b) fpGUI > > c) MSEgui > > Afaict, a) support all t

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread Marc Santhoff
On Di, 2015-08-04 at 14:44 +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2015-08-04 14:04, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > > > can you give a short explanation how the pattern is implemented or show > > a documentation link, please? > > Model-GUI-Mediator is a combination of the Observer and Mediator design > pa

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread Gour
fredvs writes: > Hum, if i may, ... Sure! > a) => for Linux and FreeBSD => needs X11 + (Gnome or KDE) + (GTK or Qt) + > many other libraries. > b) + c) => for Linux and FreeBSD => needs only X11. Thank you, it confirms my conclusion that I’ll skip over a) and probably use b). ;) Sincerely,