Re: [Lazarus] Nice Lazarus ScrabbleControl, also a Gtk2 Bug

2019-08-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 09/08/2019 8:40 am, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > Here is a brief video demonstration: I know nothing about Scrabble, but as a seasoned visual component developer I can see a lot of effort went into that. Well done! Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit

Re: [Lazarus] Nice Lazarus ScrabbleControl, also a Gtk2 Bug

2019-08-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus
On 09/08/2019 1:50 pm, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > but perhaps someday someone > might want to remake a new non Delphi compatible library from scratch for > FPC and carry forward with this idea. Such libraries already exist. eg: fpGUI Toolkit and MSEide+MSEgui. Feel free to experiment

Re: [Lazarus] Nice Lazarus ScrabbleControl, also a Gtk2 Bug

2019-08-09 Thread Anthony Walter via lazarus
The WS classes are very difficult to work with IMO. I've used them and they are just messy, as in difficult and not exactly straight forward or intuitive. I'd have to look them over again to put my finger on exactly what's hard to use about them, but I distinctly remember having unnecessary

Re: [Lazarus] Nice Lazarus ScrabbleControl, also a Gtk2 Bug

2019-08-09 Thread Anthony Walter via lazarus
Marc, I can completely understand how it evolved, and early on the features of both the Free Pascal language, and the way the LCL library were to be adapted to multiple platforms became more clear. Thanks for your hard work. I've thought about the way the LCL is structured to handle many

Re: [Lazarus] Nice Lazarus ScrabbleControl, also a Gtk2 Bug

2019-08-09 Thread Marc Weustink via lazarus
Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: While demonstrating objects to kids in my computer programming classes for kids this summer, I wrote a Scrabble board game control. It's on Github right now released under the LGPL. Here is a brief video demonstration:

Re: [Lazarus] Nice Lazarus ScrabbleControl, also a Gtk2 Bug

2019-08-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Fri, 9 Aug 2019, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: While demonstrating objects to kids in my computer programming classes for kids this summer, I wrote a Scrabble board game control. It's on Github right now released under the LGPL. Here is a brief video demonstration:

[Lazarus] Nice Lazarus ScrabbleControl, also a Gtk2 Bug

2019-08-09 Thread Anthony Walter via lazarus
While demonstrating objects to kids in my computer programming classes for kids this summer, I wrote a Scrabble board game control. It's on Github right now released under the LGPL. Here is a brief video demonstration: https://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/scrabble.mp4 The Github page for this