Re: [Lazarus] Creating SDK like system

2011-04-14 Thread ik
Thank you all for your answers, now I returned the ball to the client to understand better what type of changes they want to be able to do, so I'll know what to design. Ido On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:47, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 04/13/2011 05:12 PM, ik wrote: I was

Re: [Lazarus] Creating SDK like system

2011-04-14 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
ik schrieb: I was requested to create a Windows program that can be changed (the interface) using some sort of SDK. That's very vague. Does the requestor have a specific idea about such an SDK, together with the functionality of the program? It sounds to me like something like XYZ has.

Re: [Lazarus] Creating SDK like system

2011-04-14 Thread Michael Schnell
BTW.: Maybe for your needs a resource stream is not even a good idea. I suppose it's not difficult to have a program read it's GUI design from a file instead of from the resource steam. So you can modify the look independently from the executable. -Michael --

Re: [Lazarus] Creating SDK like system

2011-04-14 Thread ik
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 13:15, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.comwrote: ik schrieb: I was requested to create a Windows program that can be changed (the interface) using some sort of SDK. That's very vague. Does the requestor have a specific idea about such an SDK, together with

[Lazarus] Creating SDK like system

2011-04-13 Thread ik
Hello, I was requested to create a Windows program that can be changed (the interface) using some sort of SDK. I have never created such systems before, and I'm looking to understand how I design something like that in a program written in Lazarus. Thanks Ido LINESIP - Opening the source for

Re: [Lazarus] Creating SDK like system

2011-04-13 Thread Daniel Franzini
Maybe you should start making your program customizable using DLLs with GUI resources (strings, bitmaps). That's the initial approach I would take if I had to design such a thing. Another thing one may use is to embed some sort of scripting languague interpreter and exposing GUI behavior through