Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/18/2011 06:53 PM, Lee Jenkins wrote: If I were to pick this project up again, I would probably go with Appcellerator or PhoneGap for the GUI front end. IMHO if such a project indeed would be (re-)started, it should be done without much considering the remote site, so that it is as

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-19 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Thursday 19 May 2011 10:12:47 Michael Schnell wrote: But before even starting anything, a major hurdle is, that there are several Widget Types available in Lazarus, but not a single one provides decent Event Driven Programming (such as TTimer, Synchronize and QueuAsyncCall) without

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/19/2011 10:28 AM, Martin Schreiber wrote: Michael, why do you bother Lazarus people with all this if MSEide+MSEgui has all what you need already? Simply use MSEide+MSEgui, no? Great to see the inventor of ifi here again :-) ! I would not have continued my research on this since years,

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/19/2011 10:56 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: To allow for running software on the upcoming Linux based devices... Not only those we build ourselves, but Android devices apply here, too. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/11/2011 01:39 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: If you are talking about the tweet post referenced on the article you posted, then that is from November 2010, while the news of Mono getting killed are brand new. Icaza founded _Xamarin_ http://www.xamarin.com/ to go on with the

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-18 Thread Lee Jenkins
On 5/11/2011 6:44 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/11/2011 10:18 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: But my personal opinion is that neither cil NOR jvm is a valid target for Lazarus/FPC (regardless of the fact if you think bytecode is the way to go or not). Agreed ! Lazarus/FPC is all about native

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-13 Thread Sven Barth
Am 12.05.2011 11:11, schrieb michael.vancann...@wisa.be: On Thu, 12 May 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:27:22AM +0200, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: Lazarus is not suitable for trying

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-13 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: For one of our customers we have started to develop a mobile version of our application (around one and a half year ago) and there the restriction is: no online connection. So we're using a synchronize scenario with

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-13 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: Yes. And we have neither the interested developers nor fulltimers to be quick enough to track fastmoving targets, which was mostly my point. At some point implementing a LCL widgetset based on that was on my plans, but

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-13 Thread Sven Barth
Am 13.05.2011 13:37, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: For one of our customers we have started to develop a mobile version of our application (around one and a half year ago) and there the restriction is: no

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-13 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/12/2011 11:02 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: A side concern is the walled garden concept of many mobile phones. They don't exactly encourage portable software, but want custom made apps for their phones, preferably with their recommended tools. A free (payed support offered) cross platform

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-13 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/13/2011 01:53 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Indeed. Windows CE and Meego were the best platforms to develop for, the most standard compliant ones. WinCE being compliant with Win32 and Meego with Linux, but both are dead now. ... and Android starting to become the Standard in the

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-12 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 01:21:42PM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: I suppose Mono will be transformed in a community project But as always Microsoft will try to use his legal staff against concurrent technologies. They could not do this to Novell, as they had an agreement about mutual

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-12 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:27:22AM +0200, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: Lazarus is not suitable for trying to follow fast moving trends. Iphone was just yesterday,

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-12 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:11:00AM +0200, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: their phones, preferably with their recommended tools. Hence the conclusion: a web application is probably the best way to go when developing business apps for the mobile. (at least, that's what we concluded here

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-12 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/12/2011 11:11 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Hence the conclusion: a web application is probably the best way to go when developing business apps for the mobile. Do you mean: Using Android's browser as a GUI and have it connect to a server done with FPC and running as a daemon

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-12 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/12/2011 11:11 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Hence the conclusion: a web application is probably the best way to go when developing business apps for the mobile. Do you mean: Using Android's browser as a GUI and have it connect to a

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-12 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/12/2011 12:14 PM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: I would not do it locally. I see. But supposedly, doing a local web server in fact is a way to use FPC to create a GUI enabled application for Android. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-12 Thread zeljko
On Thursday 12 of May 2011 12:14:50 michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2011, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/12/2011 11:11 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Hence the conclusion: a web application is probably the best way to go when developing business apps for the mobile.

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 12 May 2011, zeljko wrote: On Thursday 12 of May 2011 12:14:50 michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2011, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/12/2011 11:11 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Hence the conclusion: a web application is probably the best way to go when

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/10/2011 08:21 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:23:57PM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: Hmm, The big thing is Android !!! And if you want to capitalize on it, you need to be ready now, not only start. Lazarus is not suitable for trying to follow fast moving trends.

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-11 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:18:57AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: And if you want to capitalize on it, you need to be ready now, not only start. Lazarus is not suitable for trying to follow fast moving trends. Iphone was just yesterday, and even that is not really ready. Yep. OTOH,

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-11 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: Lazarus is not suitable for trying to follow fast moving trends. Iphone was just yesterday, and even that is not really ready. I don't think that Lazarus is a bad choice for smartphone platforms, it would be a great tool

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-11 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: Maybe, but only if some dominant vendor emerges that standarizes a certain set of features across its line. This is now chaos. I don't think it is that bad. Software written for Android usually works out of the box if

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/11/2011 10:27 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: MonoTouch does the same thing Lazarus intends to do, but they are more successful because they have money. ... Up to yesterday. Now as Novell has been bought by Attachmate the future of Mono might be uncertain. (cui bono ? ) -Michael

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-11 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 11 May 2011, Michael Schnell wrote: On 05/11/2011 10:27 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: MonoTouch does the same thing Lazarus intends to do, but they are more successful because they have money. ... Up to yesterday. Now as Novell has been bought by Attachmate the future of

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/11/2011 10:18 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: But my personal opinion is that neither cil NOR jvm is a valid target for Lazarus/FPC (regardless of the fact if you think bytecode is the way to go or not). Agreed ! Lazarus/FPC is all about native code. It would be close to impossible to

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/11/2011 01:03 PM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Mono will be killed. Miguel de Icaza contradicts. But as in fact Microsoft is part of the deal http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whats-microsofts-role-in-the-novell-attachmate-deal/8041 I suppose you are right. I suppose Mono

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-11 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: Miguel de Icaza contradicts. If you are talking about the tweet post referenced on the article you posted, then that is from November 2010, while the news of Mono getting killed are brand new. -- Felipe Monteiro de

[Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
It seems the whole world is going mobile computing nuts!! http://www.osnews.com/story/24713/Nokia_Announces_Qt_5_Plans My thoughts on pushing those mobile computing UI interfaces into the desktop application space is rather negative. eg: Unity in Ubuntu, Gnome Shell in Gnome 3 - clearly all

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Very strange. Nokia already sold the business of offering service to Qt developers, and it fired most of the MeeGo department, so it doesn't use Qt in it's own products and doesn't sell services based on it. Why would it work in Qt 5? I'd rather have them stay far away from it, since I don't see

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Schnell
Hmm, The big thing is Android !!! So doing Lazarus for Android would be essential. I do know that there are several ways to do this, but IMHO, the most decent best integrated (though most painful) way would be not to use a second non-Android GUI-framework (such as QT) but somehow make the

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 13:23, Michael Schnell wrote: Android controls usable for Lazarus programs. I supposed this would ask for some kind of local remote GUI, i.e. serializing the GUI communication by some kind of byte stream and do a java based remote GUI handler application on the Android site.

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/05/2011 13:18, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: it. Why would it work in Qt 5? I'd rather have them stay far away from it, since I don't see anything good coming from Nokia these days. I don't have much faith in Nokia either these days. They don't even know what they really want. I

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/10/2011 01:54 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: MSEgui has some remote GUI via serializing support, Yep. This is originally an idea of Martin's and his name for it is ifi (nobody knows what this means :-) ). AFAIK, this is an unfinished open source project he once started and abandoned at

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread zeljko
On Tuesday 10 of May 2011 12:41:02 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It seems the whole world is going mobile computing nuts!! http://www.osnews.com/story/24713/Nokia_Announces_Qt_5_Plans My thoughts on pushing those mobile computing UI interfaces into the desktop application space is rather

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Joyner
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.comwrote: code when done. The whole JavaScript thing scares me too, but that is maybe just because I'm not very proficient in JavaScript. Just what we need.. a program that you can publish that doesn't show any errors

Re: [Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

2011-05-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:23:57PM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: Hmm, The big thing is Android !!! And if you want to capitalize on it, you need to be ready now, not only start. Lazarus is not suitable for trying to follow fast moving trends. Iphone was just yesterday, and even that is not