PS. I hoped that this thread will die and I will not waste my time, but it is alive and I can't hold myself and do write an answer.
To be on topic, I just want to share my thoughts (they do probably differ from yours), ended with not choosing Lazarus (but I trace its development a little). I am newbie developer with some freedom in choosing tools: 1. Lazarus is meant to be like Delphi (or better). 2. But there is no word Rapid in transforming Delphi project (the last try was with Lazarus v0.9.14 or something). 3. There is nothing Rapid in docs: classes are not really Delphi compatible and are not provided with clear explicit help. 4. Sometimes Delphi suck too, but there are many sites with code examples etc. The MOST of them are not directly supported by Borland, if I get it right. 5. Word Rapid again: changing sources written by other people or waiting for support when some rewriting is required is bad option. 6. At some time I didn't find in distribution any Lazarus example with, e.g. labels with different font sizes. 7. I was pointed in these lists that TTrayIcon is very important new class in Lazarus. I was not excited: under windows I can implement needed features by windows API and I don't need other OSes. So, for me better help or code examples are crucial when Developing an Application Rapid. If Delphi were not popular long ago, nowadays there would be fewer sites/code examples and I'd probably write interfaces in assembler or visual basic:) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
