On 2012-11-01 11:49, Giuliano Colla wrote: > Being stuck with a lot of Kylix code, I found it quite heavy a > migration toward fpGUI (or MSEGUI).
Our company has invested lots of time and money in developing CLX (Kylix) applications. We have ported quite a few of them to fpGUI, and it was not that hard at all. - The UI is easy to recreate - The Kylix application code must be adapted no matter which GUI toolkit you use. Even so, most of the code can be reused as-is. fpGUI is different to VCL or LCL by design - but the general UI concepts are very similar. Everybody I have spoken to have said that picking up fpGUI is rather easy because of a very clear design and API. > Kylix development is not possible on modern platform, it's still > possible with a few kludges to run Kylix applications. One only needs > to keep alive legacy platforms for development. Correct. We simply run Kylix IDE in a Red Hat 9 VM for continued development and application maintenance, but the applications themselves run just fine even on the latest Linux distros like OpenSUSE 12.2 or Ubuntu 12.10 - simply ship your app with the required *.so files and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH before launching your app. We have Kylix apps that haven't been touched since 2003, and they still run on today's distros. > Now I'm looking forward with interest to CustomDrawn, which should I've recently (about 3 weeks ago) looked at LCL-CustomDrawn. It is still years away form being usable in production code. Simple things like the default Cut/Copy/Paste popup menu in text widgets don't exist. Tabbing in reverse order between widgets don't work etc. The more you look the more issues you will find in LCL-CustomDrawn. This doesn't mean LCL-CustomDrawn in bad, it just means it is not near being ready to be used in real world applications. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
