Il 01/11/2012 13:09, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
On 2012-11-01 11:49, Giuliano Colla wrote:
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.
I fully agree with you. CustomDrawn is at a very preliminary stage. I'm
not even sure that the current implementation of LCL-CustomDrawn will
ever lead to a usable thing. The approach is a brute force one: just one
window for form, and redraw all the widgets on the full form each time
something changes. Even cursor blinking is achieved by redrawing the
full form. You can imagine how slow everything becomes when your window
has a reasonable size, and is populated by a reasonable number of widgets.
That's the problem of many open source projects. They're mostly created
by developers which think to their applications, and take care primarily
of what they need. CustomDrawn was originated by Felipe, who's mainly
interested in his Magnifying Glass project. Once he manages to make it
work on his target platform, he's more or less finished.
But the same holds true for me. In my applications I don't use neither
the Cut/Copy/Paste popup menu, nor tabbing (forward or reverse), so you
may bet that if I contribute to CustomDrawn, be it the current
implementation or a fully new one, those features will end up quite low
in my ToDo list.
That's the main reason I look with more interest to LCL than fpGUI.
Simply because LCL provides already implemented much more features I
need with respect to fpGUI, (at least up to the last time I evaluated
fpGUI).
When the time comes that I'm really forced to abandon Kylix, then I'll
try to see if it's more work to implement what I need (and which won't
certainly be there) on CustomDrawn (most likely stealing quite a lot
from fpGUI), or to contribute to fpGUI, in order to get what I need.
For the moment I've devoted the little time I have available to some
contributions to CustomDrawn, because I have more confidence with LCL
environment, and this makes things easier for me.
Giuliano
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