@Stephane: @Sven: I know about fpGUI (Sven i assume you mean that), but i am already working on a widget toolkit for a few years now which is written in C and if i'm going to work on a custom widgetset might as well make it target the one i'm already working on which is used by some other stuff i am doing to keep things consistent.
Also AFAIK fpGUI doesn't use the native window system beyond the toplevel windows, which i think would make OpenGL support and interfacing with external stuff (e.g. calling an external library where you pass a HWND/X11 Window directly) harder. As i said, i do not think this would be useful enough to others to be part of the Lazarus tree. I ask because i remember a few months ago someone having an Amiga widgetset pretty much in working condition and that was something he worked on for a while, so i wondered if there was some mechanism for that. I suppose just having a big patch would also work, although it is kind of inconvenient. @Martin: AFAIK MSEgui doesn't have an LCL widgetset. Most of my code is LCL specific and my concern is to keep using that code. If i am to rewrite it, might as well rewrite it in C. On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Sven Barth via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Am 26.11.2017 14:23 schrieb "Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus" < > lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>: > > Is there a way to have an LCL widgetset outside of the Lazarus tree? I'm > considering writing one for my Little Forms C toolkit at some point but i > don't think it would be very useful to others so i don't think there is > much of a value in having it as part of the Lazarus codebase (and TBH i > cannot guarantee i wont abandon it). Even better if it is possible for it > to exist as a package. > > My main motivation is wanting to get away from the modern madness of > GTK3+/Qt5+/Wayland and all that stuff and their dependencies but i'd rather > not rewrite in C all the tools and library code i wrote in Lazarus, so a > custom widgetset that relies only on Little Forms (which itself makes an > effort to rely only on libX11 with an optional Xft dependency) sounds ideal. > > However i'm not sure how extensible the LCL widgetset backend is and from > a quick look it seems like there is a ton of manual work just to introduce > a new one. Am i missing something? > > Worst case, i'll maintain it as a patchset that needs to be updated with > the main code, but i'd rather not if there is a cleaner way (or can be > easily introduced, after all this isn't something i need immediately :-P > and i think there is value on this being a standard feature). > > > > Lazarus already contains a custom drawn widgetset that supports X11. I > don't know its current state, but maybe it would be best to bring that up > to speed and form instead of starting a new one. > > Regards, > Sven > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org > https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus > >
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