Jon Foster wrote:
I don't want to put down Lazarus because I think it has tremendous
potential and like the others here I love the cross-platform capability.
On the other hand I have yet to be able to accomplish any serious
project with it. I've run into a series of issues with just about every
component I've tried to use . So I usually hang up my hat and break out
Kylix again.
A definite plus is that the core libraries that I've written will
compile with either Borland or FPC. I use FPC almost completely for
command line stuff. I just need to be able to crank out some GUI stuff
without having to loose time to debugging the libraries.
Now that I've "upgraded" (not sure it was an improvement) my workstation
to Debian 4.0 I can no longer run Kylix. :-) This means that I too will
soon be joining the ranks of Lazarus contributors in any way that I can.
-Jon
I started using Lazarus/FPC to write console apps (also called Asterisk Gateway
Interface or AGI) for the Asterisk PBX system on linux about a year ago and
have just recently started using Lazarus for GUI development.
I'm in the process of re-writing a Windows operator control panel for Asterisk
written originally in Delphi:
http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/maestro.aspx
I have also started using Lazarus and tiOPF to re-write a scaled down
version of our company's P.O.S. application which I'm hoping will be ready for
beta testing by the end of the summer.
I think for me, the biggest challenge was re-thinking the GUI widgets that I
use. Windows development seems to be centered around the "sizzle" of GUI
components where everyone is trying to have their apps look like the latest
version of MS Office and I have been on that bandwagon a bit myself until
recently.
--
Warm Regards,
Lee
"The only thing that kept me out college...was high school."
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