-----Original Message----- From: Michael A. Hess To: Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] >Cliff Baeseman wrote: >> >> Yep I think we are barking up the same tree.... >> >> I say we program directly against XLib instead of GTK and QT. This >> will allow us ultimate control over component rendering and event >> handling. We can place in the win32 primatives at the same time. I >> have both a windows and linux machine in which to test the code.... >> >> Much Much more work but alot cleaner and flexible solution... >> >> It would probably be alot less work in the long run. > >It might be more work but it puts total control of the FCL output in OUR >hands. Otherwise we are trying to write widgets in FPC that call widgets >in another package. In GTK case the widgets we are calling aren't even >OOP. Doing it this way in no way hinders anyone from also using FPC or >the FCL with their favorite API (GTK, Qt, etc) it just means they don't >have to. They would most likely be able to create a complete GUI program >that could be delivered with out the requirement of any additional >libraries except those that are part of X11 in the first place. > >I inclined to try and climb up this particular barking tree. :-) > >Any more opinions?????? > >-- >==== Programming my first best destiny! ==== > >Michael A. Hess Miracle Concepts, Inc. > http://www.miraclec.com > >_________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.miraclec.com/list_archives/lazarus >