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AW: Re: Delphi incompatibility

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i have also the same opinion, leave it in the buttons unit.

alex

I think in the past we decided that everything doesn't have to be exactly the same as Delphi, but if it isn't, then we need to document it so that

we

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can make Lazarus do the conversions. That is how TNotebook is. The TNotebook control in Delphi does not have tabs but the LCL one does. Also, we don't have a TTabbedNotebook any more as Delphi does. So I don't see a problem with having buttons in a different unit. It is easier to determine where buttons are that way.� The stdctrls name isn't really very helpful in determining what is in that unit. The reason

Borland

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named it that is because those are standard Windows controls and a lot of developers prior to Delphi knew them that way.� But since Lazarus isn't built just for Windows, some of those names don't make a lot of sense. Under Linux, the name stdctrls really doesn't mean anything useful, other than compatibility with Delphi.� I vote to leave buttons in the buttons unit for ease of maintainability. Curtis Marc Weustink wrote: > At 23:15 03-05-2000 +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: > >Hi, > > > >In Delphi (3) TButton is part of the stdctrls unit, in LCL it is in the > >buttons unit. Shouldn't it be in the strdctrls unit? > > In D4 as well, I think it should. Any comments ? > > Marc > _________________________________________________________________ � �� To unsubscribe: mail with � � � � � � � � "unsubscribe" as the Subject � � archives at http://www.miraclec.com/list_archives/lazarus

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