[fpc-devel] Chosing a graphical interface for specific proposals

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

2010/10/25 luciano de souza:
> Finally, I ask: does someone have an idea what can I do? Does someone
> know other interfaces container based compatible with Pascal?

I much prefer code based designing compared to Visual Form Designing.
In a similar way you can compare OpenOffice or MS-Office to LateX -
where the latter does the whole layout for you, and quite offen a much
better end result too. Anyway, fpGUI's Visual Form Designer actually
generates code, not lfm files. But yes, it does use coordinates at the
moment, so that is not suitable. Good news is that the fpGUI Form
Designer was simply a stop gap even for myself. I much prefer a layout
manager style of programming. I have already started work on that too,
but it's not complete yet. It will take a few months to finish (I
can't work on it full time yet). I am porting the MiG Layout Manager
from Java to Object Pascal. This layout manager is brilliant, and very
flexible. You also only need to learn one layout manager, not several
like GTK, Qt or the standard Java layout manager. MiG Layout is
capable enough to handle all designs by itself.

For more details on MiG Layout you can visit: http://www.miglayout.com

As for using screen readers. I have only tried them a few years back.
I'll update my Ubuntu with them and try a few to see if they work with
fpGUI - I have no idea what is required from a GUI framework to work
with a screen reader.

I'll get back to you on this.

Regards,
  - Graeme -


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