[fpc-pascal] New Pascal cross platform GUI library with IDE

Martin Schreiber fpmse at bluewin.ch
Sat Dec 10 12:00:15 CET 2005


On Saturday 10 December 2005 10.33, L505 wrote:
> So a 600kb exe may actually mean that there is 600kb of true native
> controls in the exe, whereas notepad/delphi applications store a lot of
> their native controls in other dlls on the windows machine.
>
> Martin, are components mostly custom windows API graphic screen calls?  My
> tools tell me your programs do not rely on ComDlg32.dll and ComCtl32.dll
> (which is obvious considering there are no windows-ish looking dialogs and
> controls in the program). Hey I'll look into the source too, to try find
> out, but it's also interesting to discuss these issues in english too :)
Correct.
>
> i.e. in a delphi hello world Exe you immediately pull in comctl32.dll
> whereas in this IDE you do NOT pull in comctl32.dll, so considerations need
> to be made.
Correct.
>
> One other thing I noticed is mpr.dll gets pulled in with demo.exe but in a
> delphi hello world it does not. What code in demo.exe does rely on mpr.exe,
> is I wonder?
Me too. What does mpr.dll?

Martin



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