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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Fred<br>
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Yes ! I am evaluating both Lazarus and fpGUI.<br>
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At the moment I am steering towards fpGUI.<br>
<br>
I like FLTK but I don't like C++ and the FLTK bindings are not so
great.<br>
<br>
Understanding GTK or QT "under the hood" is a massive undertaking.
So far fpGUI reminds me of FLTK(but it prettier) I can imagine,
without heroic effort, that people would be able to look inside it
and see what's going on.<br>
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It looks to be 173K lines, while FLTK is about 100K(I forgot the
exact number). However I am betting it will be much easier to read
then C++ and of course I don't even have to read the source to
understand it! It's just nice to know that it is possible for me.
<br>
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Being able to fix bugs yourself is important to me. A small
readable codebase means autonomy, projects do get abandoned and/or
people can get sick and are unable to maintain them. fpGUI seems
like a really good project.<br>
<br>
Nice work Graeme.<br>
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-Patrick<br>
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On 09/30/2013 03:33 PM, Fred van Stappen wrote:<br>
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fpGUI ?<br>
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<hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 01:07:56 -0500<br>
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion<br>
From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:michal.wallace@gmail.com">michal.wallace@gmail.com</a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a><br>
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On Sep 29, 2013 8:24 AM, "Patrick" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org">patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org</a>>
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<p dir="ltr">> I don't really like IDEs. I used gvim and I
suppose it could almost be called an IDE as well but I mean
I would rather use the shellr then clicking on a build
button.</p>
<p dir="ltr">For what its worth, I use free pascal practically
every day, but rarely open Lazarus.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I write most of my code in emacs, running inside
a tmux session: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tangentstorm.imgur.com/all/" target="_blank">http://tangentstorm.imgur.com/all/</a>
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<p dir="ltr">But if I were going to make a GUI app, it would
be crazy of me to ignore Lazarus. :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">I also use it when I want to browse and navigate
through other people's source code. You can ctrl-click on
identifiers as id they were hyperlinks.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Also if part of what bothers you is all the
floating panels, you can enable the anchor docking extension
and put everything into one window. That made a tremendous
difference for me.<br>
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