[fpc-devel] Lazarus: A new widgest set

[Michael Schnell]

> What is your goal? Isn't the LCL a lot of "overhead" then? What 
> features in the LCL do you want to use?
Of course nearly nothing of the LCL is used in such applications, but as 
it's not compiled in the executable it does not harm. So why not work 
along the open source stuff that already exist and rely on Lazarus as an 
IDE.

With this method you can use a Form (which supposedly is "downgraded" to 
be something that is visible only in designer mode - similar to a 
datamodule) as a container for things like lnet

Moreover you can use an Application to develop and debug your code:

 - you create a unit that provides a component that holds your 
functionality (including things like lnet that could be visually placed 
on a non-primary form or datamodule)
 - you create a visible unit with a primary form that has all controls 
you like for testing. Here you use the other unit and do communication 
between the units with functions, properties and events
 - you do all development and testing needed.

You can do this in Linux and in Windows with everything Lazarus provides 
right now.

 - You create another main unit that does not provide the testing 
controls but does reference the functionality unit.
 - You change the wigetset to "nonGUI" and create an executable for the 
embedded target

-Michael