[fpc-pascal]FP newbie

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu Nov 13 09:04:33 CET 2003


> wxWindows is a good library/framework indeed. But why do we need a pascal interface to it ? It adds too many layers to the whole system. 
> eg: to create a button => pascal-layer->wxWindows->gtk+/motif/win32->window system window.
> 
> Do we really need these layers ? (wrapper wrapping a wrapper wrapping a
> wrapper !!!)
> 
> OTOH, what we really need is an emulating toolkit atop the native window
> system (a la FLTK).

Or the foundation classes of Lazarus, LCL.




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