[fpc-pascal] DirectFB for FPC beta tarball

[Henry Vermaak]

2009/6/1 Roland Schaefer <roland.schaefer at fu-berlin.de>:
> As Micha said in his reply, since Gtk can be used with DFB without X,
> you can have Lazarus w/o X anyway.
>
> Apart from that, I think it would be absolutely feasible to go without
> Gtk and use DFB directly. I'm only working with fpc, not Lazarus, so I
> am not sure what it takes to develop a widgetset for Lazarus. Is there
> any good starting point in the docs or the sources where I could take a
> look to give a more precise estimate about the required steps?

you can have a look at some of the newer interfaces for an example
(like fpgui).  i think if lazarus has a widgetset that targets the
framebuffer it will attract a lot of embedded people, where X is
sometimes too heavy (never mind gtk2).  an even better idea might be
to add a directfb back-end for fpgui, which is custom drawn, too.

henry