[Pas2js] UI approach

[warleyalex]

It's on the oven a tool named PJ-Suite that claims to use the Delphi/Lazarus
and its form designer to create web applications. Just drop components onto
a form and set up at the objector inspector, the events and the properties.
All of the above is great and it will no doubt give us the same benefits as
Delphi/Lazarus developers currently enjoy. The compiler will auto generate
the components for you, such as:

var
  btn1: TButton;

btn1 := TButton.Create(Self);
btn1.Width := 121;
btn1.Top := 16;
btn1.Left := 536;
btn1.Height := 25;
btn1.Name := 'btn1';
btn1.OnClick := Self.btn1Click;

I've spent a few minutes reflecting on this RAD approach. I sincerely don't
like of the RAD methodology to build big apps. Otherside, for fast
prototyping desktop web app I really enjoy this appoach. 

For big web app, I always will prefer hand-written code, consider to be more
readable, maintainable and believe to offer more customization. 

Since I didn't test the PJ-Suite yes, it's indeed a nice tool, anyway.

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For fast prototyping Pas2JS applications, in my experiments, it was possible
to convert "some components" from Lazarus/Delphi form designer to static
HTML using qooxdoo components! I'll try to modify this tool to use it with
Pas2JS.

Since Delphi/Lazarus comes with a bunch of ready to use UI elements and
widgets like modals, popups, popover, searchbar, side panels, headerBar,
etc. we need to extend the IDE. 

I have never created a visual component with Lazarus. I've been thinking to
build a lightweight kind of "fake" SearchBar widget to be used into the
Lazarus form designer. The idea is use a tool to render a form into HTML. 

Any idea?



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