Re: [Lsacon-development] what's our project stage? :)

[tapia <ta...@ei...>]

> So it seems that we'll use GTK.

Great. I love Gnome. :-)

> Now I need some advice on how to use GTK while programming in pascal,
and
> what tools to use to develop, like a free pascal compiler or so....
someone
> should compile a list of the "official tools" with some links to
resources
> and documentation. I think that we all should use the same things.

Well, there are some links:

http://www.freepascal.org
  The free pascal compiler. As they say in the web: "The language syntax
is semanticly compatible with TP 7.0, some extensions used by Delphi
(classes, rtti, exceptions, ansistrings) are also supported."

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
  A Delphi clon. I don't know how usable is it (I tried it a long time
ago), but it is in active development.

two GTK binding for Pascal:

http://www.freepascal.org/packages/gtk.html
  This is the "base" binding. I don't know what version of GTK support,
but I suppose it is 1.2. GTK 2.0 is now being developed, and I think
it's the version we would use. That's the reason I think we would do all
the graphical stuff in C.

http://gtkpas.sourceforge.net/ Based in the freepascal package, it is
better, in my opinion. Absolutely object-oriented design.

But I must insist: GTK is C, and the releases for the pascal bindings
are not very fast. C is not difficult if you know pascal. The graphical
modules would be written in C, and the non-graphical libraries, in
pascal. I think it's the better way.

> If we decide which tools to use, I'll re-start writing
> the interface module. I still have to write the interface-on-the-fly
> module.....

If we decide to use GTK, it is not necessary to write this. LibGlade (a
GNOME library) uses XML for creating intefaces dinamically. When
Thasmudyan release a version of the XML parser, we can use it to build
the interfaces.

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