Hello, I’m new to FPC and researching about different GUI options available to write open-source multi-platform desktop app using FPC…
Based on what I’ve found there are mainly three options: a) Lazarus and LCL b) fpGUI c) MSEgui Afaict, a) support all three main OS-es - Linux, Mac & Windows by providing native look’n’feel although, iirc, Cocoa supprt for Mac is not finished yet. MSEgui works on Linux and Windows, while fpGUI works on all three OS-es but on Mac support is done via X11 libs. Now, let me say that Linux (Debian) is my native platform which I use and will develop on it, but would like to provide versions for Mac & Windows. Does it automatically eliminates c) or there is plan to add support for Mac? Is b)’s support for Mac via X11 good-enough or is b) more suitable, as I read somewhere, for embedded platforms? What about learning curve of each one? I probably do not need full power of GTK2(3) or Qt toolkit, but need some database support - app would use sqlite3 as storage backend. Another concern is that, afaics, both b) and c) are mostly one-man project, while a) has much larger community behind. Any advice is helpful? Sincerely, Gour -- Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not working. One cannot even maintain one's physical body without work. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
