Gour wrote:
Hello, I’m new to FPC and researching about different GUI options available towrite 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 byproviding native look’n’feel although, iirc, Cocoa supprt for Mac is notfinished yet. MSEgui works on Linux and Windows, while fpGUI works on all three OS-esbut on Mac support is done via X11 libs. Now, let me say that Linux (Debian) is my native platform which I useand 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 forMac? Is b)’s support for Mac via X11 good-enough or is b) more suitable, as Iread 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 needsome database support - app would use sqlite3 as storage backend. Another concern is that, afaics, both b) and c) are mostly one-manproject, while a) has much larger community behind. Any advice is helpful?
The first option would be a pure Pascal one, driving either a graphical or a text-based (curses etc.) UI. However in practice I think you'll find that the majority in here who have any interest in GUI support use Lazarus.
I tend to use the FPC+Lazarus combination on (Debian) Linux targeting x86 (including -64), SPARC, PPC and sometimes ARM, MIPS is also getting there slowly. Sometimes also x86 Windows and SPARC Solaris, and other people regularly target OSX etc. There is a bit of a problem in that all of us tend to test the less popular combinations somewhat sporadically, and at present some of these really do require careful choice of compiler version and- if using Lazarus- widget set.
fpGUI and MSEgui definitely have their good points, they're lean and are only mean in self-defence :-)
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