I took the same decision as Graeme after Delphi 7 was dead, then tried C++... nah, tried C#... nah, tried Actionscript... well, this one gave me some money, but nah, it's horrible to work with it and see what non-programmers do with it; so I returned years later and decided to continue my projects with Lazarus, after all a Pascal programmer is a Pascal programmer. Examining Lazarus, and feeling the frustration caused by the instability everyone complains about, I decided the only way Lazarus could work for me was avoiding the black sheep of the family: the LCL. It didn't take me much time to build a GUI from scratch. Now I just use the LCL for the most basic tasks, as window creation, and still can use stable third party components. I have tested on XP, Vista, Snow Leopard and Ubuntu, and everything works as I dreamed, I no-longer get weird exceptions, and enjoy programming with the commodities Lazarus provides.
Best wishes Graeme! -Marco -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
