On 01/10/2011 01:59 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:having the Windows API
(as an example) cloned for every widgetset of every platform is a bit
overboard I think.
Building a propriety, commonly agreed, and decently documented "Object
Pascal" layer in between would be a much more "professional" design.
Same would offer the appropriate APIs (GUI and non-GUI stuff) to the
application program and use APIs of "Widget Type" implementations (done
in a structured way: commonly usable functions done in central places)
and (maybe separately implemented, but supposedly necessarily
cross-linked) "NonGuiStuff" implementations (such as Event Queues for
Timers and InterThread Communication).
But this is just a dream, I don't thinks anybody will feel like starting
this huge and dangerous redesign work.
-Michael
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