On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have to agree with Michael. I also can't understand the point of the
'nogui' widgetset. An application is or GUI or non-GUI (latter
requiring no widgetset at all).
Does it need to have a point? Some people find it useful, so there is
no harm in including it. It has zero effects on the code of people
that don't use it.
It must somewhere have a point, because it certainly has lots of disadvantages:
a) It deceives people. You'll get run-time errors if at any point you try to do
something GUI related such as showing a dialog or getting a font metric.
b) It encourages people to write bad code. Example: the well-known EpikTimer.
It is a perfect example of a badly written component. It includes
Forms, Dialogs and whatnot in the uses clause, when there is
absolutely no need for them. But by doing so, it creates a dependency on
a GUI when there is no need for one.
c) It creates larger binaries.
d) The widget set - like any other - requires maintenance. If it isn't
there, there is no work needed.
Plenty of reasons for not having it.
Michael.
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