On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:09:15 +0200 Marc Santhoff <m.santh...@web.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 31.08.2011, 00:28 +0200 schrieb Mattias Gaertner: > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:54:26 +0200 > > Marc Santhoff <m.santh...@web.de> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have some question regarding forms and storage formats and the like: > > > > > > 1. Lazarus can write a form definiton to disk as an XML file. Is there a > > > way to load this XML file again making a form out of it? > > > > AFAIK the XML Writer need some work on collections. > > And I have not tested specials like frames. > > So it is write only but does support the complete LCL (besides some > TODOs left). Interesting, only the half way left to go. The reader works too. > Can somebody give me a name for grepping or file pointer to the sources > of the XML writer, please? Maybe you want to look at the example: lazarus/examples/xmlstreaming/streamasxmldemo.lpi > > > 2. Is there any support for XForms planned or existing? > > > See http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/xforms > > > > As far as I know: no. > > OK > Understandable, the set of components defined by the XForms standard is > much smaller than the LCL component set. > > > > 3. Are there any other generator sources known making forms from > > > objects, database records or anything else? > > > > lfm, lrs, binary, pascal code. > > Fine, I'd have overlooked those completely. :) > Although I think i meant .lfm whre I wrote .dfm, sorry. Ah, I forgot: the FCL reader/writer are quite dfm compatible. The LCL lfm reader has some extras to read dfm too. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus