Maybe a way to call a webservice, get a JSON reply and show it on a TStringGrid?
2013/12/2 vfclists . <vfcli...@gmail.com> > > > > On 2 December 2013 08:25, Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.de> wrote: > >> On 12/01/2013 04:57 PM, vfclists . wrote: >> >>> >>> Are there some industry standards for specifying GUIs in JSON? >>> >> See "Future of the Desktop" right here. >> >> -Michael >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> Lazarus mailing list >> Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org >> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >> > > > > I am already following that thread. What I have in mind is using > Lazarus/FreePascal forms as purely presentation layer, not for Pascal > programs alone, but any language, DWScript, Python, bash, Basic, whatever > even DWScript In effect the form opens a web server or another type socket > where the business layer sends the screen drawing commands to. Whereas a > browser is pull system, this is a both pull and push > > When I did some Googling, knockout.js a framework that came up, something > similar for Lazarus is what I have in mind. FreePascal, LCL, fpGUI etc are > the system I know and the best foundation for a high performance cross > platform presentation layer that I can think of. > > I think parsing QML or a reasonable subset for building Lazarus UIs as an > alternative to .lfm and .dfm files is where the future of the > Lazarus/FreePascal lies. I wouldn't say the future, but it is area where > the Pascal development ecosystem can experience a revival. It is rapidly > loosing ground to programming languages which can be are interpreted, > JITed, compiled, and have garbage collection, not just in usage, but in > performance as well. > > I think my vision warrants a separate blog post. I know what I want, I > just don't have the technical know how to accomplish it. > > -- > Frank Church > > ======================= > http://devblog.brahmancreations.com > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > > -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa
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