I have never written a console app and was wondering 2 things. > Firstly, if I was to write an app that doesn't require a GUI, that runs on > both Windows and Linux (with no XServer) is that classed as a console app? > And secondly, is it fairly straight forward to write a console app that > stores and retrieves data from a Firebird database, on the basis that I > want to be able to use either the standard Lazarus components (or Zeos) to > talk to the database? > > A problem might be that there (right now) is no "Widget Type" in > Lazarus, that has no GUI binding and allows for using stuff like TTimer, > TThread.Synchronize, TThread.Queue and QueuAsyncCall(). >
Ah, yes. That would be ab issues as using a TTimer would be essential for what I am planning :( Richard
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