On 06/23/2014 10:48 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
You mean on a DataModule? I don't really understand the question...
(@Mattias: sorry if this is off-topic here.)
Imagine a new Widget Type (and "Application") that does not provide any
GUI but (other than the current not GUI based Lazarus Application types)
allows for TTimer (and other Event Queue based stuff).
When doing "New Application", the Lazarus IDE automatically creates code
that provides a main Form (TForm sibling) for the user code, and the GUI
designer allows to place visual components, that behave appropriately as
well in the GUI designer as in the running application.
When the user wants to use a TTimer, he usually simply "drops" one on
this Form.
Of course a running "Active NoGui" application does not show any Form
(and does not have runtime code to do so).
Nonetheless it could be doable to have it provide the design-Time
functionality to allow for showing some kind of "Main Form" in the IDE
and allow for placing (e.g.) TTimers there. The (non visual) properties
of these components would need to be streamed from the Resource as
usual when the program starts. Otherwise the user needs to "manually"
create such timers e.g. in "TForm0.DoCreate" - this is how my current
testing state works.
-Michael
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