On Thu, 4 May 2006, Lepidosteus wrote:
> On 4/26/06, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:30:26 -0300 > > "Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 4/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > Separate tool, It's better it's development at start. > > > > > > > > You may added to Lazarus IDE later, or create a "lite version". > > > > > > I think it's better that it is a separate program. No need to be added > > > to the IDE later. We can add a menu item to launch it from the IDE. If > > > we add all helper tools to the IDE it will soon become huge and hard > > > to maintain. > > > > > > > It would be nice if backend of the resource tool also supports > > > > reading/writting different formats like RC, RES, COFF, ELF > > > > (fpc-specific) resouces. This way we don't depend anymore on windres > > > > from binutils. > > > > > > In this case it may be useful to have 2 separete executables. One is > > > the graphical tool to edit things, and another is a non-graphical tool > > > to build resources. > > > > > > They need to be separete so we can use the resource build just like > > > windres from the command line on non-graphical environments. > > > > Good idea. > > Start a package with the conversion functions. > > Create a simple command line utility (e.g. TCustomApplication) like windres. > > And a graphical application or a design time package as graphical editor. > > > > Mattias > > Any update on lazarus getting mentor's status ? Refused, without explanation AFAIK. Michael. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives