On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Lars Eriksen wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am considering using FP/Lazarus for an end-user GUI application project that
> runs on Windows.
>
> It would be highly appreciated if you could answer any of the following
> questions:
>
> 1. Is FP stable enough for production use (= are there any limitations that
> could make it less than ideal)?
FPC is stable and ready for production use since years.
There are companies who are converting their flagship products to FPC/Lazarus.
> 2. Is there a debugger (console or GUI) for FP?
Yes. GDB. You can use Insight as a GUI or better Lazarus, for that matter.
> 3. Does FP have templates/generics (something I seriously missed in Delphi)?
No. They are on the drawing board, though.
> 4. Does the Win32 variant of Lazarus run on top of GTK+?
No. It's native win32.
> 5. What is the smallest executable size of a pure FP Win32 console app?
That depends. 30K or so ?
> 6. What is the smallest executable size of a FP/Lazarus Win32 GUI app?
This, I don't know.
> 7. Is the Lazarus GUI toolkit sufficiently complete (= does the usual stuff,
> buttons, list boxes, list views, panels, forms, images and fonts work)?
Yes, obviously.
Look at the IDE itself, it's written using the GUI toolkit...
Michael
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