On Friday 19 June 2015 11:27:01 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi Martin, > > What is the purpose of the *_mfm.pas files? Are they some relic left > over from the days when FPC didn't have built-in resource support? Why > does MSEide have it, but Lazarus doesn't need it. > Because MSEgit does not depend on the FPC resource system. IIRC FPC resources did not work whe I first needed it. AFAIK FPC can not load *.mfm objtext files because of some extensions I needed to implement.
> I'm just asking because I'm curious. Also when I make local mods to > MSEide or MSEgit I often get a lot of "what seems unnecessary" changes > to code - caused by the ide form handling. This adds lots of "noise" to > a code repository. > The *_mfm.pas can be restored from *.mfm either by MSEide or mseide-msegui/tools/form2pas. It is not necessary to store in the repository. > In comparison: > > fpGUI - one single *.pas file for one or more forms > Lazarus - two files per form (*.lfm and *.pas) > MSEide - three files per form (*.mfm, *_mfm.pas and *.pas) > And fpGUI wins! ;-) The Lazarus and MSEgui systems have its advantages too. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
