Re: [Lazarus] E,bedding a terminal window in Lazarus

2018-04-10 Thread Anthony Walter via Lazarus
Okay, well I got some stuff done. I'm able to create a fully working terminal application using fpc, but when I try to incorporate it into a TWinControl there are some problems: https://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/vte-control.mp4 Notably, I believe the LCL gtk2 widgetset makes some core assumptio

Re: [Lazarus] E,bedding a terminal window in Lazarus

2018-04-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus
On 10/04/18 03:30, leledumbo via Lazarus wrote: I am considering writing an IDE package to do this, but wanted to know ifanyone knows if this has been done before AFAIK, no. Previous attempts don't embed actual terminal, but use aterminal like component with application controlled command to

Re: [Lazarus] E,bedding a terminal window in Lazarus

2018-04-09 Thread leledumbo via Lazarus
> I am considering writing an IDE package to do this, but wanted to know if anyone knows if this has been done before AFAIK, no. Previous attempts don't embed actual terminal, but use a terminal like component with application controlled command to execute. -- Sent from: http://free-pascal-la

[Lazarus] E,bedding a terminal window in Lazarus

2018-04-09 Thread Anthony Walter via Lazarus
It looks like adding a terminal window to any Gtk 2/3 application isn't that difficult if you use a library called libvte. I am considering writing an IDE package to do this, but wanted to know if anyone knows if this has been done before, and if the libvte functions already have a pascal declarat