Josué Elias Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Is there a plan to have a version of Unigui for Lazarus? I would really like to be able to use Unigui, but I currently use Lazarus and I noticed that there are a lot of requests here on the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherzod Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 17 hours ago, Josué Elias said: Is there a plan to have a version of Unigui for Lazarus? Quote We have considered to create a port for Lazarus, but workload didn't allow us to make it happen. From what I see Lazarus adopts a completely different IDE integration API compared with Delphi. We need to add custom Forms and DataModules to the IDE. Are they any resources which explains all the needed step to achieve this? The resource that I have reviewed a few years ago wasn't adequate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josué Elias Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 Lazarus is very up to date with the latest versions, for example version 3.2 (current). Lazarus is compatible with codes made in Delphi, sometimes requiring some adjustments mainly because you can use the {$mode delphi} directive at the beginning of all units. I believe that you would initially need to migrate only the front-end components. Of course I don't know the extent of the entire Unigui package. I have already participated in software migration from Delphi to Lazarus and when we use the Delphi directive the work becomes much faster. example of using the directive: unit Test Unit; {$mode delphi} interface uses ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Montier Posted Monday at 04:15 AM Share Posted Monday at 04:15 AM From my "humble 40 years experience", all communities based in "free" tools, won't buy third parties tools in such volume that compensate an investment (in uniGUI case, won't be small) to a "club" of programmers where the first objective is exactly using "free" tools. Or is Lazarus is superior to Delphi ? And there is the CE edition. TMS WebCore should be more suitable. But see tms support forum and you will have an idea how is going for them. Lazarus users won't accept having the same price as regular RAD users. Remember Kylix ? I DO ! I have Lazarus/FreePascal in my Desktop with my vintage D7. Guess what I still using ? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Montier Posted Monday at 04:36 AM Share Posted Monday at 04:36 AM TMS Webcore to lazarus/freepascal is (or were) a breeze compared to uniGUI portability. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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