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On 2/10/25 8:59 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:31:13 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>     TK is also pretty well documented since it's been around for awhile.
>>     Actually none of the graphics toolkits are particularly 'elegant' or
>>     great joys to use so go with what seems easiest for the job.
> 
> That's got to be the understatement of the week.
> 
>>     Mostly if I need something with a quickie GUI then I use Lazarus/FPC
>>     when possible. The WYSIWYG form builder with a zillion possible
>>     options is WAY nicer than the line-at-a-time TK approach plus Pascal
>>     looks much nicer than Python or 'C'.
> 
> https://realpython.com/qt-designer-python/
> 
> That talks about PyQt but I use PySide6. I'll skip the rant about
> Riverside Computing, TrollTech, and my thoughts on Pascal.


   Nick Wirth is Voice Of CyberGod ya heretic !!! :-)

   However DO look into Lazarus. REAL QUICK to put
   together very nice complex kinda Win-98 looking
   GUIs. Huge number of options on entering/leaving/
   clicking/hovering/etc all the fields - and you
   can write custom functions for all that too
   without too much evil. 'Delphi' still sells, still
   commands a kinda high price actually. Laz is just
   a functional copy. Learning curve isn't TOO steep
   and once you Get It you can really go to town.

   As with TK and the rest, Lazarus is a GUI shell
   inside the main pgm (which may be pretty short).
   Everything is 'event driven' - click this and
   that happens. The real useful fun is only achieved
   by setting up 'timer' routines - maybe every 100ms
   or something. They will execute your custom code
   and calls so you can update displays/stats/etc.
   Everything really cool works on timers/counts.

   With Laz it's important to find the little code
   lines that force the display(s) to update once
   you make said changes - like showing the latest
   security cam grab.

   FPC can directly use 'C' routines, but it's kinda
   ugly - really ugly sometimes. I took to simply
   running said 'C' pgms, have them make a nice
   tempfile, then reading/parsing the tempfile
   in Pascal. Upside, you can keep the tempfiles
   for debugging purposes - oft very useful.