Re: TurbpCASH for LinuxF

[Yogi Yang]

For the grid part you should use Virtual Treeview from SoftGems. It is open source and is blazing fast (at least it looks in the pre compiled demos)! check it out on :

http://www.delphi-gems.com/VirtualTreeview/
http://www.delphi-gems.com/supplement/download.php?ID=32

 I am not a Delphi Pro but I can say when a product is really work while. The name of the product is Virtual Treeview but this is misleading as the component is a tree view as well as a grid which is unicode enabled and supports Right-To-Left languages without a hitch...

This site also has a beautiful Unicode library which is really very esay to implement. As far as portability is concerned I don't know what is the situation as I have never used Linux in my life for any serious work but there is a CLX version of Vitrual Treeview which any good Pascal programmer will be able to convert to other platform Operating systems and programming platforms.

[david...@computergrid.net]

I am a linux fan but cannot see how all the effort to make a native
linux version could be worth it. Also, you will end yp with two code
trees..!!

A better solution is to copy what Borland did with Kylix. Simply make a
certified app with a linux installer that will run under wine.

That is, under the hood is a windows app, but enough effort has gone
into making it work under linux that it would be usuable in a
production environment and the user wouldn't be any wiser.

I use the Kylix compiler and I can't tell that it is a wine app. I'm
told that it is... might be wrong...

So start with a Linux installer, see how things go.

[Andrew Higgs]

david...@computergrid.net wrote:
>
> I am a linux fan but cannot see how all the effort to make a native
> linux version could be worth it. Also, you will end yp with two code
> trees..!!

No. With Lazarus and Freepascal you will have one source tree which will
compile on Linux, Mac and windows. Lazarus is a perfect example of this
itself. It compiles on Linux, Mac and windows from the same source code.

<snip>

> I use the Kylix compiler and I can't tell that it is a wine app. I'm
> told that it is... might be wrong...

You still have to install wine and it is another thing which can go
wrong. The more things which can go wrong the worse the application.

[jesusrmx]

I would like to help with the grids in Lazarus convertion if TurboCASH
leaders decide to stick with the grids.

It would be nice if ther were some note about what to donwload from cvs
to take a look to at the source, I downloaded tcashsource and it was
more than 250MB transfer.

Is that the base for TurboCASH 4?