Nov. 10, 2015
7:56 p.m.
On 10-11-15 20:03, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
Well my experience with other language has taught me GUI APIs are generally a nightmare to work with, the only exception to this rule was DELPHI, those guys were just awesome at GUI design. VCL was simple yet incredible flexible, I would even dare say the smalltalky thing I have used. It takes a ton of effort and expertise to get it that good.
Delphi has no text editor in the VCL. TEdit is just a wrapper. And that means that you cannot change the storage structure or do line breaking. And while VCL was great in 1995, there was essentially no development of it after 2000. The Cocoa/Next GUI APIs are much better than Delphi's, but they needed much more hardware to run smoothly. Stephan