Modern UI in Lazarus

[jomDA]

I tested all the samples from the post on Windows 10 V1909 and Lazarus 2.0.6.

Really cool, i mean very good stuff! Thank you very much!

But there are some fault:
1) I can't test the samples direct?! I need allways to start a new project and than copy the unit1.pas and .lfm. It looks like changes in project LPI?
2)  If there are more than 10 controls on the form and you move the mouse over text or buttons it's flicker. In the past i develope a lot with Turbo Delphi (2006 and VCL) and this was not a problem?
3) The calendar example looks bad (see the picture in attachment)

I will check some improvements and than send a reply.

See also my last post to modern UI:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,48523.msg350299.html#msg350299

[ps]

1) there is no samples on github yet
2) it's lazarus bug for all controls placed on scrollbox. You can set doublebuffered to true, or fix LCL bug   https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36423
3) this is "little big" problem.  I have no solution for this. Because in CSS "classic" browser there is allways one main control (browser window). But with LCL main controls can be TButton/TPanel. And size can be calculated like this:

Control.Width := 300px;
Control.Style := 'width:150px';
Control.AutoSize := True;
Control.Alignt := alTop;
etc. etc.

Calendar control don't follow new updates No time for check. Github updated.

[jomDA]

Thank you for the answer.
at 2) I will see on some tests with the default sample canvas_test and your bug sample, how complex is it to find a improvement. With this samples i will see also the differents from the known solutions for Windows (in Delphi VCL).
at 3) In the moment i dont't now how render Lazarus the controls. In the past (Turbo Delphi with VCL on Windows) a control was drawing from Windows, so the VCL was only a adapter to the windows messages (like WM_PAINT or WM_MOUSEMOVE see info on MS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/about-messages-and-message-queues)

[AT]

Github repository seems empty 
Last post on this topic is only a few months back. Has this idea/project been killed?
Thanks!

[af0815]

Github repository seems empty 

look for the dev branch on github !

[AT]

Github repository seems empty 

look for the dev branch on github !

Yupp! That works  Thanks...

[Dibo]

About modern UI. Instead of reinventing the wheel, maybe better make wrapper for existing HTML render engines.
https://sciter.com/ (too bad that on linux it is based on GTK, not on low level X11)
http://www.litehtml.com/
https://lexborisov.github.io/Modest/
https://ultralig.ht/

[ps]

About modern UI. Instead of reinventing the wheel, maybe better make wrapper for existing HTML render engines.
https://sciter.com/ (too bad that on linux it is based on GTK, not on low level X11)
http://www.litehtml.com/
https://lexborisov.github.io/Modest/
https://ultralig.ht/

Too "fat" for me and lack of modern layout styles (display:flex;, correct border-radius rendering, etc.). With little updated my lib I can migrate our outdated app into this nice looking modern app

[Dibo]

@ps. Didn't read all pages in this topic but noticed your posts and what I understood, you are working on some kind of CSS rendering component? Is there any official wiki? Where I can get source?

[ps]

There is no official wiki or doc just now (no time). Few demos you can found in this thread and lib is here: https://github.com/pst2d/csscontrols/tree/dev . This is only "work in progress version".

[garlar27]

About modern UI. Instead of reinventing the wheel, maybe better make wrapper for existing HTML render engines.
https://sciter.com/ (too bad that on linux it is based on GTK, not on low level X11)
http://www.litehtml.com/
https://lexborisov.github.io/Modest/
https://ultralig.ht/

Too "fat" for me and lack of modern layout styles (display:flex;, correct border-radius rendering, etc.). With little updated my lib I can migrate our outdated app into this nice looking modern app

Wow!! I'm impressed!!!
This is awesome! Did you test it with the FPC and Lazarus Release Candidates???

[ps]

garlar27: Sure.  I'm working with latest SVN Lazarus.

[andersonscinfo]

I couldn't find a demo. I really wanted to be able to test it, it's beautiful

[mr-highball]

I couldn't find a demo. I really wanted to be able to test it, it's beautiful

they are scattered throughout this post, here are two links. When I tried one of them, I was having a hard time getting the glyphs working as @ps shows in his screenshots and haven't had too much time to look more into it.
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,36502.msg342561.html#msg342561
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,36502.msg343391.html#msg343391

[lainz]

Check out the Clone Controls, WYSWYG already available in Lazarus, with the power of LCL!
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,49528.0.html

Any LCL control can be used!