Eventually, I'd like to make kharne multi-platform. Whilst I wouldn't consider myself a Linux fetishist to any great extent (I only have Windows XP machines at home, by choice), I do think that by-and-large multi-platform compability is overall a Good Thing (tm). I've been browsing the website of The Lazarus Project, the multi-platform alternative to Delphi, and pondering what it would take to swap over development to said toolkit.
But it appears that at the moment, Lazarus isn't in a state that will allow me to do so. According to the Lazarus for Delphi Users wiki, support for dragging-and-dropping is either non-existant or extremely cripped. I'm somewhat surprised at this, since dragging and dropping is a fundamental part of a windowing interface. But the relevant part of the wiki that states this hasn't been updated since December 2007. Does anyone know if drag-and-drop is still a problem in Lazarus?
If it is, and since the primary Inventory functionality in Kharne is drag-and-drop based (and will stay that way), until such time as drag-and-drop is fully implemented in Lazarus, there will be no Lazarus port and Kharne will remain Windows only.
Which is disappointing. Deeply disappointing.
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Have a look at this:
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,4024.0.html
Thus, I think, drag and drop should be possible.
(by the way, despite the name of the guy in the forum, its not me ...)
Sorry for spamming, but I looked in the wiki you mention. It says:
"eg. dragging a control from one panel, and docking it onto another panel at run time."
I think this does not talk about drag'n'drop at all. It talks about dragging CONTROLS from one panel onto another. I understand this as dragging and dropping of e.g. toolbars or sidebars docked in a window etc.
Mario, hmmmm. Maybe I have misunderstood? Item drag-and-drop in Kharne is effectively dragging a TPanel onto another TPanel. The control isn't physically moved or anything though.
Lazarus contains an example in which you drag a button onto a panel. This works perfectly. It's in the examples folder, named "dragimagelist".
Cheers Mario, I'll take a new look at Lazarus then!
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