"RFS:" (Request For Sponsor) for MSEide+MSEgui FreePascal GUI development kit
1. Name of the package: "mseide-msegui"
2. The licence the package is provided under : IDE is under GPL, library under modified LGPL like FPC-RTL.
3. Short description : FreePascal-based GUI development library and IDE
4. Long description :
The library:
- Uses some revolutionary approaches
- Compiles with FPC 2.2 and FPC 2.3 and FPC 2.4
- Tested on i386-linux SuSE >=9.0, Debian >= 3.0 and i386-win32 98/2000/XP.
- Links to xlib and gdi32, no external widget library needed.
- Internal character encoding is UCS2.
- Uses anti aliased fonts on Linux (Xft).
- All screen drawing is double buffered.
- Has docking forms and MDI.
- Has embedded forms (similar to TFrame).
- Has database access components ( including ODBC ) and data edit widgets.
- Internationalization functionality with resource modules.
- report generator.
- automatic layout management
- skinning
Due to some FPC limitations, only static linking is currently possible.
IDE:
- Integrated debugging.
- Source code highlighting.
- Source code navigation with support for include files.
- Code completion for classes.
- Integrated visual form designer with source code update for components and
events.
- Flexible and handy build system with switchable macros.
- Visual form inheritance.
- Integrated report designer.
- WYSIWYG layout management
- inherited forms ( both subclassing and superclassing )
4. Where the package can be obtained from :
1) the current develompent version:
svn https://mseide-msegui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mseide-msegui/trunk
2) the latest stable sources:
http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mseide-msegui/mseide_msegui_src_2_0.zip
The package is already debianized { search "mseide-msegui" in the "Sid" } but the current sponsors can't be contacted for some reasons for a long time as long as the packages have no updates more than 100 days.
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