Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client

Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by benibela on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:12AM (#21833850)

There is Delphi and Lazarus as open-source clone of it

Lazarus can use the Windows API on Windows, gtk/qt on Linux, and carbon/cocoa on Mac.

There is also a custom drawn mode that draws the GUI directly rather than using platform apis. That also runs on Android, but it not maintained anymore, so only up to Android 5 or something

Delphi is supposed to run on Android and iOS.

And Delphi 1 ran on Windows 3.1, so you could have used the same GUI since then

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by noonespecial on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:33AM (#21834714)

There is Delphi and Lazarus as open-source clone of it

Shhh! Ixnay on the Lazarusay. If people find out, I'll lose my magical secret weapon for blasting out little windows gui apps.

Seriously though, if you ever find yourself needing a few buttons on a windows desktop that do simple things, Lazarus is amazing for whipping that up in a few minutes and still looking professional.

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:08AM (#21834973)

Agreed. I'm not a huge fan of Pascal, but it's better than JS and Lazarus makes knocking up a simple GUI trivially easy.

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by benibela on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:06PM (#21839778)

Nah, when people find out it is Pascal, they run away. Can't type begin and end, such words are just too long

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