ANN: wxForms for Delphi - Crossplatform Development tool for Delphi

We are pleased to announce the release of our wxWidgets Form Designer for Delphi  - wxForms for Delphi  1.1.

wxForms for Delphi is an integrated form designer plugin for Borland /CodeGear Delphi that helps to create cross platform applications for Windows, Mac OSX  and Linux using single source base. The wxForms code from Delphi can be compiled in Mac OSX and Linux without much change using FreePascal.

wxForms for Delphi allows you to use all the Delphi's powerful Form Designer/ Editor features (Form Alignment, Object inspector, Component Palette etc ) to quickly create Cross platform applications. wxWidget's Components can be easily customized by modifying their properties in the object inspector.

Following are the features of wxForms for Delphi:

* Pascal Wrapper for wxWidgets
* Create Cross Platform GUI that can be compiled in Freepascal / Lazarus in MacOSX and Linux.
* Reuse your favourite non visible VCL directly with wxForms.
* Create wxWidgets Dialogs and Frames using Delphi Form Designer.
* Facilitate the use of all Delphi's features to create Cross platform application(ANSI and UNICODE).
* Ability to create cross platform Lazarus project file with a single click 
* Over 60 ready to use wxWidgets components.
*  Ready to use wxWidgets Dialog and Frame project Templates.
* Integrated cross platform bitmap creator. 
*  Image-List editor to easily manage images for various components like ListView, Tab Control, toolbar and Menus.
* Integrated wxWidgets Menu, Toolbar, ListView, Statusbar  Editors.
* Integrated wxWidgets Open/Save Dialog File Filter Editor.
* Support for ANSI and Unicode wxWidgets Libraries.

New Features for this release 
* Support for Linux
* Custom Exception handler support
* New Samples
* Bug fixes

For more Information, Please visit http://www.twinforms.com .

Screenshot and Screencast can be found at :

http://www.twinforms.com/products/wxformsdelphi/screenshot.php
http://www.twinforms.com/products/wxformsdelphi/screencasts.php

For support questions, please send us a mail to support@twinforms.com

-Guru Kathiresan
http://www.twinforms.com
Crossplatform Form Designer for Delphi and C++ Builder
0 Guru 6/26/2009 1:07:30 AM
Guru Kathiresan wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the release of our wxWidgets Form Designer for Delphi  - wxForms for Delphi  1.1.
> 
> wxForms for Delphi is an integrated form designer plugin for Borland /CodeGear Delphi that helps to create cross platform applications for Windows, Mac OSX  and Linux using single source base. The wxForms code from Delphi can be compiled in Mac OSX and Linux without much change using FreePascal.
> 
> wxForms for Delphi allows you to use all the Delphi's powerful Form Designer/ Editor features (Form Alignment, Object inspector, Component Palette etc ) to quickly create Cross platform applications. wxWidget's Components can be easily customized by modifying their properties in the object inspector.
> 
> Following are the features of wxForms for Delphi:
> 
> * Pascal Wrapper for wxWidgets
> * Create Cross Platform GUI that can be compiled in Freepascal / Lazarus in MacOSX and Linux.
> * Reuse your favourite non visible VCL directly with wxForms.
> * Create wxWidgets Dialogs and Frames using Delphi Form Designer.
> * Facilitate the use of all Delphi's features to create Cross platform application(ANSI and UNICODE).
> * Ability to create cross platform Lazarus project file with a single click 
> * Over 60 ready to use wxWidgets components.
> *  Ready to use wxWidgets Dialog and Frame project Templates.
> * Integrated cross platform bitmap creator. 
> *  Image-List editor to easily manage images for various components like ListView, Tab Control, toolbar and Menus.
> * Integrated wxWidgets Menu, Toolbar, ListView, Statusbar  Editors.
> * Integrated wxWidgets Open/Save Dialog File Filter Editor.
> * Support for ANSI and Unicode wxWidgets Libraries.
> 
> New Features for this release 
> * Support for Linux
> * Custom Exception handler support
> * New Samples
> * Bug fixes
> 
> For more Information, Please visit http://www.twinforms.com .
> 
> Screenshot and Screencast can be found at :
> 
> http://www.twinforms.com/products/wxformsdelphi/screenshot.php
> http://www.twinforms.com/products/wxformsdelphi/screencasts.php
> 
> For support questions, please send us a mail to support@twinforms.com
> 
> -Guru Kathiresan
> http://www.twinforms.com
> Crossplatform Form Designer for Delphi and C++ Builder

Guru,

What about working from within the Lazarus IDE as well?  Is that planned or 
support somehow?



--
Warm Regards,

Lee
0 Lee 6/26/2009 9:36:48 PM
Guru Kathiresan wrote:

> * New Samples

Hi Guru,

is there a download available with a compiled demo project, which I can 
also use to see which files (.DLL, .SO) are required to run the 
application? If wxForms generates a single-exe appication this would be 
great of course. I have checked the documentation if there is a section 
about deployment.

wxForms looke very impressing and I already have plans to use it for 
some cross platform GUI applications.

Best Regards,
-- 
Michael Justin
SCJP, SCJA
betasoft - Software for Delphi„¢ and for the Java„¢ platform
http://www.mikejustin.com - http://www.betabeans.de
0 Michael 6/27/2009 6:55:52 AM
Michael Justin wrote:
> Guru Kathiresan wrote:
> 
>> * New Samples
> 
> Hi Guru,
> 
> is there a download available with a compiled demo project, which I can 
> also use to see which files (.DLL, .SO) are required to run the 
> application? If wxForms generates a single-exe appication this would be 
> great of course. I have checked the documentation if there is a section 
> about deployment.
> 
> wxForms looke very impressing and I already have plans to use it for 
> some cross platform GUI applications.
> 
> Best Regards,

Michael,

I looks like there is the wxWidgets runtime that needs to be distributed.  I 
looked at the compiled demo and it looks pretty good, if a little flickery.

--
Warm Regards,

Lee
0 Lee 6/27/2009 1:35:38 PM
> {quote:title=Lee Jenkins wrote:}
> Guru,
> 
> What about working from within the Lazarus IDE as well?  Is that planned or 
> support somehow?

Hi Lee,
I dont have any short term plan for it. If Lazarus's IDE provides a similar sdk for OpenTools Api then I think I should able to create a plugin for it as well.
--
-Guru Kathiresan
http://www.twinforms.com
Crossplatform Form Designer for Delphi and C++ Builder
0 Guru 6/28/2009 6:45:24 PM
> {quote:title=Michael Justin wrote:}

> is there a download available with a compiled demo project, which I can 
> also use to see which files (.DLL, .SO) are required to run the 
> application? If wxForms generates a single-exe appication this would be 
> great of course. I have checked the documentation if there is a section 
> about deployment.

Hi Michael,
I'll try to create a separate downloader for the examples. I'll also add a section in the help file describing the  deployment method.

--
-Guru Kathiresan
http://www.twinforms.com
Crossplatform Form Designer for Delphi and C++ Builder
0 Guru 6/28/2009 7:43:47 PM
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