Silverlight support

[Shloma Baum]

Hi Chad,

Would love to hear your insight on what you mean by Silverlight support,
I assume it means more then what its currently there that you could host
a silverlight in your IW project, as this is currently already there,
and also from your posts saying about controls it seems to be that you
guys plan to take it to a whole new level. So I'd really appreciate if
you could please reply, I fully understand that things might and should
change based only you needs and plans, but a little insight would really
help us.

So my questions basically are at the minute:

1. Will I be able to use in the future third party components that has
been built for the VS designer in my IW project?

2. Will I be able to write Delphi code for events as I could currently
do with normal IW controls that I drop on a form?

3. Since SL is a client side technology and from you post it seems like
you will be able to 'drop' a SL control onto a form, do you plan to make
a new type of form that will be similar to an SL UserControl and you
will be then able to fully interact with that as a normal IW form, and
is this how you envision to 'drop' those SL controls you mentioned in
your blog?

Would very much appreciate if you could give us some in insight on this
topic.

TIA
Shloma Baum
Pioneer Interactive, Inc.
http://www.PioneerInteractive.com

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

Post by Shloma Baum
a silverlight in your IW project, as this is currently already there,

Yes, but it needs expanded upon. Also I do not mean just the ability to, but
the bundling of many preintegrated SL controls such as edits, grids, combos
etc all that can do things the HTML/JS ones cannot do easily or at all.

Post by Shloma Baum
and also from your posts saying about controls it seems to be that you
guys plan to take it to a whole new level. So I'd really appreciate if

Yes, very much so. The first release of 10 will be just the base.

Post by Shloma Baum
1. Will I be able to use in the future third party components that has
been built for the VS designer in my IW project?

You will be able to use other Silverlight components at runtime yes. At
design time in Delphi you will likely just see a box or a minimal visual
respresentation. For example how the grid is in IW now, a place holder, or
if it is a combo you might see a combo box at design time.

Post by Shloma Baum
2. Will I be able to write Delphi code for events as I could currently do
with normal IW controls that I drop on a form?

For many events yes. There will be a hookup mechanism to hook SL events to
Delphi server side events.

Post by Shloma Baum
3. Since SL is a client side technology and from you post it seems like
you will be able to 'drop' a SL control onto a form, do you plan to make

See above.