phibermon, sorry I could not answer sooner, I noticed you deleted your message so I will try to answer to it as best as I can from memory. pregenerating a large number of GUIDs and storing them in a file is an interesting idea, but it will create several other complications. first of all, no matter how many GUIDs you pregenerate there will still be finite number of them, and you can, in some cases, run out of GUIDs very quickly (imagine a shooter game, where multiple characters are shooting bullets with each bullet receiving a GUID). assuming that you would load the entire file into memory (since reading the file every time you want to pull a GUID would make the process even slower), you will have to allocate a large chunk of it, which is not optimal and on some platforms even not acceptable (with 32 bytes per GUID, thousands of them will leave a noticeable footprint on memory). finally it is not multi-thread friendly since you would either have to sync multiple threads trying to pull GUIDs or create some sort of mechanic to pull GUIDs from different parts of the array.
regarding scripting I actually did integrate pascal script into the toolkit only to realize that there is no advantage to do that. fpc can compile sources in seconds, it has more language features than most scripting languages and the performance is on a completely different level. so if I decide to add some sort of plugin system then I will simply use fpc.
Vinzvega, I am actually working on the easy android build system (to build and install apks with a single click) when that is done I will port that soccer game to android.
AirPas, the source editor is still missing many features, I am planning to work on it some time in the future (will look into making the text more sharp). for now, however, there is a "Create LPR" button that creates a lazarus project with all the necessary dependencies. so you can just open that project with lazarus and build from there.
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