Hi Graeme, I know how those things can get away from you, I recently saw a memory photo on Facebook from 2008, the photo taken in my kitchen and it shows a missing piece of molding that belongs on the left side of my oven.... and it's 2024 now, and that dang thing is STILL not installed... it's sitting right over there ---> and I'll be lucky if it takes me more than 5 minutes to permanently install it! Uggg @ time!
I managed to figure fpGUI out... Basically rediscovering the issue and how to fix it, only to discover later that it indeed was already fixed! But I'm glad I went through the exercise, because now I have a forked repo of fpGUI, and a little better idea what's going on. The main issue I faced is that I was using 1.4.1 from SourceForge, and didn't even think to go look at it on GitHub... So I think it would help a LOT of potential users would benefit if you could update the download on SourceForge. If I had started out on GitHub, I would have probably seen the Maint branch and tried that, instead of spending a few days downloading FPC and trying all kinds of compiler options. I've got the fpGUI examples working and had a look at how some of them work, and It's very impressive! I've made a few GDI windows with my Freepascal programs before, but they are clumsy and hard for me to follow.. there is a lot of constant converting between FreePascal variable types and Windows like their PChar thing. From what I see in fpGUI so far, it's just a whole lot cleaner and a lot easier to understand. I'm excited to integrate it into my projects. After I get a few things going, I could switch to the Develop branch and see if there are any issues. It seems like there is quite a lot of work that's been done in the develop branch. James -----Original Message----- From: fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org> On Behalf Of Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal Sent: Sunday, December 1, 2024 3:51 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Cc: Graeme Geldenhuys <mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users Hi James. On 29/11/2024 01:11, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: > I'm intrigued by FPGUI, I'm trying to build FPGUI on Windows 10, and I'm having some difficulty. When I follow the instructions from Install.txt I get this: > > R:\fpgui_src_1.4.1\fpgui-1.4.1\src>build I just got back from a weekend away. I believe that is an old bug that has been fixed years ago. I just never created an official 1.4.x release since. <face-palm> Could you switch to the "maint" branch and run the "build.bat" from inside the <fpgui>/src/ directory. That should work. All example applications and demos should then compile with the following syntax: fpc @extrafpc.cfg <project-name>.lpr Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
