[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi James,

On 02/12/2024 00:44, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
> there ---> and I'll be lucky if it takes me more than 5 minutes to
> permanently install it!  Uggg @ time!

lol - yeah, I have so many of those.


> 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.

Apologies for the inconvenience. I'm very glad to hear you got it
working in the end. \o/


> 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

Good point. I'll make a plan. I use SourceForge services to run the
fpGUI's website, so didn't want to abandon it [sourceforge] completely.
The git repo there, is just a read-only mirror. Things could definitely
be improved, because many have faced this same issue you did.


> I've got the fpGUI examples working and had a look at how some of them work,
> and It's very impressive!

Thank you. It all came about, me wanting to understand how desktop GUI's
actually work. In the end I spent a good part of 15 years developing it. lol


Regards,
  Graeme