Re: What to do to get new users

Luca Olivetti via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.compilers.free-pascal.general
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El 2/12/24 a les 1:44, James Richters via fpc-pascal ha escrit:

> 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 guess you don't know there's a project called Lazarus that, not only 
wraps the windows' api in a pascal way that's a lot easier to use (and 
that's not really new, Delphi did it 30 years ago), but it does it in a 
cross-platform manner, so that your program can be compiled under 
windows, linux and macos.
That's no to diminish the value of fpGUI (a toolkit that I never needed 
to use so I cannot speak about its merits or shortcomings), but only to 
tell you that what impressed you has been available for a long time (I 
don't remember the first version I used to deliver a project, but it was 
0.9.something in 2005, almost 20 years ago).

Bye
-- 
Luca
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