>And if you look in the "develop" branch of fpGUI, there is an even later
>AggPas version - last updated a month ago
I downloaded the fpGUI repository to have a look at it, and thought I would see
if any of the things I was encountering with it were addressed yet. Sure
enough, I found
{$IFDEF AGG2D_USE_FREETYPE}
{$UNDEF AGG2D_USE_WINFONTS}
{$ENDIF}
Already there, actually formatted exactly the way I did to get it to compile.
So I went back in the history of the file to see when that was added, and I
found it.... 4 years ago!
This was really puzzling because I had to fix the version included with fpGUI
1.4.1 which was from 2015.
Well looking more closely, I discovered there are 2 units... agg2D.pas and
agg_2D.pas. well agg2D.pas is all the way at the bottom of all the agg_*
units so I never knew it was there.... so when I specifically looked for
agg_2d.pas (which is the one I was using) I found that it also was fixed, but
only 11 months ago... after 1.4.1 was released.
So mystery solved... but.........
It raises a new question...
What is the difference between agg2D.pas and agg_2D.pas and which one do I want
to be using?
Also when looking through the fpGUI as well as the Freepascal repositories,
there are just thousands of commits. looking at all those commits gives a real
appreciation for the amount of work that has gone into the project. So a huge
thank you goes out to everyone who has worked so hard to make freepascal as
awesome as it is, as well as the people who are such a tremendous help on this
list. Honestly if not for FreePascal, I would still be trying to put together
Pentium 233 computers to run my old DOS applications on. (not fun, components
are getting hard even to find on ebay now) I just don't have time to do a
massive re-write all at once, and FreePascal let me drop in my Turbo Pascal
programs and pretty much just run them.
James
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