On 13/04/2019 16:21, fredvs wrote: > I do not understand so much hate, I did scrupulously follow all the orders > of Alex.
Fred, don't dispair. Managing an open source project is not always easy. I think it is fantastic that you at least took the time and effort to continue Martin's work, instead of just letting it rot. Ignore what others say - if they don't like your efforts, they can fork it and see where each version goes. That's reality when it comes to open source projects. Maybe the forked versions will unite months or years down the line. >From my experience, when took up the challenge with fpGUI, after it was dormant for 6+ years, things went something like this... Nobody was available to explain anything, so I took it step by step, learning the internals from receiving the OS events to how it distributes through the framework and eventually reaches a widget (eg: TButton - I always find that a good widget to start with). Then I studied the handling of top-level windows and how they receive events and how painting works. Once I understood those steps, I had a good enough understanding to continue development of the fpGUI framework - and eventually [a year down the line] decided to rewrite everything (yet I still use features from the original design - not everything was bad). All this takes time though. To put it in perspective, Martin has been working on MSEide+MSEgui since 1999! That's 20 years of knowledge to try and learn now. But take it small steps at a time - like you are doing (from what I understand). One is bound to make mistakes, but that is how you learn. Back to fpGUI. In the early days I promoted the idea that I am bringing fpGUI back to life. I had loads of critics obviously regarding what I was doing, that I'm wasting my time etc etc. Lots of talk, but very few actually had anything to contribute it terms of code. Some even threatened to fork fpGUI and do it their way, just because I didn't agree with what they were suggesting. I welcomed them to do that, but in reality they never did fork fpGUI. I persistent and myself and many others are very happy with where fpGUI is now. Give it time Fred - don't quit now! Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
