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diff --git a/docs/README.txt b/docs/README.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e08a5212 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ + +fpGUI information +================= + This version of fpGUI is based on a implementation where every + widget has a window handle. In other words every widget is actually + an embedded window inside a top-level window (aka Form). + + If you wanted to look at the old design of fpGUI - the one based on + a single handle per Form - then create a local branch based on the + tag 'single_handle_fpgui', or the slightly newer branch called + 'v0.4_fixes'. + + Release v0.5 and later is the new design (multi-handle implementation). + It was a complete rewrite of the code. + + + +To install FPC under Debian/Ubuntu +================================== + Select the fpc.deb metapackage, which depends on a number of sub-packages + containing the compiler, the units and so on. The 'libc' unit provided by + FPC is included in the fp-units-i386.deb package, which is however marked + as "deprecated" by the Ubuntu package manager and is therefore *not* + installed by default using fpc.deb. + + The following command will set up FPC under Ubuntu in order to be used with + fpGUI: + + sudo apt-get install fpc fp-units-i386 + + + +How to compile fpGUI +==================== + Please see the INSTALL.txt file for detailed instructions. + + + +System requirements under Linux +=============================== +To be able to compile and link fpGUI based applications you need to install +the following library dependencies. The packages will pull in all the other +required packages too. + + $ sudo apt-get install libX11-dev + $ sudo apt-get install libXft-dev + + + +Regards, + - Graeme Geldenhuys - + + ============================================
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