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Karellen wrote:

MrMat wrote:Hello all,

Chris is working with me on a contract project. I see him every day and he still continues work on ProGUI as he can. Please do not discuss circumvention of his security or anything that would affect your licence, or anything that would affect the development of this work. This project is very much alive and Chris is well aware of your posts. This project is being developed and Chris has just been too busy on his contract to post here, but it is being developed with some great additions and Chris is doing what he can. Please respect that.

Thank you.

Thanks for the news, Mat. How long it took to drop these lines? One minute? Two? Don't want to sound rude, but why Chris couldn't do that by himself, I really cannot get it. Anyway, I'm happy about the news and of course I respect Chris' wishes.
Thanks again and send greetings to Chris!

And this is all anyone has ever asked for, really. Some of us might sound like grumpy whiners about it; but this is not a FOSS project on Sourceforge. It is a commercial product.
I don't think anyone here would begrudge the fact he has demanding contract work and is working hard hours. Most of us are well aware he could not support himself on ProGUI and needed to find alternate income; but communication is paramount to maintaining your existing customer base (and arguably reputation).

If he has time and has been working on ProGUI then that is great - but that should also means he has time to take 2 minutes to address us. And I think that is what the growing resentment is about. Not that we haven't seen new releases from him, but that we haven't heard from him. Period.

The fact users are openly discussing the patching and maintenance of his product and circumventing protection code to do it, I would think should alarm him enough that he would make the post. Not send a friend to do it.

I think it is deadly clear that nobody in this thread wants to see ProGUI fail / die out.

Very well put, Zach. While I hate software piracy; if a software project has been abandoned, then those with it will tend to share fix snippets here and there. Doubtful anyone would ever get the whole "progui" source that way...
On the other hand if it's just "on hold" a little "hey guys I haven't forgotten about you" would go a long way to keeping that sharing of code to a minimum. The fact that it no longer compiles is my biggest concern.

So in a nut shell "Yea, what Zach said"

Hi Chris,

if you have some minutes, I have some issues, posted in the ProGUI forum.

Thanks

Hi guys! Really sorry for not giving you any news (this is the first time I've checked the forums in 3 months!). I've been ridiculously busy with my contract work and moving in and out of various B&B's / shared accomodation (looking for an apartment to rent at the moment which is pretty stressful). Since I started my grey hairs have multiplied ten fold! lol anyway, I do have a new version of ProGUI ready to go - just been waiting for tailbite to be fixed but I think you guys need an update desperately so I'll release it with the DLL versions working for the time being. I'm absolutely shattered right now (will be getting some much need sleep very soon) so I'll get it released over the weekend.
Here are the fixes and improvements:

- Fixed bug with SetTextControlExFont where width and height wasn't updating.
- Fixed bug with RefreshPanelEx, now updates scrollbars and page scrolling if autoscroll enabled.
- Fixed bug with FreePanelEx and FreePanelExPage regarding child windows.
- Fixed bug with certain common controls on PanelEx page rendering black pixels at corners.
- Added new MergeSkins command.
- Added new CopySkinComponent command.
- Added new SetSkinPropertyParam command.
- Added new SetSkinName command.
- Added new SetPanelExUsercallback command.
- Added new GetPanelExUsercallback command.
- Added new GetPanelExBitmap command.
- Added new GetPanelExDC command.
- Added new TextControlExCalcSize command.
- Changed / Improved the skin subsystem quite a bit internally and now uses ZIP to compress the skin packages.
- Improved skin format by embedding none web-safe/standard fonts into skin.
- Changed SetPanelExPageBorder command, add new BorderAutoStretch parameter.
- Updated docs.

Hopefully Poshu's patcher won't be needed, as implemented the new packer library some time ago (bah I have to come up with a new watermarking system now, my previous system was genius )

Anyway, sorry again for there being no news from me and I hope everyone's minds have been put at ease now.

Cheers!

Chris.

I think I speak for everyone, THANK YOU for checking in and giving us an update.
Take your time -- and take care of yourself 1st.... Look forward to updates so I can recompile again...

Cheers
-josh

Thanks Chris

Good to hear you are Ok Chris, I hope you can find suitable accommodation soon.
Take your time, I am in no hurry, just happy to see ProGUI continues to advance.
I am sure I will win the, I have more grey hairs competition with you.

Hell yeah \o/

Patcher is now offline.

Hi guys, ran into a bit of a problem when I came to compiling with the latest PB last night. I'm using Droopys lib for some stuff but that relies on a "misc" library which was standard in PB (I think) but it's either been removed or renamed. Anyway give us a couple of days to create a work around, bah! nothing ever goes smoothly!

Chris.

PrincieD wrote:Hi guys, ran into a bit of a problem when I came to compiling with the latest PB last night. I'm using Droopys lib for some stuff but that relies on a "misc" library which was standard in PB (I think) but it's either been removed or renamed. Anyway give us a couple of days to create a work around, bah! nothing ever goes smoothly!

Chris.

There is a current version of droopy that works with 5.20
Personally, I get too many collisions of procedure names; so I use the source from droopy as a detailed guide for stuff.

jassing wrote:

PrincieD wrote:Hi guys, ran into a bit of a problem when I came to compiling with the latest PB last night. I'm using Droopys lib for some stuff but that relies on a "misc" library which was standard in PB (I think) but it's either been removed or renamed. Anyway give us a couple of days to create a work around, bah! nothing ever goes smoothly!

Chris.

There is a current version of droopy that works with 5.20
Personally, I get too many collisions of procedure names; so I use the source from droopy as a detailed guide for stuff.

Thanks Josh, that's good to know I'll probably just use the source too as more future proof.

Chris.

Guys, I'm doing my best to try and keep you updated with what's happening. The past couple of weeks been trying very hard to find somewhere to live with lots of property viewings, my friend Marco has gone back to Italy for a week or so, we've been viewing lots of apartments and I confess, I've just not had time to do much else after work (40+ hours a week), gunna try and sneak in the new update tomorrow whilst at work shhhhh! x Chris

Hi Chris,

any news ? Because I posted some bugs in ProGUI forum

Thanks

flaith wrote:Hi Chris,

any news ? Because I posted some bugs in ProGUI forum

Thanks

Hi flaith, sorry for the delay in replying - been on holiday for a week! I'll take a look tomorrow as I have quite a backlog of emails etc
Version 1.39 is released by the way guys, just forgot to post the announcement. Bare in mind though the userlibrary versions probably won't work though due to Tailbite not being compatible with the latest PB yet

Chris.

Great, thanks Chris