Questions from a new guy

[yellow]

1. When I purchased the software it brings me to a download page with a list of versions. My question is, if I am new to this how would I know which version to download? Do I just guess?
2. I tried following the tutorial on making the Knight Rider Led display, but page 18 shows and discusses things that are not in my software. I tried contacting DSP but no reply. I hope this is not indicative of how this is going to go.

[trogluddite]

Welcome to the forum, yellow.

The version that's generally recommended at the moment is 3.0.6 ('Pebble'). There's a known issue with Ruby memory leaks in the later versions. And leave the Beta's well alone! - they should really have been taken down, as they're very unreliable. The bugs in the later versions are slated to be fixed in the next release, when 64-bit support is going to be added as well (as I understand it, most of the outstanding bugs have already been fixed up by the guy doing the coding, and trustworthy folks who've played with the alphas are of the opinion that it's coming along very nicely.)

Until I just took a peek at the tutorials, I hadn't realised just how out of date they are. As far as I can tell, there are equivalent components for the ones in there, but their appearance and much of their internals were changed when Ruby was introduced into FlowStone. IMHO, the documentation always has been a bit of a disappointment; but you'll get plenty of help here on the forums if you run into trouble (though the lack of forum spam filtering is also something of a disappointment - fingers crossed you can log on when one of us has had a clean-up!)

[yellow]

Thank you very much for the reply.