Hi, tried it & got the Qlib error message : Line 600 MSTAT% Invalid name - an easy ptr extension? Can you distribute the easy ptr runtimes with it?
Duncan Neithercut -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones Sent: 03 April 2005 22:52 To: QL Users List Cc: QL News List Subject: [ql-users] Q-Starter Q-STARTER Q-Starter is a simple experimental program to see if I can successfully create a program which will run on anything from a QDOS system with pointer environment to the latest Window Manager 2 and use the System Palette. It is also my first attempt at writing a program to use scalable menus. In theory, it ought to display Launchpad-style menus on systems prior to Window Manager 2, and display System Palette colour menus on Window Manager 2 systems (SMSQ/E v3.09 or later). I would welcome feedback on this program, in particular any problems found in running it on older systems, being as my main "QL" at the time of writing is a QPC2 emulator! Oh, does this program do anything useful? Actually, yes it does. It's a mini program launcher, which searches for all program files it can find on your system starting from the drive/directory specified (optionally reading through subdirectories) and presenting these in a menu from which you can simply click on the program file to be executed. Leave it sat in your QPAC2 button frame to have it always available as a quick if slightly dirty program starter! Apologies to Marcel Kilgus for jumping the gun slightly - I've used the pre-release of Easyptr 4 to creating this program, which is an experimental release to invite feedback on any shortcomings. My hopes are that if this program works OK on older and newer systems, I'll be able to update my existing programs to use the excellent new facilities of Easyptr 4 as soon as the official release happens. I hope plenty of people will download and use Q-Starter (which is Freeware) and let me know if it works on their systems. My systems are: QPC2 v3.30 with SMSQ/E 3b09 Aurora (MinisQL) with JM ROM (Q-Starter has problems on SMSQ/E v3.06 for unknown reasons) Q-Starter works on QPC2 v3.30 and Aurora with JM QDOS ROM, I'd like to hear about success or otherwise on other systems. Hopefully, experience gained from writing this program will help and encourage me to write more programs to take advantage of the new facilities Marcel has worked so hard to bring us! http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware.htm l -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 01/04/2005 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
