Re: [Ql-Users] Copying

2010-12-03 Thread James Hunkins
I have had times where something happens in the directory structure - don't know if it is fragmentation or something corrupted. But using the cp command as someone gave has worked to fix things every time for me; just do it onto a newly formatted drive. jim On 03-12-2010, at 9:46 PM, David

Re: [Ql-Users] Hi + graphics formats

2010-11-30 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Thorsten, Glad to see that you are still hanging out here. Yes, I am still around and trying to find time to finish up the FileManager for QDT - it is a struggle but will happen. No plans right now beyond that though. jim On 29-11-2010, at 8:55 AM, thorsten herbert wrote: Hi all, My

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-09-23 Thread James Hunkins
Arrived in Canada today. jim On 22-09-2010, at 12:46 PM, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: :-) Glad to read this ... I hope that the other issues arrive quickly at their destinations - they are all on their way. I am happy to deliver another issue with many bonus pages next time too - provided, we

Re: [Ql-Users] QL search engine

2010-06-01 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Dilwyn, Sorry to be a pain but is these another option to do it with Java or something else? I don't run Internet Explorer nor Active X (Mac and either Safari or Firefox - so active X is not an option). I can do searches in other ways so not a big deal - just would be nice though. Thanks,

Re: [Ql-Users] QL search engine

2010-06-01 Thread James Hunkins
Interesting - you said Active X so didn't try it. Just did now and it works fine. Looked at the source and it shows it as Javascript so it should work pretty much on any modern browser and system. Nice, jim On 01-06-2010, at 10:26 AM, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Sorry to be a pain but is these

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year

2010-01-01 Thread James Hunkins
Interesing - got my copy here in Canada on Dec 24th. Just haven't had time to read it yet. Happy New Year, jim On 01-01-2010, at 4:55 PM, François Van Emelen wrote: Op 1/01/2010 14:36, SMSQ - Jochen Merz schreef: Thanks Dilwyn may I wish the same to you and all the others on the list too.

Re: [Ql-Users] qxl.win

2009-11-08 Thread James Hunkins
I have had that happen occasionally in the past, especially when I was doing a lot of developing for QDT which generated a lot of files every time I rebuilt it. My guess is that it is some sort of fragmentation or less likely a file system table corruption. What I did to resolve it was to

Re: [Ql-Users] qxl.win

2009-11-08 Thread James Hunkins
Confirmed, as long as you use the correct parameters, 'cp' will fully duplicate everything. Whoever ported it did a good job. jim On 08-11-2009, at 7:32 PM, P Witte wrote: James Hunkins wrote: I have had that happen occasionally in the past, especially when I was doing a lot of developing

Re: [Ql-Users] Question regarding the QDT desktop and SBASIC job 0 windows...

2009-10-14 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Martyn, Did you see my reply before? I am the writer of QDT in case you didn't recognize my name. You can position your QDT folders and icons anywhere you want on your desktop. You said that you were working with an 800x600 desktop so you should have room around the normal default

Re: [Ql-Users] Question regarding the QDT desktop and SBASIC job 0 windows...

2009-10-13 Thread James Hunkins
I don't have QDT open right now but there is a command in the QDT menu to 'redraw desktop' or something like that. You can access the QDT menu either by right clicking onto the primary QDT icon (which you can move anywhere on your desktop). You can also access from the hot key that was

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-08 Thread James Hunkins
Congratulations! jim On 08-09-2009, at 12:57 PM, SMSQ wrote: Thank you very much :-) Nothing mystic here, but we don't advertise this either :-D We thought after 10 years, we should know what we want ... so we got married. Cheers Jochen Ralf Reköndt wrote: Mr and Mrs Merz - yes - I

Re: [Ql-Users] Pointer test

2009-01-26 Thread James Hunkins
have to do a bit more on the QL than for example Windows as we don't seem to have a separate 'desktop' type job (which is why the icons in QDT do not automatically redraw in all cases) but it still works quite well. jim On 26-Jan-09, at 3:07 PM, P Witte wrote: James Hunkins wrote: You

Re: [Ql-Users] Pointer test

2009-01-25 Thread James Hunkins
I do custom sprites for copy and moving with QDT, using the different pointer routines. Maybe not usable from within an existing call but doable. jim On 25-Jan-09, at 1:14 PM, P Witte wrote: gdgqler wrote: On 25 Jan 2009, at 13:18, P Witte wrote: Ive been fiddling with a program of

Re: [Ql-Users] Online Quanta Subscriptions

2009-01-04 Thread James Hunkins
If your home computer is on the network, a password on your account can help decrease the possibility of a remote user/virus program from changing critical parts of your system. It all depends on the OS and how it is set up of coarse. In other words, the password doesn't only protect you

Re: [Ql-Users] quanta website and membership question

2009-01-03 Thread James Hunkins
status. I checked mine by asking John Gilpin by email. Regards Duncan -Original Message- From: James Hunkins j...@jdh-stech.com To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 15:53 Subject: [Ql-Users] quanta website and membership question I have been reading the emails about

Re: [Ql-Users] I must test, No traffic my way for 2 weeks

2008-10-03 Thread James Hunkins
With QPC2, you just define the country in the set up and the keyboard matches. In the USA, by setting this the keyboard is the North American one automatically. jim On 3-Oct-08, at 10:51 AM, Bill Loguidice wrote: We're talking about a modern keyboard, right, not a North American QL?

Re: [Ql-Users] Sprites

2008-03-13 Thread James Hunkins
I am also doing things with this stuff too so any item being clarified will help. jim On Mar 13, 2008, at 9:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wolfgang, OK, I had a look at it. It seems that the sprite definition is not quite correct: blank_sprite dc.w 1,0 this

Re: [Ql-Users] Falling Cursor

2008-01-16 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Marcel, Below is a log of the capture movie. I can forward the movie to you directly if it would help - 24k compressed. It shows the activity very well. Just let me know. 24k? That would be pretty small ;) I guess you mean 24M, but that should be okay for my mailbox, too. 24K

Re: [Ql-Users] Falling Cursor

2008-01-10 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Marcel, I just did a movie capture showing both the QL clock display (the common pointer based one) and the cursor speed. I have captured it at normal speeds, stalling out, then running very slow, then taking off and then going back to normal. Below is a log of the capture movie. I

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-09 Thread James Hunkins
in between activity (funky on the Windows side, not yours :) ). Or perhaps there is something about the polled interrupts in different cases. jim On Jan 9, 2008, at 7:04 AM, Marcel Kilgus wrote: James Hunkins wrote: The problem is that the CPU meter is pegging and it kills my laptop battery

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-08 Thread James Hunkins
Thanks all - it was the suggested imported tabs which became special characters and messed up the procedure definitions. Will test more tonight and report. jim On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:49 AM, James Hunkins wrote: Tried running it and it listed the lines with these procedures as mistakes

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-08 Thread James Hunkins
I get nearly all 50s after the first few startups. And I do see my CPU meter peg maximum while running this, just the same as if I am moving the cursor around the screen (idle mode it stays around 25-33%, Windows by itself is 5% in idle. jim On Jan 8, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-08 Thread James Hunkins
Lenerz wrote: On 8 Jan 2008 at 21:18, James Hunkins wrote: And I do see my CPU meter peg maximum while running this, just the same as if I am moving the cursor around the screen (idle mode it stays around 25-33%, Windows by itself is 5% in idle. It does that under a normal Windows, too, so

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-08 Thread James Hunkins
Was that just the cursor or were you moving a full window? jim On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning Jim, The problem is that the CPU meter is pegging and it kills my laptop battery. On my office computer I don't care. I've just plugged QPC into my work PC running

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-07 Thread James Hunkins
I don't have PW or PL commands on my system so this fails to run. jim On Jan 7, 2008, at 8:06 PM, Marcel Kilgus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much faster than on Windows. On a very unscientific test, I counted about 20 cursor on-off cycles in about 8 seconds. Could you (and anybody else

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Marcel, This fast curser blink sounds like the same problem that I get running QPC under XP in a virtual Windows machine in OS-X. At times, the cursor goes nuts while other times it slows down to a reasonable speed. I also notice that when I move the cursor around the CPU pegs out at

Re: [ql-users] New here....

2007-04-25 Thread James Hunkins
The only problem that I have had with qxl.win was when I had a drive (IE: win1_, win2_) space that was nearly full. If I added, deleted or modified too many files it could get very fragmented and suddenly run out of 'room' even though it showed enough left. To solve that I normally would

Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.

2007-02-21 Thread James Hunkins
On Dave's web site there is a tutorial for the QPtr environment as one of the downloads. jim On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under the C68 programming environment. Is there a Tutotorial on the subject? There have been a coupls of

Re: [ql-users] setting qptr to a window

2006-11-15 Thread James Hunkins
to the loose item. It seems as if Printf may be broken in this case or, of course, I may be missing something. By the way, the chan number does indicate the correct ownership for each sub window within the drop down menu. jim On 13-Nov-06, at 7:36 AM, P Witte wrote: James Hunkins writes: In C68

[ql-users] setting qptr to a window

2006-11-13 Thread James Hunkins
Guys, In C68 when I set things to a window using wm.swinf or wm.swapp, any printf statement after that goes into the proper window within my app. When I do a drop down menu (window), doing the same call and clearing the window with the returned channel works just fine. But when I do another

Re: [ql-users] Fw: Re: Niagara Show update HOT DAWG!!!!!!!!!! (?)

2006-09-22 Thread James Hunkins
Great - see you there! jim On 22-Sep-06, at 9:41 AM, extdgl42 wrote: OK, formally reserved. See everyone (excuse me, that's y'all , another good Southernism) there. Unless I sober up when I actually get around to calculating the distance. Reminds me of the German relatives of friend Dita

Re: [ql-users] QLer ages

2006-09-13 Thread James Hunkins
I have been 38 for well over a decade. So if you add each time I was 38 up as individual entries and divide, does that kind of force the average age towards 38? Marcel - don't even think about commenting here... jim On 13-Sep-06, at 1:54 PM, Tony Firshman wrote: Neil Riley wrote: On a

[ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file

2006-09-04 Thread James Hunkins
Guys, I think that I found a bug in the qlib_h include file used by C68. Here are the details: In the 'qdirect' structure, the member 'd_name' is defined as: char d_name[36]; This works as long as the directory/file name is 35 or fewer characters and holds a properly terminated C

Re: [ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file

2006-09-04 Thread James Hunkins
in place of the supplied .h files which have been processed to remove all comments and formatting to reduce their size for those using floppy based systems. Those using hard disk based systems are better off using the commented versions Dave . - Original Message - From: James

Re: [ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file

2006-09-04 Thread James Hunkins
to be part of the name, and again with your code this would fail as it would assume the 0 byte was the name terminator rather than part of the name itself. Dave - Original Message - From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 5:34 PM Subject: Re

Re: [ql-users] North American QL Show Saturday September 30th 2006

2006-07-19 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Urs, Would be great if you can make it. Has been too long since I have seen you and the others. For anyone wanting to spend the week in Toronto, will be happy to help with tourist information and possibly host a separate dinner at my house some time. jim On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:27 PM,

Re: [ql-users] leaked email address - contact address forjdh-stech.com

2006-06-18 Thread James Hunkins
Did the same suggested google search - nothing. The address that I referred to is an address that I own under my business web location - no way it was sold. The only way it is displayed on the site is in a special graphic that can not be machine read. And if a viewer clicks on the link to

Re: [ql-users] leaked email address - contact address forjdh-stech.com

2006-06-18 Thread James Hunkins
By the way, that is a terribly high amount. It sounds like there is no spam filtration from your service provider plus the addresses are 'released'. Most spam today can easily and reliably be filtered at the mail host sites. The only times that I have heard of a problem is with a few

[ql-users] leaked email address - contact address for jdh-stech.com

2006-06-17 Thread James Hunkins
It would seem that, regardless of the fact that my contact @ email address for my QDT software web pages is not mineable, it has ended up on someone's junk mail list big time. Normally this happens because the address would have gotten into someone's mail address book or previous address

Re: [ql-users] QDT updates on line

2006-02-14 Thread James Hunkins
Are you going to have anything to transfer the pictures to? We could also use my laptop and burn you CDs. jim On Feb 11, 2006, at 4:14 AM, James Hunkins wrote: I have taken my QDT updates web page on line. You can now download the demo and updates. http://jdh-stech.com/QDT

Re: [ql-users] QDT updates on line

2006-02-14 Thread James Hunkins
Sorry, this went here by accident. jim On Feb 14, 2006, at 9:15 AM, James Hunkins wrote: Are you going to have anything to transfer the pictures to? We could also use my laptop and burn you CDs. jim On Feb 11, 2006, at 4:14 AM, James Hunkins wrote: I have taken my QDT updates web page

Re: [ql-users] Reverse engineering

2006-01-16 Thread James Hunkins
On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Marcel Kilgus wrote: In some cases this might also include a method of doing something (IE: software patents). Fortunately enough software patents are still an US problem only (mostly, the EU patent office regularly tries to grant sort-of software patents, but

Re: [ql-users] Cueshell

2005-11-30 Thread James Hunkins
No pressure, eh? QDT's file manager is progressing steadily along. Hopefully around Christmas or the first of the year I can do a release with the first version. Now to go pull out my copy of Cueshell and do a feature compare :) Jim Cueshell is simply the most powerful (and

Re: [ql-users] email address Phil Borman

2005-11-24 Thread James Hunkins
Often a damaged file on a USB drive is because the drive was removed before the file was completely copied to it. Or the system was powered off. Some drives have a flashing LED to indicate when it is being written to. I use this feature to verify that it is safe to remove the USB drive.

Re: [ql-users] menus - more than 1 line of text?

2005-11-24 Thread James Hunkins
will be doing that somewhere else and may use it here. But it will be used when the entry is greater than three lines long :) Cheers, jim On Nov 24, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Marcel Kilgus wrote: James Hunkins wrote: Currently if a line is wider that the menu location, it simply truncates the line

Re: [ql-users] unzip and signal extensions

2005-11-20 Thread James Hunkins
By the way, before anyone suggests the obvious on this, I know that it is simple to load the signal extensions but I personally don't like to load up extra stuff that I don't need and don't use. And I really don't want to ask QDT users to do it. jim On Nov 20, 2005, at 3:59 PM, James

[ql-users] regional QL user check - eastern Canada

2005-11-20 Thread James Hunkins
Just out of curiosity, are there any QL users in the area (Toronto, Canada) that I recently moved to? Nearby are Niagra Falls and Buffalo, New York. While not as convenient, would also be interested if anyone was even a bit further but within a day's drive? Cheers, jim

Re: [ql-users] QDT 1.01r release at QL is 21

2005-10-29 Thread James Hunkins
Guys, I have just formally released QDT 1.01r to my distributors. Assuming that things go well when they try it this morning, it should be available to everyone during the day who has purchased QDT. My thanks to my testers also. With just about 24 hours to look at it, I got some great

Re: [ql-users] XOR in high color mode

2005-10-10 Thread James Hunkins
that it disappears. This is because a XOR (a XOR b) = b. You can now print the outline in a different place. I can confirm that this procedure works in C68 since I have just written a short test program to see if it did. George On 9 Oct 2005, at 07:41, James Hunkins wrote: Guys, As part

Re: [ql-users] a question about QDT

2005-10-05 Thread James Hunkins
HI Guys, I must have some character checking that is blocking the extended characters such as these. Will look into it and fix it on an upcoming update. Thanks for reporting it. QDT work is currently ongoing after a long hiatus from it due to my move and new job. But putting in the

Re: [ql-users] US QL Show Oct 8-9 2005 canceled

2005-09-26 Thread James Hunkins
Spring would be better for me too. Sometime after March. All the best to Al! jim On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Bill Cable wrote: As many of you know Al Boehm suffered a serious stroke this summer. He was the organizer of the US QL show. He is slowly recovering but still is partially

Re: [ql-users] was Turbo, then A4 A5, now online conferencing

2005-08-15 Thread James Hunkins
I would be interested. jim On Aug 14, 2005, at 1:37 PM, gwicks wrote: - Original Message - From: James Hunkins To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] was Turbo, now A4 A5 On the other hand, it would allow some of us to participate who

Re: [ql-users] was Turbo, now A4 A5

2005-08-13 Thread James Hunkins
On Aug 13, 2005, at 4:10 AM, gwicks wrote: Online conferencing is not as simple as its sounds. Jochen and I are trying to set up online facilities for urgent QL Today editorial conferences, but I am having problems with my server. The last Quanta committee meeting lasted for 4 hours. Would

Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5

2005-08-06 Thread James Hunkins
Disk based also would not work for some of us. My personal preferences is that we have an option of a mailed copy or a downloadable copy. An email notification with a login to get the copy would work on my case. Most people who can get email should be able to login to a web site and

Re: [ql-users] QPC2/Windows

2005-05-20 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Stuart, Here are answers to your questions... 1. Has anyone tried QDT? What do they think of it? Does it allow drag and drop or any other file handling functions like Windows Explorer does? Drag and drop is not yet there but am currently working on it. 2. If QDT doesn't have a file

[ql-users] QDT status (another moving story)

2005-05-20 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Guys, Wanted to let everyone know why there hasn't been a major QDT upgrade since the initial release. It is another moving story (but not nearly as painful as Jochen's). For the last four months I have been contracting with ATI out of the local office on a huge project so have been very

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-22 Thread James Hunkins
On Apr 22, 2005, at 4:55 AM, Dilwyn Jones wrote: On the other hand, while the money will never, ever compensate for the time or energy, it does show me that people respect the work and are interested in it. If no one was willing to pay what I consider to be a very underpriced cost for QDT, I

[ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-21 Thread James Hunkins
For myself, I started QDT as an interesting project. Plus I really enjoy the people involved in the community. To be honest, I would have abandoned the project quite a while ago if I was only doing it for the money. Probably before it even started. On the other hand, while the money will

Re: [ql-users] qdt/qpc;

2005-04-03 Thread James Hunkins
install to make sure that your system is set up properly. jim On Mar 30, 2005, at 1:34 PM, James Hunkins wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [ql-users] qdt/qpc; Date: March 30, 2005 1:27:43 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Did you

Re: [ql-users] qdt/qpc;

2005-03-30 Thread James Hunkins
: - Original Message - From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 5:05 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] qdt/qpc; Bill, Just thinking about your problem. Are you installing the release version or one of the demo versions? If a demo version, which one

Re: [ql-users] qdt/qpc;

2005-03-28 Thread James Hunkins
Bill, Please forward me the following items by separate email and I will try to figure out what is wrong with your install and running of QDT. Also, please feel free to contact me through the following email on any QDT related questions. Part of your QDT documentation gives you information

Re: [ql-users] SGC battery

2005-03-20 Thread James Hunkins
Just be careful when soldering it in. They can explode if you get carried away. A quick tap of solder though is fine. jim On Mar 20, 2005, at 11:43 PM, Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:53:35 -0500 (GMT-05:00), extdgl42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have for sale

Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....

2005-03-08 Thread James Hunkins
On Mar 8, 2005, at 12:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, grovelling apologies over, I need/want/would like some suggestions for articles in the QL Toady Assembly Language series. I realise I have to fix that damned disassembler - but that's another job. I'm looking for something fairly short

Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....

2005-03-08 Thread James Hunkins
First of all, since when were we worried about being diplomatic here :) I did read the articles by Jochen and they were a help. But as mentioned, the 'meaty' followup one(s) didn't happen for what ever reason. No problems - really did appreciate what we got so far. Was just thinking that

Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-04 Thread James Hunkins
Myself for another. jim On Mar 3, 2005, at 11:17 PM, François Van Emelen wrote: Roy wood schreef: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Snip Easyptr is still a commercial program sold by Jochen and I On the subject of EasyPtr any news of a possible upgrade? The upgrade

Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi

2005-02-18 Thread James Hunkins
and better programming habits. Java leaves it up to the individual programmer and software architect to know what they are doing - not always a good idea (to be nice). Cheers, jim On Feb 17, 2005, at 11:34 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote: James Hunkins wrote: Actually just poorly written Java apps

Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi

2005-02-17 Thread James Hunkins
Actually just poorly written Java apps and/or with poorly designed Java development environments. I would presume that since he used to write QL code that he knows how to efficiently use Java too. It makes a big difference if you understand and apply good practices in Java, just like it does

Re: [ql-users] Disk Mate 5

2005-01-24 Thread James Hunkins
That was almost too easy. Something tells me you may be getting more requests :) Cheers, jim On Jan 24, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Pål Monstad wrote: Nice to hear from you! I'm sorry, but I do no longer have the source code for DM5, so I guess it's impossible to make DM5 work with

Re: [ql-users] Disk Mate 5

2005-01-24 Thread James Hunkins
At the rate it is currently going I will be able to celebrate my 1th sent email (of those that are still in my archive, all the BBS years not included) within the next few months. Unbelievable. Where I come from, we would call you an email wimp - only 1? :) jim

Re: [ql-users] BMP files etc

2005-01-13 Thread James Hunkins
Actually I personally prefer the way you have it now Dilwyn. It works great and you are able to give descriptions with everything. An FTP site is fine for massive file downloads or looking for particulars. But it depends on file names and folder hierarchy to let people know what stuff is.

Re: [ql-users] BMP files etc

2005-01-11 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Dilwyn, I don't think that I see the changes. Am I blind or did they not actually get uploaded yet? Thanks, jim On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:08 PM, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I've updated the Graphics page on my software download site to include the BMP and QL high colour screen conversion and other

[ql-users] display or convert non _scr formats to _scr

2005-01-10 Thread James Hunkins
I quick request for help here. I am looking for a way to either convert non-ql formats such as JPG or BMP to _SCR or to display them full screen so that I can do a capture into the _SCR format. Any quick suggestions, other than from GIF (color count is too limited)? Thanks, jim

Re: [ql-users] display or convert non _scr formats to _scr

2005-01-10 Thread James Hunkins
I tried it on QPC but it didn't seem to want to start? Is there something special I need to do with it? jim On Jan 10, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Marcel Kilgus wrote: James Hunkins wrote: I quick request for help here. I am looking for a way to either convert non-ql formats such as JPG or BMP to _SCR

Re: [ql-users] display or convert non _scr formats to _scr

2005-01-10 Thread James Hunkins
if I don't have a current copy. Thanks, jim On Jan 10, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Marcel Kilgus wrote: James Hunkins wrote: I tried it on QPC but it didn't seem to want to start? Is there something special I need to do with it? EX photon;'filename' Marcel ___ QL

Re: [ql-users] display or convert non _scr formats to _scr

2005-01-10 Thread James Hunkins
to the SCR format or, I think this is what I used to do, display that graphics image on QPC full screen and then use one of the capture programs such as snatch to save it as a SCR image. Jim On Jan 10, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Hunkins [EMAIL

Re: [ql-users] camera (was Lynx 282)

2005-01-09 Thread James Hunkins
This is absolutely hit and miss, depending on the software, updates, manufacturer of system and camera, other software, etc. (IE: ouch). Simple solution - buy a Mac or better yet, do we have someone volunteering to write all the drivers and design the hardware for our system? (in case

Re: [ql-users] Subject ? ? ? ?

2005-01-09 Thread James Hunkins
I believe in this case, it would be the thing at the bottom of the ? jim On Jan 9, 2005, at 1:53 PM, David Tubbs wrote: can anyone tell me what the point is ? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Subject ? ? ? ?

2005-01-09 Thread James Hunkins
Sorry about that, been working on the QDT install database for 3 days now and my mind is having problems being serious about much of anything :) Actually, subject lines are very important and a continuing frustration to me - and definitely not only on this mail list. I treat subject lines

Fwd: [ql-users] QDT User Manuals

2005-01-04 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Malcom, http://www.jdh-stech.com For quick access to the documentation directly, you can use (note that this address may change in the future but is listed for your convenience for right now)... http://www.jdh-stech.com/QDT/documents.html By the way, for anyone looking at the

Re: [ql-users] QDT Demo

2005-01-04 Thread James Hunkins
Glad it is working for you so smoothly. If you do hit any problems, there is an errata and FAQs page on my website. I am racing towards a full release copy and both Roy Wood and Jochen Merz are the distributers who you can order through. And believe me - big difference between the demo and

Re: [ql-users] QDT User Manuals

2005-01-04 Thread James Hunkins
Thanks, anything will help. I already got some good feedback from Per and will start working on incorporating it and anything else I hear probably on Sunday, if not before. Cheers, jim On Jan 4, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Hunkins [EMAIL

Re: [ql-users] OT: Calling Jim Hunkins

2005-01-03 Thread James Hunkins
That email is invalid (was closed out over a year ago) - we are doing some spam filtering on the sight. The best way to contact me concerning any QDT specific item is either through the email link on the website or directly with contact at jdh dash stech dot com. You can also use jimh instead

[ql-users] QDT User Manuals

2005-01-03 Thread James Hunkins
Out of curiosity, has anyone grabbed any of the user manuals for QDT from my website yet (3 so far, more on the way). They are rather large (PDF and with graphics) but I am hoping that they will be useful. Before I start reducing them to plain text forms for inclusion, I would really

[ql-users] spam from this archive?

2005-01-03 Thread James Hunkins
, at 2:25 PM, Dave P wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, James Hunkins wrote: By the way, in case you are curious, on my website, the email addresses are shown in graphics format and the links are done through encrypted java code. Just to let you know how serious I am about trying to block my business

Re: [ql-users] QDT Demo

2005-01-02 Thread James Hunkins
Some more great feedback - keep it coming everyone, as it is most useful. Here are some responses below... On Jan 1, 2005, at 6:33 PM, François Van Emelen wrote: 1)I have a 'UNKOWN' folder that doesn't contain any object. I tried to add one in this folder(as I did in 'APPS') but QDT prompted a

Re: [ql-users] QDT Demo

2005-01-02 Thread James Hunkins
The demo should be OK for the unknown folder since no objects are being placed in it on this version. The sizing issue that Roy has discovered will be fixed in the full release. Cheers, jim JDH Software Technologies On Jan 2, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dent

[ql-users] Fwd: QDT Demo

2005-01-02 Thread James Hunkins
Glad you were able to get it installed. You did run into the file/dir name length limits built into our systems. And QDT does use sub-directories. Will add a note to the FAQs page just in case someone else hits this. Cheers, jim JDH Software Technologies On Jan 2, 2005, at 7:08 AM, Dent

Re: [ql-users] QDT Demo

2005-01-02 Thread James Hunkins
Still no excuse for me. After these years at Apple, you would think that I would be more consistent on every part of the interface :) Plus, many users of this probably won't be used to the PC side of things so I shouldn't be making that kind of assumption. Will definitely take care of these

[ql-users] QDT Demo

2005-01-01 Thread James Hunkins
Personally I would like someone to add on a 3D sculptured look to the QDT windows - which are essentially flat at present. Then the 'eye candy' appeal will be even greater. Scheduled is a finish to implementation of full color palettes and themes, which will include more of the 3D look that

Re: [ql-users] QL Today - David McCann - Q60 Blues

2005-01-01 Thread James Hunkins
On Jan 1, 2005, at 6:14 AM, Malcolm Cadman wrote: QDT takes that approach by scanning the 'windrive' contents, so that it sets up a users system for them. It tries to take away all the 'pain' from the user ! Note that, even with the pre-scanning of the drive and other work that QDT does the

Re: [ql-users] not QDT Demo

2005-01-01 Thread James Hunkins
So much for using my mail filters to sort anything with QDT in the topic :) Thanks for making the topic clear for me though! Cheers, jim On Jan 1, 2005, at 7:49 AM, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Can you do me a bit of a favor? Change the subject line if you want to keep talking about this other stuff?

[ql-users] QDT Demo

2004-12-31 Thread James Hunkins
On Dec 31, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Malcolm Cadman wrote: I actually did try it from the Demo floppy as it has LRUN flp1_QDINST_BAS printed on it. Although it didn't seem to want to start from there. Did the basic program not run? If it did run, what did you type in when it asks where the installer

Re: [ql-users] Back to the QL

2004-12-30 Thread James Hunkins
Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP I like to have a basic BOOT program to get a working system, and put everything else into a 'boot1'. I don't really see the point in that unless you are using the JM ROM This also is just makes it a pain if anyone wants to do an automatic installation

Re: [ql-users] QDT Demo

2004-12-30 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Malcolm, Could you forward me separately to the email address below copies of: - install_log file (should be either in your win1_QDTINST_ folder or more likely in your win1_QDT_ folder (assuming that is where you installed it)? - qdt.log (should be in your win1_QDT_ folder, same assumption)

Re: [ql-users] infozip

2004-12-30 Thread James Hunkins
On Dec 30, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Rich Mellor wrote: You will also need to include the signal extensions with that in the installer (same as I use for QWord installer) and zip the files with the latest version of zip (v2.2 - also from same source). Which signal extensions are you referring to?

Re: [ql-users] infozip

2004-12-30 Thread James Hunkins
Actually yes AND no... Infounzip needs the signal extensions but will function properly (well sort of) without them :-) Phoebus Phoebus, Just what is this (well sort of) behavior you are describing? With the copy of unzip that I included with the demo, I get some warning about non-qdos

Re: [ql-users] QDT Demo

2004-12-30 Thread James Hunkins
Confirmed, please be sure to use the included files (basic program and the included unzip) to install. Using a newer version of infounzip will not work. Thanks, Jim Hunkins JDH Software Technologies ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] infozip

2004-12-30 Thread James Hunkins
this ;) Cheers, jim On Dec 30, 2004, at 4:00 PM, Phoebus Dokos wrote: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:19:15 -0800,() James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote: Actually yes AND no... Infounzip needs the signal extensions but will function properly (well sort of) without them :-) Phoebus Phoebus, Just what

Re: [ql-users] infozip

2004-12-30 Thread James Hunkins
: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes  Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:19:15 -0800,() James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote: Actually yes AND no... Infounzip needs the signal extensions but will function properly (well sort of) without them :-) Phoebus Phoebus

Re: [ql-users] QL Today - David McCann - Q60 Blues

2004-12-30 Thread James Hunkins
What, you talk out of your a## - no comment :) Actually thanks for the Kudos but you have actually missed the point of the 'complex piece of software engineering'. The intent of QDT is to make things as simple and intuitive as possible. The installer is (hopefully) a case of this. With the

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