[ql-users] Event help in C68?
Hey Guys, I have finally decided to join this list as my work on QDT progresses (thanks Marcel for recommending that I try this). Was putting it off due to time constraints but now seems like a good time with a cry or two for help. I could use some assistance in using C68 in the pointer environment in passing an event from one job to another, which I can not currently get to work. I have tried two scenarios. 1) using sms_sevt and sms_wevt - I used the job ID received back as an integer from sms_info for each job . when these were checked they matched the job ID listed with the SBASIC command jobs but did not include any tag info, etc. ? is this the correct job id to use in these calls? If not, how can I obtain the correct ID? - I set the eventlist for sms_wevt = 0xFF so that it would accept any event sent it - sent an event with sms_sevt to the sms_wevt program - nothing received 2) using iop_rptr (enhanced for the upper 8 bits for vectors) and sms_sevt - same job ID as described in 1) - assumed that sms_sevt is actually using the upper 8 bits of the vector list that iop_rptr checks - sent event - nothing received (checked both upper and lower bytes) Can anyone help me with this? If not in C68, then in assembly. I should be able to match the two. I need to do this to communicate between my icon objects and their associated folder in QDT. Thanks, Jim
[ql-users] More C68 help - pointer env; positioning windows
Here's another question while I am at it. Normally when I position a window at an absolute location in the pointer environment, it goes where it belongs. However, I am resizing a window (I manually remove the definition, reset the data structure, and reopen it) and it goes where it belongs every other time. The off times it shoots to the left of the screen, pretty much in parallel with its correct location. The next resize sends it back to where it belongs. It has been suggested that it is because the window position is relative to the cursor, even when I do an absolute address. This sounds familiar and I think that I had this problem before and figured it out. However, I seem to be stuck again. Could someone walk me through the peculiarities of window positioning within the pointer environment. I do not want to set the window relative to the pointer but instead in an absolute location. Thanks guys, Jim
[ql-users] Re: positioning windows
Hi James, It has been suggested that it is because the window position is relative to the cursor, even when I do an absolute address. This sounds familiar and I think that I had this problem before and figured it out. However, I seem to be stuck again. I've got no clue of C68 or assembly programming but I know that what you describe, is NOT the normal case. I have been using EasyPtr (Albin Hessler) for years now and every wanted positioning works very well, before, after resizing, after a wake etc. May be you can have a look at the source code of Albin to overcome your problem?! Much luck, Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] Source Code
... 3/ No distribution of SMSQ/E may be SOLD, except for the official distribution. This interdiction includes that of including and distributing SMSQ/E in Public domain libraries. Official distributions will be sold in compiled (binary) form, possibly together with the official distribution as source code. For such sales, for the time being, two distributors/resellers, namely Jochen MERZ (JMS) and Roy WOOD (QBRANCH) have been appointed by the copyright holder. Resellers provide support for the versions sold by them. ... can you say me how exactly the license requires the resellers to provide support? In our private discussion you went to great lengths to ensure me how they are required to provide support but I can't find absolutely nothing specific about it in this license. Specifically you have promised me that the resellers will be required to fix bugs and hire people for it if they can't do it themselves. Personally I am very disappointed by this license. Lets call things by name. It is not a license but a non-disclosure agreement - why you insist calling it licence is beyound me. You would probably save yourself and others lots of trouble if you would look at some proper commercial NDA. Usually a license would give me some rights, this strange elaborate only gives me the revocable right to read the code. It is also worth noting that the license is subject to change anytime without giving anyone even the slightest guarantees what the next license will look like. This means that anyone who will want to do something with SMSQ will have to seek separate agreements with all other copyright holders, not a pretty situation. The license says the code is copyright TT. This a void claim which only describes the current state. The license is designed to taint SMSQ by 3d party code. There is absolutely no protection against patent traps, the possibility to include code without publicaly available source invites all sorts of copyright trouble and there is also the separate agreements I have mentioned above. The license doesn't say it, but from personal emails with Wolfgang I conclude that there are people who want to write code for SMSQ in exchange for future royalty payments. There is nothing evil about commercial software development but we have a few problems here. There is no choice for the users and other developpers whether they want this 3d party commercial code. A bigger problem here is that some of the developers who want to write SMSQ code for commercial interests also decide about the license, basically this license is their work. For me this is an unfortunate combination, it is a guarantee that SMSQ will never be even close to opensource. Philosophically this is a very interesting concept: People who would like to contribute for free do not even get the right to use their contribution, those who will contribute commercially and seek separate agreements will also receive a share in the decissionmaking of the copyright/licensing as a reward. Interestingly, not all legitimate commercial interests are served equally humbly here. When Peter Graf tried to acquire the right to give away (for free) SMSQ-Q40 binaries in exchange for a substantial payment to TT he was turned down (not because he offered too little money btw). This means that Peter has no means to ensure that SMSQ will be available for the Q40/Q60 in the future - and that after having invested horrendeous amounts of money into SMSQ development for functionality that isn't even implemented until today. Sorry to say but this is just racketeering. Given this precedens it also means that other HW developpers would be completely insane to invest money or effort into SMSQ without special agreements that will only make the overall situation worse. Wolfgang you are welcome to give us your *guarantees* that I am wrong. Last not least, there is the purely practical braindamage of the licence. I did quite frequently write drivers for HW which I didn't have installed myself, with SMSQ I would be required to smail the source changes for each development cycle to someone having the hardware - I am not even allowed to S P E L L the changes over phone line!! Not that I would consider touching the code with a 100 ft pole. If there is 1 good thing about NDA's than its that a closed circle of developers can work relatively free of any hassle. Wolfgang has managed to combine the worst of all possible licenses here. Also the license has interesting holes. Supposedly SMSQ is sold in exchange for giving support, but what is with unfinished products? What happens when there is nobody who would be willing or able to give support and sell SMSQ? I have explained Wolfgang privately why there will never be SMSQ for UQLX with this license. Even if someone does the necessary changes there will be nobody to sell the binary. Neither Jochen Merz nor Roy Wood can not do it -
Re: [ql-users] Re: positioning windows
I've got no clue of C68 or assembly programming but I know that what you describe, is NOT the normal case. I have been using EasyPtr (Albin Hessler) for years now and every wanted positioning works very well, before, after resizing, after a wake etc. May be you can have a look at the source code of Albin to overcome your problem?! Not always. It mostly works, but some of my Easyptr programs do appear at almost random positions after certain events. I've tried the absolute and relative positionings and can't really pin down a firm reason. Obviously seems to depend on what you use and how you do it. Like life. -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
[ql-users] Minerva manual online?
Hi, an UQLX user asked me where he could get Minerva manuals. Any advice? Richard
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