[ql-users] Testing (new email system) please ignore.

2007-07-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Well, if you are reading this, I might as well try to make it interesting ! Ah well, after saying how wonderful Demon were and how I'd never leave, my recent house move stuffed that up. BT told Demon that I had moved so Demon cancelled my account yesterday (2/7/07) - they did send an email to

Re: [ql-users] Testing (new email system) please ignore.

2007-07-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: Well, if you are reading this, I might as well try to make it interesting ! It works, it works - hooray ! Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] macros

2007-11-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dilwyn, I'm looking to write a little utility to record keypresses as macros, if necessary assigning them to a hotkey or altkey for later use. Some processes mean repeated strings of keypresses, so it may be handy to record these keypresses and replay them later with an alt or hot key

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today apology

2007-12-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
gwicks wrote: The QL Today team would like to apologise to our UK subscribers that we have been unable to keep our promise to deliver issue 2 shortly before Christmas. Although the magazine was ready at the end of November it was not possible to print the UK copies immediately. Not a

Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD

2008-01-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dave, Dave Walker wrote: Modern machines have hyperthreaded CPU cores, so you are more likely to load multiple applications and still get decent performance if you have lots of memory available. A good theory, in practice it is let down by either the design of the Core Duo chip or the OS

[Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening one and all, Happy New Year first of all, may 2008 be a happy, healthy and prosperous one for everyone. Windows ate my laptop recently. Over the festive period my Xp system, fired up for the first time in absolutely ages, removed my Linux root drive (partition) without so much as a

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

2008-01-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: As to Norman, I've been using QPC under Wine for quite some time now. I know - I read your article in QL Today recently to see what problems you have had with it. You didn't mention the repeating key problem but did mention extreme slowness. How on Earth did you get

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

2008-01-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Wolfgang, OK, so get 0.9.52 Version 0.9.52 obtained and installed. QPC runs, slowly, and still gives repeating characters - but not all the time. It is now workable - sort of. I notice that if I pause at the keyboard then start typing, I get the repeats. Pressing ENTER a few times then

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

2008-01-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Marcel, cd ~/.wine/dosdevices ln -s /dev/fd0 a:: ln -s /mnt/floppy a: Ok, tried that. No effect. dir flp1_ gave me a header for win1 instead with the sector count for the win drive and not for the floppy. On startup I set dos1_ to be the A:\ drive, and a dir dos1_ gave me A:\ 0/0

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

2008-01-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Wolfgang, Perhaps using a PC formatted floppy is a way around this, for now? Just tried that as well, nothing works. dir flp1_ gives me a stat of the win drive and dir dos1_ (a:\ is configured as dos1_ on startup) gives me 0/0 sectors. :-( Cheers, Norman.

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

2008-01-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Marcel, Could you (and anybody else having increased cursor blink frequency) run this Basic program? Tell me what values it's printing (47 to 50 is normal). Ok, managed to get it to run quite happily - couldn't type it in though, too many foibles with the keyboard. Created a file in

Re: [Ql-Users] Falling Cursor

2008-01-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi George, I notice that many people have a problem with fast cursor flashing. My problem is that sometimes the cursor will not remain where it is placed, by the mouse or cursor keys. Instead it drops directly to the bottom of the screen at a constant, fairly fast, speed. Perhaps 1 1/2

Re: [Ql-Users] Falling Cursor

2008-01-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Marcel, Well, I only noticed 3, none of those running QPC under Windows. And I currently do not have any further ideas in this area because the things told do not add up: I agree - I'm impressed that you are still thinking about it to be honest. SNIP None of the above makes any sense

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-01-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
My own experiences with Laptops are as follows : Sony PCG-FR315S laptop, 512 MB RAM and a P4 processor running about 2.3 GHz. Can't remember when I got it, it was around 2003, no later than December 2003. Running Windows XP (Only for work) and Linux - for everything else. Mandrake of various

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi David, As a single paragraph yours is unreadable. I imagine it would be! However, I sent it from the web interface at work and my copy here in Thunderbird (on Linux) reads perfectly as a number of paragraphs and indeed, looks remarkably similar to that which I sent. I shall forward myself

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Wolfgang, Difficulty is too much of a word. It arrived here as separate lines, but the lines don't linewrap, so I scroll a lot. Spookily enough, your email to me is one long line as well. I've never suffered from this before until David raised the 'fault' with my email all being one

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
was 'under attack'. I shall attempt to refrain in future from using words that may cause confusion. Will learned counsel for the defence please inform the court what he is defending. The less than sensible ? Linux ? Or Norman Dunbar ? You suggested that you knew not what tools Linux had to offer

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Tony, Wonder what's going on? html? I often resolve long lines in Thunderbird by using view | message body as | simple html. I have all my email systems, including work, plus the 1 and 1 webmail system configured to send everything in plain text. It is the standard after all. Up

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: David Tubbs wrote: Please stop, it was enough effort to write a response to Malcolm's request. Ok.no worries. I was not seeking guidence or solutions to problems long past. Don't ask questions then! I admit no knowledge of Linux, am grateful to have avoided a basis

Re: [Ql-Users] IOP_RPTR event vector - where is it documented.

2008-02-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi George, The manual (called description) for TurboPTR and the source code for the extra keywords (tptr510_asm) will give information about WRPTR. All this is on he SQLUG site. The information is sufficient to enable actual programming but there is far too much too put in this

Re: [Ql-Users] IOP_RPTR event vector - where is it documented.

2008-02-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Wolfgang, Use the send_event keyword. (send_event job_id,events) Thanks, I googled for something else and found a reference to the send event trap. Will have a look later. If I PICK the job, or button frame it, then DO it's button, I get the same event both times - $2D with a Key Stroke of

Re: [Ql-Users] Asus EeePc

2008-04-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening all, What you should have is: * tiny fingers * sharp eyesight as both keyboard and screeen are really, really small. uqlx at 800x480 gives on-screen characters 3-4 mm high - So you should be used to read the small print. If you are a 10-finger touch-typist, forget the

Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN internal format?

2008-04-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening John, Thanks for yet more explaining. I discovered (!) that if I take the file_id from the file's entry in the directory and use that to index into the block map (having subtracted 1 first) I get a 'value' which I call stragely, the block number. Multiply that by the number of sectors

Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN internal format?

2008-04-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening David, David Tubbs wrote: It is some time since I was looking into the depths of QXL_WIN, and at that time I found a full and detailed specification of the layout. Not sure where it came from, a web page, not on my current machine but I could look at an old HDD ? I have received

Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN internal format?

2008-04-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Ralf, 8-) Winbackup seems quite a long time ago ;.) WinBack does seem a long time ago - it was the first program I had reviewed in QL World magazine. We must be getting old. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] HD Backup and Qubide HD check

2008-06-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Davide, Which is the latest Norback version? Is the latest version the one available on Dilwyjn web site? Sorry, I don't know. Is there an alternative backup program? WinBack? Also available on Dilwyn's web site. It was written originally to backup a Miracle Hard drive, but as long

Re: [Ql-Users] I want a NEW QL

2008-06-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
Geoff Wicks wrote: Actually given your mention of devils and Wolfgang's QDEVil, I suggest a price of 666 Euros would be appropriate, Ah yes, 666 the number of the beast. Let's not forget though, 667 the neighbour of the beast! :-) Cheers, Norman.

[Ql-Users] QPC and WIne

2008-06-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
A very good evening to one and all, well now, here's a turn up for the books - and a god one at that. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth recently trying to get QPC to run under Linux and Wine, I finally have a working QPC, none of that nasty keyboard repeating problem - so far - and I'm

Re: [Ql-Users] Last Warning

2008-06-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
Geoff Wicks wrote: Just a last warning that my two beeb.net email addresses will disappear next Tuesday. Phew! There was me thinking that it was deadline time again! :-) Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Random

2008-07-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Stephen wrote: Some random number generators such as that in the TrueCrypt encryption program use other factors such as keyboard presses and mouse movements to generate a series of random numbers that don't follow a reproducible pattern as they are independent of the passage of time. Linux's

Re: [Ql-Users] Random

2008-07-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Interestingly, as an aside, if you supply fixed RANDOMISE values beforehand, IIRC it would generate the same sequence of random numbers. It does. Text encryption is of course possible by translating the text to a minority language such as Welsh to render it unreadable to

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Technical Manual

2008-07-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Rich Mellor wrote: Does anyone have a copy of the original QL Technical Manual, or Jochen's QDOS/SMS Reference Guide that they would be willing to sell to someone who has recently returned to the fold? In the case of the first I have 1.03 - but it is well out of date. I'm not selling though.

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Technical Manual

2008-07-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Jochen, Norman, you are right: of course, it is still available from me :-) talking of which, my version is old, very very very old. I bought it many years ago when it first came out and have never had an update so far. What chance do I have of obtaining an up to date copy please - what

Re: [Ql-Users] Random

2008-07-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dennis S wrote: While the Mohawk had their own language, the Navajo were the code talkers in WWII. Duh, sorry, that is entirely correct. Wrong clan! Silly me. Thanks. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Technical Manual

2008-07-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Jochen, how old is it? (Later versions show dates in the center part of the footer of updated pages). Which is the latest date you find there? There are no dates in the footer on any pages! Plus I suspect my QPTR docs are well out of date as well! Cheers, Norman.

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Technical Guide - found an original one for sale!

2008-07-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
SMSQ wrote: Oh! In this case, you definitely never had any updates. I'll think about something and let you know. Thanks Jochen. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Sprites for Games

2008-07-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
Engstler Karsten wrote: is there any extnsions to SuperBasic or packages for C who provide sprite for game programming on the QL ? I think Digital Precision did something with sprites years ago. Can't remember the name though - or if it was included in the DP 'Package' that was created

Re: [Ql-Users] FOUND THIS

2008-07-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
Paul Holmgren wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/d86d60ac12c92da4 Highly amusing wonder who and what it was all about, I think we should be told! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] This time it's for real.

2008-08-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi George, Will I? Will living in Edinburgh help? I suspect you will. To Edinburgh dwellers it will appear as 68000 assembly language - which almost anyone can understand! (Except maybe Geoff!) I am a Highlander but I only have a tiny little bit of Gaelic I'm afraid. I was born too far

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dilwyn, Can anyone help with this query I've just received? Never heard of it - as far as I can remember - on the QL. That's not to say that it wasn't a QL program though! Sorry. Google maybe? Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: Google maybe? Well I tried looking for hypertext +ql or Hypertext +qdos or Hypertext +sinclair - nothing of relevance I'm afraid. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: 25th+AGM news

2008-09-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Tony, I am probably singing in Venice that weekend (8-(# Make the most of it. I read recently that the city council (or equivalent) have given the go ahead to put up neon signs in St Marks! At least I think it was neon - but with my memory, it could have been something else.

Re: [Ql-Users] sub-£100 notebook

2008-09-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Jochen, just a quick word, I received the documentation upgrades safely. Thanks. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QDOSMSQ Update - new forum

2008-09-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi George, This looks interesting but the Traps do not include the large number of additional SMSQ routines such as trap #2 ioa.sown (D0 = 5) which sets the owner of a channel. Yes I know. I was working from the Original QDOS docs, Pennell and Dickens when I originally started this project

Re: [Ql-Users] QDOSMSQ Update - new forum

2008-09-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Geoff, Norman wrote: The forums (fora?) are a separate thing. Geoff Wicks replied: Both are possible. All part of the Just Words! service! Thanks Geoff, I had a funny feeling I'd be hearing from either you or Tony - if he is not in Venice of course! Cheers, Norman.

Re: [Ql-Users] Has QL Today lost half its readers?

2008-10-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning all, Almost three weeks ago Jochen posted an email on this list about the shipping of the latest issue of QL Today. In it he mentioned problems with QBranch that meant we were unable to print and ship the UK orders: Private email sent. Cheers, Norman.

Re: [Ql-Users] SQLUG Website

2008-10-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Per, Norman, your documentation site is great! Thanks. It must have been painstaking work! It was, it is and it will be! I hope people will support it and add to it. I notice a couple of people have signed up recently. That makes them potential updaters as readers don't need to register.

[Ql-Users] Loose Items and sprites.

2008-10-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
Is there any way to use one of the predefined sprites as a loose item object in a manner similar to how we can set the window sprite to 0 and get the default arrow pointer etc. I want to put the default sprites for move, sleep, wake, resize etc into loose items so that I don't end up having the

Re: [Ql-Users] Loose Items and sprites.

2008-10-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Per, Just a quick answer: Are yoiu aware of the document called display_txt in the extras/doc folder in the SMSQ/E sources? It explains the new (and old) sprite formats in great detail. I think you may finbd some mopre answers there.. I was not aware, or if I was, I had forgotten! I

Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-19 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi George, The delay is for those subscribed by QBranch, which is being sorted out I believe. Still, it is a good issue ... so worth waiting for. As far as I'm aware, the first of November is an expected date for this issue. Plus, being so late, we won't have to wait as long as everyone

Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Bill, I retired from work two weeks ago so I hope to rekindle my interest - so far I have not had time ( I'm still a few weeks off full recovery from mitral valve replacement) Take it easy and enjoy your retirement. All the best - Bill Indeed, all the best to you too Bill. Cheers,

Re: [Ql-Users] Loose Items and sprites.

2008-10-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Marcel, The document Per pointed to answers it all (of course, as I wrote it ;-) ). But the sort answer is: a system sprite is what you want. A system sprite definition is quite simpe, it only consists of 2 bytes: a $00 byte and the sprite number you want. The move sprite for example

Re: [Ql-Users] Loose Items and sprites.

2008-10-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening George, Use SETW which will allow any of the SMSQE sprites (all coded easily by words 1, 2 etc) to produce a window and look at the _ASM file produced to see how the spriteare is coded in the window definition. Yes, I figured it out and confirmed it with SETW. A very nice program if

[Ql-Users] Patching EasySource_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to work in hi-colour mode

2008-10-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening all, I have been using EasySourse_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to try and convert my old menu definitions to assembly. It gives me a way to visually design a window and convert that to assembly. Well, that was the theory but it simply won't work under high colour mode. After a wee bit of time

Re: [Ql-Users] Patching EasySource_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to work in hi-colour mode

2008-10-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Of course there is also the EP4 version that has this bug fixed and also doesn't crash when encountering any high colour sprites and stuff. ;-) Which was much harder than it sounds. There's nothing worse, in my opinion, that taking someone else's code and running with it!

Re: [Ql-Users] Patching EasySource_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to work in hi-colour mode

2008-10-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, I remember poor Albin Hessler trying to demonstrate Easyptr to me at a meeting in Germany at some point (Munster?). It's always difficult as a developer/programmer (whatever the correct term is these days!) to demonstrate something to the general public. The developer knows

Re: [Ql-Users] OT : Credit Crunch

2008-10-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Careful Malcolm, John Gilpin might quote these jokes in Quanta like he did Norman Dunbar's recently. Someone publishing my jokes? Which one(s) were they then? On the other hand, Geoff Wicks is the former probation officer, so he may need to take you under his wing as a

Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Now that could be the subject of a few jokes ;-) I feel a new thread coming on - Geoff Wicks Clones jokes :o) Always remember, clones are people two. :-) Actually, has anyone worked out which is the real Dilwyn Jones and which the clone (see page 10 of current issue of

Re: [Ql-Users] Remote Assistance

2008-10-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
hitchies wrote: (it rained yesterday Norman) Of course it did John! :-) Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Deadline approaches

2008-11-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Geoff, I know some of our readers have only had their QL Today for just over a week, but the deadline for issue 2 is next Sunday 16th November. Ha! I'm not worried this time because I know I've sent you two articles! So I refuse to panic this time. ... and the start of a new series

Re: [Ql-Users] Need to know?

2008-11-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
Geoff Wicks wrote: Oops, been watching too many repeats of The Prisoner, but then the clue lies in The Hammer and the Anvil. Must have been the blacksmith then! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Need to know?

2008-11-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Alan, Norman said: Must have been the blacksmith then! I think it is mixture of a stupid answer to a stupid question ... I have no idea about the stupidity of the original question, but my answer certainly was! Mind you, I have no idea what Geoff was referring to when he mentioned

Re: [Ql-Users] Need to know?

2008-11-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Tony, The Prisoner wiki page suggests No6 (Geoff?) asked No2 (Chairman?) to find a replacement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_Into_Anvil Aha, a reference to a TV series that I have never watched and cryptic crossword clues as well. No wonder I didn't have a clue! :-) Thanks for

Re: [Ql-Users] Need to know?

2008-11-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Andy, Andy Barber wrote: Norman Thanks for the useful Wiki on No 6*: But well OT! Stop it, please. * Good episode, though, I though John Drake#/No 6 had gone mad! I think you'll find the wiki stuff wasn't me! I was the recipient of said wiki information as I was puzzled by Geoff's

Re: [Ql-Users] Need to know?

2008-11-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Alan, Sorry if I seemed to infer that your remark was stupid! Ok, no worries. No offence taken at all. Not a bit of ! It was with reference - poorly expressed- to an earlir exchange between Geoff and myself. Ok, no problem. With my memory these days I'd probably forgotten about your

Re: [Ql-Users] Hard directories

2008-11-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Ralf, In the meantime, we are not QL-compatible in some cases, there are programs, which just run under WMAN2, and that is ok. So why can't we have real subdirectories for the harddisk side? A QXL file isn't interchangable. To be honest, I can't find a reason myself why we are still

Re: [Ql-Users] Hard directories

2008-11-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Imagine not being able to use QPAC2 anymore because the directory you want to navigate to is too deeply nested in the tree. That was what I had in mind when I suggested that we also change the directory separator. So if the path is full of '/' (for example) then those are

Re: [Ql-Users] christmas again - my proverbial reqeust

2008-12-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Bill, My son caught a virus on his computer ( He wiped the hard drive - including Windows - no recovery disc???) so it kind of helped him out giving him my old PC. Hmmm. Do you still have your son's old computer? If so, there might be a recovery partition on the disc. If it was a DELL

Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing

2008-12-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't stop it! My HP printer has a menu button upon which is a cancel job option. I also have a button to cancel job as well. Does yours? Cheers, Norman.

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
I don't have that plugin in Firefox 3.0.4 on the Mac and Windows and it works. I do though *hate* flashing on the display. I find it very hard to concentrate on other parts of the display. Works fine on Linux with Firefox 3.04 here as well. I agree about the flashing though, very annoying.

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Geoff, It does seem that there is a problem specific to IE, Ok, I can't resist, . only one problem? Relating to IE I mean, not to the web page itself! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
I suspect I'm not the only one who remembers all those web sites with the little icon/graphic saying something along the lines of Best viewed wit Internet Explorer. Well, the times they are a changin' as one Robert Zimmerman would have probably said! IE is becoming the lame dog of the browser

[Ql-Users] A public and heartfelt thank you

2008-12-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
Just thought I'd mention in a very public place. I was on qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk tonight and it seems that George (Gwilt) has been very busy updating and adding pages. I'd like to say a big thank you to George for this, so thanks George. It is much appreciated. Cheers, Norman.

Re: [Ql-Users] Program updates

2008-12-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
When I first wrote one of my early programs under the PE for DJC (them were the days!) I set the outline to the whole screen and drew m y windows within said outline. Unfortunately, customers complained that when they clicked on another program that was visible behind mine, my program was picked

Re: [Ql-Users] Program updates

2008-12-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Prowess. That's the one, thanks. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Program updates

2008-12-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Per, Luckily, I wasnt suggesting anything of the kind ;o) I only set the outline to the whole screen during the *interactive* process of changing the size Aha, I see now. My mistake, sorry. SNIP Prowess is an alternative window manager. We were discussing an idea for

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Merry X-Mas

2008-12-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Jochen, as I discovered in the past few days that letters within Europe take 10 days or longer (to arrive here), Well, some letters posted in the UK take longer than that to reach other parts of the UK! I would like to report that issue 2 of QL Today Volume 13 has been mailed to its

[Ql-Users] Qstripper finally and at long last has a new home

2008-12-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Time files these days doesn't it? Must be because I'm getting old! I remember announcing a while back that QStripper, my program for taking a quill file and converting it to text, html, DocBook XML, or PDF would be made available on Sourceforge 'soon'. Well, 'soon' turned out to be quite a long

Re: [Ql-Users] Online Quanta Subscriptions

2009-01-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn Jones wrote: pretty sure it wasn't any fault of Jochen's site, althouth the site did want to place a cookie on my computer that IE was blocking because I had opted for strict security settings at the time. Sorry, IE wouldn't know strict security if it leapt up and bit it on the

Re: [Ql-Users] Online Quanta Subscriptions

2009-01-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Malcolm, Is it really not secure to have no password entrance to use a computer that is for personal use ? Possibly not, however, are you in total control of your computer at all times? If yes are you 100% sure? It is only with the advance of networked systems that password entrance

Re: [Ql-Users] Online Quanta Subscriptions

2009-01-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, OK, British-Rail style wrong type of security then. :-) We had the wrong snow today! Ah, so NOT the fault of IE itself then! Yes and no. Windows is insecure. IE is insecure. Outlook [express or otherwise] is insecure. All are set up with defaults that allow your PC to be

Re: [Ql-Users] Updated outlines

2009-01-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Ralf, Of course, that way would be very slow. Hmm, does anyone know, how this works in Windows? No flicker or anything else. How do they do it? Charles Petzold (Petzhold?) is your friend! In Windows, when the window is being dragged around, a message is sent to the application. The

Re: [Ql-Users] Updated outlines

2009-01-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Marcel, No, you *never* paint anything in WM_SIZE. That's what WM_PAINT is for. Argh! I knew that there was something wrong in the information I sent but for the life of me I couldn't see what it was. You are absolutely correct, it is WM_PAINT that you respond to to repaint the

Re: [Ql-Users] Updated outlines

2009-01-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: As to the way windows handles the size changes, I'm pretty sure that much of this is left to the application - some do redraw their entire window every so often (and YES, they DO flicker - Pegasus mail is an example of this), others don't (make the explorer window

Re: [Ql-Users] test

2009-01-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, Test email only, please ignore. I tried to ignore it, but it said that I *had to* ignore it, so if I had ignored it, then I would have followed the instructions in the email and that would have meant that I had not, in fact, ignored it! My brain hurts after that! Cheers,

Re: [Ql-Users] test

2009-01-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Geoff, One thing is certain and that is that I am a liar Which is very similar to my all time favourite : Everything I say is a lie. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QUANTA Magazine

2009-01-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Geoff, PS Please forgive the levity of the email, but today is a very special day. As a sign of respect to our two Scottish QL Today writers I had a rather large wee dram with my haggis, tatties and neeps. Now, who could they be I wonder? Cheers, Norman. PS. Full of finest Scotch

Re: [Ql-Users] slowdown

2009-01-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Andy, It was when I downloaded the file at http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessMonitor.zip My A/V (F-Prot) said it was 'a potential', so I stopped their; better things to do etc... Of all the people in all the world, Mark Russanovich (spelling?) is probably one of the most

Re: [Ql-Users] Soduku

2009-02-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Andy, Andy Barber wrote: Is there a Soduku QL SuperBASIC program that can generate/solve a Soduku grid? I wrote a generate a while back in response to a challenge laid down in QL Toady magazine. It doesn't solve the puzzles it generates though. It is written in SuperBasic only and

Re: [Ql-Users] BASIC Questions.

2009-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Andy, Well someone sent me a Soduko SB program but I have unfortunatly lost it! It looked very interesting I'm asking it it could be reposted, please. That somebody would have been me! Sorry to hear that you lost it though, I do that from time to time. I shall send you another to

Re: [Ql-Users] Astrologer

2009-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, I can't help with the MDV cartridges as I never had that program - for obvious reasons! ;-) I have been trying to help someone transfer some microdrive cartridges to an emulator and am having problems transferring a copy of Astrologer from Digital Precision from microdrive

Re: [Ql-Users] MD5 algorithm in SuperBASIC or 68K assembler?

2009-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Urs, did somebody implement the MD5 algorithm in S*BASIC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5 Not that I am aware of. Or is there a 68K assembler implementation? This could be the base for a Toolkit-command. Not yet! Cheers, Norman. ___

Re: [Ql-Users] Compiling UQLX

2009-03-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Peter, Peter wrote: If you have further questions, try the ql-developers mailing list. at the risk of sounding a little stupid, what ql-developers list do you refer to? I've never heard of it! Thanks. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [Ql-Users] Compiling UQLX

2009-03-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Norman - try this for info: http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Thanks Dilwyn, I have subscribed. Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: That's because it is rarely used :) Address is: ql-develop...@q-v-d.com You subscribe just like you did with ql-users Hi Phoebus, where have

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today article.

2009-03-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Roy, Roy wood wrote: I have spent the last week deliberating about whether to write anything here about the article in QL Today. In some ways I was very disinclined to do it because I did not want it to turn in one of those acrimonious arguments that run on these pages. As I wrote in

[Ql-Users] QStripper - QL Today corrections further updates

2009-04-19 Thread Norman Dunbar
On page 9 of the current issue of QL Today, where the commands to build a subversion repository of my QStripper program's source code, everything has been put on one line. At the top of column two on page 9, it should read as follows: cd src mkdir qstripper cd qstripper svn checkout

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, You'll need the Cygwin distribution to provide the Linux-like environment: www.cygwin.com Be careful, it can be a huge download of 50MB with 6,478 files to install as I found to my cost...oh to know what I'm doing with Linux and Cygwin :-(( Downloading everything by the sound

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: Ok, Cygwin as far as I remember gives you the opportunity to do a download only and to save the files in a given location. That is the best option. It doesn't install anything. Ok, I'll try again! Once downloaded, yo can then run the installer again and tell

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Phoebus, The proper solution for uQLx is for the graphics parts to be abstracted and maybe use SDL or something along the same lines, something that will enable native compilation under Windoze, MacOS etc. That would most likely be QT - in my opinion of course, other opinions are

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows Viewer

2009-07-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Rich Mellor wrote: Has anyone written a windows program which can open Quill documents to display them on screen or print them? Qstripper on Dilwyn's web site? Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

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