On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 10:37 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > On Sun, 2026-05-10 at 14:44 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > > Better news, > > D. just downloaded and ran the latest version on Windows and it > > seems > > to be working. > It seems there are still problems reading in wide chars in scheme - > this script > (let ((tag "Tremolo")) > (d-DirectivePut-chord-postfix tag ":32") > (d-DirectivePut-chord-display tag "𝅬") > (d-SetSaved #f)) > > when executed on the github windows built Denemo creates a directive > with display field showing as > > �?�� > > which causes the display to barf (as well as upsetting the menus at > the > top!!!) > This would perhaps be the guile interpreter not reading in the wide > characters correctly. So I have a copy of the output on the windows terminal of executing (disp "𝅬") in the Scheme window that emits ?༠So very likely Guile is not expecting UTF8
Richard > > Richard > > > > He screenshotted the terminal when it hangs about for a > > while on startup with a GTK warning message about > > (org.denemo.Denemo > > .. attached is what he got. The second attachment is what the > > terminal > > shows after the program has read in the last opened score. > > However, it is taking a minute to open Denemo each time, which I > > guess > > is Guile wasting time deciding it can't compile .scm files. Oh for > > the > > good old days of Guile 1.8 > > Richard > > > > > > On Sun, 2026-05-10 at 11:00 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > > > On Sun, 2026-05-10 at 09:25 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 09:39 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote: > > > > > Richard, > > > > > Due to the large wait time for the windows version to load, > > > > > should > > > > > [...] > > > > I just downloaded > > > > https://github.com/jbenham2015/Denemo/actions/runs/25471582568/artifacts/6845552000 > > > > and ran it under wine, it didn't take too much time loading, > > > > > > It seems I spoke too soon, I tried re-running Denemo under wine > > > and > > > it > > > hung up the machine completely trying to compile the Scheme > > > libraries. > > > Why it should have started ok when executed from the installation > > > wizard I can't imagine... > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > >
