On 05/01/12 12:38, David Currie wrote:
>> On 04/27/12 15:55, David Currie wrote:
>>> what is a diff? is it the output from diff original new?
>>
>> A 'diff' is the output of diff(1) comparing the old and new file, eg:
>>
>> diff -u foo.old foo.new
>>
>> The nice thing about a "universal diff" is it can be
>> applied to existing code with patch(1).
>>
>> See 'man diff 1' and 'man patch 1', or
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff
>>
>>> Having seen it I would guess NOT. What is ABI?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface
>>
>>> Please explain STR and diff and confirm task.
>>
>> STR is a Software Trouble Report.
>> It's FLTK speak for 'File a bug report', eg:
>> http://fltk.org/str.php
>>
>
> Running the program example at
> http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/tmp/browser-ansi-test.cxx
> (linked) against fltk-1.3.x-r9359 (libraries) produced NO colour.
Right, as it should, as it is dependent on the patch.
> I tried to patch the file at
> http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/tmp/ansi-patch-03-09-2008.txt
>
> to fltk-1.3.x-r9359/src/Fl_Browser.cxx and it gave several errors.
> I assume version mismatch. It appeared to be patching 1.1.x not 1.3.x ??
Most likely. Note the date on the patch is 2008.
1.3 didn't come into existence until 2010.
> I would like to look at the the ansi test (Fl_Browser.cxx) so it will help me
> see how
> the underscore capability is done so that it can be embedded into
> Fl_Text_Display.
>
> I cant really continue without this info as a patchfile alone is insufficient.
>
> Please can someone advise how to proceed ?
Yes, 1.3.x has probably changed a bit since 2008.
To proceed, you or someone would have to be a manual merge
of the patch.
I'm on other stuff at the moment, but when I can I'll try
to supply a more recent patch.
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