> On Feb 9, 2025, at 10:48 AM, Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I think that I managed to finish support for yout V8F format for opening and > saving. > Try this new build: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/kasmar_g.zip > > Laaca
:-) I did a couple quick tests… Loaded an existing V8F for Turkish and exported it to a new V8F format. Loaded a “Stargate Ancient” raster bitmap font which I created and exported it to V8F format. Definitely worked and had no issue loading them using VFONT. What does “save as blanks” do? The exported CP857.V8F files was 6 bytes larger. I did not do a full analysis. But, the increase in size was expected for the inclusion of the additional Code Page information block. I also typed the new file and saw it preserved the “turkish” comment in the header. (Forgot I put that in there) :-) The Stargate font was larger than expected. Being only A-Z and 0-9 (36 characters) need changed, the rest of the characters in the bitmap font don’t need defined. While some matched your pre-defined set, others did not. The resulting file was about 3.9Kb. I did not see a way to simply exclude the others or reset the ones not needed to default. Possibly, just because I am not very familiar with using Kasmar. I did manage to crash KASMAR a couple times. While it was not really KASMAR's fault, there may be something you could do to mitigate the issue. I was running the tests on an Acer AspireOne D250-1924 Netbook. When it boots, I cannot have the USB mouse plugged in otherwise CTMOUSE will not detect a pointing device. With it unplugged, CTMOUSE will detect the crappy trackpad and initialize it. KASMAR works fine when using just the trackpad. If I plug in the USB mouse after boot, it appears to then work. I can use KASMAR without issue when both are present and I only use the Trackpad. However, if I use the USB mouse, KASMAR would frequently crash when accessing the menu bar. Runtime error 216 at $000938E1 $000938E1 $2F00121D It has been a while since I’ve used this machine. But, I thought I’ve used a USB mouse with it previously. So, I fired up PGME to test it there. While it did not crash, it demonstrated some interesting behavior. The USB mouse seemed fine for several seconds. But then, it would freeze and not move again until I moved the trackpad. When I moved the position on the trackpad, the mouse cursor would jump all over the screen (performing the previous USB movement) then settle back down to working correctly. After unplugging and replugging the mouse (either in the program or before launch), it would then work fine in PGME even with repeated program launches. However, continuously moving the mouse while starting PGME totally breaks using either pointing device and requires restarting the program. Replugging the mouse with KASMAR does not improve the problem and it still crashed. Also after this occurred, I would need to replug the mouse for it to work in PGME again. I also tried FreeDOS Edit. The mouse just does not work at all and the trackpad must be used. This also caused the mouse not to work at all in PGME or KASMAR regardless of replugging it. A reboot was then required. So while it is not actually KASMAR that is the issue, it should be possible to prevent that crash. Mostly, I just found it interesting. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
