On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Webmaster Jim wrote:
I distribute a Win32 build of Lynx 2.8.5, and can't answer the attached questions off the top of my head. Are scroll bars X specific? Does LSS get included in Win32? I used the usual Lynx/Borland build file, IIRC.
> Jeff Pruet wrote:
> Is this build not compiled to use scrollbars? Because I can't get it to
> work with the -scrollbar flag. Lynx just shows the arg list and exists.
> And changing the cfg file doesn't help. Also, lynx -lss \set LYNX_LSS=
> won't let me use a custom lss file, even the examples.
The scrollbar is considered "experimental" and isn't compiled by default. You would have to add "-DUSE_SCROLLBAR" to your CFLAGS when compiling. It should work with ncurses or pdcurses. I haven't used it myself when I compile mingw version, but I can try it when I next do a mingw build
The lss files only apply for a color-style build. In the Borland makefile, you would have had to uncomment CS_DEFS and CS_OBJS if you wanted to build a color-style version. It doesn't appear to be the default. To check the executable (assuming it isn't compressed), you can do "strings lynx.exe" and search for the string "LYNX_LSS". If it isn't there, you didn't build with color-styles.
The problem with the lss file may also be wrong syntax. You can either do: "lynx -lss=c:/programs/lynx/mylssfile.lss" or set an environment variable: "set LSS=c:/programs/lynx/mylssfile.lss". This works fine in my mingw build. With the Borland build, do you need to use forward slashes in the file path or will backslashes work also? It isn't clear from Jeff's note exactly what syntax he tried. Doug
I tried both ways. Specifically, 'lynx -lss=c:/jeff/net/lynx_w32/samples/lynx.lss' caused lynx to show the arg list and then exit, like 'lynx -help'. But, I just now did 'lynx -help
flags.txt' and saw that I don't have the -scrollbar/-lss flags. So Idon't think the build at http://www.bcpl.net/~j1m5path/lynx/ly285r1.zip was compiled to use lss/scrollbars. Sorry for the distraction.
-- Jeff
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