Also, I should add that I'm in the IRC channel if anyone wants to talk
picogui.
Ed
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Edward Robbins
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Cool, some people still use this! I sent my mail twice (and registered
> twice) because I sometimes have trouble with mailing lists and
> gmail/googlemail domain confusion, and I hadn't seen my own email come back
> from the list so was also thinking that maybe the mailing list was broken.
>
> You can find my efforts here: https://github.com/static-void/picogui
>
> I haven't really gotten too far with it yet, just got it to build. Also
> note that I just copied my whole directory so there's a lot of junk (like
> ".svn" folders) that I haven't cleaned up yet. As I said the X driver
> works, but none of the others I've tried really do. I tried the ncurses
> earlier driver - it starts but is a bit messed up. svgalib driver is
> broken. What's bugging me the most at the moment is that most of the themes
> don't seem to work properly. I switched to a 32-bit vm to test it out, and
> I mostly get
>
> *** ERROR (BADPARAM) : Stack overflow in fillstyle interpreter
>
> or similar. Unfortunately while I'm pretty comfortable with C/C++ and
> automake, flex and yacc are uncharted territory so I don't know how I'll
> get on there. The theme stuff looks pretty cryptic, and I'm not sure if the
> problem is in pgserver or themec. At least (some) of the apps seem to work
> ok, even without a theme, or with a very basic one.
>
> Thanks for getting back to me,
> Ed
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:35 PM, M. Elizabeth Scott <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> Nice to see that someone's still interested in using PicoGUI. If you do
>> move it to github give me a shout, and I'll update the web site with a
>> prominent link.
>>
>> As for why I gave up on it... life happens. It was fun to work on for a
>> few years, then I needed to move on. The project might have lived on if
>> there was more interest in it, but it never had enough momentum to continue
>> on without me :(
>>
>> —beth
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Edward Robbins <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I guess that now, 10 years later, this list is pretty dead (like the
>>> website). I know picogui from my psion days, and I decided to use picogui
>>> for some development work because it's still much faster than anything else
>>> out there, and when you need a gui that can run multiple apps on a 150MHz
>>> ARM9 machine with 32MB RAM you need something faster than X windows, and
>>> something that doesn't need any real graphics capabilities. Being able to
>>> run multiple SDL programs, and already having a terminal app, are also big
>>> wins. Looking around, picogui is still really the only thing that fits the
>>> bill for this without investing serious amounts of time... why did you give
>>> up on it!?
>>>
>>> Anyway, I spent most of yesterday hacking, and managed to get the 0.46
>>> build system and code updated to the extent that it now builds on a modern
>>> OS. Unfortunately there are 64-bit compatibility issues with themec, which
>>> I still need to look into, and I think that maybe the linux framebuffer has
>>> changed since picogui's heyday (when I run the framebuffer servers I get
>>> random looking text all over the screen - I'd be interested if anyone knows
>>> anything about fixing this). But the x11 driver seems to work just fine.
>>>
>>> I'm going to put the updated code onto github soon, and then look into
>>> the x64 issues, then the framebuffer, then hopefully I can start writing
>>> the apps I want, and getting it to build with an ARM cross compiler. I
>>> don't think I'll actually be improving the code unless I run into bugs, but
>>> thought someone out there might be interested anyway.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ed
>>>
>>>
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