Hi,
Just received the November/December 2004 QL Today issue.
Which contains a nice present of the Demo version of QDT - QL Desk Top - by Tim Hunkins, on a floppy disk.
I haven't got it working yet, after a couple of hours, which is probably my fault and I will investigate further tomorrow.
A few comments on the installation.
The version of InfoZIP as supplied is 5.21b (jh) which is older than the version that I have which is 5.32.
The latter threw up some errors with some of the Icon files.
After I had got past that problem, by using the supplied InfoZIP, the QDT Desktop Installer finally appeared.
Initially I found it confusing, as all the text boxes were blank ( black ), and none of the four boxes across the lower part of the window had any contents either.
The screen shot on the top of page 41 of QL Today showing the Installer has the bottom right hand box as being 'Exit'. It took a while to realise that this is actually the box that you click on to progress with the automated setup. The word 'Exit' suggests that it will end the session rather than continue.
After realising that the 'Exit' box is actually the one to click on, it proceeds smoothly, although it takes some time to scan the win_drive(s), inevitably.
May I suggest that Installer shows a 'Continue' or 'Next' prompt in the bottom right box ? Then the user knows it is safe to proceed.
Also a message saying 'Please wait to complete ... scanning activity shown by the spinner may take some time'.
I used the 'Advanced' option for the boot file, as I have more that one boot file.
After the installation had successfully completed, I added the recommended alterations to the boot file contained in the 'Change' file that QDT saves during its installation.
Although, at present, the boot file runs OK. QDT itself is not running for some reason.
I have installed it with QPC2 v3.23 to a Zip Drive disk which is Drive D: in DOS/Windows and win2_ in QPC.
-- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
