On 24 September 2013 22:35, François Van Emelen < [email protected]> wrote:
> Per Witte schreef op 24/09/2013 19:09: > >> On 24 September 2013 18:38, Per Witte <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Great DVD! Nice last read! I particularly enjoyed Marcel's piece on how >>> QPC came to be. Thanks for that. >>> >>> Now its over, mainly due to the lack of copy and readers, which in turn >>> is >>> probably due to much reduced activity. For my part, I stopped >>> contributing >>> due to the almost total lack of feedback. You spend hours of free time on >>> something, doing your best to make it relevant, intelligible and >>> enjoyable, >>> and then pour it into a black hole. Pointless. In my case, it was >>> probably >>> the QL-community telling me to shut up and take up knitting instead; in >>> the >>> case of Norman and others, perhaps it was merely the silence of eager >>> anticipation. The problem is it is virtually impossible to tell the >>> difference! Duh! In a commercial environment feedback is amply provided >>> in >>> terms of profit/loss (and complaints), however on the free/open/voluntary >>> scene it is much harder to tell whether more of the same is wanted, >>> correction is needed, or whether its time to change tack. I think that >>> this >>> laziness(?) is one of the reasons for our rapid demise. >>> >>> Thanks to those who persevered for so long! Goodbye QLToady! >>> >>> Per >>> >>> PS I havent put QPC v4.00 though its paces yet. At the moment all I can >> say >> is that it just works! I think it was a splendid initiative to make it >> generally available (at least to all QLT readers). I hope we'll see a >> whole >> bunch of new QPCers come crawling and blinking out of the microdrive >> undergrowth and into the light to see what the fuss has been about these >> past 17 years. Perhaps therell be a mini-renaissance? >> >> So, heres a welcome gift to new and old QPCers: >> >> 1 REMark Minimise Button >> 2 REMark pjwitte Sep 2013 >> 3 : >> 4 REPeat loop: BUTTON_WAIT "MINIMISE",,,2: BEEP 2,2: QPC_MINIMIZE >> 5 : >> Compile and include in your boot program with EX <path>Minimise_exe. If >> the >> Button frame is active itll put itself there. It requires Qmenu >> (menu_rext), a commercial proram by JMS, also included with many >> commercial >> PE programs from JMS and others. A must-have in the PE world. >> >> Per >> ______________________________**_________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/**smsqe.htm<http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm> >> >> >> Hi Per, > > Thank you for that oneliner ... but shouldn't the compiled prog be > Minimise_obj (QLib) or Minimise_task (turbo) instead of Minimise_exe. > Lack of feedback? You can't expect hunderds of feedbacks from a community > of a few tens of persons, can you? > > This is the first reaction to your prog, I am sure others will follow. > > François Van Emelen > > Hundreds would have been nice. Sometimes just one might have been enough. > > obj/task/exe: Notice I didnt specify which compiler? I didnt want to risk > starting a war.. ;) > > > Per > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
