??? 11/3/2002 9:44:47 ��, ?/? Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??????:
>After the Hove show some of us went to a pub and discussed a bit about >the future of the QL. On the drive home I talked some more with Jochen >and in the end we decided to take the development of SMSQ/E into our >(well, probably mainly my) hands. Please no discussion about open >source etc at this point, discuss that with Tony. With the situation >as it is I'm unfortunately(!) the only one who can change anything >(related to SMSQ/E that is). > That is really exciting news indeed :-) >I have already done some stuff and before any of that gets "official" >I'd like to get your opinions. > >We agreed that the main problem is that we have the colour drivers but >basically don't use them. > >So the first thing I did was to implement the BGCOLOUR command in a >way that it doesn't need any additional memory. I thought it's >ridiculous that a simple blue (or whatever) background could take up >more than 1MB of RAM. Now it doesn't need one byte. BGIMAGE still >needs much ram but there one needs a copy of the image anyway, so >that's ok. I expect that there are no objections so far ;-) > >The second problem I addressed (and I really want your input on that >one) is that WMAN still can't use the extended colours. Fortunately ><large portion snipped> IMHO what should be done is to leave WMAN alone and work on an entire new PE that could give the QL a whole new GUI, there all new developments and features could be implemented without sacrificing compatibility with older apps (since the original PE would still be in place). There the common "look and feel" as well as other features could be implemented from scratch neatly and correctly taking into account all possible QL platforms. So far there was no point in proposing such a thing given the fact that TT wasn't really doing anything new and in any case wasn't actually listening to the users proposals etc... There are a LOT of ideas flying around but no one with enough in-depth knowledge of SMSQ/E to implement them... now I think that gap is closed :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus R. Dokos - Quantum Leap Software Web and Graphic Design - Custom Program Solutions Tech Support - Software Localization Web: http://www.dokos-gr.net ICQ#:34196116 / SMS:+30973267887 SMS:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
