Hi all, This recent spat of silences is really off-topic, imho. About time we got the show back on the road. At least here, in this tiny corner of unreality, our thoughts and opinions matter and can make a difference. So why not put morbid thoughts aside and share with us the very latest developments in the weird, wizzo world of QL computing? Eg: Whats the latest on QPC? on SMSQ/E v3? EasyPtr? High precision maths? SOQL/PPP? Membranes? Q60? the Branagh succession? etc, etc..
Due to my present job I get far too little time to do much development myself. I hope this situation will change over time. Even so, I manage to produce a little something here and tweak a little something there, not much of which will interest anybody apart from myself. But since I go to such lengths and stick my neck out to exhort everyone else, I think I should, in all fairness, make some mention of my own recent activities: I have long been wanting to have some sort of "home directory" facility in Smsq, ie a way for programs to "know" which (sub)directory they were executed from, so that they could easily find any associated resource files, eg configuration files, help files, saved settings, and the like, without any further user input or configuration. It is not quite straightforward to do as there is no single system utility to execute files, and there are also a number of special cases that have to be considered, eg plain Basic or compiled Basic versus normal executables. Id want to have them all work in a similar, "intuitive" way. At present Im trying to get my head wrapped around the Smsq source code relating to all this and to work out a scheme that will satisfy my goals without compromising compatibility and without wasting resources unneccessarily. I dont have a completion date in mind, and it may never work to my (or anyone else's) satisfaction, so dont hold your breath. Another minor project Ive been working on recently is fixing and updating my asm2htm utility (big yawn, everyone!) with a view to enabling it to html-ise the Smsq sources for easy, logical browsing, as an aid to understanding the code - for novice and expert alike. This is now just about complete. I have no intention of re-releasing this program at the present time as that would just be too much trouble for the amount of interest there is in it. However, I hope to produce a html-ised version of the latest version of Smsq, to be included with the next distribution CD, viewable in most modern Windoze/Linux/Mac browsers. As asm2htm now supports style sheets, and also differentiates more elements of the code than previous versions, it should be simple enough for the punter to modify the appearance according to taste and need. Personally, I think the output is impressive. Whether anyone apart from me finds it useful is another question. So you see, Im not all mouth and no fingers, I hope you agree. Thats basically all from me for now. Over to you. Per
