Hi Emile,
A few Linux notes below.
On Dec 21, 2006, at 3:21 AM, Emile SCHWARZ wrote:
1. Control Text Size (and drawing baselines)
Very simple, BevelButton Captions fit the standard size
(BevelButton boundaries) with the standard font and standard size
(System and 0).
If you'd like to see these look right, start X11 on your Mac, in the
Xterm provided, ssh to your Linux box and then in that session set an
environment variable:
export DISPLAY=your_mac_IP_address:0
i.e.:
export DISPLAY=192.168.1.32:0
Start REALbasic in the ssh session and the Linux IDE will appear on
the Mac's display.
Now, all of your controls look correct. The difference (I believe)
is that most Linux systems default to the 100DPI fonts on the X11
display and the RB platform does not take that into account for
baseline settings.
2. The Language Reference
-------------------------
No change at all. It may not be REAL's fault, but it is totally
unusable, a REAL shame. I have to place the Pentium IV machine
beside the PowerBook and check the LR there...
Yes - that is very ugly. And, I've actually had the LR crash the IDE
when it is trying to start. However, there are dependencies on the
Mozilla version you've got installed on your Linux box. Have you
updated Mozilla to the latest version?
3. Where are the REALbasic Icons ?
----------------------------------
No green cubist icon on the projects files, no icons either in my
application (built on Linux, but who comes from the PowerBook where
I have a nicce set of icons). Maybe I do not notice some warning
somewhere...
The icons are not associated with the applications under X11 the way
that they are in Mac OS X. You actually need to place Icons into /
usr/share/pixmaps and then create an appropriate app-default entry
that assigns the icon to the app. Of course, this does lead to one
question for the REAL guys - do Linux apps adhere to the app-default
configuration settings?
5. The Touch Pad
----------------
I have a problem with the touch pad 'click' function (default
feature under Windows and Linux). I resolved the trouble under
Windows by using the ad hoc driver, but I do not found one for
Linux. So in the use of REALbasic, I probably do some nasty things
and get weird results. Part of that is my fault (in some way).
That is a Linux issue rather than a REALbasic issue. I have an Acer
laptop and the touchpad works as it should. I suspect that there's
something about your particular touchpad that your Linux distribution
doesn't like. Have you tried a different Linux distro such as Fedora
Core 5 or 6, Ubuntu, or PCLinux?
6. The MemoryStick case
-----------------------
You still cannot run a project opened from a MemoryStick (mine in
all cases ... it is a 512 MB MS-DOS FAT32 formatted).
Add a warning at project Open time for example if you cannot (do
not have the time now to do it) squash that problem. That warning
would say: "you can modify and save the project, but you will not
be able to run it until you copy it in the main hard disk" or
something that have this meanings...
This is also a Linux issue. By default, MSDOS formatted filesystems
are mounted with the noexec flag set (meaning you can't execute
programs from the filesystem). This is done to protect your system
by preventing somone from walking up with a flash drive, inserting it
into the socket and then running a harmful application from the flash
drive. If you want this to be different, reformat the flash drive as
ext2, edit the fstab and remove the noexec flag, or manually remount
the flash drive with the noexec bit turned off.
7. Did I told you lately about the speed ?
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No ? Oh, you're lucky... more than 30 seconds to get the project
running in the IDE !
And this is not a very complex project nor a large footprint on
disk (less than 500KB!)
I've solved this by "renice"-ing the RB IDE. After you start the RB
IDE, open a second xterm and determine the IDE's process ID using 'ps
-ax | grep REAL' like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ps ax | grep REAL
5210 pts/3 S+ 0:14 ./REALbasic2007
5245 pts/4 S+ 0:00 grep REAL
Once you have the process ID (5210 in this example), use the renice
command and set the priority to 19:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ renice 19 5210
5210: old priority 0, new priority 19
That resets the RB IDE's priority to 19 and the threads then interact
as they should. Project compile and start times become much more
acceptable.
Granted, REAL should do something about this themselves, but you can
get around it.
I'll leave the other REALbasic-specific issue for the REAL team, but
hopefully I've provided some tips on using RB under Linux that will
help you.
Happy Holidays!
Tim
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Tim Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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