Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.
This seems a bit like Barry Ansell, who wrote PD3. He do not want to make it public, instead say to Dilwyn to delete all things from him. Even if PD3 wasn't bug free. As far as I know, I have bought the last licence of T97 from QBranch. No other is available. - Original Message - From: "RWAP Software" On 2016-11-04 19:09, Ralf Reköndt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Geoff Wicks"I am not sure whether I was the writer of the tools that Rich refers to, Text87 was always the most difficult of the QL word processors as no one has ever been able to unravel the file formatting. I will never understand, why Fred does not open this format. ___ QL-Users Mailing List Has anyone approached him recently to ask about publishing the information about the file format? I know he doesn't want to make Text87 freeware (you can still purchase it from Jochen I think) but the file format might be a good idea - assuming it isn't used in any other projects and that is why ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] RWAP Software 30th Anniversary
For those who are not part of the QL Forums 1st November 2016 marked the 30th Anniversary of the launch of RWAP Software. I am running a few competitions and releasing some of my titles as freeware as part of the celebrations! Keep your eyes on the QL Forums for news... www.qlforum.co.uk --- Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.
On 2016-11-04 19:09, Ralf Reköndt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Geoff Wicks"I am not sure whether I was the writer of the tools that Rich refers to, Text87 was always the most difficult of the QL word processors as no one has ever been able to unravel the file formatting. I will never understand, why Fred does not open this format. ___ QL-Users Mailing List Has anyone approached him recently to ask about publishing the information about the file format? I know he doesn't want to make Text87 freeware (you can still purchase it from Jochen I think) but the file format might be a good idea - assuming it isn't used in any other projects and that is why --- Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.
- Original Message - From: "Geoff Wicks"I am not sure whether I was the writer of the tools that Rich refers to, Text87 was always the most difficult of the QL word processors as no one has ever been able to unravel the file formatting. I will never understand, why Fred does not open this format. ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.
On 04/11/2016 08:57, RWAP Software wrote: On 2016-11-03 20:12, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening Marcel, Up until I added the DJToolkit entries, everything else was as Rich's original. So the cease and desists should be pointed in his direction! ;-) When I have time, unless anyone else does it first, I'll see if I can add in your other QPC commands and maybe the ones from Smsqemulator as recently updated by Wolfgang. Lunch hours are few and far between right now a I have a huge migration of an Oracle system from Solaris to "the cloud" as my raisin d'etre (!) At the moment. I suppose I better do a "how to" just on the off chance that anyone is interested in updating the manual! And I had noticed your links on QLForum too! I was glad to see good use being made of my hard work, but obviously huge thanks must be directed at Rich for the original work. I'm merely taking the glory for the work of others! The SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual was of course a huge project - whilst there were originally 3 of us involved in writing it (myself, Franz Hermann and Peter Jaeger), I took on the mantel before its original publication, and it was then published in 2 large A4 ring binders, over 1500 pages in total; but released in that format to make it possible to issue updates. We released 4 updates to the original over the years, and then it was converted to PDF and sold on CD-ROM, but I ran out of time and resources to do any more updates to the manual, so there are probably a lot of commands and information which could still be added (for example, changes to SMSQ/e since about 2010). The conversion to HTML format as a community project which could be easily updated by all then made the next sensible step, but with the manual written in Text87 format, this required a lot of re-formatting, which has now been done to a very high standard, thanks to tools originally written by myself and (Geoff Wicks I seem to recall), and then improved on by Norman to whom I am very much grateful. Now is the time for everyone else to start updating and contributing to the manual to keep it current and ensure that it remains the must have reference to SuperBASIC programming knowledge. Rich Mellor www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List I am not sure whether I was the writer of the tools that Rich refers to, but flattering to know I might have been. Text87 was always the most difficult of the QL word processors as no one has ever been able to unravel the file formatting. One things that has not had sufficient attention is that the new version of the SuperBasic manual is not only online, but is also downloadable in three different formats. Pdf is a massive 2.16MB, Best wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Italian meeting
On 04/11/2016 09:32, d.santachi...@libero.it wrote: Hi everybody, I take again the chance to inform that if anybody is interested to make even a very short speech at our Italian meeting on Sunday 20th of November, subscriptions are open :-) Subjects for intervention are free (i.e. QPC2, SMSQ/E, software or hardware etc.), baseline is to manage everything via web-ex sessions. Instead if there are listeners interested I would need their email address to send-out the web-ex link (which can be used also on e.g. tablets with the appropriate app). Regards Davide ___ QL-Users Mailing List Davide, I have forwarded this to Tetroid in case he would like to talk about his existing Trump Card clone and his new interface (which is just being tested) You can see some details of his new interface at: http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1670 Might not be too easy for him as he lives in Russia - so I guess it depends whether he is confident to speak in another language as I assume there will not be many Russian speakers at the meeting! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Italian meeting
d.santachi...@libero.it wrote: > I take again the chance to inform that if anybody is interested to make even > a very short speech at our Italian meeting on Sunday 20th of November, > subscriptions are open :-) > > Subjects for intervention are free (i.e. QPC2, SMSQ/E, software or hardware > etc.), baseline is to manage everything via web-ex sessions. I have just written to Georgio that as far as I can see I have time on that day, but that I don't really have anything in the pipeline QL wise and so I'm not sure what to talk about. Cheers, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] QL Italian meeting
Hi everybody, I take again the chance to inform that if anybody is interested to make even a very short speech at our Italian meeting on Sunday 20th of November, subscriptions are open :-) Subjects for intervention are free (i.e. QPC2, SMSQ/E, software or hardware etc.), baseline is to manage everything via web-ex sessions. Instead if there are listeners interested I would need their email address to send-out the web-ex link (which can be used also on e.g. tablets with the appropriate app). Regards Davide ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Alpha blend test
Giorgio Garabello wrote: > Hello everyone, these days I'm enjoying experimenting with alpha blend > command, is really interesting. > I tried to apply different degrees of transparency on the various graphics > commands but was not able to apply it to the PAPER command, Well, the PAPER command does nothing itself. Just a subsequent CLS does this, and that does not alpha-blend by design, because it should *clear* the screen. > My aim is to be able to create a transparent window on which placing > information. Just don't call CLS on it and emulate the PAPER background using BLOCK. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Alpha blend test
Hello everyone, these days I'm enjoying experimenting with alpha blend command, is really interesting. I tried to apply different degrees of transparency on the various graphics commands but was not able to apply it to the PAPER command, My aim is to be able to create a transparent window on which placing information. Someone can help me? Giorgio ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.
On 2016-11-03 20:12, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening Marcel, Up until I added the DJToolkit entries, everything else was as Rich's original. So the cease and desists should be pointed in his direction! ;-) When I have time, unless anyone else does it first, I'll see if I can add in your other QPC commands and maybe the ones from Smsqemulator as recently updated by Wolfgang. Lunch hours are few and far between right now a I have a huge migration of an Oracle system from Solaris to "the cloud" as my raisin d'etre (!) At the moment. I suppose I better do a "how to" just on the off chance that anyone is interested in updating the manual! And I had noticed your links on QLForum too! I was glad to see good use being made of my hard work, but obviously huge thanks must be directed at Rich for the original work. I'm merely taking the glory for the work of others! The SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual was of course a huge project - whilst there were originally 3 of us involved in writing it (myself, Franz Hermann and Peter Jaeger), I took on the mantel before its original publication, and it was then published in 2 large A4 ring binders, over 1500 pages in total; but released in that format to make it possible to issue updates. We released 4 updates to the original over the years, and then it was converted to PDF and sold on CD-ROM, but I ran out of time and resources to do any more updates to the manual, so there are probably a lot of commands and information which could still be added (for example, changes to SMSQ/e since about 2010). The conversion to HTML format as a community project which could be easily updated by all then made the next sensible step, but with the manual written in Text87 format, this required a lot of re-formatting, which has now been done to a very high standard, thanks to tools originally written by myself and (Geoff Wicks I seem to recall), and then improved on by Norman to whom I am very much grateful. Now is the time for everyone else to start updating and contributing to the manual to keep it current and ensure that it remains the must have reference to SuperBASIC programming knowledge. Rich Mellor www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
