Re: [ql-users] QL 2004 Eindhoven
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:53 AM Subject: [ql-users] QL 2004 Eindhoven Hi all, This was a really good meeting. I haven't seen so many people on a QL-show in the last 10 years. Very special to me was the presence of people of so many countries: UK, Germany, Netherland, France, Belgium, Italy, Koratia, Norway and even USA! Great! We even saw women there and kids. Okay one kid, Tony's son, to be honest. :-) Wished this could happen more often. Thank you very much Geoff, for the PR, organisation and preparation of this event, really well done! And thank you Sjef van de Molengraaf for preparing the location and facilities for this show. Where would we be without you? There was only one disappointment as to me: it was too short ;) Let's look forward to another show of this quality, perhaps next year? I hope so. Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm I agree with everything including it was too short. Thanks Roy ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Perfection: my take on it
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:48 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Perfection: my take on it The Membership databases from Quanta have a number of possible contact addresses both snail and email BUT would I be contravening the Data Protection Act by revealing the same? John Gilpin, Quanta Membership Secretary. - Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Perfection: my take on it On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 at 20:35:00, Malcolm Cadman wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes After discussion with Dave Gilham over the weekend it seems we can best make progress by contacting Dave Batty, who took over the complete Digital Precision software catalogue. Contacting Freddie Vachha seems more of an unknown. Does anyone have contact details for either of the above ? David Batty - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm Not if they have given their express permission ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] locking a window?
The answer is to follow emacs solution and make the menu a seperate executable program. The problem you are complaining about is in built into the pointer environment. All subwindows have to be within the main window whether you like it or not!. Of course you could reprogram the pointer environment so that this did not happen. - Original Message - From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] locking a window? I had considered that but things like dropdown menus and error messages should have the original window left open so that you can have a reference. Not to mention, with folders, I would not like a full folder closing every time I wanted to run do a change to it or pick a sub-option. For somethings your suggestion may work but I am afraid not for the desktop that I am working on. Cheers, jim On Oct 1, 2004, at 2:37 AM, John Hall wrote: James Hunkins wrote: By the way, this mechanism is only being used when a particular sub-program is called and the calling window needs to be locked. Examples programs that need windows larger than the caller's window [drop-down menus, File and List selects, etc] and programs that will be directly changing something in the calling program so we would want to lock the calling program out [IconDraw for notebooks which will change the notebook's icon, Add Objects for folders, and notebooks for folders or Icons]. A possible alternative approach would be to close/remove the calling program's window(s) before the sub-program is called and then reinstating it/them when the sub-program exits... John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ
- Original Message - From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 12:36 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Sadler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Yes but none of the emulate the higher instructions!! And you need these for ? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm Anything that uses floating point a lot, such as graphics, particularly rendering of images. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ
- Original Message - From: P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ David Tubbs writes: support - you can just download the sources and compile them yourself. Full instructions on how to do this are available with the sources and, with a little extra effort, all can be done using tools that are freely available. A little extra effort or a lot hacking? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ
Yes but none of the emulate the higher instructions!! - Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes But it is something that I have to be able to do when required. Progress with wxqt2 is limited, got it up to run, including binding the help pages, sadly it seems to keel over on creating or accessing a QXL.WIN file. My bodge thought above looks the most promising, worked on a small scale trial. Mouse activation not yet achieved, tho' it is present in DOS. Hey Ho, the struggle continues To be honest here QPC2 makes so much more sense. I don't know who said time is money (watchmakers probably) but you can achieve all you want with QPC2 without any other programs being needed. Yes, the simple beauty of a software solution over a hardware solution. Another advantage is the ease of having an emulator of several machines. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] George Gwilt's Programs
There have been updates to CPtr resulting in more compact code TurboTptr with changes to Setw, but the updated examples are not available yet. Gwasl enabling number of Labels etc to be configured. Gwass so that it will compile SMSQ/E for QXL, Atari, Q40 probably Q60, but you will need the modified source files for Gwass which I hope will be available soon. (NB we will not be making available the full source. You will still have to get that fromm an official source.) Have fun. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] Cptr
New versions of Cptr are on the SQLUG site. The main changes are in the examples. New version of UCAlib. Note if you use the cptr2_o you may find you get RELOC_START link errors when you compile a program. Just use the old version. Anybody tried setw to create menus? If so what alterations did you make? Any problems please let me know ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [ql-users] Printer help
Where is the history of devices? - Original Message - From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Printer help In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes a PC type fellow once pointed out to me that it pays to visit -system- devices - and delete any drivers that have a problem ( yellow question mark ) before you attempt to reload them If you do this in 'safe mode' you can delete the history of devices that were installed and not just the current ones. The registry is not very good at cleansing itself which is why I suggested editing the registry. There are several shareware and freeware programs that can do that. Check Tucows. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex. Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[ql-users] SQLUG Site
Latest updates for Turbo TurboPTR are now on the site. Of interest are programs to Edit WDA files manually to allow fine tuning of windows. Convert EasyPTR window files toi WDA files to convert TurboPTR. Any problems please let me know. ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [ql-users] Operating Systems
- Original Message - From: Mike MacNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:21 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Operating Systems Hi I agree with Roy on this, Windoze is what you make it, its just as much fun to tinker with as Qdos. The latest renditons, XP, XP64bit, office 2003. are as solid as rocks, and on 64 bit CPUs, really fly. Easily tweaked to suit your self. Does QPC2 run on 64 bit processors yet? Regards Mike MacNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike, I thought Microsoft had not produced a 64 bit operating system yet. However AMD 64 bit processors run faster. John ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [ql-users] 41K virus
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 12:27 AM Subject: [ql-users] 41K virus While downloading my emails tonight I noticed it was slow and the stats said I seemed to be sending about 10 times as much data as I was sending. Yes, I had one of the hundreds of 41K viruses (message failure) worms or virus, whatever they were, probably emailing everyone in sight from my address book. AVG's removed it now, but if anyone gets one of those emails from me DON'T open it. Don't even preview it (Outlook Express users turn off your preview pane...that's how I got caught out) In some emails, there is an attachment of length 41KB or 42KB, in other ones, looking at th email properties does not show an attachment, but the email is 42KB long. Yes I have started to receive emails asking me to read a document. I have saved it to disc and unzipped on a QL. (Quite safe) It seems to contain an executable file called document.txt, which of course is activated when you click on it to read it. It seems as though it is a file which installs itself as a replacement of kernel.DLL. What it does after that somebody else can establish but probably spreads a virus or hijacks your machine. Now kernel.DLL does not exist on Windows95 but does on Windows98 and probably every subsequent version of Windows. ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[ql-users] Future of QL
An interesting comment may herald the future of the QL. That was that the QL was used to demonstrate a feature for a computer education programme. George Gwilt likes the QL because it is pratical to understand the operating system by one man. So it is pratical for one person to develope a feature. Perhaps the QlLs greatest strength is it is the only operating system left in which one can tinker. Is that what we should be selling? ___ QL-Users Mailing List
