Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
Hi Dave, MAC owner reporting, however not knowing the elegant solution I am unsure what you need the cables etc. for, I thought this was a software manual conversion issue On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Dave Park plasticu...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Dilwyn! For those who suggest elegant Windows solutions, I foil thee with my Mac! It seems I need a few custom cables, and to reset some jumpers, and a keyboard interface. As I need to make cables for me, maybe others need cables too. If so, it would be a lot cheaper for me to make a batch of ten of each, for example... Who needs what, and are they available anywhere else? Dave On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Dave Park wrote: To kick things off for this... Could someone kindly convert the Quill format manual to a format I can access, as I don't have a working Quill (or any of the Psion apps) for my QL... Then I'll be able to participate in my own discussion ;) Dave Hi Dave, I've sent Word DOC and PDF versions of both the Aurora Manual and Technical Guide to you privately. As I'm in the process of moving to my new PC and just found that the old HotMetalPro4 web page editor won't work on Win7-64bit (the installation program is rejected) I need to find another web page editor I'm comfortable with, ideally an HTML editor with a Tags view to flick between html source, tags view and WYSIWYG before I can resume updating my website to add these files there. Any suggestions for a reasonable free or cheap little editor? Until such time, I'll keep the old PC to hand just to update my website! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
Morning Dave, On 21/09/11 19:49, Dave Park wrote: For those who suggest elegant Windows solutions, I foil thee with my Mac! Ha! And I foil your Mac foiling attempts with my own cross platform QStripper tool! ;-) 1. Go to http://qt.nokia.com/downloads and download QT for Max OS-X 10.6 (or later) 64 bit. 2. Install. 3. Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/qstripper/files/qstripper/ and get the (latest) source code for QStripper. 4. Unpack. 5. Open the QT Creator IDE and load the qstripper.pro file, compile. Now you have a completely MAC version of QStripper which allows you to load (multiple) Quill files and can export them in many formats: * PDF (Text based, not bitmap) * DocBook XML * Text * HTML The DocBook XML output can be further processed, with a couple of additional tools, into: * HTML (one file) * HTML (sectioned) * PDF (Better than default PDF above) * ePub * RTF * WordML * Etc. Brief details in qstripper.html. I know it compiles on Windows and Linux, I'd be interested to know if it compiles on MAC as well, unchanged. Once you have QStripper working, why not try my cross platform QXL.WIN explorer program QxlWin? At present there's not an official download, but you can get a tarball from http://qxlwin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/qxlwin/?view=tar or, alternatively, Subversion (Version Control) checkout is possible by running svn co https://qxlwin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/qxlwin qxlwin. Open qxlwin.pro in QT Creator, copile, run. Open a qxl.win style hard disc and explore Again, works fine on Windows and Linux, be interesting to know if it works on MACs too. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Pointer Environment WMAN vector WM.SWSEC
The definition of WM.SWSEC says that this will place a window over a section of an application sub window. D1.L is supposed to be set to x,y section numbers. Thus, if you have an application window containing items which can be scrolled and you have this window split into two sections, WM.SWSEC should set a window to either of the two sections according to the content of D1. Actually what happens is that, irrespective of the content of D1 the whole application window (apart from the scroll arrows) is set by the vector. If you look at the source code (SMSQ/E v3.13) for this vector, in ee_wman_switm_asm you would see that the entry conditions do indeed require D1.L to be set to the particular section you want to cover. However, I cannot see anywhere in the actual code where D1 is used. Does anyone know what is going on? George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Pointer Environment WMAN vector WM.SWSEC
Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 14:56 +0100 schrieb gdgqler: The definition of WM.SWSEC says that this will place a window over a section of an application sub window. D1.L is supposed to be set to x,y section numbers. Thus, if you have an application window containing items which can be scrolled and you have this window split into two sections, WM.SWSEC should set a window to either of the two sections according to the content of D1. Actually what happens is that, irrespective of the content of D1 the whole application window (apart from the scroll arrows) is set by the vector. If you look at the source code (SMSQ/E v3.13) for this vector, in ee_wman_switm_asm you would see that the entry conditions do indeed require D1.L to be set to the particular section you want to cover. However, I cannot see anywhere in the actual code where D1 is used. Does anyone know what is going on? George George, having masnaged to mislay my QPTR manual somehow, I can only look at the code. And I can hardly imagine that the code at wm_swsec would be able to do what you describe. To me it rather looks like you have run into a non-implemented feature. The code actually /seems/ to check for multiple application window menu sections, but only in y (The x size and position of the window to place is never touched as well as the section control block in x). And then it never consults d1 to retrieve the intended section, at least in y, as you say. Cheers, Tobias ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!
Southeast USA-- East Tennessee/Smoky Mountains--today. Doug L. -Original Message- From: John Impellizzeri jjimpellizz...@gmail.com Sent: Sep 19, 2011 5:41 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now! Arrived here and well in the US (Detroit area) today the 19th. DVD is very well done, lots of good info for someone like me trying to return to the QL... John On Sep 17, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Wow, THIS is a real record! So many reported arrivals throughout Europe, considering that I posted them on Thursday afternoon - two days ago! Glad they arrived fast and hopefully well ... Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
