[ql-users] www.kilgus.net news

2005-12-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
QPCPrint: http://www.kilgus.net/qpcprint/downloads.html More than halve a year after the first release, QPCPrint v1.01 is now ready for download. Yes, v1.00 was already so good that a new release was not needed so far ;-) The main difference is that it supports landscape printing. Registered users

Re: [ql-users] Power supplies

2005-12-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bill Waugh wrote: > BTW I never cured the printing from QPC and wonder if when I > upgraded the PC and transferred the QPC files across to the new PC I > somehow violated the QPC copy protection, Hardly possible, as there is no copy protection. > I tried to reinstall QPC and it came up " install

Re: [ql-users] QLAY PE

2005-12-22 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Has anyone been able to get ptr_gen/wman v2 or later to work on QLay? Until recently the latest QDOS PE was unusable due to source code incompatibilities. I did fix that a month ago, but it doesn't look like the fix has reached the wild yet, the version on Wolfgang's page sti

Re: [ql-users] Win apps from QPC

2005-12-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 at 22:46:51, wolfgang mühlegger wrote: Is it possible to feed the win keyboard buffer from QPC in order to type in passwords? >>AFAIK no > It is possible. I use the following in my Arcplus database programs: QPC has built-in Clipboard synchron

Re: [ql-users] Some help

2005-12-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > I will *always* pay for software, which I do regularely use. A lot of people > would confirm this 8^). I can vouch that Ralf really bought a ton of software during the last few weeks. ;-) In any case, thank you all for your help, I have forwarded the answers and also gave hi

Re: [ql-users] Dataspace

2005-12-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > I need some advice. What is the prescribed way to find a running job's > (initial) dataspace, given its ID? There is none, right? Right. > So what can I try? Only the combined length of code and data area is known. So without knowing the length of the code, I'd wager, nothing.

[ql-users] Some help

2005-12-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hi, I got some questions from a customer which are pretty much unrelated to QPC and therefore not in my area of expertise. But perhaps somebody else has some answer? Question 1: | I have one issue when running my application I configured in French | (33 in the GUI). | For all kind of application,

Re: [ql-users] XCHange under QPC2

2005-12-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > Does someone know, why the recent XCHange version still write a little white > rectangular into the screen when executed under QPC2? It's writing QL mode stuff instead of 16 bit mode stuff. Wait for my next page update, I have a patch for this. Marcel __

Re: [ql-users] QPC

2005-12-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bill Waugh wrote: > so the problem has been correctly identified ( many thanks all ) however I'm > damned if I can find what windows settings that could correct it. Basically in this mode QPC bypasses Windows almost completely, so I don't think there is a setting that can change any of this. It's

Re: [ql-users] Some Questions about german keyboard and Goldcard and SMSQ

2005-12-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Engstler Karsten wrote: > But now i got an QL with German Keyboard (what sholud make the > QL even more usefull for me), but it is one of the first German > QL's so it has an Rom Modul for the ROM Expansion Port to get > the german keyboard. Hmm. Can't imagine what this is supposed to be. What d

Re: [ql-users] JPEG to SCR conversion

2005-12-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > Does someone know an easy way to convert a JPEG into a Mode 32 SCR file for > use as a BGIMAGE? ex photon;'dos1_some_jpg':pause 300:sbytes ram1_test_scr,scr_base,scr_llen*scr_ylim The pause might need to be adjusted, but you get the idea. Marcel __

Re: [ql-users] QPC

2005-12-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bill Waugh wrote: > In Sbasic > I enter - open#3,par > print #3, ' Hi ' result nothing > if I then enter again - open #3, par - result prints Hi > > Strange No, perfectly logical. As I wrote, printing only starts once the channel is closed. In order t

Re: [ql-users] QPC

2005-12-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bill Waugh wrote: > Can you print from QPC via the USB port,? If you have a printer driver installed with which you can print from Windows, selecting the exact same printer name in QPC2 should give you access to its printer spool, meaning that if the printer can understand your control codes, it s

Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-12-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David Tubbs wrote: > Let me assume, Marcel, that you are not being malicious, just > misunderstanding. compounded by the hour ! Well, your native tongue it may be, alas mine it is not. No idea whether that even was a correct sentence, but it sounds nice and posh. 'nuff said. Marcel ___

Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-12-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David Tubbs wrote: > If you think that is a proper response to offers of help then I am sorry > for you. Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by a simple misunderstanding. Anyway, you're offering a cassette while he's looking for the PC version of XChange. I'm no psychic, bu

Re: [ql-users] Cueshell

2005-11-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Roy wood wrote: > The answer is to right click the file 'name' and not the icon to the > left. The icon and the name have different actions to them. There are even 3 zones: the icon, the name and the blank space to the right of the name. Right-clicking the icon is copy/move/delete, right-clicking

Re: [ql-users] Psion Chess

2005-11-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > I suppose all this is seriously off-topic ;) However, Id love to get > it going, as I dont find any of the cracked QL versions playable for > a variety of reasons (most of them just crash). Hm, my QL version works just fine. Too good, actually, I can't beat it. But then it's not r

Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > it seems, you are right. There ist just a "freed" version around the > Net for PC not an official one. Yeah, but at least one of the authors doesn't seem to mind: :-) http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/Psion%20Chess/231/ | Posted by André Shapps on October 29th 2005 03

Re: [ql-users] menus - more than 1 line of text?

2005-11-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: > Currently if a line is wider that the menu location, it simply > truncates the line, even though I have enough room for three lines > and have everything left, top centered. I tried putting manual line > returns (0x0a) into the line and they were ignored. Well, the standa

Re: [ql-users] DMEDIUM_RDONLY

2005-11-22 Thread Marcel Kilgus
François Van Emelen wrote: > Shouldn't DMEDIUM_RDONLY(/flp1_) return 1 if the floppy is > write-protected and 0 otherwise? I can only speak for QPC, but there I just cannot detect the status of the write latch. The command usually just returns the status of the software write-protection flag, i.e.

Re: [ql-users] Unzip

2005-11-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > What I'm not sure about is how Unzip treats the 2 channel number > parameters supplied by the EW command. If I read it right, the first channel is the input channel, the last channel is the output channel. If there are channel in between then the first of those is the error c

Re: [ql-users] struct WM_menw size issue in C68 - qptr

2005-11-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
The Dents wrote: > ww.pappl[0].pappw > ww.pappl[1].pappw > ww.pappl[2].pappw No, I'm pretty sure that can't be. pappl is a pointer to the list with pointers, so pappl needs to be dereferenced. Problem is, the PE structure is not modelled in the C structure, and I'm not sure it's even possible! Th

Re: [ql-users] Button Frame Colour

2005-11-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Derek Stewart wrote: > Can this option be added to a wishlist for SMSQ/E Hardly, button frame is not even part of SMSQ/E. You could of course just use a background image with the colour of your liking in the area of the button frame. Marcel ___ QL-Use

Re: [ql-users] struct WM_menw size issue in C68 - qptr

2005-11-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: > ww.pappl->pappw[0] = 0x9da162 == &mw0 -> correct > ww.pappl->pappw[1] = 0x9da1ca != &aw1 -> error > ww.pappl->pappw[2] = 0x9da232 != &aw2 -> error I've never programmed QPtr in C and it's 6:30 in the morning, I should probably get some sleep. Anyway,

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: >> No. But you can try latest Wine or, even better, Cedega to make it >> work. No guarantees though. > I had trouble making QPC work with Wine but with the commercially > available WineX it did work fine. Yes, but I have heard that the latest Wine0.9 release (after 12 years

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Luckily, I have my QPC 'on a stick' so that still works, well, it > will when I get the disc replaced and everything restored. I don't > suppose there's ever going to be a QPC-Linux by any chance ? No. But you can try latest Wine or, even better, Cedega to make it work.

Re: [ql-users] Quill Makeover

2005-11-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: > The full archives were available on the JMS BBS and can now be > obtained on the BBS-CD I offered some time ago in QL Today, > at the time the BBS was shut down. Actually it's also still available from his web page at http://linuxcub.adsl.dk/ Marcel __

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE and the Qx0

2005-11-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > I'm not sure about the slowing down - if I understand correctly what was > proposed was the the OS would be compressed in ROM and then (entirely) > decompressed into RAM at boot time, where it would then run full speed. > > Probably faster than booting from hard disk. I'm

Re: [ql-users] Quill Makeover

2005-11-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > However, from a practical POV, the original XChange code has been > considerably updated since then by Erling Jacobsen. That would be the most > valuable code base now. Perhaps he could be persuaded to open it up or > update it himself? IIIRC Erling just patched the binary, he did

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE and the Qx0

2005-11-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > For those of us who didn't pay enough attention the first time this > was discussed, can you give everyone a short description of what the > Home Dir is and how we use it? What advantages it gives us? Let's say you have a directory win1_myprogs_ and a basic program win1_mypro

Re: [ql-users] Misc news

2005-11-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: > http://www.kilgus.net/images/qpc-classic.png If this link didn't work, copy and paste it into your browser instead of clicking on it. At one point I got fed up with people using my images on my server and bandwidth for their site/board and thus disabled access to t

[ql-users] Misc news

2005-11-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hi there, I'm finally back from the England-trip and settled again at home. It was pretty much fun and I had a good time talking to people. Though I must say that it was probably my last England trip for a while because traveling gets increasingly expensive and this one again has cost me a small fo

Re: [ql-users] Portsmouth is 21

2005-10-28 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: > If the hotel have wifi, I will buy a day's worth. Isn't it "If the hotel *has* wifi ..."? I learned this in school, didn't you? Sorry, couldn't resist (plus was forced by Roy) :-) Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

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