Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Ok, but it *had* worked without problems. But the program was abandonded after the changes in PE. - Original Message - From: "Wolf" Hi, IIRC that's because you might get non rectangular outlines. That complicates matters quite bit, when saving/restoring part of the window. HTH

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > I remember that the first PE versions allowed secondaries to be outside of > primaries, and that worked, as I have seen at minimum one program, ehich > have used that. I am not sure, why TT has changed that. Wild guess: because every secondary window then had to have its own

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Ralf Reköndt
I remember that the first PE versions allowed secondaries to be outside of primaries, and that worked, as I have seen at minimum one program, ehich have used that. I am not sure, why TT has changed that. Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: "Marcel Kilgus" Dilwyn Jones wrote:

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Ok, but it *had* worked without problems. But the program was abandonded after the changes in PE. - Original Message - From: "Wolf" Hi, IIRC that's because you might get non rectangular outlines. That complicates matters quite bit, when saving/restoring part of the window. HTH

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
SETW is the program I was trying to remember, and failing miserably! Dilwyn, sorry, I can't remember which edition of Quanta the articles were originally published in. I checked my ources and they are not Quill, nor are they Perfection. I have a vague recollection that they might be Write.exe

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Wolf
Hi, IIRC that's because you might get non rectangular outlines. That complicates matters quite bit, when saving/restoring part of the window. HTH Wolfgang On 04/07/2016 08:06 PM, Ralf Reköndt wrote: I remember that the first PE versions allowed secondaries to be outside of primaries, and

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Ralf Reköndt
I remember that the first PE versions allowed secondaries to be outside of primaries, and that worked, as I have seen at minimum one program, ehich have used that. I am not sure, why TT has changed that. Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: "Marcel Kilgus" Dilwyn Jones wrote:

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
Thanks all for the birthday wishes. It seems I'm not the only one with "leaky RAM" then, judging by the comments. Could someone please put John Gilpin out of his PDF misery and feed the Easy Pointer Guide I wrote through QStripper and save the files as PDFs. The utility creates text searchable

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:25:29 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones : The reason for that fullscreen is that when you View a menu from the list this will most likely be bigger than the Main AppMan window, so the outline is set as big as possible.Some time ago Per Witte

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Along with people like Bob, I remember breaking your hard work a few times, > I think it was down to me doing things nobody thought of like an application > window menu with just one or item or something like that. Hope you've > forgiven us all by now ;-) Forgive you, Bob

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:31:58 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones : It's about time I finish my update for AppMan. Bob Would it be possible for the AppMan program outline to be changed? It seems to cover the whole screen whereas actually using only a small percentage

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Would it be possible for the AppMan program outline to be changed? It seems > to cover the whole screen whereas actually using only a small percentage of > it, hiding all other programs in the process. IIRC that is because it is able to display the menus and it can only do

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread George Gwilt
> On 7 Apr 2016, at 12:19, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > A most enjoyable read, thanks Marcel. I might even take you up on the offer > of EasyMenu 4 sometime, but these days I'm using George's not-quite-WYSIWYG > assembly utilities. (Due to old age - 56 today - I'm afraid I

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Dilwyn Jones
thing like that. Hope you've forgiven us all by now ;-) Thank you Marcel. Dilwyn Jones -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 11:44 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me I wrote up a short tale about my life with EasyPtr. Plus ther

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Dilwyn Jones
It's about time I finish my update for AppMan. Bob Would it be possible for the AppMan program outline to be changed? It seems to cover the whole screen whereas actually using only a small percentage of it, hiding all other programs in the process. That's my only little niggle about it,

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread François Van Emelen
Op 7/04/2016 om 0:44 schreef Marcel Kilgus: I wrote up a short tale about my life with EasyPtr. Plus there's a gift at the end: http://www.kilgus.net/2016/04/07/easyptr-and-me/ Enjoy! If not the tale, then at least the gift ;) Cheers, Marcel ___

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: >> I wrote up a short tale about my life with EasyPtr. Plus there's a >> gift at the end: >> >> http://www.kilgus.net/2016/04/07/easyptr-and-me/ >> >> Enjoy! If not the tale, then at least the gift ;) Cheers, Marcel > > I like the tale. Thanks. > My copy of EP3 was bought in

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:44:35 +0200 schreef Marcel Kilgus : I wrote up a short tale about my life with EasyPtr. Plus there's a gift at the end: http://www.kilgus.net/2016/04/07/easyptr-and-me/ Enjoy! If not the tale, then at least the gift ;) Cheers, Marcel I like

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: > What Darren said! ;-) > > A most enjoyable read, thanks Marcel. I might even take you up on > the offer of EasyMenu 4 sometime, but these days I'm using George's > not-quite-WYSIWYG assembly utilities. You can always use EasyMenu to design the menu and EasySource to

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
What Darren said! ;-) A most enjoyable read, thanks Marcel. I might even take you up on the offer of EasyMenu 4 sometime, but these days I'm using George's not-quite-WYSIWYG assembly utilities. (Due to old age - 56 today - I'm afraid I can't remember the damned name of the utility I use!

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-06 Thread Darren Branagh
What an enjoyable read :-) Thanks for the memories mate. D. On 6 Apr 2016 23:44, "Marcel Kilgus" wrote: > I wrote up a short tale about my life with EasyPtr. Plus there's a > gift at the end: > > http://www.kilgus.net/2016/04/07/easyptr-and-me/ > > Enjoy! If not the

[Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

2016-04-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
I wrote up a short tale about my life with EasyPtr. Plus there's a gift at the end: http://www.kilgus.net/2016/04/07/easyptr-and-me/ Enjoy! If not the tale, then at least the gift ;) Cheers, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List