Re: [ql-users] £ 0.00 to spend! (1s t attempt)

2004-03-19 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 19 Mar 2004 at 9:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bumpily - as without SMSQ/E. On the other hand SMSQ/E does seem to give the, er, bumps to some... Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Re: Changing the subject

2004-03-19 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 19 Mar 2004 at 16:54, Tony Firshman wrote: Maybe we ought to resort to old fashioned sheep. No thanks, I already look sheepish enough most of the time. Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Re: Changing the subject

2004-03-19 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 19 Mar 2004 at 21:41, Tony Firshman wrote: No thanks, I already look sheepish enough most of the time. I thought you were more wolf like (8-)# but in sheeps' clothes, of course... Wolfgang QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] £ 0.00 to spend! (1s t attempt)

2004-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 Mar 2004 at 9:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might try driving without tyres. But would that be driving? Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-u sers] Re: £ 0.00 to sp end! (1st attem. ..

2004-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 Mar 2004 at 14:00, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Space permitting, I might put a little summary of recent changes and version numbers into QL Toady soon. Want me to wend you a text file with the changes? Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] (1st attempt)

2004-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 Mar 2004 at 13:48, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (...) That's what I meant. Not having a Q60 here I didn't know if SMSQ/E for Q60 was same SMSQ/E version as QXL, QPC, Gold Card etc etc Yes. Of course. That's the whole purpose, innit? Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Mar 2004 at 9:37, Dave P wrote: A person who does not want money must want something more valuable. ;) Value, like beauty, lies in the eyes of the beholder... Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Mar 2004 at 18:28, Dilwyn Jones wrote: How much of SMSQ/E for Qx0 is modular and how much inbuilt (i.e. has to be rewritten every time a new SMSQ/E is released)? Nothing has to be rewrittenfor the Q60 (or any other machine) every time a new SMSQ/E is released, unless some changes are

Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: Re: Re: [q l-users] £ 0.00 to spend! (1s t attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Mar 2004 at 23:37, Tony Firshman wrote: (...) You had to dial manually, listen for the tones, and fit the coupler. ... and the 'monitor' was a wide carriage IBM golfball printer. Those were the days (8-)# May they never come back! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
I haven't answered on this thread until now mainly because (in the first attempt...) I wasn't sure whether that kind of money would conceivably around in this matter. Now that Geoff has given more details, here's my 2 cents' worth. I don't know whether offering something like 1000 pounds for

Re: [ql-users] Menu_rext

2004-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Mar 2004 at 10:40, P Witte wrote: Don't you guys ever sleep? Of course. Only we get up a wee bit earlier than you ;) Per I didn't realize we had vampires on this list. Back into the coffin at the crack of dawn, huh? Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] dragdrop

2004-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Mar 2004 at 11:59, Wolfgang Uhlig wrote: Isn't there a possibility to make a sprite out of the string on the fly? Possibly with a background-system-colour? I know that there is something like blobs and patterns but I have never understood how this works. I'd like that very much

Re: [ql-users] Menu_rext

2004-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Mar 2004 at 19:29, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: Per was referring to WIN and RAM ... and I tried it the way described and it worked fine - no directories listed, no crash. It does crash here, though, as said in my second message... I just never used win, because I use dev It happended

Re: [ql-users] Menu_rext

2004-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Mar 2004 at 1:37, P Witte wrote: Hi all, I have a wee problem with Menu_rext, ('...) This is a problem that's been in menu_rext for ages. In my experience, though, it only happens on virtual drives, i.e. the dos device in QPC and the dev device. Menu_rext cleverly takes the

Re: [ql-users] Menu_rext

2004-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Mar 2004 at 1:37, P Witte wrote: (...) On 13 Mar 2004 at 3:17, Marcel Kilgus wrote: (...) Don't you guys ever sleep?

Re: [ql-users] Menu_rext

2004-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Mar 2004 at 1:37, P Witte wrote: (...) I've now also tested this on ram, and the problem does, indeed, exist there But this is still with a patched version of menu_rext Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] New wman C68

2004-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Has anyone given serious thought as to the best way to set up a program that will run in QL-mode 4 as well as hi-colour, and that will run on the old as well as the new window manager? For the moment, I have used a mixture of separate declarations of, e.g., WM_wwork_t's and of runtime

Re: [ql-users] New wman borders

2004-03-01 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 1 Mar 2004 at 14:21, Christopher Cave wrote: Thanks for the response. I have boiled the program down to just the main window, one loose item and one application window. It still displays the offending behaviour. Do you want just the source? Should I send it to you off this list?

Re: [ql-users] New wman borders

2004-02-29 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 29 Feb 2004 at 7:59, Christopher Cave wrote: At the last London show, I picked up a disk from Roy Wood which enabled me to have nice 3-d borders to buttons etc. Over the last few days, I have been getting to grip with using the new wman colours in my latest program(in C68). All is

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE 3.05

2004-02-29 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, SMSQ/E 3.05 should be available soon from your dealers... The sources are out now at: www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/smsqe Have fun! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Quanta

2004-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 14 Feb 2004 at 14:45, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντό wrote: Well live in Indiana, PA and then you'll realise that there's not many options on where to spend your money anyway (the little that I have that is :-D) there is always some QL stuff to buy... (Uff, back on topic). Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Off topic

2004-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 14 Feb 2004 at 14:44, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντό wrote: Pah! How about for The-Place-That-Bill-Gates-Will-Go-After-He-Departs-This-Futile-World' s sake then? Well I wouldn't want to stoop that low, either! Woflagng

Re: [ql-users] Quanta

2004-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Feb 2004 at 11:26, Timothy Swenson wrote: Yea, yea, Yea. American have guns, Europeans don't. No need to start a long thread about the merits of either. I can always start the thread that our royality are not on the taxpayers' dollar. :-) There hasn't been royalty in this

Re: [ql-users] Quanta

2004-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Feb 2004 at 10:57, Dave P wrote: Similarly, for our US QL users, think about this: a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000. (...) Then think about this: a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000. (..) Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more

Re: [ql-users] Quanta

2004-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Feb 2004 at 9:15, Phoebus R. Dokos (‚ . „Œ wrote: Most likely, but where the user is concerned they really don't care as long as it works correct? :-D Yes - just as long as I do not think that it doesn't work. On the contrary. Sorry, wans't that what you were saying -

Re: [ql-users] Quanta

2004-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Feb 2004 at 9:17, Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) wrote: Why not? I do :-) (Especially with Powerball loterry jackpots running usually at US$ 50.000.000 (or more!) I'd rather spend my money on something else. Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Quanta

2004-02-12 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Feb 2004 at 0:03, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντό wrote: True. In any case I was talking about QDOS (Classic) and Minerva. Unbelievable as it may seem, there are users that still require full compatibility with QDOS and SMSQ/e is not an option for them. Why should that be inbelievable?

Re: [ql-users] Quanta

2004-02-12 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Feb 2004 at 4:13, Marcel Kilgus wrote: But then again, I could also win the lottery on Saturday. Well I hope you don't - you'd probably off to laze in the sun in Barbados, and the QL world still needs you... grin (what you mean you actualyl play the lottery?) Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] QLiberator

2004-02-11 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 10 Feb 2004 at 20:31, Timothy Swenson wrote: With all honesty, I find Qlib to be an easier compiler to use. Now, both have their problem compared to a real compiler like C68. Both require you to LOAD the program into SBASIC. This is, actually, not quite true. QLIB requires the program

Re: [ql-users] GW

2004-02-05 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 4 Feb 2004 at 23:28, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (...) [Geoff Wicks for Quanta chairman or editor if he retires from trading, now that Robin Barker is stepping down!!!] Seconded. Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] BMP2SPRT

2004-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all BMP2SPRT v. 1.12 can be got at the usual place... Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Mydoom

2004-02-01 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, just as a warning, I got a message purporting to come from this list, with some form of binary attachment (a zip file). It most probably was some form of mydoom virus. Don't open it! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Serial cable

2004-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 29 Jan 2004 at 11:28, Davide Santachiara wrote: After a small investigation I have found out that the cable that I would like to interface to QPC2 via PC i/o port is a serial one so things should be much easier than using a parallel port. The cable is meant to be connected to a serial

Re: [ql-users] small LCD screen

2004-01-27 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 25 Jan 2004 at 17:36, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: In the ideal case, we just need a simple remote screen (black and white will do, we need to be able to display one line of buttons, two lines of small text and one line of big text (or buttons and five lines of small text). If we can

Re: [ql-users] Birthday QL 2004

2004-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Jan 2004 at 20:24, Timothy Swenson wrote: Well, I'm flying 2,400 miles to attend the US QL Show. I think that shows that I'm still committed to the QL. It certainly is more than I'm doing! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Birthday QL 2004

2004-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 Jan 2004 at 10:20, P Witte wrote: (...) How about a panel of Wise (Wo)Men to answer specific questions from the audience? That way we could have a number of short talks (eg 2 to 15 minutes each) on a varitey of special interest questions. Who could propose a topic to be talked about?

Re: [ql-users] BMP2SPRT

2004-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
BMP2SPRT v. 1.10 can be found on my website www.SCP-Paulet-Lenerz.com/14mljkl24/Wolf/Download Have fun. Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Birthday QL 2004

2004-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, Yep, it's the 20 th birthday. Congrats all around. I really can't remember what I did on the fatal day. I do remember, though, typing on a cardboard keyboard that was an advertisment for the QL in a magazine (PCW?) in 1:1 size Anyway, there have ben several attempts to get a

Re: [ql-users] Birthday QL 2004

2004-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Jan 2004 at 13:41, gwicks wrote: Indeed the response has been disappointing. As is usually the case. Just 4 replies to a possible Eindhoven event, and 3 of those were business replies on specific matters. The present Eindhoven situation is that we are now waiting for Sin-QL-Air

Re: [ql-users] bmp2sprt

2004-01-07 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, there is a new version of bmp2sprt at http://www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/14mljkl24/wolf/download/ Thanks to Per Witte for finding the bugs! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] WM.RPTRT again

2004-01-04 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 2 Jan 2004 at 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) Since the original IOP.RPTR asks for D2.B to be set, does this not mean that old programs calling the routine might find peculiar things happening? For example, the contents of D2.L could have $FF as the top byte. D2 might have

[ql-users] Re: BMP2Sprt

2003-12-15 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, version 1.03 of bmp2sprt i ready and waiting. You can get it at: www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/14mljkl24/wolf/download New in this version: Support for mode 16 sprites (thanks Marcel!) Support for extended sprites. Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Changing DISP_SIZE under SMSQ/e

2003-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 8 Dec 2003 at 12:44, Phoebus Dokos wrote: I think it cannot be killed but CAN BE replaced (ie from another shell or whatever... at least I think that's what TT said at one point) (or something) ? It's a moot point here since that is not what is happening. (...) IIRC he is ie the

Re: [ql-users] Changing DISP_SIZE under SMSQ/e

2003-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 8 Dec 2003 at 16:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umpf, and how do you test for that? What happens if the user unsuspends the job whilst the screen is still too small? The unsuspend routine could surely check the screen dimensions and refuse to unsuspend the job if the screen is too small...

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE sources website

2003-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, Plaese note that the SMSQ/E sources may, as off now, be obtained at the following website: www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/smsqe The site is still under construction, so please be patient. It is forseen to include the following for download: individual directories within the sources

Re: [ql-users] No Virus Now - Maybe

2003-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 5 Dec 2003 at 8:57, Phoebus R. Dokos (è á. ç) wrote: Pah! Blame it on the woman now won't we? :-D Poor thing she couldn't help it! It's like saying that it's Dilwyn's fault that he's so popular with the ladies ;-) Hmm, Dilwyn of Wales somehow hasn't got the right ring to it.

Re: [ql-users] BMP2SPRT v. 1.01

2003-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, version 1.01 of BMP2sprt can be found at www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/14mljkl24/wolf/download Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Re:smsqe 3.03

2003-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 22 Oct 2003, at 19:37, Roy wood wrote: (...) You have just broken your own licence ! Well I AM allowed to send it out for testing purposes, and it obviously was intended only for you, not the entire list. So the intention was OK, at least. Wolfgang -

Re: [ql-users] Re:smsqe 3.03

2003-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 22 Oct 2003, at 17:30, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Hi Roy, This is what should be the final version of SMSQ/E 3.03 for the GoldCard. Would you lminbd having a look at it, to see whther is now (!) works OK bvefore I release it? It works here, but I remember you having had problems

Re: [ql-users] Re:smsqe 3.03

2003-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 22 Oct 2003, at 23:25, Marcel Kilgus wrote: I dont suppose it was intentional Definitely not. Bloody right. (...) Yes, fortunately the version didn't include my GD2 aurora driver. It never does. Wolfgang - www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com

RE: [ql-users] Re:smsqe 3.03

2003-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 22 Oct 2003, at 21:52, Duncan Neithercut wrote: I dont suppose it was intentional and its not Wolfgang's licence but its TTs SMSQ/E licence, but if you are interested I was sufficiently interested to test it on my Aurora setup. Aurora, Supergoldcard 2.49 Qubide 2.01. After approx

Re: [ql-users] Re:smsqe 3.03

2003-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 22 Oct 2003, at 23:23, Tony Firshman wrote: This could save future embarrassment - I can feel the heat from Wolfgang's ears from here (8-)# Yup. I'm just baking bread in them. He isn't the first to post to the wrong place, and I am sure won't be the last. Thanks. I do hope it'll be MY

Re: [ql-users] Re SMSQ Gwass

2003-10-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Oct 2003, at 15:56, Tarquin Mills wrote: (...) There is no technical reason why 68020+ instructions cannot be assembled in an easy way on all 68K based environments. That's not the problerm - the problem is that GWASS doesn't run on sub 68020 machines. From the point view of

Re: [ql-users] Isn't it open source?

2003-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 15 Oct 2003, at 10:56, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντό wrote: (...) Well that's restriction 1... As seen below you have to be able to distribute legitimate copies both in binary and in source form so... it's not OK That's the restriction, alright. (...) To your (*) that alone breaks

Re: [ql-users] Bugs

2003-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 9 Aug 2003, at 20:39, P Witte wrote: Ive recently discovered the following bugs in Smsq/e recently was a long time ago. - I'm slowly working up my backlog. PRINT PRT_USE$ crashes Smsq/e since at least version 2.98 on QPC2 (and QPC2 itself). Yes, confirmed, I'll have a bugfix soon.

Re: [ql-users] OT

2003-07-15 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 15 Jul 2003, at 12:05, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Anyway, you'll never get hit by anything British, not because British bombs and bullets are accurate but our poor soldiers end up having to borrow and scrouunge American kit and bullets while overseas... Is that the newspeak for friendly fire?

Re: [ql-users] Dynamic arrays?

2003-07-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Jul 2003, at 21:01, P Witte wrote: ..plus array slicing, of course ? doesn't that work in Turbo? Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich

2003-07-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Jul 2003, at 18:03, Dilwyn Jones wrote: On Expect a wayward American missile to fly low over you soon... (just pray it has a QL controlling it not a PC!) No, no, let it have a PC by all means -it'll probably go down somewhere in the ocean (a blue screen of death...)

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v3.01

2003-07-05 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, version 3.01 of smsqe is now arriving at your friendly dealer. go get it! Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

Re: [ql-users] efficient buffer size

2003-06-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 21 Jun 2003, at 2:41, P Witte wrote: (...) Yes, that is understood. It is in situations where the whole file cannot be read at once, Im thinking about. (Besides, on a multitasking machine it is probably not very polite to grab huge buffers ;) (...) Oh well, if you start worrying about

Re: [ql-users] QLtoday and CD

2003-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
He is currently trapped in the UL (8-)# United Lapland? Ubiquitous Laughter? Unashamed User? grin Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

Re: [ql-users] QL User Guide (Advanced ?)

2003-02-12 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 12 Feb 2003, at 15:58, Jerome Grimbert wrote: I do not know, but I wonder also if there is somewhere the equivalent of the QL Advanced User Guide, updated for SMSQ/E (with a comparaison of the original QL) ? (Especially the documentation of all the trap calls and vectored utilities)

Re: [ql-users] QLWA documentation

2003-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 7 Feb 2003, at 13:26, Jerome Grimbert wrote: Thanks. At least it clarify a little the structure of the first sector of the file system. (but qwa.pflg for instance lie on the partition list (which I luckily already found and understood) on the first physical sector. It should never

Re: [ql-users] Feedback and suggestions for new sprted

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 3 Feb 2003 at 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess what he means, is that it WMAN is not a true sprite handler - ie. although you can animate a sprite by switching between several images in a loop, there is no way of giving a sprite direction and speed, plus collision detection - this

Re: [ql-users] Display_cde GD2 update

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 4 Feb 2003 at 0:05, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Nice one regarding programming style: I have just spent several hours tracing through the SBasic compiler to find a bug that caused SBasic to crash. The program causing the crash used PROCedures with up to 358 (sic! three hundred fifty eight!)

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v.2y99 for Aurora with GD2!!!!!!

2003-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 25 Jan 2003, at 16:04, Marcel Kilgus wrote: No, fortunately not. Otherwise I would be as depressed as Marvin (as anybody hitchhiking through the galaxy should now) ;-) Does that mean that you're an android? Now THAT explains a lot... Don't panic... Wolfgang -

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v.2y99 for Aurora with GD2!!!!!!

2003-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 26 Jan 2003, at 15:51, Phoebus Dokos wrote: He has to be an android as he has been working around the clock apparently... at a certain point he sent me more than 3 versions in less than 20 mins ;-))) (Okay just happened once but you get the idea) Oh well, that only shows that we worked

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v.2y99 for Aurora with GD2!!!!!!

2003-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 27 Jan 2003, at 7:03, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Oh well, that only shows that we worked for 20 minutes Oops, I meant of couse He worked (I didn't have anything to do with it). Just a typo Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Assembly question

2003-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Jan 2003, at 16:53, Jerome Grimbert wrote: Oh, while you speak of the PE, I will jump in the wagon... I have just found out that blob and mask when used in an information windows (How silly, it would be simpler to use a sprite instead!), seems to have their origin at the screen

Re: [ql-users] QMON2

2003-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Jan 2003, at 10:20, TonyTebby wrote: I used to solve a lot of problems this way but, since I moved to France I have started talking to myself in French. The trouble is, my French is so bad I cannot understand myself. Nor can anyone else... grin Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Assembly question

2003-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Jan 2003, at 11:04, Jerome Grimbert wrote: harpo equ $160 chico equ $140 elem_size equ $0c clr.l a1 ; (just to fixe a1 to 0 for the question, ; irrelevant how to if illegal) ; but once a1 has been modified, we cannot have

Re: [ql-users] Assembly question

2003-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Jan 2003, at 12:30, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: Wow, very strong. This is the kind of features that make writing (and debugging) assembler interesting. Yeah, right, next you're gonna suggest we switch to 'C'. :-))) Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Size of the current QL market

2003-01-15 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 14 Jan 2003, at 18:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any indication of the current QL market?? market ? Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Using WMAN and EasyPTR

2003-01-13 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Jan 2003, at 7:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have tried to create a null pointer. However, can anyone please explain why the following code shows 2 pointers on screen: As I don'thave easyptr, I can't really comment. However, the sprite defintion seems wrong to me 1 - the form

Re: [ql-users] New christmas WMAN

2003-01-08 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 7 Jan 2003, at 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that this bug does need fixing to allow different colours to be used for the scroll bars, but agree that in the case of both parameters being set to zero, the scroll bars should not be drawn (as at present) I'm not so sure - it all

Re: [ql-users] PIC File Format and GD2 Continued

2003-01-05 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 3 Jan 2003, at 9:09, Jerome Grimbert wrote: } 1) What is the best way of detecting whether GD2 drivers are present } and in use?? For the time being, there seem only to be the WMAN version numbers. If you can wait a little, I should write a new trap soon (rest cut) OK, so that takes

Re: [ql-users]

2002-12-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Just t=o tell everyone that I'll be absent til the beginning of the new year. Merry Chrstimas and a Happy New Year to all of you! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 6 Dec 2002, at 14:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have successfully produced my own explanation windows now by WM.RPTRT on your advice. However, I look to see where the pointer is on a timeout (comparing the pointer position with each of the hit areas of the loose items). ... thus

Re: [ql-users] QXL_EXT

2002-12-04 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 4 Dec 2002, at 18:05, Phoebus Dokos wrote: (...): QXL_EXT...(...)... anybody have any idea of what they do (well the second one is obvious) and their syntax if any? Thanks, 1 - Look at dev8_smsq_qxl_basic_asm QXL_EXT just loads (modified) CALL and LRESPR procedures. 2 - look at

Re: [ql-users] DJ's new website

2002-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 1 Dec 2002, at 20:15, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Now up and running, the revised Dilwyn Jones QL website! Pretty neat! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Doesn't that mean the the item stays marked as current? No. WM.DRBDR draws/undraws the border first. Then it checks whether the pointer is in or out of the program's window area. Actually, it's the other way around, wm.rptr(t) checks whether the pointer is out of the window and

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-30 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 30 Nov 2002, at 0:18, P Witte wrote: This is not documented anywhere in my Qptr manual!! (3rd revision) so its the first I hear of it. It looks like its been in the code all along. Ive needed such a call many a time! Apart from the timeout, are there any other parameters? Enclosed a

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-30 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 29 Nov 2002, at 22:42, Phoebus Dokos wrote: Other tricks include: fiddle with the TIMEOUT values, change the scroll value to greater than 200, reduce the shadow to 1 pixel or none -never tried the latter really but I will now that I thought about it-). Use only two colours for everything

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-29 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 28 Nov 2002, at 12:15, TonyTebby wrote: (...) There are other simpler methods. How about alert('Hello World') (Javascript) Wouldn't you need something like html head script language=javascript (...) /script /head /html around it? (makes everything longer) How about:

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-29 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 29 Nov 2002, at 4:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WM.RPTR does a lot of work for the programmer, but has a fairly complicated way of monitoring the position of the pointer and any mouse clicks/keystrokes. I wanted to do two things. (...) b. Produce the little explanatory windows after

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 27 Nov 2002, at 17:53, P Witte wrote: Yes please. OK, enclosed- load outptr_bin first. (lrespr) Wolfgang The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Well on the Q40 (at least mine) I tried to load it and it's impossible to get it to work. There has been a long history with incompatibilities between the Q40 and Prowess. I have managed to get it working, though and working correctly on the latest SMSQ/E (2y99 - else I wouldn't have

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-27 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 26 Nov 2002, at 17:25, P Witte wrote: iop.rptr does if you set the appropriate bits in the return vector. But Wman calls (wm.rptr) only respond to events (see the Qptr manual, pages 89 ff Window Manager Access Routines) Ah yes, you WERE talking about wm.rptr... AW events are entirely

Re: [ql-users] ALT-ENTER

2002-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 23 Nov 2002, at 17:49, Phoebus Dokos wrote: .. I will wait for the sources and get the fix :-) Haven't they arrived yet? Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 24 Nov 2002, at 14:22, P Witte wrote: . However, keystrokes intended for the main window dont get passed on if the pointer happens to be in an AW. ? Are you sure? This is not the behaviour I experience - provided, of course, that the AW doesn't have an item with the same keystroke.

Re: [ql-users] smsq/e source and Q40

2002-11-22 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 22 Nov 2002, at 7:16, Phoebus Dokos wrote: V. 2y99 (If you are talking about this one Fabrizio) is available now for sale (It has been for about a week now). As a matter of fact it's the one I am using now. I have noticed however too that scrolling in general is slower compared to v2.98

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 20 Nov 2002, at 13:51, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Hi. All things I wanted to integrate into WMAN are now there, Great news! though some still need to be tested. I'm volunteering! (...) The development state is too early to be integrated into the other versions. That will probably

Re: [ql-users] Easyptr

2002-11-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 19 Nov 2002, at 20:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Anyone have any experience of saving and restoring screen areas with Easyptr under GD2? Can it be made to work reliably or not? I had a quick go and could get it to load (L_WSA) a mode 32 PIC file and display it (using WSARS) as long as the

RE: [ql-users] keyboards

2002-11-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 21 Nov 2002, at 13:35, Norman Dunbar wrote: Hi Wolfgang, I always thought you were German - oops ! (Must be the name !) What, Wolfgang is a germanic sounding name? Whatever gave you that idea? I'm living near Paris, though, hence the Azerty... Ok, if you are so clever then, get over

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
(...) Anybody volunteering for adaption work? Actually there's no adaption work required, as usual it will run out of the box. I just need to go through everything again, collect all involved files, etc. I want more of stuff like that! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ-E Development

2002-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 14 Nov 2002, at 1:39, P Witte wrote: (...) Quite some work has already been done by various people, such as tidying up the code to make it suitable for general distribution, adding various tools and help utilities, and Marcel has added some significant improvements to the code base which

Re: [ql-users] New WMAN (was: GD2)

2002-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 14 Nov 2002, at 2:50, Phoebus Dokos wrote: There is a distinctive problem there provided you've used just what I call bit cropping... ie removing by brute-force the highest order bits from each colour... err no, the lowest oder bits of course... Anyway, the problem you describe is,

Re: [ql-users] New WMAN (was: GD2)

2002-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 14 Nov 2002, at 13:54, Marcel Kilgus wrote: 2 - I often give my application subwindows different colours to my info subwindows. Ok. How would you call the entries? Info window colours... Appsub window colours... Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

Re: [ql-users] Memory

2002-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 14 Nov 2002, at 11:42, Tony Firshman wrote: When one does a reboot with SMSQ/E image file (using LRESPR), I wonder whether the following might work: No, that won't work. SMSQ/E checks the available memory. However, it might be possible to poke a value somewhere before doing the cCALL -

Re: [ql-users] GD2 and Hardware

2002-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Nov 2002, at 9:54, Malcolm Lear wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone can explain why programs such as > POV Ray only work on Qx0 machines. Mainly because they check whether they ARE running on such a machine, and, when not, just give up. The reason: The Qx0 on the one side, and

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