Re: [ql-users] C and system sprites of SMSQ/E 3++ on Q40
Thanks Wolfgang and Jerome, I have a simple workaround which I should have tried to start with. Your answers reminded me that when I did my custom icons I ended up having to do them in Assembly and linking them in. It turns out that this is actually easier and great so that I can share the files between different QDT modules. I am now using the default system icons in over half of QDT and should have the rest converted and tuned by tomorrow night. It was exactly as you illustrated, Jerome. Simply a 0 byte and then the icon number in the next byte - with a C pointer to the location of byte 0 (just as Marcel documented the new sprite formats, of course :) ). Again, thanks for the help. These new icons do really help the appearance! Cheers, jim On Sep 21, 2004, at 7:28 AM, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 21 Sep 2004 at 2:40, James Hunkins wrote: (...) It just feels that I am missing a pointer between C68 and the new stuff. I am guessing that persistent the red X icon indicates that the system call could not find the one that I want. Yes, that is correct - the red X indicates that the pointer environment didn't recognize the system sprite you were trying to have it draw -but it does understand that you are trying to draw a system sprite. Typically, that means that you are trying to draw a system sprite with a number higher than 39, or a negative number. If you wish, could you build a very small test application (where you have the problem) and send it to me - I could try to find out what happens (but please send the compiled version + the source). Oh, and what version of smsq/e are you using? !!! wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com ___ 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] use of new system sprites from C68?
In a message dated 14/09/04 10:11:20 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Has anyone used the new system sprites from C68? This would be using
it in the window definition which was originally a pointer to a sprite
file.
My program SETW, which produces window definitions for C68 programs using
CPTR sets the following for all the system sprites:
static short SYS_SPR[] =
{0,1,2, 37};
This array contains the definitions for all 38 system sprites. For example
SYS_SPR + 6 gives the move sprite and SYS_SPR + 10 the sleep sprite.
I gave a list of the sprites in an article in QL Today Vol 8 Issue 3. (See
page 23.)
George
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Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ
John Hall writes: David Tubbs wrote: That is where I got qxltools from, double checked, and like the wxqt2, just full of the raw material for compilation ! If you read the text below the wxqt2 screenshot, you'll see that the Win32 executable and the associated DLL have to be downloaded separately. The former has a small exe which just pops up a window and ceases. That's because qxltool is a command-line utility - it has to be supplied with the appropriate parameters for it to do anything useful. The same is true for qltools and is the reason why wxqt2 exists - to provide a graphical front-end to the two utilities... Will this answer, David? If not please mail me directly at pj @ witte . fsbusiness . co . uk and Ill dispatch the goods. KBO, Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] SGC Batteries
I have been asked by a few people to try to get Gold / Super Gold Card batteries. I do have a source for these but they are not cheap. Before I lay out a large (ish) sum of money to buy some I would like to gauge the need. They will cost something like 10 pounds each + postage but they will be new and should see out the card given how long the old ones have lasted. You can let me know off list if you want some. -- 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
Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes At 19:00 21/09/2004 +0100, you wrote: Sadly not the problem, the whole exercise is about getting big files into the QXL environment. Depending how big the files are ... you could use external hard drives like Zip and the like. Or someone may offer to burn a CD-ROM for you. Or you can upload to web storage space on one machine, and download on the other. The thing is ... never be defeated :-) Hey, why not ? Bet it is a lot more restful. Oh I can put the files onto all sorts of devices that QXL can't read A thought - suppose I pasted it into a QXL.WIN in overwrite mode in a hex editor, then tried direct sector reads ? Roy's offer in another email is following my line of thought :-) -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
