Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic
Hi Marcel, Is this all? Nobody else any problems? I won't promise anything, but if I don't know what's wrong I certainly cannot change it. I promise that I will never ever see you as THE person to ask for improvements of EasyPtr ;) but I am happy that you do it :) Okay then, one problem with the version of EaysMenu I have is, that there are problems with changing manually the size of the main window. First you cannot write numbers 999, while changing the window size with the mouse allows bigger ones. Second, x- y-coordinates of 0,0 (manually) crashes EasyMenu Then I'd like to have a version af Appman whose configuration block is okay, in all versions I have tried you can configure the path as often as you want, but the program doesn't accept it. This is extremely annoying. The other one is that Appman crashes the machine every now and then. But I suppose this is difficult to explore because it doesn't happen always and it is not at all clear, under which circumstances. When there are more problems, whom am I to ask then? ;))) Thanks a lot, without you the QL would be dead as a dodo. Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....
Ok, grovelling apologies over, I need/want/would like some suggestions for articles in the QL Toady Assembly Language series. I realise I have to fix that damned disassembler - but that's another job. I'm looking for something fairly short that fits into one or two issues so no long term tasks like 'convert all of Linux into M68008 assembly languge' please :o) snip Also, I suspect I could also dig into QDOSMSQ - after all, I've been using it for years (in the series) but have never taken the time to explain it all. Anything else grabs your fancy ? Basic Extensions? Some years ago, I wrote a little extension called CHANGE supplied with Basic Reporter which lets you rename superbasic variable names, e.g. CHANGE oldname TO newname Someone else did something similar too, but I can't remember who, how, what, when, why... (age etc as per Norman's email) Names were unquoted and IIRC the extension searched for the two unquoted names in the name table and swapped the tokens over or something like that. It worked a treat in SuperBASIC, but I can't get it to work in SBASIC. I could send you the source if I still have it for you to tweak if you can get it to work. Another useful extension would be for listing EXTRAS (basic extensions) in sorted order, although it's easily done from BASIC. (EXTRAS#channel, then call sorting routine). Third idea: extension to check for presence of given extension names and perhaps checking for multiple definitions (re. the recent RESET discussion): PRINT EXISTS%(name) PRINT TIMES%(name) All selfishly geared towards the S*BASIC programmer! Seriously, though, your DJToolkit never really got the attention it merited, so perhaps you could draw on code and routines in the source for that. Not asking for a lot really am I :o)) Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] A QL in Spain
Roy wood escribió: Some of us we followed interested in an international meeting in our country, although it is necessary to animate much to the possible visitors. Some of us are cartoons already! I wanted to say: to motivate XDDD Javier Guerra Sinclair QL Spanish Resources http://sinclairql.info ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....
On Mar 8, 2005, at 12:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, grovelling apologies over, I need/want/would like some suggestions for articles in the QL Toady Assembly Language series. I realise I have to fix that damned disassembler - but that's another job. I'm looking for something fairly short that fits into one or two issues so no long term tasks like 'convert all of Linux into M68008 assembly languge' please :o) How about something on how to use Things? jim ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic
3) Application window scroll bar attributes cannot be set or changed without specifying a pre-set menu too. Part of the problem may be with the toolkit which seems to ignore or overwrite attributes added by hand later. This sounds a bit complicated, especially as all the application menu stuff has always been somewhat of a mystery to me ;-) I think I've ran into this problem too. I gave up, assuming I was doing something wrong. It was a long time ago, I haven't kept the example. Is this all? Nobody else any problems? I won't promise anything, but if I don't know what's wrong I certainly cannot change it. Append sprites to a code file, put those in memory while writing and testing in SBASIC. You'll find you can't refer to them by name while resident in memory, only by address. Only tested with mode 4 sprites. So you have to refer to a sprite called mysprite as SPRA(mysprite) instead - in other words, when sprites are resident appended to an extensions file, you have to refer to them by address rather than name. Last tested on the pre-Marcel v3.50 Easyptr. I asked Albin about this a couple of years ago and he said there was an issue with pointers to names in these situations and although he hadn't looked at the code at the time he feared it might be a big issue and recommended I stuck to referring to sprites by address rather than name. To be fair, referring to sprites by name appended to an extensions file in memory from interpreted BaSIC is not a situation which occurs often, in my case it only happened because of the complexity of the use of sprites in Launchpad. I am so pleased that some work is being done on Easyptr and promise I will be one of the first in the queue to pay for an update! I'll look forward to being able to specify system palette colours if nothing else, although the improved handling of high colour sprites will be a useful bonus too. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....
Norman Dunbar wrote: First of all, I originally sent this request to the wrong email address (I was working from memory - not a good idea at my age) and managed to send it to Bruce. Sorry Bruce, but thanks for the suggestion. Ok, grovelling apologies over, I need/want/would like some suggestions for articles in the QL Toady Assembly Language series. I realise I have to fix that damned disassembler - but that's another job. I'm looking for something fairly short that fits into one or two issues so no long term tasks like 'convert all of Linux into M68008 assembly languge' please :o) A sample player use the QL's beeper. -- Tarquin Mills (Chairman) ACCUS (Anglia Classic Computer Users Society) http://www.speccyverse.me.uk/comp/accus/ http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Spectrum/ (We want a Spectrum +4) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:24:37 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, grovelling apologies over, I need/want/would like some suggestions for articles in the QL Toady Assembly Language series. I realise I have to fix that damned disassembler - but that's another job. I'm looking for something fairly short that fits into one or two issues so no long term tasks like 'convert all of Linux into M68008 assembly languge' please :o) snip Also, I suspect I could also dig into QDOSMSQ - after all, I've been using it for years (in the series) but have never taken the time to explain it all. Anything else grabs your fancy ? Basic Extensions? Some years ago, I wrote a little extension called CHANGE supplied with Basic Reporter which lets you rename superbasic variable names, e.g. CHANGE oldname TO newname Someone else did something similar too, but I can't remember who, how, what, when, why... (age etc as per Norman's email) Simon Goodwin is the man you're trying to remember (among others... Hans-Peter Reckenwald made one similar as well IIRC) Turbo has a simmilar facility as well (not exactly that but it does the same thing if pressured ;-) Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:21:08 GMT, Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norman Dunbar wrote: First of all, I originally sent this request to the wrong email address (I was working from memory - not a good idea at my age) and managed to send it to Bruce. Sorry Bruce, but thanks for the suggestion. Ok, grovelling apologies over, I need/want/would like some suggestions for articles in the QL Toady Assembly Language series. I realise I have to fix that damned disassembler - but that's another job. I'm looking for something fairly short that fits into one or two issues so no long term tasks like 'convert all of Linux into M68008 assembly languge' please :o) A sample player use the QL's beeper. That may be possible only with a superHermes... I doubt if any sampling (even at a ZX Spectrum-style sample rate) would work due the peculiarities (And the incompatibilities and bugs) of the 8049 Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....
I think that the best way to get people started in Assembler is to show them how to make a new basic keyword. Then everybody can make a small routine and test it easily. So perhaps you should explain how to make new keywords... Wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] A QL in Spain
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], sinclairql [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy wood escribió: Some of us we followed interested in an international meeting in our country, although it is necessary to animate much to the possible visitors. Some of us are cartoons already! I wanted to say: to motivate XDDD That's OK I could not even do two words in Spanish. I just cannot resist a joke - do I hear gasps of surprise?. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Roy wood wrote: Could be worse - could be Jochen and almost anything electrical. He is the only person I know whose washing machine has a software fault. No, he isn't. :) My washer would sometimes stop mid-cycle, and the LCD would display ##2##2##2##2##2isread The repairman who fixed it under warranty said the on-board microcontroller had a faulty EPROM, and that he would have to get a replacement. I offered, and he accepted, for me to download the image, and flash a 27512 I happened to have laying around. This gave me opportunities for abuse... (and saved him a trip ;) My washer now freaks the missus out by saying Hi Jimi instead of Door Open on the display when she opens the lid (which she's not likely to see as the lid obscures the LCD, but she noticed after a couple of months. She's convinced Sears are tracking her laundry habits ;) Dave ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Text Protocol Conversion
Mornin' all, Somewhere in the back of my spacial, though vacuous mind, I have a recollection of a list item regarding conversions from PDF formats. Just in case this helps here it is - CONVERT PDF FILES TO WORD DOCS Turn your locked PDF files into fully-formatted and editable Word documents. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=2307978 Best wishes from under the sun, John in Wales Hope the business is going well Norman the Scot! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 04/03/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr
I can just hear Roy muttering Dilwyn and his PC again... Could be worse - could be Jochen and almost anything electrical. He is the only person I know whose washing machine has a software fault. -- Roy Wood The way Jochen has problems with domestic appliances, I'd be very surprised if Andrea allows him to put water and electricity into the same washing machine ;-) -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 04/03/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr
The repairman who fixed it under warranty said the on-board microcontroller had a faulty EPROM, and that he would have to get a replacement. I offered, and he accepted, for me to download the image, and flash a 27512 I happened to have laying around. This gave me opportunities for abuse... (and saved him a trip ;) My washer now freaks the missus out by saying Hi Jimi instead of Door Open on the display when she opens the lid (which she's not likely to see as the lid obscures the LCD, but she noticed after a couple of months. She's convinced Sears are tracking her laundry habits ;) Dave He he, I did something similar to my colleague's PC where I patched the configuration text in the sign-on of one of our Removals programs. Unfortunately, he mentioned it in front of the boss and I had to rather quickly patch it back to how it was. The beauty of having QPC2 to hand, it was possible to find the text, load it into S-Edit in binary mode, overwrite the text with Welsh equivalent (my colleague is not a Welsh speaker) and save it back out again without too much fear of damaging anything as long as I didn't change any lengths in the file. The configuration was probably a text file but I didn't want to risk it. For a couple of days he couldn't figure out why he was entering stuff in English and it came out in Welsh the following day when he signed back in. I think it's called Personalising Dave. Or in my colleague's case, revenge. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 04/03/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic
Is this all? Nobody else any problems? I won't promise anything, but if I don't know what's wrong I certainly cannot change it. Think the only other things which spring to mind are: You cannot create an application sub-window menu with MAWDRAW or MAWSETUP which only contains one item in the menu. Yes, see my Q-Trans files window lists for how I work around this. If I have a directory with no or only one file listed, I have to ensure that the array passed to MAWDRAW or MAWSETUP always has 2 or more items. If I have less than 2 items, I display 2 but make the status of the extra ones to unavailable. It gets a border when the pointer is over it, but cannot be selected. MITEM does not allow you to redraw the loose item - it should accept the , or \ separator in line with the other commands to force it to redraw the item. At the moment it ignores the separator. Yes, you have to use MSTAT% or some such command to force a redraw. One more VERY obscure problem. Create a small menu, say one info window and one loose item. Do not MCALL, just MDRAW then try to MWINDOW to the loose item followed by MINPUT. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it only works if the menu has not been changed since it was originally designed in Easymenu. Although to be fair I'm not sure it's a 'legal' routine: MDRAW#0,menu MWINDOW #0,-1 t$=something MINPUT #0,t$ (I use it at one point in Launchpad and it refused to work at first, then I created the same menu from scratch and it now works, I have never been able to pin it down exactly). -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 04/03/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic
Rich Mellor wrote: You cannot create an application sub-window menu with MAWDRAW or MAWSETUP which only contains one item in the menu. I need example for that, as simple as possible. MITEM does not allow you to redraw the loose item - it should accept the , or \ separator in line with the other commands to force it to redraw the item. At the moment it ignores the separator. Hmm, in the sources there is a note: ;14.04.97 MITEM nachzeichnen OK (nachzeichen = redraw) So perhaps it is fixed but didn't get properly released. Is this an error? I have a note that WRES does not release MCALL - therefore any attempt to use MCALL after the WRES command will result in an IN USE error If it is a bug I need a small example. Doesn't sound very high priority, though. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....
First of all, since when were we worried about being diplomatic here :) I did read the articles by Jochen and they were a help. But as mentioned, the 'meaty' followup one(s) didn't happen for what ever reason. No problems - really did appreciate what we got so far. Was just thinking that someone might want to play around with it a bit and perhaps take it further. Wish I had time but I am struggling to get back into QDT again right now. I see some more good suggestions have popped up too, cool. Keep up the cool series. While I don't do much assembly, I occasionally borrow some of the info for my C68 programming. jim On Mar 8, 2005, at 8:10 AM, P Witte wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about something on how to use Things? Ah now then, how to be diplomatic about this one ? I suggested a while back that an article on Things would be a good idea and Jochen - currently the only person I know who knows about Things - took up the challenge and did produce a couple of articles. Then they stopped (due to pressures of work and health if I remember correctly) so the 'meaty' articles on actually using Things never appeared and I'm still confused about them. So, I second your request, but unfortunately, I'm unable to assist - yet ! The only thing about Things that interests me (the rest should be pretty straight forward. All you need to do is read the manual about 100 times) is how to use parameters in Extension Things. There are also a few esoteric topics such as whether Things can be users of other Things and the like, but I suppose most of that can be discovered by just trying.. Per ___ 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
