Re: [ql-users] Next Eindhoven show

2005-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig

IIRC the next Eindhoven local show is on Saturday 15. October. Am I
right?

You are :)
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Re: [ql-users] info window colour

2005-07-06 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig

Am Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:23:26 +0200 hat Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

MWINDOW #0,1!\0 : REMark \0 is needed as a dummy extra parameter for   
QLiberator


why is this? I've never heard of that and never used it. Even so my
programs seem to run
well :-?

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Re: [ql-users] info window colour

2005-07-05 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:14:37 +0200 hat Wolfgang Lenerz  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:



Basically, what these commands seem to be doing is printing to a channel
opened 'over' an info window, appsub window or whatever.


Ah yes, sounds logical !! I didn't look at it this way.

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Re: [ql-users] info window colour

2005-07-05 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig

Francois wrote:

You're right. But isn't that the normal behaviour? Info Windows have no  
'ink/foreground' attribute. (White is perhaps the colour by default in  
such a situation).


Why would we have all the attributes for "information window" and  
"subsidiary information window"

in the system colour table?

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Re: [ql-users] info window colour

2005-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Which system palette colour corresponds to the initial ink colour for an  
info or application window without objects?


I find that whatever the info window foreground or middleground colours  
are set to, the ink always seems to be white.


You're right, I've never noticed that.
Probably Marcel is able to fix this in EPtr, so that this colour is set
to system palette "information window foreground" or perhaps  
"middleground".


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Re: [ql-users] EASYPTR Application windows

2005-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
It seems to me if you expect to be able to see more than the window  
width you would have to send material to a notional "piece of paper" in  
the manner of a word processor or editor, to be viewed THROUGH your  
window. Conten to be stored in memory as an array, line by line. As to  
the third dimension ??? Seperate pages ?


It's not fair to take the mickey out of Francois because his question is  
totally

worth to be given some thoughts to.
Normally the window manager cares for providing of scrolling and panning if
the appwindow is too small for the array to be shown.
But there are special cases where this fails and the problem of Francois
is exactly such a case.

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Re: [ql-users] Easymenu menus

2005-06-27 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Has anyone by any chance written a routine which will patch a menu's  
original colours with system palette numbers?


I don't quite understand what you mean. Just leave the old colours but  
give them the numbers of

the system palette?
If this is what you mean, I don't see the point. Personally, if I was busy  
with old menus, I'd tend

to give them a new style with a new set of colours anyway.

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Re: [ql-users] Re: The QL2004 AFTER-GLOW Show

2005-06-15 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig

I'll have to wait with my question till next October.
François Van Emelen


You might consider mailing me ;)

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Re: [ql-users] Re: The QL2004 AFTER-GLOW Show

2005-06-15 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:25:40 +0200 hat François Van Emelen  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:



...
Even without workshop for EASYPTR, I'm sure Wolfgang Uhlig would be  
willing to help and to share his knowledge about EASYPTR with us ;)

François Van Emelen


I am really very sorry to have to say that I will not be there. I have  
family commitments that I am not really

happy with, but cannot refuse.
This will be the first meeting in many years I will have to miss :-(((

Even so I wish everybody a nice and interesting meeting.
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Re: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Fri, 22 Apr 2005 8:41:22 + hat Dilwyn Jones  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

It all adds to the "Rip-off-Britain" impressions we have.
You could replace "Britain" by every EG-country, I'm afraid :-(
The latest trick I had to undergo with the German Postbank two days ago.  
After the usual
announcements and advertising a very friendly male voice asked me whether  
I wanted
more advertising or information about just another bullshit.
As I didn't want either of them I waited for another statement or  
something like "press 1 ...9 on
your telefone" but nothing happened. Then I began to rail a bit and the  
voice said. "
I'm sorry but I can't understand what you said." and began to repeat  
everything from the
very first start.
You can imagine that my "railing" did not get friendlier.
Only when (after repeating this unproductive dialogue for a while) I  
stopped to say anything, then, after
quite a while, the voice said, "Because I cannot understand
what you are sayin I will connect you with an assistent"
Which was, what I had wanted all the time!
More than three minutes connected, before even being able to say what I  
want, a really good deal for
the company  %-(#?"^ß*!

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Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:45:33 -0400 hat Phoebus R. Dokos  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:53:40 -0400, Wolfgang Uhlig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

Am Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:41:20 -0400 hat Phoebus R. Dokos  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

Yes but why shell another $100 for Windoze?
Who pays for Windoze? ;-)
Good people who also pay for QL software ;-)
And people who pay for QL software but not for Windoze, aren't good people?
 Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:41:20 -0400 hat Phoebus R. Dokos  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

Yes but why shell another $100 for Windoze?
Who pays for Windoze? ;-)
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Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:22:36 +0100 Jeremy Taffel wrote:
Thoughts? Flames?
I really cannot imagine that a price of 45 pounds is unaffordable.
One visit to a restaurant with your family is likely to be more expensive.
Buying a PC might be the major obstacle, but as you already run Linux,
you have a PC anyway, don't you?
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Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter

2005-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Why did the chicken cross the road ?
What came first, the chicken or the egg ?
What do women want ?
Or:
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Is there another word for synonym?
etc ;)
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Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter

2005-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:21:48 +0100 hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
geschrieben:

Hi Norman,
We may never know !
No problem, there are more things we may never know ;)
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Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter

2005-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:01:59 +0100 hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
geschrieben:

How about this :
MSTAT% is not in the redistributable code, it lives solely in the  
ptrmenR code, ie, the resident stuff which you are not allowed to link  
into your programs.
No, it doens't not. It's in the "ptrmen_cde", too.
Wolfgang
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[ql-users] Sound

2005-03-31 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi all,
does anybody know how to test whether the sound extension is loaded or not?
I was planning to integrate sound in some of my programs, but if you write
the command "COPY mysound.up  TO sound2", then the system thinks, it's
just a file in case the sound extension is not loaded.
I'd like to have a "IF 'sound ext exists' " clause first.
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Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30

2005-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:49:15 +0100 hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:
Hi Wolfgang
When I try to run this in QPC, setenv is refused (not recognised). I must
be missing something in my boot program? Any ideas?
Regards,  Ian
I am not the Wolfgang you are addressing to, but nevertheless...
IIRC you have to load the signal extensions first, so that setenv is  
recognized.

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Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....

2005-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:22:10 + hat Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
geschrieben:
I hope they don't because of hearing you sing ;))
Brahm's might (8-)#
May be, but perhaps he would do what we call "turn over in his grave" in  
German ;)
Wolfgang

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Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....

2005-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
I do "thinging" too.
The last was Brahms German Requiem concert in Cambridge (8-)#
Oh yeah, "denn es wird die Posaune schallen und die Toten werden  
auferstehen!"
I hope they don't because of hearing you sing ;))

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Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:59:14 - hat Dilwyn Jones  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

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:
This is indeed an EP-bug. I have known it for years but never found it a  
real problem. In my programs
loose Item no. 1 is always "ESC". There is no need to give it another text  
or sprite.

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Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
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.
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Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr

2005-03-06 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:34:19 - hat Dilwyn Jones  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

You totally miss the point of my email.
You Wrote:
It would be useful if the menu colours could be changed at runtime. At
the moment, once they are defined in the Easymenu layout, that's it,
the colours are fixed unless you manipulate the colour palettes or
whatever.
And I say this is absolutely not true. Where do I miss your point?
On the one hand you say: "changing colours at runtime is _impossible_"
and on the other hand: "the windows are flashing (when I change the  
colour)"
Only one can be right, right?

What I do see as a problem, is that you cannot define (system) colours in  
the
official version of Easymenu and indeed have to find workarounds within the
Basic program.
With the "unofficial" version of Marcel this is not any problem any more.  
That's why
I think that everybody should have it.

Your flashing problem (QCoCo must be a pain for your eyes!) has a simple  
solution: Get a
faster machine ;)

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Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sat, 05 Mar 2005 22:08:04 +0100 hat François Van Emelen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:
230 MDRAW#3,mysuqces$ :REMark mawdraw#3,4
Oh Francois, what's that? I don't know but one SuQcess and that's the one
of
me and Bob Spelten ;)
EasyMenu is not very good at displaying high colour sprites, you have to  
fool it by putting a 4/8 mode sprite in front of each high colour sprite.
This is not true! Only if you want to have the sprites in mode 4 or 8, too.
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Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:20:03 - hat Dilwyn Jones  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

It would be useful if menu colours could be made to assume the new
Window Manager colours in some form (standard appearances and all
that), ...
They can, no problem about that.
 It would be useful if the menu colours could be changed at runtime. At
the moment, once they are defined in the Easymenu layout, that's it,
the colours are fixed unless you manipulate the colour palettes or
whatever.
Sorry, but this is nonsense!
Except for the "main window" you can change colour and ink of ANY window
from within a program. Just use "MWINDOW"!
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Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:41:31 - hat jms1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:
You can design menus in setw in TurboPTR
With due respect for the work of Goerge. But I am not willing to design a  
pointer driven
program with a technique of 20 years ago. For me this is absurd.

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Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-04 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We can live without a good menu designer or a sprite editor,
but not without a way of displaying and manipulating our
windows and menus from within programs, so for me that is
the main priority.
As to me, I can live without a sprite editor because it's possible to  
create sprites
in other ways.
A menu designer à la Easymenu_exe is (and has always been) indispensable  
for me when
writing my programs for the QL. This is why my disappointment is so great  
at the moment.

When I started to write programs for/on the QL many years ago, it was  
because EP made it
so easy. I was already a "mouse-user" when most QL-users still thought of  
a computer-mouse
as the beginning of the end of the world and only Roy dared to have  
BUTTONS on his desktop ;)
EP has been my companion and my motivation on the QL. Without it probably  
none of my programs
would have seen the world and I would have left the QL-scene long ago.

During the last two or three years I have always hoped that anyone  
(especially Marcel)
would update EP. In only _one_ of his "long nights" Marcel succeeded in  
bringing Easymenu to a state
where it can work with colours and 3-D borders!
Marcel says, it is not perfect yet.
I say, it's so much better now and I would even pay for _this_ one, if he  
asked me to.
I am convinced that there would be hardly any EP-owner and -user who would  
NOT pay for such a
version. The ones I know, wouldn't.
It is so frustrating and annoying that it cannot be given or sold to other  
users!

I am frustrated because of all things, we urgently need to make the QL  
survive, software (good, interesting,
funny, useful and whatever programs) is the most important. A colourful  
game and a new desktop are not
more than a drop in the bucket.

Please you people out there, who really have the knowledge to write  
utilities
which enable us "lower gods" to write software,
which make it really easy to create it,
which just motivate us to make a start,
please just do it!

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Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-04 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
The question is would there be a market for an updated version. Marcel  
does a lo of work on this kind of thing and gets little back for it. He  
has the source files but I cannot, in all honesty, ask him to work for  
nothing. He says that the code is not that easy to understand so he is  
the ideal person to do it. I would like to see and improved high colour  
version and I, for one, would be willing to pay for this. How many  
others?
I am a liittle bit astonished because AFAIR there were many people in  
Eindhoven
2004 already who pointed out that they would be willing to pay for an  
upgraded
version of EasyPtr. Nevertheless nothing happens exept for the question in  
this
group every now and then, whether there will be an upgrade or not.
When I asked Marcel personally some weeks ago, he told me that he is not  
at all
interested to do it.
So what is true?
I would definitely want to have an upgrade (and pay for it ofcourse) and  
think that
we need it urgently.
So, as far as I am concerned,  please stop discussing it, fix a price for  
it and begin to DO it.

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Re: [ql-users] for the Swiss QL Meeting Members

2005-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Have a look at:
 
http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonline.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=19
and click on 100$ laptop.
"Imagine a small town in Peru with one of these laptops in every home.  
They'd automatically talk to each other,
instantly creating a municipal communications network for instant  
messages, e-mail, maybe even voice traffic."

I am sure that is exactly what people in a small town in Peru have been  
waiting for.

Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] network installation of QPC2

2005-02-11 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Marcel wrote:
Quite normally, I guess. But there will be problems when
a) two users trying to start QPC at the same instant (one will get a
"Cannot open SMSQE.BIN" or something like that).
b) two users trying to access the .WIN file at the same time.
To prevent those problems I did it the following way in the language
institute I worked, where severals students had to work with the same
QL-program
at the same time.
1) There is one original QPC, SMSQ/E.bin and QXL.win on the server.
2) Clicking a QPC-icon on the client's desktop first runs a small
batch-file
which will XCOPY (DOS command) all files to the client computer and
then
3) run QPC from the client computer.
The XCOPY command cares for copying only when something on the server
has changed, so you can make sure that changes to programs or data is only
done on the server "original" qxl.win file.
If changes on the client computers have to be stored, just adapt the
XCOPY-batch
to not copy QXL.win.
Everything runs fine, fast and complications are not likely. Modern
PC-networks are so
fast, that you hardly notice the copying.
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Re: [ql-users] My Documents

2005-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
As far as I can see:
By default, if you right-click the My Documents icon on your desktop and  
click Properties, the tab lets you change the path of this folder.
If this doesn't work, you probably have to change the following registry  
value to 0.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisablePersonalDirChange   
(if value is 1)

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Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30

2005-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi Ian,
Thanks for the Lynx boot program which I managed to copy and run. But the
ex_lynx line makes a window for a second then closes. I am not wise  
enough on how to do better.
Sorry, I can't help you directly.
Perhaps try to download the whole package, with which everything runs fine  
on my
QPC,  from my website and try it again:
http://home.tiscali.nl/wuhlig/ql/internet.zip

Success
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Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30

2005-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Thank you, Marcel.
Thanks from me, too :)
Now the next project will be EasyPtr, I hope ;)))
Test909_obj returns
  80 times faster than QL for QPC 3.20
  98 times faster than QL for QPC 3.30
François Van Emelen
It's different here:
 132 times faster for QPC 3.20
 101 times faster for QPC 3.30
WHA??
Scrolling and PANing text is twice as slow with QPC 3.30 but all other
test are much faster. So fast that the math test is 6E-2. Wonder how
this has been measured,anyway ;) ?
I think time has come to design a new benchmark for the QL. Something
the old black box will have to run hours.
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Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30

2005-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:01:19 +0100 hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:
I have QLynx in WIN1_ but executing it does not get me anywhere.
Hi Ian,
I got some files of a friend of mine and a "Lynx_boot", where there are the
following lines:
110 LRESPR win1_sigext30_rext
120 SETENV "TERM=qdos"
130 SETENV "TERMINFO=win1_Qdos_terminfo"
140 SETENV "LYNX_CFG=win1_Qdos_lynx_cfg"
150 SETENV "LYNX_CON=512x256a0x0_6_0_4"
160 SETENV "LYNX_FONT=win1_Qdos_pcql.font"
after running this (the paths must be adjusted, probably), the simple
command
ex win1_lynx;"http://www.your homesite.html"
in #0 will start Lynx straightaway.
At least here it does ;))
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] QPC Keyboard

2005-01-13 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
That is a great idea - how do you do it? My QPC has no configure block.
Oh, hardly can't  believe that you don't know:
double clicking on your QPC.exe while holding pressed the Shift key will  
bring you
into the config menu of QPC/SMSQ/E, where you can configure lots of things  
among which
the language/keyboard layout.

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Re: [ql-users] QPC Keyboard

2005-01-13 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
When I use QPC2v312 via XP my keyboard is jumbled. e.g.x>y and z>x and  
much
more, so using BASIC etc. is a bore. My setup is as follows: All is in  
French
(XP etc.) 
Only to be sure, you do have configured QPC to french, haven't you?
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] QPac2 Colourways vs System Pallete

2005-01-01 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
No, I'm not talking about QCoCo but the QPAC2 "action confirmation"
window, which is a little bit more buried and complicated.
Okay, I confused the writer of this (also had a long night last night ;:)
But even so, John could set the two colours to something he likes by  
editing them in his
colourway/theme, couldn't he?

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Re: [ql-users] QPac2 Colourways vs System Pallete

2005-01-01 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Now if I only had a clue where the colour is set, this is some damn
complicated code.
But that's very easy, actually :)
As I already said, "Shaded area" and "vertical area fill" are number 48  
and 51 in the list,
what I mean with "list" can be seen on:

http://home.tiscali.nl/wuhlig/ql/syscolours.html
So If you've made a theme with QCoCo, then you only have to edit the lines  
48 and 51 in this theme,
in order to get the colours you want. No need to have to understand "some  
damn complicated code" :))

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Re: [ql-users] QPac2 Colourways vs System Pallete

2005-01-01 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
John Hall wrote:
That's the "Shaded area" colour.
Hmm... when I change things via QCoCo, it appears to pick up the App
Win paper colour instead!
Hmmm, doesn't look like "shaded area" can be separately set in QCoco.
Probably because this QPAC2 menu is the only application that made
ever use of it.
That's true. I just looked that up and found  that "Shaded area" and  
"vertical area fill" (nr. 48 and 51 in the list) are
set to a background (paper) colour of the Infowindow or the Application  
window by QCoCo.
This is not the best solution, but as I didn't know of any use except for  
1 case (QPac2 using the vertacal fill area)
I couldn't even test it ;)

If there will be other applications using these two, I will update QCoCo.
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Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?

2004-12-28 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Nope, his website has moved here: http://thgodef.nerim.net/qdos/>
This does not necessarily mean that he has not left the scene, because the  
website
is so old that it doesn't even recognize browsers different from "Netscape  
3.0 of higher" ;-))

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Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book ?

2004-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
I am looking for a good superbasicbook, I am a real beginner at this. If
anyone have some you do not need so mail me.
Your name sounds quite German. If this is so, I could send you the very  
original "QL User Guide-
Beginners Tutorial" in German". This is very basic but quite good to learn  
SuperBasic. After that
you should also have the documentation of Toolkit 2, I have that in  
German, too.

If you are not German, forget about everything I sad :-))
Perhaps I only think that because we had a "Michael Gundlitz" in the  
German Users Group some years ago.

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Re: [ql-users] Whither or Wither ?

2004-12-13 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:08:36 -0500 hat Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
geschrieben:

xx years old...
 What does that mean? If you're 2 years then you are old as well?
You get older every second after the moment of your birth :)
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Re: [ql-users] Whither or Wither ?

2004-12-13 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:49:53 - hat P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
geschrieben:

The spelling is acquired unnaturally. Take Gholti, pronounced {fish} (gh  
as
in laugh; o as in women; l is, of course, mute; and ti as in negotiate)  
and
you have English spelling in a nutshell. Im sure some wise Irish monks
sometime in the ninth century decided to spell Gholti as plain fish and  
save
the English from their worst excesses. They probably had an almighty row
with the traditionalists who then split off and founded a new community  
- in
France. Similar tendencies can be seen even today, in small communities,
where traditionalists and modernisers slog it out - only to vanish,
virtually without a trace.
Oh Per, I really love your sense of humor, thanks :-
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] Installation routine

2004-12-11 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
You just need to make the script all inclusive that's all:-)
Download it and if you need any assistance I'd be glad to help (although  
I don't think you will need any :-)
Thanks, Phoebus :)
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[ql-users] Installation routine

2004-12-11 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi all, especially Phoebus,
this morning I installed QWORD and indeed everything went just fine. Well  
done!
Is it possible to make this routine available to everyone in order to put  
his
own program into it together with QPC?
Or can you describe how to do it?
I'd really like to know how this works.

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Re: [ql-users] Whither or Wither ?

2004-12-11 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
That's not too much to ask from native speakers is it?
It is!!
It's like asking a university professor to hold a lecture in words that  
children will understand.

I've got a better proposal, how about writing to the list weekly  
alternating in German, French, Dutch, Greek (outch!) etc. ;))

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Re: [ql-users] Detecting GD2

2004-12-11 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Thanks for the download, Tony :)
BTW - QWord does cater for German in the release version - thanks to  
Geoff Wicks :-)
Sounds great :)
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Re: [ql-users] Detecting GD2

2004-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:37:09 + hat Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
geschrieben:

It is a very good way of exercising your English (8-)#
Is this sort of hint, hint, hint ? ;-))
Does your demo do all these things itself???
It certainly does.  It worked fine on my XP system.
It was all automatic and very slick.
There is even an entry in 'add/remove programs'.
Brilliant job.
Okay, then would you mind to send me the demo by e-mail attachment or give  
me the download address?

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Re: [ql-users] Detecting GD2

2004-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:13:55 - hat Rich Mellor  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

- just like the demo does at the moment
Sorry, I didn't follow the whole discussion and I didn't download the demo  
because as a German the
game is of no interest for me.
Do you want to say that the demo is a QPC together with a win-file, which  
installs itself correctly on a
PC, whereever a PC-user wants it to install?
I would find that very interesting because I had to install such a  
constellation with a program of mine.
So I had to copy QPC, SMSQE, Registerkey and win-file into one directory,  
then make a shortcut to
QPC on the desktop, then start QPC for the first time, configure all  
necessary things, especially where
to find win1_, then save the settings and go.
Does your demo do all these things itself???

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Re: [ql-users] Detecting GD2

2004-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:50:36 - hat Rich Mellor  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

The demo version of QPC2 would do, APART from two problems:
a) We cannot update the high scores table - this could be overcome by  
allowing only one type of write to device on the QPC2 runtime - direct  
to DOSdevice.
There are more problems:
You can't do without a small "win"-file to store the program and necessary  
extensions on.
Then SMSQE has to be configured because you don't know where the user will  
install the
package and which the DOS-device should be. For a "normal" PC-user this  
might be asked too much.

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[ql-users] QL 2004 Eindhoven

2004-10-18 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi all,
This was a really good meeting. I haven't seen so many people on a
QL-show in the last 10 years. Very special to me was the presence of
people of so many countries: UK, Germany, Netherland, France, Belgium,
Italy, Koratia, Norway and even USA! Great! We even saw women there and
kids. Okay one kid, Tony's son,  to be honest. :-)
Wished this could happen more often.
Thank you very much Geoff, for the PR, organisation and preparation of this
event, really well done! And thank you Sjef van de Molengraaf for preparing
the location and facilities for this show. Where would we be without you?
There was only one disappointment as to me: it was too short ;)
Let's look forward to another show of this quality, perhaps next year?
I hope so.
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Re: [ql-users] Perfection etc. etc.

2004-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
 pointer to a complete system palette. How to create
one is for example shown in my different "colourway_bas" examples.
or do it with QCoCo ;)
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[ql-users] EasyPtr

2004-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Marcel wrote:
 just came off the phone with Albin. In the course of the
conversation we recognised that we would have met tomorrow anyway at a
wedding of a mutual friend, so I will have some time to talk to him
and sort this out.
Any requests, suggestions?
Make him rewrite EasyPtr... :-)))
or at least give the sources free so that we can use your version of
Easymenu officially.
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Re: [ql-users] DataDesign

2004-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
I wait for years for some upgrade of the products and think SMSQ needs  
a  high quality standard database engine (some one preparded to port My  
SQL ?)
I don't think so! My experience when talking with people about SuQcess,  
DBAS
and working with a database on the QL generally, shows that there can  
hardly
be more  than 20 people who really need this.
And of those there are at least ten who are perfectly happy with what  
DataDesign
or DBAS have to offer.
So porting MySQL might be a matter of personal challenge, but I can't see  
a real
need.

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Re: [ql-users] QL Hardware for free

2004-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Interested interested :-)
Phoebus
Does that mean that you are coming to Eindhoven?
Would be great to meet a yours truly at last ;)
Wolfgang

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Re: [ql-users] QL2004 - Advance Hotel Warning

2004-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
That's a verb!
Wolfgang
Ach Wolfgang! (sigh) Do you think I didn't know that? What about the smily?
I only tried to make a joke.
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Re: [ql-users] QL2004 - Advance Hotel Warning

2004-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
um, this is a very good example of how ambiguous (and interesting)  
English is.
 I -know- you know that:
 free == available
free == costs nothing
 The hotel used the less ambiguous but boring 'available'
What about "free Willy!" then? ;)
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Re: [ql-users] browsers

2004-09-17 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
'yours truly' is the same thing as 'myself'
'courtesy of' means 'done by'
so:
"It is available in Greek, done by me"
Thanks Tony, this helped a lot!
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Re: [ql-users] browsers

2004-09-16 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
do you think that it is available in Geordie...
No problem if you find someone from Newcastle to create a Geordie-language
file
for Opera :-)
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Re: [ql-users] browsers

2004-09-16 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
It is also available in Greek courtesy of yours truly
Sorry Phoebus, my English is too poor. I've read this sentence 10 times but
cannot understand what you mean :-((
Help!
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Re: [ql-users] browsers

2004-09-16 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
And of course Wolfgang forgot the most important thing about Opera  It  
is available in Welsh
I didn't forget it, I didn't know :) This is indeed one of the most  
important things about
Opera, I admit, I only know one thing to be more important, that is, Opera  
is also available
in "Plattdeutsch" which is a dialect spoken only in North Germany, where I  
am from ;)

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Re: [ql-users] browsers

2004-09-15 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
but don't take IE if you want to see what it is really about ;))
Oh, I forgot to say:
don't believe what is said about Opera in the text, because
Opera 7.xx  behaves well :)
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Re: [ql-users] browsers

2004-09-15 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Should be no problem for Netscape Navy or Internet Exploder, but what  
about other browsers I've never used, like Opera, Firebird, etc. Are  
these as functional as the first two, or more like Mosaic and other  
early browsers? Would these browsers support Java, Frames, style sheets  
and so on?
Firebird doesn't exist any more, it is now called (Mozilla-) Firefox. It  
has the same rendering machine
as Netscape.
Opera is - together with Firefox - the most modern browser at the moment,  
especially dealing
with CSS specifications where IE is quite bad, actually.
To see a fantastic example, look at:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html
but don't take IE if you want to see what it is really about ;))

Assuming firefox and Opera would not support frames, etc. is -frankly  
said- kind of ridiculous.

More interest? Look at:
http://nontroppo.org/wiki/WhyOpera
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Re: [ql-users] Re: Alternatives to Internet Explorer

2004-09-11 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
 Does any one know of a way of getting OPERA to allow easy browsing  
of web pages stored off-line?
I cannot imagine what your problem is. I have been using Opera for 3 years  
as my default browser
which means that I also use it for all HTML-manuals which are often  
several hundred pages.
No problem up to now!

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Re: [ql-users] Wotsup

2004-09-09 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
why use outlook?
Trying to convince people to use other programs than Internet Exploder and
Look out is as promising as asking a junk to stop using drugs and take
chewing gum instead ;)
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Re: [ql-users] QPC and Windows XP SP2

2004-09-09 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Did anyone tried to use Qpc (last version 3.20) in a WinXP SP2 machine ?
There is a general instability, without any reason QPC close itself  
randomly, also, i had to cancel some extension in the boot file cause  
they crash QPC.
I haven't installed SP2 yet and with all I've heard up to now, your  
question confirms
me to still wait for some time.

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Re: [ql-users] QPC2 version 3.20

2004-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
I gathered it has an on-board QL (SGC, Aurora, Minerva and
RomDisq)! It's supposed to communicate with all the instruments
(compass, log, GPS etc), but I'm not sure how advanced this project
is. I'll see.
Knowing Jens Wildgruber, it will be functioning, I'm sure!
Have fun and good wind, Marcel.
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[ql-users] @ Thierry and P. Graf

2004-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi Thierry,
I guess I'll just return to the lurking and passive/unproducive mode.
Please don't do, you are so welcome in this community !!
P. Graf, why don't you keep your promise to stay away from this newsgroup?
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[ql-users] DBAS databases as HTML-file

2004-07-03 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi all,
I wrote a small program which makes HTML-files out of DBAS-databases.
It's a SBASIC-routine, very simple but effective insofar that you can not  
only
view your databases in a browser but also determine the looking by just
play around with the CSS-style attributes in the source code.

Perhaps this is of interest for someone.
You can get 'DBAS2HTML' on my website in "Utilities".
Wolfgang

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Re: [ql-users] OT: Who taught the Greeks to play football ?

2004-07-03 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
You miss my point about the Swiss Genes Wolfgang, I was reffering to a
completely different ref
I know which one you mean ;) but I wondered how you could remove genes
that are'nt there in the first place.
All the best - Bill
All the best, too, Wolfgang
PS: In the end we Germans must be happy that at least one of us
has reached the final :-))
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Re: [ql-users] OT: Who taught the Greeks to play football ?

2004-07-03 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Any chance BTW that we could clone that Ref ( Callina ) removing any  
Swiss genes on route (;-)
It's Collina and he's Italian ;)
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Re: [ql-users] Justify a loose item

2004-06-24 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi Dilwyn,
 ESC was provided by just checking with MKEY% if the "INPUT" was  
terminated by the
ESC key.
I see  what you mean. In that case I still would create one more menu item  
but make it
1x1 px, which is small enough to be out of view.
Wolfgang

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Re: [ql-users] Justify a loose item

2004-06-24 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
I can't remember exactly how I worked around it now - it seems to work  
if there is an MCALL loop though.
My "workaround" is to ALWAYS create at least two menu items.
And in most cases you need an ESC-button, anyway, don't you? ;-)
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Re: [ql-users] Justify a loose item

2004-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi Francois,
I can't reproduce that error.
No miracle, neither can I ;-))
Within the loop it is indeed no problem, but try this one:
mdraw #3, ram1_test_men
mwindow #3,-1:cls #3
Bang!!
which brings up the question why this doesn't happen in the loop :-(
By the way, did you receive my zip-file I promised you in Eindhoven?
No I didn't! Please try again with the above mail-address. Perhaps you took
[EMAIL PROTECTED] which I don't use any longer because of spam overflow.
All the best, Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] Justify a loose item

2004-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:59:36 +0100 hat Dilwyn Jones  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

...which has only one loose item, sometimes it works, sometimes it  
doesn't, now I know why!
Afaik there is no problem as long as you just call it by MCALL, like in:
key=mcall(#ch%)
select on key
 =-1:any procedure or command
end select
but if you try to MWINDOW it, EasyPtr gives an error.
I have not experienced your 'sometimes yes/sometimes no'-problem
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Re: [ql-users] Justify a loose item

2004-06-19 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi Dilwyn,
At the moment, I'm padding the text string with leading spaces, which of
curse have to be removed when the item is edited, so I have two copies of
the string:
txt$ = 'Hello'
justified_txt$ = FILL$(' ',(80-LEN(txt$))DIV 2)
So justified_txt$ is put into the loose item for display purposes with
MITEM#channel,loose_item_number,0,justified_txt$
Another possibility could be to take the MWINDOW"-command together with
the SuperBasic "AT", like in:
mwindow #3,-2:cls#3
at #3,0,2:print #3,"whatever"
It's just an idea and I don't know whether this helps you, but it would  
have the
advantage that you can give paper and ink the colour you like ;)
Only drawback is: this does not work with menu item number 1 (-1). It's a
fault of EasyPtr.

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Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven photos

2004-06-14 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Now, Now Wolfgang, Grolsch used to be delicious until they let the  
English start brewing it.

Best Wishes,
Geoff
Another Grolsch fan :-))
Okay I must admit, I am quite chauvinistic at that point, having grown up  
in
Germany, the country of the most pure and delicious beers in the world,
has spoilt me forever.

Sorry for Grolsch ;)
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Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven photos

2004-06-14 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
In Holland they have no lager, only yellow coloured dish-water, sold as
"Heineken", brrr.
Come on Wolfgang, the Grolsch isnt too bad?
Okay it is probably _cleaned_ dish water ;)
Sadly, the only way to pronounce it is to have a few too many.
Or to pretend to be snoring as heavily as possible ;)
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Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven photos

2004-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Ive heard that  the Dutch lager can be pretty evil in the right (or  
Wrong) quantities.
In Holland they have no lager, only yellow coloured dish-water, sold as  
"Heineken", brrr.
Wolfgang ;)

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Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven photos

2004-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Eindhoven photos ...
Thanks for the good photos, Tony! Excellent quality, too.
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] SuQcess

2004-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Soy !
The filename had a capital letter and the link didn't.
It should be okay now :)
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] SuQcess

2004-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
wolfgang who ;-)))
I already had this game with Wolfgang Lenerz, now there is
still another one. Very funny :-) I didn't even know that there
are so many Wolfgangs in the QL-scene, hee, hee
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] SuQcess

2004-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sat, 15 May 2004 10:40:51 +0200 hat wolfgang mühlegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
geschrieben:

on my website: www.uhlich.nl/ql
hmm ..
dead link
isn't it wolfgang?
wolfgang
No it isn't, Wolfgang ;) I just tried it!
Wolfgang
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[ql-users] SuQcess

2004-05-14 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi all,
I want to announce the colour version of SuQcess, the database frontend for
the QL.
After having overcome (nearly) all the EasyPtr-difficulties with the help  
of Marcel and
Per, Bob Spelten and I gave the program a totally new outfit.
With all the improvements Suqcess has had during the last two years, it is
now a program really worth giving a try.
You can download a trial version on my website: www.uhlich.nl/ql
Every feature can be tested, the only thing that does not function is  
saving
changes to the very database.

Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] QL2004 website

2004-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
http://members.lycos.co.uk/geoffwicks/ql2004.htm

Apologies to Opera users, but since Lycos added the advertising column, 
the
site cannot be displayed on this browser. It works OK on IE, Netscape and
Mozilla, but could you let me know if other browsers give problems?
I found the solution for Opera users:
Disable Javasript in 
and everything works fine.
Nice site, by the way, and I will link to it from my website.
Wolfgang 
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Re: [ql-users] List issues

2004-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Guys,

I haven't had any problems posting to this list.  In fact, I usually see 
my postings within a few minutes.  I would suspect that you are all 
hitting issues with different providers/routings and not so much with 
the list.  I saw the discussion about providers blocking common spam 
sources which is a very common practice (unfortunately but needed for 
now).

Jim
My mail provider (GMX.de) automatically screens every mail and gives you 
the
possibility to decide what to do with a mail, recognized as being spam.
I chose to have them sent to me as "suspected of being spam".
Quite regularly postings in this group arrive here with just that 
"suspicion".
May be that other providers just delete those mails because their filters
are very sharp or so?!
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:53:13 +0200 hat Marcel Kilgus 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:

Jeremy Taffel wrote:
Am I the only one having problems?  - it appears that random postings 
are
not coming through to me. This makes no sense to me whatsoever because I
never received the previous message.
The message I have answered here was 2 weeks old.

Marcel
Does that mean that you didn't get before yesterday

Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] QL2004 website

2004-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
The QL2004 website is now available:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/geoffwicks/ql2004.htm

Apologies to Opera users, but since Lycos added the advertising column, 
the site cannot be displayed on this browser. It works OK on IE, 
Netscape and
Mozilla, but could you let me know if other browsers give problems?

Geoff Wicks
Yes indeed, Opera (7.23) shows up but the Lycos script interferes heavily. 
No
popup-block can change this.
Why do you have to accept that they change your HTML, anyway? Do they ask
that for the free use of their server?
Do you want space on my Tiscali account? I have got enough :-)
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] XP problems

2004-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Dilwyn wrote:

My own saga with the Epson USB drivers illustrates this I think -
without solving this I wasn't able to use my PC properly which in turn
prevented me using QPC2 properly. Unless I can resolve this, there's
no point reinstalling QPC2 and all the QXL.WINs if I have to
subsequently update my backups and reinstall everything again.
Hi Dilwyn,
having read about your "reinstall-adventures" so often now, gives me the
idea that you really reinstall the whole system every time and not play 
back an
image, don't you?
Wouldn't it be very practical to use the opportunity of a new reinstall to
partitionate your hard disc in at least 2 partitions, one for the system 
and
one (or more, depends on hard disc space) for all data and stand-alone
programs like QPC2?
Together with an imaging program like Powerquest Drive Image or Acronis
True Image (of which I could give you a free full version I got from of a 
computer
magazine) you could then burn a perfect functioning system to a CD and
the next time your PC crashes, you just play back this image. No hassle
any more with drivers, programs, preferences, etc.
Your other partition with QPC would never be affected any more by system
crashes.
Or did I completely misunderstand what you mean by "reinstalling"?

Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] failure messages - we should change this. Quality of Software

2004-04-08 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Roy wrote:

I read a review of the current Open Office in a computer magazine and it 
said it produced the worst PDF files of all of the office suites on test.
I can't judge that. I've tested some more or less complex documents with 
and
without images and text with different free- and shareware "pdf-makers". 
For
me the results look the same and the file sizes are not very different.
May be that making a pdf-file with Acrobat gives better results, but that 
program
costs some hundred Euros in the end.
So what's the point of having "the worst PDF files" if they look the same 
and
are totally free?
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] failure messages - we should change this. Quality of Software

2004-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Roy wrote:

I did use Open Office once and hated it. . This was a couple of 
years ago and it may well have improved.
It has, indeed! It's now a very good office suite just like MS-Office. 
Office Writer
is even better than Word in some aspects. What I also like is that you can 
save a
file as PDF from every OO-task, now.
One drawback of OO is that it starts up like a snail. There can be some 
others
depending on what kind of work you are doing with it.

About all the spam and virus discussion: I use Opera which has an 
integrated
email-client that is the most modern of all.
No Outlook, no IE, no Windows-adressbook!! which reduces potential danger
to a minimum.

Wolfgang

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Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:32:35 +0200  Wolfgang Lenerz 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I'd be willing to hold a forum on SMSQ/E, if this would be of interest 
to anyone.

Wolfgang
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I would appreciate that  very much!
Wolfgang 
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Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:33:15 +0100 hat geoff wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
geschrieben:

Incidentally at Eindhoven I saw a possible new version of EasyPtr - very 
nice - could we get any copyright and similar problems sorted out before 
October?
Could it be that you mean the Easymenu colour version with which I was 
busy?
As discussed in this group some weeks ago, this is not an official 
version. And as Marcel
pointed out, he is not willing to continue working on it at the moment :-((
On the other hand it is such a relief working with it that I also would be 
very interested
to have the question of copyright sorted out in order to be able to give 
it to those who
want it, too.
Marcel (if you read this) couldn't you ask Albin about that, you know him 
best of all of us?

Wolfgang

 
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Re: [ql-users] failure messages

2004-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
 AmericanEnglish

1   one one
1,000   thousandthousand
1,000,000   million million
1,000,000,000   billion milliard
1,000,000,000,000   trillionbillion
..
I don't know then why Tony asked me, what a milliard is :-0
and
Sorry... but I believe Trillian was a female character from the 
Hitchhikers Guide
ja, ja, ja, ja, never again will I send a mail without having checked the 
spelling, Sir!
;-)
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Re: [ql-users] failure messages

2004-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Incorrectly called Billion by some

Billion = 10^9 = 1000,000,000 (Million Million)

see
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rcnh/gs102/SI_prefixes.html
footnote 1 says it all
In German it's even different from what is described in the link. We very 
regularly
say million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillian, trilliard, etc.

Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] failure messages

2004-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Am Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:25:08 + hat Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
geschrieben:

On  Thu, 25 Mar 2004 at 14:14:58, you (Wolfgang Uhlig) wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Stop using Microsoft mailers (8-)#
The EU has fined MS nearly 500 million Euro for Media Player.
That's a good start, isn't it? Now still 10 milliard for all the damage
caused by Outlook :-))
What is a milliard?
Oh I thought, it's a "billion" only in American English?!?

Is it because you have not set up a mailing list, and all ql-users
arrives in your inbox?
I have set up a mailing list and all my mails arrive in one inbox anyway 
in
Opera's M2. The mailing list is only one of several "access points".

It would be great if you could delete the second addressee.
There was/is no second addressee when I sent/send the mail :-((
Don't understand what happens.
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] failure messages

2004-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Stop using Microsoft mailers (8-)#
The EU has fined MS nearly 500 million Euro for Media Player.
That's a good start, isn't it? Now still 10 milliard for all the damage
caused by Outlook :-))


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Re: Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven, QL Today Renewal and NEWS

2004-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Hi guys,

I will probably be in Eindhoven in September (November ?) 2004.
It will take place on 16th of october.

But two shows in the same period could have not so much  interest...
I agree and that's why I would like you all to come to Eindhoven and
make QL2004, the 20th anniversary show of the QL, a big party ;-))
Wolfgang
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Re: [ql-users] Mailing LIst

2004-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Uhlig
Well done, Bruce,

everything works just quick and fine, thank you!

Wolfgang
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