Re: [ql-users] C and system sprites of SMSQ/E 3++ on Q40
Nice little (and very true) analogy! Thanks for the wishes - thanks to all the pieces that Marcel and others have put together in SMSQ/E along with some great color help it will be even better. Just wish I had the time to get everything into it and out the door. But will keep pushing. It is worth it when I am running it on my 23 Cinema display, where QPC and QDT are in their glorious 1920x1200 pixels :) Stay tuned... Jim On Sep 23, 2004, at 12:31 AM, Tony Firshman wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 at 23:01:08, James Hunkins wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) You would think after all these years of programming I would not forget to use the static keyword in this stuff. I wasn't doing this and therefore the external programs couldn't find the correct data. One I threw in static (thanks Wolfgang!), it works just as you all kept telling me. Very obvious - now :) Thanks for help everyone! Back to programming, That is life isn't it. I re-built my car engine a while back. I had always thought (for 13 years) that the Volvo spark plug lead layout on the 7nn series was brilliant. The distributor cap had the outputs all in a straight line. They were then held in a neat parallel line all the way to the spark plugs, 4,3 2 1. How sensible rather than the usual 1,3,4,2 or similar. I started the car up and it idled 'perfectly' first time, but when I drove off there was no power. Hrmm. The ignition was electronic, and the manual was distinctly unclear about the position of the -only- feedback - a slotted disk on the flywheel. so I took the engine out and checked the position (the only way) and it seemed OK. I then went back to the first stages (like one should -always- do even in programming!) and checked the leads. Nothing in the manual about the physical connections to the cap, so I checked with a continuity meter. The lead order was 2,1,3,4! It was only the electronic ignition being -clever- that made the engine idle perfectly on two cylinders! Moral: In life and programming one should always go back to first principals and never assume anything! Good luck with QDT. I must say it looked very professional at Orlando. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ 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] C and system sprites of SMSQ/E 3++ on Q40
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 at 00:44:42, James Hunkins wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Nice little (and very true) analogy! You got the short version! It took me all night to solve the problem, because I had volunteered the car for a choir trip to France. This was Friday and the last rehearsal was on the Sunday. I had to make the decision on the car before then! Thanks for the wishes - thanks to all the pieces that Marcel and others have put together in SMSQ/E along with some great color help it will be even better. Just wish I had the time to get everything into it and out the door. But will keep pushing. It is worth it when I am running it on my 23 Cinema display, where QPC and QDT are in their glorious 1920x1200 pixels :) I have seen Jim's TV system. Not only does he have this enormous flat panel display, but there seem to be hundreds of speakers all around the room. I wonder what his neighbours think (8-)# Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] C and system sprites of SMSQ/E 3++ on Q40
I'm more envious of the 23 cinema display - an apple one I assume. Some of us poor souls have to make do with old CRT G3 Imacs..since I had to sell my dual 1.42Ghz G4. Oh, and Jim, have you finished playing with your QDT yet :-)) (Private joke) Cheers, Darren Branagh, Bank of Ireland - Cards And Loans Business, Nassau House, 33/35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2. Ireland. Tel: 1850-530-530 Fax: 01-6706813. Direct Line:- (+353)-1-6176082 BOI Group Data Classification - Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] C and system sprites of SMSQ/E 3++ on Q40 s.q-v-d.com 23/09/2004 15:49 Please respond to ql-users On 23 Sep 2004 at 12:40, Tony Firshman wrote: (...) I wonder what his neighbours think (8-)# What , think? With all this noise? grin Wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete this E-mail from your system. Thank you. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, the Bank of Ireland Group does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of known computer viruses. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] C and system sprites of SMSQ/E 3++ on Q40
Of course the Apple one - and it kept me up to 3 this morning again :) As for playing with my QDT - forever and ever! Tony, my new display at 23 has more resolution than my 40 television. And it is better. So if I ever get a break from my programming I will be watching movies on it. And by the way, my speakers are nothing compared to everyone else in the area :) But I am not complaining. When I last used them (last month!), they were very nice to have. By the way, in case anyone wants to be an Apple fanatic but wants to run QPC on their Macs, I am using my 1GHz Powerbook with VirtualPC 6 to run QPC, its display plus my new monitor. Plenty of horsepower for all that. And I understand VirtualPC 7 is 10-30% faster and will run on the G5s. I wonder if I can get a compile to finish before I tell it to start? Cheers, jim On Sep 23, 2004, at 7:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm more envious of the 23 cinema display - an apple one I assume. Some of us poor souls have to make do with old CRT G3 Imacs..since I had to sell my dual 1.42Ghz G4. Oh, and Jim, have you finished playing with your QDT yet :-)) (Private joke) Cheers, Darren Branagh, Bank of Ireland - Cards And Loans Business, Nassau House, 33/35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2. Ireland. Tel: 1850-530-530 Fax: 01-6706813. Direct Line:- (+353)-1-6176082 BOI Group Data Classification - Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] C and system sprites of SMSQ/E 3++ on Q40 s.q-v-d.com 23/09/2004 15:49 Please respond to ql-users On 23 Sep 2004 at 12:40, Tony Firshman wrote: (...) I wonder what his neighbours think (8-)# What , think? With all this noise? grin Wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete this E-mail from your system. Thank you. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, the Bank of Ireland Group does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of known computer viruses. ___ 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] C and system sprites of SMSQ/E 3++ on Q40
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes You would think after all these years of programming I would not forget to use the static keyword in this stuff. I wasn't doing this and therefore the external programs couldn't find the correct data. One I threw in static (thanks Wolfgang!), it works just as you all kept telling me. Very obvious - now :) Thanks for help everyone! Back to programming, Tut ... tut ... :-) ... what is he on about ? Oh, he must be programming in 'C'. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
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] C and system sprites of SMSQ/E 3++ on Q40
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
