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Paul, I have to disagree with you… if you read through the (mounds of) documentation provided by C-A (and CATS), time and time again, you'll run across text to the effect of 'do it this way and we'll make every effort to keep you working' and (more to the point)…
Yes, it was good (but if I recall, it was only a 1/2 hour or so thing). My local (D.C.) PBS channel showed Roger & Me, then Pets or Meat right after (or was it the next day?). I'm not sure that the sequel was meant for the theatres… as…
The "System Default Text" must be a NON proportional font. This was done for compatibility reasons (programs opening windows that don't specify thier own font will use this font). – Keith
Hehe.. The title of the sequel was in fact, "Pets or Meat" (ie: you can buy the rabbits alive or cleaned for the table). I watched it on PBS a few weeks back. – Keith
Mike, "Developer's Conference" ? or a show? – Keith p.s. if it is a developer's conference, _nothing_ will likely be postable, as they are generally covered by strict NDAs. but if it's (more likely) a show, then I'll look forward to your comments.
According to Ed Swatchek (msg #73934), the Setfont command may have a scale option for use in a shell. Also, apparently, JRComm won;t let you, but BackTalk will (term program-wise). He also mentions that fonts scaled in this manor don't always look too hot… as I'd mentioned in an earlier…
Thanks for the clarification. And yes, they don't always look to good. But if you double the height (for example, and asssuming that's what you needed) they look ok. – Keith
Hmmm… sorry if I've confused the issue, as a developer, it's hard to keep track of what features came along in which OSs . Anyway, I DO think that the capability is there (in 2.04), if the system font prefs program doesn;t have a string gadget, you might try it…
Jim, You should be able to in any program that lets you 'type in' the font point size… for example, run the system Font prefs program, select one of the fonts to change, then it will list the available pt sizes for each font in the font requester… click on…
Ahh.. ok, sounds like you got it working anyway. – Keith
Hmmm… puzzling. You might double-check to make sure all of your flags are set in the "proper fields" (in both the gadget and window) ie… the gadget Activation vs gadget Flags, and window IDCMPFlags vs window Flags. – Keith
New Access! version
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I've just uploaded a new version of Access! to lib 17 (sysop, the file should be named 'Ack169.lha'). This version has a new 'Screen Mode' requester (that should be usable under v37 and up) with load/save features. It now also better supports 4 color custom screens (it maintains separate palettes…
I'm planning to go… one way or the other :^). – Keith
Two things to look for… do you have the IMMEDIATE flag set in the gadget activation field? and #2, do you have GADGETDOWN set as part of your IDCMP falgs? My guess would be #1, if you just have RELVERIFY set, you'll get GADGETUP messages, not GADGETDOWN (you didn;t specify,…
They'd have to make a 2000 version of the 3.0 ROM. ie.. just like the 2.0 ROM for the 3000 won't work in a 2000. – Keith
Steve, I'm still not _sure_, but others have said it is 3.0 (and I tend to think the same thing). Yes, this would be usable on a 2000 running 3.0 (and was one of the things I mentioned a while back in a related thread). There are some other (if…
Jim, The system will 'make' those sizes for you… even if they aren't displayed in the font requester, type them in (the appropriate place) and the system will scale em up for ya. (you might have to try a few different sizes before you get something usable tho). – Keith
Ben, I agree, point-by-point with your comments.. well stated. – Keith
I understand your concerns and share them to (probably) a lessor degree. I see both up and down sides to this new trend, but tend to lean (out of neccesity ?) towards your last proposal… that it might simply transform and evolve our present-day concepts. We've always had a great…
I'm sure I'll regret asking you this (sounds like a set-up to me) but which days of the month have more than 2 digits? (longest month I can think of only has 31 days in it)
You have some good points, and in fact, taken to the extremes, datatype libraries for file-conversions would make me a bit nervous if that were my 'business' too . On the other hand, if I owned AdPro, I'd more likely buy ImageMaster if I knew that both programs could use…
Michael, I _think_ that datatypes starts with 3.0 (if you've heard of the new 'Multiview' program, that's what it uses… which lets it display ilbms, ascii text, anims and play 8svx sampled sounds (as well as anything else that gets developed as a library for it)). I've been playing around…
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Finding file size
Message #29067
Ahh.. glad you got it working.
Tom, Here's a bit of code I use to get the size of a file… long fsize(char *file) { struct FileInfoBlock __aligned FBlock; BPTR FLock; if(!(FLock = Lock(file,ACCESS_READ))) /* try to lock file */ return NULL; if(!Examine(FLock,&FBlock)) { UnLock(FLock); return NULL; } UnLock(FLock); return(FBlock.fib_Size); } .. note that the FileInfoBlock…
I see Don has pointed you at a file that may help you, and this may be the same information in that file, but… you can get an adaptor from: George Ribeiro 2550 Hilborn Rd. #167 Fairlfield, Ca. 94533 (707) 426-3428 He has several (well, a few anyway) different adaptors…
Actually, there was to be a "buy a 3000 and get a CDTV for free" deal… IT was replaced by the "buy a 3000/50 for $1495 and get SCALA free" deal (good until Nov. 30th, currently). – Keith
Thanks … who'd I steal it from… Huey Lewis, maybe?
Thanks for the info.
Steve, So you didn't even see the text print to the screen ? It sounds like it's not finding the script… just to recap, to run a script once you get connected, there must be a '$' as the _first_ character in the comment field (above the first '-' mark…
Ahh.. thanks for the clarification.
Russel, I've only played with an A4000 breifly, but here's a few things you can try… make sure you have the DblNTSC monitor as the monitor in the devs:monitors drawer. And then, in (I think) the Icontrol preferences program, make sure you have 'coersion' (sp) set, also, from the 'Boot…
Eric, The A3000 comes with a built-in de-interlacer, I also believe that the package in question comes with a HD. From reading your messages in another on-going thread here, I think I've noticed one of the problems with your arguements… you seem to have an A500 as your Amiga (that…
Steve, Hmmm… it's been a while, so bear with me on this… but I think that the trouble is that you are starting your script by waiting for 'Connect' which the auto-dialer feature of the program has already 'eaten'. You might try a simple script that just prints things to…
Out of curiousity, what's ParaBIT ? (I get the general idea, but what's the product?) – Keith
I'm not sure what Timm was claiming (or why/how SID ended up with that window) but it's not something I ever ran into using Manx (for CLI launched programs)… it's there by 'default' for both Manx and SAS compilers for WBench launched programs and there are ways of getting rid…
I don;t know how HMI was implemented, but the 20 minute download were [would] certainly not double to 40 mins…. sitting in CO, there's a LOT of un-used bandwidth. Anyway, if even if it did double, assuming you were going to be in CO for 40 mins anyway, you just…
I don't have direct knowledge (whether you do or do not need FCC approval) but I think what Vic and Don are saying is that if you look into it, you'll find that you DO need FCC approval for a device such as your company is planning so sell. -…
Jim, I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with your reasoning here, but I would point out that as a matter of implementation, you should not be replying a NULL message… you seem to have already determined (perhaps through debugging it) that you are getting a NULL message, so don't reply…
Maybe you could send it to him COD? I'm not sure of the details, but you could probably call UPS and ask them what's involved. – Keith
Hehe.. you know, I never really thought of it that way, but there's got to be an awfull lot of truth to that (3 million machines owned by 1 million very satisfied customers). While many people sell thier machine to someone else when they upgrade (thus creating a 'new' customer),…
See Steve's reply… my point was that the fact that a program opens a window when run from WBench is not indicitive of what compiler was used to create it… as both compilers mentioned have ways to get around that. – Keith
Quick question… why would you need/use ftp ? Once you have the PC volumns mounted on your Amiga, you can just access them like your Amiga drive(s). – Keith
"… but I have not yet tried it with a SCSI II controller" Did you mean that you haven't yet tried it with a SCSI II drive? I don't have much experiance with Quantums, but those numbers look a little low to me (might be good for a quantum tho…
I'd be interested to see some dperf timings from that controller if you get around to it. – Keith
Neat, thanks for that info. – Keith
Kevin, This may be obvious (ie. not what you're looking for) but you can find the 'struct ColorTextFont' (and related) structures in the graphics/text.h include file. – Keith
Thanks Vicki, maybe I'll pop in there some time. – Keith
(just playing devils advocate…) Uhm… how about this suggestion… if we 'swap' enough mass (and I have no idea how much is 'enough'), we alter the moon's orbit around the Earth (if not the Earth's orbit around the Sun (assuming we send the mass off to the sun, or otherwise…
Vicki, I'm in the DC area (just outside the beltway, in Md. actually)… where/when does NCAUG meet ? Keith
That sounds right… they seem to have an answering machine hooked up tho, we need a board yesturday… lemme know if you have any luck. Keith
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