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#ReadArgs() Problems
Message #41139
I am having a heck of a time getting the ReadArgs() function to work for me in assembler. What I want to do is get the parameters of a command from the CLI, and along with the template, give me some sort of rdargs or something. But after I call…
Backfill patterns
Message #33578
A programming question: I was wondering what function you call, or tag to use for the white pattern backfill that you get in the standard easyrequester and the reqtools.library requester windows?
#Amiga on its side
Message #79660
I am thinking of putting my Amiga 3000 case on its side, such that the mouse and joystick ports are on the top. Is there any long term damage this may cause to the computer, such as the floppy or hard drive alignment?
CygnusED
Message #46409
Hi ASDG, I am a registered user of CygnusED Professional, and this editor is the most used piece of software on my Amiga. The version I have is 2.12. Is there a newer version out there somewhere? Plus is there going to be new versions? It's been a long time…
#Grouping objects
Message #45242
I am using Pagestream 2.1. I would like to know how to group objects together, so they can become one object and I can 'edit coordinates' etc… There seems to be no explaination in the manual to do this. I hope this can be done.
NM-> Luciano, NM-> Your name sounds familiar, have you done any Amiga utilities? Yes, I have a few programs on the Fish disks, like Print, and Repstring, and the utility whapterm in the Whap package was derived from an old terminal program of mine called Simpleterm. I haven't programmed anything…
#CygnusEd
Message #42008
I would like to know what the lastest version of CygnusED is? I have V2.12. But I seen rumours of V2.2. Is this true? When (if the latest is V2.12) would a new verion be released? The editor needs a 2.0 look. ** Luciano 73246,1744 via Whap! V1.9H **
ReadTimeScroll()
Message #23386
In the req.library by Colin Fox and Bruce Dawson, there is a very nice scroll function called RealTimeScroll(). Is there any function comparable in the 2.04 libraries which can replace the RealTimeScroll() function? I don't really want to use req.library just to have this function. Or is there anything in…
#PS Fonts
Message #39056
Where can I find all the Pagestream PD fonts? (forum, directory) Thanks… Luciano 73246,1744 via Whap! V1.9F
Concerning tab settings in Pagestream, "Note also, that it is the place where the horizontal an vertical parts of the cursor cross that is the 'hot spot.'" Bill thanks a lot! I was aiming the bottom of the text cursor rather than the above mentioned spot. Luciano 73246,1744 (From Toronto)…
#Pagestream >> tab stops
Message #36953
In Pagestream 2.1, I am having problems setting tabs in Pagestream. When I try to click the mouse which is pointed in the tab bar, there is no response. The dots in the tab bar don't appear or disappear? Luciano 73246,1744 via Whap! V1.9F
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1000 HardDrives + Memory
Message #318
Cameron….. I have an A1000 with the AX2000 Comspec 2 megger + 1.5 meg Spirit Inboard inside the A1000, plus the Compsec SCSI controller with a 142 meg Micropolis hard drive. If you have the Comspec memory board slapped onto the side of your A1000, I would definitely go the…
Ray, thanks for your reply on how to get a PageStream document to the HP laser II through the PC. You're almost dead on, on how I accomplished the transfer. I changed the PageStream printer driver to HPLaser.driver (driver included in PageStream package). Then I set the printer requester in…
#PostScript >> IBM
Message #33
I bought PageStream a week ago, and find it very useful. I would like to know how to have my Compaq '386 with HP laser printer at work print out the pages made with PageStream on the Amiga. I made a page and printed it to disk using the postscript…
Hi Jack…. I sent my registration to you a couple of days ago for JRComm. You should be getting it any day now (or you might have it now). Anyways, for scrolling…. I haven't been following this thread, but did you check out req.library, a PD library which is available…
Steve, you forgot to put the asterisk in between quotes like, rename file1 as "12*34" Instead of renaming file1 as 12*34, it renames it 1234, but if it is not in quotes, it's OK. This happens with both Rename commands of ARP and standard AmigaDOS. I solved this problem this…
#Line Parse With "*"
Message #114888
I noticed something in the line parsing from the CLI. If I have a file called df0:file1, and I wanted to rename it "df0:12*34", rename df0:file1 as "df0:12*34" The line parsing would take out the asterisk in between the quotes. In other words, it will rename the file df0:1234. All…
Arps GADS() bug??
Message #114884
I noticed something in ARP's GADS() line parsing function. If I have a file called df0:file1, and I wanted to rename it "df0:12*34", rename df0:file1 as "df0:12*34" Arp would take out the asterisk in between the quotes. In other words, it will rename the file df0:1234. All commands that use…
Fast text scrolling
Message #105848
I'm currently writing a program that involves having fast scrolling of text like a text editor with a scroll bar on the side of the window. Does anybody have any example 'assembler' code of fast text scrolling?? Also, I am using the req.library (By Colin Fox & Bruce Dawson) for…
Arp & Trackers
Message #94380
I noticed in arp… When I ArpAlloc() and get the pointer to the tracker in A1, and then FreeTrackedItem() using that tracker pointer in A1, the program crashes. It works with the other arp functions that are tracked, like ArpLock() and ArpOpen(), except for the memory allocation functions with a…
#A68k 2.6 bug??
Message #85649
Actually, try this short program to see the bug in A68k 2.6 movem.l a0-a7/d1-d7,-(sp) movem.l (sp)+,a0-a7/d1-d7 rts END Then run it and it crashes. Check with Metascope, and you'll see that the first line is assembled as movem.l a0-a7/d0-d7,-(sp).
A68k V2.6 bug??
Message #85646
There seems to be a bug in the A68k 2.6 assembler. It involves the 'movem.l' instruction. Check out my Simpleterm.asm in SMTERM.ARC. There are a few lines in there that have the following instruction: movem.l a0-a7/d1-d7,-(sp) When you assemble it with the A68k 2.6 assembler, the assembler will assemble that…
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#Gadget Images
Message #65222
Keith, there are rumors around that you are writing a next version of Access! with the additions of ARexx and external protocol capability…..true??
Thanks for confirming my registration. Now concerning vd0:. If I can't configure a vd0: greater than 2meg, then I will have to mount 2 of them. What do I have to change in the second asdg.vdisk.device file? On page 6 of Vol. 1 Issue 5, of the Amiga Transactor gives…
Yes, I paid full money for the CEDPro editor back in Dec '88 at the World Of Commodore in Toronto. I can't remember sending the registration card in, but more than likely I did. I would appreciate a confirmation from you (if you have the time of course). Luciano 73246,1744
#CEDPro Update?
Message #11383
I've read that ASDG is about to release an update to CEDPro, and the update cards were sent out to registered users. I haven't received mine yet. Am I on the CEDPro registered list? Luciano Bertato 73246,1744
Any >2meg vd0:'s avail?
Message #11382
It seems that the 'new' version of vd0: has a serious bug, already mentioned here before. I have a 4meg A1000, and I set up vd0: with the HiCyl set at 403 which gives me a 3meg vd0:. When I fill up vd0: past the 2meg mark, in my case,…
#CIS password help
Message #63014
A friend of mine has lost his password for CIS, and he wants me to look into it. What is a Compuserve number he can call from Toronto Canada?
VD0: > chip ram??
Message #62878
I am having a problem with vd0:. I have a 4meg system, and I have a 3meg vd0: (no rad: is mounted). The following is in the Mountlist, VD0: Device = asdg.vdisk.device Unit = 2 Flags = 0 Surfaces = 1 BlocksPerTrack = 16 Priority = 5 Reserved = 2…
CommandMenu V1.0
Message #59364
I just released my latest utility called CommandMenu. It's basically a screen menu with up to 20 selections (totally configurable by the user). Each selection includes a CLI command. When the selection is picked, CommandMenu will exit, then 'inject' the command string into the CLI, then the CLI will run…
menupick-string gadget
Message #59363
For those of you interested in the problem I had when I would select the keyboard equivalent in the menubar (ie. RightAmigaKey-Q for quit), when a string gadget is active…I solved the problem! I had a couple of people respond to me here, but I can't recall their names, telling…
I'm not a 'serious' C programmer (yet), but I always see this thing 'foo' being mentioned. What is it?
I know that the input.device can be used to simulate the mouseclicks, and other intuimessages. I'm reading up on this right now. If I can't find the solution, then I'll have to ask Khalid for some serious help….
Oh…. I must have overlooked the command line options, as I see an '-e' option in A68k (If that's what you used). Thanks Larry….
Equates
Message #58650
Larry, I noticed that you made EQUATE12.ARC, which is a nice alphabetically sorted list of all the symbols in the include 1.2 files. I'm curious on what utilities you used to make this list, as I want to make an ARP list for myself.
Jrcomm
Message #58646
Jack, the only thing that my Simpleterm seems not to pick up is a clear the screen sometimes. I opened up a console.device and 'it' is the one that's handling all the ansi stuff. I just noticed two things that your JRComm is not handling, and that's the underline on-underline…
I'm interested…..can you show me how to simulated a mouse click in the window using the input.device so that intuition can pick it up, and send it to my program? I never fooled around with the input.device before.
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#String gadget problem
Message #58475
I did not get that active string gadget resolved. There is another thing that this active string gadget does when I select a menubar selection with the leftamigakey-key equivalent!! I have an 'About…' selection in the menubar, with the LeftAmigaKey-F being the keyboard equivalent. When the A-F is selected with…
#Launching A Program!
Message #58474
I'm 98% complete in my program, and am having problems finishing the last 2%! It involves launching a program with the execute() dos call. I got the output file handle with the Output() dos call, and the input file handle is 0. Now when I launch a program with execute(),…
ASyncRun()
Message #58275
Can somebody please tell me two things about the ProcessControlBlock structure found in the arp include file, which is used with ASyncRun(). 1) what is the value of pcb_Sizeof (size of the PCB structure in bytes) 2) what is the size in bytes of a UNION, for example in the…
JRComm
Message #58234
Jack, if I were you, I would change your console device from an IBM standard to the ansi standard. I know there are minor differences, but there are characters from BBS's that JRComm does not interpret properly, such as underlining and clearing the screen. For example, when you log onto…
Charlie, I was just thinking of a useful function call for a future release of the arp.library. I really like using your file requester in my programs, as it saves a lot of programming time. Another common thing that is used in a lot of programs is the color requester.…
Don, I don't think I heard of the system() call?? What library is it in?
#ARexx examples in asm
Message #51632
Bill, thanks for telling me about hosttest.asm on the ARexx disk. That program explains how to send ARexx commands to a program. I was looking for an asm example which will execute an ARexx command from within the program. I have a menu option called 'Run an ARexx command' in…
#ARexx -> ASM example.
Message #50019
Can someone 'please' volunteer to write up the following 'very simple' 'very understandable' assembly (read -> 68000) program? I think that it is desparately needed for us assembly programmers: This is involving ARexx, and the very simple 'hello world' window. The ARexx portion would be: * print 'hello world' in…
tee-shirt printing
Message #6892
Perry, I have a friend that wants to start a tee-shirt printing business. He wants to get a picture off of a 35mm photo, and transferring it to a tee-shirt in the exact color copy. I mentioned to him the setup. An Amiga 2000, with a color scanner, ScanLab. He…
#Using…>> ARP <<…
Message #32960
I have just finished programming a utility using ARP. I am going to release it in a couple of days. This utility 'needs' the arp.library to work. My question is, can I put the 'arp.library' file into my public domain ARC'ed file, and upload it on Compuserve (and other BBS's),…
Assembler-ARexx
Message #28400
I just started to learn the ARexx Language, and it looks like it has very good potential for programmers! I am an Assembly programmer which uses the 'A68k-Blink-CygusEDPro' tools for programming. Has anybody written up an ARexx program for the above combination? Can you upload it if you don't mind?…
console windows
Message #1578
Bill, In the line "CON:S123abc/10/10/300/100/MyWindow", using machine code, is it as simple as converting the LONG word screen ptr into ascii and putting the ascii string into the place of 'S123abc', then calling _LVOOpen ? The problem with doing it this way, is that the program using this method will…
#console windows
Message #1577
Thanks Keith for mentioning WIN.ARC. I'm studying the code now. I'm one of the stubborn ones that stays with assembly programming. I wish I had 100% machine code instead of having C code and machine code mixed together. I wrote this message in the 'ASM Programming' category hoping to get…
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