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#runback
Message #17103
RUNBACK opens a NIL: file handle for both input and output. It may have a problem if MYCOMMAND tries to open a console * window, I'm not sure about that. I think Commodore has fixed the RUN command with V1.3 AmigaDOS so you can use RUN Nil: and close the…
There are acknowledged bugs in the FFS Gammas which have been fixed in the Omega releases. Beware anything that does multiple quick directory updates without flushing through a bunch of data blocks in between, if you're still using the Gammas.
Having locks on windows is pretty foolish too, but it seems to be a common practice. There are lots of disillusioned homeowners and publishers out there. …cheath
If you're having trouble getting a particular command-line thing to work within an AREXX macro for TxEd Plus, often the easiest thing to do is try the command outside of AREXX, just as a simple command line thing, and then once you've got that working go back to the macro…
If you're having trouble getting a particular command-line thing to work within an AREXX macro for TxEd Plus, often the easiest thing to do is try the command outside of AREXX, just as a simple command line thing, and then once you've got that working go back to the macro…
Love these religious issues. Even if you've got source code for a library, the implementation should be able to change completely except for the functional spec – thus depending on the implementation can get you into trouble when the implementation changes down the road with new hardware or rearranged software.…
Love these religious issues. Even if you've got source code for a library, the implementation should be able to change completely except for the functional spec – thus depending on the implementation can get you into trouble when the implementation changes down the road with new hardware or rearranged software.…
What I consider a bandaid is using SetFunction at all – that's probably why Carl didn't include a "linking" structure for it in the first place, to discourage it from being used except principly as a way for C= to install bugfixes for ROM code- …cheath
What I consider a bandaid is using SetFunction at all – that's probably why Carl didn't include a "linking" structure for it in the first place, to discourage it from being used except principly as a way for C= to install bugfixes for ROM code- …cheath
Why do you want the source for the library public? I'd never use calls to a library with PD source, because you'd never know what the functions you call would be doing with the myriad different versions of the library that would be floating around. It would be nice to…
Why do you want the source for the library public? I'd never use calls to a library with PD source, because you'd never know what the functions you call would be doing with the myriad different versions of the library that would be floating around. It would be nice to…
You'd really need to allocate a link structure for the SetFunction, if you wanted to plan for having multiple SetFunctions any of which can be de-installed in any order. I'd rather see the specific functions which might need multiple SetFunctions handled like input.device handles them – by setting up a…
You'd really need to allocate a link structure for the SetFunction, if you wanted to plan for having multiple SetFunctions any of which can be de-installed in any order. I'd rather see the specific functions which might need multiple SetFunctions handled like input.device handles them – by setting up a…
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Blitz Disk – Where?
Message #132368
That example, the problem is actually that the WORDWRAP command should be just WRAP, which is the proper keyword. In general, I recommend getting the full AREXX package if you're doing serious macro programming and not just using other people's macros – things like the quoting syntax are much better…
#132237-
Blitz Disk – Where?
Message #132368
That example, the problem is actually that the WORDWRAP command should be just WRAP, which is the proper keyword. In general, I recommend getting the full AREXX package if you're doing serious macro programming and not just using other people's macros – things like the quoting syntax are much better…
I'd prefer not to encourage SetFunction whenever possible, because you never know what will happen when things get combined, or when Commodore revises the OS, or whatever. When there is any possible way to do something not using SetFunction, I'd do it … the humor in this being that both…
I'd prefer not to encourage SetFunction whenever possible, because you never know what will happen when things get combined, or when Commodore revises the OS, or whatever. When there is any possible way to do something not using SetFunction, I'd do it … the humor in this being that both…
Nak, having a shared screen library would make it safe for any applications which register a shared screen. 100%, guaranteed safe. You would be limited to programs which use the library, but for those programs you're golden, rather than worrying about whether the program whose CUSTOMSCREEN you are visiting is…
Nak, having a shared screen library would make it safe for any applications which register a shared screen. 100%, guaranteed safe. You would be limited to programs which use the library, but for those programs you're golden, rather than worrying about whether the program whose CUSTOMSCREEN you are visiting is…
#131945-
#MyWindow on YourScreen
Message #132193
I'll see if I can get the 'screenshare.library' docs from Willy. I'm still not very happy with screenshare, because it is set up as a "master/slave" thing, where one application still "owns" the screen, and others are visitors; I think that once the screen is registered as "shared" there should…
#131945-
#MyWindow on YourScreen
Message #132193
I'll see if I can get the 'screenshare.library' docs from Willy. I'm still not very happy with screenshare, because it is set up as a "master/slave" thing, where one application still "owns" the screen, and others are visitors; I think that once the screen is registered as "shared" there should…
Easier, yes, but also more likely to run into problems both in the short and particularly in the long run. For me, for a commercial thing, I'd rather go for a way to share screens that is "guaranteed" to work among cooperating applications. Wish C= would take the lead… …cheath
Easier, yes, but also more likely to run into problems both in the short and particularly in the long run. For me, for a commercial thing, I'd rather go for a way to share screens that is "guaranteed" to work among cooperating applications. Wish C= would take the lead… …cheath
#131896-
#MyWindow on YourScreen
Message #131940
Very interesting question. I really, really want to be able to do this too, in an "approved" way, but only for a CUSTOMSCREEN which has registered itself as allowing other users to use that screen, thus protecting against closing the screen at the wrong time etc. Willy Langeveld put together…
Hmm … interesting idea. I guess I could add something like the auto-timeout callout, though I wonder if the response-time for an AREX macro will feel fast enough to keep up with speedy typists on a per-character basis. This sounds like ideally there would be a library-type callout with each…
Hmm … interesting idea. I guess I could add something like the auto-timeout callout, though I wonder if the response-time for an AREX macro will feel fast enough to keep up with speedy typists on a per-character basis. This sounds like ideally there would be a library-type callout with each…
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Wishlist for Workbench
Message #131646
Why not a SIMPLE_REFRESH CLI window with console memory and really fast text display, which would let you remember a lot more CLI text than a SUPERBITMAP would; with fast enough text you couldn't tell the difference, except that there would be a lot more memory free. Or, why not…
#131096-
Wishlist for Workbench
Message #131646
Why not a SIMPLE_REFRESH CLI window with console memory and really fast text display, which would let you remember a lot more CLI text than a SUPERBITMAP would; with fast enough text you couldn't tell the difference, except that there would be a lot more memory free. Or, why not…
Say, John, why don't you exchange spreadsheets? I'd love to be able to do a 3D rotation of my accounts recievable. What is the difference between an ANIM and an object in an ANIM anyhow? (No, no, nevermind C-:) …cheath
Say, John, why don't you exchange spreadsheets? I'd love to be able to do a 3D rotation of my accounts recievable. What is the difference between an ANIM and an object in an ANIM anyhow? (No, no, nevermind C-:) …cheath
Gee, where have I heard that "rewrite the ARP commands in C" before? Somebody else is welcome to… to my thinking though, the disk space saved by the assembler versions is one of the main reasons for using ARP, and my guess is going to C would wind up about…
Gee, where have I heard that "rewrite the ARP commands in C" before? Somebody else is welcome to… to my thinking though, the disk space saved by the assembler versions is one of the main reasons for using ARP, and my guess is going to C would wind up about…
Ken's working on his own; he did some of the ARP stuff, but it's too early yet to say if his WBench will be part of ARP or if he'll go commercial with it- …cheath
Ken's working on his own; he did some of the ARP stuff, but it's too early yet to say if his WBench will be part of ARP or if he'll go commercial with it- …cheath
It is a good point that distributors and dealers prefer to sell a higher priced package over a lower priced package … and hence the magazines like them better too because the companies tend to be richer and spend more for advertising etc etc. In the case of Southern Technologies,…
It is a good point that distributors and dealers prefer to sell a higher priced package over a lower priced package … and hence the magazines like them better too because the companies tend to be richer and spend more for advertising etc etc. In the case of Southern Technologies,…
It is a good point that distributors and dealers prefer to sell a higher priced package over a lower priced package … and hence the magazines like them better too because the companies tend to be richer and spend more for advertising etc etc. In the case of Southern Technologies,…
It is a good point that distributors and dealers prefer to sell a higher priced package over a lower priced package … and hence the magazines like them better too because the companies tend to be richer and spend more for advertising etc etc. In the case of Southern Technologies,…
Gee, maybe I should hire you as our marketing manager C-: I agree completely on SSSpeed, however I suspect it would be difficult to sell at a high price tag, high being >$40 … unless the speed is achieved with hardware, for which people would gladly spend $hundreds for the…
Gee, maybe I should hire you as our marketing manager C-: I agree completely on SSSpeed, however I suspect it would be difficult to sell at a high price tag, high being >$40 … unless the speed is achieved with hardware, for which people would gladly spend $hundreds for the…
#130050-
ARP
Message #130282
No problem … when C= releases V1.3 of AmigaDOS we will be checking everything ARP out to make sure it is compatible. 'Till then, at least by my count, the bugs which have shown up as interactions between ARP and FFS have been FFS bugs, which might not have been…
#130039-
ARP
Message #130281
Gee, I seem to have missed all the fun (lost the original message). Whatever it was, thanks for the reply in my absense- …cheath
#129792-
bug in arp?
Message #130279
The pair of characters {} was intended to be used for tagging replacement strings so you could do complex search/replace strings that used {xxx} to delimit the strings … I never got a clear explanation of how the tags were supposed to be parsed, and the implementation of the search…
BlitzDisk is ahead technically, yes, by having hard disk support, but there's a lot more to bringing a product to market than having a technical advantage. I spent about a week doing the technical work for BlitzDisk; bringing a product to market takes about 2 months of publishing_type work plus…
Hey, if I thought I could capture the cottage cheese market and live happily ever after I'd be glad to go for it, but I wouldn't just give cottage cheese away. Stuff I give away, I'd rather not be taking away somebody else's opportunity. …cheath
Hey, if I thought I could capture the cottage cheese market and live happily ever after I'd be glad to go for it, but I wouldn't just give cottage cheese away. Stuff I give away, I'd rather not be taking away somebody else's opportunity. …cheath
I don't want to give them competition from something free, no, not when I'm not going to benifit except for the warm fuzzy feeling of giving something away. I'm glad to compete on equal terms- …cheath
I don't want to give them competition from something free, no, not when I'm not going to benifit except for the warm fuzzy feeling of giving something away. I'm glad to compete on equal terms- …cheath
Partly I don't want to put BlitzDisk as shareware or PD because it would not be fair to ASDG and FACC II sales. I've given away plenty of my work, and did BlitzDisk with the intention of paying the mortgage. As part of TxEd Plus, it helps do that. $79.95…
Partly I don't want to put BlitzDisk as shareware or PD because it would not be fair to ASDG and FACC II sales. I've given away plenty of my work, and did BlitzDisk with the intention of paying the mortgage. As part of TxEd Plus, it helps do that. $79.95…
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