johnf@apollo.uucp (John Francis) (03/10/86)
I just got my developers kit, and so have at last started to play with my ST.
A few bugs and annoyances have cropped up, so I thowght I would share them
with the net.
My hardware configuration is:
Vanilla 520ST (no 1meg upgrade, no TOS in ROM, ...)
One Single-Sided and one Double-Sided floppy drive.
Both B/W & RGB monitors (although only one at a time, sigh...)
o Eight-Character folder names do not seem to work. I created B:\EXAMPLES\
and tried to move APSKEL.C and ACCSKEL.C into it. All I got was an error
message saying "This application is unable to open the folder you named".
Everything worked just fine if the folder name was B:\DOC\
o BATCH.TTP gives up at once (with no error messages) if you supply less
parameters then it expects. I had created a generic batch script to
compile, load, and run a C program. As the C program took parameters I
had a line in the batch script of the form "B:%1.PRG %2". When I tried
to use this same batch script to test another C program which did not
take parameters I only supplied the first parameter, and BATCH.TTP gave
up after printing its banner line. Supplying a dummy second parameter
made BATCH.TTP happy.
* o There is no easy way to make a double-sided bootable system disk.
The only way I can see is to write a C program myself to create a
boot sector on the disk.
* o It would be really nice if there was a simple application to display
a source file. I know that MicroEmacs will let me look at a file, but
I would really like to be able to scroll through a document using
scroll bars!
If anybody has source code for either of the last two items (flagged with *)
I would love to hear from them. If not, then when I get round to writing them
myself I will post the sources to the net.sscalsk@NSWC-WO.ARPA (03/11/86)
I have had similiar problems with folders with names equal to 8 chars. The difficulty even extends to not being able to delete any folder with an 8 character name. There is an easy way to create a double-sided bootable system disk. A utility is already available called WBOOT.PRG and it is listed in the bloomington st users group PD software catalog that they publish here on the net 03/10/86.
steven@boring.uucp (Steven Pemberton) (03/13/86)
johnf@apollo.UUCP said: > I just got my developers kit, and so have at last started to play with my ST. > A few bugs and annoyances have cropped up, so I thowght I would share them > with the net. [...] > * o It would be really nice if there was a simple application to display > a source file. I know that MicroEmacs will let me look at a file, but > I would really like to be able to scroll through a document using > scroll bars! I agree. It would be much nicer if when you double clicked a file, instead of getting that terrible 'more', you just got a window on the file which you could scroll. And that warning thet you can only show or print the file is a pain too. It would be nicer to select the icon, and then select a print menu item. > If anybody has source code for either of the last two items (flagged with *) > I would love to hear from them. If not, then when I get round to writing them > myself I will post the sources to the net. What would be very nice is a version of MicroEmacs that opens real windows instead of imitating them like it does. Then you could use the scroll bar instead of ^V, ^X-^N, etc. Another point altogether: some of the example programs use routines beginning rc_. An example is apskel.c which uses rc_intersect to see if two rectangles overlap. I can't find these documented anywhere (or even mentioned in any header file). Anyone got any documentation? Has anyone already dismembered the libraries to see if there are any other goodies hiding in there, and would like to share it with us? Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax.uucp
bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi) (03/17/86)
> > What would be very nice is a version of MicroEmacs that opens real windows > instead of imitating them like it does. Then you could use the scroll bar > instead of ^V, ^X-^N, etc. > We thought of that when we did the port of microEmacs here. (that was posted to the net a while ago). The problem is that Vdi text (v_gtext) is soooo slloooow. For the same reason a window (Vdi/Aes)based browser would not be very useful. > Another point altogether: some of the example programs use routines > beginning rc_. An example is apskel.c which uses rc_intersect to see if two > rectangles overlap. I can't find these documented anywhere (or even > mentioned in any header file). Anyone got any documentation? Has anyone > already dismembered the libraries to see if there are any other goodies > hiding in there, and would like to share it with us? > > Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax.uucp Almost all the rc_XX routine I have seen were written by Tim Oren and are fully described in his Professional GEM seminar series on Antic online. Another place to see the rc_XX routines are in the Doodle source (which is where they originate from, also writen by Tim Oren). I highly recommend the Professional Gem series and the associated sources. If there is enough interest I can post them (I have parts 1-10 and the associated sources), but i guess most people have downloaded them by now. -- Jwahar R. Bammi Usenet: .....!decvax!cwruecmp!bammi CSnet: bammi@case Arpa: bammi%case@csnet-relay CompuServe: 71515,155