Hi Stefan and all,
If I had the option (and lots of spare time), I would have turned SL
into something cross-compileable years ago.
The problem is the entire user interface (display windows, dialogs, etc)
is written with Borland's VCL (visual component library). They promised
to make it 'suitable for Linux' many years but didn't manage to get
their "Kylix" running properly. It ended up as a completely dead horse,
very unfortunately. So converting the GUI for something like Qt
(cross-platform GUI) or similar would be an large effort - too much for
me. There are several thousand lines of C++ sourcecode lines (most of
them Borland VCL descendands) which would need to be almost re-written
in Qt or a similar framework.
73,
Wolf .
Am 10.03.2017 um 13:51 schrieb DK7FC:
Hi Wolf,
Will you hate is so much, one day, that you decide to build a Linux
version of SL? That would be a great step for a few of us to finally
leave it, the "OS". Politics! Autarkie, and open source stuff (instead
of spyware) for a modern and free world, just what we need. :-)
73, Stefan
Am 10.03.2017 13:36, schrieb Wolfgang Büscher:
Hi Eddie and all,
If SL is unable to load the colour palette files, you should try
installing it in a folder *outside* the usual 'programs'-thingy in
windows. Quite likely the hyper-nervous 'operating system' doesn't
grant file access to that folder, and all sub-folders.
Anyway, I've got a slow old PC where I installed windoze 10. I still
hate it (the "OS", not the PC) but maybe at given time, I will
install the C compiler there and try to debug it. I cannot promise
anything yet, because I am quite fed up with windows at the moment.
Cheers,
Wolf DL4YHF .
Am 10.03.2017 um 09:57 schrieb g3zjo:
On 10/03/2017 00:15, Markus Vester wrote:
those version and build numbers look odd to me, are you sure you've
got them right?
No :-)
I should remember never to trust my memory. Correction V2.92 b02 is
the newest, I was advised to try V2.90 b20, I only had V2.90 b16
available so stepped back to that.
It was my last email late last night, excuses, excuses. I could have
checked because they are both on this Laptop also. I have considered
V2.92 b02 to be flaky on display from my first use, I mentioned it
to Stefan. I had to start afresh with all my .config files it just
didn't like my old ones.
Something not seen before but happens now on both releases on both
machines is, constant messages on start up of "can't find the
Pallete" ie Sunrise, the default. Do you see this? I wonder if it
indicates that the two versions are using different locations to
store display information. I know a lot of set up information is
stored in memory.
73 Eddie G3ZJO
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