> EasyPTR remains the main sticking point and unfortunately, I have not found > the time (mainly due to my continued ill health) to look at the sources for > this and try to work out what is needed to adapt this excellent utility to > working with 65536 colours and the new WMAN. Unfortunately, none of the others who > expressed an interest in working on this project have been in touch (hint > hint) so is there anyone else willing/able to take up the gauntlet along with me?? I don't know enough about the low level machine code parts of the system to help with the programming but am happy to help informally in any way I can, e.g. testing or suggesting changes etc. I do use Easyptr part 2 (basic) almost every day and a mega-project like Launchpad has probably shown up just about every problem area you could think of and more. For example, try referncing sprites in memory by name, the names don't seem to be stored and you can only reliably get at them by appending them to a base file and referncing them by base address e.g. SPRA (sprite_number), even appendix manager and entering the names manually doesnt seem to save the names.
You can only have 32 info windows. Some of the menus in Launchpad suffer because of this, I was using narrow windows as shadows and boxes and kept running out of info windows, so gave up on most of them. While your routines in Superbasic reference manual to resize menus are great, they are after all basically pokes that may or may not work on future systems. In addition to being able to change menu sizes, we need to be able to change application window sizes and colour schemes - as I know of no way to dynamically alter menu colour schemes at runtime, Launchpad users are stuck with one colour scheme. Since Easyptr allows only the 256 colours, it might be handy to have it offer different ones rather than the stipples in high colour modes. Easysprite and the other bits need to be able to handle GD2 sprites so that high colour sprites become possible. Just a short list off the top of my head, will send others as they come back to me! -- Dilwyn Jones
