Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Op 17/02/2013 12:56, Wolfgang Lenerz schreef: Hi all, v 1.05 is on the Website. Apart from bugfixes, this allows you to hide the menu bar (type the basic command JVAMBAR to get it back). Could somebody confirm that Prowess is working ok in this version? Thanks Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Good morning Wolfgang, Prowess extensions can be loaded and Prowess-Proforma progs can be launched but they are unusable because texts are unreadable ; characters are displayed as a some grey lines. I can send you a screen capture if that would help you. Another problem: TEST909.OBJ locks SMSQmulator v 1.05 at the end of test 5 (grafik block). Thanks for the new version. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
On 02/18/2013 11:21 AM, François Van Emelen wrote: Op 17/02/2013 12:56, Wolfgang Lenerz schreef: Hi all, v 1.05 is on the Website. Apart from bugfixes, this allows you to hide the menu bar (type the basic command JVAMBAR to get it back). Could somebody confirm that Prowess is working ok in this version? Thanks Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Good morning Wolfgang, Prowess extensions can be loaded and Prowess-Proforma progs can be launched but they are unusable because texts are unreadable ; characters are displayed as a some grey lines. I can send you a screen capture if that would help you. Another problem: TEST909.OBJ locks SMSQmulator v 1.05 at the end of test 5 (grafik block). Thanks for the new version. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I can confirm I have the same 2 issue as Francois. Ciao Fabrizio ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
HI, Prowess extensions can be loaded and Prowess-Proforma progs can be launched but they are unusable because texts are unreadable ; characters are displayed as a some grey lines. I can send you a screen capture if that would help you. AH yes, ok, I just saw it - you're in 4 colours mode, right? Could you try in 16 bit colour mode? Another problem: TEST909.OBJ locks SMSQmulator v 1.05 at the end of test 5 (grafik block). OK, this is a bug, I'll have a fix this evening. Thanks. WOlfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Hi, I can confirm I have the same 2 issue as Francois. Thanks. Is this in 4 colour mode or 16 bit colour mode? Here it works OK in 16 bit colour mode, and actually also in 4 bit colour mode - the colours are so horrible that I thought they were wrong, but they are the sams on QPC in 4 colour mode. If this is in 16 bit colour mode, could you send me your SMSQmulator.ini file? What does RMODE in Sbasic return? Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Op 18/02/2013 13:45, Wolfgang Lenerz schreef: HI, Prowess extensions can be loaded and Prowess-Proforma progs can be launched but they are unusable because texts are unreadable ; characters are displayed as a some grey lines. I can send you a screen capture if that would help you. AH yes, ok, I just saw it - you're in 4 colours mode, right? Could you try in 16 bit colour mode? Another problem: TEST909.OBJ locks SMSQmulator v 1.05 at the end of test 5 (grafik block). OK, this is a bug, I'll have a fix this evening. Thanks. WOlfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Hi, Print rmode returns 32... This is 16 bit colour mode, isn't it ? In QPC2 4 colour mode Prowess progs run with horrible colours but in 8 colour mode QPC2 locks. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
I wonder if I'm the only person seeing this because I have not seen it reported here previously. I use config-Set screen size to set a new screen size. I choose, for the sake of argument, 512x256. The screen redraws and reboots SMSQ/E and the screen is bigger than I wanted. Going back in to config-set screen size again, shows that the current size is 1024x512. Double what I requested. In order to get the screen size I want, I have to set it to half what I want. Also, when I do set the screen size, rounding the X size to the next divisible by 8 value diesn't appear to be happening. If I select 101x101 I actually get 202x202 and this Illegal Instruction $4afb at $7f6a6a in the shell window I started SMSQmulator from. All of this is 1.05 and with 16 bit colours or QL colours. Not all screen sizes give the error message though, but all of them go double sized. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and IS_EXTN
FYI and apologies for the omission: I'm running SMSQmulator under Java 1.7.0_13 (the full JDK) and this is on Mint Linux 13, with the KDE window manager. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
I wonder if I'm the only person seeing this because I have not seen it reported here previously. SMSQmulator 1.05 under Java 1.7.0_13 (the full JDK) running on Mint Linux 13, with the KDE window manager. I use config-Set screen size to set a new screen size. I choose, for the sake of argument, 512x256. The screen redraws and reboots SMSQ/E and the screen is bigger than I wanted. Going back in to config-set screen size again, shows that the current size is 1024x512. Double what I requested. In order to get the screen size I want, I have to set it to half what I want. Also, when I do set the screen size, rounding the X size to the next divisible by 8 value diesn't appear to be happening. If I select 101x101 I actually get 202x202 and this Illegal Instruction $4afb at $7f6a6a in the shell window I started SMSQmulator from. All of this is 1.05 and with 16 bit colours or QL colours. Not all screen sizes give the error message though, but all of them go double sized. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
Going back in to config-set screen size again, shows that the current size is 1024x512. Double what I requested. In order to get the screen size I want, I have to set it to half what I want. I hope I'm not stating the obvious here...are you using the Double Size option in the Config menu? (If so it will have Halve The Window Size in the Config menu) Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and IS_EXTN
Op Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:30:12 +0100 schreef Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: ... 200 IF IS_EXTN('palette_ql') and RMODE4: pcol 4 I don;t see IS_EXTN anywhere in the raed me or user guide, nor can I find anything that supplies it in win1_extns (or anywhere else!). Palette_ql isn't an extension either. Obviously Wolfgang had this IS_EXTN on his system when he wrote this boot. The origin is unknown, it's not in my Keywords database. PALETTE_QL is an SMSQ/E keyword so should always be there anyway, unless it was removed. RMODE is a QPTR command and will most likely not produce the correct result, it's missing from this boot. You can use DISP_TYPE in stead of rmode. Bob -- The BSJR QL software site at: http://members.upc.nl/b.spelten/ql/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
Op Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:45:35 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: Going back in to config-set screen size again, shows that the current size is 1024x512. Double what I requested. In order to get the screen size I want, I have to set it to half what I want. I hope I'm not stating the obvious here...are you using the Double Size option in the Config menu? (If so it will have Halve The Window Size in the Config menu) When I tried v1.05 just now, I hit the Double the window size option to see what it did. It had an immediate effect, resized my window too big for my screen and made SMSQ/m freeze-up. The Java bar was also unavailable so I had to kill the W$ job. I edited the .ini by hand to get it right again. Bob -- The BSJR QL software site at: http://members.upc.nl/b.spelten/ql/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
Le 18/02/2013 17:29, Norman Dunbar a écrit : I wonder if I'm the only person seeing this because I have not seen it reported here previously. I use config-Set screen size to set a new screen size. I choose, for the sake of argument, 512x256. The screen redraws and reboots SMSQ/E and the screen is bigger than I wanted. Going back in to config-set screen size again, shows that the current size is 1024x512. Double what I requested. In order to get the screen size I want, I have to set it to half what I want. Also, when I do set the screen size, rounding the X size to the next divisible by 8 value diesn't appear to be happening. If I select 101x101 I actually get 202x202 and this Illegal Instruction $4afb at $7f6a6a in the shell window I started SMSQmulator from. All of this is 1.05 and with 16 bit colours or QL colours. Not all screen sizes give the error message though, but all of them go double sized. Cheers, Norm. Oh dear, I seem to have made a real mess of this, haven't I? I'll look into that. Thanks Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and IS_EXTN
Op 18/02/2013 16:30, Norman Dunbar schreef: I thought I'd give Wolfgang's emulator a try out, even if I'm not a Java fan. I've followed the readme instructions, and searched the user guide too. But the program fals when it boots with a line 200:1 error in expression error. Line 200 statement 1 is in the Win1_boot file, and looks like this: 200 IF IS_EXTN('palette_ql') and RMODE4: pcol 4 I don;t see IS_EXTN anywhere in the raed me or user guide, nor can I find anything that supplies it in win1_extns (or anywhere else!). Palette_ql isn't an extension either. What is the obvious thing that I'm missing please? Cheers, Norm. IS_EXT can be found in blinker_bin, sbasic extension by Wolfgang Lenerz. PALETTE_QL is in my 'extras' just after BGIMAGE. Still trying to configurate PRowess-Proforma correctly. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
Hi Norman, Also, when I do set the screen size, rounding the X size to the next divisible by 8 value diesn't appear to be happening. If I select 101x101 I actually get 202x202 and this Illegal Instruction $4afb at $7f6a6a in the shell window I started SMSQmulator from. Errm, just a question - the rounding to a multiple of 8 only happens when in Ql colours mode - were you? Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
On 18/02/13 16:45, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I hope I'm not stating the obvious here...are you using the Double Size option in the Config menu? (If so it will have Halve The Window Size in the Config menu) Thanks Dilwyn. That's what it was. I could see halve the screen size but until I clicked that, I couldn't see double the screen size. Everything in that option is now working fine. Thanks. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
On 18/02/13 19:00, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Errm, just a question - the rounding to a multiple of 8 only happens when in Ql colours mode - were you? Errm, yes, I was. Oops! I consider myself duly slapped. It was in 16 bit mode when it wasn't rounding yup and of course, I can clearly see this in the manual now! hangs head in shame Still got the error about illegal instructions though. Dilwyn has solved my double sized problem too. I apparently had double screen size on. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
I hope I'm not stating the obvious here...are you using the Double Size option in the Config menu? (If so it will have Halve The Window Size in the Config menu) Thanks Dilwyn. That's what it was. I could see halve the screen size but until I clicked that, I couldn't see double the screen size. Everything in that option is now working fine. Glad that helped, Norman. I think Wolfgang introduced this to make it easier for users with restricted vision to read the small QL text when used at high resolutions, but it's pretty handy when using QL 512x256 resolution on a large monitor. By default, SMSQmulator here is 1024x768 and if I accidentally use double size it more than fills the display, although it doesn't seem to immediately crash for me unlike how it did for Bob (I am using v1.05 on Windows 7 64-bit). Some other QL emulators have similar facilities - QL2K lets you choose some preset magnifications, others will let you drag corners, although results aren't always pretty if you don't get a multiple of the original resolution. Incidentally, a little tip for Windoze users. I wanted a shortcut for SMSQmulator on the Windoze taskbar but all I could get was the general Java icon. I know SMSQmulator displays the Wolf Soft icon when the emulator runs, but couldn't get that to display on the taskbar. Having designed a little icon which (apologies to Marcel) looked just like the QPC II one, I found a way to change it. (If anyone wants the icon, just send me an email, the list won't let me post a graphic or icon here). Create an icon which is a shortcut to SMSQmulator.jar . If your paths includes the location of javaw.exe, just browse to SMSQmulator.jar and that may be enough. If not, you may need to call javaw.exe with the full path and the SMSQmulator.jar as a command, e.g. in my case: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe -jar c:\SMSQmulator7\SMSQmulator.jar In the Properties window, choose the Shortcut tab. Click on the Change Icon button. If it offers a suitable icon in the list, choose one of those. Otherwise, use the Browse button to locate a suitable icon, a .ico file - you may find you can use others such as .png or .bmp but I haven't tried those. I created mine as a 32x32 graphic in Windows Paint and copied it into a program such as Irfan View to convert it to an .ico Windows icon file and saved it in the SMSQmulator folder. Click OK. You will find on some versions of Windoze that it insists on still displaying the Java icon. Looking this up on the internet I realised that next time I restarted Windoze the icon displayed correctly. Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
Still got the error about illegal instructions though. Darn I missed that. OK, minimum screen size is 512x256. In the next version, I'll see to it that it just can't get less than that. Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and IS_EXTN
Le 18/02/2013 16:30, Norman Dunbar a écrit : I thought I'd give Wolfgang's emulator a try out, even if I'm not a Java fan. I've followed the readme instructions, and searched the user guide too. But the program fals when it boots with a line 200:1 error in expression error. Line 200 statement 1 is in the Win1_boot file, and looks like this: 200 IF IS_EXTN('palette_ql') and RMODE4: pcol 4 I don;t see IS_EXTN anywhere in the raed me or user guide, nor can I find anything that supplies it in win1_extns (or anywhere else!). Palette_ql isn't an extension either. What is the obvious thing that I'm missing please? Cheers, Norm. Alright, this is a keyword I have in my boot system and that somehow made it onto the demo .win file. Just delete the reference to this keuword and leave the rest of the line (or use disp_type). I'll remake a boot file. WOlfhgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm