Re: compiling for hpux 11

2002-03-12 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> The compiler doesn't know which "shape" you are referring to. The struct > definition is in the style of C programming. In C++ when you define a > struct, the name of the struct is automatically type qualified. So you now > have a private type called "shape". > Actually that's not really cor

Re: compiling for hpux 11

2002-03-12 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 14:50, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 12-Mar-2002 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: > > I tried to compile blackbox 0.62.1 for hpux and I had some problems. The > > configure script went fine (we have gcc and c++) but right when it > > started to compile it gave the following

Re: bbsnapshot idea for some intrepid programmer

2002-02-22 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Friday 22 February 2002 12:45, Andy Kopciuch wrote: > > Someone with experience with the bbtools code should be able to write > > this in 2 or 3 days. A newbie to the code but not to coding should be > > able to knock it out in a week or so. > > > > Either bbpa

Re: bbsnapshot idea for some intrepid programmer

2002-02-22 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> > Someone with experience with the bbtools code should be able to write this > in 2 or 3 days. A newbie to the code but not to coding should be able to > knock it out in a week or so. > > Either bbpager or bbkeys has most of this written, so you could also start > by field stripping one of thes

Re: bblaunch

2002-02-22 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> > note it is a warning, not an error. What is actually happening is the > bblaunch code is rather sloppy. The fix is easy. > > The reason it is complaining is because it tries to read its own window > which does not have all of the hints set. > > The message is spurious anyways. What is actua

bblaunch

2002-02-22 Thread Andy Kopciuch
Hi, With the recent session management/bblaunch discussion, I did some playing around. I can use bblaunch for say aterm in workspace 4 bblaunch -w 4 aterm That works fine, but when I use a KDE application, it fails bblaunch -w 4 konsole I get this error: "Warning: XGetCommand can't allocate

Re: an explanation of the upcoming weeks

2002-02-06 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 15:39, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > There has been some concerned raised and I want to discuss this on its own > thread so no one misses it. > > In the upcoming weeks there is going to be a major change in the blackbox > internals. Part of this is to remove the home

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-10 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Monday 10 December 2001 17:42, Mark Weinem wrote: > Hi Sean! > > On Sun, 09 Dec 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Welcome to the blackbox world where a simple feature request leads to > > 8 different ways to skin the proverbial cat that do not involve > > changing blackbox. > > Will you real

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-09 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Saturday 08 December 2001 20:21, you wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:18:10PM -0700, Andy Kopciuch wrote: > > On Saturday 08 December 2001 19:04, you wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 06:00:56PM -0500, Paul Kincaid wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a way

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-08 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Saturday 08 December 2001 19:04, you wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 06:00:56PM -0500, Paul Kincaid wrote: > > I'm looking for a way that if you select "Exit" from the Blackbox Menu > > that you are prompted to exit rather than it just killing everything and > > kicking me out to the console.

Re: minimal apps (offtopic)

2001-11-26 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> It's based on mozilla, and as such, I've found that Galeon (also based on > mozilla) was a dog. When I load Konq... I'm happy... it's responsive, and > there's definately no lame interface choices... so why change? Konq is good > (well, i'll s/good/great/g; just as SOON as I can get flash/javasc

Re: Windows

2001-11-19 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> > > > 1. Is there a better way than putting the call to xpmroot in my > > xinitrc file to load up a background image? Does Blackbox have somewhere > > that you can list commands to automatically run on initialization. I > > want to also put bbkeys in there as well. > > try bsetbg. It is a s

Re: Background

2001-10-28 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Sunday 28 October 2001 15:56, Hurgh wrote: > Just a quetsion about the background in blackbox. > > I know that you use the Esetroot command to change the background, the > question that i have though is how do u make it stay like that. > > If i use Esetroot, and then i restart blackbox or somet

Re: bbconf 1.0 is released.

2001-09-16 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Sunday 16 September 2001 22:44, Jason Kasper wrote: > Just so this problem can be correctly interpreted as being fixed, we found > the problem and have corrected it in the CVS version. If anybody else > is running into these kind of errors, please checkout the CVS version > and see if that fix

Re: A BB file manager?

2001-08-22 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> * The File Manager would be XML/XSLT based, allowing users to 'walk the > tree' AND because of the XSLT be completely skinable (I have no idea how > gtk+ works, this could be another option). '/' would be the over seeing > class with everything below it being a child (see below for a short, thin

Re: kde weirdness...pls help

2001-08-17 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Friday 17 August 2001 12:22, Will Bohan wrote: > OK, so I did a fresh install of the entire OS last > night to see if I could get Kmail working with > blackbox... > > after the OS install I got the latest versions of > blackbox and bbkeys and set up everything, started X > and tried Kmail, perf

Re: feature request...

2001-07-30 Thread Andy Kopciuch
O.K. I went on a bit of a tangent. I'll stop posting code now. feh.

Re: feature request...

2001-07-30 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> - the code should probably store strlen(buf) rather than > always recomputing it, especially if you allow the chance > of 16K lines > - there's a bit of excessive malloc'ing going on... there's > no need to re-malloc buf, at least. > > For simplicity's sake, I'd probably just put

Re: feature request...

2001-07-30 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> > Here's my 'quick' way of implementing the ability to break lines... > I modified your code slightly. My rendition is attached for interested parties. > There are a few problems with this code snippet: 1) a large amount of code > repetition, Repetiton is not always a no-no. It depends o

bsetbg

2001-07-28 Thread Andy Kopciuch
I recently downloaded a bunch of themes. (hooray for themes.org back in action). Anyways: There are several different ways the themes are setup. For example some in "Styles" some in "styles" some using *.jpg, some using *.png. and different rootCommand entries for setting the background

Re: bbkeys -i, again

2001-07-10 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 15:28, Bartek Kostrzewa wrote: > Ok, after some trying I found out the really correct method, taken from a > mail to this list. > > . > . > > exec bbkeys -i & > exec blackbox > > . > . > > Only this will do the trick perfectly on my machine, I don't know why, but > if I st

Re: Slim Development IDE

2001-06-13 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 20:00, Jamin Collins wrote: > Considering the flame war that started (and may still be raging) this might > not be a wise question, but here we go. > > Does anyone know of a good quality but very slim IDE for any of the > following: C,C++, or Java? > > I'm asking here be

Blackbox flames

2001-06-13 Thread Andy Kopciuch
I have been in the forefront of the current email discussion about blackbox. Along with quite a few others. Bill Beal brought up a good point to which I was pondering myself: No bb developers ( Brad Hughes ... ) have had anything to say on the matter. And most likely for good reason, they don'

Re: Blackbox: which features *you* want?

2001-06-13 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> Absolutely! > > Jamin W. Collins > > PS. With our views being so similiar, people may start to think one of us > actually controls both accounts on the mailing list. heh

Re: Blackbox: which features *you* want?

2001-06-13 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> Those who like it light want all the extras to be kept outside of BB, in > order to keep the binary small. On the other hand, for those who like > the extras, having separate applications running at the same time is not > very efficient: there is the X-middleman problem, and I guess the total >

Re: Blackbox development

2001-06-13 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:35, Eric Hanson wrote: > Andy Kopciuch wrote: > > 3. Blackbox isn't for a beginner-average user. If it was, then why > > don't you see the kids from Dawson's Creek using it to write their love > > poetry? > > Do you

Re: Blackbox development

2001-06-13 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 03:20, you wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:21:11PM -0600, Andy Kopciuch wrote: > > As for the newbies ease of use. IMO blackbox is very specialized WM, and > > not for a linux newbie. They would sit around on their hands for 2 hours

Re: Blackbox development

2001-06-12 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> I'm not so sure that it's just for 'veteran' users either. I've seen people > use BB as their first WM and stay with it because they liked it. (I used to > have an AS setup that really was for veterans only: different menu patterns > and never once did anything but a program window or a graphic

Re: Blackbox development

2001-06-12 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> > Why does everyone seem to think that Lunix is the only OS that BB runs on? > I mean, for 's sake, the BB code has provisions to run > on OS/2 EMX! Not to mention getting it to work on Sun's "ANSI-Compatible" > systems. > How many people do you know who run a Sun sytem as their home computer?

Re: window sizes/java; powershell

2001-06-12 Thread Andy Kopciuch
> now my other problem... it's not window manager specific afaik... but > _very_ annoying.. maybe somebody can help ntl... i use a shell which is > called 'powershell' which opens many shells in one window, with a tab to > switch through the different shells... this worked fine until i switched to

Re: Blackbox development

2001-06-12 Thread Andy Kopciuch
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 09:25, you wrote: > there seems to be alot of differing opinions wrt integrating or packaging > all the bbtools with blackbox. i'd have to say that, although it can be > tedious to dl/build a bunch of apps rather than just one, i'm in favor of > keeping things as they are