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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:29:58 +0100 (MET)
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From: calendin <calendin@massilia.univ-mrs.fr>
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To: Church Andy <achurch@cmu.edu>
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Subject: Bug Report 2
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Mime-Version: 1.0
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Hi Andy !
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Another bug report ! (what a cruel world ;-))
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BUGS :
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All these bugs occur under AMOS Pro 2.0, both under my normal
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everyhthing-is-patched-system, and under a very minimal environment (boot
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with no startup-sequence).
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- If I set a string gadget with a too small height (8 with the standard
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topaz font, for ex.), my system crashes. You should handle this error...
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- The "Igadget Active" with no arguments crashes. I simply define a Hit
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gadget, and run the "Igadget Active" command with no parameters. Then
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various effects appear (mouse frozen, display totally corrupted, and so on),
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and all crash my system... If I put an argument, it works...
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- If I try the ICls command, it crashes ! I opened a 4 bitplanes hires laced
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screen, then if do a Icls 4 I've got a software failure ! MCP says that it's
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an "Illegal address access (ie: odd)". Icls without arguments works.
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- Rhhaaa ! Bugs ! Bugs ! Bugs everywhere ! ;-)
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If I try to copy a portion of a screen to another place into the same
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screen, I've got a system crash ! On the hires screen described in the
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previous paragraph, I do something like Iscreen copy 0,0,0,320,200 to
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0,30,10 --> crash (I tried other values, and that did the same). MCP says
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that it's a "Line 1111 Emulator error" (???). Any idea ?
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- Same for the Iget Icon instruction. The Ipaste Icon instruction works
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fine, but I had to test it with an already defined icon bank. If I try to
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get an icon via Iget Icon, there's a crash (and I reserved a place in the
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icon bank, though (in fact I try to replace an already existing icon with
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one grabbed from the intuition screen)). MCP says "Illegal instruction"...
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- Oups ! If you use the "No Icon Mask" before using Ipaste Icon, then the
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pasted icons will be completely corrupted !!
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- Hem... Sorry but I didn't manage to understand the way sliders work. I
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want to define a vertical slider : I use the following definition.
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Set Igadget Vslider 1,64,80,14,140,1500,0,1,0
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So, I should have a slider really smaller than the slider bar, but my slider
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fills totally the bar, so it's impossible to move it. I change the values
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randomly, but no change happens. Could you explain me what the SIZE value
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stands for (that's really not clear in the doc). I tried an horizontal
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slider. Here the slider is smaller than the title bar, but if I change
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values, nothing happens (it always has the same size). And if I click
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on the slider bar but not on the slider itself, the slider doesn't move (it
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should do, no ?) ! Does I have to handle it manually ? How ? Well...
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HEEEEEEEEELP !!!!
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Well, with all these system failures, I begin to wonder if there's not a
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fundamental problem between your extension and my beloved AMIGA... I forgot
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to tell you that I've a 68030 processor... But I don't think it's the cause
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of the problem. What's your configuration ?
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SUGGESTIONS :
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Here is a list of suggestions. Importance vary from *** (very important) to
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* (not so important) :
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** - Is it possible to write underlined, bold or italic text with the ITEXT
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command ? If not, it would be good to add this feature...
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* - What about implementing intuition screen zones ?
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*** - If you have 2 screens (or more) on the same display, there's no way to
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know on which screen is the mouse pointer. What about a Imouse Screen ?
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*** - Well, I think that the reqtools provides a string requester (function
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rtGetStringA). What about adding it as "A$=Irequest String (title$,maxcars)"
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? The 2.0 version of ReqTools is even able to display text above the entry
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gadget and more than one response gadget !
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*** - A "Iload Iff" command would be greatly apreciated !
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* - What about the palette feature of reqtools too ?
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CONCLUSION :
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The more I use your extension, the more I like it !! (even if I get nasty
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bugs :-( ). It's very comprehensive, and a pleasure to use... I think it's
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certainly THE major add on to AMOS that everybody should own. Indeed, even
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if other extensions improve development facilities, yours brings a
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fundamental evolution to our favourite language. If you'd decide to involve
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seriously into this project, I'm sure it could become a great commercial
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product (we could discuss about that). To give you an idea, the DevOs
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package (similar to Intos) is sold in France about 400 french francs (about
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$80 !) and is difficult to use (rather basic system calls). I know people
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working for the French Amiga press, so advertising could be possible with an
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article... Well, that's just a proposal (personnaly I've no interest in
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this)...
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I hope that this bug report will help you and that all these f****** bugs
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will be removed (that's a bit frustrating to see my AMIGA crash every 2
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minutes...). Your extension is a great program : It deserves an effort from
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your part (send me debugged version as soon as possible, since I can't do
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many things with this one) !
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See you !
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I'll send you collector just now !
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/._/|\_.\ MiNd CoNtRoL...
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/ \_/_/ \ Fred. Calendini (calendin@massilia.univ-mrs.fr)
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