I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!

FANTASTIC NEWS!

All we need now is beta stage and then new hardware!

Excellent!!

Where's the dancing bananas???



Edgar Schwan - Thank you!!

EDIT - Nice to know we got this scoop ahead of everyone else! Thank you!

Screenshots, screenshots... please!

SCREENSHOTS PLEASE!!

*ahem*

DAMN! I can't get in touch with my AOne today... so i have to wait till tomorrow evening

Can somebody post some screenshots? Particularly of the Browser?

@magic

http://www.abisource.com/screenshots/

Not OS4 screenshoots, but better than nothing?


Edit: added "@magic"

@fjudde:

I know Abiword and used it for many years but i want some screenshots of Abiword running on OS4 and some of the WebBrowser *lol*

Non-X11 version:

http://os4.exec.pl/programy/abiword/screenshots/AbiWord_1.png

;)

AmigaOS 4 theme for X11 - work in progress...

Yay! :)

I'm very pleased to hear about this release.

I guess the next step will be to..... actually forget the next step for the moment - thank you for your hard work and effort in getting this ported to OS4.

3 cheers for Edgar!

Awesome

Fantastic news - we have crossed the line, the first big app gap has been filled.

@All
Browser is a tad slow at times and I can't log onto this site with it, but hey that was an unexpected extra.

The WP is fantastic and has a huge selection of features. If you you are in a position to do so please make a donation to Ed for his great work and dedication to this project.

Ed
Fantastic work as usual. Can I suggest you include some search engine pages under the home button where you provide a series of links.

ace

SZAMAN: The AmigaOS theme for X11 - looks brilliant !!

The more X11 looks like it belongs - the better.

From the look of things, have you reduced it to a screen (without the Linux/Mac desktop). I hope so, for then things will really fit together.

Another thankyou

pS, added later
Just saw the menu.

Great news !

@Edgar

Great work!

@MikeC

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osb-browser/eXec forum and SZAMAN AmigaOS 4 X11 theme:

http://os4.exec.pl/programy/abiword/screenshots/osb-browser.png

That's very cool. Cheers! eXec

(off topic: if anyone is up for a laugh...)

Was hoping to check this out, but always get a gurumeditation while trying to install X11, Anyone have any idea what may cause this?
(didn't find any info in the forums so thought I'd post here...;) )

regards

Cool!

BTW, am I dreaming or there was a discussion about making X11 apps open on the Workbench screen?

If this is not good news for AmigaOS then I don?t know what is?

Things are really improving on software side for AmigaOS

here some other screanshot:

http://web.cheapnet.it/pvanni/X.png
http://web.cheapnet.it/pvanni/X2.png
http://web.cheapnet.it/pvanni/X3.png

Verry nice... :)

excellent, thank to you and all people involved (afxgroup etc...)

now I must install the X11 (was done with os4pre4 but not with os4final)...

@Lio

It?s a lot more fun now whit the new version of X11 and screen toggle button in the upper right corner

Downloading now!

This is very nice!!!!!!!

Hi LiveForIt,

Umm, the Boing Ball in the center of the Window Title Bar !!!!

@SZAMAN

Absolutely fantastic! Good work!

@all

Have fun with these programs!

If you have any problems with it, it would be nice to let me know. Without your help I can't improve it.
I know that the programs are not perfect, but I'm sure that it can be usefull

If AbiWord doesn't start, please try to start it from shell (Type "abiword-2.5" in a shell), so you can
see the error messages. Stack should be min 2000000.
If this doesn't help, please post a snoopy-log.

CygnusEd

Absolutely Incredible!

@cygnusEd

Thanks. I can't wait to give it a try, especially with the Word Perfect import ability, since I use that at work.

But I have a problem right now with it.

When I click the start script icon for AbiWord or osb it opens up Cygnix, and -at least for AbiWord- it gives me a splash screen. But that's it. No visible program.

Stack size: set on the start script icon or on an executable in .bin?

Sorry, it's been a long time since I've done anything with this 'nix stuff.

Here's what I got with a shell startup:

New Shell process 9
9.System:> abiword-2.5

(process:1779623872): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(process:1779623872): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers
glib printf_parse() format == NULL
No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
library is not correctly configured. You may need to
edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
page and on http://fontconfig.org

@Paul

Thanks for your interrest and your detailed bug report!

It seems, that the font caches are broken. Please try this:

Open a shell and type "fc-cache -v -f" + return

You should see something like this:

fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 2 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype": caching, 12 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/Cygnix/Home/root/.fonts": caching, 6 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/sys/Fonts/_TrueType": caching, 31 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: succeeded

The number of fonts may differ.
Afterwards please try to launch AbiWord. Please tell me, if this works for you!

Hope you find it usefull

CygnusEd

@acefnq

> Fantastic work as usual. Can I suggest you include some search engine pages
> under the home button where you provide a series of links.

Thanks

No problem, which pages you like to include?

BTW: You can find the HTML file for the home button here:
"Cygnix:Home/root/osb-hotlist.html"

@cygnusEd

here's what I get trying to fix the font cache:

9.System:> fc-cache -v -f
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "A1/.fonts": skipping, no such directory
fc-cache: succeeded

I get the same behavior at this point. Partial splash screen and that's it.

Like you said in the readme, it's good to know something about how 'nix file structures work.

So how can I add System:fonts as a path for Cygnix?

Ed
Sorry in my haste and excitement I missed the Google entry. Thanks I 'll also check the page out.

ta

ace

WOW. I'm impressed One of the best things to happen for a long time.

@Elwood:

Ideally, there would be a rootless X server, like on MacOS... if the X server opens top level windows directly as intuition windows on workbench or a custom screen, and GTK uses an AmigaOS-lookalike toolkit, it would be almost like a native GUI...

Yeah rootless would be very nice.

Anyone who wants to set up a bounty for it? If there's any developers interested in helping out to make that happen that is. IIRC Edgar didn't know how to add rootless support so it might require some help.

@Paul

Ah o.k., now I'm sure, where the problem is.

The first problem is, that GTK2 can't find the user home directory. This can have two reasons:

1. The content HOME environment variable is wrong. Should be "/Cygnix/Home/root"

2 There is a user called "root" in the internet settings. Look at the file "Sys:Devs/Internet/users".
The user "root" should be defined in this way:

NAME=root UID=0 GID=0 DIR=/Cygnix/Home/root

Or delete the "DIR=..." part


If you don't want to change this, then copy your ttf fonts from "Sys:fonts/_TrueType" to "Cygnix:CygnixPPC/share/fonts/truetype". Afterward call "fc-cache -v -f" again. Then it should work!

@Rogue

Thank you for your appreciation! Makes me proud that you like it


@all
I understand, that everyone likes to have a rootless X server.
The first step has to be to create a new display driver, which can open a server window on the workbench. This should not be tooo difficult, but I'm not working at it at the moment. First I like to publish some apps. Several apps are nearly done.
The next step could be a feature, that opens a new server window for every application / window. This is the difficult part. The server code was never assigned to do this and it would be a huge amount of work.

The part with the OS4 lookalike GTK is easy to solve. A OS4 like theme is already included. It could be improved to be more perfect.

In my opinion it would be better, when I try to increase the server performance and fix some other problems first before I start working on a rootless server. What is your opinion?

@orgin

A bounty is always a good idea

i think the first thing is a good performance but i think we need opengl (minigl) xserver, amigaos4 native gui is really fast, thanks very much for your hard work, i'd like see a Excel viewer

Edgar, this is a superb achievement for Amiga, a mainstream wordprocessor able to load/save common formats, even if it is through X11. Thanks a lot!

Saluditos,

Ferr?n.

P.S.: Next step is doing it OS4 native, you know...

I get an error message from Enlightenment telling me that execute access to /Cygnix/Home/root/.e16/themes, so it doesn't start ... this happend when I installed the AbiWord package. I tried to reinstall it but it didn't change anything.

Help please!

Quote:

This last solution worked. The font requestor doesn't seem to show everything it should, but at least the program is running now. I'll fiddle with things some more when I have more time.


Thanks for your patient help.

It's going to be great being able to do some of my professional work at home when I want to.

Paul

@cygnusEd

Thank you ! This is great !

@hotrod

Please set the protection bits of the direcories "Cygnix:Home/root/.e16/themes" and "Cygnix:Home/root/.e16/cached" to RWED with you file browser. Then it should work.

This is a problem, that sometimes occurs, but I don't know why. The X11 archive is o.k.

@Paul

Great! And have fun with AbiWord!

Thanks again for you bug report and also thanks to the others, who reported their problems!

@cygnusEd

Thank you very much for all of your hard work. But, most of all thank you for the smooth installation. I was able to download the 3 archives from OS4Depot and get this installed and up an running without any trouble at all. I do not even fully understand what it is you have done. I do not know what this software (X11) is doing. I just followed your instructions and I was glad to see the Word Processor screen appear. It works, and even I can do it! You are a hero!

@ cygnusEd

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I have! But I also tried the browser now, and for an alpha, it works pretty good.

I went to about 5 different sites, with multiple sub-selections at most of them. I did finally get a "lock up" (well, a really, really, really slow, slow- down) with a whole slew of browser windows open. But considering it's not even ready for online browsing yet, I'd say it does a great job of it.

But I just got a win32 error with XP and Firefox doing this from work, and I've been on line a shorter time than I was with osb browser last night. (hmmm, maybe it's some kind of message that I shouldn't be doing this from work!)

Thanks!

Paul