@Hans

I did write an ipp.device some time back. That should work with an IPP-supporting printer and the PostScript driver, although it was based on old (even at the time) CUPS sources so might not be very compatible.

I have no idea how to write a icon.library module, but it does have the facility for such a thing, so at least in theory it should be possible to write an SVG module for it.

No chance of this ever working again. Twitter have removed free API access (except for very limited uses).

@BillE

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Nice find.

@daveyw

The correct method is to use StartNotify() which (IIRC) will tell you when the file is closed.

@Hypex

My comment was supposed to be aimed at Raziel 🙂

@Hypex

Tbh it's probably better to use 7-Zip with the LZMA2 (same as XZ) compression. You don't then get the confusion with unsupported Zip files.

@salass00

I was considering making a XAD Zip client using zip.library but it's a way down the list.

In the meantime, my libarchive based one should do the trick although it's a bit unstable.

@Raziel

XZ isn't seen as Zip, it's a single file archive format. There is a XAD plug-in for XZ (I wrote it) but not everybody will have it. Although I'm not sure how you're compressing a multi file archive with XZ, you'd need to put it into an uncompressed LhA or something first.

I think Zip can use LZMA compression (similar to XZ), but the built-in Zip plug-in for XAD can't decompress it.

@nbache

Yeah, the includes are wrong - should be proto/graphics and proto/intuition. WaitPort is in Exec which isn't even attempted to be included.

There were some Roadshow settings posted not long after OS4 was released, which improved the network throughout. They might be on aw.net.

Sound? You could stop the A500 modulator outputting sounds as it had a separate input. Although I don't know why that would be important here!

If I've originally written something for an older OS version I will try to keep the compatibility in - unless I've had to rewrite it due to OS bugs. If an update is free it doesn't make much sense to retain compatibility with the previous update.

If in writing something new it will always be for the latest version, and then I'll work out later if it actually uses new features 😀 - if not it should be compatible with older versions but may not stay that way.

If I'm writing for OS4 and OS3 then the compatibility workarounds for OS3 tend to mean it works on old OS4 too.

It's usually not worth expending effort supporting old versions of the OS, but if you've written the code already and it's easy to do so, leave it in.

@Raziel

No, I raised it on the bugtracker but I'm not sure the SVGTiny area gets looked at much!
https://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2850

Hmm, I wonder if I can subclass drawing.image off of picture.image to make it compatible with this sort of thing, without losing the scaling? (don't think I have the time or motivation to try this at the moment, but I can give access to the repo if anybody want to give it a try)

@Raziel

I suspect it only supports picture class objects, not drawing class objects. It probably copies the data out rather than embedding the object.

@AmigaOldskooler

drawing.datatype 53.7 isn't new - I just noticed it wasn't the latest version of OS4Depot so updated it. I forgot to change the version field, so it's actually 53.8 on there now. Anyway, I have just updated it (v53.9) so there is a new version appearing soon.

@Raziel

Hmm, yes gradients might not work properly, would definitely be interested in checking them to see if it is something I can fix or just not supported by svgtiny. PM being sent.

@Raziel

That is how it's meant to look - SVG is structured art! If you convert to PNG/bitmap you're losing information.

If the file isn't displaying correctly then that's a different matter and I'd like to look at the file (libsvgtiny isn't fully featured but should display most files correctly)

@Raziel

Which one? I would recommend mine: Https://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co. ... nload.php?file=drawing_dt
The advantage of this is it renders the files as structured art. Disadvantage is you can't load into a pixel editor via the datatype.
If it won't recognise the file send it over to me on email and I'll look into it.