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I just tried out the new OPENURL tooltype feature to have OpenURL to use YAM. However the default settings for YAM seem not to work. A new mail
window opens but no address or subject line is added

The path based comand

YAM:YAM MAILTO="%a" SUBJECT="%s" LETTER="%f"

The arexx based command is set up so.

"MAILWRITE; WRITETO '%a'; WRITESUBJECT '%s'; WRITELETTER '%f'"

The path based command works if YAM is not yet started, so it's just the arexx bit that needs fixing.

Sugestions?

Also what about other protocols?

As far as I can see OpenURL only handles http: ftp: and mailto: but what about others? lastfm: would be useful to me, I was reminded about this concept by a message from Yakov via last.fm

It would be a nice concept if the OpenURL peogram could handle any protocol. This is wandering alittle OT for this thread I know, but not entirely unlrelated.

@tommo1975

A lot of people seem to be calling for download managers and stuf, but I imagine that would be a fair amount of work to implement. Even a simple network status window like AWeb's might not be so trivial, to graft into an existing app.

What I would like is something hopefully simpler, a transfer anim so you can see when there is network activity, without having to look at the routers flashing lights.

That and the ability to set the default download directory to somewhere other than the OWB directory.

@Hans

I've worked on anumber of plugin systems, AWeb's, perl's, blender's, and and my blender specific build of python's, to name a few.

The biggest headache I ever have is not communicating with the plugin from the app, but exporting the plugApi to the plugin.

The nicest way IMHO is AWeb's where the API is exported as an amiga library, which the plugin opens.

The nice side of the .so tecnique is that the plugin "simply" links against the executable gaining easy access to the API. At present this seem to make linking the executable everso complicated, in terms of managing static verses .so libraries.

It's swings and roundabouts, but a consistent and easy to implement amiga freindly version would be nice.

@Jack

OT but that bit about python caught my eye. I just had to build myself a minimal python port to work with blender, as the "official" one had no thread support and caused awful linking problems when I tried to link blender against it.

Do you any more info on that?

@kkanash

IIRC theres a patch on aminet that upgrades the CD version slightly. It works better under OS4 with this in place. (On an amigaOne anyway).

@trixie

Does that code snippet make the guage smaller or the string gad taller?

The biggest difference between your code and orgins I can see is that you have a sing hgroup whereas orgin has each gadget inside an hgroup within the outer one. That could be undoing the effects of the WeightedHeight...

@orgin

does the background color of the containing object have any effect?

@broadblues

i notice workbemch windows in name mode suffer from the same problem. It is a little ugly, but not the end of the world.

@orgin

Oh yeah, hadn't though of the scroll bar angle, that makes my "hack" useless.

@orgin

Which part of the listbrowser are you haveing problems with?

The extra area when the list is "too short"? Perhaps you could populate it with blank nodes?


Edit: Or one big node that fill the remaining space and apply a backfill hook to that?

Hacky solution I know, but ...

@salass00

I use apache on 0S4 quite regularly for testing php webcode, It works well for a while. Then I start to find that images and other emebeded obects in the page start getting "stuck" the conection is made but the file somehow never served. So for testing with regular resets it works well, but for real server usage, not at the moment.

68k apache wroked better I recall but it's along time since I used that, still only for local testing, as my A1200 was always on dialup.

@samo79

I think the comment about gnash devs taking AmigaOS patches is the more interesting and encouraging!

@Wanderer

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That might be easier said than done. If the extra width is due to the boldness needing more space under antialiasing, (or at least the algorithm presuming it does) then all fonts might suffer from this. Especially as they seem to work with antialiasing off. Sounds like abug to me.

If it's abug you probably shoudn't try to work arround it at all, but given that bold and noraml are the same size under afa perhaps if you took the font width from the bold font instead? That wouldn't be perfect as the alignments might still be a little out but at least all the characters would be displayed.

Your other option of switching off bold tokens would seem more sensible in the short term.

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@Wanderer

It's Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, and the odd thing is that the characters of the bold and oblique types have the same pitch when displayed in the TypeManager program.

The problem appears to be something to do with the antialiasing, I switched it off to experiment and the editor layout is then correct.

@Wanderer

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Somewhere inbetween I'd say

Here's a grab



It's the blue bold text that's wrong the green italic is okay

What you can't see in the grab is that the bold text is slightly out of sync with the cursor. ie it's not the same width as the plain.

@Wanderer

Yes I would say 40K is too small for OS4. I just tried the archive as described by Snuffy with no crash. My global stack is 72K. This will have overidden the 40k in the icon. So it need more stack but not a lot more

BTW there is a slight glitch in the editor, any bold text in the syntax highlighting is typically mising the last character. Not quite enough room allowed to render it? Perhaps a sublte diiference in font handling with OS4

@Snuffy

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You're stack is damaged, which implies an overflow at some stage. Although the pointer seems to be inbounds at the point of crash. Up the stack and see if you still get errors. Don't waste time fiddling with it, bump it to 1000000 to be almost 100% sure of avoiding any overflow. You can work out what it actually needs later.

Currently your stack frame is only 39992 bytes. That's not very big by OS4 standards. If that's your default stack you must have a system on verge of crashing all the time....

@orgin

Okay thanks. I must just have oevrlooked something in my case then.

BTW occasionally I'm find that the double click commodity doesn't work until after I've open Exchange from it's hotkey. Both are started via WBStartup.

It doesn't happen on every boot, and it seems more likely after a hard reset.

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@Mrodfr

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Okay. Follow these instructions with care. They assume your stick has just one partition.

First read do

man mkfs.vfat

and read the manual for the mkfs.vfat program

Then insert your usb key and workout out which device it appears as in /dev

If you have no other scsi or usb devices it will most likely be /dev/sda1
It's probably best to list /dev before and after inserting to see which is the new device

eg

ls -l /dev/sd*

insert key

ls -l /dev/sd*

see whats added

Then to format as FAT32 do

su -c "mkfs.vfat -F FAT32 /dev/sda1"

That should be all you need.

I don't have my key here to test on to make sure that is the only options required, but I think it is right.

@daveyw

which serial port is your modem connected to? there was a point when debug output from ser0: would ineterfer with a modem, switch it to ser1: if it isn't allready.

Otherwise. I had a long period of good operation with my original modem, but the backup modem I used whilst waiting for my router arrived was eratic to say the least. (my first was killed by lightning) Since thenI've been on broadband with no troubles whatsoever.