mm, and yea, I would like a frame around this thing once it is able to draw itself properly. Tried SPACE_BevelStyle,BVS_DISPLAY, for the Space gadget and a few other things but I get nothing.

I posted this question on utilitybase but was told I would get more luck asking Rigo or ssolie over here.

How do I create a simple rectangle (preferably non-fixed) that I can draw something in in a ReAction window??

I have tried Filler, Frame, FillRect but was told Space was the way to go. With the three former I got nothing, not a single pixel. With Space I atleast get my hook called but as expected its parameters doesn't contain any relevant information, such as the very simple x/x/w/h of my object in the window.

I tried using "render->gpr_GInfo->gi_Gadget->LeftEdge" etc. but that gives me the size of the parent group. Very useful... (not).

Tried "render->gpr_GInfo->gi_Domain.Left" etc. but those apparently hold the size of the window. Come on!

How do I do this and why is it so difficult??

@ChrisH

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Excellent answer!

Why try to mess with LLVM and other detours unless possibly if something is already written in LLVM.

It just doesn't get any easier than C, with the possible exception of PortablE then

@ChrisH

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Yea, this is very annoying. I think it has to do with audio syncing. I have a theory that it looses the sync sometimes and then slows down the video gradually trying to sync up with the audio again but it never works because most of the times the video is the slow thing, not the audio.

Most of the time it is not possible to properly quit mplayer when this happens. It ends up in some almost quitted busy-loop.

And another wierdness (in SVN-r29532-4.2.3): Some wmv files do not render properly but leave green residue from previous delta-frames, but this does not happen in an older version (SVN-r29068-4.2.3)!!

@Massi

screen->Width, screen->Height ?

@Wanderer

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Could you repeat that please, didn't quite sunk it properly over here.

Has depth suddenly nothing to do with the amount of colors anymore? Is depth now defined as the amount of legacy pens Workbench managed to allocate or something..?! Why would it then be called depth (when it's not depth) instead of NumOfPens or something?

@kas1e

I believe you should ask the screen if you want the screen dimensions. The bitmap hold the bitmap dimensions which are aligned for hardware, just like in a classic. Although the classic alignment is only 2 bytes and a screen rarely has an odd dimension. Modern hardware can have like a 64 byte alignment requirement for DMA to work properly.

About the depth, I agree. This should be wrong. I also noticed I got 24 for a 32 bit screen.

@phoenixkonsole

> The hole in the cluod...

Ok, cool. Looking forward to try this out on OS4

@phoenixkonsole

You say "we" so you're one of the developers.
Could you explain the design decision of showing the browse list in such a small hole in the background cloud? It looks really awkward to find anything through that small hole. No overviewability.

@kas1e

How do I search for hex?? I only seem to be able to find ASCII or something. I entered 0x0064 and it finds "0016" and "0036" sequences and ASCII characters '64'. I want to find the hex value 0064 in the hex.

@kas1e

Cool! Then I can scrap my plans of a hex mode in Annotate. Would save a year or so of development

@Vulture

With USB 2.0 but no fixed CrashDOSfilesystem we can crash out memory sticks 45 times faster, yay!

@alfkil

Cool! Qt is nice to program for/in.

Did I mention I have been at a garden party at the home of the inventor of Qt (no, it's not Nokia) and the first employer of Trolltech!? He had a prettty nice house

@328gts

If they are not really 8-bit *AIFF* but rather normal 8-bit IFF-8SVX you could use 8SVXtoXXX from http://www.onyxsoft.se . Has a GUI and batch conversion functionality.

@jbni

On Amiga, unlike PC, most extended character are available using Alt+{a similar letter}. Also Shift+Alt for uppercase versions or other alternatives.

This is the alphabet wil Alt pressed down:
??𤽣??????????ש?

@LiveForIt

Shouldn't errno be part of unistd.h?

@kas1e

If it only was that easy.... ;)

Or file a bug report on OWB for lacking everything IBrowse has...

Using IBrowse I noticed Amigans just got very ugly. Why?

IBrowse is completely superior surfing Amiga sites because of its rich feature set (download, hotlinks, mimetypes, etc., etc.) and speed but now it looks like crap.

@LiveForIt

I saw the warning about endian, and it assumed little. That you need to fix or stuff will probably not work very well.

I can help you with AHI if you like. And of course msg ports would be better than TCP/IP. What was I thinking..

@LiveForIt

Yea, please do! I actually downloaded the source but never got around to look at it. I'm also not good at porting. I might be arsed into making a GUI though if someone ports the library stuff.

If the library wants to be stand-alone for some reason perhaps the GUI could be stand-alone too and communicate through TCP/IP. That would be cool, and makes it a lot easier to split the job between the porter and the GUI maker. It also makes it extremely easy for someone else to make a different GUI without having to compile the library.

@kas1e

This is most likely because when SFS runs out of space it has to clean up the .recycled directory to make room. What happens is that the disk is actually completely full, it just hides the .recycled files from the free space. Because the disk is full it is also probably quite fragmented.

Since SFS (like PFS and JXFS I presume) are single-threaded and cannot accept a new command until the previous has been completely finished the read command from TuneNet gets put in queue (and TuneNet is halted) until the copy (including the .recycled cleanup on the fragmented disk) has finished.

Only way to fix this is to increase the play buffer size in TuneNet if possible so it can play a little longer without disk access. Or of course get a new disk :)