@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.

Thanks for highlighting Avalanche (there's a typo - cfd should be xfd). Although I wrote it primarily for OS3.2, it seems to have gained quite some OS4 fans!

1. Use this: http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/mrwolf
(I wrote it, it can either use timesync.library or its built-in client - I recommend the built-in as it plays nicely with the NTP pool, whereas I can't guarantee timesync.library does - neither do I have any clue what TimeGuard does, IIRC it didn't work properly when I tried it many years ago)

2. Ensure Timezone Prefs is set to the correct region for DST switching (ignore the Enhancer crap - this is the timezone database which matters)

3. That should be it - it will sync in the background. Would recommended setting SERVER to a local NTP pool though.

@FirstNinja

How about a Discord bot which posts to the IRC and vice-versa?

That should be relatively simple to do, but would need an #irc channel set up on Discord (as you obviously can't mirror all channels to one)

edit - first link on Google: https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc

@rjd324Quote:

This is purely down to people not knowing how to write Installer scripts.

There's a copylib function which does version checking. This should *always* be used for 3rd party libraries, and can be used for executables or anything else containing a version number too.

Novice mode will *never* overwrite older versions when using this function.

Try SOCK_RAW