Not really had time to look into it but I installed the new SDK and did a recompile of my program WiFiSignal. It compiled but when run the docky doesnt display. Does anyone know if anythings changed with dockies or application library that could cause this in the new sdk? When compiled with the previous sdk the program runs fine and docky displays.
A1XE G4 800mhz,512mb,Radeon9200,SonyDRU-510A and 800a, Esi Juli@,Sil680,WiFi.
Not directly related to the new SDK, but if compositing is enabled Amidock now seems to use the alpha channel when blitting the docky to its window. So if like me you didn't care about the high order byte, maybe your docky is transparent . (IMHO, this behaviour shouldn't be the default).
Just tried trying to change the appicon so its set to use the programs icon and that worked, but when trying to use my own docky lib it doesnt register with amidock. I must have something wrong in the lib but I cant understand what as its worked on the previous sdk and os versions. :(
A1XE G4 800mhz,512mb,Radeon9200,SonyDRU-510A and 800a, Esi Juli@,Sil680,WiFi.
Not really had time to look into it but I installed the new SDK and did a recompile of my program WiFiSignal. It compiled but when run the docky doesnt display. Does anyone know if anythings changed with dockies or application library that could cause this in the new sdk? When compiled with the previous sdk the program runs fine and docky displays.
AFAIK nothing docky related changed in the SDK, except for new features in the includes and docs, but the pseudo alpha rendering modes like DOCKYRENDERMODE_RPPA changed in the AmigaOS 4.1 AmiDock compared to the AmigaOS 4.0 one and dockies using it have to be changed to use real transparency instead, for DOCKYRENDERMODE_RPPA IIRC an additional alpha map is required now.
Does for example http://utilitybase.com/paste/3382 work (since it's using DOCKYRENDERMODE_RPPA as well the display will be wrong on AmigaOS 4.1, but except for that it should work) when you build it with the new SDK? Save it as Test.docky.c and use "bumprev 52 Test.docky" and "gcc Test.docky.c -o Test.docky -O3 -nostartfiles" to build it.
If the docky is rejected by Amidock it could be related to the version number (has to be V50+) or to the lib name (has to match the name of the docky file).
joerg wrote: Does for example http://utilitybase.com/paste/3382 work (since it's using DOCKYRENDERMODE_RPPA as well the display will be wrong on AmigaOS 4.1, but except for that it should work) when you build it with the new SDK? Save it as Test.docky.c and use "bumprev 52 Test.docky" and "gcc Test.docky.c -o Test.docky -O3 -nostartfiles" to build it.
#define DOCKYVERSION ((uint32)((( 50 )<<16)|( 50 )) is how its defined.
I changed the code in my docky to
case DOCKYGET_Version: *msgData = 52; break;
and it now works so it looks like this is an sdk problem.
Unfortunately the SDK contains a newer docky.h than the one the 4.1 release of AmiDock was compiled against, hence your AmiDock is rejecting all dockies compiled with the new SDK.
For now, please just use the docky.h header and docky documentation from the old SDK and don't mess around with the version data (i.e. do NOT return something bogus like 52). We are aware of that problem now and apologize for any inconvenience :-/
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"In the beginning was CAOS.." -- Andy Finkel, 1988 (ViewPort article, Oct. 1993)
Well that explains why versions of DateTime.docky compiled with the new SDK didn't work while the version compiled with the previous SDK didn't have any problems.
With the new Amidock (OS4.1), in the rendering mode that used to be pseudo-alpha but seems now to be real alpha, dockies are drawn differently depending on whether Intuition uses compositing or not (regarding the alpha channel). Is there a way to get around this ?
Example : when drawing a picture with an alpha channel to the docky rastport (e.g. an AISS bitmap), with compositing off the result is the one expected, whereas with compositing on the docky is partially transparent (one can see the dock background) near the outlines of the picture, where alpha is not 1.
I mean, maybe i misunderstood you, but you said that a rendered image with alpha information is actually transparent where the alpha information doesn't say it's not
Of course if you render something with transparent pixels (as specified by their alpha value) it will be actually rendered transparent and you'll see whats behind it... if you don't want transparent images, don't use any alpha or set it everywhere to 0xFF ..
As said, i might have misunderstood.. in that case, please elaborate..
AmigaOS 4 core developer www.os4welt.de - Die deutsche AmigaOS 4 Gemeinschaft
"In the beginning was CAOS.." -- Andy Finkel, 1988 (ViewPort article, Oct. 1993)
No, I was commenting on the fact that the docky bitmap is interpreted differently if compositing is enabled, since the alpha channel is ignored when compositing is off (like in OS4.0 Amidock). And since GUI compositing is a user setting...
For example :
(pngImage is a bitmap.object instance)
Quote:
IIntuition->DrawImage(rp, pngImage, 0, 0);
doesn't produce the same effect with and without compositing if drawing on an opaque background. With compositing on, the background is made transparent when it obviously shoudn't be.
Or perhaps it is an issue with DrawImage() copying the source alpha channel to the dest rastport ?
To be honest, i don't know... i'm no graphics/compositing expert. If you can provide me with a small stand-alone example code (i.e. not a docky, but a self-contained code which opens a window and draws something with the effect you are describing), I can report it to the appropriate OS component maintainers.
(yes, I know, such code isn't too hard to write, but I don't have even that time left :-/ )
AmigaOS 4 core developer www.os4welt.de - Die deutsche AmigaOS 4 Gemeinschaft
"In the beginning was CAOS.." -- Andy Finkel, 1988 (ViewPort article, Oct. 1993)
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