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From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: GadTools:  My cycle gadget don't cycle!
Date: 22 Jul 1992 10:08:50 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Okay, I'm about to give up on "GadToolsBox v1.3".  I got this
program hoping it would speed up the process of gadget placement in
my custom windows, but this program just outputs unworkable code.
:-(  For one thing, it screws up with TAG_DONE by writing it
TAGDONE in places without bothering to define a TAGDONE.  It also
(occasionally) refuses to open a window because the pointer to the
(n+1)th gadget (of n gadges) is null.  Grrrr!

But perhaps the worst thing that this program has done so far is
make me spend hours learning the inner workings of
"gadtools.library" by examining the header files (!) because I
can't figure out how to make the cycle gadgets visibly cycle in my
custom windows.

As you might imagine, my arms are tired from balancing RKM's in one
hand while trying to type with the other.

This is insane.  I should be spending my time trying to figure out
how I'm going to fit the database into machines short on RAM, not
fighting with Gadgets and other GUI-crap.  :-(  Why can't people be
happy with shells anyway?  :-(

What I would really like is some FTPable example C-source for
playing with the gadgets supported in "gadtools.library".  Has
anybody written a friendly tutorial for using this library?  I'm
especially interested in different ways of handling the ListView
gadget, especially if there's a way to make multiple-selections
with one of them.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Stratocaster

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From: peter@aristotle.sbi.com (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: C++ CFront
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:52:57 GMT
Reply-To: peter@avogadro.sbi.com
Organization: Salomon Brothers Inc.



There is a product (I forget the name cumo?) which claims to be 
100% AT&T 3.0 Cfornt compatable generating c code to be compiled on
SAS or other ANSI complient c compliers...

Has anyone used this product?  
How is the support?
How much can it be bought for(not mf price but real price)?
How is the documentation?
Do they have any class libs or have they compiled any one elses class
libs with their comiler?  (Cool, Tools++, AT&T Std components...)


thanks

peter
ttfn...
From: wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca (Brett Wuth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  MUNGWALL 37.54 uploaded
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:56:37 GMT

>Has anyone made the above program available for bms?

>UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp

Try BMS on castrov.cuc.ab.ca in directory "mung:".

Cheers,
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:39:18 EDT
From: Doug "Bish" Bischoff EMT-MAST <DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: iff.library?

     Is there a library that will allow C programs to easily load and display
IFF files?  If so, please direct me to it if it didn't come with the machine!

-Bish
From: 9LORKIN@WINVMJ.VNET.IBM.COM ("Julian Lorkin")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Disk drive timing.... (without AmigaDOS)
Date: 24 Jul 92 09:37:29 GMT

How can you idle your Amiga for a fixed amount of time?

Busy waiting the CPU in a closed loop is out of the question because a
68030 will execute this loop faster than a 68000.  Is counting raster
lines reliable? Like this .  .  .

nextrast  move.b   dff006,d1
waitrast  cmp.b    dff006,d1
          beq.s    waitrast
          dbf      d0,nextrast

Would this work on all screen modes? and on all types of Amiga?

Another method might be to use the CIAs but the driving input is
different on PAL and NTSC machines.  How big is this difference? Is it
big enough to cause problems?

Thanks in advance...

Dave.
From: mark@mugwump.mil.wi.us (Mark C. Litscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  2.04 Includes
Date: 24 Jul 92 02:44:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: mugwump.mark.01d4

In article <mykes.09xw@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>In article <33245@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
>> ken@cs.UAlberta.CA (Huisman Kenneth M) writes:
>> [lots-o-stuff deleted]
>> >
>> >As someone who is *really* interested in knowing why this policy exists,
>> >who don't you guys stop dodging the question with "humorous" comments
>> >and actually answer?  Do you HAVE an answer, or is there some reason
>> >C= doesn't want to tell us the answer to this?
>>
>> Well, it really is rather simple.  In order to keep our Copyright and
>> ownership of the files and the data they contain, we need to do this.
>
>Why not sell the right to distribute the headers to compuserve, bix,
>and all the FTP sites that want to carry them then?  Why not go out
>of your way to do it :) ?
>
>> |      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Systems Engineer              |
>
>Amiga programmer of: GRn, MailMinder, Budokan, Beyond Dark Castle, Dark Castle
>Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)

Why not put a disclaimer in the headers that say 'if this package was d/l'ed from
a official C= source (BBS, FTP site, whatever) then they are the true headers.
If not, then we are not responsible for any changes made by anyone.' Kind
of like getting Shareware programs from a few 'author specified/author
supported' FTP sites.

Mark

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From: rzsaj@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Andreas Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: GadToolsBox 1.3
Date: 23 Jul 92 06:40:26 GMT


The author says that GadToolsBox is unusable. I say: it is usable.
I am working with latest version of GadToolsBox. The current project I am
doing is a midi program. The user interface consits of about 12 different
windows with gadgets of every kind. It was very easy to create the user
interface with GadToolsBox.

The problem with the IDCMP flags is known but you can use the intuition
function ModifyIDCMP().

I think GadToolsBox is currently the best and cheapest program to 
create user interfaces with OS 2.



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From: wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca (Brett Wuth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: DICE mailing list
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:37:17 GMT

With the author's permission, I am starting up a mailing list for the
discussion of the DICE (Dillion's Integrated C Environment) C compiler.

The mailing list is for sharing experiences, problems, solutions and
bug reports for all versions and releases of DICE/DCC (both registered
and tryware).  The author, Matt Dillon, expresses his regret that he
won't be able to follow this discussion, but is already swamped by
over 100 messages a day.

If your comments are broader than specifically being about DICE, you
might try one of these newsgroups:
	comp.sys.amiga.programmer	(Amiga programming general)
	comp.std.c			(ANSI/ISO C Standard)
	comp.lang.c			(C language general)

To join the list, send a request to:
	dice-request@castrov.cuc.ab.ca

Cheers,
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From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Please crash my machine
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:07:19 GMT
Organization: BBS

> The answer is clear.  If the software is good, the author will
> attempt to deal with EVERY possible failure gracefully.
 
The question is whether 1.1 is "possible".
From: jpr@sun4.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Arexx regexp library ?
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:46:43 GMT
Organization: Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique


Is there any regular expression parsing library for arexx ?
(prefered form is Perl way of parsing)
That would be helpful in some case. Most helpful even,
since then we wouldn't have to use perl!

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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Compiler flags
Date: 30 Jul 92 10:51:17 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <1992Jul29.171120.12252@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> by afeld@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andy Feld):

> for Lattice 5.0?? Or a list of flags for Lattice 5.0 would be good too...
> Any help would be appreciated!

    Lent out your manual, eh? There are a couple of pages in there
    somewhere about what all the switches are.

> -Andy
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:52:22 EDT
From: Jonathan Swaby <JFS10@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: getkey type function

I am looking for a routine that will make my program wait until a key
is pressed before continuing. I don't really care what key is pressed.
Sometihing like Turbo Pascals GetKey or basics inkey$. I to do this without
having to open the con: or raw: devices. I want it to work with stdout
and stdin. Of course I am looking for a "C" routine.

Thanx Jonathan Swaby
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: micja@ida.liu.se (Michael Jansson)
Subject: Re: iff.library?
Organization: University of Linkoping, Dep't of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:08:05 GMT

In article <robertk.02um@taoami.lerctr.org> robertk@taoami.lerctr.org (Robert Kesterson) writes:
>In article <92203.173919DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> Doug "Bish" Bischoff EMT-MAST <DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>      Is there a library that will allow C programs to easily load and 
>> displayIFF files?  If so, please direct me to it if it didn't come with the 
>> machine!
>>
>> -Bish
>
>If you have 2.0, the iffparse.library that comes with it will do it.  If not,
>there is a one called (oddly enough) iff.library in the PD/FD.  Either
>library will also work with WB 1.3, though of course you'd need a WB license
>to distribute iffparse.

Actually there is another PD parser called SmallIFFParse.library which
is a inferior substitute for WB2.0/iffparse.library that can be
distributed without any license. Programs written for Small* works with
iffparse, though the opposite may not be the case. It works with 1.2 - ...

>--
>
>======================================================
> Robert Kesterson 	    robertk@taoami.lerctr.org



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: engb@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Ben Eng)
Subject: Re: Standard 2.0 File Requester Question
Organization: Jet Penguin Lavatories
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:25:49 GMT

In <14ioh2INNbpr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian) writes:

>Why is this file requester (ASL is I think the name) so slow getting
>directories?  I want to use it in a program but I hate how slow it is. 

I'd recommend sticking with ASL.  The one supplied with 2.04 may have
been pretty slow, but if you stick with it I'm sure that you will be
pleasantly surprised when Commodore releases the next update.  It is
not worth the trouble to roll your own, especially when you can expect
speed increases in terms of orders of magnitude in the future.  <wink>

Ben
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From: heinz@edohwg.UUCP (Heinz Wrobel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Need help opening a window on a custom screen.
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:43:20 GMT
Organization: Edotronik GmbH

In article <13g4lfINNo64@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian) writes:
>
>I need help opening a window on a custom screen.  I have declared the
>following (lots of stuff omitted for brevity):
>
>struct Screen *main_screen;
>
>struct Window *main_window;
>
>struct TagItem main_win_tags[] =
>	{
>	{WA_CustomScreen,	main_screen},
>	...etc...
>	{TAG_DONE,		NULL},
>	};
>
>main_window = OpenWindowTagList(NULL, main_win_tags);
>
>But this does not work.  My compiler complains about the first tag in the
>main_win_tags[] structure.  What do I need to do to open this window on the
>custom screen?

I assume it complains about a non-constant initializer.

Try a
    ...
    {WA_CustomScreen, NULL},
    ...

and

    main_win_tags[0].ti_data = main_screen;
    main_window = OpenWindowTagList...


>   Brian M. Aljian

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From: sraboel@srabol.adsp.sub.org (Steen Raboel (ECD 019))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: C Programmer's Editor of Choice?
Date: 23 Jul 92 02:07:40 GMT
Reply-To: (uunet|rutgers|pyramid)!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmden!srabol!sraboel
Organization: Interactivision - The Name Of Precision
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

> Check out the TurboText demo on the fish disks (in the 400's).  Once you
> try it, you will buy it :)

I've checked it, but can't find a place to buy it ;-((

Does anyone have a name and a FAX # ??

> Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)

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From: heinz@edohwg.UUCP (Heinz Wrobel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Help with Boopsi and sysiclass please
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:42:22 GMT
Organization: Edotronik GmbH

In article <24804@sophia.inria.fr> beust@rhea.inria.fr (Cedric Beust) writes:
>	I need to change the System Gadgets imageries, so that the
>	change takes effect on any already open windows and also on

No offense intended: Why? What do need that for?

>| Cedric BEUST 				    University of Nice	  |

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From: Tony.Syslo@oaminet.omahug.org (Tony Syslo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Amiga PD Pascal ?
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:56:00 CST
Reply-To: tony.syslo@oaminet.omahug.org
Organization: Omaha Amiga Net, Omaha
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer

In a message dated 27 Jul 92 04:42:56, J Kyle Kelso wrote:

 JKK> I'm looking for an amiga pascal compiler.  I know there's one
 JKK> on a fish disk somewhere, but can't seem to track it down.

 JKK>  Can anyone help?

Yeah, sure. There's one right here in Omaha on Larry's Amiga Hot Tub.
From: wille@june.cs.washington.edu (Robert Wille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: C++ virtuals (Was: How easy is it to disassemble MS-DOS programs?
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:12:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: beaver.1992Jul21.161240.15119
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle

In article <Brq3Hv.n2o@well.sf.ca.us>, comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul14.161737.1321@beaver.cs.washington.edu> wille@cs.washington.edu (Robert Wille) writes:
|> >It's not really all that artificial.  Consider virtual C++ functions.
|> >These functions will not be directly referenced through any code.  They
|> >are invoked only by obtaining their address from data space.
|> 
|> Although that is true in most cases, it need not be in all.
|> (Yes, I know that wasn't your original point, but I felt this part
|> needed it own comment).
|> 
|> - Greg
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I stand corrected.  You can use the :: operator to specify which 
virtual function you want.  However, nearly all references to a 
virtual function are through data space.

-- 
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then there really aren't any stupid people.  Just people running DOS.
From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: WorkBench 2.04 - bug, or feature?
Keywords: AmigaDOS 2.04
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:33:35 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

ridgwad@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Dean Ridgway) writes:
>While working on my latest computer club disk (now in a new Workbench 2.04
>format) I noticed that when you resize or reposition a drawer's window and
>try to save that information back into the .INFO file that only the resizing
>information is saved.  The system still opens the window where ever it feels
>like it (even on cold boot).  If I want to fix the position that the window
>opens at, I have to drop back to 1.3.2, its...IRRITATING!
>
>Does anyone know if this is a bug, or if the INFORMATION pull down menu item
>was deliberately rewritten not to save positional information.  I have looked
>through the _Using_the_System_Software_ book under the INFORMATION pull down
>menu and it does not say you have to do anything different to save the
>position of a window.  If this is mentioned anywhere in the System Software
>book please give me a page number, or other reference.

Well, two things:

1) Information is *not* the way to snapshot icons.  It may have some
   side-effects that, in some cases will snapshot the icon, but in
   general it is just to edit things such as tooltypes, etc.

2) The SNAPSHOT menu item works just fine.  I use it all of the time.
   (See the menu item just under INFORMATION...)

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From: mx8@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: UseNET on networked Amiga?
Date: 25 Jul 92 13:45:55 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University


	Has anybody out there managed to develop a Usenet reader for
ethernetted Amigas?  Any help on this would be most appreciated..

	Eric Beyer
From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Advice on partions for hard drive
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:29:51 PST
Organization: Amiga makes it possible

In article <mwm.19dh@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) writes:
> In <paulk.0ucm@terapin.com>, paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) wrote:
> > re advantages of few vs. many partitions --
> >
> > There's no advantage of backupability of separate partitions vs. just
> > backing up drawers, which I do.  The only thing I back up more than
> > once a week or so is the drawer with my source code in it.  Nothing
> > else changes that much or is all that important.
>
> Unless you sort the drawers at the root of your HD by how they should
> be backed up, this isn't true. Different backup programs may change
> the pain involved in ignoring that restriction, but I've as yet to see
> one that made it zero.
>

tar -cvf tape: src:
tar -cvf tape: bin:

Put it in your crontab - can't be any easier than that :)  Makes ZERO
difference if src: and bin: are devices or assigns...


> Since the backup frequency and activity are related, building
> partitions based on one usually give you the other, and thus a double
> win.
>
> 	<mike
>
>

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From: LOVEGA@USMCP6.BITNET (GREGORY LOVE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: FreeRaster Causes a Guru.
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:05:31 GMT

I'm having problems with this little snippet of code here.
When I go to free the rasters, my machine Gurus as if I had
tried to de-allocate un-allocated resources.

If I comment out the FreeRaster loop, the program works fine, but
of course doesn't free up the memory for the rasters.

Any obvious mistakes on my part?

struct BitMap MyBitMap;
 ...
 ...
 raswidth = 320;
 rasheight = 200;
 InitBitMap (&MyBitMap,numplanes,raswidth,rasheight);
 for (i=0;i<numplanes;i++) {
   if ((MyBitMap.Planes[i]=(PLANEPTR)AllocRaster(raswidth,rasheight))==NULL) {
     MyExit ("Unable to allocate rasters.\n");
   }
 }
 ...
 ...
 for (i=0;i<bitmapheader.nPlanes;i++) {
   FreeRaster (MyBitMap.Planes[i],raswidth,rasheight);
 }

Send mail to LOVEGA@USMCP6.BITNET (preferred)
          or galove@seabass.st.usm.edu

I read this newsgroup, but I get it about a day late :).

* Gregory A. Love <LOVEGA@USMCP6.BITNET>, University of Southern Mississippi
From: sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Standard 2.0 File Requester Question
X-Newsreader: Ann 0.9
Date: 25 Jul 92 11:12:02 +1200
Organization: Steves Amiga - Wellington, New Zealand.

In article <14ioh2INNbpr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>,
	smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian) writes:
>
>Why is this file requester (ASL is I think the name) so slow getting
>directories?  I want to use it in a program but I hate how slow it is.  Is
>there another one that looks like it (I like the look and feel of 2.0) but
>gets faster directory listings.  I know it can be done because I have seen
>some *amazingly* fast file requestors in my time (Pixel 3D's comes to mind --
>that sucker flys!).  Unfortunately, I've also seen some *amazingly* slow
>ones.. i.e. ASL.  Any ideas?

For the sake of many, please stick with the ASL one. The 2.04 one may not
be the fastest, but it is a standard. I'm sure it will be improved in new
OS revisions, and besides that, it is a standard, something that has been
sorely lacking on the Amiga - I hate having to use some file requesters. At
least if it is the ASL one, if people choose to, they can run MFR, or
something along those lines and face no problems.


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