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Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« on: April 28, 2017, 01:08:00 pm »
Hi,

I made available a test release of eStylerLite which uses cairo for controls painting. Using cairo allows antialiasing for titlebar and button texts. This new dll allows also titlebar buttons replacement on the fly. Bitmaps are not supported for buttons background painting.

The new binaries are available here:

https://github.com/altsan/os2-estyler/releases

Be aware that this is not a full installer, only a zip distribution. You need to overwrite your existing files and add new bitmaps.
Also at least one desktop crash has been reported, be sure to have a alternative boot available for removing the dll in case of failures.

thanks,

Yuri


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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2017, 06:15:32 pm »
Hi Yuri,

thanks for your estyler enhancement! Unfortunately it doesn't work:

SYS1804: The system cannot find the file AFCUTL05.

Best regards, Harald

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2017, 06:20:19 pm »
SYS1804: The system cannot find the file AFCUTL05.

Styling itself works here but i got the same error if i try to start the estyler.exe

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2017, 06:25:17 am »
I copied AFCUTL05 from from styler2 but it apparently was also updated from the version I have:
Failed to insert the dialog pages in the settings notebook.

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2017, 08:25:31 pm »
OK, that was not where the problem lies.  It turns out to be the same version I have according to the MD5.  The problem may be the version of estyler I am using.  I will check another system and see what it has.

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2017, 03:07:33 am »
Hi

I'm getting this message. Any suggestions on what I did wrong?

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2017, 06:06:35 pm »
are you sure is it loading the correct estlrlrs.dll? maybe you didn't replace the old one.

Yuri


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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2017, 07:29:39 pm »
Hi Yuri. Yes, the old DLL was my issue. I'm trying it.

By the way, do you have any further information about afcutl05.dll so I can include it on the EDM/2 API Documentation Page? Documentation, source code, etc.

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2017, 05:51:23 pm »
By the way, do you have any further information about afcutl05.dll so I can include it on the EDM/2 API Documentation Page? Documentation, source code, etc.

It lives in one of your github repos, you know.  :)

https://github.com/OS2World/UTIL-WPS-Styler_2/tree/master/utildll

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2017, 09:22:12 pm »
oops.. I forgot checking that. I will see if I can document something on the EDM/2 wiki.
How should we call that API? UtilDLL? AFCUTL05 does not sound that nice.

By the way I tried to document the file first:  Afcutl05.dll‎

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2017, 10:39:13 pm »
How should we call that API? UtilDLL? AFCUTL05 does not sound that nice.
The DLL is a private library, apparently used by Alessandro in all his projects:
AFC = Alessandro Felice Cantatore (thanks, Tom)
UTL = Utilities
05 = Version 5
Do the expanded terms sound better?

Unfortunately the code itself is also poorly documented. Even chosen function prefixes are nowhere described.
« Last Edit: May 05, 2017, 06:06:37 pm by Andreas Schnellbacher »

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2017, 02:01:58 am »
Once I found where the existing DLLs were, I am now able to use the new stylerlite.  It is not compatible with Styler/2.  Even adding smartwin.exe to the exempt list Smartwin will not launch if stylerlite is enabled, or if it is not enabled then smartwin will launch but crash if you then enable stylerlite.

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« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2017, 02:33:03 am »
Once I found where the existing DLLs were, I am now able to use the new stylerlite.  It is not compatible with Styler/2.  Even adding smartwin.exe to the exempt list Smartwin will not launch if stylerlite is enabled, or if it is not enabled then smartwin will launch but crash if you then enable stylerlite.
OK, I found changed the font to Bold and it does not crash Smartwin, changed it back to normal font and still no crash so not sure why it was crashing before.

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Re: Testing cairo enabled eStylerLite
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2017, 05:02:38 pm »
Hi.

I'm naming that library "AFCUtil" on the EDM/2 Wiki. It is more to have it identified somewhere on the Internet. Maybe on the future it can be documented properly.

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