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QT5 simplebrowser

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Eugene Tucker:
The simple browser ran fine on my old Dell laptop. No problem going by the readme file. but on my desktop I get the error cannot find EVNT217. Any ideas where this is?

Dave Yeo:
libevent

Roderick Klein:

--- Quote from: ivan on February 23, 2021, 06:48:37 pm ---Looking at the problems here it appears that 90% of them would have been solved if someone thought to make available a zip file that included ALL the odd and extraneous DLLs at the beginning.  What we have is a mish mash of real DLLs and experimental ones that are not guaranteed to remain the same in the long term - not a good way to present a new browser for inspection by the public.

I might consider this new browser if it ever gets to prime time and is supplied as an all inclusive package - until then, anytime forefox on OS/2 fails I will use firefox on linux.

--- End quote ---

First all I think it was pretty obvious from the name and the readme this is preview version nothing of prime time browser.
As for a stand alone ZIP file neither BWW or VOICE has the time todo this.  And while that package was released more DLL's where being updated.
Sorry releasing a ZIP is simply not an option with the extremely limited human resources VOICE and BWW have.

This release was intended show the community something after long delay what we have. The delay I explained already was because a lot of unforseen setbacks.

As for DLL"s remaining the same that is also the case with LIBC RPM updates they also get modified a few times a year the DLL's.
Long term LIBC DLL's that remain the same (if that is what you mean) will not happen. We keep getting more and more needed updates
if we want to port software to OS/2 and ArcaOS.

Roderick

ivan:
Sorry Roderick, I was a bit harsh with my comment.  I put it down to the fact I hurt after the idiot driver tried to push me through my closed garage door.

I do stand bt my comment that a zip of all the required DLLs should have been provided as well as the QT5 program - there are some of us that don't load all the unix programming materials you know. 

Eduardo Vila Echagüe:
It was hard work for me finding the correct combination of libraries that would simple brower work. Finally I started with a clean ArcaOS 5.06 installation and followed the instructions of the README. It worked, and very nicely, smoother than Firefox 4.8 and allowing me to get into a lot of sites that didn't accept Firefox anymore. To avoid future problems, I freezed the update by copying the \usr\lib folder to a new name, and even porting this new folder to another PC. In case I have problems with the standard \usr\lib, I use SET BEGINLIBPATH with the freezed folder so I have no impact from any updates of the libraries.

The only significant flaw I found in the simplebrowser is that in some input fields of some sites you cannot type any information. An example for this is gmail.com which will ask you to provide your gmail user. There is no way to input any information in that field. Perhaps this problem has an easy solution which will much enhance the usability of the simple browser until we have the production version.

Eduardo Vila Echague

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