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Applications / Re: XWorkplace 1.0.10 b3 - problems with auto-focus?
« on: July 19, 2016, 10:39:52 am »
The elegant solution for apps with sliding focus problems would be a user editable list where the user can define window names by himself for exclusion from sliding focus processing. But that's way to much work for me to implement in xwp. And as there where also a few exceptions implemented in this way by someone else I only added my problematic window classes.

Additionally a user would need a feedback of the name of the window which the mouse is currently hovering over. Currently I do this with a xwp debug build and looking at pmprintf output.

I don't know if FF17 does have any problem or not. It's so ancient and I never used it. At least SM suffers from sliding focus problems for more than 4 years. Probably all 2.x versions. Cant remember details but think you could not enter text in some field or you had to place the cursor exactly into the field (not enough within the SM window) which made it unusable to me. If you need a special version which does not exclude "MozillaWindowClass" it's no big problem to build.

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Applications / Re: XWorkplace 1.0.10 b3 - problems with auto-focus?
« on: July 16, 2016, 10:07:41 pm »
Here's the relevant code in my xwpdaemn.c

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            || (!strcmp(szClass, "SALSUBFRAME"))        // V1.0.8 target is Open Office non-frame window
            || (!strcmp(szClass, "MozillaWindowClass")) // *@@changed V1.0.10 (2012xxxx) [AB]: added disabling sliding focus for Seamonkey / Mozilla
            || (!strcmp(szClass, "Visual SlickEdit"))   // *@@changed V1.0.10 (2012xxxx) [AB]: added disabling sliding focus for Visual SlickEdit
            || ( strstr(szClass, "vs_"))                // *@@changed V1.0.10 (2012xxxx) [AB]: added disabling sliding focus for Visual SlickEdit drop down windows
            || ( strstr(szClass, "vsapi"))              // *@@changed V1.0.10 (20141129) [AB]: added disabling sliding focus for Visual SlickEdit windows
            || ( strstr(szClass, "Win32"))              // *@@changed V1.0.10 (20141129) [AB]: added disabling sliding focus for Innotek Virtual PC
            || ( strstr(szClass, "MRED_"))              // *@@changed V1.0.10 (20151029) [AB]: added disabling sliding focus for MED
It must have been 2012 when I first enabled sliding focus with XWP and since then found problems with some applications. As you see SM was the first app which does not work well. In fact this was one of the reasons why I decided to distribute my own XWP builds. The above changes most probably will never make it into the official version. No need to open a ticket about this at xtracker - PR most probably will close it immediately with some kind words if he even cares about ;)

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Applications / Re: PDF Printer
« on: June 22, 2016, 04:47:09 pm »
Martin, maybe the newer cups2.x.x and GS which I use are in the exp repository only and cups1.4.3 and older GS are in rel repos. I don't know offhand. I read your mantis ticket ....

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1) Use cups/ghostscript from the RPM repository. Which according to Andi B. it is possible.
It is for sure with cups1.4.3 (I mentioned in another thread her long ago) and for current cups2.1.3(?) maybe only if you have setup netlabs-exp repository. As exp repos is not recommended for general use by the maintainers I do not recommend it to you. But if you want to give it a try....

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2) Set CUPS to work as a PDF Printer to generate PDF files from NewView and QPDFView ( I never did that on the past).
QPDFView needs cups to print pdf files. No need to create another pdf file for QPDFview. If you wanna extract some pages from a PDF then I would recommend GSView/GS. When I need to create PDFs from NewView or any other non-QT application (except AOO) I print to ePDF package (which in turn uses a standard PS printer which prints to a .ps file which GS afterwards converts to a PDF). There is no cups involved here for this.

Cups for creating PDFs may be necessary when you want to print from another QT application. I did not try that until now.


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Applications / Re: PDF Printer
« on: June 22, 2016, 08:05:05 am »
I've running the rpm cups 2.x.x, ghostscript, .... since a while. I never had installed gs or cups on c:\ but on my dedicated program partition p:. Anyway I moved out of the way the eCS/warping versions and all of Pauls gs versions I ever tried and cleaned up to use only rpm version which is btw. the first version which works reliable and satisfactory for my needs. My needs are printing mostly pdf files or parts from them via qpdfview to my postscript printer. This never worked reliable with big files before but with the latest rpm verison.

I've installed the ePDF package too and occasionally I create a pdf from applications. Currently with the rpm gs package. No problem so far but not tested very much.

All in all I would say you can get ride of all older gs/cups installations and simply use the rpm version. At least for me this works better than the version before I'm fighting with.

But I use PS printers connected via LAN only. YMMV with other types of printers or connections. Read I never tested the gutenprint or libusb part.

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Applications / Re: Temperature monitor
« on: June 12, 2016, 12:23:01 pm »
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the last being XMBMon2
Once I tried to update it to read the values via ACPI cause I do not use a system anymore which is supported by current version. But unfortunately the temperature sample code in ACPI-toolkit does not compile without stuff I believe only David has on his system :-( Maybe I should open a ticket at AN.

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Networking / Re: Cannot start peer services
« on: June 03, 2016, 12:27:05 pm »
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I don't know if you have one of these:-
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultrabay-Optical-Thinkpad-UltraBase-ThinkPad/dp/B008F6MDM4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464945592&sr=8-1&keywords=thinkpad+ultrabay
I do for the T42p with a SSD installed. Boots faster but still takes about a minute. Similar time as what hybernation takes. I've such thing for the T60 too. But as suspend/resume does not work with my T60 I do not use it very much.

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Networking / Re: Cannot start peer services
« on: June 03, 2016, 09:56:55 am »
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The same thing happens on both a ThinkPad T41 and T42
It does not happen on my T41 and T42p. And even not on my T60.

PROTOCOL.INI  looks normal.... I guess it must be something in IBMLAN.INI causing the problem - unless it's a resource issue....
My protocol.ini and my ibmlan.ini looks normal too. Maybe we've a different understanding what 'looks normal' mean. Or we do have installed peer or drivers different. I don't know.

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Networking / Re: Cannot start peer services
« on: June 02, 2016, 12:12:54 pm »
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The last line says
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LT00141: Errors occurred while attempting to initialize TCPBEUI.
It should be clear that Netbios over TCP/IP (and peer/requester) can not work without working TCPBEUI. Maybe the lines you did not post can give a clue what's wrong with your setup. But we do not know...

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General Discussion / Re: "It will be ready when it is ready"
« on: May 28, 2016, 02:27:02 pm »
I don't understand all what you said and why or when you got the felling that someone 'trolled' you. Maybe my English is too bad or our understanding of troll is different. Anyway think that's not the important thing I want do discuss. But one statement -
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But I also think that some developers also are acting badly to disqualify the intelligence of the user (or their needs).

Remember a good developer is a good developer cause he is good in developing things. I know a lot of developers cause I'm working in developing departments since decades (both hardware and software). Most of the good developers are not good in sales, advertising or moreover some of them even lack what others call 'basic social competence'. The best developers I know have a saying which goes something like that (translation!) - If I'm only 10% as good in advertising myself or sales as I'm in developing, then I would be the boss of a big company and making big money at least 10 times more than I'm doing with developing. Means people are most of the time good in one field. You hardly find people being very good in developing AND being very good in communication at the same time. As I said above the 'good talkers' would have much more chances to earn big money in other fields than developing sophisticated software or hardware.

Most of the times users don't have any developing knowledge and don't have the faintest clue what needs to be done during developing or porting some stuff. They even can't (or wont) imagine the amount of unexpected and not foreseeable things pop up during handling big projects (which makes time estimations difficult. Of course doing such projects as a full-time job you, the developer, put in some space for the unexpected and if all goes wrong put in more man power to meet the timeline. But such things are not necessary and doable for hobby projects and spare time developing). Even programmers with limited knowledge who have done some scripting or simple windows/PM programming very often don't even see how limited their knowledge is compared to what's needed to port stuff like FF or AOO or building drivers for NICs or graphics.

As a full-time developer (what I am) although appreciated you do not need much motivation beside the salary on your account. But as a hobbyist and spare time developer (what I am too) you depend on having fun in what you're doing AND feedback from others. What you do not need are users winning around about errors in documentation (when the same people are not even willing to contribute to improve or make translations) or winning about dev A has offended me a year ago or didn't found the right words I'm capable to understand.

Ask yourself what's the difference from a users point of view in 'it's ready when it's ready' and 'we do not have a date for delivery now' (this is what another speaker said) except wording? You do not know when and if you get anything. No more no less. It's not satisfying. But do you want the time back when we got dates for delivery which where delayed again and again?



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Internet / Re: FirefFox feedback
« on: May 28, 2016, 12:02:58 pm »
Dough, I stopped using freeSharedMem.exe cause it does not display short spikes. I once had a SM crash where I did not see too less mem in freesharedmem but I saw it in the list http://www.os2.org/download/file.php?id=87 produces. It was clearly to less shared mem when SM crashed probably due to some scripts (amazon.com IIR).

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk
« on: May 25, 2016, 10:49:08 am »
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I doubt that you can move an active partition as some files won't get copied so you need a maintenance partition/livecd or such to do the copying and it should just work.
I think it works as long you do not have HPFS386 running (net.acc would not be copied, could be worked around though).

The os2.ini and os2sys.ini files are copied but at the state at boot up. When running OS/2 stores new infomation in the xxx.!!! files which are copied to xxx.ini at shutdown.

There maybe some log files which can't be copied as they are open. But if you've managed to keep your data separate from your boot drive (%HOME% on another partitions) and don't care for latest ini changes it's save to copy even a running system.

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Setup & Installation / Re: JFS format error
« on: May 24, 2016, 03:41:06 pm »
In these old days you usually used a low level format utility to get ride of those bad sectors (mark them as bad). Don't know if the long format option /L does a similar think.

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Setup & Installation / Re: JFS format error
« on: May 24, 2016, 12:01:55 pm »
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L: is a 3GB partition on a USB attached 4GB disk.
Sounds a bit strange to me. I've not seen a 4GB disk since 15 years or so. Do you mean 4GB stick (ancient too) or 4TB disk? If you mean 3TB partition then this will never work with OS/2. At least not in near future. 2TB is max.

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Networking / Re: RTL8169 Problems
« on: May 18, 2016, 07:46:47 pm »
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yes, when you have a wifi and a ethernet adapter, you have two adapters in same net.
When I have enabled wifi then the internal adapter is switched off. The wlan interface usually gets an IP automatically via DHCP usually not in the same net. Regardless which net the integrated adapter is disabled. This is also true in the rare circumstances when I've to run Win. I never ever have two interfaces in the same (sub-)net.

I've other systems running 2 or 3 interfaces at the same time and additional alias addresses on some interfaces (read even more different nets). But never ever 2 interfaces in the same net.

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Networking / Re: RTL8169 Problems
« on: May 18, 2016, 05:10:12 pm »
I once read you can not have two adapters running the same net. Not sure if this is correct. But thinking about it I do not know how the stack should route packets in such case. Same packet out on both interfaces? And do you connect both interfaces at the same time to the same switch? Would be funny to see what happens when you turn on ipgate (ipgate on) too. Or making a broadcast (ping 192.168.1.255).

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