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General Discussion / Re: Problems booting ArcaOS
« on: August 15, 2018, 08:36:21 am »
Yes, this is probably a hardware problem. After having run chkdsk from another boot partition, I would exchange in the following order:

1. Hard disk
2. Mainboard
3. Power supply

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Programming / Re: Capture window that extend beyond the active desktop
« on: August 12, 2018, 10:19:08 pm »
is the current Active XPager view present in OS2.INI, OS2SYS.INI or somewhere else so that one can query it, change the value and post a message to xwpdeamon to switch page?
My ideas:

That method looks wrong. It looks to me as follows: XPager just queries the size of desktop windows, relative to the current desktop (work)area. You have to query the correct window size. XPager or XWP are not involved.

Querying the window size looks easy. But apparently, only the visible window parts are painted. Does a function exists that causes a window to repaint, disregarding the desktop size? Would it help to invalidate the contents of the window rectangle?

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Hardware / Re: Memory hole on modern hardware and USB 3.0 - Solutions?
« on: August 10, 2018, 05:33:29 pm »
Example: on the ThinkPad 25 (with latest QSINIT) there is only 1.3 GB of RAM available
In my case, there's only 2 of 8 GB available. Dmitry, the author of QSInit, wrote that QSInit relies on that what the BIOS reports and that systems with PAE don't have that limitation.

If I got that right, without PAE, there's no chance to see up to 4 GB for machines with these BIOS versions.

Compared to your ThinkPad, I should be happy that at least 2 GB were recognized. I'm not. It's about 1 GB too little for me, Additionally, the browser situation gets worse with increased speed. Therefore I still use my old hardware and will probably virtualize sometime later, before switching the OS.

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Article Discussions / Re: Translating ArcaOS to local languages
« on: July 13, 2018, 08:10:09 pm »
From my side I need to practice a little bit how to create the .inf files so I can review the .ipf translation on the help file.
The IPF compiler ipfc.exe plus its files have to be installed. Therefore install any toolkit (best is the last). The IPF language is described in book\ipfref.inf.

I don't like editing IPF directly, as Alex does it. I always use a preprocessor that eases the work for me extremely. Others might have other opinions. As the co-author of HyperText/2 and the author of the compiler back from IPF to HTEXT, I always use that tool for .INF or .HLP file creation.

There are things that I dislike about the translation, but that is because of the age of the platform and that some components has different ways to get translated than others.
BTW: I don't like that the installer has repeated text strings, that have to be maintained separately, also for translation. Joachim finally had reduced that enormously in the last eCS, but now the same error was made again.

One thing is the code page. I'm using 850 for Spanish and I know it works fine, but it is old. I know the modern standard is Unicode but I don't know all the effort it can be to support Unicode on the OS/2 platform for translations. Maybe someone with more experience can explain me that or give their personal opinion.
Most OS/2 apps, especially system apps, can't handle Unicode. Newer OS/2 versions have functions for that, but OS/2 will never work with Unicode without a major rewrite of its tools (without having the sources).

The other thing is that each component has a different way to be translated, which is logical because some components were made by different developers and maybe with different standards. I would like to hear opinions and maybe see some samples of which is a program that made a good standard for translations. Which do you think is a good reference app that supports translations ?
That may be interesting for discussion, but most sources are not available. We can be lucky, that .MSG files can be exchanged and resources of the binaries can be replaced later to manipulate a lot (and that the toolkit provides tools for that, together with the external resource decompiler and the external lxlite tool).

There exist numerous tools to ease the translation. Some let one change the language on-the-fly, some use text files, some load parts of it in memory, some use EAs. All these are quite young and as above, can't affect the system tools. The diversity will remain.

My favorite is .TMF (Text Message File), invented by Christian, rewritten by Ulrich. The source remains plain text and to speed searching up, an index is built. Ulrich's variant is good for the system extensions, like XWP, because it's being loaded into memory. For other apps, that memory should better be saved, until it will be used. But I don't like the markup syntax in .TMF files. It's sometimes hard for the human eye to find a string.

For me, the index is a must, to get reasonable performance. The Pascal apps like NewView use also text files, but without an index, at least not a permanent one. There exists also a tool from Russia that uses zipped text files, probably using a similar method.

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Article Discussions / Re: Translating ArcaOS to local languages
« on: July 13, 2018, 12:15:52 am »
For example I need to validate if I'm saving the txt files in a correct way for the special characters
If I understand you correctly, that might depend on your text editor. A newer Notepad would probably be the worst one for translating OS/2 files, because of its UTF-16 LE encoding. ;-)

E.g., MED and EPM/NEPMD work well. But also AE.exe works (available as E.exe replacement). Just use the correct system codepage. That might be 850 in the case of Spanish. The used font should have all the special chars. I prefer System VIO 16x8. That works well with Western European languages. (For other codepages and other fonts, the Java editor Jedit might be a better choice.)

and  what kind of expressions should be use (third person, formal or informal spanish).
For German, I've used the following sources (for eCS):
  • An old OS/2 version which is in your language.
  • Word lists, as being used bei IBM's Translation Manager/2. I would contact Jacques van Leeuwen for that. He's on the translation list.
  • Standard: IBM's Common User Access 91 (also part of TM/2, as I can remember)
  • Standard: Spanish spelling
  • Already translated texts, esp. by other people

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS - OS/2 keyboard shortcuts.
« on: July 03, 2018, 09:32:23 pm »
Alt+F6  Toggle between child and parent window
(I found that it doesn't work for help windows.)
Someone should try if it works on a Warp installation, without NewView.

BTW: It would be handy to have that working for help windows as well.

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS - OS/2 keyboard shortcuts.
« on: July 03, 2018, 09:25:07 pm »
Is for IBM applications that has several windows inside it?
No.

Do you have some examples of which applications?
Alt+F6 is useful for me for non-modal popup windows. That are windows that were set to always be on the the top of the main application window:

1. The color palette: When you doubleclick on a color, the 'Edit Color' dialog window opens. Then you can toggle the focus between the color palette window and the 'Edit Color' window. Note that the 'Edit Color' window apparently is set to be always be on top of the application.

2. EPM: After opening the serach window (EPM: Ctrl+S, NEPMD (CUA): Ctrl+F), the focus can be toggled between the main edit window and the serach window, which is also set to be on top.

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS - OS/2 keyboard shortcuts.
« on: July 03, 2018, 07:46:29 pm »
For IBM applications:
Alt+F6  Toggle between child and parent window
(I found that it doesn't work for help windows.)

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Hardware / Link to AN ticket (Re: Turn off PC by power button)
« on: July 02, 2018, 11:29:32 pm »
Mikhail has already created a ticket: https://mantis.arcanoae.com/view.php?id=1992

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Hardware / Re: Turn off PC by power button
« on: July 02, 2018, 11:21:31 pm »
I made some tries with both acpid.cfg and WaitButton. AFAIR, I didn't get a working solution. AFAIR, 'off' means simply power off, not shut down. I'm curious if a newer diver gives more comfort.

BTW: A clean shutdown with power-off can be executed by sending the setup string 'XSHUTDOWNNOW=POWEROFF,AUTOCLOSEVIO,NOCONFIRM;' to the desktop.

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Setup & Installation / Re: USB 3.0 /3.1
« on: June 29, 2018, 06:37:58 pm »
While I don't believe SNAP will run the the very wide 4K screens, I think Panorama will.
No, Panorama can only support what the VESA mode supports. The max. resolution is 1920x1200, no dual head possible.

BTW, I also prefer desktop machines over notebooks. I also know enough people who still have a notebook, but no desktop machine. Many of them use their notebooks more and more rarely. (I know that desktop machines are almost dead and almost the same applies for notebooks, but I don't care.)

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Applications / Re: Set I.P. command ?
« on: June 24, 2018, 10:08:35 pm »
Is it possible to set the I.P. of a booting partition in config.sys?
I assume that you're talking about the IP address.

setup.cmd is processed by cmd.exe. Therefore using environment variables should work.

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Setup & Installation / Re: moving desktop icons
« on: June 13, 2018, 07:19:20 pm »
If you read brick's post, he has a different problem, namely that moving an icon causes it to lose its connection to the executable, even though the properties seem correct.
OK, I admit it was a bit too long for me. ;-)

All i can think of is something screwed in the ini files. Unluckily I can't remember where to download the popular ini cleaning programs.
See the VOICE newsletter tip.

ckeckini (checkini.exe and wptools.dll) was part of wptool32.zip on Hobbes. Apparently that one was deleted. It's still available on os2site (download works only with an OS/2 system) or on Cyberia/2 BBS. hektools.zip on netlabs.org contains the sources and executables.

(For the ftp links, correct the broken links caused by this SMF software: Replace http://ftp// with ftp://)

cleanini is still available at the author's site.

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Setup & Installation / Re: moving desktop icons
« on: June 13, 2018, 01:42:05 pm »
See here: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?sh=1&button=Search&key=movingdesktopobjects

First move your objects back, then execute 'RmDesktopFolderPos.cmd run'. This will remove an ini entry for your desktop that causes the wrong scroll position and the scroll bars. After that restart the system. That entry is created automatically from time to time.

Easiest is to put a program object or a link of 'RmDesktopFolderPos.cmd run' into your Shutdown folder. (This tip came from Doug and has worked for me since a few years.)

If you don't have a Shutdown folder, you can install XWorkplace 1.0.11. For ArcaOS just create one: Open the desktop's context menu, tab 'XShutdown', button 'CREAte XShutdown folder'.

A workaround is to disable the setting that the WarpCenter or XCenter reduces the desktop height. But I don't remember, if that's configurable for WarpCenter at all. The disadvantage would be that maximized windows overlap the WarpCenter or XCenter then, what I don't like.

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Utilities / Re: Problems with DragText
« on: June 07, 2018, 08:29:04 pm »
No. It is one of the bonus items with ArcaOS.
DragText 3.9 is contained in eCS since version 2.2 beta 1. See \CID\SERVER\ECSPKG\DTECS.ZIP

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