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Web applications / Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds

« on: Today at 04:50:52 am »

Yes. Skia, which Qtwebengine uses, seems much slower then Cairo at drawing the canvas. Cairo's OS/2 surface is meant for 2D acceleration while Skia likely expects 3d acceleration. Skia might be able to be tuned for faster rendering on our platform but looking, the main reason it is faster is it uses the GPU rather then the CPU like Cairo. That seems to be the reason that most everyone has moved to Skia. Even our Firefox has a configure option to use Skia and does on Windows and Mac.

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Applications / Re: Thunderbird - SM email makes system trap in Warp 4.52 but ok in Arcaos5

« on: Today at 12:52:50 am »

hi Dave  x:\os2\install\SMP directory only contains one file called @smpdir .
Just considering -but probably I'm far from the right evaluation- that it used to work fine since some time ago, if it was a kernel issue I believe should not work from the beginning

No UNI directory either?
The W4 kernel is missing a few things which hardly ever matter, as I said, a long shot but considering all you did was install some Qt stuff, it is weird.
Have you run chkdsk on that system? You'd have to boot to an alternative, perhaps the ArcaOS install ISO and run chkdsk x: /F:3.
What video driver are you using?

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Applications / Re: Thunderbird - SM email makes system trap in Warp 4.52 but ok in Arcaos5

« on: January 18, 2025, 07:50:02 pm »

While SeaMonkey and Thunderbird share much of the same code, strictly speaking they're different programs.
Long shot, I see you're using the W4 kernel. Perhaps try changing to the SMP kernel if it is in your 4.52 install.
Look in x:\os2\install, should be a SMP directory. You need to change the kernel, OS2LDR and DOSCALL1.DLL with the ones in the SMP directory.
DOSCALL1.DLL will need unlocking before swapping and a reboot after. For the kernel and os2ldr, you might have to change their attributes, then move them out of the way and replace both. These are all connected and need to be changed as a group before rebooting.

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Web applications / Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds

« on: January 18, 2025, 05:36:56 pm »

Tried the Qt5 simplebrowser, running in multi-process mode, ftp caused the tab to crash with the attached exceptq log. Almost seems to be icu related, code page problem?

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Web applications / Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds

« on: January 18, 2025, 05:25:59 pm »

Yes, something seems broken with the ftp protocol. Here with the Qt6 dooble, I got a blank page, Qt5 dooble closed.
Tried ftp://ftp.os2voice.org/dooble/ too, Qt6 dooble kept reverting to about:blank, Qt5 dooble gave me an error about the site not being reached.
Tried ftp://dry@ftp.os2voice.org/dooble/ and got a popup to enter user and password, after entering the info, dooble-qt5 vanished., dooble-qt6 gave a blank page.
These failures also don't get saved in the history, just the ftp://ftp.os2voice.org/dooble/ with the not found error got saved.
I'd guess the ftp problem is in the Qtwebengine.
OTOH, gopher works, eg gopher://magical.fish/

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Virtualization / Re: OS/2 inside 86Box Beta for WIndows on ARM 64 - Surface Pro 11

« on: January 18, 2025, 01:40:30 am »

Hi Sigurd, pretty neat. How fast does it feel? Have you done anything CPU intensive? Be nice to benchmark with Sysbench or such. Emulation is usually much slower then virtualization.
Reading that Parallels on the Arm Macs can now also do emulation and run X86 Windows and it is slow. Previously it only virtualized so only ran Arm Windows. Luckily OS/2 never was that CPU intensive, it ran satisfactorily on a 386/33
To be clear, emulation means emulating the whole CPU and hardware while Virtualization means running most of the code on the host CPU and emulating the hardware. Simple example of virtualization, the OS/2 VDM.

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Web applications / Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds

« on: January 18, 2025, 01:29:39 am »

Here's the patches. Note the Dooble patch was on top of Rich's previous fix, easy to see how it applies.
Also the otter-browser in the ftp's tmp directory has the same fix. The next drop of Qt6 that Paul does will have the same fix and that will enable the Qt6 version of Dooble that is in tmp to do the same.
Be good to have updated Qt5 qtbase RPM updated

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Web applications / Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds

« on: January 17, 2025, 07:45:25 am »

Hi cbx, welcome.
Problem is that the Qt5 build of Dooble is based on an old Chromium, the Qt6 build is slightly newer but still old.
I uploaded the translations to ftp://dry@ftp.os2voice.org/dooble/Dooble_Translations.zip password an email address.

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing

« on: January 16, 2025, 08:54:19 pm »

You can try setting LIBC_THREAD_MIN_STACK_SIZE to a larger size then the default of 4096 bytes. Perhaps as high as 65636, though 32768 or 16384 might be enough.

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Applications / Re: Thunderbird - SM email makes system trap in Warp 4.52 but ok in Arcaos5

« on: January 16, 2025, 08:12:29 pm »

Easiest to get the highmem.exe and smturbo.exe from your ArcaOS install. X:\sys\apps\anturbo\smturbo.exe and x:\usr\bin\highmem.exe. Put highmem.exe on your path and smturbo.exe in your SM directory.
With SM closed, run highmem -c \path\to\seamonkey\*dll and then put smturbo.exe in your startup folder. You can run it too after the highmem command.
This will load the SM dlls into highmem and keep them there even after closing SM. This is important to work around kernel bugs in the 4.52 kernel.
And yes, ArcaOS has smturbo install (and after installing uninstall) in the SeaMonkey desktop folder. You do have to run it yourself and possibly you did.

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Applications / Re: Thunderbird - SM email makes system trap in Warp 4.52 but ok in Arcaos5

« on: January 16, 2025, 05:13:19 pm »

Memory issue? Are you marking the DLL's to load high? Are you using smturbo? And of course, have you tried a different profile

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing

« on: January 16, 2025, 01:19:49 am »

Is there anything in popuplog.os2? I wonder if a larger stack would help for the quick controls and maybe other stuff. IIRC, the default is 1MB, which you'd think would be fine but any recursion like what was likely happening to git will blow through a MB.

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Web applications / Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds

« on: January 14, 2025, 04:49:26 pm »

Hi Dave,

with the latest version German Umlaute ä,ö,ü,ß are now working again.

Greetings,
Mike

Good to hear. Rich redid his previous patch.

P.S. I guess that the zip file name for the dooble.exe shall have 2025 instead of 2024 in the name  . Am I wrong?

Yes, muscle memory made me write 2024 instead of 2025. I see I did it multiple times too.

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Web applications / Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds

« on: January 14, 2025, 01:04:20 am »

OK, please test ftp://dry@ftp.os2voice.org/tmp/dooble-2024-01-09-Qt5.zip also need ftp://dry@ftp.os2voice.org/tmp/Qt5libs-2025-01-09.zip

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Applications / Re: Wiping a hard disk back to 'as bought' condition

« on: January 13, 2025, 08:12:33 pm »

DFSee has an option to wipe the beginning of the drive. Assuming you are doing MBR booting, this will basically blank the drive as far as partitioning tools are concerned.
Mode=FDISK-->Wipe Start of Disk to Zero, then pick your drive