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Messages - David McKenna

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General Discussion / Re: Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
« on: March 22, 2025, 12:56:56 am »
 I agree the 2 main needs are #1: Browser and #2:WiFi. But like Dave points out there are other currently lesser needs (like IPv6) that may become urgent as time moves on. Also it seems there are other hardware issues becoming apparent - I have a new motherboard that does not have anything for IRQ0, and so has very weird timing issues, as well as only 800MB memory below 4GB. This forced me to go with a VM in Windows - wasn't happy about that.

  Have a possibly dumb question, not being a programmer: is it possible to produce OS/2 executables with GCC inside of Linux? If so, would make compiling large apps easier, no?

Regards,

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Applications / Re: OO 4.1.11 trouble
« on: March 18, 2025, 11:00:10 am »
 Glad you got it working, Per! Strange... I don't have those files in my install of AOO 4.1.11. Could it be the installer checks for those files on the drive it is being installed to (mine is on the %UNIXROOT% drive) and installs them if not found?

Regards,

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Applications / Re: OO 4.1.11 trouble
« on: March 17, 2025, 09:02:16 pm »
Hi Per,

  I had a look at your trap file, and near the bottom in the 'DLL's accessable from this process' section the tale is told: you have 2 versions of libcn0.dll loaded, one in G:\usr\lib (the correct one) and one in P:\OPENOFFICE\PROGRAM (an older one). Not sure how the 2nd one got there, but I notice there are several other duplicates in those same 2 directories (like libcx0.dll, pthr01.dll, icudt.dll, gcc1.dll) some of which are the same version, but not all. Best to get rid of the ones in P:\OPENOFFICE|PROGRAM (I do not have any of those there on my system). Might be easiest to delete P:\OPENOFFOCE and re-install OpenOffice from scratch.

  I also notice that none of the OpenOffice DLL's are loaded high - once OpenOffice is installed, go to the 'Apache OpenOffice' folder, then the 'Extras' folder, then run 'Enable High Mem Code Loading' and reboot to get OpenOffice out of your low memory.

HTH,

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Events / Re: ArcaOS 5.1.1 is out.
« on: February 17, 2025, 10:26:56 pm »
 Thanks Dave - I got a new ISO and this one installed fine and shows it is 5.1.1 in my VirtualBox. Now to install on some real hardware...

Regards,

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Events / ArcaOS 5.1.1 is out.
« on: February 17, 2025, 02:15:17 am »
 Has English, German, Spanish and Russian versions. Installed my English update in less than 5 minutes, but install.flg says it was updated to 'ArcaOS 5.1.0 en', so I wonder if there is no difference with version 5.1.0 in the English version (the ISO says 5.1.1).

 Be interesting to hear how other language users get on with their installation...

Regards,

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Applications / Re: WPS-Wizard Installation Fails in ArcaOS
« on: February 15, 2025, 02:36:00 am »
Hi Martin,

  Can't help you get it installed, but can confirm the same issue here when trying to install it on AOS 5.1. Also tried the last official release (6.0) and it too has the same problem here. I always liked WPS Wizard - a shame it no longer can be installed...

Regards,

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Multimedia / Re: uniaud.dll test
« on: February 03, 2025, 12:03:41 pm »
 A quick test with VLC playing some MP3 files using the Uniaud audio interface and it seems to work well. Thanks! I'll keep this installed and let you know if any problems appear...

Regards,

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Hi David,

 I am running ArcaOS in a VirtualBox 7.1.6 VM on Win 11 and I notice a few differences in our settings. I set 'Enable Hardware Clock in UTC Time' ON, 'Enable PAE/NX' ON, and 'Enable Nested VT-X/AMD-V' ON. Also, my Paravirtualization Interface is set to 'Default'.

 No idea if these will make any difference, but you could try them. Being a Mac host might change the requirements, I'm not familiar with Macs...

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: January 29, 2025, 11:58:11 am »
Paul,

  I just see the list of 'unknown plugin types' like this when I go to the 'preferences' page:

Unknown plugin type: LensEffectsPlugin
Unknown plugin type: OODrawImportPlugin
Unknown plugin type: PathConnectPlugin
Unknown plugin type: PathCutPlugin
Unknown plugin type: PathFinderPlugin
Unknown plugin type: PathStrokerPlugin
Unknown plugin type: PictureBrowserPlugin
Unknown plugin type: SaveAsTemplatePlugin
Unknown plugin type: Scribus12Format
Unknown plugin type: Scribus134Format
Unknown plugin type: Scribus13Format
Unknown plugin type: Scribus150Format
Unknown plugin type: Scribus170Format
Unknown plugin type: PixmapExportPlugin
Unknown plugin type: ShortWordsPlugin
Unknown plugin type: ScriptPlugin
Unknown plugin type: ShapePlugin
Unknown plugin type: SmoothPathPlugin
Unknown plugin type: SubdividePlugin
Unknown plugin type: SVGExportPlugin
Unknown plugin type: SVGImportPlugin
Unknown plugin type: UniconvImportPlugin
Unknown plugin type: WMFImportPlugin
Unknown plugin type: XPSExportPlugin

Regards,

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Programming / Re: GeneologyJ
« on: January 27, 2025, 10:49:24 pm »
Hi Jan-Erik,

  I have an earlier version that I built a fairly large family tree database with, and that database seems to work fine with your build. Only did some light testing for now, but will let you  know if I run across any problems... thanks!

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: January 27, 2025, 10:30:23 pm »
 Thanks Martin, I just found it myself... Qucs appears to be a front end for various simulators, including ngspice, so it only needs to be a CLI (command line) version which it appears it is. I'll give it a try...

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: January 27, 2025, 10:12:37 pm »
@Paul - thanks for the new (final?) build of Scribus 1.7.0. It works well, only issue seen I already mentioned about the double slash on the plugin names and errors about that in the console.

@Tellie - thanks for the 6.8 LibreCAD and Qucs. LibreCAD seems to work OK, but there is an exceptq crash if you choose 'Options'->'Current Document Options' then hit 'OK'. Qucs looks great - I do some circuit designing (for amps and microphones) so it would be quite handy! Do you know if there is an OS/2 version of 'ngspice' or any of the other simulators used?

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: January 25, 2025, 02:29:57 pm »
Thanks again Paul. Don't see much difference with this latest QT6.8.1 - still many qml and quick examples don't work and still see sys2070 errors, although slightly different like this:


01-25-2025  07:25:21  SYS2070  PID 0060  TID 0002  Slot 006e
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\CHARTS\QMLOSCILLOSCOPE\QMLOSCILLOSCOPE.EXE
QT6CHTQM->QMLPLUGN.__ZN25QQmlEngineExtensionPluginD2Ev
127
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01-25-2025  07:25:21  SYS2070  PID 0060  TID 0001  Slot 008d
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\CHARTS\QMLOSCILLOSCOPE\QMLOSCILLOSCOPE.EXE
QT6CHTQM->QMLPLUGN.__ZN25QQmlEngineExtensionPluginD2Ev
127
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01-25-2025  07:25:25  SYS2070  PID 0061  TID 0002  Slot 006e
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\CHARTS\QMLWEATHER\QMLWEATHER.EXE
QT6CHTQM->QMLPLUGN.__ZN25QQmlEngineExtensionPluginD2Ev
127
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01-25-2025  07:25:25  SYS2070  PID 0061  TID 0001  Slot 008d
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\CHARTS\QMLWEATHER\QMLWEATHER.EXE
QT6CHTQM->QMLPLUGN.__ZN25QQmlEngineExtensionPluginD2Ev
127
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01-25-2025  08:22:23  SYS2070  PID 006c  TID 0001  Slot 008f
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\QUICKCONTROLS\FLATSTYLE\BIN\FLATSTYLEEXAMPLE.EXE
FLATSTYLEEXAMPLE->QMLPLUGN.__ZN21QQmlApplicationEngineC1EP7QObject
127

 Same apps still work and don't work (thanks for the QT6.8 focuswriter build - it works fine).

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: January 24, 2025, 12:09:53 pm »
Paul,

  Thanks... still see SYS2070 errors on some qml and quick examples like:

01-24-2025  05:58:09  SYS2070  PID 00bd  TID 0002  Slot 008d
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\QUICKCONTROLS\TEXTEDITOR\BIN\TEXTEDITOREXAMPLE.EXE
QUCOBAST->QMLPLUGN.__ZN19QQmlExtensionPlugin16initializeEngineEP10QQm
127

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01-24-2025  06:00:23  SYS2070  PID 00be  TID 0002  Slot 008d
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\QUICK\VECTORIMAGE\BIN\VECTORIMAGEEXAMPLE.EXE
QUCOBAST->QMLPLUGN.__ZN19QQmlExtensionPlugin16initializeEngineEP10QQm
127
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01-24-2025  06:00:23  SYS2070  PID 00be  TID 0001  Slot 0089
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\QUICK\VECTORIMAGE\BIN\VECTORIMAGEEXAMPLE.EXE
QUCOBAST->QMLPLUGN.__ZN19QQmlExtensionPlugin16initializeEngineEP10QQm
127
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01-24-2025  06:01:11  SYS2070  PID 00bf  TID 0002  Slot 008d
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\QUICK\SHADEREFFECTS\BIN\SHADEREFFECTSEXAMPLE.EXE
QUCOBAST->QMLPLUGN.__ZN19QQmlExtensionPlugin16initializeEngineEP10QQm
127
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01-24-2025  06:01:11  SYS2070  PID 00bf  TID 0001  Slot 0089
C:\QT6.8\EXAMPLES\QUICK\SHADEREFFECTS\BIN\SHADEREFFECTSEXAMPLE.EXE
QUCOBAST->QMLPLUGN.__ZN19QQmlExtensionPlugin16initializeEngineEP10QQm
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 but less than before. Some apps like Tea and LibreCAD and Focuswriter still will not run, but Scribus and NotePadNext and Media-Downloader do run...

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: January 23, 2025, 10:11:47 pm »
Thanks Paul!

  I am running Dooble with the updated QtWebengine and so far I don't see any negative effects - still too soon to say whether it helps at all, but in 30 min. I haven't seen the dreaded stuck 100% CPU, so maybe this helps that problem, we'll see. Can't download the updated QT file - gives a 'not found' message...

Regards,

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