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Programming / Re: Qt6 Development
« on: July 23, 2023, 01:50:43 pm »
 Thanks Paul! I went ahead and made a donation to Bitwiseworks. Hope dmik can fix the issue you linked to...

 There is a new release of Dooble (7/15) - any chance you could build it for QT6?

Regards,

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Applications / Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« on: July 22, 2023, 01:33:02 am »
 I have a Beta of VA Basic 1.2.7 for OS/2, but it is easily available at www.vetusware.com. No idea if it works, but the install does. Tried to find a version 1.5, but no luck. Perhaps it was released on developer connection CD's like this:

https://archive.org/details/IBMDevConR2V2

 which has a load of interesting stuff from the waning days of IBM OS/2. 24 CD's to downlaod... maybe there are other editions that can be dug up too.

Regards,

P.S. - anybody know how many versions of these 'Release 2' DevCons were made? Seems there were 3 levels, 'Member', 'Premium' and 'Advanced', and only sent to subscribers who had a subscription at the time the DevCon was cancelled (in 1997).

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Applications / Re: Test build of dooble with qt5
« on: July 11, 2023, 12:26:50 pm »
Thanks Dave! Could you get the attach to work? Doesn't seem to do anything here.... unless I misunderstand. Textbrowser didn't close the ticket, so maybe it is not complete.

Regards,

EDIT - OK, I'm a little slow... had to add --attach as a parameter on the URL template 'Browser' setting and set as default. Now if dooble is open and I double-click another URL, the new one opens in the dooble instance already open...Nice!

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: July 09, 2023, 07:09:22 pm »
 OK, I see... I can also paste unicode into qe, then copy and paste into ae, thanks.

Regards,

170
Applications / Re: FeatherNotes for OS/2
« on: July 09, 2023, 06:49:37 pm »
Hi Ivan,

  Thanks for pointing out Win95Key - I have never tried it before, but it does look like it is quite comprehensive for adding special characters to special key sequences. I'll try it out.

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: July 09, 2023, 05:43:03 pm »
 Hey Dave,

  Interesting you can copy the Unicode euro to AE - here it does not work, I get: Ôé¼ when I try. What version of AE are you using? I have the latest 1.9.9.

 I don't see the multiple euros like this: € when I copy from the unicode character map to Dooble...

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: July 09, 2023, 05:09:52 pm »
 Thanks Alex - and indeed, if you copy the euro symbol at U+20AC in the 'character map' app, it will paste into feathernotes (but not AE). Probably a lot of effort would be needed to make the CP850 to unicode translation in QT....

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: July 09, 2023, 01:25:00 am »
 If you open AE.exe and type <alt>0213, you will get a euro symbol (it also shows in the 'Character Map' utility). But if you do it in FeatherNotes, you get nothing. So it seems there is some disconnect between the OS/2 850 codepage and whatever FeatherNotes expects... or maybe FeatherNotes needs more directives...

Regards,

EDIT: In the 'Character Map' utility, if you choose the 'Unicode (Plane 0)' display, there is no euro symbol offered that I can see. WTF? Does OS/2 not offer a euro symbol in Unicode!??

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Applications / Re: FeatherNotes for OS/2
« on: July 08, 2023, 02:11:05 pm »
 Browsing the code Paul linked to above, I saw this note:

            // The only known situation when KC_VIRTUALKEY is present but
            // vkey is zero is when Alt+Shift is pressed to switch the
            // keyboard layout state from latin to national and back.
            // It seems that this way the system informs applications about
            // layout changes: chm.chr is 0xF1 when the user switches
            // to the national layout (i.e. presses Alt + Left Shift)
            // and 0xF0 when he switches back (presses Alt + Right Shift).
            // We assume this and restore fs, vkey, scancode and chr accordingly.

 So maybe Andreas could try hitting the left <alt><shift> before trying to type a euro symbol?

Regards,

EDIT: looks like Feathernotes uses <alt><shift> to left and right justify text, so probably not gonna work unfortunately...

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: June 26, 2023, 01:07:30 pm »
Hey Paul!

The file in (for example):
u:\qt6\examples\quick\animation\examples\quick\animation\shared\* should be in:
u:\qt6\examples\quick\animation\shared\* - then there is the issue of ensuring the names in qmldir match...

 That's it! I moved the 'Shared' directory in \examples\quick\animation\examples\quick\animation to \examples\quick\animation, and now it works!
Tried a different one that didn't work at first, but when I changed the 'Optional Plugin' directive in 'qmldir' to match the shortened DLL name, that one started working too. So the quick stuff really does work.... need to check the '...is not a type' errors for something similar.

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: June 25, 2023, 04:21:15 pm »
Hey Paul,

  Poking around today in the 'quick' examples directory, I notice that all the examples that give a 'module 'XXXXX' is not installed' error have a directory called 'XXXXX' at the end of a chain of directories, and in that directory is a DLL and a file called 'qmldir'. It looks like the 'qmldir' file contains info about what DLL to use, but somehow the message isn't getting thru to the program. Possibly not using the correct shortened name, or not using *.DLL or something? Somehow that 'qmldir' file is the key.

 I also notice that the examples that have the '... is not a type' error - if you run them over and over, the type listed is different each time. The error usually looks something like this:

QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
qrc:/contactlist.qml:54:1: ApplicationWindow is not a type

  I can't find a 'contactlist.qml' file anywhere on my system - maybe just a case of missing files?

Regards,


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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: June 24, 2023, 02:37:39 am »
 Thanks Paul!

  The QMLCharts stuff does indeed work now. The 2 biggest problems I see now in the examples are the 'module 'shared' is not installed' message, and many errors like this:

'Button' is not a type
'TextField' is not a type
'Label' is not a type
'Drawer' is not a type etc. many others 'Something' is not a type - in the quick and quickcontrols directories.

 Of course no Multimedia examples work because no OS/2 backend for that.

 Do you know anything about setting up dbus on OS/2? I have it installed and I can start the daemon, but the dbus examples all say it can't connect to the session dbus - dbus is probably not configured correctly, but at this point I don't have a clue...

Regards,


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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: June 23, 2023, 11:58:10 am »
Paul,

  All of the examples that start with 'QML...' in the 'Charts' directory will show the 'QTCharts not installed' error. Before they showed the 'workerscript not found' error.

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: June 23, 2023, 12:06:33 am »
Hey Paul,

  This is some real progress - a breakthrough even! The QML examples stuff does indeed work, although it seems it exposes a new issue (QTCharts not installed) which it looks like you have added to your GitHub site. On a couple of QML tests I see a 'Button is not a type' error - is that a missing definition? The Quick stuff all seems to fail with 'Module 'Shared' not installed' - another short DLL name issue?

 Dooble seems to work as well as before - not really affected by this build.

 Thanks for keeping at it - if it was easy, everybody would do it!

Regards,

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: June 17, 2023, 02:53:00 am »
 Thanks Paul! Far as I can tell, this build has the same limitations as other ones, but no new issues have showed up (still no QML or Quick stuff working with the examples - plugin 'workerscript' not found). Dooble doesn't work either, but probably because no webengine for 6.5.1 yet. I still have to try other apps with it... will do over the weekend.

Regards,

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