Re: Installing Phix
- Posted by katsmeow Feb 16, 2018
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In demo\pGUI\pdemo\setup.exw, function KeyValue2 line 385, add the sanity check:
There is no \setup.exw there, unknown if that is important or not. There is a \setup.ew, so on a lark i applied your following words to that file instead....
data_len = peek4u(lpcbData) if data_len<=0 then ?9/0 end if lpData = allocate(data_len)
and in the same function line 403, replace one line with five:
end while -- data = peek({lpData,data_len}) if data_len<=0 then data = "" else data = peek({lpData,data_len}) end if
p pdemo should then at least get a bit further along.
It does! I get a windows gui, containing a directory list box, a run button with a filter text entry box, and a box with the file contents shown.
Should that first sanity check trigger, try replacing it with
if data_len<0 then data_len = 0 end if
... it did not trigger, so i did not add that line (should i? i mean, since the first sanity check is meant to crash the program, and the second one lets it keep flowing?) ...
It may also help to replace the preceding line 399:
-- while 1 do while data_len>0 do
... but i added that line in a moment of caution. I have not ever gotten this far in a Phix install!
I found a tiny error: In taskwire.exw ,
constant NTASKS = 9 -- number of E's spinning simultaneously.
it actually spins the letter 'P' !
Phix has "goto"!? What a pleasant surprise! I thought you were adamantly against that, Pete! It's like many other code words in a programming language, a coder may not need it for years, but then one day it is really useful in a spot.
Thanks for your assistance in installing Phix, Pete. I wonder how many people tied to install it, like i did, saw it crashed, but never sought help in Euphorum. Can you say what the cause of the crash was?
