1. windows 7
- Posted by johnmcadam Sep 19, 2010
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I just downloaded and installed euphoria. None of the demo programs run. I get the error message "This system does not support fullscreen mode." What should I do? email: johnmcadam@clix.pt
2. Re: windows 7
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Sep 20, 2010
- 1489 views
Which version of Euphoria did you download? (3.1, 4.0beta, etc.) More importantly, how are you running the demos? (double-clicking on the files, launching them via command line, etc.) The more details you can provide us on what you are trying to do and what is not working for you, the better we can help you get things working.
-Greg
3. Re: windows 7
- Posted by useless Sep 21, 2010
- 1473 views
You know, between micro$oft dropping various support for previous dos/windoze features, and Euphoria growing up to v4 (and dropping dos support), the archives as we have known them for the last 10+ years could be totally obsolete soon.
I feel this should be a topic of some discussion, like what to do about it, if anything. It's going to look really bad when :
1) RDS turns off potential Eu users-programmers because the OS won't let the archived apps run
B) Eu v4+ won't let the archived apps run
useless
Forked into: Archive re organisation
4. Re: windows 7
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 21, 2010
- 1412 views
You know, between micro$oft dropping various support for previous dos/windoze features, and Euphoria growing up to v4 (and dropping dos support), the archives as we have known them for the last 10+ years could be totally obsolete soon.
I feel this should be a topic of some discussion, like what to do about it, if anything. It's going to look really bad when :
1) RDS turns off potential Eu users-programmers because the OS won't let the archived apps run
B) Eu v4+ won't let the archived apps run
useless
You are absolutely right about this.
There is nothing we can do about 1) (as we don't control the OS).
But we can handle B). Using the preprocessor mode of eui along with the to40.ex converter, we can fix up pre-4.0 programs that use keywords that have been reserved in 4.0 on the fly.
Perhaps we can go further and do the same on the fly conversion of old DOS apps to use dos_rescue. This should cover almost all apps (except those in the archives that are intended to demonstrate the use of dos_interrupt or 32bit protected mode DOS assembly language programming).
5. Re: windows 7
- Posted by DanM Sep 22, 2010
- 1361 views
You know, between micro$oft dropping various support for previous dos/windoze features, and Euphoria growing up to v4 (and dropping dos support), the archives as we have known them for the last 10+ years could be totally obsolete soon.
I feel this should be a topic of some discussion, like what to do about it, if anything. It's going to look really bad when :
1) RDS turns off potential Eu users-programmers because the OS won't let the archived apps run
B) Eu v4+ won't let the archived apps run
useless
You are absolutely right about this.
There is nothing we can do about 1) (as we don't control the OS).
But we can handle B). Using the preprocessor mode of eui along with the to40.ex converter, we can fix up pre-4.0 programs that use keywords that have been reserved in 4.0 on the fly.
Perhaps we can go further and do the same on the fly conversion of old DOS apps to use dos_rescue. This should cover almost all apps (except those in the archives that are intended to demonstrate the use of dos_interrupt or 32bit protected mode DOS assembly language programming).
Can I hope that such a conversion would not REPLACE pre-4.0 programs, but rather ADD the conversions, so that the OLDER contributions will still be available, along with the conversions?
Dan
6. Re: windows 7
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 22, 2010
- 1377 views
But we can handle B). Using the preprocessor mode of eui along with the to40.ex converter, we can fix up pre-4.0 programs that use keywords that have been reserved in 4.0 on the fly.
Can I hope that such a conversion would not REPLACE pre-4.0 programs, but rather ADD the conversions, so that the OLDER contributions will still be available, along with the conversions?
Dan
No. Such conversion would be on the fly, or done at run time everytime the demo is run, so only the older contributions would be available.
7. Re: windows 7
- Posted by DanM Sep 22, 2010
- 1341 views
But we can handle B). Using the preprocessor mode of eui along with the to40.ex converter, we can fix up pre-4.0 programs that use keywords that have been reserved in 4.0 on the fly.
Can I hope that such a conversion would not REPLACE pre-4.0 programs, but rather ADD the conversions, so that the OLDER contributions will still be available, along with the conversions?
Dan
No. Such conversion would be on the fly, or done at run time everytime the demo is run, so only the older contributions would be available.
Oh, that sounds really good, older contributions still available and able to run on older versions of Euphoria.
But also sounds like reorganization of RDS User Contributions would still need to be done, to categorically separate user contributions by Euphoria version able/needed to run them, right?
Dan
8. Re: windows 7
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 22, 2010
- 1331 views
But also sounds like reorganization of RDS User Contributions would still need to be done, to categorically separate user contributions by Euphoria version able/needed to run them, right?
Dan
Possibly. (I don't hold out much hope for this, because the last time our webmaster tried to push for this, he was told that the archives would be left the way they are for historical and sentimental reasons.) In any case, if we had such a preprocessor available, we'd have a simple and easy workaround for anyone who hit this wall and hopefully make the problem less urgent.
