1. Bugs in ex.exe and in text-gui...
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This mail is about a lot of things so i didn't know a very good
subject. If my other mail does arrive, sorry. But when i do not
receive a confirmation of the mail server after 1.5 days something
must have gone wrong, so this is the second try.
Bug reports
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I want to report a bug in ex.exe, sometimes when i press ctrl+escape
the program ends in a win 95 'this program has performed an illegal
action' message.
There is also an bug in the TexT-GUI (version 0.8). Sometimes when
executing my program an error occurs, but when i return, then editor
ends with a crash too... ..the error in my program (started from the
editor) was a 'line too long' -error (The editor can handle very long
lines, but Euphoria does not). Another time i had an 'this function
uses this many arguments'-error which also made the editor crash when
returning.
Saving a gif & pcx file
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I have seen two different gif loaders and one pcx-load, but no
savers, why??? They would seem very handy to me..
Euphoria Data Manipulation
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Has anyone tried my Euphoria Data Manipulation, and do you have any
suggestions. If you haven't tried it yet, or if you have no idea what
it is, go download it from the user's contribution section of the
Official Euphoria Programming Page. It allows you to convert an
Euphoria sequence (with possible sub-sequences) to an sequence of
bits contain the sequence data and its structure in a very short
cryptic way, using the least amount of bits needed to represent it,
it doesn't (yet) use a real compression, however when a sequence has
100's of 1's and 0's with one 398, it will mark that one as an
exception that is and 4 byte integer instead of a bit!!
Maze Generator
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MY maze generator is almost finished, i've just have to document it
(maybe write a special hypertext program for an my own enhanced text
file format), add some flavors and get the last bugs out.
The engine is faster than any i've ever seen in any high-end
language like Euphoria, the technique it uses is also very different
than all the others i've seen. It is highly customizable, with an big
options sequence.
Cause there are so many options, i've included routines that set
the major options to a specified style, for every different flavor,
is a different routine which returns a complicated options sequence
which you can use as an argument to the mazer routine.
The demonstration program is already done and there's just one bug
left to sort out, and it's an irritation one, it's an infinite loop i
think, once you started it, there's no way back except if you reboot
the system. (Or press [ctrl+esc] wich ends the program and returns in
a win95 that suddenly doesn't function 100% healthy anymore)
As you can hear i'm pretty screwed up about that bug, if i can't
solve it by myself, i might need some help, any volunteers??????
Too long
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I know, it's a bit too long, right?? And you haven't enjoyed reading
this at all then why are you still reading?? Well, i promise to keep
them a bit shorter in the future but i got so much to tell, and
sending it all in separate mails doesn't really matter cause the
mails are all downloaded anyway when you check for new mail.
Sorry, Won't do it again (angels face & crossed fingers)
>>> Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen, <<<
>>> nieuwen at xs4all.nl <<<
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2. Re: Bugs in ex.exe and in text-gui...
I loved reading your long message.
It is very inquisitive.
The reason I didn't create a pcx file saver is because
there are more than one way to save a PCX file.
PCX files typically contain an EGA Palette not
a VGA Palette. Since I only know how to read the VGA
Palette I can't write a correct EGA Palette.
My point is that if I created a PCX Saver the PCX
files would only contain the semi-standard VGA palette
and would not contain the standard EGA palette as
it should. This would be know problem for my loader
with Euphoria but it might and probably would cause
great trouble with other PCX loaders and editors.
Next point is you can already save images as BMP's
with little effort. There are several shareware
programs that will load BMP's and save those images
as JPG, GIF, PCX, or practically any other form of
image.
LViewPro is a fine example. If you haven't heard
of it, well you just did. Surf the web using a search
engine such as www.hotbot.com or www.yahoo.com
ONLY two I can think of right now.
GOOD Luck.
--Lucius Lamar Hilley III
-- E-mail at luciuslhilleyiii at juno.com
-- I support transferring of files less than 60K.
-- I can Decode both UU and Base64 format.
3. Re: Bugs in ex.exe and in text-gui...
- Posted by Joseph Martin <jam at EXIS.NET>
May 18, 1997
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Last edited May 19, 1997
Lucius L. Hilley III wrote:
> Next point is you can already save images as BMP's
> with little effort. There are several shareware
> programs that will load BMP's and save those images
> as JPG, GIF, PCX, or practically any other form of
> image.
What's the fun in that? I for one have thought it would be a neat
idea to be able to write a multi-purpose image viewer/converter in
Euphoria. I already slapped together a GIF view/slide show progran if
anyone's interested. When I have time I'm going to add BMP's and PCX
files to it's capabilities. Anyone want to help (private mail) create
a JPEG loader? I need to learn how to write stuff like that sooner or
later.
~~>Joseph Martin
~~>E-mail: joe at cyber-wizard.com
~~>URL: http://users.exis.net/~jam/
4. Bugs in ex.exe and in text-gui...
- Posted by Robert Craig <robert_craig at COMPUSERVE.COM>
May 18, 1997
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Last edited May 19, 1997
Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen writes:
> I want to report a bug in ex.exe, sometimes when i press ctrl+escape
> the program ends in a win 95 'this program has performed an illegal
> action' message.
On my win95 machine ctrl+escape acts the same as the Windows logo
key - it minimizes the DOS Window and activates the Start menu.
There's a known bug: if you run a Euphoria program from ed,
and then you hit ctrl+C or ctrl+Break it will quite often
cause the "performed an illegal operation" message that you saw.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
