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| Brandon | Fun500 6 Alpha 1I finished the File Manager, so I figured I better show off my progress. I wouldn't expect anymore demo's until 6 RC or Final.
6.A.1
| 2010-04-16 | 10:54 PM |
| HorvatM | Re:Fun500 6 Alpha 1Nice, I'm in the credits :) Maybe you could add Dick too?
One problem, however. I'm typing this on a not-so-old laptop (Windows XP), and for some reason I couldn't use it because the screen goes black when I run it. Are you using any exotic video tricks?
So I had to use DOSBox. It works fine except I couldn't test the file manager in DOSBox - I know what kind of trick you're using, but I can't think of a better way to do it.
But when editing a launcher, the correct icon doesn't seem to show in the dialog - the About icon shows up instead. Otherwise it's OK. | 2010-04-17 | 7:10 AM |
| Brandon | Re:Fun500 6 Alpha 1I might have to credit you for debugging :P I didn't notice the icons not being right, It's probably a result of my switch to QB45 and using DIRX but Rushsoft.
FIlemanager should work in DOSBox, It works for me under WIn98, real FreeDOS, DOSBox on Linux and Win98. The filemanger does NOT use SHELL DIR > TEMP.FILE like is generally recommended when asked hopw to get directory listing, instead it uses a routine developed by Rushsoft using ASM.
As far as the screen mode, no fancy tricks, just plain old QB4.5 SCREEN 12. | 2010-04-17 | 8:37 AM |
| HorvatM | Re:Fun500 6 Alpha 1One more thing: Why is there a backslash, not a slash, in the calculator? | 2010-04-17 | 11:19 AM |
| ksr | Re:Fun500 6 Alpha 1Looks good, just a few things:
Calculator crashes if you divide by zero
Why is the Paste button visible in the file manager if the clipboard is empty?
Can't make a copy of a file in the same directory
File manager crashes with 'path not found' if I try to open program files (progra~1), although other LFN directories open fine
Documents and Settings doesn't even appear in the file manager, nor does the 'blah' directory I made with the mkdir button
Apart from that :P | 2010-04-17 | 4:39 PM |
| ksr | Re:Fun500 6 Alpha 1OK no joke, DOCUME~1 just appeared in the file manager. Don't know what was happening there. BLAH is still missing though. I can't access My Documents though (C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER\MYDOCU~1) - 'bad command or file name' flashes up.
edit: now I see what is happening. The first file/directory is being missed off. When I created BLAH it moved DOCUME~1 down so I could see it, but I couldn't see BLAH itself. Still not sure about My Documents. | 2010-04-17 | 4:44 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Fun500 6 Alpha 1Some directories don't work right because Windows tries to hide them, if you run through DOSBox or on a real DOS machine it should work fine.
As far as a directory not showing up, I don't know why it wouldn't? Was it really created?
I'll fix the bug in calc. | 2010-04-17 | 4:49 PM |
| ksr | Re:Fun500 6 Alpha 1I thought that was the case. How does the file manager work, BIOS call?
The first directory is being missed off from C:\ though (try creating one called 'a'). Doesn't seem to happen anywhere else. | 2010-04-17 | 5:07 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Fun500 6 Alpha 1I use a routine called DIRX that was made by Rushsoft, I found it on QB45.com so I don't know a lot of about specifics, but it does seem to work using ASM. | 2010-04-17 | 5:23 PM |
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