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From: [e-mail] (Rob Nottage)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Amiga E bug! (I'm pretty sure.)

>
>     I seem to have found a bit of a bug in E. When trying to track
> down memory loss in Dirj, through a whole lot of debug code, I managed to
> track down the loss to a routine that frees a linked list of structures.
> The structure is something like this.

I have a project similar to this I'm working on when I'm not doing much
else.  my OBJECT is similar to yours.

>
> OBJECT file
>     next:LONG
>     name:LONG     /* Name is ptr to String*/
>     date:LONG    /* Date is ptr to datestamp */
>     size:LONG /* Just a long */
> ENDOBJECT
>
>     Ok, name and date are allocated with String and New respectively.
> The freeup routine uses Dispose on both of them, ie Dispose(file.name) ;
> Dispose(file.date), then Dispose(file), which was also created with New().
> Dispose frees up the datestamp, but not the filename. Now, supposedly all

Odd, because I also use New() and String() for similar fields, and I also
use Dispose() to free up the memory. It works ok here. I get every byte back
that my program uses. I can't explain what the problem is unfortunately.

Just going off track a bit here, have you found a suitable and fast way of
drag selecting multiple files in the window? That's where I'm having the
most problems.

Also, it's a great excersize doing a project like this. I learned how to
make appwindows and appicons. My project lets you drop any disk or drawer
icon on the appicon and it will automatically load that path into the
dirutil.  I also have made it so that doubleclicking the appicon will
iconify/uniconify the window (this project doesn't open it's own screen)

One other thing I'm stuck on is with a device/volume/assign list. I want to
be able to show it similar to the way ASL shows it ie:


DEVICENAME:   VOLUMENAME:             xx% full
DEVICE2:      VOLUME2:                yy% full
C:                                    Assign
CLIPS:                                Assign

etc...
But... no matter which way I do it, I either end up with devices I don't
want
(SER:  AUX: PRT: PAR: etc)  or I have no devices at all, just volumes and
assigns...   the second option would be OK if I knew how to get the device
name from the volume name..  e.g. given I have a volumename of
AmigaLibDisk930,  how do I find from that the device it is in?
e.g. DF3:

At the moment I'm just showing ALL devices/volumes and assigns. Will cause
some
problems if someone decided to try and view the contents of PAR:  :-)



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From: [e-mail] (Jason Maskell)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Adventure in E


>
>
>Hi
>
> I've been thinking about what I would like to do with this game
>I've started working on.
{Stuff deleted}
>[e-mail]
>
    Hey, I like the sounds of this. I myself am going to be converting
Fangband into E with the C2E converter when/if it gets done, so I know the
temptation. Good luck, and feel free to ask me for help.. I've done a lot
of stuff with the console, so I can help you for sure, though I know lots
of other people on here will love to help out as well.


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'You see son, if this were Star Trek, we'd be negotiating with this Kobold.'
- Unknown Angband Player