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From: [e-mail] (Norman Kraft)
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Subject: Re: Ahem...

In argusnet.amiga.amigae, article <[e-mail]>, you wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Well I recieve the mail from our listserv Man. I notice the problem..
> But, I send for 3 days a mail. I never recieve it back, but some of you
> mail me that they read it !!!!!

There have been a variety of problems with my feed system in the last
couple of weeks. We think that these are finally fixed and both mail
and news are flowing fine through bkhouse again.

Unfortunately, the problems caused a number of delays and other oddities
with regard to amigae list mail, and all I can do in response is ask
for your patience. We really are working very hard to keep all the mailing
lists here at bkhouse running as smoothly as possible.

Thanks!

Norm.

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In argusnet.amiga.amigae, article <[e-mail]>, you wrote:

> I seem to be getting double mailings of some of the the postings to the
> list.  Can I assume that his is not normal?  Any help is appreciated.

I suppose that depends on what you think is normal? :)

Anyway, yes there have been problems with double mailings of some postings.
These are not coming from my site, but from the next one upstream, who
receives all the outgoing list mail via SMTP. So far, the problem has
defied all attempts to figure it out, but we have at least gone from
doubling every posting to doubling just some of them. I think that we
are finally on the right track, and I hope to have this cleared up soon.

Please, everyone, accept my apologies for all these burps in the mailing
list administration and dissemination. In one week, both my site (bkhouse)
and my feed site went through major system upgrades, and it is taking a
bit to straighten out the results of those ill-timed tandem changes.

Norm.

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From: James Mckinney <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Egads.e (from dev/e in Aminet)

> Is it just my machine or is anyone having trouble compiling this? It
> keeps choking at the first DEF statement with an "unknown object
> identifier" error. I don't know what the problem is, certainly the code
> before that references all the modules properly. Barry, anyone?

Mail has been slow lately so I don't know if anyone's answered this for
you.  The problem is in the line "scrFont:PTR to textfont".  Change the
"textfont" to "tf" and it will compile.

Later,

     Jim
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Full-Name: Olivier Anh
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From: Olivier Anh <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Ah ?

Hi all,

I look into a source someone mail to the ML for some week. It is called
'AmEdex'.

Well I saw the following decalration of an object :

/* Database template */
OBJECT entry
    memberNum[5]:ARRAY
    first[40]:ARRAY
    last[40]:ARRAY
    business[40]:ARRAY
    address1[40]:ARRAY
    address2[40]:ARRAY
    city[30]:ARRAY
    state[10]:ARRAY
    zip[10]:ARRAY
    phone[20]:ARRAY
    expires[9]:ARRAY
    computer[20]:ARRAY
ENDOBJECT

The first, last, address1 and 2 items are used as String variable. Is this really a correct definition, or is it good to use the String() statement ?

Here is how the use of then item are done, after openening a file :

        t1:=InStr(mem,'|',0); MidStr(list.first,mem,0,t1)
        MidStr(mem,mem,t1+1,ALL)
        IF (tmp:=InStr(list.first,'|',0)) <> TRUE
            jnk:=list.first+tmp+2; StrCopy(jnk,'', ALL)
            ENDIF

Could we do a such statement : object.item := Stringvar ?

Bye...

I'm waiting for a answer about the ReqTools and and ARRAY OF STRING ...

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Subject: converting .h to .m

Hello,
A friend of mine has bought himself a registered copy of a BBS programme,
called Xenolink.
with this, he got a few .h files to create 'C' programmes for doors etc.
I've tried to convert these files to .m, but several of them turn outas
files of ONE byte. this obviousely is wrong.
So, can anybody tell me what's going on? am I using the wrong
converter? or is it just an OLD one..
I could really use your help, because my friend is thinking of deserting to C!
vinny
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Subject: Re: Pointing to gadget

> activated. So, I used the ActivateGadget() routine. I can't get
> ActivateGadget() to activate my string gadget. I created the interface to
>

DEF  mystringgadget:PTR TO gadget

>           IF (g:=CreateGadgetA(STRING_KIND,g,
>             [offx+65,offy+41,326,14,'_String',tattr,0,1,visual,0]:newgadget,
>             [GTST_MAXCHARS,256,
>              GT_UNDERSCORE,"_",
>              NIL]))=NIL THEN RETURN NOGADGET

mystringgadget:=g

>         [...]
>
>         ActivateGadget(g.gadgetid.0,requeststringwnd,NIL)

This would certainly not work even if it did compile. the contents of the
variable 'g' has changed several times since it held the pointer to
the string gadget.  Also, ActivateGadget() requires a pointer to the gadget
structure, not an id.    In the case I've noted above it would be:

ActivateGadget(mystringgadget,requeststringwnd,NIL)

> I can't get the program to compile when I have this in. My string gadget is

:-)  You have g.gadgetid.0    Strange construction you have there  :-)



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>
> I've just started using the iffparse.library.
> and I'm getting a problem when I parse an IFF file.
> ParseIFF() returns an error (-5). Anyone encounter this problem?


Yes, I got exactly the same problem, and I know I've seen messages from
other people who get the same problem with 'E' .
What a downer.. I really really need to use iffparse.library   :-(


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From: [e-mail] (Rob Nottage)
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Subject: Devices and volumes

> >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


>     Here's a solution: Get ALL Devices, and then check all VOLUMES ONLY.  A
> Device which has a filesystems IS GOING TO HAVE a VOLUME NAME.  Just do a
> little cross-checking and baddabing, baddaboom :-)

Sounds extremely tedious.   :-)

I found a much easier way anyway..  thanks for the reply though.


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Subject: Re: I`m new here!

> 1: E has some darn useful functions missing...
>    Has anyone managed to use GT_SetGadgetAttrs in gadtools? Cuz it AIN`T THERE!

Use Gt_SetGadgetAttrsA() like everyone else does  :-)
(You do remember to make the second letter lower-case??)

>    And ParsePatternNoCase() in DOS? SAME AGAIN! (bitch when writing a file
>    finder... like I WAS... :)

Looks like you're stuck with ParsePattern and MatchPattern()

> 2: I have had some joy with MUI,

You threw it away like I did??   :-)
MUI :  How to turn an A3000 into an A600   :)

>    Anyway, if anyone wants any help with gadtools or similar stuff please
>    mail me direct, as I have quite a bit of expereince with such things.

Except Gt_SetGadgetAttrsA() I guess   :-)  :-)

> Finally, has anyone got any tips for reading tooltypes? My efforts crash the
> system, but I don`t have the source at hand :(

Yep, make sure you open icon.library  :-)
I don't have the source at hand just now either.


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From: [e-mail] (Rob Nottage)
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Subject: stuff about dos

> >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.
>     Hmm, strange.. Yeah, I haven't touched said program myself in
> quite a few days, having just gotten ahold of Dune II and 1869. heh.

After reading that msg from Wouter about using DisposeLink()
I better go back to a couple of programs and fix them  :-)
Odd that they work with no errors relating to those strings Dispose()'d

> >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:
> >e.g. DF3:

>     Ok, this is a bit tricky, but is quite doable. My details may be a
> bit off, because I don't have the RKMs with me, but here's the gist.
> First, to avoid having devices you don't like, use the Dos (I believe)
> call, IsFileSystem().

Uhuh... Good start  :)

>     To get the volume of the currently selected dir, somewhere in the
> directory structure there's a pointer to a DiskInfo structure (or

mm yeah.. Assuming you have a lock to work with. I found that trying
to do anything with a device that didn't have a volume in it either had
no lock to work with, or
popped a requester 'Please insert volume "" in df0:'

After a lot of stuffing around, I found a way to get it to work, which
involved locking the device if there was no lock available, and making
sure my process windowptr was set to prevent the requester popping up.

I think I used NameFromLock() on the device's lock to find the volume name.


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From: [e-mail] (Rob Nottage)
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Subject: Re: Disk info (as requested)

>     Rob Nottage asked for help on this, so here's the writeup on how to
> get volume names, sizes, etc... (Modified for beginners as well, as I know
> you aren't, Rob.)

That's a matter of opinion  :-)
Thanks for all the info.. I ended up sorting it all out a couple of
nights ago.. I decided to go into a frenzy with RKMs autodocs includes
and stuff spread out all over the place, including both Amigas..
:-)

>     To get this structure, use the Dos call Info(lock,infodata). Where
> lock is a BCPL pointer to a lock (obtained from Open or Lock), and infodata
> is a pointer to an allocated InfoData structure. This way you can use any
> open file to obtain the volume information.
>     That should pretty much do it. If example code is needed, I'll be
> happy to post it.

Yeah.. umm that's all great but you still get that requester when
you try to do something with, for example, DF0: if there is no
disk in there  :)  I fixed that bit up by getting my task like this.


DEF mytask:PTR TO process

...
mytask:=FindTask(NIL)

...
temp:=mytask.windowptr
mytask.windowptr:=-1

/*scan the device list*/

mytask.windowptr:=temp

No nasty requesters if a device is empty!


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From: [e-mail] (Rob Nottage)
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Subject: Re: C2E

re: C2E

>     Well, I'm writing it, and I'm not even close to done. (Of course,
> this Dune II and 1869 thing hasn't helped.) Expect it on aminet in a
> MINIMUM of 4 months. H2E might be up sooner, say within a month.

Programmer's rule #1   never ever even GUESS a target date for release
of your program   :-)
Just tell 'em it will be ready Wednesday  (don't say which Wednesday)


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From: [e-mail] (Rob Nottage)
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Subject: Re: Help with screens

>   Just a quick question. How do you get windows and cons to
> open up on a screen that is opened with OpenS().
>
>   Haven't had a chance to really look at the ref docs yet, maybe
> the answer is there, but if anybody could show me how I would be
> grateful.

As far as I'm aware, you cannot legally open a window on a screen you don't
own unless it is the workbench screen or a public screen. I can't remember
exactly but i have a feeling that OpenS() doesn't allow you to open
a public screen.
Personally, I've never used OpenS() since OpenScreenTagList() is a lot
more versatile (but not WB 1.3)
Once you open a public screen, you can open a console window on it like this

con:=Open('con:0/0/640/256/MyScreenTitle/screenPUBSCREENNAME',MODE_NEWFILE)

replace 'PUBSCREENNAME' with the actual publicscreen name of the screen
in question.

To open a window on a publicscreen you can use OpenWindowTagList()
and include in the taglist:

...,WA_PUBSCREENNAME,pubscreenname,....

where 'pubscreenname' contains the name of the publicscreen.


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Subject: some problems solved

Hi Guys (and maybe Gals),

   Found my problem with FAE. I had used an assignment ':=' where
I should have used '='. Once I fixed that it didn't GURU again, but
it didn't work right either. Looks like I'm going to have to use
CASE and SELECT's. Oh well, slowly but surely, at least I'm learning
and that's mainly what I wanted to do in the first place.

later

Jessie
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