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Subject: More MUI questons

I have been trying to use the program MUIbuilder.  But have been
unable to get the source output of the program to compile.
Any Idea's?
Eric <[e-mail]>
From donews!crash!mail.msen.com!crandall Fri, 11 Feb 94 06:17:04 PST
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From: Chad Randall <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Re: iffparse.library


>> 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?

No, not really.

Here's a snippet of code from my icon editor:

(Sorry for lack of comments.  Hopefully this example is straight forward
enough to understand.)

PROC doloadpalette() HANDLE
  DEF iff=NIL:PTR TO iffhandle
  DEF ierror
  DEF sp=NIL:PTR storedproperty
  DEF body,size

  iff:=AllocIFF()
  iff.stream:=Open(palettename,MODE_OLDFILE)
  IF (iff.stream)
    InitIFFasDOS(iff)
  ELSE
    Raise(E_FILE)
  ENDIF

  ierror:=OpenIFF(iff,IFFF_READ)       /* Better error handling */
  ierror:=PropChunk(iff,"ILBM","CMAP") /* could be done here!   */
  ierror:=StopOnExit(iff,"ILBM","FORM")/* Actually, it could be */
  ierror:=ParseIFF(iff,IFFPARSE_SCAN)  /* improved throughout!  */

  IF(sp:=FindProp(iff,"ILBM","CMAP"))
    body:=sp.data
    size:=sp.size

    /*   This is where you'd handle the chunk.  It starts at
        "body", and has "size" number of bytes.

  ELSE
    Raise(E_IFF)  /* This just means no "CMAP" chunk was found. */
  ENDIF

  Raise(E_NONE)

EXCEPT

  IF (iff)
    CloseIFF(iff)
    IF (iff.stream) THEN Close(iff.stream)
    FreeIFF(iff)
  ENDIF

  IF exception<>E_NONE THEN errormessage(exception)

ENDPROC


The troubles you are running into might be due to not using the
"StopOnExit" function.  I could not get this to work without it.  The
example used here tells ParseIFF to stop when it is leaving the FORM
chunk, which normally is the end of the file.

Hope this helps,
Chad Randall ([e-mail])
From donews!crash!mail.csh.rit.edu!jerry Fri, 11 Feb 94 06:17:31 PST
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In-Reply-To: [e-mail] (Rob Nottage)
       "Devices and volumes" (Feb  9,  2:38am)
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From: [e-mail] (Jerry (Watch out for snakes))
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Subject: Re: Devices and volumes

On Feb 9,  2:38am, Rob Nottage wrote:
} 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.

Do tell!


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Subject: Re: FANTASY ADVENTURE ENGINE

Recently, [e-mail] (Jessie) wrote in with his program
which seemed to not be working. Well, everything looks fine except a few
major string mistakes (E is more like C than BASIC or PASCAL).  All lines
like:

  vwalls := '65534000000001457854000000012600000004485069400000'+
            '9600000000179200000000006553400000'

should be StrCopy()'s (String Copy) like this:

  StrCopy(vwalls, '65534000000001457854000000012600000004485069400000'+
                  '9600000000179200000000006553400000', ALL)

And in docommand() the assignment in the IF will always be TRUE:

  IF command := '8'

What you really wanted to do is StrCmp() (String Compare):

  IF StrCmp(command, '8', ALL)

If you want to check just the first letter of the command string you
could write this instead:

  IF StrCmp(command, '8', 1)

With these changes things should work.

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Hi


> 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.
>
OK, that's good now, I recieve all the mails. But 3 days after...
I know the problems you have. I'll be patient :)

See you...


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From donews!crash!synapse.org!bob.monaghan Sat, 12 Feb 94 01:36:44 PST
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From: [e-mail] (Bob Monaghan)
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Subject: Re: iffparse.library

-> Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
-> >
-> > 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   :-(

I know, I'm trying to make an animation player (just for the hell of
it), and like would be much nicer if I could get IFFParse to work.

I'm currently tinkering with an ILBM viewer that I made, and the amount
of code that I originally wrote to read and store the chunks of just one
picture was twice the amout needed to have IFFParse do it for me. Could
you imagine what I'd have to write to do a simple anim player?

Bob Monaghan.
From donews!crash!synapse.org!bob.monaghan Sat, 12 Feb 94 01:37:49 PST
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From: [e-mail] (Bob Monaghan)
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Subject: Types!

You should create a list of C to E Typeing equivelents. (As some kind of
Glossary?) That would be a real bonus.
I'm not really strong on C programming, so when I look at C code to
figure out what is going on, Types can really be pretty convusing when
trying to make E equivelents.

BTW I'm trying to convert the AmigaDos 3.1 .i includes into .m files
with IConvert.

Needless to say, there are some .i files that don't want to work. (eg.
exec/ables.i or exec/exec.i or exec/initializers.i)

Any Suggestions? (I really want to have these includes!)
From donews!crash!mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu!platt Sat, 12 Feb 94 01:39:25 PST
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From: [e-mail] (Vincent Platt)
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>     Actually,. tooltypes are really  easy. You just have to get around
> the lack of the amiga.lib functions in E. I have fully functional
> tooltypes code if anyone wants it? (hacked it up  for a commodity I made
> for a friend)

Why don't you make yourself famous and make a complete example and post it
to Aminet in /dev/e???  Personally I collect all the examples I can get so
when I have a problem I can see how someone else has done it.