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Re: After (or Before?) Executor 2.0



>>>>> "Jim" == Link8452  <Link8452@aol.com> writes:
In article <960402213631_262661495@mail04> Link8452@aol.com writes:


    Jim> ARDI, First, I would like to say that I am glad I registered
    Jim> Executor. It is a great program! You guys (and gals) at ARDI
    Jim> are doing an excellent job!!!

    Jim> There are a few things I was wondering about:

    Jim>      A program to expand/shrink the size of volume files.

Post E2, although I know of someone who is working on an HFV repair
kit and his program *might* be able to provide that functionality.

    Jim>      Either getting DiskCopy (or similar) to work under
    Jim> Executor or a program to change disk images into volume
    Jim> files.

Post E2, although I would suspect an Executor Enthusiast or two may
have some help in this area before then because of the similarities
between an HFV file and a disk image file.
     
    Jim>      A program to change the black apple icon in the corner
    Jim> into something else (most likely a colored apple)

Internally we have that ability but it's turned off due to copyright
reasons.  Designing a more flexible way of allowing people to put
arbitrary icons up there is doable but it's post E2.

    Jim>      Multiple selections in the Browser

Post E2.  We'll be making Browser's source available when E2 ships.
Also after E2 is shipping we'll be looking at a few Browser
alternatives and see if we can make them go.

    Jim> These are issues that have been brought up before, but I was
    Jim> just wondering if any were planned to be addressed before 2.0
    Jim> ships or after. (I don't mind if they are after; I know how
    Jim> busy you all are. I was just wondering.)

E2 is bascially "feature frozen", meaning that all the features that
will be in E2 are already present, at least in our lab.  Of course
that's a little tricky since there hasn't been a bleeding release
since Q12 so you can't tell exactly what we have over here.

    Jim> P.S. People have aid that they have HyperCard running, but I
    Jim> can't get it to run. It came up once and asked me where HOME
    Jim> was. So I told it where it was and it crashed with: Executor
    Jim> has encountered a fatal heap error and must
    Jim> exit. (ROMlib_relalloc in /ardi/executor/src/mmansubr.c:809,
    Jim> most recent trap = A122). It even does this when I run the
    Jim> HyperCard Toolbox. Any suggestions?

Hmmm... I hope others can provide you with some help.  We've run
HyperCard 2.1 and HyperCard Player 2.2 over here over many versions of
Executor, including E/D 1.99q12, which is the latest Bleeding Edge
version publically available.  After beta0 is out we'll try to figure
out why some people are getting HyperCard to run and others aren't.
In the meantime perhaps Executor Enthusiasts will figure out the
common denominator for us.

    Jim> Thank You, Jim Brandt Link8452@aol.com
    Jim> http://members.aol.com/link8452

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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