New version of X11 available soon..

@keisangi

> so i tested vim and amaya, they work great..
> i'm starting to love cygnix :)
> i can even use amaya to read slashdot (CSS support) :)

Great! I have compiled a new version of vim with GTK 2 support.
It's much nicer. It will be published, when I have some more time.


> but i still have the same problem it seems,
> gtk1 program don't see / can't seems to use my two ttf fonts.. is there's something
> we can do to enable gtk1 apps to use the font we add into cygnix ?

Oh, sorry, I have forgotten to mention, that GTK 1 does not support
TTF fonts, only GTK 2. GTK 1 uses the standard X fonts located in
"USR:X11R6.3/lib/X11/fonts". But the X font system does support Type 1 fonts.
Maybe you could convert the fonts to Type 1? If yes, I can describe, how you can
include these fonts.

@cygnusEd

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yes please ! if i could convert the font i could use cygnix to display japanese. that would help me a lot..
please explain me :)

i look forward to test vim gtk2.. it should work with ttf font and display japanese too..

so either way that's great.

@cygnusEd

Great! I have compiled a new version of vim with GTK 2 support.

Umm, I installed Vim7 from X11r6Pre2. So, it's GTK1.

How difficult is it unistall something? I've read the install records; they're slim on information.

@keisangi

> yes please ! if i could convert the font i could use cygnix to display japanese. that would help me a lot..
please explain me :)

To install a new Type 1 font, goto "Cygnix:CygnixPPC/X11R6.3/lib/X11/fonts/Type1", copy the font into this directory and afterward load the file "fonts.dir" into a text editor.
The first line contains the number of installed fonts in this directory. So if you add one font, increase the number by one.
Then add a line like this:

yourfontname.pfb -misc-yourfontname-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1

(maybe you need an other iso for japanese)

Atferwards save your changes, shutdown cygnix and relaunch it again. That's all.

To test the font, you can click on the "X" button with the right mouse button. This will open "xfontsel", which displays all installed fonts.


> i look forward to test vim gtk2.. it should work with ttf font and display japanese too..

I tried it here, but it does not work well, because vim has it's own localisation system and it does not work on the amiga. GTK 2 uses pango for font display, which is much better, but japanese is only partially working. But maybe this is because of the lack of a proper font.

@Snuffy

The vim GTK 2 install script will update vim correctely,
the old parts will be removed.
I know, I should provide a deinstaller script with in my packages...

@cygnusEd

OK, my next little problem is when launching Amaya I get an Assign requester with a mangled assign (i.e. "Please insert volume /usr/local/src/Amaya-9.5/Progra: in any drive") After clicking Cancel several times the program finally starts, but it keeps asking for the same assign several times everytime you load a new webpage. Any ideas as to why it's doing that?

@Valiant

maybe it won't help much, but for me amaya worked without doing anything special, just install and it worked.
so i don't get the requester you seems to have.


@cygnusEd

i have the japanese ttf font for gtk2 programs.
i have installed it already. now i would like to test it with a gtk2 program..
a gtk2 text editor like vim would be a good test application maybe .. or another gtk2 text editor..

i'll wait you release it to test.. in the mean time i will try to find type 1 japanese font.

thanks for your explanation :)

@Valiant

This is a tricky problem: All Cygnix programs are working with unix style paths and are expecting always, that a given path is a unix path. A requester like this always pops up, when it gets an amiga style path by accident. The ":" is interpreted as a path separator. In most cases the reason is an environment variable, which contains an amiga path. I suggest to use Snoopy to find out, where the programs gets this wrong path.


@ keisangi

I have the SciTE editor here, which has a better locale support. Will be published as soon as possible.

@cygnusEd

something i'd _really_ appreciate would be a true type font editor port.

heh and i did a quick google, and found font forge. and also saw that it had been discussed earlier in this thread.
any news on that?

i tried to compile some stuff for cygnix using your script that i found on utilitybase today.
i removed -liconv from it but it still looked for it in the 3-4 projects i tried to configure.
and it didn't find it.

it always ended up with an compiler can't create executables error.

do you have iconv compiled for cygnix?

will you release a new cygnix sdk anytime soon?

or maybe just release your compiled linklibs for
us to use?

@afxgroup

Very impressive!

@spotUP

Uuups - I have forgotten, that iconv is missing in the SDK. But maybe you dont need it in your project. Does it support native language support (NLS)? If not, you don't need iconv. If yes, you can use iconv included in the OS4 SDK, but the localisation will not work!

I have to make a new SDK to support GTK 2 and the other things, but you must be patient, sorry. I wish, someone would donate me some time.

@cygnusEd

it's there a way to use a scroll wheel mouse?

Thanks,
Paolo

P.S. a very impressive work

@all
Come on guys cut him some slack. Requests just don't happen, this is almost like building a new OS on top of an OS. Let Ed develop what he sees is important first. He might ask for help if and when he needs it.

ace

Hi!

Amaya is crashing if it has to show a gif image.
Does it makes it only for me?

Please try it on e.g. www.google.com or on my site: www.kezdobetu.hu

Thanks!

Edit: Certainly a clean install of the latest Cygnix release.

@pvanni

it's there a way to use a scroll wheel mouse?

Umm, X11 Wm uses the middle mouse button a lot to scroll back. It's not hardware problem as much as a
window management task.

@lazi

Amaya has problems with loading gifs. I know this problem, will maybe be fixed
in the next version.


@Snuffy

The support of the scroll wheel must be implemented in the X server.
At the moment this is not the case. I will have a look at it, when I continue
developing the server.

@cygnusEd

Firefox doesn't have problems with gifs (hint, hint... :)

@COBRA

Ralph is working on that ... hint hint

@Outcast

Where interesting; hope to see some thing soon.