New version of X11 available soon..

Please, please port inkscape!!

http://www.inkscape.org/

Please!

@cygnusEd

Thanks for your answer.

Quote:

I'm not much into Linux programming. By dynamic linking you mean .so library files or are they using ELF files with symbol names? And what are you doing to make it work?

@yak

WOW! Inkscape looks fkn brill!!!
Me wants!!!

@virgola

> Please, please port inkscape!!

Had a look at inkscape some time ago. Unfortunalety it uses a library, that can't be ported to AmigaOS 4
(in my opinion): The boehm garbage collector library. After a look at the sources I must say, that this is
the badest hack I've ever seen - bah!

Sorry.

CygnusEd

@yak

> I'm not much into Linux programming. By dynamic linking you mean .so library files or are they using ELF files with symbol names?

Yes, I mean the .so files. To be precise the functions of the dynamic link interface like dlopen(), dlsym() ...

> And what are you doing to make it work?

The only solution (for me) is to link the modules statically to the program binary. While porting imlib2 - a image library,
which uses dynamic linking for it's loaders and filters - I've found an easy way to handle this. I think I will use this method
to implement some other similar module techniques.

But there is also pipe() / fork(). If module support is implemented by using these functions, I have to reimplement it with
AmigaDOS functions (If possible).

CygnusEd

@cygnusEd

Strange Edgar, because seems already ported for AmigaOS

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc.tar.gz

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/

there is an amigaos platform file into the code

@cygnusEd

Such a shame...
It's the app that I really appreciate on linux and it works very well with Scribus.

Well, I hope mindscape will get soon an update.

Thanks for your work anyway!

@afxgroup

> Strange Edgar, because seems already ported for AmigaOS
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc.tar.gz
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
>there is an amigaos platform file into the code

Yes I saw this. I can't remember where the problem was. Some assumtions about
OS internal things were made and I think it needs ixemul. But you can have a look
at it if you like. This would solve the biggest problem for porting inkscape.

@cygnusEd

I just fired Inkscape up under debian Stable/A1 and it is a nice program indeed. Some extensions were not implemented, so a warning gave me but it also said the program will fubction as normal. No idea what those extensions were though. Is there any way to find out in case they may be the issues facing an AOS4 port?

ace


PS when when when when???? (release) -:)

@acefnq

> I just fired Inkscape up under debian Stable/A1 and it is a nice program indeed. Some extensions were not implemented,
> so a warning gave me but it also said the program will fubction as normal. No idea what those extensions were though. Is
> there any way to find out in case they may be the issues facing an AOS4 port?

The main problem is this stange gc library mentionen above. The extensions / plugins are an other, but should be
solveable.

> PS when when when when???? (release) -:)

I hoped to release it this weekend, but I think it will be next weekend. Found some little issues and added a nice
tool to the package. Also I'm working on a documentation. And I need some more tests...
And a little vacation

@cygnusEd

OK From Dr Ace, take 2 days (not tablets) and go to bed tonight. Release everything tomorrow, it will feel good, you know it! -:)

ace

Just kidding for those who may not have a sense of humour!

@all

use DONATE button on Edgar site..

@afxgroup

Which Edgar site?
Can you please give the URL?
Thx

@virgola
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That would be this one.

I found it by clicking on CygnusEd's user profile where he has it listed.

@afxgroup

Done. With pleasure.

ace

@cygnusEd

How much effort would it take to get the X11 server to run in windowed mode? (open X-windows on the wb)

I sent my little contribute.
Keep it up Edgar!

@acefnq & virgola

Whow! Thank you very much! It makes me happy, that you like my work.
Hope, that my new packages will fulfill your expectations.
100 dancing bananas for you

@orgin

> How much effort would it take to get the X11 server to run in windowed mode? (open X-windows on the wb)

Something between very difficult and impossible. I think we have to wait for a
GTK wrapper library, which uses a AmigaOS native GUI.

@cygnusEd

Saying "windowed mode" I think Orgin was meaning not to use native amiga widgets, but something like cygwin does on windows: many little x screen created into normal windows.

Look at:
http://x.cygwin.com/screenshots/cygx- ... fig-ddd-20031224-0010.png

And about GTK wrapper: it's still alive?