Re: GM - more questions

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 10bxjfhf wrote:
>> 
>> The term 'delegate' means that resposibility is given to some other program 
>> to do the work and so Ghostscript is called a 'delegate'. This terminology 
>> was inherited from ImageMagick.
> The implications & use of these delegates are still a mystery for me ;-)

It just means that you get that software from someone else, and when 
there is a statement that there is "NO WARRANTY", that the severity of 
that at least doubles. :-)

> Hopefully that confusion is cleared up
>> I was interested in the configure debug output produced by your own program 
>> which was attempting to read from a file.
>
> I had expected some output as well, but have not been able to find any.
> As I am not building & using a command line utility, all of my debug output 
> is being redirected to a log text window, but I see nothing from the GM code 
> other than the exception which I eventually decoded and spit out.

If it is actually using code from the release, then there could be a 
problem due to varying Visual Studio versions.  Try editing the 
installed log.mgk to change the default destination.

Prior to 1.3.34 the logs were sent to the Windows application log by 
default.

We use the free Inno Setup installer 
(https://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) and the installer scripts are 
under VisualMagick/installer.  For example, if you have the Inno Setup 
installer installed, then you can use it to open and "compile" 
gm-win32-Q8-dll.iss (or gm-win64-Q16-dll.iss) to create the same 
installation package that I do.  Please note that some run-time DLLs 
from Visual Studio 2008 are copied into the installer.  These DLLs 
will be of no value to Visual Studio 2019 but are needed by code built 
by Visual Studio 2008.

Bob
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