Fwd: Fwd: Building under a recent OS
Edward Robbins <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:11:38 +0100
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--===============4148903264767747435== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b33d9e2aac24204da6b0598 --047d7b33d9e2aac24204da6b0598 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cool, some people still use this! I sent my mail twice (and registered twice) because I sometimes have trouble with mailing lists and gmail/googlemail domain confusion, and I hadn't seen my own email come back from the list so was also thinking that maybe the mailing list was broken. You can find my efforts here: https://github.com/static-void/picogui I haven't really gotten too far with it yet, just got it to build. Also note that I just copied my whole directory so there's a lot of junk (like ".svn" folders) that I haven't cleaned up yet. As I said the X driver works, but none of the others I've tried really do. I tried the ncurses earlier driver - it starts but is a bit messed up. svgalib driver is broken. What's bugging me the most at the moment is that most of the themes don't seem to work properly. I switched to a 32-bit vm to test it out, and I mostly get *** ERROR (BADPARAM) : Stack overflow in fillstyle interpreter or similar. Unfortunately while I'm pretty comfortable with C/C++ and automake, flex and yacc are uncharted territory so I don't know how I'll get on there. The theme stuff looks pretty cryptic, and I'm not sure if the problem is in pgserver or themec. At least (some) of the apps seem to work ok, even without a theme, or with a very basic one. Thanks for getting back to me, Ed On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:35 PM, M. Elizabeth Scott <[email protected]>wrot= e: > Hi Ed, > > Nice to see that someone's still interested in using PicoGUI. If you do > move it to github give me a shout, and I'll update the web site with a > prominent link. > > As for why I gave up on it... life happens. It was fun to work on for a > few years, then I needed to move on. The project might have lived on if > there was more interest in it, but it never had enough momentum to contin= ue > on without me :( > > =97beth > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Edward Robbins < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I guess that now, 10 years later, this list is pretty dead (like the >> website). I know picogui from my psion days, and I decided to use picogu= i >> for some development work because it's still much faster than anything e= lse >> out there, and when you need a gui that can run multiple apps on a 150MH= z >> ARM9 machine with 32MB RAM you need something faster than X windows, and >> something that doesn't need any real graphics capabilities. Being able t= o >> run multiple SDL programs, and already having a terminal app, are also b= ig >> wins. Looking around, picogui is still really the only thing that fits t= he >> bill for this without investing serious amounts of time... why did you g= ive >> up on it!? >> >> Anyway, I spent most of yesterday hacking, and managed to get the 0.46 >> build system and code updated to the extent that it now builds on a mode= rn >> OS. Unfortunately there are 64-bit compatibility issues with themec, whi= ch >> I still need to look into, and I think that maybe the linux framebuffer = has >> changed since picogui's heyday (when I run the framebuffer servers I get >> random looking text all over the screen - I'd be interested if anyone kn= ows >> anything about fixing this). But the x11 driver seems to work just fine. >> >> I'm going to put the updated code onto github soon, and then look into >> the x64 issues, then the framebuffer, then hopefully I can start writing >> the apps I want, and getting it to build with an ARM cross compiler. I >> don't think I'll actually be improving the code unless I run into bugs, = but >> thought someone out there might be interested anyway. >> >> Cheers, >> Ed >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------ >> Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced >> analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for buildi= ng >> apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use >> our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! >> http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter >> _______________________________________________ >> Pgui-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel >> >> > --047d7b33d9e2aac24204da6b0598 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">Cool, some people still use thi= s! I sent my mail twice (and registered twice) because I sometimes have tro= uble with mailing lists and gmail/googlemail domain confusion, and I hadn&#= 39;t seen my own email come back from the list so was also thinking that ma= ybe the mailing list was broken.<br> </div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr"> <div><br></div><div>You can find my efforts here:=A0<a href=3D"https://gith= ub.com/static-void/picogui" target=3D"_blank">https://github.com/static-voi= d/picogui</a></div><div><br></div><div>I haven't really gotten too far = with it yet, just got it to build. Also note that I just copied my whole di= rectory so there's a lot of junk (like ".svn" folders) that I= haven't cleaned up yet. As I said the X driver works, but none of the = others I've tried really do. I tried the ncurses earlier driver - it st= arts but is a bit messed up. svgalib driver is broken. What's bugging m= e the most at the moment is that most of the themes don't seem to work = properly. I switched to a 32-bit vm to test it out, and I mostly get=A0</di= v> <div><br></div><div>*** ERROR (BADPARAM) : Stack overflow in fillstyle inte= rpreter</div><div><br></div><div>or similar. Unfortunately while I'm pr= etty comfortable with C/C++ and automake, flex and yacc are=A0uncharted ter= ritory so I don't know how I'll get on there. The theme stuff looks= pretty cryptic, and I'm not sure if the problem is in pgserver or them= ec. At least (some) of the apps seem to work ok, even without a theme, or w= ith a very basic one.</div> <div><br></div><div>Thanks for getting back to me,</div><div>Ed</div></div>= <div class=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br>= <div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:35 PM, M. Elizabeth Sc= ott <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_b= lank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Ed,<div><br></div><div>Nice to see that s= omeone's still interested in using PicoGUI. If you do move it to github= give me a shout, and I'll update the web site with a prominent link.</= div> <div><br></div><div>As for why I gave up on it... life happens. It was fun = to work on for a few years, then I needed to move on. The project might hav= e lived on if there was more interest in it, but it never had enough moment= um to continue on without me :(</div> <div><br clear=3D"all"><div>=97beth</div> <br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:13 A= M, Edward Robbins <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:edd.robbins@googl= email.com" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrot= e:<br> </div></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;bo= rder-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div> <div dir=3D"ltr">Hi all,<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr"><di= v>I guess that now, 10 years later, this list is pretty dead (like the webs= ite). I know picogui from my psion days, and I decided to use picogui for s= ome development work because it's still much faster than anything else = out there, and when you need a gui that can run multiple apps on a 150MHz A= RM9 machine with 32MB RAM you need something faster than X windows, and som= ething that doesn't need any real graphics capabilities. Being able to = run multiple SDL programs, and already having a terminal app, are also big = wins. Looking around, picogui is still really the only thing that fits the = bill for this without investing serious amounts of time... why did you give= up on it!?</div> <div><br></div><div>Anyway, I spent most of yesterday hacking, and managed = to get the 0.46 build system and code updated to the extent that it now bui= lds on a modern OS. Unfortunately there are 64-bit compatibility issues wit= h themec, which I still need to look into, and I think that maybe the linux= framebuffer has changed since picogui's heyday (when I run the framebu= ffer servers I get random looking text all over the screen - I'd be int= erested if anyone knows anything about fixing this). But the x11 driver see= ms to work just fine.</div> <div> <div><br></div><div>I'm going to put the updated code onto github soon,= and then look into the x64 issues, then the framebuffer, then hopefully I = can start writing the apps I want, and getting it to build with an ARM cros= s compiler. I don't think I'll actually be improving the code unles= s I run into bugs, but thought someone out there might be interested anyway= .</div> <div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Ed</div></div></div> </div><br></div> <br></div></div><div>------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------<br> Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced<br> analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building<= br> apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use<br> our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account!= <br> <a href=3D"http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter" target= =3D"_blank">http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter</a><br= >_______________________________________________<br> Pgui-devel mailing list<br> <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">Pgui-= [email protected]</a><br> <a href=3D"https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel" target= =3D"_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel</a><br> <br></div></blockquote></div><br></div> </blockquote></div><br></div> </div></div></div><br></div> --047d7b33d9e2aac24204da6b0598-- --===============4148903264767747435== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. 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