[Coco] Programs for NitrOS-9

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 12 May 2008, Robert Gault wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 11 May 2008, Willard Goosey wrote:
>>>On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 06:08:44AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Fred D. Provoncha wrote:
>>>>>If this helps at all Gene, I just tested IconEdit under NitrOS9 3.24 and
>>>>>it seemed to work fine, except for a TMODE call somewhere that generated
>>>>>a Syntax Error because the syntax for the TMODE command has been
>>>>> changed.
>>>>>
>>>>>Fred Provoncha
>>>>>Stansbury Park, UT
>>>>
>>>>The tmode thing will need fixed, but if that's all it needs to run on
>>>>3.24, then that narrows the bisection considerably.  Thank you very much,
>>>>Fred.
>>>
>>>OK, I've been playing with this.  Nitros LII 3.2.6 6809.
>>>
>>>I used DED to fix all the tmode calls.  When run, icned resets the
>>>screen size and colors, turns off echo, and bombs out with an error 48
>>>-- unimplemented routine.
>>
>> Humm, 2 things come to mind, one might be the mouse handling, the other is
>> ISTR I named that thing IcnEdit, not icned.  But we all know memory is the
>> second thing to go, so I'll have to run a find on /dd/maxtor & check that.
>>  I haven't managed to get multivue to work here yet, other things keep
>> getting in the way.  All this module renaming is breaking things faster
>> than I can fix them.
>>
>>>I thought this might be coming from one of the newer BASIC09 modules
>>>(gfx2 or runb) so I built a new copy with stock Tandy runb, gfx2,
>>>inkey, syscall, and got the same result.
>>>
>>>Willard
>
>I've been testing the RTSI file containing "IcnEd V3.18 by Gene Heskett,
>1995" in the source code. Gene, is this the latest version?
>
1995?  13 years ago?  Could well be, Willard, gee has it been that long?  
Don't answer that. :)

>I started by changing all of the Shell calls to use the new syntax for
>Tmode. In this case, echo and -echo become eko= 1 or 0 and pause -pause
>is now pau= 1 or 0. Initially the program gave an error 48 which was
>because I had not preloaded my B09Utils merged file containing gfx,
>gfx2, inkey, and syscall. With that taken care of, making sure I had an
>env.file in SYS, and running the program from a graphics window, I got
>error 201 - illegal Path Number.

Humm, give me some time to get a stable 3.2.6 nitros9 and multivue running, 
and a heart that keeps on beating for a while yet & I'll dig into that.  I 
made about 20-25 trips up & down the steps yesterday & was feeling pretty 
well used by bedtime.

>As yet, I've not seen a link for this error in the source code. The
>error occurs after MultiView type window is started with IcnFiles and
>DirFiles in the menubar. An arrow mouse icon is also present. I don't
>see your credit message.

memory, grrr, I don't even recall if I displayed one. :(

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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