[Coco] demo video of some CoCoBoot tricks

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, October 13, 2011 02:40:08 PM Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:26 PM, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, October 13, 2011 01:16:10 PM Aaron Wolfe did opine:
> > > I'm working on a very easy to use interface to some of the things
> > > cocoboot can do, here are some examples.  Sorry for the poor video
> > > quality, but I think the screen can be read ok at least.  The
> > > cocoboot logo does not actually pulse strangely in real life :)
> > 
> > That is the combination of very fast phosphers in the crt, and the
> > cameras shutter speed, the 60 fields/sec are about .5 a field per sec
> > out of time. The human eye blends that to near invisibility, the
> > camera does not.
> > 
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBN-zmstB4
> > 
> > VERY Impressive Aaron.
> > 
> > I haven't had a chance to grab the new dw4.jar yet, but I do have a
> > question about the previous one.  I have the printertype set to text,
> > with no mention of the FX80 mode, but the startup trace on my screen
> > lists both.
> > 
> > Can I get rid of the FX80 setting by also removing the
> > PrinterCharacterFile line from config.xml?
> 
> If you mean these lines:
> 
> 13:32:56,244: [dwproto-0-10  ] Print driver TEXT loaded
> 13:32:56,244: [dwproto-0-10  ] Print driver FX80 loaded
> 
> in the logs, I don't think there is any way to make those lines go away.
>  The print driver modules are announced as they are found in the .jar,
> nothing to do with actually being used for anything.  You can certainly
> remove the PrinterCharacterFile setting but I don't think it will have
> an effect other than to ensure the fx80 module won't work if it gets a
> print job.  Basically the drivers sit dormant until a print job is sent
> from the coco, then the server looks at the current settings, creates
> an instance of the desired printer type, and hands it the job to print.
>  Since you can change drivers at any time as DW is running, they all
> (or both, so far) have to be known to the server even if not actually
> used.   When dormant I imagine they are using only a few kb at worst.
> 

I see, thanks Aaron.  Now I guess I need to add my cocop daemon to the 
Go.sh script and it will be a one command launch for all of it.

Cheers, Gene
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