9.2.3

[OS923]

The website is almost finished. I only have to add about 150 PDFs, change document info and open options and READ the plot of these movies and mark one sentence. Then I have to post links from the PDFs to the movie trailers. Then I work exclusively on the Mac projects.

[OS923]

I removed the Windows, Linux and OSX versions of my programs from my website.
I'm doing only Mac OS and Palm OS now.
All programs are now donationware without nag screens.

http://www.gsehi.com/computing/index.php

I learned to write control panel / extension combinations with CodeWarrior.
That creates possibilities.

[Protools5LEGuy]

Great!

[IIO]

I learned to write control panel / extension combinations with CodeWarrior.
That creates possibilities.

very good. what about a little workshop?

[OS923]

I learned to write control panel / extension combinations with CodeWarrior.
That creates possibilities.

very good. what about a little workshop?

The easiest solution is that the control panel contains separate resources for the main function, the INIT and the selector function. The INIT draws the icon at startup and installs the gestalt. You need to have a selector function but there's no easy way for this function to get at the global variables except if we save this function in a resource and we link a variable which is initialized to a specific value. When the resource is loaded, this variable's location is the address of the specific value. We search this value and replace it with a handle that contains our global data. When the gestalt is made, we have to flush the instruction and data cache, otherwise it won't behave like expected. The main function can now communicate via the Gestalt function.

[Protools5LEGuy]

The easiest solution is that the control panel contains separate resources for the main function, the INIT and the selector function. The INIT draws the icon at startup and installs the gestalt. You need to have a selector function but there's no easy way for this function to get at the global variables except if we save this function in a resource and we link a variable which is initialized to a specific value.

 When the resource is loaded, this variable's location is the address of the specific value. We search this value and replace it with a handle that contains our global data. When the gestalt is made, we have to flush the instruction and data cache, otherwise it won't behave like expected. The main function can now communicate via the Gestalt function.

Party!!!

[IIO]

The easiest solution is that the control panel contains separate resources for the main function, the INIT and the selector function.

i am aware of the two basic parts (executable and, since OS 7, optional init) but i simply have no clue about c++

[trevor12]

I cannot mount os923.img in mac os 9.2.2. Any help ?

[OS923]

The website is almost finished. I only have to add about 150 PDFs, change document info and open options and READ the plot of these movies and mark one sentence. Then I have to post links from the PDFs to the movie trailers. Then I work exclusively on the Mac projects.

My work for my website kept accumulating, but now I don't find new material anymore and I have finished reading the PDFs. I also updated the video on my website. I hope to publish the PDFs next week. Then I have nothing to do except OS 9. Note also that OS 9.2.3 was almost stolen in October when a stalker kicked my door in, but a neighbor called the police in time.

[DieHard]

My work for my website kept accumulating, but now I don't find new material anymore and I have finished reading the PDFs. I also updated the video on my website. I hope to publish the PDFs next week. Then I have nothing to do except OS 9. Note also that OS 9.2.3 was almost stolen in October when a stalker kicked my door in, but a neighbor called the police in time.

Wow... that was a close one

[OS923]

I upgraded to CW Pro 6.2.
There were a few problems:
- shift left shifts one more than shift right,
- Grammarian now requires that there's no return in the middle of a sentence,
- Grammarian crashes when called from the CW IDE.

I updated the extensions.
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/Extensions.php

The version number corresponds now to the date.

Macros may now be defined as accelerated code resources and as a series of key events.
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/Macros.php

I host now an improved version of some of the Apple developer documentation.
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/TradMacDoc.php

[OS923]

I updated the extensions and the REALbasic programs.
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/index.php

There's 1 new program: Lexer generator
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/programming/lexergenerator/index.php

I expanded on the documentation:
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/TradMacDoc.php

(I checked and corrected the bookmarks in 2000 PDFs, like changing Inherit Zoom into Fit Page with AppleScript.)

[OS923]

I updated the REALbasic programs again.
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/index.php

I improved the Lexer generator dialogs.
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/programming/lexergenerator/index.php

I changed PDF explorer into XML converter.
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/files/xmlconverter/index.php

There's still a problem: the XMLReader class uses much memory.
It stores a string representation in every object in the tree.
If the tree has several levels, then it keeps the entire file several times into memory.

I changed Belmap.
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/pictures/tiles/belmap/index.php
Now you can open a map by double-clicking the index file which has now a ".bel" extension.
Then you can keep your maps wherever you want.
If you save them in a disk image then this reduces the number of files on your computer.
If the disk image is uncompressed then you won't lose speed.

[OS923]

I corrected the version resources.
I changed Log Apple events into a program.
I corrected Log Apple events and Translate Apple event log because they were mixed Dutch/English.
I started with an OS 9.3 progress page.
http://www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/os/os93/index.php

[OS923]

I just updated the website. I reverted from php to htm.

I improved the Macros extension. You can have key series with modifiers. There's also a macro recorder and a program that checks the macros.
www.gsehi.com/computing/software/macos/Macros.htm

My INITs will now send eventual error messages to DebugWindow.

I rewrote the program which writes my website because there were problems with checking the dates. If you write a large Scheme program then you should use classes to avoid errors.

New in the SDK:
- I embedded Scheme in another program.
- I updated Apple's MLTE SDK to CW Pro 6.2.
- I downgraded MLTE Demo from CW Pro 7 to 6.2.

What I've done recently, but what I don't publish because it was just a Banshee derivative, is a console which can read and write Unicode with streams (wcin and wcout). I'm thinking about a neater solution. This should be a complete MLTE program with Text Services and wcin and wcout.

[OS923]

In the attachment you see the Unicode console with wcin and wcout.

[OS923]

I dropped the idea of a simplified and beautified PowerPlant 1.9.3 because CW Pro 6.2 has PowerPlant 2.1. I'm linking everything with CW Pro 6.2 and PowerPlant 2.1.

The previous version of the macros extension is inefficient. It switches too much to the system zone. It was losing time when it was supposed to do nothing. The new version works better.

But there was another problem too. It claimed every use of the app1Evt. The new version doesn't interfere with other hypothetical programs which want to send app1 events. (Although I couldn't find one.) It recognizes app1 events that it has sent because their message starts with 'huy'.

The documentation has still to be updated.

[Protools5LEGuy]

Thanks Cliff for ALL your efforts.

[DieHard]

Thanks Cliff for ALL your efforts.

Yes, we forget to give Cliff all the credit he deserves... I second the "Thanks you"... he always plugs away... quietly, solo, and behind the scenes

[mrhappy]

 he always plugs away... quietly, solo, and behind the scenes

Yeah... He's sneaky like that!!