Re: [MiNT] XaAES 0.901

[Henk Robbers <H.Robbers@cable.A2000.nl>]

Hi

Thanks for your report.

"Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz" wrote:

> It works when you start
> it from mint.cnf (but only if you cd to the dir where XaAES binary is
> just before), 

XaAES must be able to find its resource and config files.
Shell_find isnt ready yet. XaAES tries some standard paths, yours isnt one of
them I suppose. See userguid in doc.

> but it does not work when started
> directly from bash. The result of that last is just a bus error (the
> last text the XaAES says is "auto program").

New in XaAES is the ability to manipulate the environment.
A copy is made. I'll check this code for anomalies.

> By the way, Henk,
> couldn't you catch SIGBUS and shutdown the AES gracefully? Nothing
> can be loaded after that, i.e. no AES, without previous reboot.
> 
Hmmm. Only opera singers have the ability to die gracefully when stabbed.
(But then they are mostly not really dead I am told.  :-)

I prefer fixing the bus errors.

> I would think, that the programming
> discipline imposed by memory protection could have good influence on
> the XaAES stability, no?
> 
Yes:-) When I reach v0.999 the code will be so clean, that MP will be easy.

> keyboard sometimes looses characters, and when I start typing too
> quickly, some portion of spurious characters (not keypresses!) is
> generated. Looks like a virus, really :-)
> 

You are not the only one reporting this. Unfortunately I never succeeded to
produce the same effects.

> Things I like are nonmodal alerts, small amount of memory taken (ps
> reports below 300 kilobytes, so it is a half or even 1/3 of the
> amount of memory taken by N.AES or Atari AES 4.10, respectively),

I knew you would like this. I am happy that I am not alone. :-)

> window. Also I like that it is free and almost works.
> 
> Things I don't like is the unpronounceable name (next one to "oAESis"
> and "Thing"), 

An Englishman brought up this name.
I have no idee how it should be pronounced. In English there is often
very little connection between pronunciation and spelling. :-)

Bugs: I dont like them either.
I already fixed a lot. Did you ever try v0.7 ?

There is still so many to do on XaAES, that sometimes I just cant decide on what
to do next.
Be patient, everything will be fixed.

-- 
Groeten; Regards.
Henk Robbers.       http://people.A2000.nl/hrobbers/Homepage.html
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