Re: [MiNT] Fileselector

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Lonny Pursell wrote:

> on 11/25/10 3:08 AM, m0n0 wrote:
>
> > Am Do, 25.11.2010, 08:43 schrieb Jo Even Skarstein:
> >> On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 22:49 -0800, WongCK wrote:
> >>
> >>> But will not be reinventing Selectric or boxkite ?
> >>
> >> That would be a good thing. Selectric, Boxkite and Freedom 1 are all
> >> excellent fileselectors, but don't use them with MiNT/XaAES.
> >
> > Whats so bad about boxkite? I never had visible problems with it running
> > under XAAES/FreeMiNT... at least I didn't know that boxkite was the bad
> > boy when bad things happened...
>
> Not sure what the exact technical reason is, but the file selector
> replacements should never be used with XaAes (kernal module).
>
> They are ok with NAES though.

I did some tests with boxkite on aranym and there where no problems. I
could even kill and restart it IIRC. But I still prefer the
XaAES-fileselector, because it does all I really need and it's all better arranged.

-Helmut