Re: [MiNT] XaAES bubble-help (Was: Re: Samba)

[Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net>]

on 11/5/11 4:53 PM, Peter Slegg wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:31:55 , "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
> wrote:
>> Am 05.11.2011, 19:55 Uhr, schrieb Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>:
>> 
>>>> MintSetter is a good candidate to make your system crash. What do you
>>>> need
>>>> it for?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What it was intended for. Useful to see what version of Mint is running.
>> 
>> That is also displayed in the System-window of XaAES.
>> 
>>> Somewhat ironic that MintSetter no longer works with Mint. The list of
>>> GEM
>>> apps that don't work with Mint is getting longer.
>> 
>> It is written in GFA (10 years ago), which excludes it for me anyway.

Just because its GFA does not necessarily make it bad program. Its possible
to write well behaved apps in GFA if one knows all the ins/outs of library
they are using.  Granted that is not always the case, but Fred was an avid
MiNT supporter when he wrote it.

Does someone have the source code to MintSetter?  Fred was pretty good to
give the sources if someone asked.  This one unfortunately I don't have.
Probably by now he has lost them.
 
> Like a lot of things. Not much new stuff since 2000

That's true.
 
>> I've spend already some time to trace this but it's hard to reproduce and
>> even harder to spot.
> 
> Maybe one of the GFA regulars could take a look ?

I'm not sure what library Fred used to build it.

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