Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu 0.9.0

On Mon, 7 May 2018 at 11:25, Steve Fryatt <lists@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> However... There seem to be problems with Full Screen mode on older
versions
> of Ubuntu which are Unity-based.

> Full Screen works fine on my desktop system, running Gnome-based GUbuntu
> 16.04, but on my laptop, which is still on Unity-based Ubuntu 14.04,
> full-screen just makes the window into one which can't be moved or
expanded.
> All of the window furniture is still visible, as are the Unity menu bar
and
> quick launch bar. The RISC OS iconbar is therefore lost off the bottom of
> the Linux screen.

I've had a web search around the issue and I think you might have run into
a Unity issue.

Could you test on this machine with a different window manager to confirm?

Unfortunately if this is an issue with Unity I do not think that it will be
fixed by Canonical, as you mention they've moved over to gnome.

Peter


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Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu 0.9.0

I'm re-sending this post because the first attempt seems to have
vanished. Apologies if it appears twice.

On 5 May 2018, Peter Howkins <rpcemu.howkins@marutan.net> wrote:

> A new version of RPCEmu is available

[snip details]

Very many thanks for this excellent upgrade - here it's running RO 6.20
on Windows 7 Pro - the fullscreen mode is a considerable improvement.

However, I'm not sure that I fully understand how fullscreen is intended
to work. For the moment, I've used anymode to create a display having
the same resolution as the screen, 1920x1080. Settings > Fullscreen mode
then removes the Windows window furniture, so that the RPCEmu display
fills the screen. All well and good. However, if RPCEmu is quit, and
re-started, it is necessary to activate Settings > Fullscreen, all over
again. Is it possible to configure RPCEmu to start in Fullscreen?

Thanks again

Tony




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Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu 0.9.0

On 7 May 2018 01:07:59 BST, Peter Russell <peter@pipalya.com> wrote:
>Peter Howkins wrote on 5 May :
>
>> A new version of RPCEmu is available, X.X.X
>Is there anything for Mac users? Peter

I had a look at this for the preview version. The bottom line is the keyboard doesn't work. The problem is that Qt on the Mac, and in fact any other Mac libraries, don't expose raw key events. Even if we worked around that, it means that we can only read a limited number of keys, some special keys don't work, and keystrokes would move around depending on whether your Mac was set to US, UK, QWERTY, AZERTY, etc.

It might be worth doing, but the overall experience won't be very nice. Best I can suggest at the moment is running the Linux or Windows versions under VirtualBox. Those at least should have a working keyboard.

Theo

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Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu 0.9.0

On 5 May 2018, Peter Howkins <rpcemu.howkins@marutan.net> wrote:

> A new version of RPCEmu is available

[snip details]

Very many thanks for this excellent upgrade - here it's running RO 6.20
on Windows 7 Pro - the fullscreen mode is a considerable improvement.

However, I'm not sure that I fully understand how fullscreen is intended
to work. For the moment, I've used anymode to create a display having
the same resolution as the screen, 1920x1080. Settings > Fullscreen mode
then removes the Windows window furniture, so that the RPCEmu display
fills the screen. All well and good. However, if RPCEmu is quit, and
re-started, it is necessary to activate Settings > Fullscreen, all over
again. Is it possible to configure RPCEmu to start in Fullscreen?

Thanks again

Tony




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Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu 0.9.0

On 5 May, Peter Howkins wrote in message
<CANc9Z=wcH=dy6dOk6nvaZJMJG5TvtXX5NxBQjqWvuGxVPop85Q@mail.gmail.com>:

> A new version of RPCEmu is available, X.X.X
>
> http://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/
>
> The two major changes in version 0.9.0 compared to previous versions.
>
> * Changed to the Qt5 library for the GUI. Previously we used the Allegro
> 4 library and additional win32 code.

Thanks for the new version -- overall the new interface is a lot better than
the old one on Linux.

However... There seem to be problems with Full Screen mode on older versions
of Ubuntu which are Unity-based.

Full Screen works fine on my desktop system, running Gnome-based GUbuntu
16.04, but on my laptop, which is still on Unity-based Ubuntu 14.04,
full-screen just makes the window into one which can't be moved or expanded.
All of the window furniture is still visible, as are the Unity menu bar and
quick launch bar. The RISC OS iconbar is therefore lost off the bottom of
the Linux screen.

Has anyone else noticed similar behaviour, or have I got some oddity with my
setup here?

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Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu 0.9.0

> On 7 May 2018, at 1:07 am, Peter Russell <peter@pipalya.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Howkins wrote on 5 May :
>
>> A new version of RPCEmu is available, X.X.X
> Is there anything for Mac users? Peter

Can't answer this. But I am about to give the new version a thrash on my Mac. I failed to get RPCemu running OK for networking a couple of months back, but the core RPC emulation worked well with the latest test build. Since then there has been a new VirtualBox for Mac, a new Ubuntu LTS and now a glorious new RPCEmu, so I hope to give them all a Big Thrash starting later today.

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Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu 0.9.0

Peter Howkins wrote on 5 May :

> A new version of RPCEmu is available, X.X.X
Is there anything for Mac users? Peter

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