Friday, 20 October 2017

Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu pre release test version 0.8.99

I did a quick test.

Apart from the reported HostFS problem, I encountered a
reproducible crash, with both interpreter and recompiler.

I did a full CDVDBurn recompile, which means a lot of I/O.
I took the taskwindow where the compile ran and put it to
the bottom of the screen (a few pixels off-screen). I then
clicked the window resize button and dragged it quickly down
-> crash. I will try if RPCEmu 0.8.15 also exhibits this.

Other things:
The new "don't change host screenmode on fullscreen" solves
one of the annoying features of the old version where returning to
the Windows desktop triggered an info popup which informed that
you should really use the display's native resolution - which was
already used of course.

I like the new warning dialog that RPCEmu will be reset if you change
the settings. One minor niggle: the warning dialog is centered to
the display and not to the RPCEmu window.

Is it still sensible to have RPC with ARM610 being the default
machine? Does the recompiler work correctly with this config - ISTR
reading that it needs StrongARM config to be active?

Host mouse following mode still exhibits a minor problem when
e.g. a RISC OS error window moves the RISC OS mouse pointer inside
the restricted area. It is irritating that the host mouse pointer
is not also silently moved. On the other hand, I agree that the
host mouse pointer must not be restricted to the RO pointer
rectangle.

Thanks so far!

Have fun
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Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu pre release test version 0.8.99

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 09:38:03PM +0100, Peter Howkins wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:20:31PM +0200, dfeugey@ascinfo.fr wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:11:55 +0100, Peter Howkins wrote:
> > >https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/testing/
> > >
> > Hostfs drive not seen (empty) under Windows
> > Both under RISC OS 4 and 5.
>
> Please post your rpclog.txt file.

Actually don't worry about it, I've traced it to a commit last week.

Peter

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Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu pre release test version 0.8.99

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:20:31PM +0200, dfeugey@ascinfo.fr wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:11:55 +0100, Peter Howkins wrote:
> >https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/testing/
> >
> Hostfs drive not seen (empty) under Windows
> Both under RISC OS 4 and 5.

Please post your rpclog.txt file.

Peter

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Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu pre release test version 0.8.99

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:11:55 +0100, Peter Howkins wrote:
> https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/testing/
>
Hostfs drive not seen (empty) under Windows
Both under RISC OS 4 and 5.


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[Rpcemu] RPCEmu pre release test version 0.8.99

https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/testing/

Due to the recent work on RPCEmu being very wide-ranging we are asking for
testing and feedback before we recommend this as a 'release' build for
everyone.

We would like to hear your feedback on this version, in particular any
bugs that have appeared since the 0.8.15 release or missing features.
Please report your findings on the Mailing List, please include your
rpclog.txt files when reporting issues.

The two major changes in this build compared to previous versions.

- Changed to the Qt5 library for the GUI. Previously we used the
Allegro 4 library and additional win32 code.
- The GUI is shared by all platforms, reducing maintenance work.
- The Linux/BSD builds gain the full GUI that previously was Windows
only.
- The full-screen mode should no longer crash.
- The full-screen mode uses software scaling. It will no longer resize
your host OS desktop and it preserves the aspect ratio of the emulator
video modes.
- The clock "drift" (where host and emulated clock move apart)
should be much reduced. Please test without the syncclock module in
'poduleroms' and let us know your results.
- Changed the threading model of the program so that the GUI is in a
separate thread from the emulation of the machine.
- The most obvious change from this is that opening menus and configure
windows do not halt the emulation of the machine whilst you work
with them.

Additional fixes in this version

- Linux: Support being built as a position independent executable (PIE),
this allows the 64-bit recompiler builds to work without modification
on Linux distributions which compile all software as PIE by default
(e.g. Ubuntu 16.10 and later)
- Windows: HostFS date stamps should be correct regardless of Daylight
Savings Time flag.
- ARM Core: STM with store of R15 should vary with processor type (x86
recompiler).
- ARM Core: STRT/STRBT with store of R15 should store same value as
STR/STRB.
- Clang compiler is now recognised when writing to the log file.

For further information and downloads please visit

https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/testing/

Matthew Howkins
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Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Re: Experimental treeview search feature

On 03/10/17 16:09, Bernard Boase wrote:

> By the way, 'Global history' doesn't appear to include the list given
> by the main window's drop-down 'URL suggestion icon'. That list is
> stored in file Choices.WWW.NetSurf.URL. I'm unclear which URLs are
> placed there, but I do see that it is unaffected by deleting the
> items from Global history.

That's something separate from the core global history that is
managed by the RISC OS front end. It stores the URLs that are
typed manually into the URL bar, I think.

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Re: Experimental treeview search feature

On 18 Sep, tlsa@netsurf-browser.org typed:

> 1. Hotlist viewer (bookmarks)
> 2. Global history viewer
> 3. Cookie manager window

By the way, 'Global history' doesn't appear to include the list given
by the main window's drop-down 'URL suggestion icon'. That list is
stored in file Choices.WWW.NetSurf.URL. I'm unclear which URLs are
placed there, but I do see that it is unaffected by deleting the
items from Global history.

Yet it is a history of sorts which has to be manually deleted should
one wish to clear all actual history.

Any thoughts?

RISC OS 5.23 Netsurf 3.7 (Dev CI #4213)

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