Re: [MiNT] XaAES shortcut list & "reload XaAES"

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Henk Robbers <h.robbers@chello.nl> wrote:
> Helmut Karlowski wrote:
>>
>> Am 08.12.2009, 18:35 Uhr, schrieb Henk Robbers <h.robbers@chello.nl>:
>
>>> If there is interest in my last version of XaAES of 2002,
>>> I can put it back on my homepage.
>>
>>
>> Would be great! In the beginning I searched for them, because I wanted to
>>  re-introduce the old fileselector ...
>
> OK.
>
> My last version includes a few essential fixes of Ozk.
> Thats all. Nothing new. And of course it is a server like N.AES.
> It should run on any MiNT that still supports the latter.
>
that still support N.AES I guess you mean, does that mean 1.17 cant,
no probs 1.16 is still used by many, and I'm "giving it some love" atm
too, I am interested to see how it performs, as I have read some of
the older change logs..

> I'll update its name to XaAES2002.
> It is a Pure C program and will remain so.
>
this is not an issue as long as AHCC is up to the task (I see there is
a new version of AHCC 3b5 - 2009-12-08)

> Paul, you might be interested in the program XA_SCL.
>
> XaAES started up with a very basic set of SCL, just enough to
> be able to start XA_SCL for the rest of the config including 'run'.
> XA_SCL and the 'run' application than run in parallel.
>
I will look for this with avid anticipation. :)  I would like to have
dynamic gradients via a color wheel (round color chart), not just your
more traditional "select this color here, select that color there"
type config front end.

> I liked it. ;-) It was a beautiful sight when the taskmanager
> was active at startup.
>
I see the config can start the taskmanager on startup, it is just
undocumented ;)

> PS
> XA_M_EXEC was the message type for sending commands. :-(
>
This I presume is a struct (or similar) nothing a bit of porting cant
solve. I would guess though, that it was removed because it no longer
supported "the new format" and that there was not seen a need to take
the time to "rework it", well now is a good time as any..

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FYI:

A quick search of the net turns up a few references, mostly to old
links on Henks site, but someone may have these files "lying around"
somewhere
XAAES963.ZIP
XAES963S.ZIP

Presuming these are not the ones Henk is about to make available

Search of XA_SCL and you will get three old posts, one stating that
0.970 already contains xa_scl.prg inside XaAES, from 2003 in
comunications with original developer, Martin Tarenskeen, and this in
the current Changelog.freemint:
"Initial import of the gcc modified XaAES 0.963 source. Version	bumped
to 0.970."

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Paul