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L18L

Mon 15 Nov 2010, 12:32 esmourguit wrote:

BarryK · Posted: Mon 07 Mar 2011, 21:30 Post subject:

I have created a PET for the Vim text editor, with color highlighting for BaCon:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02174

One of the great features of Vim is that it can convert code to color-highlighted-HTML, as I have reported here:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02173

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2421

My favorite editor. It's important to stay on top of the patches, though (which can quickly be several hundred).

BarryK · Posted: Wed 09 Mar 2011, 04:11 Post subject:

Thanks to help from Peter van Eerten and L18L, I was also able to get international language support working. It's real easy, and to show everyone else how easy it is I have written a HOWTO:

http://bkhome.org/bacon/international.htm

BarryK · Posted: Wed 09 Mar 2011, 05:59 Post subject:

Ok, I have updated the proxy-setup tool, with two improvements:

1. Peter's solution so that the layout of the window remains correct regardless of the type of screen, default GTK fonts, or XFT DPI value.

2. Peter's upgrade to BaCon that supports international languages.

I have attached an image of what it looks like on my screen. I would appreciate if you guys could try it and confirm that the layout remains correct on your screens.

BarryK · Posted: Wed 09 Mar 2011, 06:05 Post subject:

And attached is a tarball of my latest proxy-setup, along with the 'bacon' compiler and 'hug.bac' that I used.

Apart from testing the layout, if anyone who is interested in supporting internationalization, I have included 'proxy-setup.pot' -- you can use this to create a proxy-setup.mo file for your language/country -- send it to me and I will include it in Puppy -- in fact, it will be in Woof, so in all Woof-built puppies.

I have created a web page that shows how easy it is to create a .mo file from a .pot file:

http://bkhome.org/bacon/international.htm

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1230 Location: Ukraine

Dear Barry,

The main screen looks perfect on my machine. The only little infelicity is in the closing message box, where the OK button abuts (pardon the pun) against the text above it. I changed the dimensions of the second message box to 400,120,0,1 and everything was fine.

With kind regards,
vovchik

L18L

I had to increase the width of mainwin and label_hdrx by 40 to get my translation legible and had to change size of message box to:
yes_dlg1=MSGDIALOG(INTL("..."),500,150,0,1)
no_dlg1=MSGDIALOG(INTL("..."),500,120,0,1)
I have been varying 'global font size', too and here is how it is looking on my screen (1280x720) now. Confused

7 posts back looks better Rolling Eyes

German po-file attached. Smile

BarryK · Posted: Wed 09 Mar 2011, 21:05 Post subject:

Thanks for the feedback.

L18L,
Puppy has default xft dpi set at 78, which is a bit low. Most Linux distros use 96. So, it is very unlikely that anyone would want to change the setting to less than 78. Test with bigger values, such as 96.

L18L

is looking good so far with 96 dpi.
The input fields have to be moved to the right, of course.

And thanks for the statement

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 242

Barry, Peter, Vovchik,

I have been following this thread with great interest, since I am a great puppy lover (since 2.17), but have never taken the step to do anything else than assembly language, a bit of bash, and (in the early days) basic.

Your joined effort to get BaCon working in Wary made me decide to drop Puppy 5 and install Wary 5.1.1 with success. Installed the devpack, and downloaded hug.bac. Using NicoEdit.
And I have been programming since, taking Barry's proxy program as a reference. I am impressed, and would like to use this configuration for my hobby (model railway automation). In this I need digital IO. One of the options for this is USB IO chips like the FTDI range (I own a few FT245BM modules).

But I have no clue on how to add the drivers for these USB chips to the BaCon environment. There is a Linux library (1.0.4) for Mandrake 9, but that would (probably) need re-compilation for Wary ????

http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm

And even then, how can I access this library from BaCon ?? Do I use the EXEC command ?

Can someone help me ??

Volhout

L18L

Dear Volhout

BarryK · Posted: Mon 14 Mar 2011, 09:20 Post subject:

The proxy-setup BaCon program saga continues!

Attached is the very latest. It also needs the very latest BaCon. My PET has /usr/lib/hug.so, which makes GUI applications smaller -- 'proxy-setup' has dropped from 115KB to 50KB.

Recently there have been significant refinements in internationalization and also refinements that enable us to create windows that always layout correctly regardless of DPI/screen/default-fonts.

The attached proxy-setup.bac demonstrates these recent advances. Peter is the guy who has done all of this. I have reported problems and Peter has responded immediately and fixed things.

Note that the attached tarball has a readme that explains a few more things.

My latest BaCon PET:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-quirky/bacon-1.0.22pre-20110314.pet

BarryK · Posted: Mon 14 Mar 2011, 21:35 Post subject:

I have written a HOWTO that explains how to get good layout always in a window written with HUG:

http://bkhome.org/bacon/hug/layout.htm

It needs the latest BaCon, 1.0.22pre. I posted a PET here:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02182

If anyone has any thoughts how the layout HOWTO can be improved/extended, please let me know.

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1736

This may come in handy for a quick font size check
or a quick message or to test different fonts
it can be run in the terminal " as is"

many possibilities with markup

Joe