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tofro wrote:

mk79 wrote:Um, may I ask where in SW Germany?

Stuttgart

Grüßle,
Tobias

And I thought I was the last active QL user in the region

Cheers from Esslingen, Marcel

EasySource I think outputs the needed value, so I'd really advice for designing the menu in EasyMenu and convert that to assembler using EasySource. It indeed does. It emits symbols for both the working definition and the status area length. worklen equ $00000210 statlen equ $00000060 Thanks for ch...

This may be a bit off a side step but looking at the display.txt, I cannot find how the various GD2 palette modes (3,7,15,31) should work. Where is this palette located inside the sprite, how many bytes are used for each colour sample? Or is this one of the "Options" that was never worked...

I thought, Surely the Window Manager would use some standard bit pattern, and then convert it to the correct form for the hardware it's running on. With the limits imposed by the QL hardware you have to make shortcuts. SMSQ/E on the other hand can convert sprites between the different colour modes....

I know it works, But I cannot understand how the data corresponds to the bit patterns that appear on the screen. The data is in exactly the same format as the QL screen. In this case Green Byte, Red Byte, Green Byte, Red Byte. 8 pixels per byte. Look at the values in binary and you'll more or less ...

NormanDunbar wrote:Tobias informs me that WM.WDRAW is required.

QPAC2 does it wrong then

Page 104 ... Wm.swinf, Wm.swlit, Wm.swapp etc set the window to the info window, loose item, application sub window. Then you can use wm.rname or wm.ename from page 124 to edit text in the appropriate area, or us other code to do other stuff with that area. I've no idea at present, how to set the w...

And by the way EasySource outputs well commented assembler source code for the menu definition, so there is no magic to it, it's just much easier this way.

No response to question 2. Is it that tricky then? I know there are programs for designing sprites and creating the assembler for them. But I would like to know how it works. That,s why I am trying to avoid things like EasyPointer that do some of the hard work for you. The sprite format is pretty w...

SMSQ/E can be downloaded from the official site: http://www.wlenerz.com/smsqe/