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Tinyfgpa wrote :
I assume your screen shot is not of your Q68

The screen shot is of the actual screen display on my Q68. The screen scrape was converted to a .jpg using QT-Image. No PC involved except in the upload to this site.

The Q68 has 16 bit colour in 1024x512 mode 33 as one of its screen options. It is about gold card+ speed with this.

The toolbar at the bottom of the screenshot with all the icons is QDOCK a program from the great Dilwyn Jones and available on his website.

Cheers

1024 x 512 would explain the shape of your screenshot. Impressive for 16 colours and a ten year old (or more) FPGA. What is the [+] button? On my setup your "SBASIC" button comes up labeled "System"

Tinyfpga wrote:1024 x 512 would explain the shape of your screenshot. Impressive for 16 colours and a ten year old (or more) FPGA.

Not 16 colours, but 16-bit colours (65536)!

The "[+]" button is qcascade. It can be renamed and for me it is "[+]". My "SBASIC" button was "System" but I edited the QPAC2 code to make "system" in to "SBASIC". Same number of letters and Sbasic/Superbasic is not the system : that's QDOS/smsqe/minerva so I renamed it.

Cheers

Andrew wrote:Charmap - The Final version
now everything works!

Perhaps its only me, but.. this is what I get whenever I fire up the file selector. Cant get past it to load a different fo(u)nt.

Im using QPC2 V5.02 in high colour full screen mode. I cant see a Charmap version number anywhere, but this relates to the one quoted above.

pjw wrote:Perhaps its only me, but..
this is what I get whenever I fire up the file selector. Cant get past it to load a different fo(u)nt.

Im using QPC2 V5.02 in high colour full screen mode. I cant see a Charmap version number anywhere, but this relates to the one quoted above.

Can't reproduce the error.
I have tried on QPC2 1920 x1080 and 1024x768 resolution , 32 bit color and it works
I even tried running several Charmap instances at the same time

It is easy to add a line REMark $$stak=2048 and recompile - but on my system there is no difference.
I presume that the stack is depleated because you have too many files and/or sudirectories in a directory .
I do not have more than 512 files in a directory

Assuming that you are still using my file selector code (I haven't tried the latest Character Map yet) you may well find that a larger stack is needed, especially when sorting the file list.

As an example, my Q-Trans file handler allocates about 32K of stack because of the use of a recursive quicksort sorting routine

Bear in mind though that Q-Trans has two columns of filenames so if both are sorted it quickly becomes a massive use of SBASIC stack. The amount of stack used can grow sharply as the number of files increases. Would probably be an idea to create a huge number of files in a drive or directory somewhere and test it on that.

Per could probably use the QLib_patch program to experiment with how much stack space it needs for his system and you could then use a $$stak directive in the program to set it to a high value by default.

dilwyn wrote:Assuming that you are still using my file selector code (I haven't tried the latest Character Map yet) you may well find that a larger stack is needed, especially when sorting the file list.

yes, I am using your code

dilwyn wrote:Would probably be an idea to create a huge number of files in a drive or directory somewhere and test it on that.

I created a directory with 1185 files. Everything works - files are correctly displayed and sorted/unsorted/filtered/loaded.

I dont think I have any directory with 1200 files in it, unless its in DOS, but I dont know which directory its trying to open. Anyway. I'll give it another spin and see if I can figure out whats going on.

Well, I did that, and now it seems everything works as intended! I dont know what happened before. I had been testing rather a lot of different software recently, mine and others', so something somewhere may not be as it should! Impossible to retrace now, so we'll just have to see.

pjw wrote:Ibut I dont know which directory its trying to open.

First Load Font opens Home_Dir$
Subsequent Load Font opens the last visited directory.