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Title: Lazarus Wrappers
Post by: Minwah on August 02, 2002, 07:19:38 am

Howard_C: Do your wrappers work in Win98?  I got the ZiNc one to work 1st time in XP, but I can't get the exit key thing to work in '98 :(.  I was just using the wrapper from a command-line rather than using Lazarus.

Nice work on the FE btw, the way the lists are used (standardised) is certainly a good step forward.  Apart from now I should get my act together and use a similar method for my FE :)

Title: Re:Lazarus Wrappers
Post by: )p( on August 02, 2002, 08:11:11 am

Quote from: Minwah on August 02, 2002, 07:19:38 am

Howard_C: Do your wrappers work in Win98?  I got the ZiNc one to work 1st time in XP, but I can't get the exit key thing to work in '98 :(.  I was just using the wrapper from a command-line rather than using Lazarus.

Nice work on the FE btw, the way the lists are used (standardised) is certainly a good step forward.  Apart from now I should get my act together and use a similar method for my FE :)

the beta version of the wrappers did work on my win me machine with my fe...have not tried the release versions yet...

Peter

Title: Re:Lazarus Wrappers
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 02, 2002, 05:16:42 pm

Yeah they work fine on 98, but the development team of zinc boo-boo-ed.  :)  There isn't a way to safely kill the process other than pressing escape for that particular emulator.  I've tried everything from sending the close command to "pressing" alt-f4.  They all start to close the app but crash half-way through it.  

Sorry

Title: Re:Lazarus Wrappers
Post by: SirPoonga on August 02, 2002, 05:28:12 pm

where is the zinc wrapper?

Title: Re:Lazarus Wrappers
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 02, 2002, 06:14:27 pm

there isn't one... but the generic command line wrapper is pre-configured for zinc if you'll read the caption below. ;)

Title: Re:Lazarus Wrappers
Post by: SirPoonga on August 02, 2002, 11:37:41 pm

you need a link to your FEs in your sig...

Title: Re:Lazarus Wrappers
Post by: Minwah on August 03, 2002, 04:45:26 pm

I set the 'exit' key to space bar, and this worked PERFECTLY on the XP machine :)  Just doesn't seem to work on my Win98 PC :(

Actually I don't care about ZiNc as I want to use Escape to quit anyway.  I just tried that as a test as ZiNc was the only emu I had at work ;)

Title: Re:Lazarus Wrappers
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 03, 2002, 05:31:29 pm

Ok that's the problem.... in 98 the wrapper is limited to the keys you can assign... shift keys (space,shift,ctrl,alt) generally won't work.  Note that that is only for key detection though, so you can still send those keys.  At least in theory... i don't own  any 98 boxes anymore so I can't test it.