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TCE Talk / Re: Modifications for Xprogs editor

« Last post by nick65go on January 25, 2025, 02:43:56 PM »

@Rich: Thanks for your sugestion: "You want a fancy editor. I think nano and geany probably do what you want".
If I need a little more "fancy" editor then beaver+gtk1 is OK!, less total RAM than nano (not GUI) or geany (GTK2).
I was thinking that (the famous) FLTK can do a more proper job , as GUI TOOLKIT, for a lot of small applications interface/menus (for editors, pdf, music players etc).
Or else, even Xdialog can buid GUI 

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Raspberry Pi / Re: Issues with Adafruit PiTFT display on picore 15

« Last post by WarmBadger on January 25, 2025, 02:31:34 PM »

I joined the message board today looking for this exact solution and it worked like a charm, thanks so much for your clear instructions.

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TCE Talk / Re: TCL 15xARM Releases?

« Last post by Paul_123 on January 25, 2025, 01:59:49 PM »

Raspi uses some trickery to address the full amount of ram, but you still have the ram per process limitation.   

However for users, the default is that the pi4 uses a 64bit kernel in a 32bit userspace.   It can cause problems when compiling.   The piCore armhf image does include the 32bit armv7l kernel if you want.

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TCE Talk / Re: TCL 15xARM Releases?

« Last post by CentralWare on January 25, 2025, 01:47:45 PM »

@Paul-123: Regarding running Pi4 under ARM -- is the RAM trickery in the release, or is it user initiated?

• AS-IS, would piCore(32) installed on Pi4-8GB run fine with the 3GB'ish RAM limitation or is the hack built in?
• It's assumed, then, that Pi3 runs fine under ARM?

Thanks!

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Extension requests / Re: firewalld Update

« Last post by CentralWare on January 25, 2025, 12:04:02 PM »

@Everyone_Here: This is a prime example of why TCL works.

Everyone pulling together.

Kudos!

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TCE Talk / Re: Modifications for Xprogs editor

« Last post by Rich on January 25, 2025, 12:01:33 PM »

Hi curaga
Xprogs for TC15 x86 and x86_64 have the new editor binary.
I can update back to TC10 if you want.

I'll work on git later tonight.

In the mean time, anyone running TC10 through TC14 that
wants to try the new version can replace their Xprogs.tcz
with the TC15 version.

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TCE Talk / Re: Modifications for Xprogs editor

« Last post by Rich on January 25, 2025, 11:23:10 AM »

Hi nick65go

So, we survived until now (ALL tc versions 32/64 bits) with [14K -19k] of "editor". With Rich improvments it could be reduced at [10K -14k] ...

The point was to remove the C/C++ highlighting from what was supposed
to be a simple editor. The size reductions were a byproduct of that.

... It's [very] good, but personaly not impressed ...

That's OK. I'm not impressed with myself either.

... In the country were I live for now, you can not buy less than 4GB RAM on entry-level devices, but usualy is 8 GB RAM. ...

So you feel what's available to you should determine the specifications of Tinycore?

... [I just wonder how long [years] will REAL OLD 486 devices be functional -because phisical degradation of chips or un-replaceble periferics/cards etc.]. ...

486/586 compatible hardware is still being manufactured and sold.
Where it's not practical, some extensions are no longer 486/586
compatible. Firefox and one of the music players come to mind.

... IMHO: What will be indeed nice to have BY DEFAULT, even in virgin TC, are the OPTIONS at run-time such are: line-numers on/off, wrap on/off, autoindent on/off, syntax color on/off (for sh style, like for/if/while etc), search up/down, font type and font SIZE. Of course, there can have default values in  ~/.Xdefaults (ot whatever config), but main point is to modify them on the fly from inside the "editor" running. ...

OK, now I understand. You want a fancy editor. I think nano and geany
probably do what you want.

The base systems are intended to get you to a functional command line
or desktop so you can install whatever extensions meet your needs.

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TCB Talk / FLTK 1.4+ for new TC16+ (64 bits)?

« Last post by nick65go on January 25, 2025, 08:45:05 AM »

https://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L1954
Article #1954: FLTK 1.3.10 released on Nov. 16, 2024
FLTK 1.3.10 is a maintenance release with minor enhancements and some macOS and CMake related improvements. This is intended to be the last release of the 1.3.x series.

https://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L1959
Article #1959: FLTK 1.4.1 released on Dec. 12, 2024
FLTK 1.4 is a new release series with major enhancements, new widgets. It is based on the final release of FLTK 1.3.4. Later updates have been backported to 1.3.5 - 1.3.10. (but not to 1.3.4 of Tinycore).
FLTK 1.4 adds new widgets (e.g. Fl_Flex, Fl_Grid) for flexible GUI layout, Fl_Scheme_Choice for scheme selection by users, and more. Other widgets (Fl_Tabs, Fl_Tile, Fl_Spinner etc.) have been improved for better user experience.

FLTK 1.4 adds support for HighDPI displays under Linux/Unix ... The initial screen scaling factor is read from the system and application windows can be zoomed (in/out/reset) by the user with ctrl/+/-/0 shortcuts, respectively.

FLTK is now compatible with the Wayland platform on current Linux distributions. The default build of the library on these platforms supports both X11 and Wayland in a "hybrid" library. Programs compiled and linked to this library launch using Wayland if it is available at runtime and fall back to X11 if not. Programs using X11 specific code that are not yet ported to Wayland can be used on pure X11 systems or by disabling the Wayland support on startup so they fall back to using X11 only. This requires 'XWayland' support on Wayland enabled (Linux) systems.

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TCE Talk / Re: Modifications for Xprogs editor

« Last post by nick65go on January 25, 2025, 08:05:54 AM »

So, we survived until now (ALL tc versions 32/64 bits) with [14K -19k] of "editor". With Rich improvments it could be reduced at [10K -14k] bits, aprox 4K (a RAM page size). It's [very] good, but personaly not impressed/interested in 4K reduction even on 486 CPU, in year 2025 (age of minim 1 GB RAM). In the country were I live for now, you can not buy less than 4GB RAM on entry-level devices, but usualy is 8 GB RAM.

[I just wonder how long [years] will REAL OLD 486 devices be functional -because phisical degradation of chips or un-replaceble periferics/cards etc.].

IMHO: What will be indeed nice to have BY DEFAULT, even in virgin TC, are the OPTIONS at run-time such are: line-numers on/off, wrap on/off, autoindent on/off, syntax color on/off (for sh style, like for/if/while etc), search up/down, font type and font SIZE. Of course, there can have default values in  ~/.Xdefaults (ot whatever config), but main point is to modify them on the fly from inside the "editor" running.

The older we get, the more we apreciate a proper font type & size (on various laptop/desktop). And EXTRA options, like find/replace with reg-expresion?, are welcome. I think the needed dependencies were already uploaded when using a GUI of TC.

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Extension requests / Re: firewalld Update

« Last post by Juanito on January 25, 2025, 06:23:07 AM »

nftables and firewalld updated

I checked that firewalld and firewall-config started (both run as root), but nothing more than that.