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Re: [bug-gtypist] Windows build


From: Felix Natter
Subject: Re: [bug-gtypist] Windows build
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:03:43 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)

Tim Marston <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Felix,

hello Tim,

> I think you are correct about the static-lib-DLL thing. It seems to run
> fine on another machine (that doesn't have MinGW installed) without any
> other DLLs. So that's good.
>
> I think I've found the problem with script lines being too long on the
> Windows builds. That MultiByteToWideChar() win32 function returns the
> number of characters in the string +1 for the null terminator! So I've
> added a -1 and it seems to work. I've tested it on Windows XP and Wndows
> 7 with truetype fonts and it displays gtypist.typ, ru.typ and cs.typ
> correctly, AFAICT.

Thanks, that sounds good.

> On the down-side, I'm not sure if *inputting* UTF-8 characters is
> working ok. I tried copy+pasting the Cryllic 'д' character in to the
> console and it pasted 3 characters! I have no idea what happens when you
> actually type an д on a Cryllic keyboard, though. So we probably need to
> do some more testing here.

Does there happen to be anybody on this list who can test this?

> Finally, I've also found a very weird bug, which appears to be on
> Windows only. It may be related to UTF-8 input. You can repeat it as
> follows:
> - on Windows, run "gtypist.exe cs.typ"
> - press ENTER 7 times (this should enter the lesson "Lekce T1")
> - press ESCAPE, E, Y (to return to the menu)
> - press ESCAPE (to go back to the previous menu)
> - press ENTER (to select "Série T")
> and, almost immediately, the first lesson ("Lekce T1") on the "Série T"
> menu is selected, automatically, without any further key presses! Very
> strange indeed!

Not nice, you need >7 steps to reproduce this :-(

> On 22/11/11 20:27, Felix Natter wrote:
>> On Windows XP I also get 3 system exceptions on startup :-(
>
> Is this still the case?

Unfortunately, yes.

Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter



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