Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2-6RP-color-Mb005

[JOHNLIM]

Rob Partington - Admin <address@hidden> wrote:

 >  R(> Hopefully I can integrate the multi-bookmarks patch today.
 > How 'bout the patch which shows the page while it's being downloaded ?
 R(> I don't know how likely that is to make it in to my "final" Lynx-rp of
 R(> the week - I haven't had a chance to look at it properly yet.  Seems
 R(> like a good idea, but the main reason people want rendering while
 R(> downloading is to be able to click on links near the top of the page
 R(> before you fetch all of the page...
Well, my reason would actually be to see if a page is worth viewing or
not... if not, 'z'ap it is :) I'm just curious if it would interfere with
your colour patches, I'm not sure how Lynx & the abovementioned patch
works...
 
 > Since you're gonna try Fil's multibookmarks patch, can you also have a look
 > at why the his patch doesn't use the "standard" screen output routines ?
 R(> Erm, yes.  :-)
Great, thanks. :)
 
 > output text to screen (for example the prompts asking the user which
 > subbookmark to load/add), it comes out in white on black. Same thing
 > applies when using your RP-color patch... nothing major, just a cosmetic
 > bug. :^)
 R(> Ok, I'll have a play and see if I can fix this.
Great !
 
 >  > Was it affected because of your patch ? Could you then update _your_
 >  > patch ? Easier for others :)
 >  R(> afaict it's a problem of the later versions of slang.  The version I
 > Nope, since if I use the same slang version (0.99-34) with your RP-color
 > but *without* Hiram's LYCurses.h update, all works fine...
 R(> Ah, but only my patch uses the getyx() macro, that's what the problemis.
Hmmm... I diffed Hiram's LYCurses.h and the standard 2-6 LYCurses.h, didn't
look very different so I just omitted the whole darn file ;)

 > Great ! Hopefully according to what Foteos has said about it... :)
 R(> Which was?  (You'll have to excuse me, I'm trying to wade through
 R(> about 60 lynx-dev messages while doing tech support, fixing a
 R(> recalcitrant PC,  teaching our new tech support person, writing
Sorry. :) Foteos mentioned something about where the proper locations for
the slang defs should go... some time back John Davis mentioned this too,
there was a patch on Subir's page and I guess it must've been included into
Hiram's one (didn't read the CHANGES file, lazy me :-)

 R(> documentation and figuring out whether I should quit over my promised
 R(> payrise not appearing in full).
If you quit Netlink, will you still be "best friends" with the Netlink
sysadmin ? (re: browser.org :)

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