Mail Archives: djgpp/2003/04/28/18:00:18
Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in message news:<b8j1f7$nub$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>...
> Anders Lindahl <anders DOT lindahl AT mbox305 DOT swipnet DOT se> wrote:
>
> > I know that rhide is not the compiler. What I ment was: is it some
> > program in djgpp/bin that decide the size of the windows?
>
> No, the program that limits that is called "Windows XP". You more or
> less chose to use XP, and that's what you get for it. Ever since
> Win98SE, every new release of Windows coming out of Redmond has been a
> more hostile environment for DOS programs than the one before it.
> Getting applications like RHIDE which assume they "own" the video to
> run in that environment is yet another bit harder than normal console
> programs. You won't have any of those problems you saw using GCC.exe
> itself, the actual compiler.
>
> I personally would say that the rigidity with which you insist on
> having your RHIDE menus in Swedish isn't very reasonable. You'll have
> to read practically all of the documentation in English, anyway, so
> what's so bad about having the menus in English, too?
My respond is that is nice to read what you want to read in your own
language. But my question from the beginning is why canīt I get
anything to read when I click on īF1ī. The only respond is 'Attention
canīt find the help file rhide'. And the other question Iīve been
asking from the beginnign is why canīt I get the program running in
MS-DOS window the same way I did on the old computer running with
Windows 95. Every answer I get so far is read the FAQ, and Readme.1st.
Iīve been reading those so many times that anybody can wake me up in
the middle of the night and ask me about whatever they want. And I can
tell them everything whatīs writting. To me it seems that the problem
I have would never be solved, not ever by anyone. So from now, and
further on I will never ask anybody for any help and never look for
anything on the web to download. The reason is that it is simpler to
buy a pencil, use your paper and calculator to run whatever you want
to run.
Goodbye everybody and sleep well, Anders
>
> IMHO, a good plan could even be to dump RHIDE completely, if you're
> going to stick with XP. You don't really need it. There's lots of
> other ways to write and compile programs with DJGPP. They may not be
> as snappy as RHIDE, but they're more likely to work in the short term.
> Such as:
>
> * write your code in whatever editor you have that works. Use
> notepad, if all else fails
>
> * Compile directly from the command line, or use a makefile
>
> * debug directly in gdb
>
> RHIDE is nice to have if and where it works, but if it doesn't, that's
> not the end of the world.
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