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Feelin 050819 (beta)
« on: August 20, 2005, 12:05:09 AM »
Here is a little binary archive of Feelin, just to show where it's development is ;-)



As always, many things have evolved on the low-level side as well as on the cosmetic one, which includes a new way of computing "damaged" areas for optimized and attractive refreshing, PNG alpha channel support, a new decorator and many more...



This archive is provided "as is" for test purpose, and only includes binaries. It's only a preview, which is why some unfinished features have been disabled. For example, images can only by resized on the fly, which make them not suitable to use as backgrounds. This nice feature will obvisouly be enabled on the "real" release.

Enjoy ! And tell me what you think about it, bugs report are welcomed ;-)

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NB: Feelin's memory system was completely rewritten. It's faster, smarter, and even more safe since a "mung wall" feature was builtin.

Although this feature is meant to be optionnal, there is no way to disable it in the included version. I just discovered it after receiving a warning from Feelin, while I was doing bad things (like trashing memory).

You'll see no differences while using Feelin, but this nice feature will cause serious impact on the memory test (in "feelin:demos/memorytest").

That apart, it's all good ;-)

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Re: Feelin 050819 (beta)
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2005, 03:12:41 AM »
No need to wait for the future, it's already possible ;-) If you want to use Intuition window border's (or ones of a patch), just launch the preference editor, go to "Decorator" and change the cycle menu "decorator class" to "None, use Intuition".

About custom images for window gadgets, this is already possible, but only de decorator "Flatty" allow this.

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Re: Feelin 050819 (beta)
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2005, 10:39:57 AM »
Nearly all preferences items are now defined in XML format, and colors are defined in HTML style e.g. "shine" or "#FF00FF". I left "loading" compatibility... It should load you old items and convert them to new ones... maybe it doesn't work :-(

About filerequester, I don't know what the problem is, because I don't have a SFS: vloume on my system. On the other hand, I have a "dev:" volume, which is my development partition. Could you please tell me when Feelin ask you for these volumes ?

The filerequester will be completely rewritten in future release, I hope I'll get rid of these problems.

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Re: Feelin 050819 (beta)
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2005, 04:55:07 PM »
Strange... do you have Enforcer running ? so I'll be able to locate the bug...

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Re: Feelin 050819 (beta)
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2005, 08:36:22 AM »
Here is a little patch for Feelin050819_beta.

1. dos.library/DupLockFromFH() does not work with WinUAE virtual volumes (and maybe large disks). Because the function was used by FC_Document, Feelin was unable to read XML files, which result in an empty preference editor. This is fixed now.

2. "Prefs" has not been linked properly, resulting in a crash when the program ended. This is fixed now.

One person reported a dimension problem : the preference editor window is too big, ~1500 pixels. Does anyone has the same issue ?

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Re: Feelin 050819 (beta)
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2005, 02:10:15 PM »
Did you say alpha ?

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Re: Feelin 050819 (beta)
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2005, 08:42:46 AM »
Feelin is not an alternative to AmigaOS, but rather MUI/ReAction/whatever. The estimated system requirement is OS3, 4Mo. For fancy stuff, you need 8Mo and a gfxcard.

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Re: Feelin 050819 (beta)
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2005, 10:22:01 AM »
Thanks Antonio I'm glad Feelin made you feel like turning on you Amiga again ! I'm now looking forward for your comments and suggestions. Have fun !!