AfA OS under 3.1 problems

[motorollin]

I have done a new install of 3.1. All I have installed is NewIcons, MUI and AfA OS 4.2.

- PNG icons don't work
- writepixelalpha_bench crashes with error #80000008
- AfA_Prefs won't allow me to select a skin (greyed out) and crashes after a few mouseclicks in the window (error #80000008)

+ textbench works
+ icon.library shows lib_PosSize of 10,000 in Scout, so MoreLibSpace is working
+ "status" shows the AfA lib exes as resident.

Any ideas?

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moto

[motorollin]

These are the requirements:

--Kickstart ROM Version 3.1
--more than 2MB RAM.
--68030 or higher with FPU.
--graphic card.

I haven't installed any RTG drivers yet, since this is under UAE so I was going to experiment with AGA first. Could this be why it won't work? Is RTG really a requirement or just a recommendation?

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moto

[motorollin]

Ok I'll do that and try again.

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moto

[motorollin]

Ok installed P96 and the uaegfx driver and am now running on a P96 screen. PNG icons still don't work. Writepixelalpha_bench works now, and the skin section of AfA_Prefs is now active. But the Prefs window still hangs if I try to do anything. I'll try AmiKit's suggestion of an older version.

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moto

[motorollin]

Same problem with 4.0... :-(

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moto

[motorollin]

Yes I've got "c:morelibspace REBOOT" just before SetPatch. But as I said morelibspace is working because the amount of RAM available for icon.library has increased.

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moto

[motorollin]

MozzerFan wrote:
I replaced the
icon-image of the afa prefs program and after that I
noticed with Icon-info,AFA prefs has a huge stack size set.
So this time i started the prefs program by doubleclicking
it's icon and it didn't guru anymore.

Ahh, that works! After selecting a skin and rebooting, skinning works :-D Thanks!

MozzerFan wrote:
I had to tick the use FPU
68881 option in winuaes cpu and fpu settings.

I'm using 68040 emulation. Also just tried 68060, and 68020+FPU but PNG icons still don't work.

MozzerFan wrote:
The only thing that doesn't work is afa's ability to
show PNG icons. They just refuse to show up under my 3.1
config. I also own amiga forever, and under the 3.5/3.9
config of AF2006 it does work, so I will have to look
further into that.

I also had the same problems getting PNG icons to work under 3.1 on my real A4000, but it does work under 3.9. OS >3.1 isn't listed as a requirement, so I'm not sure why it doesn't work :-?

MozzerFan wrote:
BTW I use Winuae latest beta, so things may work different
for you, because I don't know what version of winuae you
use.

I don't know whether that would make a difference or not. I'm using E-UAE on a Mac.

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moto

[motorollin]

Just tried PowerIcons as a test, and it requires icon.library v44+. Perhaps AfA's PNG icon functions have the same requirement.

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moto

[motorollin]

Tried icon.library from OS3.5 and the machine wouldn't boot, so that's out.

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moto

[motorollin]

Hmm, works perfectly on a fresh install of 3.9. Perhaps this is a 3.1 incompatibility after all!

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moto

[motorollin]

That's it! Nice one :-) Just to confirm, this is the fix to get PNG icons working through AFA under OS3.1:

1. Rename C:SetPatch to SetPatch.old
2. Copy AmigaOS3.9:OS-Version3.9/Workbench3.5/Libs/icon.library to Libs:
3. Copy AmigaOS3.9:OS-Version3.9/Workbench3.9/Libs/workbench.library to Libs:
4. Copy AmigaOS3.9:OS-Version3.9/Workbench3.9/C/SetPatch to C:

Thanks again :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

This also works on a real Amiga running 3.1
:pint:

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moto