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working music tracker for haiku ?

Forum thread started by farvardin on Tue, 2009-09-29 17:18

hello,

do you know a music tracker I could use on haiku? (for mod, it, xm and such). Schism tracker is supposed to be compilable but I got errors when trying this, and milky tracker has a binary but while I can start it, when loading a tracker and playing it, nothing is ever played (the cursor is not moving at all)

13. Thank You Award

Forum thread started by humdinger on Tue, 2009-09-29 15:22

In case anyone has missed it: Currently the vote's open for the 13th Thank You Award at Haikuware.

Show your love. :)

Regards
Humdinger

Playing interactive fictions on Haiku

Forum thread started by farvardin on Mon, 2009-09-28 19:13

Some interactive fiction packages ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction ) on bebits where quite outdated, so I've compiled them for Haiku and packaged them all in a single zip with a little installer.

You can try this on:

http://ifiction.free.fr/index.php?id=haiku

ps: you can also create Hugo or Inform 6 games using the compilers existing for BeOS...

Haiku Compatible New Hardware?

Forum thread started by KenO on Mon, 2009-09-28 16:41

Am in the market for a new PC.

Really liked BeOS so would like to make sure that all the hardware is compatible.

Is there is list of what recent hardware works with Haiku?

If not how do I find out what hardware the Haiku developers are using?

Thanks

KenO

PoseView population time

Forum thread started by K_Shaw on Mon, 2009-09-28 10:17

When entering a folder in a file panel or Tracker view, I can see the files populating in the view as the Tracker "notices" them. It usually takes probably about 1-200 ms for a folder with 50-60 files in it. At first it was kind of a neat effect, but now I'm starting to wonder what is it DOING all that time? "ls" can spit out the same folder's contents instantly; it seems like GUI listings should open almost equally fast. I know PoseView is in the process of being refactored; is this something that's being looked into? I can't see any reason why there should need to be a visible delay just to load folder contents.

If this is because of loading icons or attributes, couldn't it put all the filenames in their place immediately, then do the "population" effect on whatever part of the file entry it is that is slow?

Haiku Alpha impressions

Forum thread started by kadabra on Sun, 2009-09-27 14:27

Like many others who recently tested Haiku Alpha live cd would like to share my experience.
PC specs:

  • CPU: AMD Sempron 3400+
  • RAM: 1GB
  • audio: Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
  • video: GeForce 6600 GT, AGP 8X, 128MB
  • ethernet: nVidia CK8S Ethernet Controller (integrated in Gigabyte motherboard)
  • display: Philips 190X (DVI connection)

The Good:

  1. Screen resolution and refresh rate were automatically correctly set (1280x1024@75)
  2. Audio worked out of the box, had sound from front and rear speakers (5.1 system)
  3. All my partitions (ext3, NTFS, FAT32) were mounted with just few clicks
  4. 90% of the videos tested played (ogm, mkv, avi containers)
  5. Whole system felt really responsive
  6. Typing in my native language (lithuanian) worked
  7. Launch box and workspace applets are really neat apps (especially liked dragging windows between workspaces in workspace applet)
  8. Deskbar auto raise when mouse cursor is in upper right corner
  9. Separate desktop backgrounds for each workspace
  10. BePDF: loading and navigating pdfs seemed to work really fast
  11. Modern os look
  12. Desktop icon size changing

The Bad:

  1. During boot, just before the desktop should show up, had no signal from VGA for few seconds
  2. Not only ethernet card didn't work but Haiku magically caused connection errors (don't remember them now but it's easy to reproduce if anyone cares) in linux... and magically booting win xp fixes this. And yes, I am sure this is caused by Haiku live cd as i tried few time.
  3. Alt+TAB doesn't change active window (all the other WMs I tested (metacity, kwin, openbox, fluxbox, xfwm4) have this functionality)
  4. BePDF: selecting text doesn't work
  5. BeZilla: really long start-up time (what's current webkit port status?)
  6. Calculator: redraw issues when selecting/deselcting "show keypad" option
  7. Mail: doesn't work with gmail
  8. If network status is added first and then process controller is added to the deskbar, network status disappears from the deskbar
  9. Deskbar doesn't auto-hide
  10. ext3 can only be mounted as read-only
  11. Screenshoter: can't take active window screenshot
  12. USB flash drive was mounted twice, screenshot:
    http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1452/screenshot2dp.png
  13. Finder: Large icons + Clean Up results in icons stacking on top of each other, screenshot:
    http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6861/screenshot1uz.png
  14. There could be more icons to identify different file types (compressed files, video files...)
  15. When playing high resolution video in fullscreen (cpu usage around 100%), audio started stuttering (video played without issues)
  16. Media Player: must be the most bugged app in Haiku. It crashed when forwarding/seeking video, it crashed when opening files, crashed for no appearant reason, freezed and didn't want to close the normal way - had to kill it. Imho, scale movies smoothly option should be enabled by default. There could be an option to make playlist part of the main window.
  17. Media Server: Not sure it's media server's fault but after restarting it though I didn't get any errors Media player couldn't play anything. BTW, what should changing output channels do?

Suggestions

  1. It would be nice if center speaker in 5.1 speaker system would mix right and left channel sounds when playing stereo songs
  2. Fix enumeration in forum ordered list?

PS: if any of the bugs mentioned in this post are not already reported, I can create new bug reports.

scripting drag n drop?

Forum thread started by farvardin on Sun, 2009-09-27 10:06

Hello,

I'm trying to make a shell script so people can start the script alone and it will request for a file (with the filepanel command), pass an argument in the command line and it will open the file with the proper command, and also be able to drag and drop the file from the tracker onto the script.
The first 2 parts are working well, but I can't make the last one work.

It seems while in the Terminal the first argument is $1, for drag and drop it should be @1 (as far as I can see from the xicons program.

if I start my script with:

if [ "@1" != "" ]

it's correctly understood when something is dropped on the script, but I can't pass the name of the dropped file into a further command. (with something like GAME="@1")

What could I do?

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