Another Linux Ubuntu and thinBASIC

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi,

me too! ;D

I have Linux box at home. PII 400MHz, 192MB RAM, GeForce2MX.

I installed WINE package ... and then I could download thinBASIC and install it using its setup without any trouble.
In thinAir I just had to change font in Options to Courier, and could run simple scripts.

See attached pictures :)


Petr

P.S. That low number of FPS is because I did not enabled hardware acceleration for the GeForce yet

[ErosOlmi]

Some *nix lovers will be happy about that :D

[ErosOlmi]

Petr,

can you please check if UI module is working fine and possibly post an image with a thinBasic script running a UI script?

Thanks a lot.
Eros

[Petr Schreiber]

Ok,

let me boot it ( takes a while with 192 MB RAM :D ).
Console ran ok, I tested that script with recursive directory listing.


Petr

[Petr Schreiber]

Ok,

here we go.
Only major problem seems to be with Richedit.

Calculator, GDI drawing and even ListView and ProgressBars run pretty nice!
Will do more tests tommorow if I will have time.


Good night,
Petr

[ErosOlmi]

Thanks a lot!!

[kryton9]

Thanks Petr, nice to see it working!

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi,

I managed to setup 3D acceleration today ( first time it works in Linux for me :P ) and FPS jumped from 2-7 FPS to about 40 in that chart example.


Bye,
Petr

P.S: That PC should originally go to my grand-uncle ( that is reason for "ivan" user :) ), but good he finally did not needed it, at least I can experiment.

[Michael Clease]

Do you know if wine will run with DSL, it would be interesting to see if I could boot from my usb datapen into DSL install wine then install TB on any computer (that supports usb booting)?

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi,

to get Wine you would need something like that:


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine


It seems Wine works ok with DSL, at least according to info in this article (http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=14;t=19593).

Another package you would need to install is gnochm to read CHM helpfiles ( again thanks to himdel, my linux guru :) )


Bye,
Petr

P.S. Thanks to help of my friend I realised thinBASIC script can "see" the Linux file structure, it is simply mounted as "Z:\". I even managed to write a file there, so all perfect.

[ErosOlmi]

Thanks a lot Petr for your tests!

Roberto is making some tests too. For example we have found that creating \SampleScripts\ directory under installaltion dir is not so good idea. After installation under Wine, it is not so easy to execute scripts. Maybe a better idea is to install them under thinBasic directory created in User personal directory (present both in Win and *nix systems).

Another thing Roberto will check (when time will permit) is Bundled Exe creation. Creation seems OK but they do not execute. Maybe some lib is not working correctly or our method as something not handled by Wine.

We will check and see if we will be able to improve thinBasic experience under Wine too.

Ciao
Eros

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi,

I had not problems executing SampleScripts ( from thinAir )?
Only visible problem was with wrong Richedit font in thinAir, once I changed it all looked and worked as normal.


Bye,
Petr

[ErosOlmi]

No, also we had no problem to execute scripts from inside thinAir. We just noticed that maybe it can be betetr to place scripts inside %UserDocuments%\thinBasic\SampleScripts\ directory or something like that.

Just considerations.

Ciao
Eros