gnupic: GPSIM fonts hassle.
Subject:
Re: GPSIM fonts hassle.
From:
Declan Moriarty ####@####.####
Date:
21 Oct 2002 14:21:26 -0000
Message-Id: <02102115200504.00813@genius.chateau.dec>
Was it Ralf Forsberg who wrote on Monday 21 October 2002 13:35:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:37:49PM +0000, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > I am having major fonts hassle in gpsim
> >
> > I have two installations
> > 1. Older Mandrake 8.0 in rather a tatty state as regards fonts, etc. I
> > went after the euro on it, got the best of advice and ran into a brick
> > wall. Here it complains about iso-8859-15 fonts, and I have to select
> > others.
>
> That's odd. 8859-15 IIRC is very similar to ordinary 8859-1.
> Is the complaint the "... font did not load." message?
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-15
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-15
and a "Font did not load" window with 'open font dialog' or 'try defaults'. I
should say that this Mandrake system is inherently nobbled and unable to give
me iso-8859-15 for reasons unknown. What works for all others breaks here.
Mandrake's answer is to upgrade.
>
> > It will
> > refuse to update instructions id I disturb it in the slightest (e.g,
> > stepping through a program, one particular incf 0x56 was not done whereas
> > everything else was)
>
> Do you mean you get a blank background or that the PC pixmap does not move?
It seems to run through the program, but this instruction wasn't done. I'm
sure it was a consequence of me altering the value of 0x56 manually
>
> > 2. Clean, but bare LFS 3.3 (Kernel 2.4.18, X 4.2.0) Here, I get no data
> > in the source window, and some refuse to open (because, I gather, of
> > fonts). Opening the program window changed the font in everything :-o.
>
> There has been changes in the way dialogs are implemented, in
> order to avoid crashes when closing dialogs in un-thought-of ways...
>
> > Setting fonts is not marvellously documented.
> >
> :-) (please help...)
Maybe someday when I have a clue what I'm talking about. I do try by
reporting in detail, so guys like you will know what a newbie (or noenewbie
in this case) trips over
> :
> > I did get a settings tab which
> > had a single font. When I selected a choice, (lucidiatypewriter) it
> > segfaults!
>
> There are font related fixes in cvs related to this:
> "Bug fixed in reading commentfont string from the .gpsim file."
> "Fix font wierdness."
From which I gather there is a .gpsim file. Another secret uncovered! This
has been a good day after all :-D.
>
> If you try the cvs version (please do) and still have problems then
> I'll look at it more (and try to get a similar setup to yours).
LFS is very clean, using latest versions. Mandrake can be a bitch; they twist
so much for their twisted scripts, and bundle crazy stuff originally from Red
Hat, which no longer applies. Trying to figure what they do to start X would
leave you in a home for the bewildered. I'd reccomend lfs - if only as a good
check of what you actually need.
I have to install cvs first. I tell you what I will try - hacking that file
by hand. Time is precious - I'm under pressure for finished boards &
software, and have to program a plc for another project at the same time. I
also have a family, and a responsibibilities in my religion dragging at my
time.
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
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