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    jPV
    Posts: 2026 from 2003/2/24
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    Barren wrote:
    U may insist that Ambient is not the Amiga Workbench, ok, but I still insist that this behaviour is wrong IMHO... MIME or not MIME, if u want to associate a project to a default tool command operating in CLI mode, not WB mode (and if they didn't want to support this, why the CLI tooltype has been supported ?) you simply can't cos said default tool command can't reach the project file.


    I don't think anyone is going to insist that kind of things, classic Amiga compatibility should reach these kinds of things. So it seems that there is a bug when using CLI tooltype and it should be reported in official way with a good test case and enough information. And yes, this doesn't seem to be MIME related thing.

    Maybe this just has been gone unnoticed, because using MIME types have made these kind of project icons pretty obsolete. People just haven't noticed it bugging. I myself have only been using IconX project icons, but all other stuff I've configured though MIME.. like editing files by right clicking them to get different options etc.

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    Just create a text file, create a solid project icon for it and put c:ed in the Default Tool and u can suddently verify that Ed will open an empy windows (of course).


    As already said, Ed fails here, not Ambient. Maybe another thing worth reporting. But if you put for example SYS:Applications/Scribble/Scribble as the default tool, it works as expected.

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    I have still to check whether programs operating in WB mode can receive the right path and arguments to open the project file (I assume they can but must check).



    Yeah, I think they do, but didn't test these things properly either yet.
  • »07.01.17 - 11:05
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2239 from 2003/2/24
    @Zylesea

    I wouldn't mind Ambient having no version on it's own as in Ambient in MorphOS3.9 simply being Ambient3.9.
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    geit
    Posts: 1031 from 2004/9/23
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    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > each new version of MorphOS automatically comes with the latest version of all included
    > components. It is impossible some old component makes its way onto a new iso.

    https://www.morphos-forum.de/viewtopic.php?p=44240#p44240
    https://www.morphos-forum.de/viewtopic.php?p=45765#p45765
    https://www.morphos-forum.de/viewtopic.php?p=46442#p46442

    ;-)


    Das ist doch genau was ich geschrieben habe. :)

    Der einzige Unterschied ist das OWB damals die einzige Komponente war, die nicht fürs ISO kompiliert wurde. OWB zu bauen ist ziemlich komplex, dauert sehr lange und der cross build hat eigene Tücken.

    Mittlerweile wird auch OWB automatisch compiliert und aufs ISO gemacht.

    EDIT:

    Somehow wrote in german. :) I followed the links provided and the posts are german, so i wrote german here. Sorry for that. :D

    I just stated that OWB is inside the ISO for quite some time, but unlike the other components it was a binary copied into it. That has been changed and now OWB gets compiled fresh for each release from sources.
  • »07.01.17 - 11:56
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    koszer
    Posts: 1246 from 2004/2/8
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    geit wrote:

    Das ist doch genau was ich geschrieben habe. :)

    Der einzige Unterschied ist das OWB damals die einzige Komponente war, die nicht fürs ISO kompiliert wurde. OWB zu bauen ist ziemlich komplex, dauert sehr lange und der cross build hat eigene Tücken.

    Mittlerweile wird auch OWB automatisch compiliert und aufs ISO gemacht.


    A po ludzku się napisać nie dało?
  • »07.01.17 - 13:01
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    Posts: 2239 from 2003/2/24
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    koszer wrote:

    A po ludzku się napisać nie dało?


    I still blame roschmyr
  • »07.01.17 - 13:15
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    geit
    Posts: 1031 from 2004/9/23
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    koszer wrote:
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    geit wrote:

    Das ist doch genau was ich geschrieben habe. :)

    Der einzige Unterschied ist das OWB damals die einzige Komponente war, die nicht fürs ISO kompiliert wurde. OWB zu bauen ist ziemlich komplex, dauert sehr lange und der cross build hat eigene Tücken.

    Mittlerweile wird auch OWB automatisch compiliert und aufs ISO gemacht.


    A po ludzku się napisać nie dało?


    Sorry, fixed the post above. :D
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22
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    >>> each new version of MorphOS automatically comes with the latest version of all
    >>> included components. It is impossible some old component makes its way onto
    >>> a new iso.

    >> https://www.morphos-forum.de/viewtopic.php?p=44240#p44240
    >> https://www.morphos-forum.de/viewtopic.php?p=45765#p45765
    >> https://www.morphos-forum.de/viewtopic.php?p=46442#p46442

    > Das ist doch genau was ich geschrieben habe. :)

    Err, no.

    > I just stated that OWB [...]

    Your comment #25 I replied to was not about OWB, and neither are the postings on morphos-forum.de I linked to. If you have a look again you will see that they're referring to Showgirls and aiff.demuxer.
    Showgirls 1.2 was released in December 2009, yet it took a year (MorphOS 2.7) to replace version 1.0 in the MorphOS ISO image. Similarly, aiff.demuxer 51.7 was released in August 2008, yet it took almost 4 years (MorphOS 3.0) to replace version 51.6 in the MorphOS ISO image. This shows that it has indeed been possible that some old component makes its way into a new MorphOS ISO image.
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    Posts: 33 from 2016/12/29
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    jPV wrote:
    I don't think anyone is going to insist that kind of things, classic Amiga compatibility should reach these kinds of things. So it seems that there is a bug when using CLI tooltype and it should be reported in official way with a good test case and enough information. And yes, this doesn't seem to be MIME related thing.



    I will report everything officially, of course

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    jPV wrote:
    Maybe this just has been gone unnoticed, because using MIME types have made these kind of project icons pretty obsolete. People just haven't noticed it bugging. I myself have only been using IconX project icons, but all other stuff I've configured though MIME.. like editing files by right clicking them to get different options etc.



    Personally I had created many automated stuff on my old workbench installation... including scripts and things intended to
    run in a shell context, and I would like to be able to use them again under Ambient.

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    As already said, Ed fails here, not Ambient. Maybe another thing worth reporting. But if you put for example SYS:Applications/Scribble/Scribble as the default tool, it works as expected.



    Well as I said, it's not Ed fault.
    Ed was programmed to work in the commandline. So with this bug it can't address the project file, the path
    doesn't get supplied.

    What I would underline is, if Ambient/MorphOS developer decided to deprecate the cli-launching mode,
    WHY then they kept support for the CLI tooltype ???
    They should just fix the CD when a tool is launched in CLI mode, period... I think that a CD on the default
    tool directory is wrong and can be deemed a bug :)
  • »07.01.17 - 20:05
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    Henes
    Posts: 507 from 2003/6/14
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    Showgirls 1.2 was released in December 2009, yet it took a year (MorphOS 2.7) to replace version 1.0 in the MorphOS ISO image. Similarly, aiff.demuxer 51.7 was released in August 2008, yet it took almost 4 years (MorphOS 3.0) to replace version 51.6 in the MorphOS ISO image. This shows that it has indeed been possible that some old component makes its way into a new MorphOS ISO image.

    I guess Geit meant "old component" compared to a more recent component found in an more recent MorphOS version.
    Binaries released by 3rd party obviously don't count... Even if the 3rd party is part of the MorphOS Team :-p
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