Re: swiftforth on Linux

From: George Kozlowski <kozloga_at_auburn.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:57:53 -0500

I haven't used Wine under Linux, but my experiences with Mac OSX may be
helpful.

Run X11. (In Mac OSX you need this to run Wine.)
Under the X11 menu
Enter: Preferences.
Choose: Output.
Select: 256 Colors.

SF works with this setting.

You may have heard of CrossOver by CodeWarriors (available for Intel
Macs and Linux). Version 6.0.1 allowed SF to run with yellow
background, but subsequent versions produce the black background you
encountered. There doesn't seem to be any way to get to Wine
Preferences but here is a kludge for the desperate:
run SF
from Tools select History
from File select Session Log, choose a name (e.g. sf.log)
open sf.log

In Mac OSX sf.log is updated dynamically so you can see output.

George Kozlowski

>>> "Dr. Roger Dube" <rogerdube_at_dathq.com> 10/29/07 8:06 PM >>>
I have installed a version of Linux (Ubuntu) on a machine, and then
installed Wine, which allows the installation of Windows based
applications
so that they run on the machine in a Windows equivalent environment.

I have installed Swiftforth (2.2.2.9) on that machine, and it works,
with
one problem - the session window is black, as is the text, and the color
palette is filled with black squares. I can see operations working (2 3
*
and I see 6 on the bottom of the session window) but cannot see any
typing.

Has anyone tried this and attacked this problem? Is there a specific
Windows
DLL that the color picker uses and that Forth uses for its session
window? I
can always put DLLs wherever they need to be, since Wine creates the
Windows
equivalent folders...

Thanks!

-- Roger
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President and Chief Science Officer
Digital Authentication Technologies, Inc.
561.392.7404 (office)
561.892.2474 (eFax)
RogerDube_at_datHQ.com

http://www.datHQ.com

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Boca Raton, FL 33431

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