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Latest source code updates

Steve Revill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:40:00 +0100

The published RISC OS source code has been updated with the following changes:

The Wimp has had some bug fixes and has new enhancements which will allow better themes for the desktop (Fred Graute)

A new version of Alarm has a number of improvements to its windows which make it easier to use (James Lampard)

The DebugLib library now has new facilities for directing your debug output to SysLog or to Reporter.

The official Acorn Clipboard module has been finished! This fully implements the Clipboard protocol and includes some new test programs, notably PutClip and GetClip (Fred Graute).

Some interesting background information about the clipboard module (from Fred himself) will be published on our wiki.

PCL printer dumper source code

Steve Revill — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:39:00 +0100

RISC OS Open are pleased to announce the availablility of a new printer dumper for RISC OS. PDumperPCL has been contributed by Herbert zur Nedden and based upon PDumperLJ, this is a dumper designed for PCL printers that support duplex printing, such as the Canon i-Sensys MF4690PL.

At the moment, this is a source code only release, with the source code living in the repository at:

castle/RiscOS/Sources/Printing/PDumpers/PDumperPCL

See the PDumperPCL/!Info file for full details. It should be treated as beta quality code for the time being. The PrintDefs component has also been updated to include a new printer definition file for the printer listed above.

An updated release of !Printers will be made available soon with this new dumper included.

Thanks,

The RISC OS Open team.

CVS access now available

Ben Avison — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:30:00 +0100

We have now opened up access to the CVS repository for the sources previously released in the Batch One source and patch tarballs. This means that for the first time, you now have access to the full changelogs for those components, and you can retrieve old versions back to those present in RISC OS 3.60.

Information for Building RISC OS

Steve Revill — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:48:00 +0100

Now that we have published some sources, we would like everyone to have all of the information they require in order to build and modify the components which have been released.

This is something which will evolve over time so keep your eye on the documentation because it is a moving target!

The first place to look if you have any problems or questions will be our wiki here at our web site.

RISC OS Allocations Changes

Steve Revill — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:41:25 +0000

As a continuation of the move towards the opening up of RISC OS sources, RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) have today been officially authorised by Castle Technology Ltd (owners of RISC OS) to take over the Allocations system previously run by Alan Glover.

Those wishing for an official RISC OS allocation should visit the allocations page on our website where there is more information and where allocations can be initiated.

Allocations can be requested from:

allocate@riscosopen.org

Forum down

Andrew Hodgkinson — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:48:48 +0000

The recent Rails upgrade has taken out the forum section, despite it being frozen. That means it keeps running on an older version of Rails, so in theory it should be running perfectly…

This will take a while to fix. In the mean time, the rest of the site is running fine. If you see any problems, please lodge a fault in the bugs database or discuss it with comments on this news article. Thanks! :-)

Site maintenance: Rails upgrade

Andrew Hodgkinson — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:53:00 +0000

This site runs almost entirely on the Ruby On Rails framework. Rails version 1.2 was recently released and our web host will be upgrading to this shortly. I will endeavour to minimise disruption during the upgrade but you may notice things running a little slowly for a while and might find yourself unexpectedly logged out of a live session because of server restarts.

Official new site announcement

Andrew Hodgkinson — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:16:00 +0000

RISC OS Open are pleased to announce that their new web site has now gone live. This site replaces the ‘static’ site which went public back in September and has lots of facilities which we hope the RISC OS community will find useful and interesting.

We’ve been working on this site in our (primarily Andrew’s) spare time so thanks to everyone for your support and patience, especially those who have been beta testing the new site for us.

Welcome

Andrew Hodgkinson — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:13:00 +0000

Welcome to the new RISC OS Open web site!