Rebuilding Software for BeagleBoard

Patric wrote:
“My BB seems to be unimpressed by both Tank’s Zap and the Zap User file. I do get the Iconbar icon but then: Internal error – abort on data transfer at & 201CFC18?”

Did you make the mistake I initially did of updatng !Boot before installing !ZapFonts, which contains an older version of ZapRedraw? Update !Boot again with the file in the zap.zip and see if it now runs.

Uh think I did what you suggested but it didn’t help. Utterly confused now as to what I’m actually supposed to do. Apart from keeping StrongED

I have just renamed the zap download file to ZapFull.zip .

This now contains a virgin !ZapUsers structure as well as the ZapRedraw module in the skeleton !Boot contained in the archive.
The !Zap app contains all the working “modules”, so do not copy any others from any other !Zap you may have.

To install,
Delete !Zap if you already have it installed.
Download the !ZapFonts from here and place it in your !Boot.Resources directory.

Merge the !Boot file from the ZapFull.zip to yours with the install option from configure – Boot tool.
Copy the !Zap app to a place of your choice.

This should now work !!

HTH

Tank

Another attempt at the menu redraw bug…..
All seems to work on my Beagle and the Iyonix.
Goto software
If you just need to update the zap module (as that is the only change from the last update) use the second link for just the modules download. Help string should show “tnk-5” in Info – Version.

Please let me know how it works for you…

Yes, finally got Zap running on the Beagle.
Cheers for all the work!

I’ve just realised that the disappearance of the pane from the e-mail mode probably coincides with installing this version on the Iyonix. I just tried copying over the newemail and email modules, but this causes Zap to crash on start-up.

Tank: any comments, please?

Do you mean that you have copied the modules to the Beagle, then you need to delete them, as only the modules that are in the archive from my download work, as stated a couple of posts above.
If you mean the copy on the Iyonix crashes, then I have no idea as mine works fine with all the original modules installed.

I deleted the original installation from my Iyonix and installed yours instead. (My BB is not involved in this discussion at all.) Although Zap works in general on the Iyonix, I noticed that the pane with the e-mail functions was missing. I found the archive called something like everything32 and copied the newemail and email modules from it into Zap and restarted it, but Zap crashed on start-up.

If you expect “foreign” modules (i.e. not from your version) not to work, that’s what I’m seeing – but, in that case, will you be adding the e-mail functionality to your version soon?

Dave,
The download from my site is aimed at the OMAP port, and contains the modules that work on that system. Nearly all of them worked without changes by me. Most of the modules do not have the source with them so I can do nothing about them (except maybe !ARMalyser the module and rebuild from that).
As for this version working on the Iyonix, as I mentioned in my last post, it works for me with all the old modules installed.
Just in case I have later module versions, I have added an archive that has the Iyonix only modules that are on my system here

Just in case I have later module versions, I have added an archive that has the Iyonix only modules that are on my system

Thanks, Tank.

The good news: Zap starts up without error.

The bad news: still no e-mail pane. This is strange because all I originally did was to delete the executables; I left the configuration alone (it is all stored in Choices, isn’t it?) so I’d have thought that the e-mail pane should still be configured. Unless starting it up without the e-mail modules has deleted the relevant part of the configuration, I suppose?

Dave, If you goto Menu-Display is Buttons ticked ?
If not go into the Buttons submenu and select Visible.
You then need to save the setting via Misc-Set Default Options-This Mode, then Misc-Set Default Options-Save Defaults

The Buttons are added by the module !Buttons…

Dave, If you goto Menu-Display is Buttons ticked ? If not go into the Buttons submenu and select Visible.

Ah – in fact Visible on its own doesn’t do it, but Visible plus Persistent does.

Many thanks, Tank!

It turns out that the buttons keep disappearing from view. Changing buttons visible to on restores them, and, while visible is on, any click of Persistent also restores them, but they will later disappear. I haven’t actually noticed the instant of disappearance yet, therefore I can’t point to a cause yet. Maybe the redraw of the pane doesn’t always happen when it should?

Dave, did you do both save steps when you set the option ?
Misc-Set Default Options-This Mode
then
Misc-Set Default Options-Save Defaults

No button pane in BASIC mode, too. Did both save steps and menu items Visible and Persistent are ticked, but no effect.
Using 1.48 tnk-5

Dave, did you do both save steps when you set the option ?

Yes, and I’ve just done them again. Yet, when I open another e-mail window, there’s no button pane – even though Buttons-Visible and Buttons-Persistent are both ticked. 1.48 tnk-5.

OK, I think I’ve fixed it…

Download

Only the Zap module has changed….
Tagged as tnk-6

Yay, buttons! Great work!

Yep, buttons for me too. Thanks!

When trying to open the menu Options > Display > Font > Anti-aliased font I get an error "Zap may have gone wrong … "
Is this still something that needs to be fixed or perhaps my setup is broken?

No, that’s a new one for me to look at !!

It also does it on the Iyonix.
Well, I’ve just gone back to 1.47 20 Aug 2005 version on the Iyonix and that does it as well.

A new version of !Zap is available with a fix for an error that I had not seen until a couple of weeks ago, where if you left cursor in some mode windows, it crashed.
Just the updated module
A full !Zap
The source

Nice work Tank!

Hi, I am using 1.48 tnk-7 of !Zap (on my BB XM)

I am having an issue with not getting the button pane up for BASIC mode :@(

The menu structure is as thus:
Menu > Display>
Line Numbers
Tabs
Appearance
Font
Colours

I have just used your “Full !Zap” archive, and a previous “ZapFonts” (using your newer zapredraw module)

Any ideas?

Michael, is this only with Basic windows ? E.G if you open an Obey file do you have buttons.