Slideshow

Having had a look round, to no avail, does anyone know of an application that will run directly from Boot and display a series of fullscreen images in such a way that the human viewer can’t access or see the underlying application (unless it crashes, obviously). If it could just access a set directory full of sprites or JPEGS and run them in numerical order, that would be ideal. !Fade doesn’t seem to do what I want, and NoticeBoard Pro and OHP don’t run in 32bit, as far as I can see.

Plan is to make a small RPi-based display unit, running on RISC OS, but requiring nothing more complicated than “just switching it on” to get it fully up and running.

Ideas?

How about SwiftJPEG? Hipposoft.

Can be set to full screen and slideshow mode, and can loop. Fades programmable. Would just need Filer_Boot-ing and invocation of first picture/slide.

Thanks, John! Filer_Boot a configured !SwiftJPEG and the create a little obey file to filer_run all the files in a Directory (as in Run <SwiftJPEG$Dir>.Images.*) and jobs-a-good-un!

How about SwiftJPEG? Hipposoft

Amazingly missing from the graphics section of David F’s site

How soon before he fixes the link omission? :)

amazingl missing from the graphics section of David F’s site

…and !Slideshow (inside the Variations app on that page) makes it even easier!

There are only 500 applications referenced, for around 5000 available on my hard disc.
Still much work to do :)

…and OHP don’t run in 32bit, as far as I can see.

FWIW I have a vague recollection that OHP does run on 32 bit, but there is some other limitation like screen mode/size that you have to take into account. However I have tended to just use !Variations.

Jim

There are only 500 applications referenced, for around 5000 available on my hard disc. Still much work to do :)

How is the compatibility assessed? You seem to be suggesting that my titles only work on RPCemu and not on an Iyonix, for example; given that most were developed on an Iyonix, I suspect that you’re probably wrong…

You seem to be suggesting

I only tested applications on one or two platforms. I have much more testing to do. I expect several months of work.
I’m now in the process of integration of news… several hundreds. Months of work too.

Just a quick note of something you may want to test on your site – the accented characters are messed up on Android: http://i.imgur.com/uKmhlJS.png

I only tested applications on one or two platforms. I have much more testing to do.

You might wish to make that clearer, then? The implication of the English pages is that if there’s no Iyonix logo the software doesn’t work on the Iyonix – in most cases, that’s probably more than a little bit misleading.

the accented characters are messed up on Android

They are in Firefox on Ubuntu, too.

the accented characters are messed up on Android

and in chrome and internet explorer in windows 8

…and Safari (iOS7). The two parent pages do appear to show accents.

The implication of the English pages is that if there’s no Iyonix logo the software doesn’t work on the Iyonix

Problem is, there are things that could work on an Iyonix but fail on a Pi. There are things that could work a Pi but fail on an iMX6. You get the idea – an “Iyonix logo” does not automatically denote the right to say that meh works on anything other than an Iyonix – so maybe it would be better (and a whole lot simpler for David) to not say what the software works upon, but to leave that for each individual site to explain. It is useful to have a resource that aims to collect together all of the software available for RISC OS – though I think merely checking that it will work on a 32 bit system should be sufficient (primarily to filter out old software). That way, David could better use his time to source the incredibly disparate software available without the headaches implicit in testing it on all of the permutations that RISC OS runs upon (like, how well does n run on a Pandora – looks like a lovely piece of kit but how many of us have one?). Maybe we could help out by letting David know of any specific problems we come across – by way of example InterGIF 6.18 failed on my Pi until I turned off alignment exceptions. I now have v6.19 but not yet installed it. Oh, and David, the latest versions of InterGIF¹ are here: http://mw-software.com/software/freeware.html

¹ The only reason I’m using GIFs in 2015 is because InterPNG doesn’t exist…

Problem is, there are things that could work on an Iyonix but fail on a Pi.

Yes, surely. But David’s page has a “Compatible with IYONIX” icon, and surely if the icon is missing, this strongly suggests to the visitor that the software is not IYONIX compatible. Pi compatibility does not come into it here.

I would suggest to reword the whole thing into “tested OK on”. Or invent a new icon “not yet tested” and make multiple columns like e.g. on the Spellings.net site. But you will soon find out that the combinatorics are killing you – maybe that old non-32bit stuff works OK with Aemulor or ADFFS?

To go with the modern times, why not just say “ARMv7 compatible” or nothing?

“Nothing” is best of all in this case. The author’s site should be the sole source of the information.

Less effort, better accuracy.

Just a quick note of something you may want to test on your site

I know. This is linked to the change of server. I need know to rewrite several hundred of pages…
More months of work…

You might wish to make that clearer, then?

Yes, I know. I planned small changes from May to September.
But I can understand that you prefer something more complete/accurate directly.

Due to popular demand, it’s better to switch off the site.
It’ll come back when finished. Probably in Q4 2015 / Q1 2016.

The website will come back for the London Show, in French, and a bit latter for English, German and other languages.

Shutting down the web site seems to me to be an over-reaction. All that anyone is suggesting is that you don’t publish compatibility information, because no-one but the original author is in a position to supply it.

Unfortunately it’s not. I saw many flaws on the current website: all characters are wrong, most downloads are not available any more, etc. In January I did have the choice to put it offline, or to keep it online for Google… and to hope that nobody will notice that it is absolutely not relevant any more :)

Problem: new content is still not ready for prime time. I’ll try to put a cut down website online later, with limited content and no application database any more (for now). Later, the website will have less content, but fragmented on new domain names to reach a broader audience. I have around 10-12 websites to finish :)

Why don’t you use character entities instead of worrying about encodings – &egrave; is exactly that – an e with a grave accent.

Would spreading your contents across domains not hurt in the Google rankings? Wouldn’t one site with all be better than multiple sites with less content?

Your database is a good idea but I think you have enough on your hands finding the software, never mind compatibility testing – doesn’t that risk turning into a big game of Whack-A-Mole with needing to track new releases and testing them to keep the information up to date. Why make things difficult for yourself? ;-)

Why don’t you use character entities instead of worrying about encodings – è is exactly that – an e with a grave accent.

Because it fails under NetSurf.

Wouldn’t one site with all be better than multiple sites with less content?

Yes it would. But it will be websites with less topics, but much more content.

Because it fails under NetSurf.

Nope. Not with any of the versions I’ve ever used. I would have noticed (my native language has plenty of accented characters as well). To make sure, I just checked and NetSurf handles them fine. I would have been very surprised if it didn’t.

Nope. Not with any of the versions I’ve ever used.

NetSurf considers accents (for example &eacute; for é) as whole word, so cut all my sentences…
“de cette faç
on, ce qui n’est guè
re lisible.”

Bug confirmed on the NetSurf mailing list. To be solved, it will need a whole rewrite of the engine. Of course, if I use é and not &eacute; there is no problem any more. I did… but with a different encoding, since I was on a RISC OS computer and now on a Linux one.

I did use my current work to generate a new website, with some content missing, but also some new content. Now I need to work on new pages. It’ll take several weeks/months.

NetSurf considers accents (for example é for é) as whole word, so cut all my sentences…
“de cette faç
on, ce qui n’est guè
re lisible.”

I was going to follow this up by e-mail, but couldn’t find an address.

I have temporarily reinstated a site I was working on for my choir when I was living in France.

It doesn’t have a lot of accessible content, but it does have the odd word with accents. It doesn’t seem to have any problems rendering them in NetSurf.

Please visit it and see what it does.

NetSurf considers accents (for example é for é) as whole word, so cut all my sentences…
“de cette faç
on, ce qui n’est guè
re lisible.”

It couldn’t just be that you put a space yourself after the character entities, could it?