Patch for Mozart on "Windows Vista"

[Boriss Mejias]

Bob Calco wrote:
> I can confirm at a first pass that the precompiled emulator.dll replacement
> works on my Vista machine. That is, I was able to reproduce the problem with
> a few simple {Browse} commands, replace the old emulator.dll with the new
> one, and then the problem seemed to go away.
> 
> I don't have any extensive Tk GUIs per se with which to test, so if anyone
> has some code they want me to try, I'm set up for it.
> 

Hi Bob, thanks for your feedback. Now that Torsten mentioned it in the 
email about documentation, I think you could have a look to the 
prototyper for QTk:

http://www.mozart-oz.org/documentation/mozart-stdlib/wp/qtk/html/node2.html

let us know if things are working fine on Vista.

thanks
Boriss

> - Bob
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at mozart-oz.org [mailto:users-bounces at mozart-oz.org]
>> On Behalf Of Boriss Mejias
>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:28 AM
>> To: Mozart users
>> Subject: Re: Patch for Mozart on "Windows Vista"
>>
>> Boriss Mejias wrote:
>>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the contribution. We don't have a Vista machine to test
>> your
>>> patch, but we will do what is possible for to make it publish in the
>>> mozart website. It will be the task of Vista users to provide
>> feedback.
>>> If you feel like making a whole package for Vista distribution, it
>> would
>>> be really excellent... we currently use Inno Setup for the packaging,
>>> but I don't know if this also work for Vista.
>> After discussing with Raph and Yves, they say that it would be good to
>> apply this patch to the distribution of all platform, because it
>> doesn't
>> seem to modify the current behaviour... in that case, we can do a new
>> package for all windows platform, without making a special case for
>> Vista.
>>
>> best,
>> Boriss
>>
>>> best,
>>> Boriss
>>>
>>> Wolfgang Meyer wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I got a chance to play with Mozart on "Windows Vista" in the last
>> days
>>>> and could solve the problem with the GUI components
>>>> (<http://lists.gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/pipermail/mozart-
>> users/2007/008998.html>).
>>>>
>>>> The attached patch can be applied like this:
>>>>
>>>>  > cd mozart-1.3.2.20060615
>>>>  > patch -p1 <../emulator_2007_12_29.patch
>>>>
>>>> If you want to use Oz on Vista but don't want to compile the system
>>>> yourself, you might download this version of "emulator.dll":
>>>> <http://code.google.com/p/oz-code/downloads/list>
>>>>
>>>> The change is minimal: I removed two uses of the sprintf
>>>> "%n"-specifier in the Emulator-Tcl-communication layer
>>>> (/platform/emulator/tk.cc).
>>>> Microsoft decided to drop support for this specifier with Vista. As
>> a
>>>> result, the names of Tk widgets were mangled.
>>>>
>>>> Cheeers,
>>>> Wolfgang
>>>>
>>>>
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