Patch for Mozart on "Windows Vista"

[Boriss Mejias]

Wolfgang Meyer wrote:
> Seems to work fine.
> I tested on a Vista installation within a virtual machine and tried 
> Browse, Inspect, ExploreAll and the Prototyper application. 

great, thanks for testing.

> Would be 
> great if somebody could confirm this (just to be really sure).
> Nice to see the patch applied to a release version!
> 

We still need to give you some credits some where... I will soon modify the 
read me file between other things.

cheers
Boriss

> Cheers,
>  Wolfgang
> 
> 
> Boriss Mejias wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We finally decided to applied the patch and recompile the whole thing 
>> on windows to create a new installer. Thanks to Wolfgang for finding 
>> the patch, and to Bob Calco for testing....
>>
>> Can you please get the new installer hosted here:
>>
>> http://www.mozart-oz.org/download/view.cgi?action=windows&version=1.3.2
>>
>> and check if it works correctly on Vista?
>>
>> thanks
>> cheers
>> 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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