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[sunburnt]

Installed the latest Puppy528-3 so Firefox could have a working Flash player.

As usual, BaCon doesn`t work in the new install.
I need to write another setup script to get it running for every new Save file.

Error:

[vovchik]

Dear Terry,

I know it slows the compile/debug process, but I just use hug.bac as an INCLUDE for everything. Later I go and determine which functions I use from the HUG lib. That way I never run in to your type of problem - where the system may have an old hug.so or can't find the right one. And if you have a working BaCon or BaConGui, the program with the hug.bac INCLUDE will compile. Later you can make your hug.so and recompile, once you know that everything is working.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[sunburnt]

I replaced /usr/lib/hug.so with a link to the newer hug.so
Barry should make /usr/lib/hug.so a link to /root/my-applications/lib/hug.so

Puppy`s Save file is it`s biggest problem, it corrupts occasionally.
So I replaced the dirs. my-applications and my-documents with links to /apps and /docs dirs. on a partition so nothing`s lost.
Keep a backup Save file, to restore just copy it over the old one.

This should be a menu item, to make a gzip backup Save file, and have an option to restore it at the bootup menu.

[vovchik]

Dear puppians,

Peter has just posted a new HUG (0.66) that now has support for vscale and hscale sliders. If you want to use these widgets, please download the latest HUG http://www.basic-converter.org/hug.bac. The documentation will be updated in due course.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[GatorDog]

vovchik,

Thanks for update

gatordog

[vovchik]

Dear puppians,

Here is a little demo to show how to use the new slider widgets, done some time ago by 2lss and modded by me a bit:

[sunburnt]

I`m writing a function file to do file I/O for text and arrays.

Strange problem with writing an array to a file.

[Mobeus]

Some of you may find this interesting so I thought it deserves a post here.
I just had an educational experience over at the BaCon forum http://basic-converter.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=254

BaCon can use gtkbuilder with *.glade files in Puppy!

[Mobeus]

In Wary 5.3 you cannot use a compile command like

[linuph]

Running Dpup Exprimo 5.X.3.4.12

I'm a bit stuck with Bacon.... I wrote a screensaver (see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76247&start=1275) more as an exercise than an useful project. But it got me underway. Thus motivated, I started on a more complex project concerning GPS.
I use a Bluetooth GPS module. I connect to it with 'rfcomm /dev/rfcomm 0 > pipe &' in BASH. Then I read the GPS data from the other end of the pipe.
In Bacon it should be, as I understand it 'SYSTEM "rfcomm /dev/rfcomm0 > pipe &". But it cannot connect ('host is down') while in BASH (terminal) all is OK.

I registered with the BACON forum 2-3 weeks ago but sofar no reply. I hope someone here can help and give me some pointers?

[vovchik]

Dear linuph,

I haven't seen any questions from you on the Bacon forum. Please try there and post your source code. People will advise or suggest things. Lots of helpful people there....like here.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[linuph]

@vovchik

I registered on 31 October at Proboards but cannot access. It awaits confirmation by an administrator since then....

[vovchik]

Dear linuph,

I cannot understand why your registration failed. BaCon's author, Peter van Eerten, allows everybody except spammers, so I don't think he has blocked your registration. Try again. It is a good place to see code and to get advice from many people doing BaCon projects.

http://basic-converter.proboards.com/

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. You may want to do this using another handle, since there may have been a previous "linuph", and not you.

[e_mattis]

Hey all,

I decided to try out BaCon and see if I can write some programs that I need so I can run them on Puppy rather than the M$-crap. I started reading what I could to find out how to set it up and get it started on Precise 5.4.3. I followed the tutorial here http://bkhome.org/bacon/gettingstarted.htm.

Wrote the program in leafpad, downloaded the devx.sfs, opened the term, made sure I was in the correct directory, entered 'bacon demo.bac' and got an error - "could not parse line 1 in file 'demo.bac'"

Did I miss something? Do I need to "turn on" something? Totally lost as to why it would not parse.

Any help appreciated!

Thanks!

E

[sunburnt]

Hi e_mattis; What was line one in the file? Better yet, post the file here.

It seems like you have the needed BaCon and system files installed.