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- Yesterday, 3:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b2
- Replies: 2
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Golly 4.3b2
Golly 4.3b2 is now available for testing: https://www.trevorrow.com/golly/golly-4.3b2-win-64bit.zip (for 64-bit Windows 7+) https://www.trevorrow.com/golly/golly-4.3b2-mac.dmg (for macOS 10.11+) https://www.trevorrow.com/golly/golly-4.3b2-gtk-64bit.tar.gz (for Linux, built on Mint 20) https://www.tr...
- May 2nd, 2024, 6:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly suggestions
- Replies: 425
- Views: 204671
- May 2nd, 2024, 6:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly suggestions
- Replies: 425
- Views: 204671
Re: Golly suggestions
GUYS! GOLLY WAS REMOVED FROM GOOGLE PLAY STORE, SO YOU NEED TO ACT FAST!!! Please don't shout. If and when I decide to update the Android version of Golly, this forum will be the first to know. In the meantime, you (or anybody else) might like to have a go at building it yourself. Download Golly's ...
- April 29th, 2024, 4:45 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
When there is no Cancel button, <Esc> or closing the dialog would return the empty string instead of "gtk-cancel". But that's not consistent with what happens on the other platforms. If a script writer creates a 2-button dialog then we want g.query to return the label on one of those buttons (usual...
- April 28th, 2024, 9:08 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
Hmm, that's rather ugly. I'm going to try binding a key event handler to the dialog so we can detect the escape key and ignore it when there's no Cancel button. Late here so will try that tomorrow.
- April 28th, 2024, 5:01 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
If I create a two button dialog without a Cancel button and press Escape then on Windows the keypress is ignored but on Linux the dialog closes and the string gtk-cancel is returned. Yep, I see the same thing on my Linux system -- how annoying! I don't see any way around that problem. Might have to...
- April 28th, 2024, 12:33 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
I might be able to summon up the enthusiasm to squeeze this into 4.3b2. I've added a tentative Lua version of this idea. I decided to call the function "query" rather than "confirm". Also dropped the idea of an extra parameter to set the default button, mainly because you can't make the Cancel butt...
- April 27th, 2024, 7:30 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
Currently Lua scripts can use the scripting command "g.savechanges(query, message)" ... AFAIK this is not available for Python scripts. (Is this intended?) More or less. It was needed in a couple of Lua scripts (along with g.settitle) that use the overlay (also not available in Python). I don't hav...
- April 26th, 2024, 3:11 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
No -- now removed. Also fixed the typos in safeopenclip.lua. Thanks!confocaloid wrote: ↑April 26th, 2024, 12:56 amutils.h, utils.cpp still refer to Perl, is that intended?
- April 25th, 2024, 7:02 pm
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
Yep, that would be better. If the clipboard doesn't contain a script then we can't assume it contains a pattern. Might be some random text.
- April 24th, 2024, 9:04 pm
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
I think previewing the clipboard and better error reporting would help. Surely the people who want to preview the clipboard can just open it in their text editor (Mac users can also use the Finder to Edit > Show Clipboard). Requiring confirmation would be incredibly annoying for people like me who ...
- April 21st, 2024, 8:46 pm
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
Ubuntu does seem to be the most fragile variant of Linux when it comes to wxWidgets based apps. See Help > Known Problems for example.
- April 21st, 2024, 7:42 pm
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
Ubuntu 22.04, GNOME 42.9. When a Golly script opens a help window (for example "safeopenclip.lua" opens "Rule Help" window), the help window often ends up hidden behind the main Golly window. I can't reproduce this problem on my Linux system (Mint 20 running as a VM on my Mac). Are you building Gol...
- April 19th, 2024, 9:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2477
Re: Golly 4.3b1
Life/Miscellaneous/pure-nonfiller.rle is a duplicate of Super/pure-nonfiller-LifeHistory.rle. Life/Syntheses/oscillator-syntheses.rle contains an invalid glider synthesis for the oscillator A for all. Life/Signal-Circuitry/signal-turns-and-fizzles.rle.gz does not have comments, and is outdated in l...
- April 19th, 2024, 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2477
- April 18th, 2024, 4:29 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20080
Re: Golly bugs
I think the cause is that there are two lines exceeding 1000 characters (declarations of variables "x0" and "a1"). There's a 1000-byte line_buffer in ruletable_algo.cpp. Thanks for the report -- I've increased that buffer to 4000 bytes. EDIT: I've also improved the code so an error message will be ...
- April 14th, 2024, 11:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2477
- April 7th, 2024, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1258
Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
I was thinking more about the following use case (when the rule in the pattern comments is different than Golly's stored rule): 4) ignore Golly's stored rule and use the rule from the pattern comments and open the pattern. To handle this case the script could do steps like this: * Call saverules = ...
- April 7th, 2024, 7:00 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1258
Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Not in my opinion. I'm not going to waste any more time arguing over this.confocaloid wrote: ↑April 7th, 2024, 4:29 amWell, in my opinion those two cases are different enough from the case "pasting pattern data with an appended @RULE data".
- April 7th, 2024, 4:05 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1258
Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
I believe having a confirmation pop-up before installing a rulefile would be better, compared to installing rules silently. Especially considering that the script is called 'safeopenclip' and is supposed to be safe to use. I'd have to disagree. There are already two cases where Golly installs a .ru...
- April 7th, 2024, 2:37 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1258
Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Andrew's post mentioned "(but only if there is no existing file)". If there is an existing .rule file, then the "safe" opening functionality in safeopenclip.lua will never get triggered in the first place, right? The pattern will be opened using the already-installed rule. Oops -- of course! @confo...
- April 6th, 2024, 8:48 pm
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1258
Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
There are quite a few posts like this that have a pattern with @RULE info after the pattern data. I think it would be nice if safeopenclip.lua looked for that info and if the @RULE name matches the earlier rule string then it should create a suitable .rule file in the user's rule directory (but only...
- April 2nd, 2024, 6:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2477
- March 29th, 2024, 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2477
Re: Golly 4.3b1
Not sure if this counts as a bug per se, but when pasting in a new version of the currently used ruletable, would it be possible to stop Golly from stripping away whatever the current active bounded grid is? Possible, but I'm not convinced it's necessary. All you have to do is hit Z (or the Undo bu...
- March 26th, 2024, 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2477
Re: Golly 4.3b1
Possibly. It will depend on how many changes are made to 4.3b1 and how complicated they are.confocaloid wrote: ↑March 26th, 2024, 9:18 amGiven that several issues were already reported after Golly 4.3b1 was made available, will there be a second beta build (4.3b2) at some point before the release?