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confocaloid wrote: ↑

April 21st, 2024, 8:18 pm

This might be specific to the system I'm using. ...

Ubuntu does seem to be the most fragile variant of Linux when it comes to wxWidgets based apps. See Help > Known Problems for example.

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...

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 Life/Signal-Circuitry/signal-turns-and-fizzles.rle.gz does not have comments, and is outdated in l...

Sokwe wrote: ↑

April 15th, 2024, 7:40 am

Here are updates to two patterns in the collection.

Done (all 4 patterns).

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 ...

dvgrn wrote: ↑

April 14th, 2024, 12:19 pm

If there's an imminent plan for another beta build, I haven't heard about it.

I plan to do a 4.3b2 release once all your pattern/script changes have been committed.

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 = ...

confocaloid wrote: ↑

April 7th, 2024, 4:29 am

Well, in my opinion those two cases are different enough from the case "pasting pattern data with an appended @RULE data".

Not in my opinion. I'm not going to waste any more time arguing over this.

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...

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...

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...

Sokwe wrote: ↑

April 2nd, 2024, 7:30 am

Please replace honey-farm-hasslers.rle ...

Done.

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...

confocaloid wrote: ↑

March 26th, 2024, 9:18 am

Given 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?

Possibly. It will depend on how many changes are made to 4.3b1 and how complicated they are.

Are these intended? Most of those keys are Windows specific so I'd rather not try to support them, especially because I wouldn't be able to test them (apart from caps lock, my Mac keyboard doesn't have any of those keys). I'm not even sure if wxWidgets can detect some of those key presses. Given th...

Nathaniel wrote: ↑

March 25th, 2024, 9:50 pm

This is now set up (e.g., https://conwaylife.com/rules/DoubleB3S23.rule points to the rule that's on the wiki).

Thanks! Works fine.

I've noticed that shrinking particularly large selections causes the dialog box that shows up while waiting to display "Copying selection" rather than something relating to shrinking - is this a fixable minor detail? Fixed -- thanks. (Golly is actually copying the selection to a temporary universe ...

Just to make sure that I understand the request properly: if I set URL redirects on the server so that, for example, https://conwaylife.com/rules/DoubleB3S23.rule displayed the exact same content as https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Rule:DoubleB3S23&action=raw would that work? Yep, I think t...

It might not be necessary, though; let's see what can be done with a pop-up HTML page with a clickable link. I think it makes a lot of sense to do that. Gives you a lot more flexibility. For example, you could easily display any comments in the pattern file (see this script for example). You could ...

confocaloid wrote: ↑

March 21st, 2024, 9:28 am

Please add the following replacement links ...

Done.

The UTF-8 support is not added to .html windows. More details please. I assume you mean when displaying .html files in Golly's help window. If so, which files have problems? It should be easy to fix those problems by adding this line to the header (right after the <html> tag): <meta http-equiv="Con...

Running the script goto.lua on the quoted pattern, and entering 2738059586423623206 does not go immediately to the specified generation, but instead goes to 2738059586423623170. Looks like you're hitting a limitation in Lua. Unlike Python, Lua doesn't support arbitrarily large numbers (note that ma...

H. H. P. M. P. Cole wrote: ↑

March 16th, 2024, 9:08 am

factorio-small-objects.rle is not in the right folder...

Agreed. I'll move it into the Larger-than-Life folder for the final 4.3 release (and fix that typo).

Golly 4.3b1 is now available for testing: https://www.trevorrow.com/golly/golly-4.3b1-win-64bit.zip (for 64-bit Windows 7+) https://www.trevorrow.com/golly/golly-4.3b1-mac.dmg (for macOS 10.11+) https://www.trevorrow.com/golly/golly-4.3b1-gtk-64bit.tar.gz (for Linux, built on Mint 20) https://www.tr...

Or, even better, is there anyone who dislikes the hanging-indent so much that they're willing to go through the whole pattern collection and change the comments so they're in some other consistent format? I'm happy to do that for the 4.3b1 release. (Not sure if you've seen my latest emails -- have ...