A trial to run FTC on Linux


“FTC” was built and tested for Microsoft
Windows and Mac OSX. But since FTC was based on native RealBasic code
it should also run on Linux. Today I gave it a short trial on Suse
Linux 10.2:







First I needed to disable the Win32/
OSX plugin spellchecker references in the modul
SpellCheckUtilities.getSpellChecker:







  #if TargetLinux = false then


       --> place old code here


  #else


       return Nil


  #endif







FTC launched on Linux without problems.
Anyway I found two anomalies:






(1) Linux does not recognize CTRL
    keys. So a Ctrl-z to undo does not work.

    
(2) It seems that the acceleration
    code to speed up typing does not work on Linux or does not have the
    same speed. When typing you see still your characters flowing when
    you stopped typing.

I could not test the drag and drop functionality correctly because in FTC Beta 
14 prv 28 we have a bug to drop text at the correct position. Anyhow I found 
the drag and drop bug to behave slightly
    different than on Microsoft Windows. So not only the left position was 
wrong also the top position to drop text.



The good news is that it seems to be only a small step
with some fine tuning for FTC to run on Linux.







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