[softwarelist] Re: 32-bit OPro applets.

  • From: Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:00:43 GMT

On 5 Nov 2014  Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <5c35e66154.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> That's caused a problem here! I've set NetSurf to "use OS" in
>> Choices, and deleted Tinct, but when I try to run NS, it complains
>> that it wants Tinct! I've had to restore the module.

> Well, I assume if you set Netsurf to only use OS, then tinct will
> never be called. You can also go in to the !Run file and comment out
> the lines that load tinct.

Yes, I'll do that, as a trial, anyway. The problem is that I like to 
download a new development version of NetSurf pretty frequently, and 
each new version seems to have a newly time-stamped version of the 
!Run file. Is it worth the extra hassle, I wonder?

> The fact that you were using tinct before (I assume if you have only
> now set the choices to use os only) *may* have caused some of your
> problems. As far as I remember, tinct was thought to be the culprit
> of a number of random problems in the early days of the BB. Since the
> Netsurf developers have no access to the tinct source code, it is
> unlikely to be fixed in the near future.

Oh, dear!

Best wishes,

Peter.

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