[softwarelist] Re: CrossStar problem with ARMini resolved
- From: Chris Hughes <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:35:15 GMT
In message <cee9e23a52.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2011 David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Peter Young pointed out that CrossStar crashes on ARMini.
>> I believe that with the help of Chris Johnson I have now fixed this
>> problem, and I will put an upgrade to CrossStar 2.14 on my web site.
> Many thanks to both; I can now cheat on the crosswords again :-)
>> A number of my programs have the same spell check code in common. I
>> mentioned above that I discovered 18 months ago that I'd not converted
>> this code correctly to 32 bits in Ovation Pro - worked fine on the
>> Iyonix, but failed on ARMv7.
>> I also said that I'd checked I'd done the conversion correctly on
>> CrossStar - I was wrong.
>> To summarise the problem is another example of the conversion to 32
>> bits, nearly 10 years back, being wrong.
>> Presumably the other examples of the spell check code, WordSquare, Spell
>> and the spell module used with messenger pro are OK.
> I hadn't tried Spell, (had problems finding it in my Iyo backup), but
> it seems as if it can't load dictionaries on the ARMini. I doubt if
> it's worthwhile fixing this, as I think all the relevant RISC OS apps
> do their own spell-checking; well, OPro, MPro, StrongED, Fireworkz and
> EasiWriter do, of the ones I use. Don't know about Zap, though. So
> Spell isn't perhaps as useful as it once was.
!Spell v3.15 seems to work here.
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Chris Hughes
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