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Wolfgang and I have put together a new release of SMSQ/E called v3.38. I copy here his words from the mailing list:

Wolfgang wrote: SMSQE 3.38 is out now.

As usual, you can get it at http://www.wlenerz.com/smsqe/.

The main news here is that, thanks to Alain Haoui's work, WMAN can now draw real subwindow indices.

The ways this is done is explained in the QPTR manual, the new version of which can be found at my QL stuff site http://www.wlenerz.com/qlstuff.

There you can find the QPTR manual (in the documentation section), and also the new QPTR bin file itself, which also implements index drawing (in the programming section) as well as two demo/test programs (one for Basic, made by Alain. Haoui, and one for assembler).


Have fun!

Wolfgang

Hi,

In the SMSQ/E Binaries file, there is a version of SMSQ/E v3.38 for QPC2.

which is the correct version to use, the SMSQE.BIN supplied from the SMSQ/E Registrar or the SMSQE/BIN file included in the updated QPC2 v5.01.37 file?

Considering that they are identical, I don't think it matters...

Hi.

I have tried to start SMSQ / E on my QL, and found that support for Swedish keyboard is lacking.

How much work would it be to include Swedish?
Can you point out which files need to be updated so I can translate / change them (Then I probably need help building.)

The keyboard tables for the QL are in smsq_gold_kbd. The lang_asm is the main file, the languages themselves are in separate files. The language files are in smsq_smsq_lang. Building should be fairly easy when you take an emulator and use the existing .WIN files.

All the best, Marcel

Hi,

Is it possible to make the keyboard tables into loaded modules, so that languages other the existing in SMSQ/E could be added?

Question: What is the abc-keyboard?

PärH wrote:Question: What is the abc-keyboard?

ABC used to be a German company that sold attachments and extensions for the QL in the 80s. Their "keyboard" was an interface that connected to the QL's ROM port and allowed to connect an IBM XT keyboard to the QL.

Thanks.

Another question.

The translation tables (smsq_smsq_lang_tra_asm).
What kind of printer are the translation supposed to do.
Old Swedigh 7-bit ASCII (ISO 646) or more modern (NORDIC CP865 or ISO 5589-1).

Hi,

SMSQ/E only has a limited amount of languages built into the compiled binary files, you have to write your own language file, compile into SMSQ/E to gnerate the new language defined by the LANG_USE and LANUAGE.

Or use Minerva which has some predefined lanuage files including Swedish in the Minerva Utilities disk, located on the QL Homepage, the link to the file is:

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/qlrom/min198utils.zip

Be careful as the pedon compiled the zip archive did not know how do it correctly, as the files in the zip archive have ram3_ prefix, so the unzip programme will extract the files to RAM3_ which is a ramdisk or directory is a ramdisk is not installed.

I will try and fix it and update, here.

Just extract the laguage file you want and use the Toolkit 2 command LRESPR to load the lanaguage file.

This should load the defualt Minerva keyboard and lanuage definitions.