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PDF Puzzles

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:58:23 +0000

“I have added some simple buttons using ButtonBar as a convenience for my own use. Happy to e-mail or otherwise make available.”

Yes please , with some simple install / setup instructions too if possible.
If can be hosted somewhere that others can download (so you don’t have to send individual emails) would be good.

RPCemu on Windows 11

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:53:40 +0000

The RPCemu page says it’s not been tested on Windows 11.

Does it? Can you point out where, I need to change it.

Has anyone tried using it on Windows 11?

Yep, it worked fine without any changes needed from windows 10

Iris 1.033 released - plus a poll/request for feedback

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:34:42 +0000

PDF files can now be launched via Filer into Iris ? you can make Iris your default PDF viewer if you wish.

Great work, are there any plans to update the version of PDF.js that the PDF rendering is based on as I see it is Version 2.16.X that is being used while PDF.js is now at Version 5.3.X, or is this a case of its the best compromise for functionality and performance.

PDF Puzzles

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:28:32 +0000

David posted:

MuView, from Packman, works but needed some zoom action to get useful page sizes, and a keyboard with page up and down buttons is required.

I have added some simple buttons using ButtonBar as a convenience for my own use. Happy to e-mail or otherwise make available.

Iris 1.033 released - plus a poll/request for feedback

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:25:16 +0000

June release of Iris now available which attempts to address a few of the things brought up on this thread.

Local HTML files should now render as web content rather than as code. (Still a bit more work to be done here).

PDF files can now be launched via Filer into Iris – you can make Iris your default PDF viewer if you wish.

Font library updated to ensure compatibility with Otter, and to pave the way towards a package-based release.

Plus a few other bits and bobs.

RPCemu on Windows 11

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:49:11 +0000

RPCEmu (RO 5) has been working absolutely fine for me on Windows 11 Pro (since at least 27/‎08/‎2023 when it got the 22H2 update, as I don’t know when the initial fresh install was).

RPCemu on Windows 11

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:39:16 +0000

Well I have tried both versions available RO 3.71 and RO 5 and both seem to work OK here on Win 11 Pro

RPCemu on Windows 11

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:28:43 +0000

The RPCemu page says it’s not been tested on Windows 11. Has anyone tried using it on Windows 11?
I don’t have access to any recent Windows machine but someone want to use my (RO) software, who only has Windows 11.

Perl printing "hello world"

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 01:52:48 +0000

Hiya,

Small successes yesterday with Perl… I can now run hello world.

https://asciinema.org/a/727337

Live Coding with Gerph, Sunday 13th July

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:58:18 +0000

Hiya,

This Sunday – 13th July, at 1pm – I’m doing the live coding again, finishing off some more bits on the Debugger module.

For anyone who hasn’t seen them, these are where I share my screen for about 3 hours and code some more of a Debugger module for RISC OS. It’s not especially complicated, but it makes for an interesting project. So far we have:

Last week, there was some clean up and I started building the module for 64-bit RISC OS. The 64-bit build of the module failed because of issues with the linker. These have now been fixed, so I’ll be looking at what can be done with the 64-bit module.

Come along if you like – https://youtube.com/live/y533T5Q4yHs – or you can always watch the video afterwards.

If you want to watch the whole series, you can follow it in the playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H08vtW1nZ9g&list=P…

Or the sequence is also available linked from my presentations website: https://presentation.riscos.online/live/disassembler.h…

PDF Puzzles

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:26:40 +0000

ACE module covers some instructions already.