Re. 'slides' and other aids-to-cognition: I previously wrote that not only do
I favour UPPER-CASE but also colour to add extra 'dimensions'.
OTOH these smarty-pants/non-ascii presentations that break communications
between potential collaborators are disasterous. Like using pdf, when there
are no diagrams or other NEED to use it.
But related: what I can never get an answer on is
what are these "can<multipleChars>t"
instead of "can't"
that I often get ?!
<BTW can you see how colour would better explain the above sentence?>
I suspect that they originate from Micro$loth-WORD?
Isn't the quote-char a standard ASCII-char?
So, why do they need to 'encode' it?
I'd be relieved to 'unstack' this decade old mystery.
Post by hiatomsActually, Factor's Windows support is great for a non-mainstream language!
Supports SEH exception handling, non-blocking I/O using native APIs, native
file system change monitoring/directory handling, Uniscribe font rendering,
etc etc. That particular bug just happens to be annoying right now...
Native API usage is a standard feature and taken seriously unlike a lot of
languages that primarily grow up around only one or two *nix platforms.
I used to develop Factor tools under Ubuntu and had no issues running the
same tool under Windows as the stdlib abstracts away the platform specific
requirements. Now I build on Windows directly as the MS CL compiler is used
there for the runtime (no more broken cygwin).
-Adam
Post by JohnHi Adam,
Thanks! Extreme workaround indeed. Maybe this is a sign that I should use
a nix machine instead.
Also thanks for the factor mailing list link.
-John
Post by hiatomsHi John,
Just to let you know, Factor has a direct mailing list if you'd like a
http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Mailing%20list
Also, this is a known issue since Factor switched over to Uniscribe font
rendering on Windows.
One thing you could do is download a Ubuntu Live CD and VMware Player or
VirtualBox (which are both free), boot the Live CD, download the Factor
binaries and load the slides. Yes, I realize this is kind of an extreme
workaround. ;-)
If you want to look at the slides of Slava's recent talk at DLS, you
might need to download the current clean build which is listed below the
v0.94 links on factorcode.org.
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/10/presentations-in-factor.html
Please post to the Factor mailing list to remind the devs that this is
an issue affecting newcomers!
Thanks,
-Adam
Post by JohnHi All,
I've been trying to view the the factor talk slides on Windows Vista
32 bit but all I see are texts on black background. Is there some
setup that I have to do?
Has somebody experienced this before?
I am using a HP G50 notebook.
Thanks,
John