Testing on RISC OS

I did not wish to be accused of “self promotion” again. But I’ve added a link to both pages

For my part, I asked as the reason(s) for the wiki content struck me as entirely logical, but the absence of a pointer to where the relevant module was available might have led to people questioning where ROOL were hiding it.
However, I didn’t want to “traverse your nostrils in an upward direction”

Maybe one day the feature will be internal rather than an add-in.

internal

What does that word mean? Built-into the “ROM image” loaded from disc, rather than… loaded from disc?

Damned if I can recall precisely what I meant beyond in the OS build as opposed to in the OS because its function is to do things as part of the OS that users will have available (if they go and fetch that extra bit)

However, I’ve been very nearly releasing a blank-slate reimplementation of ImageFileRender and ImageFileConvert for far too long, so I can’t throw stones in this glass house.

I’ve been meaning to release my version for some time, and made some efforts a little while back. Aside from the insulting attitude of the Cloverleaf guy, I’ve not had any other interest, though. The binary release that allows it to run on non-RISC OS Select systems didn’t seem to spark any interest at all from people.

However, if people are interested, I’ve merged the Select documentation branch on the RISC OS documentation staging repository and added the IFR documentation. Same place as before… https://github.com/gerph/riscos-prminxml-staging/

The binary release that allows it to run on non-RISC OS Select systems didn’t seem to spark any interest at all from people.

What binary release? ;)

Does it work on 5? What formats are supported?

What binary release? ;)

The one that came with everything I released with the Pyromaniac presentations over 2 years ago, together with the presentation tool which uses it.

https://pyromaniac.riscos.online/technologies.html

Does it work on 5? What formats are supported?

It works on RISC OS using the defined APIs… Formats supported… um… pass?

Running the module on Pyromaniac I see a few that are supported – there are a lot of formats that are supported by the ImageFileRenderPyromaniac module, but the ones labelled as ImageFileRender are directly supported in the module.

charles@phonewave ~/projects/RO/pyromaniac (rebuild-testcode-bin)> pyrodev --common --load-module modules/ImageFileRender,ffa --command 'imagefilerenderers'
Type Magic    Converter         Ver.  Author
---- -----    ---------         ----  ------
&132 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&695 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&697 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&69c 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&69d 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&69e 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&a65 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&a66 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&aff 00000000 ImageFileRender   0.36  Justin Fletcher
&b2f 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&b60 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&b61 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&bcf 00000000 ImageFileRender   0.36  Justin Fletcher
&c85 00000000 ImageFileRender   0.36  Justin Fletcher
&cc3 00000000 ImageFileRender   0.36  Justin Fletcher
&d91 00000000 ImageFileRender   0.36  Justin Fletcher
&ff0 00000000 Pyromaniac        0.01  Gerph
&ff9 66990101 ImageFileRender   0.36  Justin Fletcher

The IFR module is how the presentation tool renders all its images.

@ Charles

However, if people are interested, I’ve merged the Select documentation branch on the RISC OS documentation staging repository and added the IFR documentation. Same place as before… https://github.com/gerph/riscos-prminxml-staging/

Haaa thank you very much for that! :)

Just a note to say that I, too, had missed (or at least, not seen the wood for the trees) any info on release of ImageFileRender etc. Since it is one of my favourites, I’m surprised I hadn’t picked up on it. Suffice to say I’m very interested :)

Just a note to say that I, too, had missed (or at least, not seen the wood for the trees) any info on release of ImageFileRender etc. Since it is one of my favourites, I’m surprised I hadn’t picked up on it. Suffice to say I’m very interested :)

Ok, I have posted a more complete announcement as people have missed these things. https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/17803

Ok, I have posted a more complete announcement as people have missed these things.

Just a short list then ;)

Just a short list then ;)

Well, it is nearly 3 years of things, which had already been published, but brought together. Many of the things that are there were created because I needed to make it easier to test, or easier to develop Pyromaniac. Or because someone had asked about something. There’s a long queue of things that I’d like to finish as well, which hasn’t been published… you know how it goes when you write some things and they kinda work, but they’re really not good enough for people to see :-|