RoboEmu 1.06 (works with XP and 2k)

[rbayer]

Well, I'm surprised it ever worked under Win98 after fixing the problems. For some reason I forgot to allocate space for the \0 at the end of strings. I just added a +1 to the size and everything works just fine now.

I also cleaned up some of the new/delete stuff while I was sifting through memory, so it doesn't really leak any more.

Finally, WinXP will report an error a few seconds after RoboEmu closes. This is normal and is a known problem. It shouldn't really affect anything except making you click "Don't Send" (or "Send" if you feel like telling Microsoft about how XP causes more problems than its worth!).

Anyway, I tested under fresh installations of Win98SE, WinXP Pro, and Win2k Pro. I assume it will work fine with the "Home" editions also. Could anyone confirm this?

As always, I'd like to know what you like/don't like/think should be improved/features you'd like to see, etc.

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[evulish]

*waits for linux port* :D

[rbayer]

Originally posted by evulish
*waits for linux port* :D

*will be waiting a long time, but not forever*

Don't worry, this is definately a future possibility, but it involves reworking the entire UI as I gave up on portability long ago. *curses MS and MFC* It way run under wine, but I just don't know and I haven't spent the time to try to get wine working on my Linux box. As another little problem, I don't know the X11 API, so I would have to write it in GTK+/Gnome, which isn't good if you don't have gnome installed. If anyone knows a good (and free!) place to learn the X11 package, I'd like to learn it and start on a port.

[Joe Ross]

Originally posted by rbayer
As another little problem, I don't know the X11 API, so I would have to write it in GTK+/Gnome, which isn't good if you don't have gnome installed. If anyone knows a good (and free!) place to learn the X11 package, I'd like to learn it and start on a port.

I don't know anyone that has X installed that doesn't also have GTK+. Everyone that I know uses gaim, which uses GTK. You don't have to use Gnome to have GTK.

Almost everyone I know also has QT, although not everyone.

Needless to say, If you wanted to spend the time, better to do it in what you know.

[rbayer]

True you don't need gnome to use gtk+, but you do need gnome to use the gnome-specific widgets and preferences files. I'll try writing my own versions of these, but widget-creation isn't exactly the most well-documented feature out there. Anyway, as soon as I finalize the Windows version (whenever people stop finding errrors/suggesting new feature) I'll sit down and do a port some weekend--especially now that I know the interest is there.