Upgrades to some third party applications


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The upgrades available here were primarily produced to overcome issues with running software on the BeagleBoard and other OMAP3 based hardware. The software in question is no longer supported by the original author (or porter), but the original source is readily available.

Calibre   |   meDDLe   |   DrWimp   |   jpegtran   |   Ticker


DrWimp based applications

The following archives contain upgrades to certain DrWimp based applications (originally authored by Ray Favre). This repository is a temporary home until Ray Favre's original DrWimp site is fully maintained once again. The earlier versions, together with manuals in various formats are available on the original site.

Calibre

The last official Ray Favre version was 3.21 (27-Nov-09)

Changes in v. 3.23 (01 Jan 2012)

  • When editing the RLDs (permanent and single year red letter days) navigation between writable icons using the keyboard (up/down arrow, tab, return) is now possible
  • Updated to use the new DrWimp library 5.02
  • Now correctly deletes dynamic areas used for font menus when application quits (probably only applies to RISC OS 5 systems where DAs may be high in memory map). Change is actually in the DrWimp library (now at 5.02)

Changes in v. 3.22 (27 Nov 2011)

  • Updated to use the new DrWimp library 5.01
  • Works without crashing when run from a Fat32 formatted drive or memory stick (probably of most relevance to BeagleBoard users)
  • Bugfix: Choosing Format 6 calendars no longer crashes !Calibre
  • Now set a Calibre$Path in !Run file for use when adding/removing the Moon font to font$path and prevent 'Buffer too short' error on RISC OS 5 when Fontpath is long

Down load !Calibre version 3.23 (01 Jan 2012), filesize 260 KB

The source code is also available.

Download !Calibre source code version 3.23 (29 Dec 2011), filesize 226 KB

meDDLe

The last official Ray Favre version was 2.20 (01-May-07)

Changes in v. 2.21 (27 Nov 2011)

  • Updated to use the new DrWimp library 5.01
  • Works without crashing when run from a Fat32 formatted drive or memory stick (probably of most relevance to BeagleBoard users)

Download !meDDLe version 2.21 (27 Nov 2011), filesize 601 KB (includes manual, examples, resources)

The source code is also available.

Down load !meDDLe Source version 2.21 (27 Nov 2011), filesize 68 KB

DrWimp library

The last official Ray Favre version was 5.00 (29-Nov-2008)

Changes in v. 5.01 (27 Nov 2011)

  • A number of filing system related FN/PROCs which use OS_GBPB 9 and 12 calls modified to work correctly on filing systems such as Fat32 (hard drives or memory sticksformatted Fat32) and accessed using Fat32FS. This is most likely the case for BeagleBoard users. (See notes at head of source file)

Changes in v. 5.02 (1 Jan 2012)

  • Corrected PROCwint_cleardynamicareas to treat the dynamic area address as an unsigned integer, rather than a signed integer. Now correctly frees DAs in high memory.

Download DrWimp source version 5.02 (1 Jan 2012), filesize 100 KB


jpegtran

A number of applications that process jpeg files make use of the IJG (Independent JPEG Group) software to do various transformations. For example, the applications !JCut, !JClean, and !Jigwas make use of the jpegtran binary. The applications themselves are still available (as of 31 Dec 2011) from the Vale RISC OS: Requiescat In Pace site, but the jpegtran binary supplied with them does not run on BeagleBoard based machines such as the ARMini. The IJG software (the older version 6b as originally used in these apps) has now been recompiled to run on OMAP3 BeagleBoard based machines. The jpegtran binary downloadable from here is a 'drop in' replacement for the earlier version.

Download jpegtran binary filesize 140 KB


Ticker

The very useful news ticker program which scrolls the ticker text in a window. RSS/RDF tickers are supported, as well as the BBC News ticker. The last version of !Ticker released does not run on the BeagleBoard. Although this application does not appear to be currently supported, the source code is still available from the original site. The souce of Ticker and the CryptRand module have now been recompiled to run on OMAP3 BeagleBoard devices. The version and release date have been updated to prevent confusion between the old and new compilations, but no change has been made to the actual code. This release has changed the hardwired default url to one that is valid.

Download !Ticker, version 0.87a (27 Jan 2012) filesize 95 KB


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