Hollywood forums

Hi, You've probably been asked this a million times but reading some of the threads on AROSWorld it looks like 32-bit AROS is pretty much legacy now with all development focusing on 64-bit. Deadwood is writing an emulator so it can also run 32-bit apps and Hollywood itself and its apps are a big par...

That did the trick! Sorry I didn't catch that in the FAQ about HollywoodPlayer. Thanks for the help, he can run some of my applets now.

NathanH

Thanks guys, that's perfect.

NathanH

Hi, I thought that I could trap an error in trying to open a file that isn't a database with the following code. It still gives a Hollywood error message though. Am I doing something wrong or is there another way to test the file? Thanks. NathanH @DISPLAY 1, {hidden=True} @REQUIRE "sqlite3"...

Hi, My brother tried the HollywoodPlayer HWPlayer_MacOS_arm64.dmg for "Apple Silicon" on his Apple M1 Max machine. Its got 64Gb RAM and is running macOS Sequoia 15.6.1. When he tried to run it he got a requestor stating "HollywoodPlayer is damaged and can't be opened. You should move ...

Thanks, I was thinking that may be the case.

NathanH

I've been sitting on this for a few years now. Is it possible to get the command line as a string with no parsing/help from Hollywood/C/DOS/whatever? GetRawArguments() reads the greater-than sign as redirection rather than passing it as an argument. I need to capture and process everything myself in...

Hi,

The oldest version I've got is 15.45 from 2014. It also shows a context menu in demo so it's been around awhile. Thanks.

NathanH

Cool, thanks!

Hi, I just installed the new (well 2021) version on OS3.9 and AROS. It says that there is a default context menu for performing various actions and in the supplied demo, it appears and works great on both OSs. It does not appear, however, when I place a texteditor gadget in a MUIRoyale app. Is there...