[06 Mar 2009] Another strange behaviour with AROS

[Allanon]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:41:33 -0000

Hello Andreas, I've had another strange behaviour with AROS native that occurs only if the program has not an icon associated: if LookHere was started from the shell or with a double click (View all files mode) the graphics are incomplete, for example buttons gradients are not rendered and text over button gradients are not rendered too, instead text on solid color is ok. But after I've associated an icon all was fine...

Regards Fabio

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:53:54 +0100

Hello Andreas, I've had another strange behaviour with AROS native that occurs only if the program has not an icon associated: if LookHere was started from the shell or with a double click (View all files mode) the graphics are incomplete, for example buttons gradients are not rendered and text over button gradients are not rendered too, instead text on solid color is ok. But after I've associated an icon all was fine...

Hmm, that's weird. Does it happen only with SCUILib scripts or also with Hollywood examples? e.g. 3DText or Welcome.

[Allanon]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:45:17 -0000

Hmm, that's weird. Does it happen only with SCUILib scripts or also with Hollywood examples? e.g. 3DText or Welcome.

I'll check the suggested examples, anyway seems that the problem is related to AROS nVidia drivers on native and fonts rendering, have a look at the following tests I've done:

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ALL TESTS DONE WITH THE NB 27.02.2009, INSTALLED NATIVE, Notebook Toshiba Satellite Pro SP6100.
+----------------+------+----------+------------------------+
[quote]
FONT           | ICON | GFX MODE | RESULT                 |
[/quote]
+----------------+------+----------+------------------------+
[quote]
Helvetica 11   | No   | Vesa     | Some Blank buttons     |
Helvetica 11   | Yes  | Vesa     | OK                     |
Vera Sans 11   | No   | Vesa     | Some Blank buttons     |
Vera Sans 11   | Yes  | Vesa     | OK                     |
Helvetica 11   | No   | nVidia   | Corrupted Text         |
Helvetica 11   | Yes  | nVidia   | Corrupted Text         |
Vera Sans 11   | No   | nVidia   | OK                     |
Vera Sans 11   | Yes  | nVidia   | OK                     |
[/quote]
+----------------+------+----------+------------------------+

I've posted on AROS-Exec the problem but seems no one has ideas

http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/view ... 18&forum=2

The missing icon issue is very weird... Unfortunatly I don't have the knowledge to check if the problem is AROS related or not, I can't go beyond these tests

Regards, Fabio

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:04:02 +0100

I've posted on AROS-Exec the problem but seems no one has ideas

http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/view ... 18&forum=2

The missing icon issue is very weird... Unfortunatly I don't have the knowledge to check if the problem is AROS related or not, I can't go beyond these tests

I also think that it is an AROS problem. Did you try if starting the program using -usewpa makes any difference?

[Allanon]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:20:42 -0000

Hello Andreas, finally I've got the time to make some tests on AROS native.

3DText script works fine, and the Welcome script too... but I've problems with TextOut and some fonts using the nVidia driver.

I've done this simple test script:

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@DISPLAY { Sizeable = True, Width = 800, Height = 600, Title = "Fonts Test", Color = #BLACK }

SetFont("Arial.font", 11)
TextOut(0, 10, "Arial Font, Size 11")

SetFont("Helvetica.font", 13)
TextOut(0, 30, "Helvetica Font, Size 13")

SetFont("Diamond.font", 12)
TextOut(0, 50, "Diamond Font, Size 12")

SetFont("XEN.font", 13)
TextOut(0, 70, "XEN Font, Size 13")

SetFont("Vera Sans.font", 14)
TextOut(0, 90, "Vera Sans Font, Size 14")

WaitLeftMouse()

Only the last font is rendered correctly, the other ones are all messed up. Using -usewpa flag does not help.

Using standard vesa mode all fonts are rendered correctly... I've some other strange behaviour I'm still investigating, like, for example, gradient rendering: using vesa mode, if the compiled program does not have an associated icon the gradient is not rendered but a black box appears instead.

I'll try some more tests then I'll report here the results, this icon-thing is very strange...

P.S.: With Vesa mode Welcome script does not work, I got the error: Out of Memory! File: welcome.hws (current line: 143 - In function: SetBrushTransparency)

AROS shows 16M of gfx memory and 512M of other memory

Regards, Fabio

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:26:59 +0200

Using standard vesa mode all fonts are rendered correctly... I've some other strange behaviour I'm still investigating, like, for example, gradient rendering: using vesa mode, if the compiled program does not have an associated icon the gradient is not rendered but a black box appears instead.

I'll try some more tests then I'll report here the results, this icon-thing is very strange...

P.S.: With Vesa mode Welcome script does not work, I got the error: Out of Memory! File: welcome.hws (current line: 143 - In function: SetBrushTransparency)

AROS shows 16M of gfx memory and 512M of other memory

Hmm, this all seems very strange. I could bet that this is an AROS bug. I've made a note and will test it by myself when I have time...

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:27:26 +0200

What would be interesting to see: does it only occur with Hollywood 4 or also with Hollywood 3?

[Allanon]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:35:08 -0000

Occurs with HW3 also, I've tested HFinder compiled with HW3 and the problem is still there. On Aros-Exec someone says that it could be a bug in the nVidia drivers...

http://aros-exec.org/modules/news/artic ... toryid=345 at the bottom

Regards, Fabio