[hatari-devel] Bugs and GUI (Was: Little AceTracker question)

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

On Sunday 18 July 2010, Jerome Vernet wrote:
> > What's the "Hatari help" thingy and what "Search" does?
>
> Help send the user to the Berlios Hatari pages. Search do nothing. There
> may be a way to remove it, or need to build a real help for Hatari.

These are the items under the PyGtk UI help menu:
- Hatari manual
- Hatari compatibility list
- Hatari release notes
- Hatari TODO
--
- Report a bug
- Hatari mailing lists
- Latest Hatari changes
--
- Hatari authors
- Hatari home page
- Hatari UI home page
- About Hatari UI

Except for the last one, they open a browser which points either to a 
corresponding locally installed Hatari documentation file, or BerliOS
service page.


> > What the debugger looks like?  Does it have support for reading
> > debugger commands from file (like the builtin debugger has)?
>
> Nothing if you ran it from the finder. If launched from command line, it
> show the same console debugger as for Hatari/linux. I tried to find a
> way to embed a console in a MacOsX Windows. It should be possible.

Aren't there any terminal programs for OSX which you could ask to run
Hatari so that you see the debugger in the console?  OSX is unix so missing
fully functioning terminal seems strange...

One can run any of the Linux terminals like this:
	xterm -T "Hatari debug window" -e hatari

Which will starts XTerm, which will start Hatari and set the terminal window
title to "Hatari debug window".  Then when you quit Hatari, the terminal
window closes also.

Then it would be enough for you to just install an additional icon for
Hatari which does above (with a helper shell script if OSX UI doesn't 
otherwise support such icons).


> > * There should be different headings/names for IDE master&  slave
> > images. GEMDOS write protection supports "auto" mode like floppies do,
> > so plain checkbox isn't enough.  Typo: "Alow" ->  "Allow".
>
> ?

It's about this:
	http://ae.dhs.nu/pics/Hatari140_OSX/Prefs-Disks.png

Both IDE disk images have same heading, there's no indication which image
will be IDE master and which one slave for Hatari.

GEMDOS write protection options should be off/on/auto (like for floppies).
The typo is on the name of this option. :-)


> > * Joystick keys configuration is missing.
> >    (I don't have them in Python/Gtk UI either)
>
> May be hard to do ?

Yea, I don't think it's worth the effort, one can do it from the SDL UI if
needed.  It's mostly of use just for devices like phones & internet tablets,
the default settings are fine for a full keyboard.

(And if one wants multiplayer, it's much better to have USB joystick than
set two Atari joysticks with keyboard shortcuts. Most modern keyboards
cannot report that many keys to be pressed down at the same time...)


> > * MIDI input file setting is missing.
>
> Added
>
> > * System settings screen looks pretty cramped.  IMHO it's  bad idea to
> > stuff memory settings there too + there's no support for saving& 
> > restoring emulation memory state.
>
> It's in the File menu (Memory Snapshot)

OK.

	- Eero