On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 6:51:41 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote:> > I've tried finding a source of a new install,I did manage to get Codewright to run on my system again. I'm slowly getting it set up for the work I do. I can't find the language specific codesense files for Forth or VHDL. Anyone have these? -- Rick C. - Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging - Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
Codewright Failure
Started by ●February 16, 2017
Reply by ●August 10, 20192019-08-10
Reply by ●February 10, 20202020-02-10
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 5:17:49 PM UTC-5, rickman wrote:> Newsgroups are my last ditch resource for bugs with old software. I > know Codewright is old and no longer supported. But I have it and I'm > not ready to switch. Meanwhile, something happend while I was running > in safe mode and now Codewright is messed up when running in standard > windows mode. > > I can open files, but I can't select anything in them or do any edits. > I can't even position the cursor with the mouse. All the great chroma > formatting is gone. > > Any ideas? Is it finally time to bail on Codewright and switch to > Emacs? I tried that once and the initial Emacs screen scared me! It > was totally non-intuitive. > > -- > > Rick CJust to throw my hat in the ring too, but I am also a 4.0e user from 1996. It looks like you can't get 7.5 any more either now (not listed on Embarcadero, anyway). I was looking since I haven't been able to get it running on Windows 10 reliably (although the situation has improved since I first tried). I have decided that I will never be updating the Windows 7 machine I am using now specifically so I can continue to use CodeWright. I've noticed corruption at times when syncing files with other applications such as Visual Studio. I've noticed that if I get the gray File Modified dialog, it's fine, but if I get the white background one, I need to close without saving and restart since something in memory has been corrupted. As long as I follow my habit to always save before switching applications I'm good. To the person who was looking for an editor for the Raspberry Pi, I have used CodeWright on Windows and WinSCP to sync files between the two. vi and nano are ok, but... It has been hard to rationalize $300 for an unsupported application after all these years, but of course, when I'm finally about to bite the bullet, it seems to be gone.
Reply by ●October 2, 20202020-10-02
Just thought I'd update my status here. I am back to banging out code and have Codewright working well enough that I'm using it. The main issue I have is the file dialog not working properly. It usually comes up with the files list blank but with some nudging it shows the contents. If there is a scrollbar moving that will do the job. Otherwise it takes a nudge with the right click or something similar. It also seems to default to icon view rather than details which is awkward. Then there is the lack of project file management. I don't recall how it was supposed to work. Right now I have something open that lists a lot of projects. To make the file dialog work better I tried setting the compatibility under Windows to WinXP. On reopening CW I no longer had a project file and can't access the dialog to search for them. I expect there is a master file that points to all the project files, but I don't know how to find that or what the file extension is, even with the more functional setup. The main lament is the lack of color coding for Forth. I used to have a chroma file or whatever they are called. But I can't find it any more and web searches are not fruitful. Talking about google searches... I did manage to find a working phone number for someone I dated 20 years ago. Google isn't completely pointless. -- Rick C. ++ Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging ++ Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
Reply by ●October 2, 20202020-10-02
On 10/02/20 19:52, Rick C wrote:> Just thought I'd update my status here. I am back to banging out code and have Codewright working well enough that I'm using it. The main issue I have is the file dialog not working properly. It usually comes up with the files list blank but with some nudging it shows the contents. If there is a scrollbar moving that will do the job. Otherwise it takes a nudge with the right click or something similar. It also seems to default to icon view rather than details which is awkward. > > Then there is the lack of project file management. I don't recall how it was supposed to work. Right now I have something open that lists a lot of projects. To make the file dialog work better I tried setting the compatibility under Windows to WinXP. On reopening CW I no longer had a project file and can't access the dialog to search for them. I expect there is a master file that points to all the project files, but I don't know how to find that or what the file extension is, even with the more functional setup. > > The main lament is the lack of color coding for Forth. I used to have a chroma file or whatever they are called. But I can't find it any more and web searches are not fruitful. > > Talking about google searches... I did manage to find a working phone number for someone I dated 20 years ago. Google isn't completely pointless. >Ide systems are ok, but I find a makefiles and gnu command line tools get the job done, without added layers of complexity, special file types etc. Also still using nedit editor, simple clean and just edits files. If a tool becomes hard work, time to sharpen it or move on :-)... Chris
Reply by ●October 2, 20202020-10-02
On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 2:52:29 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote:>...I did manage to find a working phone number for someone I dated 20 years ago.Don't keep us in suspense Rick! Was he happy to hear from you?
Reply by ●October 3, 20202020-10-03
On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 8:25:06 PM UTC-4, Dave Nadler wrote:> On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 2:52:29 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote: > >...I did manage to find a working phone number for someone I dated 20 years ago. > > Don't keep us in suspense Rick! > Was he happy to hear from you?You do realize your comments in newsgroups is immortal, right? I guess we learn about each other here from every post. -- Rick C. + Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging + Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
Reply by ●December 21, 20202020-12-21
On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 6:30:32 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote:> On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 6:51:41 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote: > > > > I've tried finding a source of a new install, > I did manage to get Codewright to run on my system again. I'm slowly getting it set up for the work I do. > > I can't find the language specific codesense files for Forth or VHDL. Anyone have these?I don't recall how, but the syntax coloring for VHDL is working. I think it was there all along and I didn't realize it. I have no idea what file it might be in. I got tired of trying to find syntax coloring for Forth, so I made my own. Now I'd like to back it up, but again, I have no idea where this is stored. I searched for an updated file in the installation directory - no luck, the Windows data directory for the app - no luck, the user directories - no luck. I have no idea where they keep the master file for projects either. Codewright is very inscrutable! -- Rick C. -- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging -- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
