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From: Bernard B. <ber...@gm...> - 2010-01-19 22:53:27
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>Yes. As a note to any non-Mac developers who may be observing, this latest >release involved cleaning up the code so that it would compile with GCC 4.0 >on Mac OS X. Hopefully that will also make it easier for Linux developers >to begin working with the code. (Of course, the code is still full of Mac >system calls and data structures, but it's a step in the right direction ;) I am going to install the compiler on a dedicated machine in my office to get back to C programming, starting with Quartz since it is one of the emergencies and I am still familiar with graphic procedures in BP2. > > One detail is missing: with this version graphics are not displayed on > > MacOS 10.6 or higher. I must correct : the limit is MacOS 10.5, not 10.6. Currently this version does not display graphics on an Intel machine running 10.5.8. >I put a note about the graphics problem in the file "Known Issues.rtf" that >accompanies the release. I still have not tested the application myself on >an Intel Mac or on Snow Leopard at all. On an Intel Mac with OS X 10.5, you >_should_ be able to get graphics with BP 2.9.7 beta by running it with >Rosetta. The following Apple support article explains how to do this: > > Intel-based Macs: Forcing a Universal application to run with Rosetta > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1730 GOOD NEWS: It works! You get graphics when using Rosetta. However there is a trick for activating Rosetta: the first time you open get-info on Bol Proccessor icon, the "Run with Rosetta" checkbox might appear dimmed. No panic, close the window and open it again! ;-) Still, this should not refrain my motivation to rewrite graphic code... > > I suggest that once graphics have been fixed we jump to version "2.10". ;-) > >I've been wondering whether we would run out of version numbers before we >were ready for "3.0.0" ;-) It would be easy to remember that version 2.9 is for MacOS 9 and 2.10 for MacOS 10... >Of course, fixing the graphics problem will be a priority along with any >work on porting to Linux. I would be pleased if someone else wanted to pick >up the task of learning Quartz, etc. but I could do it eventually if needed. There is also some interesting work that I would love to assist if anybody is interested : interfacing BP2 with the Mbrola diphone speech synthesizer: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html Not only BP2 would start singing, but this would also be a fascinating tool for checking models of speech rhythm. This idea is supported by my colleague Daniel Hirst, a prominent specialist of speech prosody who designed a model similar tio polymetric expressions. >Just an idea: Sourceforge now allows projects to run a long list of >supplied web applications including MediaWiki. So, if desired, we could >host the documentation wiki on http://bolprocessor.sourceforge.net/. Great. Altogether we need to make sure that exports of the wiki are possible and can be archived in a long-term preservation system. Unfortunately, since MediaWiki is using a database this procedure is not certain. This is one of the reasons why I adopted PmWiki which only manipulates text files (in Unicode). Among the advantages is that you can move the entire site (data + program) to another web server in a couple of mouse-clicks! In addition, crdo.fr is a long-term web location. We booked the domain for 10,000 years. ;-) >I see that there have been 7 downloads of the 2.9.7 OS X binary already. I >hope everyone is enjoying a slightly improved BP2! The old interface looks so funny on a 24-inch monitor. ;-) Bernard |
