Clipboard #2

Now as clipd and janusd should be able to work together, I was tempted to try it ;):


You can see the amigaOS 68k JanoEditor and the default AROS x86 Editor. Both are running side by side. You can select the copy/paste menus of both (they share the same AROS look and feel of course) and transfer data from AROS to amigaOS and vice versa.

After some playing around, the 68k side was locked :(. Still some bug hunting left, as it seems..

use_gui=no

I've also changed the configuration GUI. In e-uae you have either the possibility to run with a GUI and get this GUI if you start e-uae. Or you start without a GUI and get directly to the UAE window, but you can't get into the GUI later on.

Now the GUI is always started, but as j-uae is a commodity, you can hide/show it with exchange at any time. uaerc.config option "use_gui" just controls, if j-uae starts in show or hide mode.

Planet AROS

If everything works, this post should also be available from Rob's Planet AROS. Try it, if you did not come from there. I really find this a good idea, thnx Rob.

Clipboard

Currently I am working on clipboard sharing. I had a look at the WinUAE sources, as it now also has clipboard sharing available. But I was not able to use any of their code. First they code all the m68k parts in assembler. Even if I really like m68k assembler, C has it advantages. Second thing is, they have all assembler parts in one file (filesystem.asm), which hasn't been updated in e-uae for quite a while (2007). Third, they exchange clipboard data on every clipboard change. So if you copy the clipboard, it is synced at once. I wanted to sync it only, if necessary.

Good thing is, that all the clipboard content parsing, WinUAE has to do, is not necessary for us. You can copy amigaOS clipboard data without modification to the AROS clipboard, as both have an IFF structure.

So now there is a small m68k program (clipd), which you can start in user-startup for example. As soon as it runs, you can enable/disable clipboard sharing in the j-uae gui.


Clipd is independent of janusd, so you can also use it in normal uae mode.

So far it is working only partially. Problem is, that there are quite often freezes and I am not so sure, why. Clipboard.device blocks writes as long as there is a read. Somehow this happens too often for me. Maybe there is some kind of race condition somewhere in my code. Or aros clipboard.device is buggy.

One thing I noticed in aros clipboard.device is, that it behaves different, if you don't supply a buffer for reading. In amigaOS you can find out the current size of the clipboard with data=NULL, on AROS you just get back -1. I will commit a fix for that as soon as I have everything working stable in j-uae.

My time is quite limited at the moment, so expect slow progress in the next weeks.

Have a nice weekend.