http://www.osnews.com/story/12441/Pixel_Ported_to_SkyOS Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 24 May 2013 03:08:08 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?52628 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52628 Now is this an alpha release of Pixel, or a beta? Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (klynch) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52638 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52638 Pixel works on Plan 9 and Inferno too? Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52641 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52641 Alpha or Beta, that I don't know.

What I know is that I bought damn software (about a year ago) and it didn't work (or better said, if crashing is the way of working then one could say it worked as it should).

I didn't even received damn serial number for it. And what I noticed (on forum) was that I wasn't the only one. After that I just forgot that until now:) Well... who cares, $50 (or something like that I payed) just isn't worth bothering for a software that can't do 2 operations without crashing (at least in that time Linux version would deserve codename Katrina). Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (somebody) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52643 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52643 I remember a SkyOS forum post about how easy Pixel would be to port (only a couple of hours) once freepascal was ported. I'm surprised it took a few days! Nonetheless, this is a cool app and it's always nice when minority OSs get more apps.

[edit]Testing editing...[/edit]Edited 2005-10-28 21:53 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Roguelazer) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52652 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52652 It is kind of weird for me to see 2 german words in thsi all english desktop, now I wonder why.
Is this a partially translated version or just plain wrong? Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52653 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52653 I'm still perfecting it!Edited 2005-10-28 22:42 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52673 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52673 Before I bought Pixel, I did take a look at the forums and wondered how this happened. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I bought it and had no problems so far. Received access to the members area after 24 hours. And Pavel has been very responsive and friendly. All the bugs which I've submitted were fixed. Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gamehack) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52707 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52707 i will repurchase the program jsut for this Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52713 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52713 This port was not possible only because of compiler. That app is pretty well damn good written. That guy wrote his own GUI engine also... Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Brmbolec) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52740 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52740 Go FPC! It's not just good for porting to multiple platforms, it can be used to WRITE platforms. Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52758 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52758 Nice, pitty about the SkyOS part *cough* Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rowan Lewis) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52775 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52775 Nice application, it's nice to see how portable is it.
It would be great if it run into the native GUI though. Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jeanmarc) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52779 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52779 Native widgetset will of course drop the application portability and will introduce different behaviour on every new platform (including hundreds of bugs). As far I know it is planned for v2.0 but it wasn't decided yet. Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52833 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52833 Really a nice application!
Nice to see it ported also in BeOS! Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tanner) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52837 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52837 I wonder if they will also port it to Nokia 770. Might get some nice press for that. Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52844 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52844 There's no they, there's only one person doing this. If that Nokia 770 runs Linux and it is an ARM processor it is of course possible. Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52880 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52880 > Nice application, it's nice to see how portable is it.
> It would be great if it run into the native GUI though.

These two statements contradict each other. I've created a multiplatform application with native GUI once. I'll do it never again, there is just no point. Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (oracle2025) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?52883 http://www.osnews.com/thread?52883 Well there is a point, for fluidity of the user experience with the host OS, but for single person projects / development this is not always possible, as it adds complications to the mix.

But the point is Users prefer to have an application that blends in and works in a similar fashion to the OS that it is running in, opposed to sticking out like a saw thumb. Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Andrew Youll) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?53200 http://www.osnews.com/thread?53200 It's running linux and is ARM based, so it should not be that big of a thing to do. More information on www.maemo.org. Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments