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here there are the result: $ sudo apt install gnome-themes-extra:i386 [sudo] password for walter: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package gnome-themes-extra:i386 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the p...

Sorry Ivan, I still have trouble during the installation using the following commands wget http://deb.oberon.org/deb.oberon.org.gpg.key sudo apt-key add deb.oberon.org.gpg.key sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 echo "deb http://deb.oberon.org/linux18 testing main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sou...

Experience Report about using the Linux BB 1.8 and the Windows BB 1.7 in Wine: Copy and Paste from Linux BB to Wine BB works, but it lost the commander (!) Copy and Paste from Wine BB to Linux BB doesn't work directly. It works via paste into an editor and copy again from the editor. The HZ copy wor...

Today I install the Linux version of Blackbox on linux Mint 20 based on Ubuntu 20.04 wget http://deb.oberon.org/deb.oberon.org.gpg.key sudo apt-key add deb.oberon.org.gpg.key sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 echo "deb http://deb.oberon.org/linux20 testing main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sour...

Thank you Ivan for repeating the instruction here. I'm blind as a bat. You have the instruction on our website. I installed the Linux version 1.8 of BlackBox and it is running on my computer. Sorry, I'm very slow about learning the Linux environment. Now I figure out the difference between Linux and...

Thank you very much Adimetrius for working out this topic. Are you working with bbcb-1.8-a1.037.zip from the website https://blackbox.oberon.org/download ? I have not running the Linux version on my computer. Is there somewhere an installation instruction ? Can you please send me a saveset of your C...

Thank you Adimetrius for your answer. That will be one way. Another solution will be to call the Linux library instead of the Windows library. Does anybody from the Linux group have a solution in this direction? Where can I find samples of using the Linux library? How to get started? A 3rd way will ...

I have the following copy procedure in BlackBox: PROCEDURE Copy* (IN source, destination: ARRAY OF CHAR); VAR res: INTEGER; BEGIN res := WinApi.CopyFileW(source, destination, 0); IF res # 1 THEN ShowApiError END; END Copy; This procedure works well, but there is a big difference between Windows and ...

You should use the [untagged] flag only for interfacing data and DLLs outside BlackBox. For modules written inside Blackbox you should never use the [untagged] flag. The documentation advice: Always use untagged records as replacements for C structures, in order to avoid the allocation of a type tag...