Blitz & Reqtools Library

[BippyM]

Hi Guys,

Back in 1999 I wrote a program that displays area codes using blitz. It was tested (by various people) and released fully working.

Recently I have been going through my old source and progs, and this program no longer works. For some reason when I try and get the directory from the reqtools requester it is returning the requester title instead of the dir.

Now this definitely worked in 1999 or whenever I last updated it, and now it doesn't.

Code for the reqtools file rquester is below.

.filere

  ; This routine setsup a file requester inc.. Flags etc..

  Dim filtags.TagItem(2)

  *ress.rtFileRequester=0
  *ress=rtAllocRequestA_(#RT_FILEREQ,0)
RTS

;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

.filereq

  filtags(0)\ti_Tag=#RT_Underscore, 95

  filtags(1)\ti_Tag=#TAG_DONE
  res.l=0
  res.l=rtFileRequestA_ (*ress,&filenme,&titl,&filtags(0))

          If res
            dirnme.s=NPeek$(*ress\Dir)

;          NPrint dirnme

           If dirnme<>""
            If Right$(dirnme,1)<>":" Then dirnme+"/"

            stry$=dirnme+filenme

            If loads=1
              NSetStringText 4, stry$
              NRefreshGadget 4
              topr$=stry$
;              NPrint stry$
;              NPrint "topr$="+topr$
              loads=0
            Else
              codename$=stry$
;              NPrint stry$
              JSR loadcodes
            EndIf
          Else
            *ress\Dir=dirnme
          EndIf
        EndIf
RTS

[BippyM]

Anyone?

[Daedalus]

I don't know since I've never used ReqTools with Blitz, but it sounds like the code might be using a different NewType to the expected one. If you're trying to compile it with an updated Blitz environment, perhaps the relevant include, resident or command library has changed, shifting the fields along.

[BippyM]

The only difference between 1999 and 2018 is the version of WB. I might have to try it in a wb3.0 environment.

I have the same blitzlibs, deflibs, resident files etc.. The directory is returned in the Dir structure as per the reqtools docs, and I have a working exe of the same program so somthing is amiss!

[Daedalus]

Hmmm, I really can't imagine it's the Workbench version but yeah, no harm trying anyway, just in case. That's very odd...

[BippyM]

I agree totally, I doubt it's the version of wb but worth looking into.