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Re: Gforth on Android

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BruceMcF wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 3:52:34 PM UTC-4, Steve Graham wrote:
>> Can Gforth on the Android be used to make turnkey apps?  Can it
>> interface with the Android GUI?
> 
> How is the command line set up ... when I try to run it on my Nook HD, I
> get a black screen. I have a sneaking suspicion it might be a "black text
> on black screen" kind of situation.

Highly unlikely.  You can actually set text and background colors, but if it 
was black/black by default, others would see the same problem.  So the 
better guess is that you have some unique conditions that don't show up on 
other devices.  Don't worry, usually I find out what it is.

> Is that is something that is set in a start-up file to make it possible to
> experiment with different settings and see is something shows up?

Two things for troublshooting: in /sdcard, you find a gforthout.log and a 
gfortherr.log.  In /sdcard/gforth/site-forth, there's a starta.fs, which is 
read in at startup.  This reads a few android-specific files, especially the 
GL terminal, but also the remote telnet terminal.

If you don't see a crash in gfortherr.log, you can try adding a single

t

at the end of starta.fs, then start Gforth and telnet to Port 4444 - if you 
get Gforth there, then you have an OpenGL problem.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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Gforth on Android Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-14 12:52 -0700
  Re: Gforth on Android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-05-15 01:41 +0200
    Re: Gforth on Android Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-14 17:12 -0700
    Re: Gforth on Android Marvin <marvin_littlewood_426716@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-12 02:08 -0700
  Re: Gforth on Android BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2014-06-10 21:34 -0700
    Re: Gforth on Android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-06-11 16:19 +0200
      Re: Gforth on Android bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-06-13 23:19 -0700
        Re: Gforth on Android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-06-14 14:57 +0200
          Re: Gforth on Android BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2014-06-15 17:49 -0700

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