Releasing WinHugs

[Neil Mitchell]

> If you don't count interact as a bug.  Do getChar/putChar work?
putChar works fine, getChar doesn't. I can probably fix this up in the
long run, I just don't have a clue where to start for now - the whole
flow of control with the message pump, setjmp, polling etc. is quite
confusing.


> A WinHugs blurb for the User's Guide is important; it doesn't
> have to be very long.
That's easy enough. I'll submit something.


> What would :main do?
":main arg1 arg2" would invoke main, but getArgs would return
["arg1","arg2"] for that execution. This would be fantastically useful
for testing console programs. This would be a Hugs improvement, not
specific to WinHugs.


> You might like to check whether HGL works with WinHugs: try running
> main in hugsdir/demos/HGL/GTest.hs -- it should pop up lots of windows
> that react to events in different ways (README in that directory gives
> the details).

First off, it doesn't load. By changing the path from 
{Hugs}\packages\*
to:
{Hugs}\packages\HGL;{Hugs}\packages\Win32;

I get it to load. Is this a Windows problem, or a more general problem?

Once I get it running, typing main brings up all the windows.
Unfortunately playing with them gives warnings like:

Run-Time Check Failure #0 - The value of ESP was not properly saved
across a function call.  This is usually a result of calling a
function declared with one calling convention with a function pointer
declared with a different calling convention.

inside incMallocPtrRefCnt

And every so often it crashes.


> - Need to check whether the Unicode stuff works under Windows.
I doubt it, but fundamentally the controls are all operating system
controls, and should support unicode. Its just a case of replacing
char* and CHAR* for LPTSTR, then checking.

> - The plain interpreter hasn't been built under VC++ for some time;
>   someone needs to do that and test it.
I did it when I submitted the project files for msc, its fine for
basic use, I didn't extensively test it.

> - WinHugs builds under MSYS+MinGW, but the executable just hangs.
>   (Not essential to fix this, but would be nice.)
I will install the required MSYS+MinGW and see what happens, I
wouldn't have expected it to hang, but it should be fixable.

> - Someone will have to do the Windows packaging, including the program
>   compiled with VC++ (for the stack overflow protection) and the
>   documentation is HTML Help form.
I don't know how to compile the HTML Help, but I'm sure I can figure
it out. I have builds of the 3 binaries for Hugs.

Thanks

Neil