This topic is a follow up for Future of XPCE . The initial plan was to give xpce, the SWI-Prolog GUI library, a boost to keep it alive. As a result, xpce is now being moved to SDL+Cairo+Pango, providing an excellent cross-platform basis. See Home · SWI-Prolog/packages-xpce Wiki · GitHub . Besides…

Thanks, Jan. I got the daily build (10.1.5-2-gc829d651e-DIRTY)) and I’m trying it now. Seems like I managed to get it to freeze by clicking around the File > New dialogue, but that happened only once, otherwise everything seems to be working OK now, no error and no pullright menu message. I also tr…

[image] stassa.p: What’s the difference? Between what and what? Fedora 42 uses SDL 3.2 and GCC 14 and Fedora 43 SDL 3.4 and GCC 15. We do not use any feature specific to SDL 3.4, but they changed the way the File Dialog is implemented for Windows and introduced a bug. GCC 15 produces …

Thanks! I meant the difference between Fedora and Windows. I guess I could have just booted it up and found out. I think I’m on Fedora 42 btw, probably need to update at some point.

[image] stassa.p: I meant the difference between Fedora and Windows For running SWI-Prolog? From version 10, both versions pretty much have the same functionality. Running pure Prolog code has about the same performance. Thread management, I/O and graphics are a lot faster on Fedora. …

[image] jan: The Fedora version feels a lot snappier than the Windows 11 version and text rendering is clearer. That’s a good reason to spend more time on Fedora. But thanks to @mgondan1 and @EricGT for the work on the windows version!

[image] stassa.p: Claude? Et tu Jan? :sweat_smile: @jan I’ve been thinking about this comment I made in an offhand manner last time and it’s made me feel uncomfortable. I don’t want it to sound like I don’t respect your time. I guess it’s no secret that I don’t like LLMs but I’m glad that AI …

[image] stassa.p: So, I hope I didn’t offend you with my stupid joke Not at all :slight_smile: Note that besides a bug killing machine, I’m also a bug generator :slight_smile: And I use LLMs. Mostly because I want to understand what they can do and how I can best make use of them. I’m …

[image] jan: Not at all :slight_smile: Note that besides a bug killing machine, I’m also a bug generator :slight_smile: Thanks for putting my mind at ease :sweat_smile: [image] jan: All in all, they are an “interesting companion” :slight_smile: Considering what they could do a year ago t…

[image] stassa.p: Edit 2: Also, the coloriser is very, very broken now in my editor. I hope it’s OK to upload a small image: [image] jan: This is a serious issue but I need something to reproduce. @stassa.p , can you send the file (or some other file showing the problem) to bugs@swi-prolog…

Hi Stassa My experience matches your one, I have a (probably dumb) suggestion: save often and then hit File \ Revert

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