HTMLview doesn't work with MUI4 on OS3

[afalkenhahn]

On OS3 HTMLview doesn't work correctly with MUI4. There is a blue-checkered pattern all over the gadgets contents making everything unreadable. See screenshot. There should be a HTML page in the area that is blue-checkered but only two images reading "NEW" from that page are actually visible.

It works correctly with MUI 3.8. I haven't checked OS4 and MorphOS yet.

[midwan]

Is this project still alive? I would also like to see this fixed if possible. :)

[jens-maus]

Well, this project is as active is it has developers. Thore and me are unfortunately busy with other stuff currently. So if you want to see faster/further progress please join as a developer and submit your changes or bring some developers to work on htmlview.mcc.

[midwan]

My c/c++ is a little rusty, but I will gladly take a look and see if I can help somewhere.

[midwan]

Hm, the readme mentions that developers should register in SourceForge:
"If you want to contribute to the development of HTMLview.mcc please register
with SourceForge.net and notify one of the project admins of the HTMLview.mcc
project available at http://www.sf.net/projects/htmlview-mcc/"

Is that still the case, or it it outdated information?
If there is a choice, I'd much prefer Github and git-based sources instead of SVN.

[jens-maus]

of course this is outdated, you are on GitHub here. So get familiar with Github and especially using "git"!

[midwan]

@jens-maus after only a few years, I'm coming back to this :)
I wanted to see if I can help fix the issues with HTMLview, mainly the fact that it doesn't work as expected on newer MUI versions. But for now, I can't even compile it for OS3, when using the GCC docker image.

What's the recommended way to get this to compile? Older GCC directly under AmigaOS? Any other option?
(ideally we could add automated builds for this as well, like we did for DOpus5).

[afalkenhahn]

You might want to get in touch with Edgar Schwan because he has already done some work on this. Some time ago he sent me an OS4 build of HTMLview.mcc that worked with MUI 5.

[jens-maus]

You might want to get in touch with Edgar Schwan because he has already done some work on this. Some time ago he sent me an OS4 build of HTMLview.mcc that worked with MUI 5.

If this is really the case, then where is the Pull Request to integrate his changes so that he conforms to the LGPL license?

[afalkenhahn]

When I last talked to him about it in December 2021 he said he couldn't create a pull request because his fixes weren't compatible with the sources on github, whatever that may mean.

[midwan]

@afalkenhahn
I have already reached out to Edgar, and he kindly provided me with the version he worked on, along with these comments:

Yes, I was working on it, but I only have a version for OS4. It is based
on the older 13.4 and works here with MUI5, but is a bit unstable. I
never tried to compile it for 68k and I don't have a working compiler
for it (I'm only working with OS4).

I'm attaching the sources here as well.
htmlview-13.4beta2.lha.zip

Unfortunately however, these also don't compile for OS3 for me, at least when using the GCC mentioned above.

[midwan]

@jens-maus
Tried using the old GCC 2.9 under AmigaOS today, but unfortunately I still get the same kind of errors when trying to compile HTMLview for OS3. I have the NDK3.9 in this environment as well, like the Docker image had. Perhaps that is causing this? If so, what was used to compile the previous binaries?