To add to the project list (maybe this should be a separate thread?)
I am going to see if I can make a LisaWrite-to-RTF converter.
Assuming no one else is working on or has already made one
A LOS tool that will help manage serialized tools/apps would be useful.
Desirable features may include:
- List the apps on a hard drive that are serialized
- List the serial number(s) applied to each of those apps
- Re-serialize the apps to the current machines SN (or perhaps be able to specify an SN in anticipation of use on another specific machine)
- De-serialize the apps (No idea if this is useful for an app already installed on the hard drive)
A LOS app/tool that will renumber an installed tool/app might be useful (if such a thing is possible).
Quote from: sigma7 on Yesterday at 07:30:45 PMA LOS app/tool that will renumber an installed tool/app might be useful (if such a thing is possible).
It would be possible for certain tools, but perhaps not for others. Some tools (including many of the stock LOS ones) have their number hard-coded at one or more places within their source code, so you'd need to either recompile or find this string and carefully patch the tool, with the caveat that the new tool number string can't be longer or shorter than the original one.
I've noticed that when LLMs generate LOS apps, they really like hard-coding their tool numbers too, presumably because so many LOS apps do it and they just copy what they see there. But this is really bad practice, so I always go back and manually change it to dynamically read the tool number from the tool's filename, which is how you should really be doing it.