itemz does not use new € sign

[sur5r]

I just updated the floppy with current master and found itemz not to be using the new € sign. I have no time to fix it myself, though.

[stapelberg]

This is what it looks like to me right now:

Is that not the correct € sign? It looks the same to me like in the kasse main program.

[sur5r]

Maybe this behaves inconsistently for some reason on real hardware. Will have to try.

[stapelberg]

Ah, I think the problem might be that the itemz program does not call

c128-kasse/src/kasse.c

Line 307 in 7ac9f79

vdc_patch_charset();

when starting.

When autostarting the kasse disk image (like we do in make vice), the character set is modified and that influences the itemz program, too.

But, when changing -autostart kasse.d71 to -8 kasse.d71 and running run"itemz, I see a broken euro symbol indeed:

I have been thinking about merging itemz into kasse, so that we only need the one program. Was there any reason against that, or have we just never gotten around to doing it? (We did something similar for the credit manager AFAIR.)

[sur5r]

I think we simply never got around to it. Also, modifying items while running kasse could have interesting side effects. The data model also does not cope with prices changing over time. At least the sum is going to be wrong.

[stapelberg]

I think commit 62aba6c should do it :)

We’re re-loading the items file after running the itemz_manager() function.

[sur5r]

Makes sense at a first glance. Should be tested before the event, though.