- the first development release with GUI-Server source
- all files in the package have moved to the GPL v.3 license
- binary installers for Win32 and MAC OS X Intel and PPC
- first binary installers on Mac OS X with app. in /Applications folder
files and changes notes: http://newlisp.org/downloads/development
Lutz
I spent an enjoyable half hour or so, with the demos from this release. The default binary installed without any problems on my XP machine (more on this in a second). What you have done to civilize the Java GUI is phenomenal, Lutz!
The image-demo/textrot-demo.lsp code to set up a window, then rotate and scale the contents must be some of the cleanest code in the universe. Really! How could these instructions be stated more elegantly?
Small things to fix:
In the clipboard demo, the 'Quit and loose unsaved content' dialog should say "lose" instead.
html-demo.lsp expects the html-demo.lsp text file in the same directory as the run.exe. It's in the /guiserver directory in this release.
While the installer is fine for default installs to C:/Program Files, it failed when I tried an install to my S:/programs directory. I recall the installer flashing several lines of 'C:/Program Files'. Bad installer! Bad!
Thanks for the input and corrections Ryan. Not sure if I can make the installer (NSIS from Nullsoft) to install on other drives like C: but I will try ;-).
Lutz
Until now all is working well :-) ( win2k )
The installation was without problems , i can start the newLISP-gui now from the desktop-icon .
The demos out of the help-folder are running , i have several tabs open , i can start every tab , run , stop and reset . I was programming ( and testing macros ) some hours without problems .
newlisp-edit / newlisp-gui error ?
after i first made an error - i initiated the frame with zeroes - i had to break it with the task-manager (win) . After that i restarted newlisp-edit , and now after loading a program that is sure ok , everytime a hint appears "the running process must be finished first" . No starts out of newlisp-edit are possible, doesn't matter what program.
Is it possible, that the editor has stored a kind of "is running" flag , that isn't cleared after the forced break ?
Nothing is stored or remembered. There was still some process running. Kill all newlisp and Java processes from the taskmanager there may be several, look trough the whole list.
Lutz
After rebooting the PC it works again .
I think you are right - i'll try to repeat it .
OK - you're right .
I stopped only the newlisp-task, but in the background the "java.exe" process was still running .
After i stopped it and restarted the newlisp-edit all is ok ! :-)
I am using some older version of Process Explorer. You can get the new one here:
http://www.download.com/Process-Explorer/3000-2094_4-10684373.html?tag=lst-0-1
It is much easier to see, what is running and it is much faster in killing processes. I use it anytime the newlisp process gets "stuck".
Fanda
PS: Get other good stuff:
http://www.download.com/Sysinternals/3260-20_4-59553.html?tag=tdw_publink
Also their website:
http://www.sysinternals.com/
moved to:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx
(They are good, Microsoft bought them ;-))
Thanks Fanda !
The process-explorer is working fine - good to see what happens on my pc , and there are a lot of options what you can display ( the option working-set is equal to the task-managers 'memory-usage' ) .
Interesting for newLISP-gui is , the initial used workspace for java is some 10MBytes (23MB?) , but then after a short time it's reduced to 2MB .
newLISP uses about 3.5MB .
For a new process startet out of newLISP-edit 2MB+3.5MB are used - not much :-)