development newLISP version 9.1.9

[Lutz]

- 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">http://newlisp.org/downloads/development



Lutz

[Ryon]

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!

[Lutz]

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

[didi]

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 .

[didi]

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 ?

[Lutz]

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

[didi]

After rebooting the PC it works again .

I think you are right - i'll try to repeat it .

[didi]

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 !  :-)

[Fanda]

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">http://www.download.com/Process-Explore ... ag=lst-0-1">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:

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Also their website:

http://www.sysinternals.com/">http://www.sysinternals.com/

moved to:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysint ... fault.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

(They are good, Microsoft bought them ;-))

[didi]

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 :-)