Some CAPI demos

Happy New Year everybody!

In the last year, I've written (in Lisp, of course) quite a few small
demos for my students.  None of them is in any way new or spectacular
(although I like the Mandelbrot one quite a bit), but they are all
full-blown delivered executables (most of them for Windows, Linux, and
Mac OS) showing a variety of CAPI features.  So I thought I'd upload
some of them to my website in case someone wants to have a look at
them.  Here are the first four:

  http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/
  http://weitz.de/aco/
  http://weitz.de/hanoi/
  http://weitz.de/turing/

They haven't seen much testing yet, so if you come across something
that's fishy or doesn't work as advertised, I'd be happy if you could
send me a short email.

The upshot in terms of Lisp evangelism has been quite good, BTW.  Most
of the students have only been exposed to Java and scripting languages
so far and there are always some who express an immediate interest in
learning more about CL.

More to come... :)

Cheers,
Edi.

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Re: Some CAPI demos

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:

>   http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/

My apologies for the noise, but I managed to introduce a typical
last-minute error.  I've just uploaded a new version.  If your mouse
is over the EXE file it should now identify itself as having version
0.1.1.0.

Sorry,
Edi.

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Re: Some CAPI demos

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:

>   http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/

I've added a Linux version of the Mandelbrot set explorer.  It
definitely needs some testing!  (I only have a pretty old Linux
machine available and have to test CAPI apps via X.  Not much fun...)

Cheers,
Edi.

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Re: Some CAPI demos

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:

>  http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/

I've now finally managed to upload an "official" version of this
program for OS X.  Thanks to Camille Troillard for nudging me to do it
and for helping me to debug it.  As always: Please report any issues
you encounter to me.

Cheers,
Edi.

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Re: Some CAPI demos

Oooh, that's bad.  I could only test on OS X 10.4 so far.  I'll see if
I can lure my wife away from her Mac so that I can test there.

Thanks for the heads-up,
Edi.


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:19 PM, David McClain <david@acudora.com> wrote:
> Oops! Fired it up on OS X Mtn Lion, and the first mouse-click in the image region draws a white square around the mouse position and then fires an error message: "Attempt to retain on a null pointer". ... poof! ...
>
> - DM
>
> On Jan 27, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>>
>>> http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/
>>
>> I've now finally managed to upload an "official" version of this
>> program for OS X.  Thanks to Camille Troillard for nudging me to do it
>> and for helping me to debug it.  As always: Please report any issues
>> you encounter to me.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Edi.
>>
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>
> Dr. David McClain
> CTO & Co-Founder
> Acudora (TM)
> e-mail: david@acudora.com
> Tel: (+1) 520-529-2437
>
>
>

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Re: Some CAPI demos

So, I can now confirm after tests on several different Macs that the
application works fine on 10.4 (two different machines) and does not
work at all on 10.6 or higher.  Unfortunately, I neither have an idea
what the problem could be nor do I have a Mac with something newer
than 10.4.  I think I'll just retract the Mac version for now.


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
> Oooh, that's bad.  I could only test on OS X 10.4 so far.  I'll see if
> I can lure my wife away from her Mac so that I can test there.
>
> Thanks for the heads-up,
> Edi.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:19 PM, David McClain <david@acudora.com> wrote:
>> Oops! Fired it up on OS X Mtn Lion, and the first mouse-click in the image region draws a white square around the mouse position and then fires an error message: "Attempt to retain on a null pointer". ... poof! ...
>>
>> - DM
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/
>>>
>>> I've now finally managed to upload an "official" version of this
>>> program for OS X.  Thanks to Camille Troillard for nudging me to do it
>>> and for helping me to debug it.  As always: Please report any issues
>>> you encounter to me.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Edi.
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users
>>> lisp-hug@lispworks.com
>>> http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Dr. David McClain
>> CTO & Co-Founder
>> Acudora (TM)
>> e-mail: david@acudora.com
>> Tel: (+1) 520-529-2437
>>
>>
>>

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Re: Some CAPI demos

Mikel Evins was nice enough to send me a backtrace from a current
version of OS X and it seems I was able to solve this problem.  The
new version doesn't show this strange crash-on-first-click behavior
anymore and was tested on 10.4 and 10.6 (here at home), 10.7.5 (Mikel)
and 10.8.2 (thanks to Hans Hübner).  So I hope it's OK if I pester the
list once again with a Mac version:

  http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/

And don't shoot me if it still doesn't work for you... :)

Thanks,
Edi.


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
> Oooh, that's bad.  I could only test on OS X 10.4 so far.  I'll see if
> I can lure my wife away from her Mac so that I can test there.
>
> Thanks for the heads-up,
> Edi.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:19 PM, David McClain <david@acudora.com> wrote:
>> Oops! Fired it up on OS X Mtn Lion, and the first mouse-click in the image region draws a white square around the mouse position and then fires an error message: "Attempt to retain on a null pointer". ... poof! ...
>>
>> - DM
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/
>>>
>>> I've now finally managed to upload an "official" version of this
>>> program for OS X.  Thanks to Camille Troillard for nudging me to do it
>>> and for helping me to debug it.  As always: Please report any issues
>>> you encounter to me.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Edi.
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users
>>> lisp-hug@lispworks.com
>>> http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Dr. David McClain
>> CTO & Co-Founder
>> Acudora (TM)
>> e-mail: david@acudora.com
>> Tel: (+1) 520-529-2437
>>
>>
>>

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Re: Some CAPI demos

Sometimes it seems to freeze up on the first click, other times it
works fine.  No support for Retina display (so everything appears
pixel-doubled).  Otherwise, very nice.  Sources?

Nick B

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>
> Mikel Evins was nice enough to send me a backtrace from a current
> version of OS X and it seems I was able to solve this problem.  The
> new version doesn't show this strange crash-on-first-click behavior
> anymore and was tested on 10.4 and 10.6 (here at home), 10.7.5 (Mikel)
> and 10.8.2 (thanks to Hans Hübner).  So I hope it's OK if I pester the
> list once again with a Mac version:
>
>   http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/
>
> And don't shoot me if it still doesn't work for you... :)
>
> Thanks,
> Edi.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>> Oooh, that's bad.  I could only test on OS X 10.4 so far.  I'll see if
>> I can lure my wife away from her Mac so that I can test there.
>>
>> Thanks for the heads-up,
>> Edi.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:19 PM, David McClain <david@acudora.com> wrote:
>>> Oops! Fired it up on OS X Mtn Lion, and the first mouse-click in the image region draws a white square around the mouse position and then fires an error message: "Attempt to retain on a null pointer". ... poof! ...
>>>
>>> - DM
>>>
>>> On Jan 27, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/
>>>>
>>>> I've now finally managed to upload an "official" version of this
>>>> program for OS X.  Thanks to Camille Troillard for nudging me to do it
>>>> and for helping me to debug it.  As always: Please report any issues
>>>> you encounter to me.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Edi.
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users
>>>> lisp-hug@lispworks.com
>>>> http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Dr. David McClain
>>> CTO & Co-Founder
>>> Acudora (TM)
>>> e-mail: david@acudora.com
>>> Tel: (+1) 520-529-2437
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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Re: Some CAPI demos

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> wrote:
> Sometimes it seems to freeze up on the first click, other times it
> works fine.

Haven't seen that yet.  Is there a way to reproduce it?

> No support for Retina display (so everything appears
> pixel-doubled).

If someone wants to give me with a machine with Retina display, I'd be
happy to work on this problem... :)

(Seriously, though, what do you have to do in CAPI do write
applications for Retina displays?)

> Sources?

I have no plans to publish the source code if that's what you mean.
Email me privately if you're interested in getting it.

Thanks for the feedback,
Edi.

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Re: Some CAPI demos

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Sometimes it seems to freeze up on the first click, other times it
>> works fine.
>
> Haven't seen that yet.  Is there a way to reproduce it?

No idea.  I click and get a white box, then it's totally unresponsive.

>> No support for Retina display (so everything appears
>> pixel-doubled).
>
> If someone wants to give me with a machine with Retina display, I'd be
> happy to work on this problem... :)

Well, mine was cheaper than the equivalent machine with a regular display....

> (Seriously, though, what do you have to do in CAPI do write
> applications for Retina displays?)

That's an excellent question for the LW people.  I don't have LW for Mac.

>> Sources?
>
> I have no plans to publish the source code if that's what you mean.
> Email me privately if you're interested in getting it.

I'm just curious about the algorithms you've used.  Back in the early
90s I spent some time 'brotting on a SPARCstation, pimping cycles out
of the inner loop and looking at the various tweaks known (which I
recall being variations on flood-filling).  This takes me back.

Nick B

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Re: Some CAPI demos

A while ago, I wrote the mail below.  In the meantime I've added a
couple more demos (including one that I just hacked together last
week).  Here they are:

  http://weitz.de/polygons/
  http://weitz.de/lindenmayer/
  http://weitz.de/morph/
  http://weitz.de/gauss/

As always, I'm interested in bug reports (which you probably shouldn't
bother the whole list with).

Thanks,
Edi.





On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@weitz.de> wrote:
> Happy New Year everybody!
>
> In the last year, I've written (in Lisp, of course) quite a few small
> demos for my students.  None of them is in any way new or spectacular
> (although I like the Mandelbrot one quite a bit), but they are all
> full-blown delivered executables (most of them for Windows, Linux, and
> Mac OS) showing a variety of CAPI features.  So I thought I'd upload
> some of them to my website in case someone wants to have a look at
> them.  Here are the first four:
>
>   http://weitz.de/mandelbrot/
>   http://weitz.de/aco/
>   http://weitz.de/hanoi/
>   http://weitz.de/turing/
>
> They haven't seen much testing yet, so if you come across something
> that's fishy or doesn't work as advertised, I'd be happy if you could
> send me a short email.
>
> The upshot in terms of Lisp evangelism has been quite good, BTW.  Most
> of the students have only been exposed to Java and scripting languages
> so far and there are always some who express an immediate interest in
> learning more about CL.
>
> More to come... :)
>
> Cheers,
> Edi.

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