[mcclim-devel] cpu constantly at 99% with just a simple GUI open

[Dietrich Bollmann]

Hi Troels and David,

Originally I wanted to answer to your emails when everything works ...
but as there are new problems which make it impossible to use sbcl on my
computer I will switch back to cmucl for a while and postpone the
development of the gui until sbcl works again.  As this might take some
time I thought I rather answer to your last emails now.

Following your suggestions I installed sbcl, the lisp userland and
mcclim with clbuild - and beside some minor problems (inbetween them the
crashing of more or less half of the mcclim demodemo examples) things
seemed to work somehow.

As I only need very simple gui functionality, I decided to give it a try
and ported my code from cmucl to sbcl as you told me that this is the
lisp implementation which currently works best with mcclim.

Unfortunately since yesterday there is a new problem with an updated
version of libc6 on debian which renders sbcl unusable on my computer
(See the thread "[Sbcl-devel] SBCL hanging seemingly randomly",
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1204420182.4466.42.camel%40hake&forum_name=sbcl-devel ) and I will switch back to cmucl and postpone the development of the gui until things work again.

Thanks a lot for your help and the efforts you put into mcclim!
Probably until some time later,

Dietrich

On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 01:51 +0100, Troels Henriksen wrote:
> Dietrich Bollmann <diresu at web.de> writes:
> 
> > As far as I remember it was the calculator.
> >
> > I also tried the drawing tool (first example button) and I think
> > a similar exception message was shown.
> 
> Everything that uses the text-editing substrate will fail. The
> calculator uses it for the display (which is OK), and the drawing
> tool, provided you mean CLIM-FIG, uses it as a status-bar, which is
> really not how it's supposed to be used, but whatever.
> 
> To fix it, you must install the CVS version Flexichain library. This
> is a temporary problem until the next release of Flexichain (after
> which the asdf-installable version will work just fine).
>