[Pal-devel] Can't run examples/hello.lisp

[David N Murray]

Tomppa, thanks for the quick reply.  More below.

On Jan 2, Tomi Neste scribed:

>
> Looks like I made a good old off-by-one error on ffi.lisp. Should be fixed
> in the cvs, or you could just change the font structure declaration in
> ffi.lisp to look like:
>
> (defstruct font
>    (file nil)
>    (image nil :type (or boolean image))
>    (glyphs nil :type (or boolean (simple-vector 256)))
>    (height 0 :type u11))

I made this change.  Maybe I should be looking at the CVS since I'm still
having problems.

>
> For some reason the error doesn't always show up... Let me know if this
> helps you get any further.
>

I still am seeing a frame with the correct title, a black background, but
no text.  I also tried the example from the manual pp. 7.  In order to get
that example to work, I had to do (use-package :pal) (It might be because
I'm using an old ASDF).  That got the example to compile, but again, no
text.  I also looked up the params to clear-screen and changed the color
to (127 127 127) and (255 255 255), but I still only saw a black
background with no text.  Hitting Enter makes the window disappear, so
(wait-for-keypress) is working :-)  According to my handy-dandy html color
chart, I was expecting a yellow background initially, then in my tests a

> > My
> > environment is a slackware linux box hosting sbcl and the libraries, but
> > I'm
> > accessing it via a windows box using ssh (PuTTY) and my X-server is
> > Xming.
> > I have no problem running other X apps in this environment.  BTW, the
> > graphics card identified by pal is the graphics card on my windows box,
> > which makes sense.
> >
> I have used pal before with similar setup, so it _should_ work. But for
> some reason I'm not able to get work right now that I tried it :( Probably
> just something wrong with my xming settings, I hope.
> And remember that the performance might not be too good, maybe enough for
> dev-work though. Let me know if you get it working :)
>
>
> --
> tomppa
>