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

[David N Murray]

(sorry, inadvertantly hit send too soon)

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 p. 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 when I run it.  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 (I'm not sure what color) and then a white
background.

Any additional thoughts would be appreciated.  I'm using the latest SDL,
but whatever my slackware install has for OpenGL, which looks like

OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5.3)

(per glxinfo).  The OpenGL website talks about version 2.1, but I haven't
come across a downloads link.  Looks like its heavily integrated into X.

Any additional thoughts?

TIA,
Dave