UPDATE ...

Find it here :

http://www.murga-projects.com/murgaLua/m...IEW.tar.gz

Cheers

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Hi,

I haven't given you guys anything in a while, but ...

The truth is that I am in the middle of some complicated and troublesome code right now, so I am tidying up things to a point where I can do a preview release ... This will occur tomorrow, as I'll do a feature cut-off.

This is going to be a PREVIEW release, with very little documentation just so people can play with the new features before the full release.

It'll really just be the runtimes + some examples.

The features that I have cleaned up and put back in so far are :

• New function "murgaLua.createFltkTimer()" - GREAT for really responsive animation and stuff.
• New function "murgaLua.getHostOsName()" returns one of "linux", "windows" or "macos".
• New function "murgaLua.sleep(miliseconds)" (reliable system level).
• Fixed a few minor FLTK issues.
• XML api additions (will document later).
• convertFluidToMurguaLua fixes based on forum feedback.
  sleep).
  

I will post the package with Linux and Windows support tomorrow, and pass the source to iGame3d so he can post the Mac build shortly after.

I am not including the source until the final release as a few things are a bit of a mess.

Cheers
JohnM

This post was last modified: 07-02-2007 06:28 AM by JohnMurga.

And here are the Mac binaries by iGame3d ...

http://ig3d.homeip.net/murgalua05preview...sIntel.zip

PS : The version number on all these builds is incorrectly reported as 0.4.1 ...

Any feedback on this would be appreciated, for starters I want to state that the drawSleepTest.lua is really an example on how NOT to do things ...

Filtering for events can be risky unless you know exactly what to filter on, for instance I have just noticed that I have to add event "16" to line 3 on one of my Windows machines ... Otherwise the program exists right away.

Secondly, to keep the UI responsive I recommend using the murgaLua.createFltkTimer() control instead of the new sleep function (although the sleep function is pretty useful for other things).

I don't know when I'll make the new release, but I would hope to get a lot of feedback on this release and incorporate some new features, as well as fixes and my own new stuff before the full release.

Cheers
JohnM

initial reaction: I love the timer.
I was trying to think of a need for murgaLua.getHostOsName(). It could be very useful when combined with os.execute or io.popen.

I needed a sleep function in a program which requires a lot of delays in its data display. I replaced the "for loops" with murgaLua.sleep(miliseconds) and I could almost hear my Thinkpad 600 sigh with relief.

Now I can listen to uninterrupted radio on the web and run my program!

Thanks for murgaLua and the puppy linux forum,

Dan

Hi,
I've compiled and tested (quick and dirty) the PREVIEW at OSX 10.4 (PPC).
Compilation problem: OSX has no upx
Solution: build own from source or remark it at Makefile. Makefile seems to have problems with detection of OSX

First test of my own applications did not show any special problems...
Now I'd like to check the old OSX-Problem with SubWindows (not visible, Windows XP works)

My special interest are the new timer-function for my RobotSimulator

Bye
Christian

Umm, could you e-mail me the makefile output ? I assume you where doing "make macos" ?

Also, would you mind doing PPC builds for me in the future ?
I have someone doing Intel builds, but not PPC builds (I think you are the sole user).

Might be worth doing a search in the FLTK forums about that issue ...

I am thinking of trying to get a second hand PPC Mac so I can test and build on macs ...

Do you have a homepage for that project that I can link to ?

Cheers
JohnM

Hi John,
I try to give you all informations later this night, when I'm at $HOME

Cheers
Bye
Christian

Hi John,
after a very long birtday party, I'm now back and try to give you some more informations about murgaLua-0.5-pre at OSX 10.4.10 (PPC)...

make maosx output:

$>make macos
sh ../tools/embedLuaSocket.sh
sh ../tools/embedMurgaLuaLib.sh
make ../bin/murgaLua PLAT=macos
make[1]: `../bin/murgaLua' is up to date.
strip ../bin/murgaLua
../tools/upx --lzma ../bin/murgaLua
../tools/upx: ../tools/upx: cannot execute binary file
make: *** [macos] Error 126


As you see, make tries to execute UPX-Tools, while operating system is not correctly detected...

$(PLATS) :
        sh ../tools/embedLuaSocket.sh
        sh ../tools/embedMurgaLuaLib.sh
        $(MAKE) $(TARGET) PLAT=$@
        strip $(TARGET)$($@EXT)

ifeq ($@,macos)
        @echo "MacOS UPX not available, pack under Linux"
else
        echo $(PLAT)
        #../tools/upx$($@EXT) --lzma $(TARGET)$($@EXT)
endif

A simple output of the variable show the same effect (PLAT ==> none)
Just remarking the usage og UPX helps, but it is just a fake or bad workaround


$>uname -a
Darwin m49svr4169g5.moccy.lan 8.10.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.0: Wed May 23 16:50:59 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.21.3~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

I haven't had time to made more investigations into this problem, but I try to find it out this week...

If I find some more time I can publish my robot-samples at this forum... Currently I have no own homepage available...

Bye Chrimo

Here's the Mac OS Intel Build At more stable location.

this is the sh file I use to build

This post was last modified: 07-27-2007 04:04 PM by iGame3D.