Hi Dave,
While working through the teach file "vision4" and playing
with Hough transforms I have noticed that the call "rc_context" is not
defined i.e. "undef".
A typical call to save the window context and coord. System should be
"rc_context(false) -> xy_context" say, according to the teach file.
Does anyone know of this? Has the function been replicated? And if so,
replaced by what?
This is part of a complicated story about how Poplog allows many facilities to
be set up in ways that suit the needs of different individuals.
With my set up I was able to check out this point by running poplog setting up
popvision, going to teach vision4 (which includes "uses rc_context") and when I
got to
vars xy_context; ;;; save the present window
rc_context(false) -> xy_context; ;;; and its coord system
false -> rc_window;
rc_new_window(300, 300, 550, 400, true);
[0 100 0 360] -> rcg_usr_reg; ;;; bounds of parameter space
rc_graphplot([], 'r', [], 'theta') -> ; ;;; draw axes
Everything worked (using poplog in fedora: kernel 5.11.22-100.fc32.x86_6).
There's more to be said about the layers of functionality provided by different
options in different phases of poplog startup (e.g. some concerned with editing
preferences, and options to load user preferences of various kinds at various
stages).
But I have to finish off another unrelated task before getting back to poplog.
I hope that helps.
Aaron
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs
PS
One of the related issues is the fact that Brian Logan's libemacs provides a
sophisticated mechanism for ved-hating emacs-lovers to do their editing in emacs
and making emacs tell the poplog process what has been changed and what the user
wants to do next, and then read the results back into Emacs.
I don't know if anyone on this list, apart from Brian, has used that facility,
but I am sure that in principle it should be included as an optional extra in
any future re-location of poplog.
I have no idea whether such "team-work" would be possible if poplog were ported
to windows 10 (to get far more users than a linux version could hope for).
Or perhaps windows users will have to be satisfied with running poplog in the
new linux extension to windows (about which I know nothing except that it
exists).
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