Hi Waldek, 
Many thanks for such a rapid response. I will look into this. 

Best regards 
Dave

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> On 2 Jul 2021, at 16:58, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 04:38:49PM +0100, [email protected] 
> wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>>                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?
> 
> Can not comment specifically on 'rc_context'.  But there is general
> issue: a lot functions have to be loaded before use.  In particular
> 'rclib' and 'rcmenu' need to be loaded before use.  Older Birmingham
> setup loaded parts of them into startup image, but this is undsirable
> for various reasons and not done in V16.  This is list of things
> that were loaded into startup image, but currently are not:
> 
> rc_graphic
>    $packages/teaching/teaching.p \
>    $packages/bhamlib/bhamlib.p \
>    $packages/vedutils/vedutils.p \
>    $packages/rclib/rclib.p \
>    $packages/vedutils/lib/vedscreendown.p \
>    $packages/bhamlib/auto/vedsetwindow.p \
>    $packages/rclib/auto/rc_control_panel.p \
>    $packages/rcmenu/rcmenu.p \
>    $packages/vedmail/vedmail.p
> 
> 
> IMO, no package should assume that some other package is loaded
> uless it contains 'uses' (or equivalent).  So probably popvision
> files should be fixed by adding apropriate 'uses' (I have some
> fixes of this sort in my priviate popvision tree, but it is
> probaly far from complete).
> 
> -- 
>                              Waldek Hebisch
> 


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