Re: [Oorexx-devel] LOSTDIGITS

2012-12-05 Thread Rick McGuire
From the documentation: LOSTDIGITS raised if a number used in an arithmetic operation has more digits than the current setting of NUMERIC DIGITS. Leading zeros are not counted in this comparison. LOSTDIGITS only applies to the values used at the start of the calculation, not with rounding

Re: [Oorexx-devel] LOSTDIGITS

2012-12-05 Thread Rick McGuire
Looks like a boundary condition bug. The condition is raised for lengths of digits+2, but not digits+1. Rick On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.atwrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.at wrote: And how about

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Intercepting kill command

2012-12-06 Thread Rick McGuire
established? David Ashley On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 13:09 -0500, Rick McGuire wrote: I was suggesting a change to haltAllActivities. Note that this will also require a couple of tweaks to the Windows-specific code as well. Rick On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM, David Ashley

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Intercepting kill command

2012-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
will pull in those definitions. Are you getting a compile error or a linkage problem? Have you rebuilt everything? GlobalNames.h gets used in a couple of places to generate all of the pieces. Rick David Ashley On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 10:19 -0500, Rick McGuire wrote: Not sure I understand

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Intercepting kill command

2012-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
:19 -0500, Rick McGuire wrote: Not sure I understand where the confusion is, because GlobalNames.h is where the relationship is created. For example, GLOBAL_NAME(ACTIVATE, CHAR_ACTIVATE) creates the string object constant OREF_ACTIVATE with a value defined by CHAR_ACTIVATE. So

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Intercepting kill command

2012-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:28 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.comwrote: Rick - Your changes do not help. Here are the error messages I am getting. ./interpreter/platform/unix/SystemInterpreter.cpp: In function 'void signalHandler(int)':

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Intercepting kill command

2012-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
Looks ok on Windows to me. Rick On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:13 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.comwrote: I am about to commit the changes for Feature Request 500 Add Unix SIGTERM and SIGHUP processing. I have tested this on Linux and it seems to work as expected. But I had to make some

Re: [Oorexx-devel] C or C++ API interface to ooRexx in the latest (v4.x) build?

2012-12-14 Thread Rick McGuire
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:53 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.comwrote: Michael - The short answer is that both C and C++ APIs are available. But there is a longer answer that you need to get into. If all you need are access to the local Rexx variable pool and the ability to create

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Garbage Collection

2013-02-11 Thread Rick McGuire
Where is the TSO-REXX list located? Note that storage management is not done the same in ooRexx and the mainframe Rexx implementations. The mainframe version does not use a garbage collecting storage management implementation. Rick On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Hobart Spitz

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Docbook - keeping code sample on the same page

2013-03-04 Thread Rick McGuire
By my reading, this could be as simple as adding *?dbfo keep-together=auto ?* inside the code section. This assumes the code tags recognize the attribute. Rick On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Oliver Sims oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk wrote: ** Hi Mark, FYI - got this back from the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Error in ooDialog Reference 4.2.3 Build 9180

2013-05-02 Thread Rick McGuire
You're probably not logged in. Rick On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Oliver Sims oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk wrote: ** Glad to open a doc bug, but I don't think I have the permissions - that is, I can't find any way to create a ticket at http://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/documentation/

Re: [Oorexx-devel] [bugs:#1177] ooRexx Interpreter Crash

2013-05-28 Thread Rick McGuire
To fix the immediate problem, that will work. I'm a little nervous about this still ending up as a functional stream object that might open a different filename if used though. That, however, would require a much more pervasive fix, so the simple fix is probably fine. Rick On Tue, May 28,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Maximum arg count of a function is 255

2013-05-28 Thread Rick McGuire
There was a legacy restriction on call arguments of any type at 250. That restriction was lifted a long time ago, but I suspect the code for this never propagated to the BIFS. I believe max and min are the only ones that are open-ended that way. I believe this is a real bug. Rick On Tue, May

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Plan to do a 4.1.3 bug release

2013-05-30 Thread Rick McGuire
Open Office, actually. Rick On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Erich, On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Erich Steinböck erich.steinbo...@gmail.com wrote: In general,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] RFE #446 Enhancement to rexx.cpp

2013-06-03 Thread Rick McGuire
I have several objections. Since this is an array, this will actually shift the arguments to non-intuitive positions (there's no way to have an element 0 in an array). I don't actually see that this provides much useful function, and really entangles the language too much with command shell

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Have I deleted something I shouldn'thave?

2013-06-05 Thread Rick McGuire
The steps are basically to merge the differences between the current version and the original version (i.e., a backwards diff...the order is important) and apply that to your current working copy. You then commit that copy to the master to roll back the revision. Rick On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Have I deletedsomethingIshouldn'thave?

2013-06-05 Thread Rick McGuire
somethingIshouldn'thave? Tried that (using the TortoiseSVN revert function. But it threw an error and did nothing. !!?? -- Oliver Sims -- *From:* Rick McGuire [mailto:object.r...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 05 June 2013 15:33 *To:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List *Subject:* Re

Re: [Oorexx-devel] bug #1161 Crash from object overlay usually during PackageClass::newRexx()

2013-06-09 Thread Rick McGuire
Mark, I already posted something to the defect, but there is a bit of a lag I think on direct responses sometimes. If you are seeing this problem consistently with the same object, then it is likely the object is getting garbage collected prematurely by one of the other threads. The usual fix

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Difference in behavior between loadPackage(file) and .Package~new(file)

2013-06-17 Thread Rick McGuire
.package~new will ALWAYS load the file and create a new package object. It also does not add the loaded package to the global cache. loadPackage() is the part that is aware of the cache, and if the package has not previously been loaded, then will create a new package object and add it to the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Status ooRexx 4.1.3 BETA for AIUX

2013-06-24 Thread Rick McGuire
from argument number 2 to RexxObject * uses a pointer conversion. gmake: *** [librexx_la-ObjectClass.lo] Error 1 Bye Rainer On 24.06.2013 13:32, Rick McGuire wrote: Rainer, what were the compile errors? Your changes are NOT correct, and will reintroduce the original error they were

Re: [Oorexx-devel] When must one use DeleteLocalReference() ?

2013-06-26 Thread Rick McGuire
The interpreter knows nothing about any of the references you have in your C code. Those are just normal pointers, so nothing happens to let the interpreter know that those pointers are out-of-context. The only mechanism the interpreter has available is the context object used to provide the api

Re: [Oorexx-devel] When must one use DeleteLocalReference() ?

2013-06-26 Thread Rick McGuire
routine won't it? Or is there some reason why rop is not set with a local reference? -- Mark Miesfeld On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: The interpreter knows nothing about any of the references you have in your C code. Those are just normal

Re: [Oorexx-devel] When must one use DeleteLocalReference() ?

2013-06-26 Thread Rick McGuire
garbage collected? How about RexxStrings (there are of course many such instances that might get created in native code) or external ooRexx functions that return RexxObjectPtr? ---rony On 26.06.2013 20:36, Rick McGuire wrote: Nop, your analysis is correct. The return value (if is exists

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ExpressionOperator.cpp : is it possible to catch an exception during the evaluation of operator ?

2013-10-04 Thread Rick McGuire
This is seriously not going to work. The code that handles the raising of the exception changes an awful lot of the internal state of the interpreter. Rick On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Jean-Louis Faucher jfaucher...@gmail.comwrote: ExpressionOperator.cpp Is it possible to catch an

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Running ooRexx 4.1.3 on Window 2000 fails

2013-11-05 Thread Rick McGuire
Are you sure you didn't accidentally pick up the 64-bit version? Rick On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Michael Lueck mlu...@lueckdatasystems.comwrote: Mark Miesfeld wrote: I would not be surprised if 4.1.3 has a dependency on a system API not available on Windows 2000. But, I would expect

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Discuss: operating systems we claim to support

2013-11-06 Thread Rick McGuire
looks like end-of-life for W2K was over 3 years ago. On the plus side, this might be the kick I need to finally upgrade my desktop system from XP to Windows 7...using the version I purchased for this purpose when it first came out. I can't believe they still require a format install to do this

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any way to obtain the parse source string in native API?

2013-11-16 Thread Rick McGuire
It's only available from routines, but you can use GetCallerContext to get the context object. From there, you can use the package method to get the package object and the name method of that to get the fully qualified name of the file. Rick On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Mark Miesfeld

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any way to obtain the parse source string in native API?

2013-11-16 Thread Rick McGuire
the package name be: Package name=C:\Rexx\ooRexx\ooDialog.cls where what I really need is: name=C:\work.ooRexx\wc\ooDialog\trunk\somePrg.rex I'll code it up and try it though. From a routine would be fine. -- Mark Miesfeld On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Rick McGuire object.r

Re: [Oorexx-devel] stem.[x1,x2]

2013-11-17 Thread Rick McGuire
Sounds like a reasonable addition, though I'm not sure I agree with the exact placement. Something like this belongs before the prior paragraph, with maybe an examples of using [] and []= added. Rick On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.atwrote: I think

Re: [Oorexx-devel] stem.[x1,x2]

2013-11-17 Thread Rick McGuire
?) taking care of these? Greetings from Vienna Walter *Von:* Rick McGuire [mailto:object.r...@gmail.com] *Gesendet:* Sonntag, 17. November 2013 13:17 *An:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List *Betreff:* Re: [Oorexx-devel] stem.[x1,x2] Sounds like a reasonable addition, though I'm

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Improvement?

2013-11-18 Thread Rick McGuire
To add to what Mark said, the Failure in system service message is probably the best fit for this. The main message (48.001) has a service name substitution pattern, or you can use 48.900, where you can provide your own message. Rick On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Mark Miesfeld

[Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
The code in trunk is not quite to a point where all of the new features are ready to go. In particular, the stackframe/exception stuff is a long way from being complete. This unfortunately, is also blocking shipment of some useful new features that are not dependent upon this other work. I'm

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
are suggesting, or to branch off trunk to a holding directory like we did with some of your 4.0 work that you didn't want to lose and branch 4.1.3 to 4.2.0. I think your proposal is ideal, I'm all for it. -- Mark Miesfeld On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Rick McGuire object.r

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
directory like we did with some of your 4.0 work that you didn't want to lose and branch 4.1.3 to 4.2.0. I think your proposal is ideal, I'm all for it. -- Mark Miesfeld On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: The code in trunk is not quite to a point

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
be done on? David Ashley On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 07:30 -0500, Rick McGuire wrote: The code in trunk is not quite to a point where all of the new features are ready to go. In particular, the stackframe/exception stuff is a long way from being complete. This unfortunately, is also blocking

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
see what I can find. -- Mark Miesfeld On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: Mark, Have you written down any notes on what files need to be updated when we create a new release branch? It's been a while since I've done one. Rick On Wed, Nov 20

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
. -- Mark Miesfeld On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I did, let me see what I can find. -- Mark Miesfeld On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: Mark, Have you written down any notes on what files need

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
trying to merge changes into the release branch. 4) Assuming 3 is workable, complete the pending work on the stack frames and the APIs. Rick On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: Rick

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
around with looking at what it might take to back port some of the feature requests you had implemented from trunk to 4.1 fixes from the commit messages. And, it looked difficult to me. Your number 3 may indeed be easier. -- Mark Miesfeld On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Rick McGuire

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, I've gone and marked the RFEs that I believe are already in trunk or I would like to implement for the next release as the 4.2.0 Milestone. You might want to review the RFEs to see if there are any I've missed

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some thoughts on a 4.2.0 release

2013-11-20 Thread Rick McGuire
I'm not willing to fix 1179 because it will end up making all programs compiled with rexxc to need recompiling to run with the new version. 1182 probably should be done, since we've had one open for a long time about the stream bifs. Rick On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Mark Miesfeld

[Oorexx-devel] Discuss: #1212 Classes that start with a digit are not working.

2013-11-24 Thread Rick McGuire
Ran into this little glitch this morning with a program I was writing. I created a class that started with the characters 3D, and was getting an error when i tried to instantiate it because the corresponding environment symbol resolved to a string value. I opened bug 1212 to address this. One

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Discuss: #1212 Classes that start with a digit are not working.

2013-11-24 Thread Rick McGuire
. Rick On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at wrote: On 24.11.2013 17:06, Rick McGuire wrote: Ran into this little glitch this morning with a program I was writing. I created a class that started with the characters 3D, and was getting an error when i

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Discuss: #1212 Classes that start with a digit are not working.

2013-11-24 Thread Rick McGuire
oorexx user ;-) Rick -- Mark Miesfeld On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: Ran into this little glitch this morning with a program I was writing. I created a class that started with the characters 3D, and was getting an error when i tried

Re: [Oorexx-devel] questions I can't answer

2013-11-24 Thread Rick McGuire
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.at wrote: I am trying to convince someone (you may know who) to try ooRexx. He asked these questions most of which I cannot reliably answer Would anyone of you be kind enough to take the time to fill in the blanks and

[Oorexx-devel] SVG for doc images?

2013-12-06 Thread Rick McGuire
I've been hearing a lot of good things about using SVG for images. One of SVG's advantages is size scalability, which might be useful for the docs. Do the tools we use to build the docs support the SVG format? Rick --

[Oorexx-devel] 4.2.0 release

2013-12-06 Thread Rick McGuire
Ok, I think I'm caught up on all the things I had targeted for the 4.2.0 release...and apologies to anybody subscribed to the tracker and svn lists :-). There are still 3 features I had tentatively tagged as 4.2.0 targets. Two are install issues Mark opened (and I assume you'll be the one

Re: [Oorexx-devel] 4.2.0 release

2013-12-07 Thread Rick McGuire
wrote: On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, I think I'm caught up on all the things I had targeted for the 4.2.0 release That was good timing. I ported the 4.2.3 version of ooDialog into trunk this morning, committed it tonight. That was the one

[Oorexx-devel] Build on request for the docs?

2013-12-07 Thread Rick McGuire
Is it possible to get a build-on-request capability again for the docs? Since that requires a pretty specialized environment to be set up, it would be handing to kick off a build after a doc update to ensure things are building properly. It might also be handy to have the capability to kick off

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Requesting to apply a submitted patch for 4.2.0 ...

2013-12-07 Thread Rick McGuire
I will consider doing this if the patch also includes the documentation updates. Rick On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.atwrote: Hi there, as long as ooRexx may be deployed in either 32 or 64 bit there are use cases where a Rexx programmer is in need

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Build on request for the docs?

2013-12-07 Thread Rick McGuire
. In the long run I will put it on my todo list for a more permanent solution. David Ashley On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 07:03 -0500, Rick McGuire wrote: Is it possible to get a build-on-request capability again for the docs? Since that requires a pretty specialized environment to be set up, it would

Re: [Oorexx-devel] I see these 2 failure in the test suite

2013-12-08 Thread Rick McGuire
On further review, this does look like the problem is in datatype(). Datatype(val, 'x') is not recognizing the tab as whitespace, while the x2c() is. Rick On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: These 2 failures come up in the test suite run on Windows 7

Re: [Oorexx-devel] I see these 2 failure in the test suite

2013-12-08 Thread Rick McGuire
And on further, further review, I'm back to a test case problem issue. Rick On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: These 2 failures come up in the test suite run on Windows 7 64-bit. I was going to work on them but I didn't get to them yet. Hopefully

Re: [Oorexx-devel] I see these 2 failure in the test suite

2013-12-08 Thread Rick McGuire
And I'm back to a bug again. This looks like a problem with x2c(). x2c(' ') gives an error, but x2c(.string~tab) does not. This needs some investigation, but I think the blank behavior is the actual bug. Rick On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Oorexx-devel] I see these 2 failure in the test suite

2013-12-08 Thread Rick McGuire
Nope, the problem was the tab. Fixed in bug 1216 On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: And I'm back to a bug again. This looks like a problem with x2c(). x2c(' ') gives an error, but x2c(.string~tab) does not. This needs some investigation, but I think

[Oorexx-devel] A quick reminder on using markdown with Allura

2013-12-08 Thread Rick McGuire
The sourceforge Allura system has some very nice capabilities for using markdown in the various contexts. I've been trying to use this consistently and I'd like to encourage others to start doing this too. There just a couple of things you need to do: 1) When updating a tracker item for a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] 4.2.0 release

2013-12-08 Thread Rick McGuire
Go ahead...you're sort of the guru for putting out releases of late. Rick On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: A beta soon sounds good to me. I sorta felt the need to push myself

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 4.2.0 beta and the Build Machine

2013-12-09 Thread Rick McGuire
David, if we have bug fixes, should we hold off on integrating them into the beta branch until that process is sorted out? Rick On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:24 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.comwrote: All - Over the next few days or so I will produce the Linux install files for the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 4.2 Docs

2013-12-09 Thread Rick McGuire
I've not made any changes. Rick On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:38 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.comwrote: All - Have there been any changes to the trunk for the docs since the branch was created this morning? If not, at the end of the beta builds in about 2 hours I will build the 4.2

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What branch should doc updates be applied to?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick McGuire
I'm seeing there might be quite a few. I'm thinking one large merge of the changes might be a better idea. Rick On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: Spotted some typos in the rexx

[Oorexx-devel] Doc error messages

2013-12-09 Thread Rick McGuire
Just noticed that the error messages in the docs are really out of date. I also notice that they are different from the versions that are automatically generated in the build...the biggest difference appears to be the removal of the copyright block comment and the various DOCBOOK processing

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Inherited methods tables

2013-12-09 Thread Rick McGuire
this is something we need to defer to a future release. Rick On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: The inherited methods section of the classes are horribly mangled in the publican

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Doc error messages

2013-12-09 Thread Rick McGuire
Miesfeld On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: Just noticed that the error messages in the docs are really out of date. I also notice that they are different from the versions that are automatically generated in the build...the biggest difference appears

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Serialization API

2013-12-10 Thread Rick McGuire
Darn, I hadn't noticed that code was in there. I'm not really comfortable leaving that code in there, because I'm not convinced it won't required changes that might require breaking future compatibility. I think this needs to be removed from the release branch. Is it much of a deal to remove

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Serialization API

2013-12-10 Thread Rick McGuire
Also, please open a tracker item for this so we're able to keep track of the progress. Rick On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Moritz Hoffmann antig...@gmail.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, looking at recent changes in SVN I noticed I once added basic

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Inheritance Diagrams in RexxRef

2013-12-10 Thread Rick McGuire
I'm certainly in favor of removing the image versions of these. They are a pain to update and usually cause page breaks at the start of each class description. Are you proposing doing this for 4.2.0, or as a post-release exercise? Rick On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:42 AM, David Ashley

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Serialization API

2013-12-10 Thread Rick McGuire
confirm this. Thanks, M On 12/10/2013 04:47 PM, Moritz Hoffmann wrote: As a first step, I added an RFE https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/feature-requests/566/ to track progress. I now remove the changes from the branch, it shouldn't be much effort. Moritz On 12/10/2013 04:27 PM, Rick

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Serialization API

2013-12-10 Thread Rick McGuire
Update missed in the Windows make file to remove Serializable.orx dependency. I'll take care of that. Rick On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: Building now On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Moritz Hoffmann antig...@gmail.comwrote: -BEGIN

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Inheritance Diagrams in RexxRef

2013-12-10 Thread Rick McGuire
Miesfeld wrote: David, I'd also like to see it done. If you will do it great. Putting it off until after the 4.2.0 release is fine with me though. -- Mark Miesfeld On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: I'm certainly

[Oorexx-devel] Rexxref build break.

2013-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
David, Your inheritance table experiment broke the doc build. I'm not completely certain of the error, but I suspect the tgroup tag needs to surround everything rather than being just a standalone tag. Rick -- Rapidly

[Oorexx-devel] 4.2.0 doc updates

2013-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
Maintaining both trunk and 4.2.0 branches of the docs are starting to become a bit of a pain given the number of updates. David only updated the 4.2.0 branch for his inheritance table work, so they are already out of sync. I propose that for now, we only update the 4.2.0 branch, and then copy

Re: [Oorexx-devel] 4.2.0 doc updates

2013-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
at 4:38 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: Maintaining both trunk and 4.2.0 branches of the docs are starting to become a bit of a pain given the number of updates. David only updated the 4.2.0 branch for his inheritance table work, so they are already out of sync. I propose

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Class Diagram Replacements

2013-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
I'd say whatever you find easier, since you're doing the work. SVN allows us to recover anything you might delete accidentally and we also have back up in the trunk branch. Rick On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:39 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.comwrote: All - I have not committed the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx does nothing visible when installed.

2013-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
Applications that unilaterally add an icon to my Desktop drive me nuts. It's my desktop, damn it, I only what stuff on there that I determine are useful enough to be handy. Rick On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Oliver

Re: [Oorexx-devel] collclasses.xml Now Ready for Checking

2013-12-12 Thread Rick McGuire
David, Still have to go and make a detailed check that everything is correct, but my first impressions are this is really great! We might want to consider expanding this even further by making the class names and the method names xrefs using the technique we're using for the inherited method

Re: [Oorexx-devel] collclasses.xml Now Ready for Checking

2013-12-12 Thread Rick McGuire
Gil, just committed the fix for that a couple minutes ago. There are a few other errors I found, mostly because the original image file was missing some things. The other big error was Queue lost about half its methods. Rick On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Gil Barmwater

Re: [Oorexx-devel] collclasses.xml Now Ready for Checking

2013-12-12 Thread Rick McGuire
Ok, I've completed a complete review of this section and committed fixes for a few problems (not all of which were with your update, so this was a useful exercise!). Rick On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:23 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.comwrote: I finished replacing the class diagrams in

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx does nothing visible when installed.

2013-12-12 Thread Rick McGuire
Sounds fine with me. I suggest opening an RFE for it so you have something to add to the changes file. Rick On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Mike Cowlishaw m...@speleotrove.comwrote: That makes very good sense ...

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Bug or Not?

2013-12-12 Thread Rick McGuire
be XORed with a value of all ones to get the permissions the user wants for new files. David Ashley On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 15:09 -0500, Rick McGuire wrote: Never even realized we were responsible for applying stuff like that. Would have thought the system would have been handling that. In any

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Bug or Not?

2013-12-12 Thread Rick McGuire
on that. But it does add some complexity because the umask can not be used directly in the open function, it must be XORed with a value of all ones to get the permissions the user wants for new files. David Ashley On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 15:09 -0500, Rick McGuire wrote: Never even realized we

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Finished replacing the class diagrams in fundclasses.xml

2013-12-12 Thread Rick McGuire
Reviewed and few small corrections made. Rick On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:25 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.comwrote: All - I finished replacing the class diagrams in fundclasses.xml and a new rexxref should be available in the morning, provided any new patches do not introduce

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Hardware support in the readme files.

2013-12-15 Thread Rick McGuire
Well, x86 architecture compatible. Rick On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Mike Cowlishaw m...@speleotrove.comwrote: The readme in question was the one for Windows, not the general requirements. The only hardware we support it on currently is Intel x86, so I'm just trying to get that

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Hardware support in the readme files.

2013-12-16 Thread Rick McGuire
Perfect! On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.comwrote: When reviewing Patch file 189 (let's see if this creates a real link for the mailing list.[patches:#189]), I noticed we give

[Oorexx-devel] Some fun stuff...

2013-12-17 Thread Rick McGuire
There was an Ohloh project set up for oorexx that was generated automatically, but the code trees did not get switched when we changed to Allura. I've updated stuff, and it has processed the code tree (the docs and test trees are currently in the work queue). I find it interesting that the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Problem Using EXPOSE

2013-12-17 Thread Rick McGuire
Wow, there is so much wrong with this example that I don't even know where to start. Expose exposes instance variables of an object, it does NOT give access to the caller's variables. Methods of an object instance share access to those variables by using expose. Here is a simple example of

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Problem Using EXPOSE

2013-12-17 Thread Rick McGuire
testMethod2 expose fld1 fld2 say fld1||fld2 The values assigned to the instance variables in testmethod1 are available in testmethod2. Rick On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, there is so much wrong with this example that I don't even know

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Problem Using EXPOSE

2013-12-17 Thread Rick McGuire
. Rick On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Sanford Geiger sanford.gei...@live.comwrote: Ok, but this is NOT how IBM Rexx works. Is there a way to make all variables in a program be made available to any routine or method? *From:* Rick McGuire [mailto:object.r...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Problem Using EXPOSE

2013-12-17 Thread Rick McGuire
All the comma does is create an instruction continuation. You can just code that as Test1: procedure expose a b c On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Sanford Geiger sanford.gei...@live.comwrote: Thank you again, Mark. I did, however, get Procedure Expose to work by adding a comma unlike in

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some fun stuff...

2013-12-17 Thread Rick McGuire
://www.ohloh.net/p/oorexx/estimated_cost(COCOMO model) not 64 years. Craig Harris *From:* Rick McGuire [mailto:object.r...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:03 AM *To:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List *Subject:* [Oorexx-devel] Some fun stuff... There was an Ohloh

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What version of publican are you updating to?

2013-12-18 Thread Rick McGuire
Mark, I've finally reinstalled vmware on my system and got a Fedora system set up so I'd have a system where I could do compiles and doc builds. I ended up with publican version 3.2.1, which did not appear able to build. With David's updates, this version appears to be working now. Rick On

Re: [Oorexx-devel] 4.2

2013-12-19 Thread Rick McGuire
Can't give you any assistance with just I encountered an error as information. You're going to have to give more than that. Rick On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.atwrote: I encountered an error after installing 4.2 with a THE Macro As I am NOT owning

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Walter Pachl shared Screenshots with you

2013-12-19 Thread Rick McGuire
And the routine inprefix is expected to be found where? Rick On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Walter via Dropbox no-re...@dropbox.comwrote: From Walter: The 4.2 error Click here to view Screenshotshttps://www.dropbox.com/l/9oOhkY8xEpgSRMRZv2e96e (Walter shared these files using

Re: [Oorexx-devel] my 4.2 problem with THE

2013-12-23 Thread Rick McGuire
Well, until a bug report is created with details on how to recreate the problem, it is not going to get worked on. Rick On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.atwrote: I got this background from Mark H A THE macro containing a call to the inprefix() function

[Oorexx-devel] THE Function registration problem

2013-12-23 Thread Rick McGuire
Still waiting for Walter to open a bug report on how to recreate the THE problem so I can verify, but I have a theory on what's going on here. I wrote some test cases and added them to the test suite for function EXE registrations, and they are definitely working. However, the information from

Re: [Oorexx-devel] THE Function registration problem

2013-12-23 Thread Rick McGuire
:23 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Still waiting for Walter to open a bug report on how to recreate the THE problem so I can verify, but I have a theory on what's going on here. I wrote some test cases and added them to the test suite for function EXE registrations

Re: [Oorexx-devel] my 4.2 problem with THE

2013-12-23 Thread Rick McGuire
Well, it's more than just a good idea. Until I have details on how to recreate the problem, I have no way of verifying if I've fixed the problem. As I keep reminding Walter, entering a bug report is the only way to report a bug and get it fixed. Rick On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Mike

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog Doc

2014-01-08 Thread Rick McGuire
Here's a nice thread that discusses how to increase the heap size: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1565388/increase-heap-size-in-java Is the doc build machine a 32-bit or a 64-bit system? A 32-bit one is more limited, obviously. Rick On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Mark Miesfeld

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog Doc

2014-01-08 Thread Rick McGuire
I doubt this depends on the physical memory of the system (or should I say, virtual physical memory?). The JVM gets initialized with a heap size maximum, which is controllable via the startup options. Rick On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:49 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.comwrote: Mark -

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx Web Sites

2014-01-09 Thread Rick McGuire
That URL works for me in Chrome, but I suspect it depends on how you have your browser configured to handle news: URLs. I use Google Groups to follow comp.lang.rexx since my ISP shutdown their usenet servers. You can link directly to the group using

Re: [Oorexx-devel] disappearing tab

2014-01-17 Thread Rick McGuire
The oorexx parse instruction recognizes a tab as a whitespace character, so it was removed because you used the trailing . in your parse template. Rick On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.at wrote: A surprise! Can anyone explain this case of a vanishing

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