Hitting Break/Pause at the console window, not the IDE window, does it for
me, even under Win98.
At 09:04 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Beck, Johannes wrote:
> > I'm probably dreaming, but is there any possibility for easily
> generating postscript (or other common formats) from a
> > standard Allegro graphics session?
>
>I assume you talk about ACL on windows (from the other question). I dont
>know anything about graphics on UNIX.
>
>For a first and very easy approach to the problem I would use the printing
>capabilities of Allegro. The printer is a stream which works like a
>graphics device in MS Windows. You can use it almost like a window. And
>you install a printer driver for a postscript printer and connect it to a
>file. From my experience of generating "good" postscript from MS Word, I
>recommend using the Apple LaserWriter II printer driver. These printers
>are bit old, but printers and drivers were famous for having excellent
>postscript (almost as good as dvips). "Good" postscript in the meaning of
>"well formed and valid" postscript, which means you can use it later on
>anything which claims to be able to handle postscript.
>
> > When running Allegro in Windows 98, I can't find a way to break my
> run without terminating Allegro itself.
>
>I've seen this several times myself. This does not happen in Windows NT. I
>would recommend to set the optimization flags in ACL to some minimal
>values (not to (speed 3) (debug 0) ) and stay away from anything like
>without-interrupts. Things on Win98 get worse if you're using threads.
>
>Bye
>Johannes Beck
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Keith L. Downing <ifi.ntnu.no] at [mailto:keithd>
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 10:45 PM
>>To: <cs.berkeley.edu at allegro-cl>
>>Subject: Postscript pictures???
>>
>>Hi,
>> I'm probably dreaming, but is there any possibility for easily
>> generating postscript (or other common formats) from a standard Allegro
>> graphics
>>session?
>> In short, is there any way for me to run my normal graphics code and
>> just send everything to a special type of stream (e.g. for a postscript
>> file) instead of my normal window stream?
>> Basically, I draw a lot of different types of diagrams in Allegro, and
>> it's kind of a pain to have to dump the data to files and then redraw
>> them in another language (like MATLAB) to get nice print-outs.
>> I'm using Allegro 5.01 or thereabouts.
>>
>>One other question:
>>
>>I've asked this several times, but the suggested solution never works:
>>
>> When running Allegro in Windows 98, I can't find a way to break my run
>> without terminating Allegro itself. This has become a real pain
>> recently, since I'm debugging some pretty hairy code which frequently
>> goes into hyperspace. I have no problem halting stuff in Unix, but in
>> Windows, the usual use of the Break key just isn't enough. I have to do
>> cntl-alt-break to get any interrupt, and then my only option is to kill
>> lisp itself.
>>
>>Cheers...
>>
>> Keith Downing
>> NTNU
>> Trondheim, Norway
>>