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Re: Forth on OSX 10.11 El Capitan

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On 04/10/15 10:32, Roelf Toxopeus wrote:
> On 01/10/15 11:11, Roelf Toxopeus wrote:
>> OK so far:
>> iMops, MFonVFX, VFX, SwiftForth and iForth64 (For SF, VFX and i4 the
>> coco versions as well).
>>
>> Some OS specific issues may crop up after more usage. Please notify,
>> thanks.
>
> First issues with the coco versions, I'm afraid.
> In short: it's related to doing UI things from within Forth. The current
> WindowServer is nagging at me, delaying GUI updates.
> Working on it. No easy fix soon, sorry.
>
> For now, don't use OSX 10.11 El Capitan with coco-sf, coco-vfx and
> coco-i4. The issue doesn't appear in previous OSX versions at all, not
> even a sign of problems ahead in Console.app logs AFAIK.
>
> Or you can grit your teeth and bear the nuisance of a repl polluted by
> warnings issued by the CGSUpdateManager (Core Graphics GUI Updater?).
> It does this the first time you access the GUI, and then it keeps silent
> it seems. You can turn the logging off in the Forth repl by executing
> -STDERR. The GUI handling at times might look a bit flaky though. Good
> luck.

Found a fix, so far coco-sf runs stable in 10.6, 10.10 and 10.11 (don't 
have the other os's anymore, but guess they will be ok as well). Needs 
clean up, documentation and porting to coco-vfx and coco-i4.
Not today or tomorrow though ;-)

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Forth on OSX 10.11 El Capitan Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2015-10-01 11:11 +0200
  Re: Forth on OSX 10.11 El Capitan Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2015-10-04 10:32 +0200
    Re: Forth on OSX 10.11 El Capitan Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2015-10-10 11:16 +0200
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