Errata in distributed Allegro CL 6.2 documentation

This document contains the following sections:

1.0 Errata introduction

The errata file may be updated between documentation updates. Please see the latest version here.

The following are noted. They have been fixed in the documentation update visible on This page of the Franz Inc. website (http://www.franz.com/).

1. The delayed property of an up-down-control does not work as originally described in the documentation (the documentation has been updated). Though delayed is a property of up-down-control, it does not yet have any effect in this release. The control works as if delayed were nil: the value of the spin box (editable-text) associated with the control is incremented as long as the mouse button is held down after clicking on it.
2. The description of the Common Graphics picture-button class had an incorrect list of possible values for the :click-off option. It originally and incorrectly said the possible values for :click-off were :yes, :no, and nil. In fact the possible values are t and nil. :yes is eqivalent to t and meant the same. :no meant the same as nil. The values were correct in a much earlier version. The page has been corrected.
3. copy-to-stream will not work on a cursor object if calling texture on it returns nil. As originally released, the documentation incorrectly stated copy-to-stream works on all cursor objects.
4. As originally released, the steps in Installation steps were out of order. Only AllegroStore customers were affected. Step 6 in the list is install ObjectStore, and step 7 is copy the license file to the Allegro directory. However, the license file must be present for the installation to succeed, so the order of those steps should be reversed (as they are in the updated documentation).
5. The example at the end of Two Calling Models in jlinker.htm was incorrect. The final definition form was (def-java-method (next-token "nextToken") ()) but should be (def-java-method (next-token "nextToken") (tokenizer)).
6. The jLinker documentation (jlinker.htm) incorrectly referred to a C function objectValue. There no such function. The correct function name is pointerValue. The documentation has been updated.
7. In the section Implementation packages in packages.htm, we say the implementation-packages argument to defpackage and make-package "should be a list of strings naming packages" and we give an example:

   (defpackage :mypack 
       #+allegro (:implementation-packages '("MYPACK"
                                             "MYPACK-2"))
                   ; other options as desired
      )
   

   While the value should be a list in calls to make-package, in calls to defpackage, the packages should be elements of the list starting with :implementation-packages, and not themselves in a list. The example should be:

   (defpackage :mypack 
       #+allegro (:implementation-packages "MYPACK"
                                             "MYPACK-2")
                   ; other options as desired
      )
   

8. The initial version of the Allegro CL 6.2 documentation incorrectly indicated that the function get-text-selection was still defined. That function has been removed. All calls to get-text-selection should be replaced with calls to get-selection, with the same syntax.

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Documentation for Allegro CL version 6.2. This page has had significant revisions compared to the 6.1 page.
Created 2002.2.26.