Hi Alan, today I tried to install the frink.war web application into my tomcat server. In contrast to the description on the web page, ...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 17, 2008 7:29 am
... Oops! No, it was supposed to be in there, but i had a problem in the building process. It's fixed now. I changed the way the war file was built, so...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 17, 2008 8:04 am
I've made a lot of changes to Frink recently, probably too many to mention here. As always, the "what's new" file contains the most detail about all new...
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knbknb00
Apr 17, 2008 9:26 pm
Thanks for providing a fix, (and the other ingenious features of the new release, mentioned in the other posting from yesterday)! Can deploy the frink.war file...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 18, 2008 1:19 am
... Okay, I've once again changed the structure of the .war file so that all classes go into the internal .jar file, instead of having some in the classes/...
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knbknb00
Apr 18, 2008 7:44 pm
Everything works fine now in my Tomcat 5.5.17. Naturally, the NullPointerExceptions on your webserver disappeared after I submitted my last post. Previously I...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 22, 2008 8:02 am
... Thanks! I agree that writing interfaces to Frink as Frink Server Pages gives you some large advantages: * The ability to use all the power of HTML (and...
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knbknb00
Apr 22, 2008 8:05 pm
... Well said, to the point. ... Sounds good. ... I must confess that I prefer vi, but I use it only in a limited way. And I'm not really up to more serious...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 4, 2008 12:13 am
I have fixed the calculation of Julian Day in Frink for dates B.C., including dates in the very distant past. Because Frink internally uses Julian Day to...
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first.i.last@...
Aug 4, 2008 3:43 am
... From: Alan Eliasen <eliasen@...> ... But those intervening dates are not undefined. They all have the same value. All of the dates in that...
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Roedy Green
roedygr
Aug 12, 2008 7:07 am
The link to what google considers the main Frink page at http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/ has not been functioning for 4 days. Is there a replacement...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 12, 2008 7:19 am
... Augh. Thanks for letting me know. It's now back up. The preferred URL is: http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/ which points to the same machine, and was...
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Ryan Voots
simcop2387
Sep 6, 2008 8:49 am
I've been wanting to use frink for doing calculations internally in a program and I'm wondering if there is a supported way to do this? (its for an IRC bot)....
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Sep 6, 2008 6:04 pm
... Yes, there is a way to embed Frink into a Java program. The section of the documentation entitled "Embedding Frink" is a good place to start: ...
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Ryan Voots
simcop2387
Sep 7, 2008 7:36 am
... section ... I don't know how i've overlooked that all of last night. ... people ... them ... I would certainly be interested in any documentation on this,...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Sep 8, 2008 4:59 am
... I've added a single convenience method to easily enable the most restrictive security measures on a Frink interpreter. This should be called before...
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gyrof
Sep 18, 2008 5:34 pm
Hi, I just purchased an ipod touch and was looking for a good unit converter for scientific and engineering applications. The current applications available...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Sep 18, 2008 6:59 pm
... In short, it's up to the management at Apple. Frink is written in Java and requires a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to run in. (A JVM is just another piece...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 9, 2008 10:07 am
I'm happy to announce that Frink can now draw graphics! This is probably the largest single update of Frink ever, and it adds the ability to easily draw...
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Don Groves
pollyfonic
Oct 9, 2008 6:28 pm
This update makes it official -- all my future programming will be done in Frink! -- Don Groves...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 15, 2008 10:31 pm
The latest Frink release adds the ability to draw text into Frink's new graphics. Text is high-quality, and has transparent, anti-aliased edges. Text can...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Mar 11, 2009 9:29 pm
There have been a variety of improvements to Frink since my last announcement on this list. Here are some of them: * Frink's graphics package now has a new...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 1, 2009 4:48 am
It appears that I'll be making more common announcements about new Frink releases to this list. I had previously used Freshmeat.net to make new announcements,...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 9, 2009 7:51 am
The new Frink release adds some powerful new image loading and drawing capabilities! Frink now has the ability to load bitmap image files (e.g. JPEG, GIF,...
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Alan Stebbens
alan_stebbens
Apr 14, 2009 7:18 am
I probably don't understand intervals well enough yet, but if x = new interval[-2,2] [-2,2] and x^2 [0, 4] then why doesn't abs[x] yield [0,2]? Further, why...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 14, 2009 9:44 am
... Good question. The short answer is that I'm following the convention for abs[x] that's defined in one of the seminal works on interval arithmetic, Ramon...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 15, 2009 12:03 am
I posted a query about abs[x] to the primary interval analysis mailing list last night, and have received several replies, some directly useful, some not. I'm...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 15, 2009 12:10 am
I'm forwarding my follow-up message about abs[x] to the intervals list, which discusses the results of my surveys of other programming languages that implement...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 18, 2009 10:11 pm
The current release of Frink fixes some "Class not found" exceptions that may have occurred when calling some functions, notably graphics.write[] and...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 26, 2009 10:37 pm
... As of the current release, the behavior of the abs[x] function is changed for interval arguments (real or complex arguments are not changed.) It now does...
