To: bdenckla@media.mit.edu, cyu@mit.edu
Subject: Rogus McBogus 1.2a is released!
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 19:43:43 EST
From: Patrick E Pelletier <pepellet>

I have decided to release version 1.2a of Rogus McBogus, since I have
finished a number of improvements to it.

Features of version 1.2a:

* Score Player
* Utility Classes
* uses SIOUX for I/O (you can actually scroll backwards)
* global pointers to scheduler and OMS app (schedp and oap)
* supports ParserRegistration for switching between parsers
* Rogus code is in its own library and cleanly separated from user code

Version 1.2a does not have Recorder, sysex, or channel
management. Hopefully these features will be in 1.3a.

There is one trick to the parser registration. My intention had been
for parsers to be simply linked in, without need for any source file
to list all the parsers. Unfortunately, this is not quite possible,
because CodeWarrior does not link files in unless there are symbol
references to them. So, while I am still using ParserRegistration to
register the parsers, I have resorted to an ugly trick to make them
get linked in. See the comments in the file fooFinder.cp.

I have eliminated the flashing mouse pointer problem I had with SIOUX,
however there still seems to be two disadvantages it has. One is that
it sometimes takes a very long time for the program to start up. The
other is that the max lateness is usually around 30 or 40. (Wasn't it
less late with the earlier text_win?)

The Rogus headers and library are now located in a uniform place on
Schlep and Kvetch, so it is no longer necessary for Rogus code to
clutter up users' project directories. This release of Rogus McBogus
is located in Development:Rogus McBogus:1.2a on both machines.

Since Rogus has been reorganized quite a bit, you will probably want
to start with the project stationary and then add your parsers to
it. The project stationary for this verison of Rogus is located at
Development:Rogus McBogus:1.2a:Rogus McBogus 1.2a.u. This
reorganization should make it much easier to migrate to future versions
of Rogus.

If the documentation is insufficient or you have any comments about
this vesion of Rogus, please let me know.

--Patrick


To: bdenckla@media.mit.edu, cyu@mit.edu
Subject: Rogus release notes continued
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 00:40:52 EST
From: Patrick E Pelletier <pepellet>

Hi again. There's a couple of things I forgot to mention in my last
message about Rogus McBogus 1.2a.

First, when modifying fooFinder.cp, (or any of the parser files) be
sure to copy the file into your project directory first. Otherwise,
you'll be editing the master copy of the file in the shared directory.

Second, I forgot to mention how I handled the closing of input
nodes. (Although right now it's not a big deal since we're only using
one input node in all of our applications right now.) Rather than
requiring the parser to close its inputs in its destructor, Rogus
automatically closes all open inputs whenever the parser is
changed. So all the parser has to do is open the inputs it wants in
its constructor. However, if a parser wishes to close all inputs while it
is running, it can call oap->closeAllInputs() to close any open
inputs. (But this is called automatically when the parser is changed.)

--Patrick