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# Re: [femm] Force Calculation fix / other mods

- To: femm@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: [femm] Force Calculation fix / other mods
- From: Keith Gregory <k.gregory@lboro.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:05:44 +0100
- In-reply-to: <4.2.0.58.20020818150650.0098f160@staff-mailin.lboro.ac.uk>
- References: <3D5D7414.3020902@ieee.org>

`Dear All,`
`Further to my warning, it looks like Dave has found the initial cause of the problem. The download version 3.2 from Yahoo is working OK in Win95.`
`Keith.`
`At 15:18 18/08/02 +0100, you wrote:`

> `Dear All,`

>     Could I just add a further warning to what David has said. His new mods are
>     great, the lua console is particularly promising. I have the new version
>     running OK on Windows 2000 machines but I haven't yet managed to get it to
>     run on my old Win95 set-up (although I haven't really tried too hard!), it
>     has dlls missing. I have not tried to run it in Win98. If you still have
>     Win95/98, then try the new version before you finally ditch the old one.
>     The problem will show up as soon as you try to run femme.exe.

> `Keith.`

>     and the luaAt 17:52 16/08/02 -0400, you wrote:
>     >All--
>     >
>     >I wanted to get a lua lineintegral(3) fix out as soon as I can, so I
>     >have posted a fixed version on the mailing list's files site. The
>     >self-installing executable is at:
>     >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/femm/files/setup.exe
>     >and the source for this version is at:
>     >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/femm/files/femm32src.zip
>     >
>     >I've finally ditched MSVC++ 4 in favor of a later version. This version
>     >of the executables is compiled with MSVC++ 6, and I haven't included the
>     >standard windows dll's in the distribution, figuring that everyone
>     >already has them. Omitting these files cuts the length of the
>     >executable distribution by about 400K. (I was going to switch over to
>     >the new MSVC++ 7, but there seem to be some compatibility problems with
>     >v7 and Win95/98 that I haven't figured out yet...) I've also pruned
>     >down the source distribution, again reducing its size by about 400K.
>     >
>     >Besides the lineintegral(3) fix, there are some improvements to
>     >functionality. A while ago, someone had suggested that it would be nice
>     >to be able to enter in formulas into any of the edit boxes, rather than
>     >always having to enter in numerical values. This is now implemented.
>     > So, for example, you could enter in a formula like:
>     >1/(0.10*PI*4.e-7)
>     >when you are defining an asymtotic boundary condition instead of having
>     >to calculate it out separately and then enter it in. All of these
>     >formulas get evaluated when you hit OK for any dialog box. In addition,
>     >you can select any piece of text that you have typed into any edit box
>     >and do a right mouse button click. On the pop-up menu, a new entry,
>     >"evaluate", appears, that evaluates the selected piece of text with lua.\
>     >
>     >I've also added a lua console. By default, it is not shown, but you can
>     >display it by a selection on the View menu. There is an entry in the
>     >preferences that turns it on by default. You can use the lua print
>     >statement to display results in the console, and you can use a statement
>     >called "prompt" (see manual) to get input from the user e.g. while a lua
>     >script is running.
>     >
>     >You can now make curved contours in the post-processor. If you hit the
>     >Shift key after you have drawn a contour in the post-processor, a dialog
>     >appears that asks you for an arc length. The line that you've drawn is
>     >then replaced by the specified arc. There is a lua command that allows
>     >you to do the same thing programmatically.
>     >
>     >Grid commands for the preprocessor have been added to the lua functions.
>     >
>     >A number of inconsistent behaviors that Keith has pointed out to me have
>     >now been fixed (although I think that I still have a few more yet to
>     >fix...) Thanks again, Keith G.
>     >
>     >Dave.
>     >--
>     >David Meeker <http://femm.berlios.de/dmeeker>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>     >

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- References:
  - Force Calculation fix / other mods
    - From: David Meeker <dmeeker@ieee.org>
  - Re: [femm] Force Calculation fix / other mods
    - From: Keith Gregory <k.gregory@lboro.ac.uk>

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