A Standard Library for AutoLISP

Effort for a standarization for an AutoLISP Programmers Library
Version 0.4009. See the online docs, the mail archive, the latest snapshot, grab the entire release [1.6MB] or the smaller STDALL for R14 and A2000 [450KB]. Scroll down for the README after the filelist.

 Name                    Last modified       Size  Description

 Parent Directory        06-Apr-2000 14:16      -
 BINIO.FAS               19-Feb-1999 22:32     6k  External VLisp module >
 COMBINATIONS.LSP        07-Apr-2000 19:36    36k
 Changes                 07-Apr-2000 19:35    32k  Differences from the p>
 DBTRANS.CPM             03-Dec-1998 09:31   264k  enhanced codepages
 DICT.LSP                07-Apr-2000 19:36     6k
 ENTMAKE.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:36    39k
 FILEEXT.FAS             04-Mar-1999 19:30     3k  Required External VLis>
 GETFILEM.LSP            07-Apr-2000 19:35    17k
 HTREE.LSP               07-Apr-2000 19:35    15k
 INIFILE.FAS             19-Feb-1999 22:33     1k  External VLisp module >
 INIFILE.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:35     2k  .INI file external sup>
 LOCALMSG.CZ             01-Sep-1999 03:25     2k
 LOCALMSG.DE             10-Apr-1999 17:28     2k
 LOCALMSG.EN             10-Apr-1999 17:27     1k
 LOCALMSG.JA             10-Apr-1999 17:28     3k
 LOCALMSG.RU             10-Apr-1999 17:27     3k
 MANIFEST                12-Oct-1999 13:10     4k  This list of files
 Makefile                16-Mar-2000 13:30     6k
 PLEASE_README.html      26-Dec-1999 20:33     9k  Short overview
 PRIMES.FAS              27-Aug-1998 12:15     2k
 PRIMES.LSP              07-Apr-2000 19:35     8k  Prime number module
 Questionnaire           16-Dec-1999 23:04    13k
 Questionnaire.result    19-Dec-1999 19:20     1k
 RANDOM.FAS              27-Aug-1998 12:15     3k
 RANDOM.LSP              07-Apr-2000 19:35    12k  Random number module
 REGISTRY.LSP            07-Apr-2000 19:35     7k  Windows Registry exter>
 STANDALONE.LSP          07-Apr-2000 19:35    11k
 STANDALONE.PRJ          15-Jul-1999 12:14     1k
 STD%PRJ.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:35     2k  Project header
 STD%PRJ.lsp             01-Jul-1999 11:50     1k
 STDACI.LSP              07-Apr-2000 19:35     1k  Acad independent modul>
 STDALL.LSP              07-Apr-2000 19:35   387k  All LSP sources copied>
 STDDEBUG.LSP            07-Apr-2000 19:37    18k  Debugging functions
 STDENT.LSP              07-Apr-2000 19:37    28k  Acad Entity module
 STDERROR.LSP            07-Apr-2000 19:37    24k  Acad Error Handling mo>
 STDFILE.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:37    61k  Basic Filename, Direct>
 STDINIT-IDE.LSP         07-Apr-2000 19:37    19k
 STDINIT.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:35    40k  Initialization, Module>
 STDINIT2.LSP            07-Apr-2000 19:37    10k  top-level calls and FI>
 STDINPUT.LSP            07-Apr-2000 19:37    27k  Acad User Input module
 STDLIB-vill.PRJ         07-Jun-1999 13:04     1k  ViLL project file
 STDLIB-vlisp.PRJ        12-Jul-1999 18:29     1k  VLisp project file
 STDLIB.FAS              14-Mar-2000 20:55   210k  as VLisp project
 STDLIB.LSP              07-Apr-2000 19:37     6k  Main LSP loader
 STDLIB.PRJ              16-Aug-1999 18:39     1k  sample vlisp project
 STDLIB12.EXE            05-Apr-2000 08:58   145k
 STDLIB12.EXP            05-Apr-2000 08:58    87k
 STDLIB13.XDF            18-Apr-1999 14:07     2k
 STDLIB14.XDF            07-Jul-1999 16:28     2k
 STDLIB15.PRJ            31-Jul-1999 20:05     1k
 STDLIBv.PRJ             31-Jul-1999 21:29     1k  sample vill project
 STDLISP.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:36    30k  Lisp specific module
 STDLIST.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:36    41k  List module
 STDLOCAL.LSP            07-Apr-2000 19:36    73k  Other languages
 STDMATH.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:36    28k  Math module
 STDMISC.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:36     9k  Acad specific module
 STDMODUL.LSP            07-Apr-2000 19:35    14k  Modules support
 STDPOINT.LSP            07-Apr-2000 19:36    29k
 STDSTR.LSP              07-Apr-2000 19:36    36k  String module (was STD>
 STDTBL.LSP              07-Apr-2000 19:36    28k  Acad Table module
 STDTIME.LSP             07-Apr-2000 19:36    21k  Date/Time module
 Status                  25-Feb-2000 17:15     2k  detailed tested?, miss>
 TAGS                    07-Apr-2000 19:35    45k
 ToDo                    21-Dec-1999 18:10     5k  Wishlist
 adsrx-0.406_023.zip     15-Dec-1999 05:50   409k  ADS/ADSrx/ARX sources
 adsrx-latest.zip        15-Dec-1999 05:50   409k  latest source fixes, n>
 adsrx/                  06-Dec-1999 19:30      -  ADS/ADSrx/ARX sources
 archive/                16-Mar-2000 14:17      -  mail archive
 binio-2.25.zip          07-Jun-1999 14:01     8k
 binio.zip               07-Jun-1999 14:01     8k  Binary FILE IO Module,>
 contrib/                02-Mar-2000 15:19      -
 docs.zip                05-Nov-1999 04:50  1013k  html
 docs/                   03-Feb-2000 14:36      -  html
 ghindex.html            02-Apr-2000 02:03     8k  fulltext search
 hhupd.exe               07-Jun-1999 14:16   465k  HTML Help exe
 html/                   05-Apr-2000 11:05      -  online help
 latest/                 07-Apr-2000 19:39      -  latest source fixes, n>
 new-archive/            16-Mar-2000 14:17      -  mail archive
 old-archive/            07-Nov-1999 03:38      -  mail archive
 old/                    07-Apr-2000 19:12      -  old outdated versions
 samples.zip             05-Nov-1999 04:50    19k  samples using STDLIB f>
 samples/                12-Oct-1999 13:18      -  samples using STDLIB f>
 stdall.prefix           14-Mar-2000 15:34     1k
 stdlib-0.4009.zip       07-Apr-2000 19:39   1.6M
 stdlib-html.zip         05-Apr-2000 11:10   1.3M  online help
 stdlib-r14-small.zip    07-Apr-2000 19:38   437k
 stdlib-r15-small.zip    07-Apr-2000 19:42   431k
 stdlib.zip              07-Apr-2000 19:39   1.6M  world, latest version
 stdlib13.arx            05-Apr-2000 08:58    48k
 stdlib14.arx            05-Apr-2000 08:58    48k
 stdlib15.arx            05-Apr-2000 08:58    48k
 stdlibic.dll            28-Apr-1999 19:50    57k
 sys/                    15-Mar-2000 15:16      -  platform specific buil>
 test.zip                05-Nov-1999 04:50   239k  test suite programs
 test/                   05-Nov-1999 04:34      -  test suite programs
 utils/                   14-Mar-2000 08:38      -
 utils.zip               07-Jun-1999 14:01   130k  some scripts for build>

Effort for a standarization for an AutoLISP Programmers Library

This is no lisp library for AutoCAD users, there are no AutoCAD programs included at all!

The Standard AutoLISP Library is an exhaustive AutoLISP programmers library, not comparable to similar but not-exhausting approaches, as doslib or ELF or similar free or commercial code libraries. Better than doslib or ELF it is free for commercial use and comes with full sources.

Please help in finalization and send me the Questionnaire! v1.0 should be out this year. The intermediate results are here.

New: Downloadable all-in-one binaries for R14 and A2000.
What's new?, and what will be new? The snapshot of the current development.
The latest fixes (the current development snapshot, see above) are in latest.
The latest documents are usually the online docs but better the Winhelp version. (The http protocol might cause some problems donwloading this so you should better use this ftp link, instead of the link in the index above)
The LSP sources are newer than the sources in the help file, but they are still experimental. Download the latest released stdlib.zip.
Compare the dates to your version. I update the releases usually monthly and the sources in latest daily.

Mails to me regarding the STDLIB will be published in the mail archive. I assume your permission without further asking.

Directory layout:

stdlib root - This directory contains the last released version in source and packed format.
latest - The latest directory contains the latest not-released versions and fixes.
old - The old directory contains outdated packed versions and old docs.
archive - The archive directory contains the new stdlib mail archive as stdlib* text files and a browsable and searchable HTML version. This version superceded the old wmf based HTML index, because it handles mime attachments and foreign codepages better, is faster and more reliable. wmf e.g. breaks with >70 messages per folder.
old-archive - The old-archive directory contains the old stdlib mail archive (same content as the new, but with different filenames), still here for back references to old links. The change date was 6.Nov 99.
samples - The samples directory contains some useful (and not finished) examples using library functions.
utils - The utils directory contains useful scripts I use to compile the library. I also have a local perl distribition for win32 and some other scripts somewhere here.
html - In html are the online docs produced with Microsofts HTML Help 1.2 The supported java treeviewer applet seems to work now. I splitted it into plain TOC, MSIE with the ActiveX plugin and Java enabled.
sys - Special AutoLISP specific versions for: VLISP/VILL/ALISP/ACOMP/SMALL and Vill 2.0-STANDALONE versions in source code, These versions are generated automatically from the main sources which are called DYNAMIC. See below. Last update: 27.Oct 99
contrib - In contrib are contributed functions not yet incoorporated into the stdlib. I might change some names if necessary, put it into std modules, or just leave it there for your convenience. But keep sending them, we are needing some more.

Problems downloading?

You may also try this ftp url

Loading STDLIB

1) You may load the whole as project (STDALL.LSP or STDLIB.FAS or STDLIB.BI4, ...) or
2) load STDLIB.LSP and the system loads all single modules (exemplary) or
3) load just STDINIT.LSP and then with (std-require) just the modules you need.

The project does not include BINIO.FAS and the other extensions so far. Also have look at the sample init.lsp loader and a sample initrts.lsp VLISP RTS loader which should be customized for your system.

Latest fixes and changes

The LSP sources change weekly. I upload them to the latest dir to let others also fix some bugs and provide implementation suggestions. The released versions prior 0.5 will probably contain some bugs. Regular updates are favoured over stability in this phase. So if you experience bugs (even in load-time!) please try to fix it and send it back or at least report the bug. I put all immediate fixes into the latest directory, even if they only partially solve a problem...

I try to use all of them in all my new projects and to rewrite most the old stuff to be able to detect any bugs as well.

When finished?

I plan to bring out the release candidate 0.5 this year. There are just some minor fixes to do. See Todo what is missing. Basically it is ready and stable. The docs are considered stable, the user input functions might be changed later. See the latest Questionnaire.

STDINPUT raises some design and philosophical questions:
Do it "just" or do it "good" or do it "customizable" but less understandable? Or completely left to the user at all, just reserve the names and document it? So far I think of removing the table name getters and the ssget wrapper. std-ssget could be provided if it will allow initget keywords, but this will need an external function and I don't think it is portable enough.

Error handling, the next major issue, is now quite production stable. It is still quite verbose on version < 0.5.
I still generate some warnings on possible conflicts, such as invalid nested pairs of std-var-init/restore, VLIDE debugging abortions with [Ctrl-R], error inside *error* user functions or not safe-enough restore functions.
Transparent nesting (lisp inside lisp at user input) with :TRANSPARENT is not functional yet.

Special AutoLISP specific versions

There are be seperate VLISP/VILL/ALISP/ACOMP/SMALL and Vill 2.0-STANDALONE versions in source code, in the sys/%version subdirs, from v0.3015 on. (see latest/*.zip for the current versions) These versions are generated automatically from the main sources which are called DYNAMIC. The postprocessor is in utils/stdlib-pp.pl and needs perl. Beware! These versions cannot be tested that thoroughly as the DYNAMIC version.

Only BI4 requires some postprocessing mandatory (see utils/makebi4)
I successfully compiled v0.3 for acomp r12 international release. Since the old acomp compiler has better diagnostics than VLisp I found some forgotten local variables and even some bugs VLisp, myself and Serge haven't found so far.
Have a look at STDLIB.BI4 and stdlib-bi4.out
VLISP and VILL benefit in the linked, optimized compiler mode from seperate versions. Compiling standard or not-linked has about the same performance and memory usage as with the ordinary DYNAMIC one.
AutoCAD Releases <=R11 have problems with inline comments and some memory restrictions according to Serge Pashkov. We provide a leightweight library version for earlier AutoLISP releases, named SMALL, also removing some dependencies to be able to load less needed basic modules. STDALL.LSP so far doesn't load on low memory.

The old binio.zip contains Binary File IO support for Vital Lisp and Visual Lisp (for all versions), and some other file functions. The new ARX/ADS versions superceded that.

speech.html contains my very old Camp ADGE 97 speech about this project. HTML Help Update 1.2 to enable your win32 system to read compressed HTML Help (*.chm). This also came with IE4.

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Reini Urban, created: 30.March 98, last updated: 7.Apr 2000