Contents

Contents

• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
  • Organizations
  • Legacy Contributors
• Starting GBBopen
  • Step 1: Obtain and install Common Lisp
  • Step 2: Obtain and install GBBopen
    • Downloading the snapshot archive
    • Downloading with Subversion
    • Downloading with clbuild
    • Downloading with Quicklisp
  • Step 3: Subscribe to the GBBopen mailing lists
  • Step 4: Interact with the REPL
  • Step 5: Recover from an error
    • Breaking a computation
    • Help! My REPL is broken!
  • Step 6: Load the :gbbopen-user module
    • Packages

    • If it didn't work...

    • File protection problems?
    • REPL command syntax
    • Beyond <install-dir>/initiate.lisp
• Creating a Unit Instance
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Define the location unit class
  • Step 2: Create a unit instance
  • Step 3: Display a description of the unit instance
  • Step 4: Find a unit instance by its name
  • Step 5: Change the x slot value
• Creating a Space Instance
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Create a space instance
  • Step 2: Display a description of the blackboard repository
  • Step 3: Find a space instance by its path
  • Step 4: Add the unit instance to the space instance
  • Step 5: Again, display the blackboard-repository description
  • Step 6: Display the description of the unit instance
  • Step 7: Find the unit instance on the space instance
  • Step 8: Add another unit instance to the space instance
  • Step 9: Again, display the blackboard-repository description
  • Step 10: Remove a unit instance from the space instance
• Deleting Instances
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Create a few more unit instances
  • Step 2: Apply a function to all instances of a unit class
  • Step 3: Delete a unit instance
  • Step 4: Create a simple space-instance hierarchy
  • Step 5: Add a unit instance to multiple space instances
  • Step 6: Delete a space instance
  • Step 7: Delete the Blackboard Repository
• Enhancing Your Development Environment
  • Step 1: Autoloading GBBopen's initiate.lisp file
    • Customizing your Common Lisp initialization file
  • Step 2: Set up HyperDoc and HyperSpec access
    • Adding the Common Lisp HyperSpec
    • Non-Emacs access
• Working Within a File
  • Step 1: Create the tutorial-example directories
  • Step 2: Create the tutorial-example file
  • Step 3: Compile and load the tutorial-example file
• Adding Dimensions
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Add dimensions to the location unit class
  • Step 2: Compile and load the new definition
  • Step 3: Make a location unit instance
  • Step 4: Make the known-world space instance
  • Step 5: Add the unit instance to the space instance
  • Step 6: Create a dimensioned known-world
  • Step 7: Add the location unit instance to the new known-world
  • Step 8: Adding every location to the known-world automatically
  • Step 9: Create more location unit instances
  • Step 10: Dimensional retrieval
  • Step 11: Customize the display of location unit instances
  • Step 12: More dimensional retrievals
  • Step 13: Change a dimensional value
• Using a Control Shell
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Load the Agenda Shell
  • Step 2: Run the control shell
  • Step 3: Define a KS
  • Step 4: Make the known-world
  • Step 5: Start the control shell
  • Step 6: Display control shell activities
  • Step 7: Control-shell stepping
• Application Startup and Event Functions
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Define an initialization function
  • Step 2: Add an event function
  • Step 3: Run the application
  • Step 4: Run it Again

  • Step 5: It's a new world...

  • Step 6: Run the application again
• Add Another KS
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Add another dimension
  • Step 2: A test of time
  • Step 3: Define another KS
    • Step 3a: Define a utility function
    • Step 3b: Define the random-walk-ks execution function
    • Step 3c: Add the random-walk-ks definition
  • Step 4: Run the application
  • Step 5: Where have we been?
  • Step 6: Run the application a few more times
• Making Connections
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Add a link
  • Step 2: Break some links
  • Step 3: Create some links
  • Step 4: Define a “print walk” KS
• Creating a GBBopen Application
  • Prerequisites
  • Step 1: Create your personal gbbopen-modules directory
  • Step 2: Create a module-definition file for the random-walk application
  • Step 3: Add the random-walk application to your personal gbbopen-modules directory
    • Windows users
  • Step 4: Try the :tutorial module definition
  • Step 5: Create a command-definition file for the random-walk application
  • Step 6: Try the :tutorial command
  • Step 7: Controlling automatic creation of missing subdirectories
  • Step 8: Create and use an application-specific package
    • Change tutorial-example.lisp
    • An application feature
    • Change commands.lisp
    • Change modules.lisp
  • Step 9: Verify your changes
    • Installation-wide sharing
  • Step 10: Add an “autorun” action
  • Step 11: Try it out
    • Module Manager propagation
    • Module Manager memories
  • Step 12: Add a second source file
  • Step 13: One last check
• Multiple Walkers
• A Dimensional Detour
• More to come...
• The Completed Application
• Index

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