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start-gc-monitor

Function
Summary

Starts a Lisp Monitor window.

Package

capi

Signature

start-gc-monitor screen => result

Arguments

screen

A screen.

Values

result

A boolean.

Description

The function start-gc-monitor starts a Lisp Monitor window (otherwise known as the GC or Garbage Collector monitor) on the screen screen .

result is t if it started a Lisp monitor, and nil if a Lisp monitorwas already running on screen .

Note that this works only on Motif/Lesstif.

On these platforms, start-gc-monitor is called automatically when the LispWorks IDE starts, but you can call stop-gc-monitor and start-gc-monitor any time.

See also

stop-gc-monitor


LispWorks CAPI Reference Manual - 25 Jul 2006

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