[ACT-R-users] RPM 2.1.2 release

[Mike Byrne]

Fixes a couple small issues, unless you're on MCL under OS X and
are having performance problems when using MCL windows as your
device, in which case it should also show much improved
performance.

At the usual place:

http://chil.rice.edu/projects/RPM/download.html

Here are the release notes:

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Version 2.1.2

* Released 2003.06.20.

* There's a change for 2.1.1 that I forgot to document here.  When
doing a +visual-location>, you could include a "nearest" value of
CURRENT to get the closest visual location.  This uses Euclidean
distance.  If you care about nearness in only one dimension, you
can now use CURRENT-X or CURRENT-Y.

* A call to MOVE-ATTENTION will now set the PROCESSOR state to
busy.

* Fixed bug in prepare-only motor movements not leaving the
PROCESSOR state free.

* Under MCL, event-dispatch is now called much less often; at most,
every 100 real ms.  (You can change this in the code if you want it
even less often, it's in the :after method for DEVICE-UPDATE in
"mcl-device.lisp".)  This should speed simulations.  If you have
trouble with things not updating on the screen as a result, please
let me know.

* Another MCL thing:  static-text-dialog-items have different
alignment options, which should now be handled properly in terms of
the locations of the generated text.


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Enjoy!

-Mike

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