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 monitor was already running on screen.

Note that this works only on Motif. There is no Lisp Monitor window on other platforms.

On Motif, 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