Cannot open browser on Windows

[maacl]

Following "Getting started" I get the below error. Looks like the Chrome path is invalid. On Windows 11 Chrome is installed in Program Files, not Program Files (x86)\\ and the path should not contain double \.

* (plot:plot-from-file (vglt:save-plot 'cars-plot))

debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10010B0523}>: Couldn't execute "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe": The system cannot find the file specified.

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" ("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/marti/AppData/Local/Temp/plot/chrome-data-G784" "--window-size=800,600" "--app=file:///C:/Users/marti/AppData/Local/Temp/plot/cars-plot.html") :ENV NIL :ENVIRONMENT NIL :WAIT NIL :SEARCH T :INPUT NIL :IF-INPUT-DOES-NOT-EXIST :ERROR :OUTPUT NIL :IF-OUTPUT-EXISTS :APPEND :ERROR NIL :IF-ERROR-EXISTS :APPEND :STATUS-HOOK NIL :EXTERNAL-FORMAT :UTF-8 :DIRECTORY NIL :ESCAPE-ARGUMENTS T)
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[Symbolics]

Well that's interesting. The file plot/browser.lisp contains the browser commands. There we test for win32 on *features* to set the correct browser path. What we need is a way to distinguish Windows 11 from earlier versions. I'll have to dig around to find out the best way to do that.

In the meantime you can change the path in browser.lisp. The line is:

(defparameter *browser-commands*
  (list (cons :chrome #+win32 "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"
...

Change that path to wherever Chrome is.

I'll leave this issue open and move it to the plot project to remind me to find a long-term fix for this. I may just have to test both locations with probe-file.

[maacl]

Thanks. (setf (nth 0 plot:*browser-commands*) (cons :chrome #+win32 "C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe")) works.

[Symbolics]

FYI, you can add that line to your ls-init.lisp initialisation file for a fix that will happen every time you load Lisp-Stat.

[maacl]

Thanks for the tip.

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[maacl]

For others who might want to use the init file to fix this, please note you have to load the plot package first, ie. (asdf:load-system :plot/vglt)