What is Stella?

Stella is a Lua development environment for Mac OS.

What do I need to run Stella?

Stella currently only runs on a PowerPC Mac. It has been tested with Mac OS 9.1 and 9.0.4 and 8.5. Some users have experienced problems using Stella with Mac OS 8.1. I would be interested in hearing people's experiences. I hope to make 68K and Mac OS X versions in the future (a Windows version might even be a possibility).

How much does Stella cost?

Stella is free. We would appreciate an email message if you use Stella.

How do I use Stella?

See the accompanying documentation.

What are the limitations on distributing Stella?

Stella is free, but it is not "public domain". It is copyrighted, and amianduri reserves all rights. In particular:

• Stella cannot be sold, either by itself or in combination with any other product, without express written permission of amianduri.
• User groups publishing a CD-ROM or floppy collection may include Stella and all of its included files without restriction, save that the original package is included.
• Hard disk companies that distribute PD, shareware, and freeware on disk drives may distribute Stella.
• Commercial publishers and distributors of CD-ROM software collections may not distribute Stella on CD-ROM without the express written permission of amianduri.
• Stella may be posted on an information service that charges its users for general connection time and downloading, but it may NOT be posted to an information service that will charge for the specific right to download Stella, without the express written permission of amianduri.
• Stella may be given away as a support utility for a package which is itself to be given away.

Stella is copyright ©2001-2002 by amianduri. All rights reserved.

How do I contact amianduri?

Send email to will@amianduri.com

We would appreciate any comments and bug reports.

Warranty

Stella and any support from amianduri are provided "as is" and without warranty, express and implied, including but not limited to any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will amianduri be liable for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages, even if amianduri is advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by you or any third party.

Version History

v1.0.1

• When the Output Window is hidden, the menu says now says "Show Output" instead of "Show Input".
• Strings delimited by ' (plicks) are now colored correctly.
• When dragging to hilite, the horizontal scrollbar should now update correctly.
• Strings with escaped quotes (e.g. "string: \"My String!\"".) should color correctly.
• print(read()) should now work correctly.
• print(read"*l") should now work correctly.
• The input window now acts as if it is getting one line of input. Hitting OK returns to Lua that contents of the input field and a newline. Hitting the cancel button returns an EOF to Lua.

v1.0.0

• First release

Acknowledgments

Lua 4.0 is copyright © 1994-2002 TeCGraf, PUC-Rio and is being developed by Waldemar Celes, Roberto Ierusalimschy, and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo (see http://www.lua.org/).

The WASTE text engine is copyright © 1993-2000 Marco Piovanelli (see http://www.merzwaren.com/waste/).

WASTEfield is a REALbasic plugin that is being developed by Doug Holton (see http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~doug.holton/basic/plugins/).

The syntax coloring engine was written by Jeromy Alexander (jabody@together.net).

Stella is a REALbasic app. REALbasic is copyright © 1997-2002 REAL Software, Inc. (see http://realbasic.com/).

The artwork is copyright © 2001-2002 Ami Leshner.