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To initialize a big array with a certain value this is the only method i found :

( set 'pic ( array 100 100 ( sequence 3 3 ) ) )


1. Is there any other method to initialize it to a certain number or a string ?

2. How can i stop the output in the console-window while the array
is evaluated ?

PS: As you can imagine i want this for a byte-map for simple graphics . The size could be eg. 1000 x 1000 later .

You could just do:

It works . Thankyou Jeff .
And how can i get rid of the display of the hole array in the console-window ?

In the repl (the interactive interpreter), whatever the last expression evaluates to gets printed to the screen (repl = read-eval-print-loop). I don't think it outputs anything when run from the cli.

to get rid of displaying the return value from the array statement, just wrap any other functin around it:
of course this is only a problem when executing the statement interactively. Inside a program you wouldn't see anything which isn't printed explictely.

or you can use 'silent':
it suppresses everything, including the prompt, so hit <enter> to get the prompt back.

Lutz

see also: http://newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#array