[cells-gtk-devel] SBCL patches

[Marco Gidde]

Hi Peter,

Peter Denno <peter.denno at nist.gov> writes:

> OK. The patches that Marco Gidde provided are now in CVS, and the "News" 
> section of the web page has been updated to mention this. 
>
> Thanks to Marco for the patches and Andras for letting me know that I missed 
> Marco's email!

thanks for applying the patches. After a week of silence I was almost
offended :-)

> While I'm here, I'm thought I'd ask what people think is missing in cells-gtk. 
> For example, a while back I started some stuff to do drawing, and I intend to 
> someday pick that up again. I would use it to provide a graphing capability 
> (at least draw and manipulate trees). But I'm not in great need of the 
> capability now, and things just seem to work (I have a 3 cells-gtk apps now). 
> So does anyone here have thoughts on how we can make things better?

What I miss most are much better drawing capabilities. Though I
managed to draw a few lines on a widget using the mentioned functions
I really did not get the ideas behind the API and switched to clg
which already has cairo bindings. Of course clg has some other
problems, e.g. no cells inside :-) and it is not using cffi.

I think joining together clg and cells-gtk would create a killer GUI
library for common lisp! Just my 0.02€


Regards,

Marco