[cells-gtk-devel] SBCL patches

[Peter Denno]

On Saturday 03 June 2006 08:21, Marco Gidde wrote:

Hi Marco,
>
> 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.

Do you mean you "did not get the ideas behind the API" of the drawing 
functions, or cells-gtk in general? 

I think the biggest problem with cell-gtk is the lack of documentation of 
Cells. And for me, some of the design choices of Cells are not intuitive, 
making documenting it difficult.

The drawing functions are a rough work-in-progress. The idea behind them 
hasn't really been expressed yet (I had in mind something with closures, but 
it needs lots of work). 
>
> I think joining together clg and cells-gtk would create a killer GUI
> library for common lisp! Just my 0.02€

I took a quick look at clg and Cairo. Is what you like most about clg the 
Cairo port? clg looks ok. Cairo looks like the interesting part of it. I am 
not a "graphics person" but just someone who needed a GUI for lisp and 
stumbled into cells-gtk. It is good that I saw Cairo now, before I got too 
deep into drawing. I'll play around with it next time I get a chance to work 
on Cells-gtk.  

Thanks!

>
>
> Regards,
>
> Marco

-- 
- Best regards,
   Peter