[climacs-devel] Some Climacs issues

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Troels Henriksen <athas at sigkill.dk> wrote:

> I've been thinking about this now and again, and there are many ways
> to fix it I think. One idea I've had is to encapsulate each window in
> a border pane and disable/enable the borders when the active window
> changes.

Borders would be great.

>> 3. Finally, mousing over the binding names in the Help view leaves the
>> focus boxe visible after the pointer moves over another binding name.
>> Scrolling clears the focus boxes.
>
> Yeah... this bug exists in the first 150 lines of climacs/typeout.lisp
> or so and is related to the great lengths Climacs go to in order to
> make typeout views transparent for the programmer. I'm not sure how
> easy it is to fix, but it's not likely to require much code.

Semi-relatedly: what is the best way to discover what kind of an
object a given view is? Is there a way to make right-click offer me a
"Descibe Pane" or something like that for any and all panes?

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus