From jdunrue at gmail.com  Fri Mar  3 07:01:27 2006
From: jdunrue at gmail.com (Jack Unrue)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:01:27 -0700
Subject: [graphic-forms-devel] testing
Message-ID: <d3df77800603022301y3836c62er43fb2621a811499@mail.gmail.com>

testing ... 1 ... 2 ... 3

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Jack Unrue


From jdunrue at gmail.com  Wed Mar 22 21:50:02 2006
From: jdunrue at gmail.com (Jack Unrue)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:50:02 -0700
Subject: [graphic-forms-devel] item-owner API change
Message-ID: <d3df77800603221350g7cb79161k534e157bc5806585@mail.gmail.com>

I will be replacing the item-owner generic function, which
is defined to return an item's container, with the more
general owner function which can be defined not only for
items but in fact any window in the ownership hierarchy.

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Jack Unrue


From jdunrue at gmail.com  Wed Mar 22 18:09:23 2006
From: jdunrue at gmail.com (Jack Unrue)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:09:23 -0700
Subject: [graphic-forms-devel] timer API change
Message-ID: <d3df77800603221009l3303fe63obc94635a16143d25@mail.gmail.com>

I made a mistake in the 0.2.0 release by defining the start/stop
generic functions, because I only had the timer class in mind,
when there is already a protocol for this behavior, and that is
the enable generic function. So instead of

  (gfw:start timer)

we should instead call

  (gfw:enable timer t)

and likewise instead of

  (gfw:stop timer)

we should call

  (gfw:enable timer nil)

I will check in this change in the near future.

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Jack Unrue


From jdunrue at gmail.com  Wed Mar 29 00:48:14 2006
From: jdunrue at gmail.com (Jack Unrue)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:48:14 -0700
Subject: [graphic-forms-devel]
In-Reply-To: <4877ae640603281538l53df0a31na7c0343eab39a4b8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4877ae640603281538l53df0a31na7c0343eab39a4b8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <d3df77800603281648h57fca21dt1d22a06a11dd2349@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/28/06, Mac Chan <emailmac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jack,

Hi Mac!

> Since I don't see anyone post on the dev. mailing list, I just want to
> send you an email to say hi and let you know that I'm one of those
> people that are interested in your project.
>
> I'm a lisp hobbyist and used lispworks capi to create some homebrew
> applications for fun (a vocab builder for my sister, an email
> notification app for my cousin, etc).

Cool!

> However, CAPI is severely limited to cover all windows programming aspects.
> Your project is very interesting for lisp lover like myself who wanted
> to create windows programs.
>
> A lot of lisp guru are windows haters (don't know why), sometimes you
> don't even want to mention that you liked to program in windows on cll
> for fear that other hackers will look down on you.

I too have detected that on occasion. But I have found that there are
also a bunch of folks on cll who are very helpful, and some of them
are actively working on Windows ports of Lisp stuff (not counting me).

I guess I don't care what the anti-MS crowd thinks; if people want
to rant and rave, that's their choice :-)

> It's that pathetic...
>
> Anyway, please keep up the good work.

Thanks very much for your encouraging words.

I should probably put some sort ofa roadmap up on
the project website so folks can have an idea of
what to expect. What I'm working on right now is
the usual assortment of graphic operations, and I
think I will make a new release with that next.

I hope you will eventually (once I get more stuff implemented!)
find Graphic-Forms to be useful. Thanks again for your email.

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Jack Unrue