[mac-lisp-ide] Whither CLIM/Cocoa?

[Rainer Joswig]

At 17:58 Uhr +0000 29.02.2004, Duncan Rose wrote:
>It's... progressing 8-)  Still some glitches in text display even (for some reason "class::object" is being rendered as "clas : object" on entry, though it does get updated correctly most of the time afterwards (it *only* affects repeat characters, the first being rendered and all others not (initially) - I'm hoping McCLIM is being too clever for my own good and this will be sorted once copy-area is implemented).
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>Drawing lines + rectangles works, so you can do "show class superclasses" etc and get a sensible graph. Unfortunately scrolling isn't (dependent on copy-area again) so you can't see much of the graph if it's large. Mouse events work, so you can roll over the presentations and manipulate them.
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>There's no pixmap support, and only key events involving printing characters are working at the moment.
>Event handling does a lot of busy waiting, and menus don't work.
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>Other than that it's nearly usable ;-)
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>-Duncan

Cool.

Would it be possible to use two backends (Cocoa and X11) in one
Lisp ?

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>On Sunday, February 29, 2004, at 05:26 PM, Brian Mastenbrook wrote:
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>>Greetings fellow lispites,
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>>How is the McCLIM/Cocoa effort going? I haven't seen any news for a while and I'm dying to play with it (even if it doesn't work). Is there a CVS repository?
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>>Brian
>>--
>>Brian Mastenbrook
>>bmastenb at cs.indiana.edu
>>http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/