[mcclim-devel] question about behavior of describe

[Robert Strandh]

rpgoldman at sift.info writes:
 > 
 > In the old days, I was able to click on an object that I had displayed
 > in a McCLIM application frame and describe it (using "describe
 > presentation"?).  Now this isn't available any more.  Now when I use
 > the right mouse menu, I see "Describe," but I have not been able to
 > persuade it to describe the things I have presented.  For that matter,
 > it doesn't really do anything even on numbers.  I realize that this is
 > probably a very dumb question, but is there some primer somewhere on
 > how to make this do something nice with my presentations?

The previous default behavior was removed because not every
application wanted it (it was a rather implementation-oriented
feature).  

-- 
Robert Strandh

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