[mcclim-devel] question about behavior of describe

[Paul Werkowski]

> 
>     RS> The previous default behavior was removed because not every
>     RS> application wanted it (it was a rather implementation-oriented
>     RS> feature).  
> 
> Thanks.  I understand and sympathize.  But is there some easy recipe
> to get this behavior back?  Either to get it for a whole application
> (my biggest use for McCLIM was for debugging tools), or for particular
> objects?
> 

You could have your presentation types subclass a presentation type for
which you have a command, say com-describe-object, and then have
a presentation translator (DEFINE-PRESENTATION-TO-COMMAND-TRANSLATOR)
on the superclass and middle button (:describe gesture) to invoke it.

Paul