[mcclim-devel] Confused by with-room-for-graphics

[Timothy Moore]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Paul Werkowski wrote:

>
>> Can people with classic CLIM try this function in a listener (I 
>> believe
>> classic CLIM has such a thing) and try (draw-compass *standard-output*
>> 'symbol t) and
>> (draw-compass *standard-output* nil)? I would like to know if  the
>> entire compass is visible and if it overlaps other graphics in the
>> output stream.
>
> I don't use a clim listener but I ran the test in an application-pane.
>
Thank you very much. I think it's clear that with-room-for-graphics 
never lets its output extend above and to the left of the initial 
cursor position. The language in the spec about the placement of (0,0) 
is more of a minimum guarantee.

> Let me know if you really need the test run in a listener. I think 
> there
> is one in the clim demo directory.
>
That's not necessary.

Tim