[mcclim-devel] incremental redisplay and with-first-quadrant-coordinates

Robert Strandh strandh at labri.fr
Thu Jun 30 06:11:19 UTC 2005


Mike McDonald writes:
 > 
 >   The spec is not meant to be used by application programmers, under
 > normal circumstances. A "programming guide" is for that purpose. The
 > absence of a programmer's guide is not the faultof the spec.

I see you point, but the layered design of CLIM makes it hard to
distinguish between an advanced application programmer and a CLIM
implementor.  That is probably also why CLIM user manuals tend to turn
into the spec after just a few chapters.  

Take care, 
-- 
Robert Strandh

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