[mcclim-devel] Re: Guided Tour of CLIM

[Luís Oliveira]

Clemens Fruhwirth <clemens at endorphin.org> writes:
> http://clemens.endorphin.org/A%20Guided%20Tour%20of%20CLIM%202006-draft.pdf
> 
> Feedback is appreciated.

Hello,

I'm going through the tutorial, and being very much clim-illiterate here
are my few comments that I wrote down while doing so:

  - The tutorial is pretty cool. The introduction addresses what CLIM is
    good for, and how it relates to "normal" GUI toolkits, the
    terminology, etc... Very enlightening.

  - There's a typo in page 2: "(...) equally to the _build-in_ gadget
    types."

  - Mentioning the CLIM-USER package (where we can try the examples)
    might be a good idea.

  - I'd suggest restructuring the code in way that doesn't generate
    warnings about undefined functions. Eg: I was confused about why my
    McCLIM didn't seem to have this update-draw-pane function used in
    the draw-frame commands.

  - The draw-frame example doesn't work for me (SBCL 0.9.8 and McCLIM
    HEAD, CLX backend). I get an error saying:
      "The function (SETF RECTANGLE-EDGES*) is undefined."
    Hmm, and I get this same error with the file-browser example.

  - Another typo: in figure 7, "The second _color_ (...)".

  - I'd love to see figure 7's code in action. However,
    count-package-symbols isn't defined anywhere. (Ah, and in
    fig. 7 it actually reads _count-package-symbols-package_). Sure,
    it is trivial to implement, but still. :-)

  - Is the source code for the examples available somewhere? That'd be
    useful.

Hope this helps in some say,

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