[mcclim-devel] Re: Guided Tour of CLIM

[Scott Williams]

I'm also reading it, but haven't gotten all the way through it yet

Luís Oliveira wrote:

>Clemens Fruhwirth <clemens at endorphin.org> writes:
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>>http://clemens.endorphin.org/A%20Guided%20Tour%20of%20CLIM%202006-draft.pdf
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>>Feedback is appreciated.
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>Hello,
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>I'm going through the tutorial, and being very much clim-illiterate here
>are my few comments that I wrote down while doing so:
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>  - 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."
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>  - Mentioning the CLIM-USER package (where we can try the examples)
>    might be a good idea.
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>  - 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.
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>  - 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.
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>  - Another typo: in figure 7, "The second _color_ (...)".
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>  - 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. :-)
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>  - Is the source code for the examples available somewhere? That'd be
>    useful.
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>Hope this helps in some say,
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