[mcclim-devel] stupid newbie question re: initializing text-field

[John Morrison]

On Friday 29 September 2006 19:38, Troels Henriksen wrote:
> The Goatee editable area object, which contains the buffer, is not
> initialized until the first redisplay happens, so it is impossible to
> access the buffer before then. Hence, you cannot use (setf
> gadget-value) on a text-field or text-editor gadget in McCLIM before
> your command loop is running and the gadget has been redisplayed at
> least once. I'm pretty sure this is a bug in McCLIM (if anyone wants
> to fix it, look at the definition of `handle-repaint' for
> `text-field-pane' in gadget.lisp line 2542).

DREI obviates this problem.  So a double "thank you" is owed by me to
you.  Thanks, doubly!

-jm

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