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

[Troels Henriksen]

> Even so, when fixing it as you kindly indicated, it still bombs --

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).

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