[mcclim-devel] McClim up and running

[Robert Goldman]

Rudi Schlatte wrote:
> 
> On 17.05.2008, at 19:07, Troels Henriksen wrote:
> 
>> christopher melen <chris_melen at yahoo.com> writes:
>>>
>>> 2. I have to run it with Apple's X11 - which is not a problem for
>>> me, as I use it frequently, but I was wondering if anyone's got it
>>> running without it. I had to set the DISPLAY environment variable in
>>> my .bash_profile to 127.0.0.1:0.0. So I have to run it from the
>>> terminal or an xterm, not from Emacs Slime (my preferred set-up).
>>
>> You can set the environment variable for Emacs (M-x setenv) if you
>> want, but anyway, McCLIM is theoretically able to run under Clozure
>> CL/OpenMCL with the Beagle backend, which uses Cocoa. It's not as
>> complete as the CLX backend, though.
> 
> For "not as complete", read "will crash if you look at it funny"; the 
> beagle backend needs lots of tender loving care by someone who knows 
> cocoa.  If you want to see it in action anyway, (push :clim-beagle 
> *features*) before loading mcclim, then load clim-examples, call 
> (clim-demo::demodemo) and enjoy the pretty Aqua-ish buttons.  You can 
> also get a clim-listener window or start the Climacs editor; just don't 
> expect anything to not crash.
> 
>> I hear Apples X11 server is odd in some ways, which can affect McCLIM,
>> but I do not know the specifics.
> 
> http://paste.lisp.org/display/60199 has a patch that teaches clx/sbcl 
> the appropriate X11-on-Leopard-autostartish magic so you don't need to 
> set DISPLAY.  I don't know of any other problems with Apple's X11 server.
> 

Mikel Bancroft has a version of CLX (forked from Xophe's, I believe) 
with some hacks I came up with to make it play nicely with the autostart 
magic.  Reassuringly, I believe that once I kludged something together 
that worked, he improved it considerably...

I believe you can get this version from darcs get 
http://opensource.franz.com/clx/

Note, I haven't tested the latest version yet...

Robert