On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Alan Ruttenbergalanruttenberg@gmail.com wrote:
Just fyi - Michael Travers wrote the beginnings of swing based inspector for java that I use in LSW for productive work. Anyone is welcome to grab it and improve it or just steal ideas or code. It's at:
Very interesting! Actually the inspector I have begun working on is more of a sample/test for the Swing library I'm coding. It mostly re-uses what's already in abcl and just packages it in a GUI. It seems Mike's is more powerful, as it also knows about rdf, and maybe more (I've just given it a quick look). I also see that he wrote his own little Swing abstraction for the inspector: is LSW itself a GUI application, or just the inspector? (just curious - I'd like to see as many abcl+Swing applications as possible in order to improve my library). In any case, I'll consider stealing some code :) I have defined a little object-description abstraction, so I'm not tied to abcl's own inspector infrastructure only, and I can easily plug in new types of objects to be inspected. And of course, I'll share my code - it's not published yet, but I plan to set up a common-lisp.net project soon, even if the library is still not much more than a sketch.
Bye, Alessio