Could you please put a more detailed installation procedure
in the FAQ for newbie users like ?
(Btw i am on Lispworks personal free edition on the windows
platform, so any help on this particular platform will be
appreciated a lot.)
Also could you include some simple tutorial examples explaining
drawing a cube ?
Once the initialisation barrier falls down, i could begin doing
some of the newbie documentation myself.
Regards,
Deepankar Sharma
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Celtic is coming along nicely. I actually forget where it was before,
but I am pretty sure the scale, spinbox, and panedwindows are all new
widgets. Not much left. Toplevels, yes, and maybe menus could be made
friendlier. Of interest for aesthetic reasons is that the internals got
a massive clean-up that makes me feel a lot better-- there was some
weirdness in there.
As for Cells III, panedwindows were the first thing that did not play
well with Cells. They insist that the widgets which will occupy a pane
be fully assembled before being added to the panedwindow. Turns out
Cells II made it impossible to place the "add" code anyplace guaranteed
to run after all initialization, because it defers things. The good news
is that I simply added a new category of operation (finalize) to the
four I already had (user-notify, output, setf, and makunbound) and it
Just Worked. Which I usually take as a Good Sign, but it still makes me
nervous to think I have made "after" into something tricky. :)
kt
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text below was copied from the notes at the top of the cell-cultures CVS
project:
http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cell-cultures/?cvsroot=cells
Other cvs projects alongside cell-cultures have short life-expectancies.
Likewise, as soon as I figure out how to shut down the common-lisp
Cello mailing lists, I will do so, so anyone wanting to track Cello
should slide over to the Cells list.
"Kenny Tilton
July 6, 20004
This CVS release inaugurates the collection of all my Cells-related code
under one CVS project (./cells/cell-cultures), in turn under one
common-lisp.net project, Cells. From now on the Cello project under
common-lisp.net is quiesced, tho the web page is still informative and
fun screen shots can be found in the FTP area.
This release also introduces two significant new code releases. First, a
substantial reworking of Cell internals known informally as Cells II.
Second, Celtic, a derived work of Peter Herth's LTk project marrying
Common Lisp and TCl/Tk. Celtic adds Cells to the mix (and deviates
wildly from LTk so cannot be combined with that.
A third subproject (a directory, in fact), Clyde (derived from "CL IDE")
currently just contains a GUI wrapper for the CL apropos-list function,
but could soon see a port of ClouCell, currently a Cello-based graphical
object inspector.
Several other subprojects offer utilities required by most Cell
projects. ASDF-ACLPROJ is Thomas Burdick's creation, which teaches ASDF
about AllegroCL project files (their home-brewed defsystem). I use
AllegroCL and cannot be trusted to keep parallel ASDF definition files
current with the ACL project files. UTILS-KT is just what it looks like,
very low-level stuff I use everywhere. FFI-EXTENDER makes it easier for
me to whip up FFI bindings using UFFI (which, btw, you will also need).
Pure binding subprojects are functional as far as they go, but are
usually incomplete because I punt when they get hard, until I need the
challenging bindings. These include:
cl-opengl -- OpenGL.
cl-openal -- bindings to OpenAL. Think "OpenGL for audio".
cl-ftgl -- FTGL, FreeType for OpenGL
cl-magick -- ImageMagick, for image files such as JPG, and vector or
bitmapped graphics.
That just leaves Cello, the OpenGL/Freeglut-based CL GUI. Where LTk and
Celtic offer simpler, higher-level (but still powerful), and native
GUIs, Cello is Lisp all the way down and offers terrific graphical power
thx to direct OpenGL capabilities accelerated by hardware GPUs."
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