Good afternoon all. I am experimenting with cl-opengl with the idea of porting a project to linux from Mac/Windows (Macintosh CL/ Allegro CL). Most of the interaction with current versions is graphical - menus and dialogs, but I have become accustomed to a cycle of using the system to get results from data analyses, then doodling in the repl to explore one or two aspects of the result, before returning to the system's window,menus, etc.; perhaps even firing off commands from the repl to one or more existing windows to add certain objects to themselves.
As far as I can see from the examples and my readings in the redbook, this sort of cycle is not possible when using OpenGL since the toploop is taken over by the event loop of the graphics processes; when I run the example files I certainly lose access to the repl.
I should have said that I'm using cmucl19e under ubuntu-8.10, both in 32bit mode. My copy of the cl-opengl files is dated, by ls -lt, 2008-11-11.
If there are sources of examples other then those which came with that copy of cl-opengl, I would be grateful for pointers to them.
Thx for any and all advice and assistance Cheers /Greg Bennett