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[mcclim-announce] McCLIM 0.9.6 "St. George's Day" is released!
by McCLIM maintainers 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

The McCLIM developers are happy to release version 0.9.6 of McCLIM, code-named "St. George's Day". This release includes several bug and specification compliance fixes, as well as improvements to the anti-aliased text drawing facility and to the Drei text editing substrate. When testing this release, we found that it works on these implementations: * SBCL * CMUCL 19d * Clozure CL 1.2 (RC 1) * CLISP 2.41 (requires "Telent" CLX) * Allegro Common Lisp 8.1 in ANSI Mode For compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard", please see the included release notes. Get the tarball at <http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/downloads/mcclim-0.9.6.tar.gz>. Alternatively, you can install McCLIM via asdf-install. We are looking forward to your comments and bug reports. Please send them to mcclim-devel at common-lisp.net. The list of currently known bugs can be found at <http://trac.common-lisp.net/mcclim/report/1>. Have fun using McCLIM, The McCLIM developers. RELEASE NOTES FOR McCLIM 0.9.6, "St. George's Day": Compatibility ============= This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations: * SBCL * CMUCL 19d * Clozure CL 1.2 (RC 1) * CLISP 2.41 (requires "Telent" CLX) * Allegro Common Lisp 8.1 in ANSI Mode McCLIM currently does not support lisps with case-sensitive readers (Allegro CL "modern mode" and lower-case Scieneer CL). To run McCLIM on Mac OS X 10.5, it is currently necessary to pass an explicit DISPLAY argument to work around incompatibility between Leopard's X11 auto-start facility and CLX. Changes in mcclim-0.9.6 "St. George's Day" relative to 0.9.5: ============================================================== From the NEWS file: * New extension: mcclim-truetype: provides a 100% lisp path for AA fonts with CLX using cl-vectors and zpb-ttf, as an alternative to mcclim-freetype. * Improvement: Faster drawing and AA text rendering. AA text requires a fix to the Xrender support of CLX, available in Christophe Rhodes's current CLX distribution from darcs. * Improvement: Look up arbitrary truetype fonts by name via fontconfig. * Drei improvements ** New redisplay engine that is faster and has more features. ** Support for "views" concept. ** Support for modes a la Emacs "mini-modes". ** Improvement: Goal-columns for line movement. ** Improvement: More Emacs-like expression movement for Lisp syntax. ** Bug fix: Input prompting now works for directly recursive calls to ACCEPT. * Specification compliance: READ-BITMAP-FILE and MAKE-PATTERN-FROM-BITMAP-FILE from CLIM 2.2. Includes new example program, IMAGE-VIEWER. * Specification compliance: The :inherit-menu keyword argument to DEFINE-COMMAND-TABLE and MAKE-COMMAND-TABLE is now implemented with CLIM 2.2 semantics. The :keystrokes value is not handled yet. * Specification compliance: :PRINTER functions for MENU-CHOOSE are now called with the menu item, not the display object. * Bug fix: ESA's help commands are better at finding bindings and describing them * Bug fix: Some missing methods and functions have been implemented for the Null backend, allowing headless operation for many applications. * Bug fix: correct computation of bounding rectangle after clear-output-record and recompute-extent-for-new-child. * Bug fix: label panes no longer have a restrictive maximum width. * Bug fix: ellipses with a zero radius no longer cause errors. * Bug fix: bezier drawing in CLIM-FIG less likely to cause errors. * Bug fix: restored somewhat working undo in CLIM-FIG.

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[mcclim-announce] McCLIM 0.9.5 "Eastern Orthodox Liturgical New Year" released!
by McCLIM developers 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

The McCLIM developers are happy to release version 0.9.5 of McCLIM, code-named "Eastern Orthodox Liturgical New Year". This release includes many important bug fixes. There have been stability and reliability improvements to the core CLIM implementation, to the backends, and to the editor substrate "Drei", which we introduced in the last release. When testing this release, we found that it works on the following implementations: * SBCL * OpenMCL * CLISP * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode For compatibility with other implementations, please see the attached release notes. Get the tarball at <http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/downloads/mcclim-0.9.5.tar.gz>. Alternatively, you can install McCLIM via asdf-install. We are looking forward to your comments and bug reports. Please send them to mcclim-devel at common-lisp.net. The list of currently known bugs can be found at <http://trac.common-lisp.net/mcclim/report/1>. Have fun using McCLIM, The McCLIM developers. RELEASE NOTES FOR McCLIM 0.9.5, "Eastern Orthodox Liturgical New Year": Compatibility ============= This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations: * SBCL * OpenMCL * CLISP (requires "Telent" CLX) * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode In our tests, this release of McCLIM did not work on the following implementations: * CMUCL (at the time of this release, the released CMUCL has a bug that prevents successful loading of McCLIM; CMUCL 19d + patch 1 and the 2006-12 snapshot or later contain a fix for this problem) Also, McCLIM currently does not support lisps with case-sensitive readers (Allegro CL "modern mode" and lower-case Scieneer CL). Changes in mcclim-0.9.5 "Eastern Orthodox Liturgical New Year" relative to 0.9.4: ============================================================== >From the NEWS file: * Changes in mcclim-0.9.5 relative to 0.9.4: ** Installation: the systems clim-listener, clim-examples, and clouseau can now be loaded without loading the system mcclim first. Users with existing McCLIM installations should use the provided script: ./symlink-asd-files.sh /path/to/asdf-central-registry/ ** New extension: tab-layout. This extension allows keeping a stack of panes whose foreground pane is controlled by a tab bar. This layout can be customized in backends and frame managers. For examples, see the gtkairo backend and the pixie frame manager. ** New extension function: SHEET-RGB-IMAGE: makes a screenshot of a sheet in the CLX backend. (Supported on truecolor visuals only for now.) ** New experimental extension: tree-with-cross-edges are an extension to the graph formatter. ** New experimental backend: clim-graphic-forms: native widgets on Windows. This backend is still very experimental (it doesn't run demos yet). ** New inspector feature: The inspector now displays more useful information about hash tables and generic functions. ** Specification compliance: Various layout panes no longer quite as aggressive at eating the space requirements of their children. ** Specification compliance: There is now a rudimentary implementation of NOTIFY-USER ** Usability: Text editors and text input panes now use click-to-focus. ** Improvement: the ACCEPTING-VALUES command table was renamed to ACCEPT-VALUES (as this is the name that the other clim-2 implementation uses) ** Improvement: the CLX backend should no longer cause focus stealing when an application has text-editor panes. This change comes with a rudimentary click-to-focus-keyboard widget policy. ** Improvement: define-application-frame now allows a :default-initargs option. (This is not exactly a "specification compliance" fix, as d-a-frame is not defined to accept this option.). ** Improvement: menu-choose menus now look a little prettier. ** Improvement: added more styles for bordered-output: :rounded, :ellipse ** Improvement: Toggle button values now default to NIL. ** Improvement: Frame layouts are now inherited from the frame's superclass. ** Improvement: The Lisp Syntax is much improved: now recognizes delimiter characters, and more types of Lambda lists. ** Bug fix: Bezier designs should now draw in the right place in all backends. ** Bug fix: Text in Drei no longer "walks" to the left. ** Bug fix: Drei now has better support for delimiter gestures. ** Bug fix: Partial commands now work better when invoked from the menu.

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[mcclim-announce] McCLIM 0.9.4 released!
by McCLIM developers 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

The McCLIM developers are happy to release version 0.9.4 of McCLIM, code-named "Orthodox New Year". This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations: This release includes some great improvements, from a new editor substrate ("DREI") to many cool new features in the Gtkairo backend, and many compatibility enhancements and extensions to the core of McCLIM. Note that due to the radical changes introduced by the new editor substrate, some bugs may surface in day-to-day use. Refer to the section "Known Bugs" in the included release notes for details. When testing this release, we found that it works on the following implementations: * SBCL * OpenMCL * CLISP * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode For compatibility with other implementations, please see the attached release notes. Get the tarball at <http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/downloads/mcclim-0.9.4.tar.gz> or install McCLIM via asdf-install. We are looking forward to your comments and bug reports. Please send them to mcclim-devel at common-lisp.net. The list of currently known bugs can be found at <http://mcclim.cliki.net/Bug>. Have fun using McCLIM, The McCLIM developers. RELEASE NOTES FOR McCLIM 0.9.4, "Orthodox New Year": Compatibility ============= This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations: * SBCL * OpenMCL * CLISP * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode In our tests, this release of McCLIM did not work on the following implementations: * CMUCL (at the time of this release, the released CMUCL has a bug that prevents successful loading of McCLIM; CMUCL 19d + patch 1 and the 2006-12 snapshot or later contain a fix for this problem) Also, McCLIM currently does not support lisps with case-sensitive readers (ACL "modern mode" and lower-case SCL). Known Bugs ========== Due to the radical changes introduced by the new editor substrate, some bugs may surface in day-to-day use. We would very much like to hear about them on mcclim-devel(a)common-lisp.net. As a work-around, you can enable the old input substrate by using (setf climi::*use-goatee* t) on the REPL when clim is loaded. The following bugs are known to exist: * McCLIM freetype can interact poorly with Drei under some circumstances * Drei does not handle most reader macros well * Sometimes, the ENTER key is not very responsive when editing forms with Drei * Calling stream-input-buffer is still buggy. Changes in mcclim-0.9.4 "Orthodox New Year" relative to 0.9.3: ============================================================== >From the NEWS file: * cleanup: removed the obsolete system.lisp file. * backend improvements: Gtkairo ** Double buffering is now supported (fixes disappearing widgets on Windows). ** X errors no longer terminate the lisp process. ** Some bugfixes, including CMUCL support and better key event handling. ** Native implementation of context menus, list panes, label panes, and option panes. ** Draw text using Pango. (Bug fix: Fixed-width font supported on Windows now. Multiple lines of output in TEXT-SIZE supported now. TEXT-STYLE-FIXED-WIDTH-P works correctly now.) * Improvement: Added new editor substrate ("Drei"). * Improvement: Improved the pathname presentation methods considerably. * specification compliance: DELETE-GESTURE-NAME function now implemented. * specification compliance: PRESENTATION-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P presentaion function now implemented. * specification compliance: DISPLAY-COMMAND-TABLE-MENU function now implemented. * specification compliance: DISPLAY-COMMAND-MENU function now implemented. * specification compliance: POINTER-PLACE-RUBBER-BAND-LINE* function now implemented. * specification compliance: POINTER-INPUT-RECTANGLE* function now implemented. * specification compliance: POINTER-INPUT-RECTANGLE function now implemented. * Improvement: Added font listing support, see section "Fonts and Extended Text Styles" in the manual. * Improvement: Added support for bezier splines (Robert Strandh). To be documented. * better PRESENTATION-SUBTYPEP (more likely to give the right answer on some-of and all-of presentation types) * Improvement: M-n/M-p gestures for navigating presentation histories.

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[mcclim-announce] (corrected) Announcing McCLIM 0.9.3 "All Souls' Day"
by McCLIM developers 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

The McCLIM developers are happy to release version 0.9.3 of McCLIM, code-named "All Saints' Day". This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations: * SBCL * OpenMCL * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode * The Scieneer Common Lisp in ANSI Mode For compatibility with other implementations, please see the attached release notes. Get the tarball at <http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/downloads/mcclim-0.9.3.tar.gz> or install McCLIM via asdf-install. We are looking forward to your comments and bug reports. Please send them to mcclim-devel at common-lisp.net. The list of currently known bugs can be found at <http://mcclim.cliki.net/Bug>. Have fun using McCLIM (and build good things with it), The McCLIM developers. RELEASE NOTES FOR McCLIM 0.9.3, "All Souls' Day": Compatibility ============= This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations: * SBCL * OpenMCL * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode * The Scieneer Common Lisp in ANSI Mode In our tests, this release of McCLIM did not work on the following implementations: * CLISP (there are some problems with CLISP at the moment, but it is possible to run McCLIM there; a HOWTO will be posted to http://planet.lisp.org) * CMUCL (at the time of this release, the released CMUCL has a bug that prevents successful loading of McCLIM; CMUCL 19d + patch 1 and the 2006-12 snapshot or later contain a fix for this problem) * LispWorks (no known workaround) Also, McCLIM currently does not support lisps with case-sensitive readers (ACL "modern mode" and lower-case SCL). Changes in mcclim-0.9.3 "All Souls' Day" relative to 0.9.2: =========================================================== From the NEWS file: * backend improvement: The Null backend now registers itself in the server search path * improvement: with-output-as-gadget now sets the correct cursor position when incremental redisplay is active. * specification compliance: INVOKE-WITH-NEW-OUTPUT-RECORD's argument list now is the same as the one in the Franz CLIM user guide. * improvement: The text field cursor is now a solid block again. * backend improvement: the PostScript backend now outputs correct EPS * improvement: Graph nodes can now be dragged * improvement: Possibilities when reading from COMPLETE-FROM-GENERATOR are now sorted alphabetically. * new experimental backend: gtkairo (loads on SBCL, CMUCL and SCL): Uses GTK+ for gadgets and cairo for rendering graphics. * Bug fix: incremental-redisplay does no longer leak memory * improvement: incremental-redisplay is now a little faster * Bug fix: Invisible text cursors no longer leave a dangling space behind the text output record * improvement: commands whose names are shadowed in child command tables are now suggested in preference to their parents. * Bug fix: (setf stream-cursor-position) and output record replay on encapsulating streams work now. * Bug fix: Invoking command menu items in frames with no interactor works now. * Bug fix: DESTROY-PORT removes the port even if an error occurs while closing the port * Bug fix: make-process now sets the process name on SBCL * specification compliance: MENU-CHOOSE now supports almost all features demanded in the CLIM 2.0 specification. * improvement: new and improved ACCEPT presentation method for expressions on interactive streams. * specification compliance: LOOKUP-KEYSTROKE-ITEM no longer accepts the :errorp argument. * Bug fix: incremental redisplay no longer breaks on output records that had no children. * Bug fix: arrow head sizes are now transformed along with the line thickness. * improvement: resizing a viewport's child will now move the viewport's focus. * improvement: loading mcclim.asd no longer shows a code deletion note on SBCL. * new demo: logic-cube * compatibility: Add support for post-1.0 openmcl, and for Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 (ansi mode). * new example application showing use of CLIM views.

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[mcclim-announce] Announcing McCLIM 0.9.3 "All Saints' Day"
by McCLIM developers 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

The McCLIM developers are happy to release version 0.9.3 of McCLIM, code-named "All Saints' Day". This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations: * SBCL * OpenMCL * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode * The Scieneer Common Lisp in ANSI Mode For compatibility with other implementations, please see the attached release notes. Get the tarball at <http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/downloads/mcclim-0.9.3.tar.gz> or install McCLIM via asdf-install. We are looking forward to your comments and bug reports. Please send them to mcclim-devel at common-lisp.net. The list of currently known bugs can be found at <http://mcclim.cliki.net/Bug>. Have fun using McCLIM (and build good things with it), The McCLIM developers. RELEASE NOTES FOR McCLIM 0.9.2, "Laetare Sunday": Compatibility ============= This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations: * SBCL * OpenMCL * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode * The Scieneer Common Lisp in ANSI Mode In our tests, this release of McCLIM did not work on the following implementations: * CLISP (there are some problems with CLISP at the moment, but it is possible to run McCLIM there; a HOWTO will be posted to http://planet.lisp.org) * CMUCL (at the time of this release, the released CMUCL has a bug that prevents successful loading of McCLIM; CMUCL 19d + patch 1 and the 2006-12 snapshot or later contain a fix for this problem) * LispWorks (no known workaround) Also, McCLIM currently does not support lisps with case-sensitive readers (ACL "modern mode" and lower-case SCL). Changes in mcclim-0.9.3 "All Souls' Day" relative to 0.9.2: =========================================================== From the NEWS file: * backend improvement: The Null backend now registers itself in the server search path * improvement: with-output-as-gadget now sets the correct cursor position when incremental redisplay is active. * specification compliance: INVOKE-WITH-NEW-OUTPUT-RECORD's argument list now is the same as the one in the Franz CLIM user guide. * improvement: The text field cursor is now a solid block again. * backend improvement: the PostScript backend now outputs correct EPS * improvement: Graph nodes can now be dragged * improvement: Possibilities when reading from COMPLETE-FROM-GENERATOR are now sorted alphabetically. * new experimental backend: gtkairo (loads on SBCL, CMUCL and SCL): Uses GTK+ for gadgets and cairo for rendering graphics. * Bug fix: incremental-redisplay does no longer leak memory * improvement: incremental-redisplay is now a little faster * Bug fix: Invisible text cursors no longer leave a dangling space behind the text output record * improvement: commands whose names are shadowed in child command tables are now suggested in preference to their parents. * Bug fix: (setf stream-cursor-position) and output record replay on encapsulating streams work now. * Bug fix: Invoking command menu items in frames with no interactor works now. * Bug fix: DESTROY-PORT removes the port even if an error occurs while closing the port * Bug fix: make-process now sets the process name on SBCL * specification compliance: MENU-CHOOSE now supports almost all features demanded in the CLIM 2.0 specification. * improvement: new and improved ACCEPT presentation method for expressions on interactive streams. * specification compliance: LOOKUP-KEYSTROKE-ITEM no longer accepts the :errorp argument. * Bug fix: incremental redisplay no longer breaks on output records that had no children. * Bug fix: arrow head sizes are now transformed along with the line thickness. * improvement: resizing a viewport's child will now move the viewport's focus. * improvement: loading mcclim.asd no longer shows a code deletion note on SBCL. * new demo: logic-cube * compatibility: Add support for post-1.0 openmcl, and for Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 (ansi mode). * new example application showing use of CLIM views.

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[mcclim-announce] [mcclim-devel] Announcing McCLIM 0.9.2 "Laetare Sunday"
by McCLIM developers 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

The McCLIM developers are happy to release version 0.9.2 of McCLIM. It was tested on SBCL (both threaded and unthreaded), OpenMCL, CMUCL, Scieneer CL, and Allegro Common Lisp (ANSI mode only). Get the tarball at <http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/downloads/mcclim-0.9.2.tar.gz> or install McCLIM via asdf-install. We are looking forward to your comments and bug reports. Please send them to mcclim-devel(a)common-lisp.net. The list of currently known bugs can be found at <http://mcclim.cliki.net/Bug>. Have fun using McCLIM (and build good things with it), The McCLIM developers. RELEASE NOTES FOR McCLIM 0.9.2, "Laetare Sunday": Compatibility ============= This release works on CMUCL, SBCL, CLISP, OpenMCL, Allegro CL, LispWorks, and the Scieneer CL, using the CLX X Window bindings. Changes to the Install Process ============================== Implementation-specific INSTALL.* files were removed. Generic and implementation-specific Installation instructions were improved and merged into the file INSTALL. This release requires the "spatial-trees" library by Christophe Rhodes. Get it via asdf-install or at http://cliki.net/spatial-trees. Changes to Backends =================== Copy & Paste code in the CLX backend was improved and should now adhere more strictly to ICCCM. Support for connecting to a ssh-forwarded display was restored. Several unused parts (marked with #+unicode) of the CLX backend were removed, thus restoring buildability on installations of clisp that have the unicode feature turned on. Double buffering for panes was implemented. To use it, create panes with the :double-buffering t initarg. There is now rudimentary support for entering non-Ascii characters from X11 ports using SBCL CLX (a.k.a. telent CLX). McCLIM ships experimental support for TrueType font rendering using the FreeType libraries and the free Bitstream Vera fonts. To use it, link Experimental/freetype/mcclim-freetype.asd to one of your asdf:*central-registry* directories and load the "MCCLIM-FREETYPE" system. An experimental "Null" backend was added that should allow testing of CLIM functionality without requiring a GUI environment to run. Changes to the Documentation ============================ A new chapter on contributed applications was added. Several new figures and examples were added to the manual Clemens Fruhwirth added a CLIM tutorial paper called "A Guided Tour to CLIM". It is available in Doc/Guided-Tour/. Changes to Contributed Applications and Examples ================================================ New application: A CLIM Debugger (by Peter Mechlenborg). It resides in Apps/Debugger/. New application: Functional-Geometry by Frank Buss and Rainer Joswig. It resides in Apps/Functional-Geometry/. The Inspector now is now able to disassemble functions and inspect pathnames. The Listener can now produce vertically-aligned graphs. The Scigraph application now builds on SBCL again. A demo for drag-and-drop-translators was added. Further additions to McCLIM =========================== There is now a test suite, located in Tests/. It contains tests for regions, bounding rectangles, transformations, commands, and the PostScript backend. With the addition of the Null backend, we hope to add several more tests for more chapters of the CLIM spec. New Extension "conditional-commands": allows activation/deactivation of commands when other commands are invoked. It resides in Extensions/conditional-commands/. Status of the CLIM 2 Spec Implementation ======================================== Here is a list of what we think works, organized by chapters and sections of the CLIM 2 specification. Chapter 3 Regions Mostly finished. There are some troublesome parts of the specification that may not be implemented for all possible regions, for instance region-contains-region-p. There may not be an efficient way of implementing this function for all kinds of regions. Chapter 4, Bounding rectangles Finished Chapter 5, Affine transformations Finished Chapter 6, Overview of window facilities Finished Chapter 7, Properties of sheets Finished, though the correct behavior of sheet transformations may not have been tested. Chapter 8, Sheet protocols Finished Chapter 9, Ports, Grafts, and Mirrored sheets Finished Chapter 10, Sheet and medium output facilities Finished Chapter 11, Text styles Mostly complete. There is now experimental support for device font text styles (via make-device-font-text-style) for the CLX, PostScript, and CLX+FreeType backends. Chapter 12, Graphics Finished Chapter 13, Drawing in Color I am note sure about the state of this. I thought we were doing only full opacity and full transparency, but I see traces of more general designs. Chapter 14, General Designs The composition of designs is not supported. We do support regions as designs. Chapter 15, Extended Stream Output Extended output streams are fully supported. Chapter 16, Output Recording Output recording is mostly implemented. This release ships with a standard-tree-output-record type for the first time. The tree output record type speeds up point- and region-based queries, but slows down insertion of output records by a bit. make-design-from-output-record is not implemented. *Note*: the coordinates in output records are relative to the stream. This is in conformance with the Spec, but not necessarily compatible with other CLIM implementations. Chapter 17, Table Formatting Table formatting is completely implemented. Chapter 18, Graph Formatting Graph formatting is fully implemented. The :hash-table argument to format-graph-from-roots is ignored. Support for a :dag graph type was added, as was support for vertically oriented graphs and support for the :arc-drawer argument to format-graph-from-roots. Chapter 19, Bordered Output Bordered output is fully supported. Chapter 20, Text Formatting With the exception of the :after-line-break-initially argument to filling-output, this chapter is fully implemented. Chapter 21 Incremental Redisplay The updating-output interface to incremental redisplay is implemented. McCLIM makes no effort to move i.e., bitblit, output records; they are always erased and redrawn if their position changes. This is much more compatible with support for partial transparency. The :x, :y, :parent-x and :parent-y arguments to redisplay-output-record are ignored. McCLIM follows the spirit of 21.3 "Incremental Redisplay Protocol", but we have not tried very hard to implement the vague description in the Spec. augment-draw-set, note-output-record-child-changed and propagate-output-record-changes-p are not implemented. Incremental redisplay in McCLIM may still suffer from performance problems, despite the presence of spatially-organized compound output record types. Chapter 22, Extended Stream Input The implementation of extended input streams is quite complete. (setf* pointer-position) is not implemented. There is no stream numeric argument, so that slot of the accelerator-gesture condition is always 1. Chapter 23 Presentation Types Most of the literal specification of this chapter is implemented. Specific accept and present presentation methods for some types are not implemented, so the default method may be surprising. The output record bounding rectangle is always used or highlighting and pointer testing. presentation-default-processor is not implemented. The presentation method mechanism supports all method combinations. The body of a presentation method is surrounded with a block of the same name as the presentation method, not just the magic internal name. The method by which presentation type parameters and options are decoded for the method bodies is a bit different from real CLIM. In particular, you cannot refer to the type parameters and options in the lambda list of the method. The NIL value of presentation-single-box is now supported. Presentation type histories are now partially implemented. The gesture C-M-y should recall the last entered presentation. define-drag-and-drop-translator is now implemented. Chapter 24 Input Editing and Completion Facilities with-input-editor-typeout is not implemented. The noise strings produced by input-editor-format and the strings produced by presentation-replace-input are not read-only. This could lead to interesting "issues" if the user edits them. Only a few of the suggested editing commands are implemented. An additional command that is implemented is control-meta-B, which drops into the debugger. add-input-editor-command is not implemented. with-accept-help is not implemented. Chapter 25 Menu Facilities The protocol is implemented, but McCLIM doesn't use it to draw command table menus. Chapter 26 Dialog Facilities McCLIM contains a basic, somewhat buggy implementation of accepting-values. There is little user feedback as to what has been accepted in a dialog. The user has to press the "OK" button to exit the dialog; there are no short cuts. There are no special accept-present-default methods for member or subset presentation types. Command-buttons are not implemented. There is no gadget-based implementation of accepting-values. The internal structure of accepting-values should be "culturally compatible" with real CLIM; if you have some spiffy hack, check the source. :own-window is now supported in accepting-values. Chapter 27 Command Processing command-line-complete-input is not implemented (the functionality does exist in the accept method for command-name). display-command-table-menu and menu-choose-command-from-table are not implemented. Menu-command-parser is not implemented, though the functionality obviously is. Nothing is done about partial menu commands. There is no support for numeric arguments. The command-or-form presentation type is not implemented. Chapter 28 Application Frames raise-frame, bury-frame and notify-user are not implemented. :accept-values panes are not implemented. frame-maintain-presentation-histories is not implemented. frame-drag-and-drop-feedback and frame-drag-and-drop-highlighting are now implemented. execute-frame-command ignores the possibility that frame and the current frame might be different. display-command-menu isn't implemented. Chapter 29 Panes Due to the way the space-allocation protocol is implemented, it is not easy to create application-specific layout-panes. Client code needs to know about :AROUND methods to compose-space, but they are not mentioned in the spec. restraining-pane is partially implemented. Chapter 30 Gadgets This chapter is implemented. with-output-as-gadget is not quite working yet, but it was improved since the last release. _______________________________________________ mcclim-devel mailing list mcclim-devel(a)common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mcclim-devel

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[mcclim-announce] Announcing McCLIM 0.9.1 - "Mothering Sunday"
by McCLIM developers 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

The McCLIM developers are happy to release version 0.9.1 of McCLIM. It was extensively tested on SBCL (threaded and unthreaded), OpenMCL and CMUCL. It's also known to work with Allegro Common Lisp (tested with 6.2 Trial Edition). Lots of things changed since the last release, so I appended the release notes after the announcement. We're hoping to make this release the first in a series of time-boxed releases of McCLIM. You can get a tarball at <http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/downloads/mcclim-0.9.1.tar.gz>. Of course, we are looking forward to comments and bug reports. Please direct these at mcclim-devel <at> common-lisp.net. The current list of known bugs can be found at <http://mcclim.cliki.net/Bug>. Have fun using McCLIM (and build good things with it), the McCLIM developers. RELEASE NOTES FOR McCLIM 0.9.1 - "Mothering Sunday": Changes to the McCLIM Installation Process ========================================== McCLIM now comes with a native ASDF system definition in mcclim.asd, along with the traditional (still ASDF-compatible) system.lisp. See INSTALL.ASDF for details. Changes to Backends =================== Support for Copy&Paste of selections (both into and out from McCLIM applications) in the X11 backend was added. Copying text from McCLIM into some applications (and vice versa) like KDE's Konsole is broken, unfortunately. Shift + left-mouse-drag and Shift + mouse-middle-down now activate a selection and paste in your McCLIM application, respectively. There is now rudimentary support for printing non-Latin1 characters to X11 ports on SBCL. Beagle, A new experimental backend using Mac OS X's Cocoa bindings was added. Note that this backend is still incomplete and breaks in some places. It is not loaded automatically. To try it out, consult Backends/beagle/README. Changes to the Manual ===================== A chapter on presentation types was added. The chapter on command tables was improved. Changes to Contributed Applications and Examples ================================================ Clouseau, a graphical Inspector application was added. The CLIM Listener saw many improvements, among these: package graphing, better directory stack handling and a new Edit Definition command. A Method Browser was added to the examples. Status of the CLIM 2 Spec Implementation ======================================== Here is a list of what we think works, organized by chapters and sections of the CLIM 2 specification. Chapter 3 Regions Mostly finished. There are some troublesome parts of the specification that may not be implemented for all possible regions, for instance region-contains-region-p. There may not be an efficient way of implementing this function for all kinds of regions. Chapter 4, Bounding rectangles Finished Chapter 5, Affine transformations Finished Chapter 6, Overview of window facilities Finished Chapter 7, Properties of sheets Finished, though the correct behavior of sheet transformations may not have been tested. Chapter 8, Sheet protocols Finished Chapter 9, Ports, Grafts, and Mirrored sheets Finished Chapter 10, Sheet and medium output facilities Finished Chapter 11, Text styles Finished Chapter 12, Graphics Finished Chapter 13, Drawing in Color I am note sure about the state of this. I thought we were doing only full opacity and full transparency, but I see traces of more general designs. Chapter 14, General Designs The composition of designs is not supported. We do support regions as designs. Chapter 15, Extended Stream Output Extended output streams are fully supported. Chapter 16, Output Recording Output recording is mostly implemented. We do not have a true standard-tree-output-record type or the R-tree type of real CLIM, so some operations may be slow with lots of output records. make-design-from-output-record is not implemented. *Note*: the coordinates in output records are relative to the stream. This is in conformance with the Spec, but not necessarily compatible with other CLIM implementations. There is now a protocol in place for Drag-and-Drop of output records. Output recording inside formatting-tables now works. Chapter 17, Table Formatting Table formatting is completely implemented. Chapter 18, Graph Formatting Graph formatting is fully implemented. The :hash-table argument to format-graph-from-roots is ignored. Chapter 19, Bordered Output Bordered output is fully supported. The :move-cursor argument to surrounding-output-with-border is now working. Chapter 20, Text Formatting With the exception of the :after-line-break-initially argument to filling-output, this chapter is fully implemented. Chapter 21 Incremental Redisplay The updating-output interface to incremental redisplay is implemented. McCLIM makes no effort to move i.e., bitblit, output records; they are always erased and redrawn if their position changes. This is much more compatible with support for partial transparency. The :x, :y, :parent-x and :parent-y arguments to redisplay-output-record are ignored. McCLIM follows the spirit of 21.3 "Incremental Redisplay Protocol", but we have not tried very hard to implement the vague description in the Spec. augment-draw-set, note-output-record-child-changed and propagate-output-record-changes-p are not implemented. Incremental redisplay in McCLIM can suffer from performance problems because there are no spatially-organized compound output record types. The generic function incremental-redisplay is now implemented. Chapter 22, Extended Stream Input The implementation of extended input streams is quite complete. (setf* pointer-position) is not implemented. There is no stream numeric argument, so that slot of the accelerator-gesture condition is always 1. drag-output-record and dragging-output are now implemented. Chapter 23 Presentation Types Most of the literal specification of this chapter is implemented. Specific accept and present presentation methods for some types are not implemented, so the default method may be surprising. The output record bounding rectangle is always used or highlighting and pointer testing. presentation-default-processor is not implemented. The presentation method mechanism supports all method combinations. The body of a presentation method is surrounded with a block of the same name as the presentation method, not just the magic internal name. The method by which presentation type parameters and options are decoded for the method bodies is a bit different from real CLIM. In particular, you cannot refer to the type parameters and options in the lambda list of the method. The NIL value of presentation-single-box is now supported. Presentation type histories are now partially implemented. The gesture C-M-y should recall the last entered presentation. define-drag-and-drop-translator is now implemented. Chapter 24 Input Editing and Completion Facilities with-input-editor-typeout is not implemented. The noise strings produced by input-editor-format and the strings produced by presentation-replace-input are not read-only. This could lead to interesting "issues" if the user edits them. Only a few of the suggested editing commands are implemented. An additional command that is implemented is control-meta-B, which drops into the debugger. add-input-editor-command is not implemented. with-accept-help is not implemented. Chapter 25 Menu Facilities The protocol is implemented, but McCLIM doesn't use it to draw command table menus. Chapter 26 Dialog Facilities McCLIM contains a basic, somewhat buggy implementation of accepting-values. There is little user feedback as to what has been accepted in a dialog. The user has to press the "Exit" button to exit the dialog; there are no short cuts. There are no special accept-present-default methods for member or subset presentation types. Command-buttons are not implemented. There is no gadget-based implementation of accepting-values. own-window is not supported. The internal structure of accepting-values should be "culturally compatible" with real CLIM; if you have some spiffy hack, check the source. Chapter 27 Command Processing command-line-complete-input is not implemented (the functionality does exist in the accept method for command-name). display-command-table-menu and menu-choose-command-from-table are not implemented. Menu-command-parser is not implemented, though the functionality obviously is. Nothing is done about partial menu commands. There is no support for numeric arguments. The command-or-form presentation type is not implemented. Chapter 28 Application Frames raise-frame, bury-frame and notify-user are not implemented. :accept-values panes are not implemented. frame-maintain-presentation-histories, frame-drag-and-drop-feedback and frame-drag-and-drop-highlighting are not implemented. execute-frame-command ignores the possibility that frame and the current frame might be different. display-command-menu isn't implemented. command-enabled is now implemented. Chapter 29 Panes Due to the way the space-allocation protocol is implemented, it is not easy to create application-specific layout-panes. Client code needs to know about :AROUND methods to compose-space, but they are not mentioned in the spec. restraining-pane is partially implemented. Chapter 30 Gadgets This chapter is implemented.

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