Troels Henriksen wrote:
Jan Brosius jan.brosius@skynet.be writes:
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Is there a gtk backend for clx (other than motif)?
"Gtk backend for CLX" does not make much sense (and McCLIM does not have a Motif backend at all, though the commercial CLIMs do). There is an experimental backend named "Gtkairo" that blends use of Gtk and Cairo, but it is not yet as stable or full-featured as the CLX backend. It may work for your programs, depending on what you want to do. In general, the drawing primitives work very well with it, but the more obscure CLIM facilities are less well supported.
Is mcclim in alpha stage?
There is no defined stage. Strictly, it is not feature-complete as a CLIM implementation (but pretty close), so it would not be appropriate to call it a beta. On the other hand, while McCLIM is no rock pillar of stability, it is certainly not as unstable as "alpha" might imply.
I think it's difficult to answer this because there is a wide variation in how solid different parts of the system might be. If you use parts of the system that you see in use in existing McCLIM applications, you may find it very solid. However, if you unwittingly start using a feature of CLIM that is not used so much in these areas, you may find it incomplete or buggy. To my great sorrow, the last time I was using McCLIM much, I seemed to have a perfect gift for finding the parts of the spec that were not much exercised. At that time, for example, format-graph-from-roots was really only working for trees, and there were serious problems with accepting values for commands with multiple arguments. I have not had an opportunity to use McCLIM in the intervening time, so I don't know the extent to which these areas have improved...
I think that Troels' response wrt gtkairo shows the same dynamic.
I am sorry not to be more helpful,
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