IIRC, the last updates on the beagle backend were running into some collisions between how McCLIM wanted to work and how the Mac works. http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/mcclim-devel/2005-November/004301.html
I would suggest the first place to look would be at the OpenMCL Objective-C bridge, to make sure that works - if you can, grab a copy of OpenMCL that was current when the original work on the Beagle backend was done and a tarball release from around then and see if those work. I don't know how much has changed in McCLIM since the last Beagle updates and whether it would cause breakage.
Beagle is the "right way" to do an McCLIM backend for MacOSX, as I understand it - it will give the best "native" appearance and behavior. Cario's website says it has an experimental Quartz backend but I don't know if it's ever been tried with McCLIM.
Cheers, CY
--- Christian Lynbech christian@defun.dk wrote:
I could use some pointers on the status of McCLIM on the Mac. In particular, I am interested in how to run against the native graphics system rather than having to run the X11 server.
I have looked a bit on the beagle backend but I cannot get it to work. A few fixes is needed just to get it to compile. Once that is done, it does compile and load but once an application (such as the calculator demo) is started, the lisp process freezes with output to the effect of:
? 2007-04-22 20:07:30.708 dppccl[2492] *** Assertion failurein -[NSWindowGraphicsContext reenableDisplayPosting], GraphicsContext.subproj/NSWindowGraphicsContext.m:117 2007-04-22 20:07:30.708 dppccl[2492] *** Assertion failure in -[NSViewHierarchyLock unlockTopMostReader], AppKit.subproj/NSViewHierarchyLock.m:444 2007-04-22 20:07:30.710 dppccl[2492] Error in event loop: Objective-C runtime exception: Invalid parameter not satisfying: th
suggesting something going wrong deep down below the lisp level. This was with the latest mcclim CVS, OpenMCL 1.0 and PPC OSX 10.4.9.
Before diving in I would like to know if the beagle backend is considered dead beyond repair (or at least if others than myself has any interest in it). Are there alternatives, can the gtkairo or opengl backends be brought to fly without X11?
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