Hi,
Jack Unrue's very promising Windows backend is now available in McCLIM CVS, under the name clim-graphic-forms.
The backend is largely dysfunctional at this point, but after convincing myself that I would be able to understand it if necessary, I decided to get things going and commit it anyway.
With my changes, the address book reacts to mouse and keyboard input a little. It still does not draw itself properly, and I believe that anyone starting to hack clim-graphic-forms should probably start looking at that first. (Demodemo does not work either, so that would be worth fixing, too.)
You can find graphic-forms support for clbuild in my tree at http://www.lichteblau.com/blubba/clbuild
David
On 3/14/07, David Lichteblau david@lichteblau.com wrote:
Hi,
Jack Unrue's very promising Windows backend is now available in McCLIM CVS, under the name clim-graphic-forms.
The backend is largely dysfunctional at this point, but after convincing myself that I would be able to understand it if necessary, I decided to get things going and commit it anyway.
Cool, thanks for doing that.
With my changes, the address book reacts to mouse and keyboard input a little. It still does not draw itself properly, and I believe that anyone starting to hack clim-graphic-forms should probably start looking at that first. (Demodemo does not work either, so that would be worth fixing, too.)
Yep. I think one of my main areas of difficulty was understanding what is happening with coordinate systems that would cause output to be rendered in the wrong locations. Well, among other things.
Also, there may yet be issues with event processing, because I remember the mouse needed to be moved within a frame before paint events got processed.
It would be a good step forward just to get a simple hello-world kind of application frame with a couple menu commands working correctly.