In the old days, I was able to click on an object that I had displayed in a McCLIM application frame and describe it (using "describe presentation"?). Now this isn't available any more. Now when I use the right mouse menu, I see "Describe," but I have not been able to persuade it to describe the things I have presented. For that matter, it doesn't really do anything even on numbers. I realize that this is probably a very dumb question, but is there some primer somewhere on how to make this do something nice with my presentations?
Thanks, R
rpgoldman@sift.info writes:
In the old days, I was able to click on an object that I had displayed in a McCLIM application frame and describe it (using "describe presentation"?). Now this isn't available any more. Now when I use the right mouse menu, I see "Describe," but I have not been able to persuade it to describe the things I have presented. For that matter, it doesn't really do anything even on numbers. I realize that this is probably a very dumb question, but is there some primer somewhere on how to make this do something nice with my presentations?
The previous default behavior was removed because not every application wanted it (it was a rather implementation-oriented feature).
"RS" == Robert Strandh strandh@labri.fr writes:
RS> rpgoldman@sift.info writes: >> >> In the old days, I was able to click on an object that I had displayed >> in a McCLIM application frame and describe it (using "describe >> presentation"?). Now this isn't available any more. Now when I use >> the right mouse menu, I see "Describe," but I have not been able to >> persuade it to describe the things I have presented. For that matter, >> it doesn't really do anything even on numbers. I realize that this is >> probably a very dumb question, but is there some primer somewhere on >> how to make this do something nice with my presentations?
RS> The previous default behavior was removed because not every RS> application wanted it (it was a rather implementation-oriented RS> feature).
Thanks. I understand and sympathize. But is there some easy recipe to get this behavior back? Either to get it for a whole application (my biggest use for McCLIM was for debugging tools), or for particular objects?
I feel sure that this is a stupid question and that there's some RTFMish thing I should be doing, but the CLIM literature seems so scattered and fragmented that I'm finding it hard to get a handle on it.
Best, R
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