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McCLIM changes and development status

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Tim Moore has committed another batch of changes to McCLIM's CVS repository. The most notable changes are new features of accepting-values. It is now possible to pre-select a particular field in the dialog (via the :initially-select-query-identifier argument), and have fields whose values depend on those of other fields (:resynchronize-every-pass). Tim has added the file Examples/accepting-values.lisp with examples of accepting-values.

Besides some presentations-related changes and miscellaneous bug fixes, Tim has also added a new tool in Tools/unimplemented.lisp. The function clim-user::print-unimplemented prints all CLIM symbols which don't have a definition.

This little tool makes it possible to see how much of the CLIM 2.0 specification McCLIM doesn't currently supports. A simple patch against unimplemented.lisp provides some more insight:

--- unimplemented.lisp	Sat Oct 16 11:18:09 2004
+++ unimplemented-patched.lisp	Sat Oct 16 11:17:15 2004
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 ;;; Keep track of how we're doing.
 
 (defun print-unimplemented (&optional (packages '(:clim)))
-  (let ((packages (mapcar #'find-package packages)))
+  (let ((packages (mapcar #'find-package packages))
+        (total 0) (count 0))
     (loop
        for package in packages
        do (loop
@@ -34,4 +35,8 @@
 				     climi::*presentation-type-abbreviations*)
 			    (gethash sym
 				     climi::*presentation-gf-table*))
-		  (print sym))))))
+		  (print sym)
+                  (incf count))
+                (incf total)))
+    (values count total)))
+