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McCLIM changes: improvements to the inspector

Monday, February 7, 2005

Peter Scott is a new McCLIM developer. He is currently working on improving the Lisp inspector, and has committed several changes to the CVS repository:

• the newly exported clouseau:inspector function for starting the inspector accepts the keyword argument :new-process, which, when t, opens a new inspector frame in a different thread (this is also possible with the Inspect command from the inspector's interactor pane)
• improved inspection of characters
• documentation strings are shown where possible
• class-like inspection of structures
• superclasses and subclasses are also displayed for objects, which feature improved printing
• more informative display of eql specializers
• inspect-object, inspect-object-briefly and define-inspector-command have been exported for application-specific customizations
• a few more tweaks and bug fixes

Tim Moore has also fixed a bug on empty input handling.