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McCLIM changes: graphs, demos, input editing

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Within the past couple of weeks there has been more commit activity on McCLIM's CVS repository. Christophe Rhodes improved the display of methods in the method browser demo Examples/method-browser.lisp, updated the project web page with references to the 0.9.2 release, fixed an EPS output bug in the PostScript backend, and a few more things.

Christophe also committed Andy Hefner's code for keeping track of graph edges and a new demo of this feature, Examples/draggable-graph.lisp. The demo displays a graph whose nodes can be dragged with the mouse. To run it evaluate:

(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :clim-examples)
(clim:run-frame-top-level (clim:make-application-frame 'clim-demo::draggable-graph-demo))

;;; (CSR) This demo code is quite cool; visually, it's a little
;;; disconcerting to have the edges disappear when dragging, but
;;; that's acceptable, though I think it might be possible to preserve
;;; them by having a feedback function for the call to
;;; DRAG-OUTPUT-RECORD.

Tim Moore made the demo launcher Examples/demodemo.lisp work with Allegro CL's modern mode, refactored the implementation of scroll bars, and did a few more cleanups.

Andreas Fuchs made the input editing cursor appear as a solid rectangle again instead of a visually misleading outline.

Finally, Robert Goldman changed complete-from-generator so that it alphabetically sorts the list of possibilities for input completion.