Nope, I'm running from the LispWorks IDE. I'm getting by with SBCL and SLIME at the moment, but I'd prefer to be back in LW. Not sure what else to try.
On 8/12/06, Peter Denno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 12 August 2006 11:38, Bill Atkins wrote: > So, believe it or not (I'm not sure I do), I'm getting the same > behavior in SLIME - if I run (test-g:gtk-demo) from the REPL, all is > fine; if I evaluate it in the editor, the window never comes up and > the modeline says "eval...". I also just tried the latest CVS, to no > avail. Still no problems with SBCL. ugh! Is this a lispwork image that doesn't contain the capi windowing environment? (saved with :environment nil) or something like that. > > On 8/12/06, Peter Denno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 12 August 2006 09:57, you wrote: > > > It turns out this problem never happens if I only call START-APP from > > > the listener. As soon as I call it from the LispWorks editor, > > > something happens that prevents me from calling START-APP again. It > > > seems like the main difference between evaluating a form at the > > > listener and in the editor is that LispWorks starts a new thread for > > > forms evaluated in the editor. Perhaps this interferes with Gtk > > > somehow. I can at least get some work done with this: > > > > > > (defun gtk-demo (&optional dbg) > > > (unless (search "Listener" (mp:process-name mp:*current-process*)) > > > (error "Run only from the listener")) > > > (cells-gtk-init) > > > (cells-gtk:start-app 'tets-gtk :debug dbg)) > > > > > > but that's not solving the problem. If this (i.e. spawning a new > > > thread to run gtk-main breaking future calls to it) rings a bell with > > > anyone, let me know. I'll post here if I find something that works. > > > > Interesting. > > > > I've had problems getting cells-gtk to play fair with the lispworks > > editor -- the whole #+lispworks thing in gtk-app.lisp we talked about -- > > but nothing like what you are describing. Does the editor have an event > > loop in which you could add a hook to run something? (I don't know what, > > cells-gtk? diagnositics? But it might be something to tinker with). > > > > So in summary, it looks like cells-gtk is OK on LW 5 (this is linux, > > right?) except for interaction with LW's editor. It's probably OK in > > slime, for example. (My usual setup is slime with LW.) > > > > > Bill > > > > > > On 8/10/06, Peter Denno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thursday 10 August 2006 13:26, Bill Atkins wrote: > > > > > Is anyone using Cells-gtk successfully on Lispworks 5.0 (32-bit > > > > > Linux, in particular)? I can run my application once, but if I > > > > > close the main window and then attempt to run it again, I get > > > > > "Evaluating..." in the echo area and no window appears. > > > > > > > > > > I eventually took part of the test-gtk.lisp code, narrowed it down > > > > > to the simplest case and tried that. It still didn't work. > > > > > Strangely enough, loading the "test-gtk" package and running > > > > > TEST-GTK:GTK-DEMO does not have this problem - that is, I can run > > > > > that as many times as I like, and I get a window each time. SBCL, > > > > > however, seems to handle both of these without a problem. I've > > > > > pasted the source code to my test case and also the debug output > > > > > from the first run (ie the run that works) and from the second run, > > > > > where LispWorks seems to be perpetually "Evaluating...". > > > > > > > > > > Here is the paste: http://paste.lisp.org/display/23932 > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > You might have a look at start-app in root/cells-gtk/gtk-app.lisp. I > > > > coded the use of restarts in that code. Despite reading up abot > > > > restarts in Practical Common Lisp, I still don't think I quite > > > > understand them. So that code is suspect, especially because it has > > > > #+lispworks in it. Maybe you could try the code in start-app that > > > > currently is #-lispworks. It simply runs gtk-main. The idea of the > > > > the #+lispworks alternative (stuff with > > > > process-wait-with-timeout) is to give other processes (slime in > > > > particular) a chance to run. > > > > > > > > I don't have LW 5.0 yet so I probably can't be much help. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > - Best regards, > > > > Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > cells-gtk-devel site list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/cells-gtk-devel > > > > -- > > - Best regards, > > Peter -- - Best regards, Peter
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