Hi Carlo,
I'm glad you're joining the community! I believe cells-gtk is a great
project (in some important respects the best GUI toolkit I have used so
far), and it'd be great to see it growing even better.
As far as my work is concerned, Peter is exactly right:
Other some-time contributors are not dead, just really busy for a long
time!
I have just finished moving back from Berkeley to Germany and gotten back
to work on the drawing area widget based on cl-cairo2. My plan for the
next week or two is to catch up with Tamas' recent work on cl-cairo2 and
put together a close-to-release version.
My current state of development runs quite stable (I'm using it heavily in
my reserach project and I haven't found bugs in a while), but still lacks
a few things
- there is no support for drawing (bitmap) images
- the redrawing mechanism is built around the very first prerelease of
cl-cairo2
- postscript/pdf export
My current issue with the newer versions of cl-cairo2 is that they depend
on XDamage -- and I want to avoid introducing a dependency in cells-gtk
(especially, since GTK tells us when a redraw is necessary, hence we do
not need XDamage anyway). Tamas, if you're reading this, what would you
suggest?
Additionally I have worked on the listbox widget and added the capability
to edit entries right in the listbox. Once the editing is completed, a
lispy callback function is called to deal with the new value. This one is
ready to commit -- I'll mail out a patch soon.
Based on that I've built an editable property list for my app, somewhat
like the "object inspector" in GUI builders such as Delphi. You supply it
with a list of entries (field-name, getter-fn, setter-fn, editable-p), and
it shows a three-column listview (field-name, current-value, read-only
(bool)). (I haven't found a way yet to make only certain rows editable.
It seems that in GTK a column as a whole is editable or not, since this
property is bound to the column renderer). This one is currently part of
my app, not of cells-gtk, but it would be quite easy to integrate it in
cells-gtk.
Comments welcome!
Peter
Carlo
> Is there any place I can go to get help for making cells-gtk work
> consistently? There's still the incomplete file issue on the
> latest tarball, and that on the previous version, once I do (load
> "load.lisp"), trying to make cells-gtk run after that fails with
> plenty of errors.
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