Hello everyone, XCLJB is a Clojure language binding for the X Window System, similar to the XCB (the X protocol C-language Bindings). It allows programmers to communicate with and write GUIs for an X server in Clojure, without having to drop down into C.
Source code, README, and examples: https://github.com/noodlewiz/xcljb Leiningen dependency information: [xcljb "0.1.0"] As the version number indicates, this is a developmental release. This means - Things are usable, but not yet feature complete. - API not necessarily stable, though I won't break compatibility for no reason. - Comments, suggestions welcome. Open problems looking for suggestions: - How should I signal errors? XCLJB, like XCB, is mostly asynchronous. Currently sending a request will immediately return a Clojure promise. The promise will be delivered with either a reply or an error when they arrive, this allows multiple requests to be sent without blocking (this is the asynchronous part). I'd like to raise an exception when a user deref the promise and the promise is an error, but there seems to be no way of doing so. Should I make my own promise type by implementing clojure.lang.IDeref? Is there another way of achieving what I had in mind? - Is there an easier way to match against records? Events are currently implemented as records, so event loops would have to look like (ns ... (:import [xcljb.gen.xproto_types ExposeEvent KeyPressEvent])) (while true (let [e (wait-event conn)] (condp instance? e ExposeEvent ... KeyPressEvent ... nil))) I'd prefer not to make my user import the event types as if they are Java classes. Is there a more Clojurey way of doing record type matching? Is there a better way of implementing events? Regards, Vincent Chen -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
