What about using wxCL as McCLIM backend? This approach would 1. work on Windows and MacOS, 2. improve wxCL and McCLIM simply by usage (users = best qualilty assurance you can get), 3. prevent boring gadget coding in McCLIM.
Also this approach can be developed more easily: 1. you don't not need to work on other platforms to help these other platforms. The last mail on sbcl-devel shows that there is a lack of coders that like work on windows platforms. 2. once we have the basic frame management code in place, we can start to distribute the task of properly connecting gadgets. An interested gardener can adopt for instance the radio box and bring this part of a wxCL backend to maturity. This will naturally lead to patches for wxCL. CLIM is very good for rapid application building. I haven't seen a framework that is so spare in terms of code writing. I really like that, cause I'm no code generator. But what's missing is cross-platform stuff. Those, who think CLIM is not a good choice because the documentation is totally confusing, please wait. I'm trying to augment the CLIM documention with a 20 page tutorial that shows pretty much of the CLIM feature in action and gives you a good picture of how things are connect. At the end, /me too found out that it was actually easy. I also plan to do a video tutorial. Again, I'm volunteering to do the basis here. But ATM, I'm a bit overloaded with other stuff - who isn't? :). Anyone interested to assist or take the lead for this idea? Regards, -- Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org for robots: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
