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- From: garvey@ai.sri.com (Tom Garvey)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: CLIM query
- Message-ID: <9301061721.AA20585@poipu.ai.sri.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 17:21:14 GMT
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
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- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
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- I have been very pleasantly impressed with MCL 2.0; it makes my Mac
- behave like a real computer! CLIM offers the promise of being able to
- develop applications that will run on our Suns, Lispms, and Macs
- (unbelievable! -- maybe).
-
- However, I wish to develop a graphical user interface that can
- directly display the logical combination of multiple sensor
- footprints. For this purpose, ALUs (or logical drawing functions)
- would have been perfect for my application, but they seem not to exist
- in CLIM. Is this really true, or have I not yet figured out the right
- string to apropos in order to find them? It seems that the only
- concession to anything like an ALU is +flipping-ink+, which gives me
- XOR, but not AND (which I would like a lot). Is there any support for
- such things? If not, has anyone put together a (portable) extension
- that supports ALUs?
-
- Along the same lines, the ability to bitblt directly to a window's bit
- array would be nice. I found the file bitblt.lisp in the "contrib"
- subdirectory of clim (down a ways on info-mcl), which appears to
- provide bitblt'ing for X windows and Genera, but nothing for
- Quickdraw. Has anyone gone to the trouble to create the same
- functionality for the Mac?
-
- Thanks for any pointers on these issues,
- Tom
-