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Article #981Re: Window Toolkits and Systems for a bunch of systems.
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1988 18:37
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1988 18:37
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In article <4937@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>We are also looking for a window toolkit for user interfaces.
>The Symbolic's Presentation Manager is nice, but is too text oriented.
Huh? The Presentation Manager allows arbitrary output to be
associated with an object, e.g.
(defun number-circle (number x y &optional (stream *standard-output*))
(dw:with-output-as-presentation (:object number :type 'number
:stream stream)
(graphics:draw-circle x y number :stream stream)))
This displays a circle but it is treated as a number. While it isn't
currently possible to make the default output format of a presentation
type be graphical, the above mechanism provides most of the
flexibility you need.
Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!barmar From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Window Toolkits and Systems for a bunch of systems. Keywords: Window Toolkits, Window Systems, Portability Message-ID: <24517@think.UUCP> Date: 27 Jul 88 18:37:24 GMT References: <732@muddcs.Claremont.EDU> <356@uva.UUCP> <4937@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Sender: usenet@think.UUCP Reply-To: barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 23