Symbolics' Margin Choice Facility

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From: Matthew Belmonte
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1986 04:10

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In section 24.1 of their "Programming the User Interface" manual, Symbolics
says that when a user-defined handler for a margin choice box is called, the
special variable self is bound to the window.  I'm placing
(declare (special self)) within my handler function, but when I attempt to
reference self within my handler, it turns out that the value of self is nil.
Is this bogus documentation, or is there something I should be doing
differently?  Right now I have everything working using a hacked version of
tv:choose-variable-values, but I'd like to know whether or not it's possible to
do things the official, documented way.
-- 
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 -- a member of the Nixon administration
Matthew Belmonte
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Subject: Symbolics' Margin Choice Facility
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Date: Wed, 5-Nov-86 23:10:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  5 23:10:29 1986
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