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6:45:51
no-defun-allowed
When calling clim:present, is there a way that I can use the default type lookup instead of supplying a type but still provide a stream and view?
7:07:17
no-defun-allowed
Well, I just ended up using the function since I only needed it twice. Is there any way to use word wrapping when writing text to an extended stream (or any other way of writing text really)?
7:17:25
no-defun-allowed
Though...it doesn't appear in the list of keywords in either http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw51/CLIM/html/climuser-232.htm or http://bauhh.dyndns.org:8000/clim-spec/15-4.html#_820, is it portable?
7:20:17
no-defun-allowed
Sorry, I mean the keyword values I can provide as the end of line action. It seems only :wrap (which does character-level wrapping) is standard.
7:44:14
jackdaniel
there are also potential improvements to it, :wrap** i.e could word-wrap by minimum raggedness
7:44:53
jackdaniel
I have also some vague ideas about flexible output records, so rewrapping does not require redisplay (I've shared a PoC video a few months ago)
9:48:08
loke
I wonder if I do a new GTK+ port, whether it'll actually run well on Windows... Perhaps an SDL port would be better...
9:55:38
loke
I was thinking of starting a new one from scrats. That way I'll be able to learn the low-level protocols as well.
10:53:08
jackdaniel
that's the point of writing backend for it, it is portable across mutliple windowing systems (x11, wayland, android, osx, windows, and I think ios)
10:53:39
jackdaniel
there is also a library maintained by mfiano which provides bindings to sdl2, we could use that