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6:32:37
loke
While thinking about it, I'm getting concerned that perhaps this is caused by subpixel positioning (coordinates in CLIM are reals) and you end up with a once-pixel scroll crossing some boundary to make it two pixels, thus misaligning the xrender-scrolling at the repaint
6:34:24
slyrus_
check the most recent commit on master. when I rebase that onto your branch (or is it vice versa?) it fixes things. yay!
10:44:46
littlelisper
can anyone suggest some source to learn clim. i tried my best, i did get some youtube videos which got me started but other than that its the mcclim user manual. i am a newbie, i learn from examples. any reference will be appreciated
10:50:10
loke
littlelisper: I'd say one of the main issues with CLIM is that it's very different from your “regular” toolkit
10:51:38
littlelisper
i want to make an rsvp reader for my first year project and i want to do it in lisp only
10:54:12
loke
littlelisper: That would be easy to do, but I'm not going to lie; you will get frustrated before you understand how CLIM actually works.
10:54:48
loke
It's not that hard, but many things are very different, and the docuemntation is, as you have noted, not the best.
10:55:32
loke
I don't want to discourage you though. We need more applciations written in it. If for no other reason than to be able to improve things.
10:55:58
loke
littlelisper: I recommend you start with a small program that simply displays stuff on a stream, and then take things from there
10:56:54
loke
I have a github project where I commit various test code, I'll link you to one of the files that contains a barebones project that simply draws some text
10:59:48
loke
Also read this, to get proper font rendering: https://github.com/McCLIM/McCLIM/wiki/Freetype