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- From: drh@world.std.com (Denis R Howlett)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: Simulating selections
- Message-ID: <199301251721.AA06787@world.std.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:21:21 GMT
- Sender: owner-info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
- Lines: 34
- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
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- Thanks to those who replied to my question about getting the selection
- color so that I could simulate selections for my static text dialog items.
-
- I haven't had a chance to try all the possibilities yet, but those that I
- tried worked, and I'll try the others this afternoon.
-
- One thing I did notice was in Oodles of Utils, when I tried the draggable
- items, the first one I selected would go red, but when I dropped it on
- something else it went black and my selection color for all Mac applications
- would be set back to black (I'd have to go into the Color control panel to
- reset it)! This seemed a bit odd but may have been something to do with the
- fact that I couldn't get the method ccl:call-with-focused-view in
- GWorld-view.lisp to compile (it said it wasn't a generic method) so I just
- commented it out!
-
- Again thanks to everyone on this mailing list. We have more or less completed
- a port of our Product Formulation Expert System (PFES) from the PC (Golden
- Common Lisp) to MCL. The Mac version runs about the same speed on a IIci with
- 8Megs memory as a 386 33 MHz with 12 Megs (DOS version) and the user interface
- is much, much better.
-
- Since I am the only one in the Company in the US who has any experience with
- MCL (or Lisp?) I couldn't have done it without you!
-
- Denis
-
- P.S. Anybody interested in a shell for supporting Formulators? We have
- applications mainly in tablet formulation, but also paint, sun tan lotion,
- lubrication oils, food & drink etc. (Sorry for the nasty commercialism, but
- I proud of what I've built!)
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- Logica North America Inc. | Fax: +617 890 5034
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