Re: nested presentations

In article <Rip1h.15390$j7.332875@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Golden <david.golden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I have a vague memory of a criticism on someone's part
of both SLIME and McCLIM, about neither supporting
nested presentations. I'm trying to find a description
of how such nested presentations worked traditionally.

But I can't find the criticism now with google (maybe
just having a bout of long-weekend searching incompetence),
so was just wondering if anyone had such an explanation
handy?


Example:

If you have a CLIM Listener and you type:

? (list 'foo 'bar 'baz)

The system responds with the resulting list.

(foo bar baz)

Next the Listener again expects a command or an expression.

If you move the mouse over the result list, the list should be
mouse sensitive. But if the mouse cursor is over a symbol
in that list, only the symbol should be mouse sensitive.

So, accept (in general not just in this Listener example)
should look for the smallest applicable presentation
within nested presentations. This is how it worked in
the commercial CLIM and also with DW (Dynamic Windows).
This also means that when you 'present' something,
you should not only record this presentation, but also
presentations of sub-items...

Regards,

Rainer
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