Re: nested presentations

David Golden <david.golden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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.

McCLIM does support nested presentations. To see that, fire up the
listener and type something like:

(in-package :clim-user)

(with-output-as-presentation (*standard-output* 123 'number)
(princ "hello")
(with-output-as-presentation (*standard-output* 456 'integer)
(princ "hi"))
(princ "there"))

and you will see:

hellohithere

Now, type:

(accept 'number)

You will be prompted for a number. If you drag the pointer over the
middle "hi" of the output, you will see only those two letters
highlighted, and clicking there will accept the number 456. If,
instead, you drag the pointer over some other part of the output, the
entire output will be highlighted, and 123 will be accepted.

Typing:

(accept 'integer)

will make only the "hi" part sensitive as expected.
--
Robert Strandh

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