[cells-gtk-devel] Re: Cells-gtk now UFFI-ized, running under AllegroCL and Lispworks on win32, next stop OS/X.

[Andras Simon]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Kenny Tilton wrote:

>
>> Speaking of Page 1,2,3: the items in the tree-box look like pointers to 
>> strings instead of strings proper, but this has to wait until tomorrow or 
>> until I learn enough about gtk and cells to find out how to control what 
>> gets in there, whichever comes last. 
>
> Not sure to what you refer, but my touchstone is Vasilis's original, and when 
> I fired that up I saw the same things there. This might mean we have the same 
> bug as Vasilis, or that that that is what he meant to display, or that my 
> memory is mistaken. :)

What I mean is that in the string column of the Tree-view/Listbox demo 
CMUCL has #<Alien (* C-CALL:C-STRING) at ...> instead of "Item 1" as in 
Allegro, and the Widget class column of Treebox has this same pointer 
nonsense instead of "GTK-APP", "NOTEBOOK" that Allegro has.

>
>> I wish it did. Instead, I just did (print (type-of gva)), saw that the 
>> result was always the same, and declared gva's type accordingly. 
>
> Diabolical. "Find out where my people are going so I may lead them." :)

Call it exploratory programming :-)

Andras