[Openmcl-devel] Three questions

[Ron Garret]

On Feb 8, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Andrew Shalit wrote:

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> On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:34 PM, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:
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>> On Feb 8, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
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>>> 1.  Is there a way to tell when a window has been closed?
>>
>> I only know of the usual Cocoa/Objective-C ways:
>>  * register to receive NSWindowWillCloseNotification
>>  * implement windowWillClose: in the window's delegate
>
> This is a good example of the kind of thing that I think works  
> better in MCL, which builds a clean Lisp layer on top of the native  
> Mac OS libraries, rather than just providing a thin Lisp interface  
> for directly programming the Mac OS libraries.
>
> Behaviors like the one Matthew describes should be defined by  
> default.  There's no reason to require each CCL programmer to  
> reinvent this wheel, and there's no reason programmers should have  
> to keep track of things by hand that can be tracked automatically.   
> If we wanted to keep track of things by hand, we wouldn't be  
> programming in Lisp.
>
> I hope that as we continue to work on the CCL Cocoa libraries, they  
> can become a little bit thicker, and take care of these sorts of  
> things themselves.
>

Indeed.  There are hints of that sort of work going on (e.g.  
easygui).  How is that coming?  Can you use any help?

rg