Re: Presentation software

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Paolo Amoroso <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:38:59 +0100, Daniel Barlow wrote:
>
>> For my recent presentation at the Linux 2003 conference (SBCL
>> threads), unimpressed with the general state of available presentation
>> software for Linux, I decided to write my own.
> [...]
>> * Requires CLX.  Currently only tested with SBCL, whose clx has a
>
> Why didn't you use a higher level graphics system, such as McCLIM?

Pragmatism and timescale issues - i.e. I had two days between deciding
to do this and needing it to be ready, most of which I wanted to spend
in talks.  All I needed was to be able to blat stuff onto the screen
at specified co-ordinates; I knew that CLX could do that, that it
should be easy to make it do so, and that it probably wouldn't crash.
Learning enough CLIM to achieve the same effect, while worthwhile for
its own sake, would have been a distraction from the immediate goal of
not looking like a fool on Sunday morning.

CLIM-based presentation software would certainly be a fun project.
I'm not sure I have time for any more fun projects right now, though


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