Re: Graphics Context Default Font

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[email protected] wrote:
>> I'm using a darcs pull of clx with sbcl 1.0.3 and Xorg 6.9 on FreeBSD
>> 6.1. I've been working through the examples described as Simple CLX:
>>
>> http://www.cawtech.demon.co.uk/clx/simple/examples.html
>>
>> I've successfully run every example up to 'hello-world'. Evaluation of
>> hello-world hangs because it relies on a default value for the font in
>> the graphics context. If I specify the font to use, it evaluates
>> correctly.
>>     
>
> In my tutorial I wrote:
>
>   
>> The graphics context contains a field for the font
>> information, and is supposed to default to something
>> useable.
>>     
>
> My recollection is that I was worried about chosing a font
> that would be present on everybody's system and was
> delighted to find in the documentation that the default font,
> although unspecifed, was supposed to be something usable.
>
> I cannot track down where in the CLX manual it actually says
> this. I do hope it is officially required, as it make it
> easy to write a portable program that can display an
> appropriate font-not-found message.
>
> I wrote the tutorial on FreeBSD, and have just retested it
> successfully on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, CMU Common Lisp 19a,
> * (require :clx)
> ; Loading #p"/usr/local/lib/cmucl/lib/subsystems/clx-library.x86f".
>
> That is the CLX that comes in the extras package that
> accompanies CMUCL. The darcs port for 5.4 was broken and I
> just gave up.
>
> Alan Crowe
>
>   
After I submitted this initial topic, I checked your examples on CMUCL
and they all worked. I agree that getting a default font is important,
that is why I'm trying to track down this problem in telent-clx+sbcl.
I've still not found the error, but have some leads.

Tom

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=== Thomas M. Hermann ===


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