Initializing editor pane text

  Dear all,

I'd appreciate some advice on initializing an editor pane text.

I have an interface for which I perform a lot of widget initialization
(setting range slug starts, selected items, etc.) in an
initialize-instance :after method. This works fine except for an editor
pane.

I discovered that contrary to the other widgets, modifying the text
programmatically (via (setf editor-pane-text)) calls the editor pane's
change-callback. My callback uses (top-level-interface editor-pane), and
at that point, this call returns nil even though the interface exists.

It seems that this does not happen if I initialize the editor pane's
text in an interface-display :before method rather than in an
initialize-instance :after one. However, this is less satisfactory
because initialization arguments belong to the... initialization phase.

So my questions:

1. Am I doing this wrong ?
2. Why calling the change callback after programmatic changes to the
   pane ? It seems contrary to the behavior of (most ?) other widgets.
3. Also, since my interface can be programmatically updated from
   outside, I fear that my application logic will be executed twice if
   the editor pane is changed. Of course, I can set the change-callback
   to NIL, do my stuff, and set it back to its normal value, but yuck...

Thank you!

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