Re: CAPI pane children (was Calling specific method)

On 18 Apr 2026, at 17:29, Erik Ronström (as erik dot ronstrom at doremir dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
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> A number of times I have found myself in a situation where I would like to look at or traverse the children of a pane, and it is surprising that there is no clean and simple way to list the children of a pane.
> 
> Of course one could do
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> (let ((children nil)) (capi:map-pane-children pane (lambda (child) (push child children))) ... )
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> ... but for some reason that feels sort of backwards.

If you want to traverse the children a mapping function is a mechanism built to do exactly that.  It will also do things like give you a count of them without consing or traversing a list.  And if you really want a list for some reason it will given you that.

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