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Subject: more microexp-mac connection
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Date: 18 Oct 89 09:54:41 GMT
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Hope there is still a KSL to receive this... Catherine tells me there
is no electricity in the Palo Alto vicinity, so maybe no one will ever
see this message. In case someone does, I would be interested in knowing
wethere there is someone who has written a converter to :

- Convert a pure MacIntosh font to an explorer font (ex: chicago-12)
  (i.e. a font that can be used on a real explorer, not on a micro
  explorer of course... Please dont reply that I ought to know about
  variable *mac-font-translation-table* because this isnt what I want.
  I want to be able to save this font into an XLD file that can be
  read on the explorer)

- Convert a MacIntosh bitmap (i.e. MacPaint file) into an explorer
  bitmap (i.e. loadable using w:read-bit-array-file)

- A horizontal scrollbar mixin working on the micro explorer running
  release 5 system software.

- A patch so that vertical scrollbars will stop scrolling once the
  last elements have reached the bottom of a text-scroll-window when
  scrolling up. I have redefined method :scroll-to so as to get the
  proper behavior (it does not put the last element at the top of the
  window when scrolling up) but what I did not manage to achieve is to
  have the little white square with the page number be at the proper
  position within the scroll bar. When the last element is at thee
  bottom of the window the square is not at the bottom of the scroll
  bar which is highly misleading.

- A final question. We do not have release 6 yet, and I wonder how
  different the interface building tools are with respect to release
  5. If we set aside the fact that the low level implementation is
  different (CLX I believe) and that the mid level stuff (CLUE) is
  based on CLOS instead of on FLAVORS, is there still a high level
  layer more or less compatible with previous releases (ex:
  constraint frames, text scroll windows, CVV etc...). Is there a
  real support for multi-windows overlaping each others or are we still
  in the old philosophy of one window at a time?


                                        -- The French connection