Re: How to find a particular window?

Hello David,

| I have been using a plotting package that creates a window and adds it
| to a list of plotting windows. Whenever one particular plotting window
| is desired for additional drawing, I call WSET with the designator
| (typically a symbol). That searches a list of plotting windows for that
| particular one, and moves it to the top of the list to become the
| "current plotting window".
|
|
| But in a multitasking environment this is clearly unsafe, as the
| "current plotting window" could be switched between drawing commands to
| the "current plotting window". What is current depends on the thread's
| perspective.
|
| Hence, I need to include the window pane as an argument to every
| plotting command. My former system did not require this, and that was
| very convenient when only a lone user was plotting information.

I believe the drawing commands should be wrapped in
  (capi:execute-with-interface interface #'commands)
call.

I do not understand whether you are willing to run several windows within
the same process/thread or not.

| In order to ease the transition, I would like to identify windows by a
| symbolic id, such as window 'SINC for some particular plotting session.
|
| The existence of the LW Window Browser indicates that it must be
| possible to search a tree of visible windows on screen, and check for
| some kind of name or identifying characteristic. Does anyone know how
| that window browser works? Or is this an undocumented feature of LW?

What about capi:locate-interface? FWIW, you can pass the :process argument
among the initargs.
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Sincerely,
Dmitriy Ivanov
lisp.ystok.ru