Thanks Sam! Of course my experience with Overtone had more than a
little to do with this work :)

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Sam Aaron <samaa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> very cool - I love that you're working on improving the explorability of the 
> system. It's clearly a focus that REPL driven development emphasises and I 
> hope we see more people working in this area.
>
> Sam
>
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> On 21 Dec 2011, at 03:24, Dave Ray wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just release Seesaw 1.3.0. Details of this release can be found
>> in the release notes [1]. There are a few features I'm pretty happy
>> about, so I'll mention them briefly here.
>>
>> Interactive development: So far, learning Seesaw has meant getting
>> familiar with Java and Swing. I think that element will always be
>> there, but it can be made better. Toward that end, two new functions,
>> (seesaw.dev/show-options) and (seesaw.dev/show-events) can be used at
>> the repl to ask a widget about it's options and events respectively.
>> Hopefully this will save a few trips to the Javadocs. I've already
>> used it several times myself. Example output can be found in this gist
>> [2]
>>
>> Value Semantics: As I threatened, I've borrowed the value semantics
>> which Stathis Sedaris introduced in Clarity [3]. (seesaw.core/value)
>> will give you the "value" of a widget, or a map of values for
>> composites. It's really a nice way to work, especially for forms.
>>
>> Key Mapping: Like everything else in Swing, setting up key
>> mappings/bindings is a pain in the ass. This interface hopefully makes
>> that much easier. For example, to handle the enter key in a list box,
>> just do (map-key my-box "ENTER" (fn [e] ... do something ...)).
>>
>> Improved Interop: Seesaw will now play nicely with whatever widget you
>> give it whether it was created by Seesaw or not. This should make it
>> straightforward to use UIs built with wysiwyg editors from Clojure.
>>
>> Those are the biggies. There have also been several bug fixes and
>> minor improvements.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/daveray/seesaw/wiki/Release-Notes
>> [2] https://gist.github.com/1450241
>> [3] https://github.com/stathissideris/clarity
>>
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